Alfred's new ship, the Ariane, sails the Pacific Ocean.

This was Captain Alfred's first time on an Asian route, and he recruited an experienced British Vice-Captain. The Ariane is named after Alfred's wife.

During the time when Li Guang was sailing at sea, he often stood alone in the bow of the ship, and he was anxious at the moment. Hurry up, hurry, and by the time the torpedo is almost assembled, it will be the beginning of July.

At this time, the War of Resistance had broken out, and the suffering nation was once again in difficulty, and the Chinese people were resisting the invasion of the Yue Kou with their own blood. And Li Guang is still adrift on the ocean.

This time, in addition to Xu Zhan, there were three crew members who returned to China with Li Guang. Among them, Huang Zhonghua, the youngest, is the most valued by Li Guang. In addition to his own good quality and certain sailing experience, the most important thing for Li Guang is that this young man is full of ambition and has not been consumed by the hardships of life. Unlike the other two crew members, his biggest expectation is to earn money to support his family, and he doesn't even have the slightest extra pursuit. But isn't it a man's greatest responsibility to provide for his family? Li Guang did not mean to despise this.

Of the three seamen, only Huang Zhonghua was a second-class sailor, and the other two were just ordinary crew members. It is not so easy to be a licensed second-class sailor in the United States. In the United States in the thirties, the shipping industry was already quite developed. Generally speaking, the duties on the ship have been divided quite clearly, and even what kind of people do what kind of work have rules, or customs, and it takes a lot of effort to get promoted.

The commanders, first officers, second officers, and third officers are all from school, and most of the engineers and chief pipes (pipe damage) are also from workers, and the education level is not high. The sailor is relatively the lowest level of education, and to put it bluntly, he is a laborer on a ship. However, the ship's labor also requires a lot of work skills, and it is difficult to be promoted to a third-class sailor without three or two years of sailing experience. And Huang Zhonghua can become a second-class sailor before the age of twenty, which is actually quite good.

This is inseparable from the efforts of Huang Zhonghua, who is different from other sailors in that he reads. Use all your time to learn everything you need to know about sailing. At this time, Huang Zhonghua was full of expectations, hoping to become the first mate through his own efforts, and he didn't dare to think about it for the time being.

And Li Guang gave Huang Zhonghua a bigger pie, and he hoped to have a captain. The captain of an ocean-going giant ship belonging to the Chinese. The boat passed through Fujian, Huang Zhonghua got off the ship in Quanzhou, Fujian, one went back to his hometown to see, and the other Li Guang gave him a task. The other two crew members also disembarked in Guangdong, and they also needed to go home to see.

Several sailors have been paid for Alfred for the past few months. In a few months, they all went back and forth to the United States, and their navigation level improved a lot. Although Li Guang could not find the submarine crew for a while, and even the instructor could not be found, he trained a few people in advance for the sake of the long term.

Instead of going through the Pacific Ocean, the voyage crossed the South Atlantic, rounded the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, entered the Indian Ocean, and then crossed Malacca into the South China Sea and finally reached Shanghai in China. The reason was that Captain Alfred and Vice-Captain had no previous experience in navigating the South Pacific, and he did not want to risk his new ship.

Because of the lack of funds, Li Guang's ship was loaded with 45 torpedoes and four launch tubes. The rest of the space was fully loaded with canned meat and compressed dry food.

These things are not worth much, a shipload of more than 2,000 tons of food, worth less than 20,000 dollars. And this long-distance sea freight, the round-trip freight will cost nearly 20,000 US dollars. Transporting these low-value items over long distances is not a very cost-effective business in this day and age. But Li Guang didn't think about whether it was cost-effective at this time, he knew that there was a shortage of everything in the country, and he couldn't afford to transport other valuable things. He had overdrawn his own funds.

Now Li Guang is also forced to borrow $100,000 from the bank, but he has not been sued by the bank like Ramo, and he has mortgaged the newly added equipment to the bank.

Standing on the bow of the ship, Li Guang had already seen the mainland at this moment, that was his motherland. For the first time, Li Guang was so emotional, this land is so barren and so suffering, but this is the place where he was born and raised, and he is compatible with the blood here.

In modern times, Li Guang has also gone abroad many times, but none of them have haunted him like this one.

After a long time of drifting at sea, in addition to communicating with Xu Zhan a few times, Li Guang was planning his future. He has arranged for the director of the plant, Arthur (Arthur. Kohlberg, the Jewish accountant who is now the director of the factory, will be called Arthur after his name is too hard to remember. Contacted Rapangamariel in New York to recruit several ship designers and experienced shipbuilders. And it is emphasized that the designer should be Chinese. Whether you have money or not, the submarine program must be put on the agenda as soon as possible. There is no doubt that developing submarines first is the only choice for Li Guang, who is short of money.

Without submarines, Li Guang did not have a weapon at hand that could deal with the Yue army, so how could he go down the road of the navy. Li Guang is very urgent about this.

When Li Guang and his entourage entered the Yangtze River, it was already early morning on August 1, and old Shanghai was so beautiful under the mist. In the morning sun, you can already see the flow of people on the riverbank.

Soon, Li Guang judged that on the road on the riverbank, the crowd that had accumulated was marching and marching during the Anti-Japanese War to raise donations for the Anti-Japanese War. Although it is not audible, the slogans are heard one after another, which is clearly China's indomitable spirit.

Time was pressing, Li Guang did not stop in Shanghai, and the freighter went straight up the river to Nanjing. The Yangtze River is rugged and far less fast than the sea. It took only one month for the Ariane freighter to cross thousands of miles of sea, and it took two days and two nights to travel from Shanghai to Nanjing. Ships large and small on the Yangtze River are busy, and it is already obvious that the Chinese political axe is already organizing the retreat of factories in Shanghai.

Don't look at Uruguay is just a small South American country, there is not even a diplomatic consulate in China, and 99.9% of the people in China in this era have probably not heard of this place, but none of this is important. The important thing is that as long as it is a foreigner's boat, it can be unimpeded on the Yangtze River, and Li Guang did not even encounter the customs officials of the political axe to go on the ship to check the tax, and only the patrol boat of the river defense simply checked the documents of the ship. The country's coastal defense is almost non-existent, which shows how bad the situation has become.

Along the river, Li Guang has seen many times that the cities along the river are marching and marching against the war, and the whole of China already has the consciousness of going to war in an all-out way. But the natural scenery along the river made Li Guang worried. In later generations, people hated the ubiquitous factories and pollution everywhere, but this natural scenery and rural fields made Li Guang even more gloomy. Uruguay is located in the corner of South America, but there are many factories. In China, the most developed Yangtze River basin, it is difficult to see chimneys for dozens of miles. China is too short of industry, and the potential for war is only population and vast territory.

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