The Imperial Agency quickly reported back to Japan. The reaction of the cabinet was mixed, and some people said that Britain and the United States should first move to return the concession to Wang Jingwei in order to show goodwill between Japan and China and the common prosperity of Greater East Asia, but the military department did not agree, saying that the concession should be retained as a privileged area for the Japanese.

The work of purchasing pig bristles is in full swing, Japan occupies half of China, there are many pigs in the countryside, raw materials are abundant, and they are simply inexhaustible, but the specific implementation is still troublesome, Wang puppet government's organizational ability is too poor, and there are a large number of guerrilla activities in the countryside, so it cannot be done in the name of the Japanese, Yan Qingyu found Xu Tingge, and privately opened a trading company to buy pig bristles, Luo Junqiang also has shares, and everyone makes money together.

Since it is a private job, there is no one to grind foreign workers, and it took a month to harvest and grab 500 tons of pig bristles, and almost all the pig hairs in the countryside in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been pulled out to make up so much.

The king of the royal ryu made a ship, which was originally a bulk carrier of the British merchant Swire & Co., specializing in inland river routes, with a shallow draft, and it was a little difficult to use it for ocean shipping, and the current ships were used for the transportation of materials for the imperial navy, even if it was a powerful unit like the imperial agency, it could only find an inland river freighter to make do.

The ship was thirty years old, the old steam engine was overwhelmed, the pipes were aging, the king spent a lot of money on repairs, and used various connections to get enough coal, since the beginning of the Pacific War, all kinds of materials have become increasingly tight, Shanghai's coal storage is getting less and less, power generation is not enough, each household is limited to five kilowatt-hours of electricity per month, and if it exceeds it, the electricity meter must be removed.

Thanks to the steam ships that burn coal, if they burn diesel or heavy oil, then they must not empty the family foundation of Yusan.

The hull of the ship was repainted, painted with a layer of off-white paint, the bow was painted with the new name "Ado Maru", and the bristles collected from the countryside were packed in linen, stuffed into the hold, and set sail after negotiating with the navy.

When King Ryu and Yan Qingyu were busy like the third grandson, Chen Zikun had already made a name for himself in Washington's social circle, and he was at various balls and banquets every day.

All thanks to Catherine, who returned from an interview in China. Stanley.

The Stanley family is a prominent family in the eastern United States, Catherine's uncle Sean Sr. is a congressional medal of honor recipient, a respected military medical colonel, and her father John Stanley is the chairman of the U.S. Senate Wartime Economic Committee.

Catherine had known Chen Zikun since the early twenties, when they were both young people in their prime, and in the calf, the young female reporter of Time magazine secretly had feelings for the handsome Chinese officer, but she suppressed that faint affection because of the low status of the Chinese.

Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the two have started a family, Catherine has been married, her husband has died in a car accident, and she has witnessed the tragedy of war and the horror of famine in China.

After returning from China, she was pleasantly surprised to find that Chen Zikun was also in the United States, and he was alone, and she couldn't help but take the initiative to approach him, the woman chased the man, not to mention the old acquaintance for many years, the winter night in Washington was so long and cold, and it was always good to have someone warm and warm to talk to.

So, a lonely man and a woman naturally rolled onto a bed.

Catherine is a top figure in American journalism, and with her support, the mainstream American society is naturally impressed by this fluent English-speaking general from China.

It was the end of 1942, when the school had winter break, and Yan'er and Elizabeth had come from New York to Washington, D.C., to visit the White House and the monument, and it happened that Chan and Catherine had brought their daughters to the ball.

At the ball, Yan'er and Elizabeth became the focus of the young officers' pursuit, and Catherine smiled with satisfaction: "The children have grown up, by the way, which college are you going to let Sophia go to?" ”

Sophia is Yan'er's English name, and Chen Zikun said: "If my daughter wants to study medicine, I think Harvard or Yale medical school can do it, of course, she has to work her own." ”

Catherine said: "Elizabeth is going to study sociology and become a journalist in the future, and I hope they both go to the same university." ”

As she spoke, two girls came over with another strange girl and introduced them to Margaret. Miss Truman.

The girl greeted the adults shyly, Chan and Catherine smiled back, and after a while, Margaret's father came over with a wine glass, and Catherine introduced Chan to Chan, the chairman of the Select Committee on National Defense Planning, Senator Harry. Mr. Truman.

"Hello, Mr. Truman." Chan smiled and stretched out his hand.

"General, you're the closest person in the spotlight." Truman wore a pair of round-framed eyes and was a very kind person.

The two shook hands cordially, and with a snap, Catherine pressed the shutter, leaving a moment in history.

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The first time the Imperial Agency carried out such a complex task, the upper and lower levels were very excited, the Imperial Ryu King had longed for the vast sea since he was a child, and once dreamed of being a One Piece, and only returned to reality when he grew up, but now this childhood dream was ignited again, and the Captain decided to personally escort the goods to the sea for delivery, and let Yan Qingyu accompany him.

The captain and chief engineer of the Ado Maru were all Japanese, the sailors were fishermen from Zhejiang, China, and the compass sextant charts for navigation were all brought from the navy's fleet in Shanghai, and Mi-san also greeted the navy ministry through high-level relations, and the combined fleet would not interfere with any activities of this small ship in the Pacific Ocean.

