Chapter 226: Serving the People
At half past eight the next morning, both Radio Manchester and the Manchester City Daily newspaper focused on and hyped up the search and rescue operation last night.
To this end, the reporter of Manchester City Daily also interviewed Lao Li and five other rescued fishermen.
"Lao Li, hello, I'm Xiao You, a reporter from Manchester City Daily, can you talk about your feelings about being rescued yesterday?"
"Well," Lao Li burst into tears, choked up and couldn't speak, and only after a few minutes of calm did he speak: "I thought at the time and at the same time that this time we were definitely going to die, and such a big storm would definitely be buried in the belly of the fish, but just when we were desperate, we saw a dim and bright light flickering in the distance, and when the light got closer and closer to us, we realized that it was a naval giant." ”
"I was very excited, really excited, we knew that we were saved this time when we saw the warship, originally we thought that the warship had only entered this water, only to know that they came out to search and rescue us, at that moment I really felt that the government is our strong backing, no matter where it is."
Lao Li's heartfelt words were put on the front page of the newspaper, this is the first time in Australia's history that the government has dispatched a warship to rescue the people, and such an important scene is sorry for the identity of the traverser.
And this is also a thing that can make the Australian people more cohesive and proud.
Newspaper and radio reports made all the towns in Australia aware of the rescue operation, but Lao Li and others who went to sea without permission and almost died were also given a serious warning, for which the Far East Company fined five people, and considering their difficult life, the amount of the fine was paid in batches.
For this, the five people basically don't make sense, this time it's really because they were at fault first, and they can't blame the company leaders for being harsh.
However, through this incident, it is estimated that they no longer dare to operate in violation of regulations, and at the same time, the management of the Far East Company has also been reformed, and the ships will be locked and handed over to special custodians at night.
The biggest hotly debated about this rescue operation is that the government dispatched warships, which all the immigrants did not expect, whether it is Europe or the Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing will never happen in their previous country.
Unlike the soldiers of the army and the garrison, because of the problem of garrisoning, they often take the initiative to help the local people to do good deeds in repairing bridges and roads, which is appreciated.
The main responsibility of the navy is to be responsible for domestic patrol and the protection of merchant ships, and there are not many opportunities to contact the people.
In the past, when recruiting new recruits, everyone generally chose the tall army, or the next one to the garrison, because the two units have always had a great position in the hearts of the people, and this is the people-friendly policy passed down from the initial escort team.
Judging from the current situation, this policy is indeed relatively well done and has been approved by the common people, where the soldiers and the people are truly like a family, without fear or malice.
In order to make the people fully aware of the role of the navy, the Navy's Manchester Military Port and the Naval Academy jointly hosted a garden tour on Sunday.
The theme of this garden is to enter the navy, mainly to introduce to the public the types and general types of warships currently in service in Australia, as well as the weapons systems carried.
During the two-day tour of the garden, the Navy Department also prepared some models of warships for the children who came to visit.
In front of a booth that displayed all the models of warships in active service in the Navy, a handsome young man with a height of about 1.8 meters held a whip in his hand, pointed to the model of the Sea Blue and introduced: "Now the model I introduce to you is the largest warship in Australia, the Sea Blue, and its entire structure is completely made of steel, which is the only steel warship in the world that has been built by combining hundreds of years of hard work and exploration of Australian craftsmen." ”
"Because there was a major earthquake on Song Island, where the ancestors of Australia lived, the entire island sank into the sea, so the entire construction materials basically sank into the sea, so Australia cannot build this kind of all-steel warship from the new one."
The narrator carefully explained the reasons that had been made up by the people through the crowd, and explained the lethality of the various weapons on the battleship.
Some children were fascinated by the appearance of the battleship model, including Lao Li's eldest son, Li Renjun, a twelve-year-old child who had only been in Australia for more than a year, and was full of curiosity about all the new things here.
Especially for the kind of big boats that can move forward without paddling, perhaps because the blood of fishermen flows in their bodies, they naturally have a special sense of affection for ships.
Looking at the model of the Sea Blue more and more liked, suddenly he stretched out his hand and touched the hull of the Sea Blue and said to Lao Li behind him: "Dad, I want to be a navy in the future and take the Naval Academy, this ship is too handsome." ”
The half-grown child sneered and said with a small fist, but Lao Li just laughed and didn't take it seriously. He took his son's words as if he loved the model of the Sea Blue, but after a few years, he learned that his son was really inspired to become a navy, and later became one of the most outstanding generals in naval history.
The episode between Lao Li and his son at the garden tour did not attract much attention, because on the same day, many children held their parents' hands and said that they wanted to become a navy, and no one would believe that a child said this for toys.
At the end of the visit to the exhibition hall is the performance of the naval soldiers, these soldiers have almost all their acting talents, and they are performing their own choreographed programs on the stage, in order to win the favor of which beauty in the audience, and thus end the life of the five girls.
At the end of the performance, everyone stood in a row and saluted the audience to indicate that the performance was over, and finally under the leadership of a Lien Zhan, everyone shouted a very bloody slogan, which was shouted to the ground, and there was a tendency to calm the audience. Of course, this is also a special arrangement by the navy, otherwise it would be thankful that the troops with strict discipline would not be punished for shouting such bloody slogans.
"We are the people's army, we are the people's soldiers? Serving the people, I have no regrets, I am a naval soldier I am proud, I speak for myself. ”