Four, four, five, go to South America
In the beautiful port of Guayaquil, two warships flying the blood-red gold dragon flag, docked side by side, are particularly eye-catching, from the end of Spanish colonial rule to the disintegration of Gran Colombia, Ecuador, a small South American country located on the equator, is the first time to usher in the "China" ship. γ I want: super fast update γ
Beside them, a rusty gunboat slowly drove by, and several Ecuadorian soldiers looked enviously at the polished hull, at their single L47/130mm naval guns in the bow and stern, and suddenly felt how short and ugly the 76mm guns in the bow of their boats were.
Indeed, as a small country that only abandoned a few gunboats to support the scene and had almost no navy, the 1,200-ton Beifeng was already a behemoth," not to mention the 4,880-ton Bohai naval survey ship next to it.
On the deck, a few bored young sailors are waving to the Ecuadorian soldiers, while the sailors on the other side disembark in groups of twos and threes, ready to explore this exotic city.
Guayaquil Port is one of the most important sheltered harbors in the eastern Pacific Ocean due to its deep bay and mountain barriers, and a large number of ships come here every year to escape the storms, which also contributes to the prosperity of the region.
Luo Qing walked down the Bohai in the crowd, this is a typical Pacific "self" port, the wharf is still the style of the eighteenth century, full of small traders and vendors, many of them are all kinds of ornaments and coffee, and there is a round porcelain white, but very hard fruit, the locals call it ivory fruit.
Several Ecuadorian girls dressed in ** surrounded a group of Chinese sailors, although the English of both sides was extremely crouching, but they still held their bulging chests "from time to time pretending to sweat and touching a handful of exposed half **, throwing flattering eyes to seduce these idiot geese to buy ivory fruit."
The sailors have been running out all year round, and they have to receive military-style education since they joined the army" It should be said that their horizons are much broader than those of ordinary people in China, but these are obviously rookies, and they were bought by those pairs of white MLL houses.
Luo Qing didn't remind them, "There's no need to compete with the girls who sell ivory fruits", after a long time at sea, the sailors need to relieve their boredom, maybe a few glances at the half-exposed MLL room, for the sailors to be more energetic than ivory fruits.
Smiling and avoiding the girls who tried to surround him, Luo Qing slipped into an alley in the port of Guayaquil, which was not large, but inhabited by hundreds of Chinese who had wandered here in their early years.
As early as the end of the eighteenth century, there were Chinese who came to settle in Guayaquil, although the number was small, but it was precisely because of the Chinese who were almost all over South America that they supported half of the sky of the Ministry of Intelligence.
Pushing open the moldy wooden door, a blacksmith shop appeared in front of him, and not long after all kinds of swords came into view, a thin sword with cold light suddenly rested on his neck from behind. β»β»β»β»β» I β» I β» β»
Luo Qing seemed to see Sen Han's blade, smiled slightly, and read: "Angry hair rushes to the crown, leaning on the railing" Xiaoxiao Yuxi. β
"Look at the eyes, look up to the sky and roar, and be fierce." , when he just finished reading "Behind him, he also remembered the opening sentence of this popular Man Jianghong, and then the tip of the sword was also taken back.
Luo Qing turned around with a smile, and two middle-aged men with similar faces appeared in front of him, one of them held a sword in his hand, and said with a smile: "In a foreign country, it is inevitable to be nervous, brother, don't go to your heart." "Hehe" can be so vigilant, Luo Qing is too late to admire. β
"Wu Yu (Wu Sheng), I've seen Brother Luo." Wu Yu and his younger brother finished laughing, and the three of them smiled and hugged each other.
The ancestors of the samurai brothers were all blacksmiths, and they had a good set of family kung fu "When the ancestors went to San Francisco to pan for gold, they escaped with a Spanish ship, and then came here with a Spanish ship, and took root in the blacksmith craft.
After greetings, the two took Luo Qing to the upstairs of the blacksmith shop, there was a radio transmitter and a hand-cranked generator under the skylight in the building, and a thin wire penetrated through the window.
The two brothers are ordinary people, and it seems that it took a lot of hard work to be able to play the radio, because the radio requires a codebook to be translated, and it is difficult to memorize a codebook of several thousand words.
After Wu Yu cleaned the table, the three of them sat down around the table, and Luo Qing immediately asked, "Have you figured it out?" β
Although Hua and Ecuador have not yet formally established diplomatic relations, it does not mean that it is difficult to find out how difficult the basic situation of Ecuador is.
So Wu Yu immediately replied: "It has basically been figured out, and it is the current President Lisaldo Garcia who made the decision to participate in the transaction" He was a colonel in the army before, and the condition of the British at that time was to help him become president, and it is said that in addition to being president, he also received a benefit fee of 10,000 yuan. β
"Hehe, good conditions." Luo Qing couldn't help clapping his hands, "A major can become the president of this country with the help of a second-hand dealer", which shows how chaotic it is.
"Yes, but he didn't do well after he came to power, he raised a lot of taxes, and threatened to dissolve the parliament, so at the moment all walks of life in Ecuador hate him," and recently there were voices of people trying to assassinate him. Wu Sheng said.