However, considering the unknown danger, the king still equipped the cargo ship with weapons, Japanese-made 13mm anti-aircraft machine guns and several Hyakku-type submachine guns, and a few southern pistols for self-defense.

King Ryu was worried that the Chinese sailors would rebel, and thought that the strength of himself and Yan Qingyu was not enough to suppress, so he specially recalled Xu Tingge and served as a guard on the ship.

The cargo ship is full of bristles, dry food and water, from the mouth of Shanghai Wu Likou into the sea, driven by the experienced captain to sail to the vast sea, the king breathes the air with the smell of the sea, watch the white seagulls spread their wings and soar, see the sea and the sky are the same, magnificent, can't help but stand on the bow of the ship to make a flying shape, intoxicated and muttered: "I am the life of my dreams." ”

An albatross flew over his head, and bird poop smeared the head of the king.

"Yaga!" Yusang was furious, picked up his white navy coat to wipe the bird feces clean, and pulled out his pistol to knock down the albatross, but when he saw the dark clouds covering the sky and coming quickly, his face couldn't help but change: "It's going to change the sky." ”

The weather at sea is changing, a rainstorm is pouring, the wind is angry, blowing the freighter like a leaf in the wind, the sailors stick to their posts, and the sea Lang fights, the king of the royal ryu and Yan Qingyu Xu Tingge and others all vomited in the dark, fortunately, the storm passed quickly, everyone was soaked, embarrassed.

"Gentlemen, we have withstood the most severe test, congratulations." King Ryu cheered everyone up.

A sailor passing by disdainfully said, "This is the smallest wind and rain, and the worst is yet to come." ”

Everyone was embarrassed and silent.

The sailor's crow's mouth was not realized, all the way from Shanghai to the Philippines, the sea conditions were good, a large number of Japanese transport ships were encountered at sea, between the mainland, Chinese mainland, and the occupation zone of the South Seas, the territory of the empire was getting bigger and bigger, the transportation of various materials to the soldiers depended on the sea communication line, and the sea transportation required a large amount of oil and coal, and the shipyard was in the homeland, the coal resources were in China, and the oil resources were in the South Seas, if the sea traffic was cut off, the king of the imperial ryu simply did not dare to think.

Our Great Japanese Combined Fleet is extremely powerful, and it must be able to maintain sea power, and the King of Guryu can only comfort himself in this way.

However, Japanese warships were rarely seen at sea, and the entire Combined Fleet did not know where it had gone, and it is said that after the Battle of Midway, the fleet was so demoralized that it did not dare to launch a decisive battle.

After several days of sailing, Goryu Oh, who dreamed of becoming the king of the pirates, vomited to a pulp, and when he saw a small reef on the sea, he asked the Japanese captain, "What is that?" ”

"That's Scarborough Shoal, the fishing grounds of Chinese fishermen, and further west is the Philippines, and we're about to reach our destination, Your Excellency."

"Soga." King Goryu was overjoyed, picked up the binoculars and stood on the deck to look out, and was full of ambition, when suddenly a roaring machine emitted a puff of white smoke and stopped eating.

The turbine sailors hurriedly repaired it, and finally got back to work, but the speed was not half as good as before, and they staggered towards Manila, and on the way they encountered another storm, and the cargo ship was washed away by the current.

The next morning, King Ryūo woke up from a coma, his forehead hit a big bump on the bulkhead, and when he got up, he saw that the cargo ship was stranded, and there was a small island in front of him, with the singing of birds and flowers, the swaying coconut wind, the blue and transparent sea, and the wind of last night, it must have been heaven.

The captain of the ship told him with a sad face that this was a small nameless island in the southern Philippines, that there were no Japanese garrisons on it, and that there were no shipping routes, and that the steam engine of the Ado Maru was completely broken, and the radio was destroyed, in other words, they were now shipwrecked.

It's an uninhabited island, but it's good that you have coconuts to eat, fresh water to drink, so you don't starve to death, and every day the sailors light fires on the island to attract passing ships and planes with fireworks, but it's so remote that for a week, everyone is hungry and staggering.

The authority of the Japanese on the desert island was not a problem, and the Chinese sailors first refused to serve them, and then they were ready to move, secretly discussing the killing of the Japanese, of course, these were all suspicious speculations of the king of Goryu, he simply regretted that he should not have personally delivered the goods, looking at himself in the sea, his face was haggard and thin like a ghost.

Yan Qingyu and Xu Tingge are not much better, everyone is lying on the beach and misses the big bathtub bed of Shanghai's garden house, as well as steak and red wine and beautiful women, talking with saliva and tears in their eyes.

I don't know how many days have passed, but suddenly one day, Yan Qingyu, who was lying on the coconut tree and looking into the distance, waved her hat and shouted: "Boat, a boat is coming!" ”

A ship appeared near an uninhabited island, not coming over, but floating from the bottom of the sea, a submarine of the US Navy.

At this moment, everyone doesn't care which country's navy it is, in short, it's good to survive.

A rubber raft was released from the submarine, and eight armed sailors landed, first seized the weapons of the Asians, and then boarded the stranded ship to inspect it, and after finding a large number of pig bristles, the first second lieutenant officer asked: "Who is Yan Qingyu?" ”

Yan Qingyu said: "The small one is." ”

"Oh, we're the USS Mackerel, and we've been ordered to deliver the cargo to you." The second lieutenant said.