John Rick was stunned for a moment, then looked back at his small cargo ship that had completely sunk with a dumb smile, shook his head and smiled: "From the perspective of the collision accident, I am very unhappy and unlucky to see you, but as God said, all this is fate!" ”

"Huh!" Qiao Anbang smiled indifferently and said, "Mr. John, you were going there by boat just now?" ”

"Me? Oh, I'm going home! John Rick said.

"Well, I'll let the cruise ship take you home, and then compensate you for today's losses by the way, what do you think?" Joan Bang said.

"Oh, yes, thank you very much!" John Rick did not refuse Qiao Anbang's kindness, I don't know if it was because Qiao Anbang had not compensated for his losses, or because the three Chinese women around him were too beautiful.

John's family lived in a suburb twenty or thirty miles from the city of London, which in England could only be regarded as a poor area for low-income people, and certainly much better than the slums of later India.

Because of its proximity to the Thames River, John Rick sailed home and commuted to work every day, so the cruise ship contracted by Joan Bang did not stop until the shore not far from John Rick's home.

Originally, Jo Anbang planned to send John ashore and continue his trip to London after compensating him a sum of pounds, but what he didn't expect was that John Rick warmly invited him to their house as a guest, and he was very warm, and he had just arrived in London, and he also wanted to inquire through John Rick whether there were retired British Navy or retired sailors and sailors of various fishing companies in this London city.

So Qiao Anbang left the captain to wait on the shore, and he carried Liang Jiahan, Chu Yan and Yali, three stunning beauties, ashore, and followed John Rick towards his house.

After John Rick walked about a mile, Jo Anbang and the others finally came to a residential area, John Rick's home was very similar to the ordinary courtyard of the Anglo-American country in later films.

An ordinary courtyard that is not luxurious, with two floors above and below, a set of iron walls no more than 1.5 meters high, in which flowers and plants that Qiao Anbang cannot name are planted on one side, and on the other side there is a gazebo and a small garage, in which two bicycles and some toy cars for children are parked.

The courtyard door is also two iron gates, John Rick just walked to the door, two boys ran out of the living room in the courtyard, one after the other, saw John Rick happily calling for his father, and very sensibly ran over to help John Rick open the door, and then the brothers got into John Rick's arms one left and one right.

John Rick hugged the two of them left and right, turned around and said to Qiao Anbang and the others with a happy smile on his face: "These are my two sons!" ”

Qiao Anbang nodded and smiled, and at this time, a middle-aged woman walked out of the living room, holding a baby in her arms.

The middle-aged woman walked over and asked John Rick, "Honey, who are these?" ”

John Rick hurriedly walked to his wife's side, explained, and introduced Joe Anbang and the others: "Joe of Mies, this is my wife, the little guy in her arms is my daughter, just six months old!" ”

"Mr. John, you are so happy to have three children!" Liang Jiahan, who didn't speak along the way, gave people a cold feeling, saw John's three children, and surprisingly stepped forward and smiled while stroking the baby girl in John's wife's arms.

Liang Jiahan, who has always been cold and arrogant, inadvertently revealed the brilliance of his mother's surname in his beautiful eyes at this time, and his beautiful cold and arrogant face softened a lot.

"Come in!" At this time, John's wife politely greeted Qiao Anbang and the others.

Qiao Anbang did not shirk, and immediately walked into John's warm little home with John and his wife, surrounded by Chu Yan and Yali.

After entering the house, the hospitable John Rick and his wife beckoned Jo Anbang to sit down in the living room, while John's wife put her sleeping daughter in her stroller and began to go to the kitchen to prepare the meal.

John arranged for his two sons to play alone, so he freed up his hands to pour tea and drinks for Qiao Anbang and the four of them, so he opened the refrigerator and asked Qiao Anbang and the others what they were drinking.

Qiao Anbang sat on the sofa and began to look at the set facilities in John Rick's house, and when he saw a few photos hanging on the wall, Qiao Anbang suddenly stood up, and the three girls next to him stood up vigilantly.

John Rick saw that the four of them stood up at the same time, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?" ”

Qiao Anbang looked at John Rick in the photo wearing a navy uniform, and couldn't take his eyes off the excitement in his heart and asked in a deep voice: "Mr. John, what did you do before?" How do you have a picture of yourself in a military uniform here? ”

John took out various drinks for the four of Qiao Anbang, walked over and looked up at the photos on the wall, and said indifferently and a little self-deprecatingly: "Yes, I used to work in our British Royal Navy fleet for a few years, and I was a second lieutenant, but that was all in the past, and now my identity is a dock transport and porter, and today, the cargo ship I crashed and sank is my current combat ship!" ”

Qiao Anbang was very excited in his heart, and couldn't help but scold the British Yankees fiercely, especially the female members of the British royal family, who were even more sincerely greeted by Qiao Anbang, the second lieutenant of the navy has been reduced to a dock porter, worthy of being the world's first naval power, worthy of being the world's ocean hegemon!