"Assassinate him?" Luo Qing's eyes were cold, and he sneered: "He didn't die so early!" οΌβ
"We're also paying attention, and we've secretly arranged a few friends around him to spy on him, also for fear that he will be slaughtered, so we won't have a target." , Wu Yu rubbed his hands, and seemed to be quite proud of his method.
"Is there a suitable goal for cooperation?" Luo Qing asked again.
Yu walked to the side and flipped out a newspaper, pointed to a middle-aged man on the photo on the front page of the newspaper and said: "His name is Aloy Alfaro" Ten years ago, he was still president, and after losing the election, he became the head of parliament, he and Garcia are very incompatible, and he has always wanted to return to power, and once threatened to overthrow Garcia's military government. β
"Aloy - Alfaro." After Luo Qing pronounced the name a few times, his eyes flashed: "Can you contact him?" "Yes, he happens to be here these days. "Listen to his guards, he is looking for support in the army, and it is possible to launch a coup d'Γ©tat in the next few days to regain power." "These days?!" "Hearing this" Luo Qing slowly stood up, if in the past, Ecuador would fight a civil war and didn't care about him, but now he must keep this president in power for a few more days, otherwise he will lose his loan. "It's going to be a lot more complicated!
So he walked a few steps back and forth in the room, looked at his watch again, and pointed to the radio station, "Can you reach Honolulu?" β
"Yes, but the distance is too far and the signal is not very stable."
"That's not going to work!" Luo Qing shook his head, "After thinking about it, he immediately took out a pass from his pocket and handed it to Wu Sheng: "Brother Wu Sheng, you immediately take my pass to the dock, find the captain, and say what I said" Let him contact Honolulu immediately, just say that the situation is urgent, and I hope the fleet can leave immediately. β
"Brother Wuyu, you and I will go see Alfaro immediately" no matter what, we have to hold him back from the coup. β
"Just going?" , Wu Yu admired Luo Qing's decisiveness at the same time, but he couldn't help but be a little worried, was it too hasty to go like this? "Don't worry, I'll send him a big foreign aid, I believe he must have the patience to wait a few more days!" Luo Qing haha, "Took Wu Yu out of the blacksmith shop."
Although it is a Sunday, the beautiful Pearl Harbor is still full of ships, although most of the industry here has been withdrawn from the country, "the population has also dropped a lot, but the reputation of the best seaport in the Pacific Ocean is not for nothing" has a strategic geographical location, so that it is still attracting attention, not to mention that it is also the base of the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Navy.
Although the former busy shipyard still retains three docks, the cost of the warships produced here is 20 percent higher than that of the domestic market due to the factor of raw materials, so there are no more orders here, but in order to maintain a certain repair capacity, the necessary facilities are still retained, mainly to provide repair and maintenance services for the fleet.
Suddenly there is no strong smell of industrial smoke, but because this is the place where Li Mo started, "and several imperial concubines and emperors often come here to stay for a few days, plus a large number of family members in the fleet and merchant ships coming and going", Honolulu is still prosperous.
There are no naval orders, and even civilian orders are gone, but because it has become a transit point between the United States and South America, there is a lot of maintenance work at the shipyard, so it is still very busy.
When fleets of ships pass by these days, they can't help but look at it twice, "not because of nostalgia, but because there is a huge "Russian" fleet in the vicinity.
Chesarevich 12900 tons, Poltava 11500 tons, Grom Cannon 13300 tons, Oslyabya 13000 tons, Alexander III 15200 tons, Bayan 7000 tons, Ochakov 6700 tons, Parada 6700 tons, Diana 6700 tons, Novik 3200 tons, Rostislav 8800 tons, Svetlana 2100 tons.
In addition to the four protective cruisers that were sold to Thailand and North Korea, the rest of the captured Russian ships were gathered here.
These former national pride concentrated on maintenance here, in addition to reducing the pressure on the domestic slipway, "but also let the shipyard make a small profit, but now they are like a phoenix that has lost its hair, after being repaired here, almost no one wants to take a second look, every day to look at the Honolulu people of the fleet generation of capital ships, except for the sensation when they first came, now they have long looked down on these iron bumps, which makes the dozen or so Russian ** ships crowded here seem particularly lonely.
Taking advantage of this holiday, "Ji Weishan, who was dressed in casual clothes, sat on the grass and admired these trophies" while "the history of the naval battle kept coming to mind when he pondered the gains and losses, and suddenly a large group of scholars carrying cameras attracted his attention.
Looking at these students who were comparing with the guards, Ji Weishan smiled slightly, and only these students who had just come to the University of Honolulu from China would be so interested in taking pictures, looking at these students, he quietly nodded to the guards from afar, and the guards sent people to follow, "Send the students to the deck to take pictures."
Although there are some violations of small regulations, it is harmless, because these warships will not enter the navy service, and all the things on it should be studied have been studied, and even the naval guns have been replaced with a few Chinese naval guns for the study of Russia's processing level, so it is better to talk about leaking secrets or not, it is better to make everyone happy.
When he got up and walked slowly to the dock, "I was about to listen to what the students thought of the naval battle, when suddenly a jeep came to Ji Weishan at a high speed.
"Report, emergency call from the military department."
After Ji Weishan quickly read the telegram, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth again, after half a year of rest, the Pacific Fleet could finally rush out of the harbor again and enter the intoxicating deep blue again.
This time, what he wants to do is to set off a steel storm in South America!! ~οΌ