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The British were known for their stubbornness, and when Margaret Thatcher visited Beijing, she refused to offer flowers to the Monument to the People's Heroes on the grounds that it contained reliefs of the Opium War. Lü Buwen did not expect a few British diplomats to repent and admit the fact of British aggression. Lü Buwen believes that if this film can be released in the West, it will definitely win the sympathy and goodwill of the Western people and culture towards China, and the reaction of a few British people has nothing to do with the overall situation.

"The British government will never allow this kind of reversal of right and wrong to spread around." Pashali had understood the sinister intentions of the Chinese, but he could not do anything about it, the British government could only control its own territory and colonies, and the other European and American powers must not mind seeing the United Kingdom make a fool of itself. Although the nature of war is all about profit in the eyes of politicians, it would undoubtedly be a blow to the government if ordinary people were to question the justice of war. And the charm of the movie is unstoppable, and the fact that I am deeply attracted by the plot is the evidence, not to mention the European and American people who like to hunt for curiosities. Pashali believes that most of the European and American people who have seen the film will become sympathizers for China, especially the French and Americans. The Caucasian people in the movie must have been cast by people from these two countries.

Playing tricks on the British, watching them do something anxious but helpless, has become the greatest pleasure of Lu Buwen's work. "Mr. Pashali, cinema is the eighth art after literature, music, dance, drama, painting, architecture, and sculpture. If you don't believe me, you can ask Mr. Reporter? ”

Tom?· Brown and Baulbe were also invited to see the movie. The former has been completely immersed in the plot, and the villain in the film is British, which will not cause him a psychological burden. Hearing Lu Buwen's words, he immediately agreed, "I very much agree with Mr. Lu's words, this is a great and innovative art form, if it is staged in the United States, it will definitely be a big hit." The latter, on the other hand, remained silent. Lü Buwen decided to release "The Patriot" next time, ridiculing the British and currying favor with the Americans at the same time.

Soon, Pa Xiali took the opportunity of returning to Guangzhou to report the situation to Bao Ling. Bao Ling and Ergin were also helpless about it, and if that new art form was allowed to spread in Europe and the United States, the image of Britain and China would change completely. In the era of underdeveloped information, ordinary people in Europe and the United States may never see a single Chinese in their lifetime, and under the government's propaganda, the image of the Chinese is a representative of ignorance, arrogance, and barbarism. When the public sees this movie, the image of the Chinese will become brave, loyal, and respectable, while the British government will become a bad guy who shields opium dealers, which will make Britain's image in the West plummet. Pashali believed that the governments of certain countries would definitely add fuel to the fire, and that the Western powers were never monolithic, but the Qing government simply classified all foreigners as foreign devils, which caused the situation of foreigners in China being grouped. Obviously, this group of Liberation Army will not be as stupid as the Qing government, they will provoke and co-opt, and the British government cannot be as indifferent to the international image and world opinion as the Qing government, and the latter may not know what these two things are.

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Just when Pashali was trying to save Britain's international image, the first British merchant ships to transport grain finally anchored at the Chiwan Wharf, which was still under construction.

This convoy consisted of about two tons of armed merchant ships, and a total of 800 tons of high-quality Champa rice were brought in, which was urgently organized by the British authorities in Hong Kong after reaching an agreement. In order to get the spot quickly, he had to endure the extortion of the French when buying grain in southern Vietnam.

Captain Jack Sparrow, Chinese New Year's Eve, has been at sea for almost twenty years, and the three-masted schooner Black Pearl, with four twelve-pound guns and a displacement of four hundred and eighty tons, is his only possession. Born into a family of fishermen, he aspired to be a pirate since he was a child, and "I am the man who wants to be the king of the pirates" is his mantra. Unfortunately, when he was begging for a living at sea, the golden age of piracy had long passed, and he could only be an honest merchant sailor. It took more than ten years to work his way up from sailor, boatswain, second officer, first mate, to captain, and finally got his own boat two years ago. The short trade between Bombay, Singapore and Canton was fought only until the East India Company was closed. This time I was recruited to deliver food for the government, in addition to the obligation of a patriotic citizen, but also because of the new commodities that appeared here. Before the outbreak of the Great War, there were communication ships that came and went to bring samples. These novelty goods attracted the attention of the merchants, and the merchants of various countries were ready to move, but as soon as the war broke out, no one dared to venture at this time. Everyone waited patiently for the British army to defeat these Chinese who came out of nowhere, and then they could buy goods at a cheaper price. It's just that the final result made everyone fall through the glasses, and the British army, which conquered China with only more than 10,000 people, was defeated, not only lost thousands of men and horses, but also lost Hong Kong, which also shattered the dreams of the merchants, and no one dared to trade at this time.

After some time, news came that the two sides had reached an agreement on grain for prisoners of war, and the representatives of the government were purchasing grain in the South Seas while recruiting merchant ships to transport grain. Most businessmen shy away from this errand, but Jack Sparrow saw an opportunity, and he came into frequent contact with government representatives and their attachés. These people were unanimous in their words, assuring that the Chinese were civilized people, that British civilians would not be left behind, and that merchants were very welcome to trade. While the other merchants thought it was a lie, Captain Sparrow believed it to be true, and for this he took out all his savings, and even borrowed some from the Dutchman's bank, and scraped together 120,000 Mexican silver dollars. Get ready for a big fight.