It seems that Britain itself is too right, and when he is still frowning about having a qualified naval soldier, the second lieutenants on the British side have become dock porters, which is really fucking incomparable.

After scolding George VI in his heart, Joan Bang turned to look at John Rick and asked solemnly: "Mr. John, with your excellent own conditions, how can you become a porter at the docks?" And you're also a second lieutenant in the Navy. ”

John shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and said: "No way, I was voluntarily dismissed by the Imperial Navy fleet, and I worked as a dock porter to survive, and you can also see it, I have three children, and my wife, I have to work, otherwise I can't support them!" ”

"And how much do you make a month as a dock porter?" Qiao Anbang asked patiently.

"Not much, more than a hundred pounds, barely enough to sustain our family's current life!" John Rick replied truthfully.

Qiao Anbang was secretly shocked, he knew that before 1942, China's currency, that is, legal tender, belonged to the sterling area, and this situation did not change until July 1942, when the national government axe borrowed 500 million US dollars from the United States and gave up the connection between the fiat currency and the pound.

According to the current exchange rate of the pound sterling on China's fiat currency, that is, the fiat currency issued by the national political axe, one pound should be able to exchange for 16.6 yuan of fiat currency, which means that John Rick's monthly income has reached nearly two thousand fiat currency income, considering that because of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the fiat currency has depreciated, and two or three fiat currencies can only be exchanged for one silver dollar, that is, Yuan Datou, and the purchasing power of one silver dollar in China at that time is estimated to be equivalent to about 30 yuan in later generations.

In this comprehensive calculation, John Rick's monthly income is already more than 15,000 yuan, and this kind of income is considered a high income even in China after seventy or eighty years, you must know that this is only in Britain in the thirties and forties.

This shows the gap between China's economy and the modern Western European and American countries, since the crossing, Qiao Anbang has been busy with the military, and has no time and energy to develop China's current economy, so he has not paid much attention to this aspect.

However, as soon as I came into contact today, a rough calculation, China's economic level actually lagged behind Western countries by so much, but shock to shock, Qiao Anbang still understood in his heart that it was pure nonsense to realize the unification of the Chinese nation in the true sense and want to develop the economy without first getting rid of this country with the surname of the wolf, which is in great trouble.

Quickly calming down his mood, Qiao Anbang began to throw out the olive branch he had recruited and asked: "Mr. John, I will give you an income of five hundred pounds a month, and let you return to the warship to continue to be a heroic naval commander, I don't know if you are willing to do it?" Of course, this is not 500 pounds, just a salary, and if there is a war, there will be a reward for meritorious service! ”

Qiao Anbang didn't dare to say that he was injured and hung up and had a pension, because he was afraid that the cowboy uncles would be afraid of death.

"What? Five hundred pounds of income? Can I be back in the Navy? John Rick looked at Jo Anbang in shock.

Seeing that Qiao Anbang didn't mean to joke, and nodded seriously, after a long time, John Rick asked, "Who are you?" ”

"It's not a secret, the contemptible person is Qiao Anbang, the commander-in-chief of the 11th Group Army, a two-star general of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army!" Jo Anbang truthfully revealed his identity.

"Joan Bang? Joan Bang? A two-star admiral? John Rick, who has been retired for a long time, is naturally not as well-informed as a military figure, and he has heard of the Sino-Chinese war that took place in the Chinese battlefield on the other side of the world, but he has never heard of Qiao Anbang.

"Mr. John, to tell you the truth, I want to recruit a group of retired navy with service experience, just like you, in addition to recruiting sailors, helmsmen and other people who can drive ships!"

"You should know that our country is suffering from the aggression of this imperialism, they wantonly kill our people, plunder our land, ravage our women, our nation is in dire straits, so I hope to form a mercenary army of sailors to help us train new soldiers!" After Qiao Anbang finished speaking, he said: "If you want, Mr. John, I can hire you as the commander of this sailor mercenary, and the salary will be higher!" Of course, if you are willing to relocate to China with your family, I will provide you with a more luxurious, spacious and comfortable accommodation than here, and your family will be taken care of! ”

(To be continued)