The fleet loaded rice in Saigon, Vietnam, and then headed north along the coast, which was typhoon season, but fortunately they did not encounter it along the way, and successfully reached the mouth of the Pearl River. Soon after entering the mouth of the Pearl River, they encountered the Host:1 To Page:2 patrol armed fishing boats of the Liberation Army, which were said to have no sails, no chimneys, and could even be driven upside down. Although the ship looked to carry less than 100 tons, the main gun on its foredeck, with its two long, thin barrels, silently told the outsiders that it was definitely not to be messed with.

After some negotiations, the fleet sailed to Shenzhen Bay under the guidance of patrol boats. The Revenate Navy did not require the guns on merchant ships to be nailed to the fire doors, and Sparrow thought this was a sign of self-confidence on the Reventionists, indicating that they did not see the guns on several merchant ships as a threat, in fact, because most of the survivors did not know about this rule, and forgot to remind them if they did. As the flotilla enters the entrance to Shenzhen Bay, the last thing that catches the eye is two towering all-metal cranes that can be seen with the naked eye even from a nautical mile away. By the time a few ships approached the wooden trestle, all outsiders were conquered by the height of the tower crane. The base of the tower crane is a cement stone square with more than 30 cubic meters on the shore, the square metal tower is more than 100 feet high, the top is a platform, and there is a small pavilion on one side that does not know what to do, and you can see people staying in it. The boom was about the same length as the tower, and a few cables and a counterweight at the rear made it look very solid. While everyone was amazed, the boom of the tower crane turned to the heads of several merchant ships, and a metal hook slowly lowered. This series of actions was completed like a smooth stream, so that Captain Spyro had to sigh at the advanced and flexible Chinese tower crane.

At this time, the representative of the British government led several Chinese on the ship, and the former introduced that these Chinese would command the lifting and unloading, and Sparrow naturally had no opinion. I saw these Chinese spread a net made of thick hemp rope on the deck, and then asked the sailors to move out all the rice bags in the hold, put them neatly on the rope net, and put almost a hundred bags on the yard, close to three tons. The Chinese then pulled up the rope nets on all sides, wrapped the rice bags inside, and then tied them into pockets and hung them on hooks.

This method of unloading in nets was not new to the British, who already had steam cranes at the docks, and they also used this method to unload cargo. It's just that the cranes of the British are not so tall, and it is impossible to lift tons of goods at once. Chinese Looking at the two ropes above the hook, which were not much thicker than his thumb, Sparrow asked the government representative worriedly: "Will such a thin rope break?" ”

"It's okay, that rope is a steel wire that can theoretically withstand fifty tons of tensile force." The Chinese, who had been in charge of the command, replied in English with a strange accent.

Sparrow raised his hat and greeted, "I'm Jack Sparrow, the captain of this ship, from Southampton. ”

"I'm Mu Fengchun, director of the Shenzhen Port Authority, a native of Hunan, and it's a pleasure to meet you!" Mu Fengchun stretched out his right hand, but Sparrow didn't expect the other party to use the handshake ceremony, so he hurriedly stretched out his right hand as well. He was prepared to do business for a long time, and it was necessary to have a good relationship with the port officials.

After shaking hands, Mu Fengchun said to Sparrow: "Mr. Captain, I am now going to command the lifting of the goods, please let your crew retreat to a safe position." In fact, there was no need for him to remind them, the British crew members were all consciously retreating, and everyone knew that it was absolutely hopeless to be hit by a few tons of things. Then Sparrow saw Mu Fengchun pick up a small black box and say a few words in Chinese to it, and soon saw the hook slowly rising, and the multi-ton net bag was slowly being hoisted up.

When the net bag left the deck, many people's hearts hung up, fearing that the two ropes would break. But what they feared did not happen, the two not thick ropes steadily lifted the nearly five-ton rice bales to the shore, and then saw the Chinese loading bags of rice onto a strange car, and the Black Pearl had already begun to load and unload for the second time. At this rate, it only takes a few hours to unload the cargo on board. On the other side of the trestle, another tower crane also began to unload other merchant ships. Sparrow has lost count of how many times he has been to Guangdong, and he is used to seeing coolies working like ants on the docks, and suddenly seeing such a high-tech thing, the huge contrast makes Mr. Captain a little uncomfortable.

The sturdiness and flexibility of the tower crane made the British sigh, and what they didn't know was that what they saw was not the tower crane used in the dock at all, but the tower crane used in the construction, the latter can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket compared to the former, and the former is far superior to the latter in terms of size and ability. But it was the huge size of the former that made the survivors sigh in vain, and there was no way to disassemble and assemble it, so the new time and space came, so they had to temporarily use the tower crane used for construction to fill the number. Fortunately, in this era, there are no large goods to be loaded and unloaded, and these two tower cranes can still be qualified for the current work for the time being.

It was busy until noon, when the cargo on the Black Pearl was loaded and unloaded, Mu Fengchun made the delivery with the British representatives, and the cart carrying the grain also brought the British prisoners who were about to be released when he returned. A total of 100 people were repatriated this time, all ordinary soldiers, and the Black Pearl was also responsible for sending them to Guangzhou. When Mu Fengchun was about to get off the ship, Mr. Captain said that he would come back in two days, and Mu Fengchun welcomed him.