492 The North African Eagle is back

On the banks of the beautiful Huangpu River, countless reporters and Shanghai citizens flocked to the wharf, looking out. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

Behind him, European-style buildings add a bit of exotic style to the city, and tall buildings are also rising in the distance, and the rising imperial merchants seem to be engaged in an architectural competition with New York.

One of the promoters is Li Xiufeng, who is the royal governor, after learning that Morgan is building skyscrapers in New York, he also said that he wants to build a 19-story skyscraper in Shanghai, which is said to have even been named, called the Empire State Building.

This name once made Li Mo laugh dumbly, but he didn't care about these, as one of the early foreign cities, Shanghai has an important and indelible position, coupled with the superior geographical location, and it has become the first stop for businessmen from all over the world to and from China, and the busy Yangtze River waterway has brought countless opportunities to the city.

If Washington and New York are the brains and hearts of the United States, respectively, then Beijing and Shanghai are the brains and hearts of China.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China and the recovery of the south, it was separated from the jurisdiction of the Jiangsu government and officially upgraded to a municipality directly under the central government, and from the very beginning it was positioned as the capital distribution center of the Chinese Empire.

So if you walk on the banks of the Huangpu River now, you can see all kinds of banks, insurance companies, futures companies and trust companies, these capital businessmen quickly learned the advanced experience of Europe and the United States, and it took ten years to turn this place into the world's sixth largest capital trading center.

Therefore, the construction of a landmark building is indeed more in line with the identity of this somewhat cosmopolitan city today.

However, Li Mo did not come today to participate in any events such as the start of the Empire State Building, but to meet the pilots who had just returned from North Africa, and coincidentally, they met their partners who had just returned to Shanghai after the Olympic Games.

So there was that lively scene on the pier.

In the distance, three huge figures slowly approached, the first one painted with the standard light gray waterproof paint of the Imperial Navy, the high bridge, the triangular mast, and the majestic triple turret, all full of flamboyant and cold domineering.

Shanghai, the second ship of the Beijing class, was just delivered half a year ago, and many Shanghai citizens are very familiar with this navy treasure, because the place where it was launched and named is here, and the newspaper has introduced this battleship in detail.

And today, they are focusing on the two large milky white cruise ships in the back, the Royal Ocean and the Royal Princess.

When the Shanghai ended the escort mission and slowly sailed to the Jiangnan shipyard in the distance, everyone seemed to feel that they were pressed head-on by a steel hill, and the snow-white hull gave people a sense of nobility and purity, and at the same time, the displacement of 45,000 tons really surprised all the people who came to welcome. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

In order to build a good and safe supership for His Majesty the Emperor, in addition to completely adopting naval standards, the shipyard also specially approached the Admiralty, and gave it the green light all the way to use a superheated boiler and steam turbine developed by the Navy, with a powerful engine of 90,000 horsepower, which not only made this behemoth reach 23 knots, but could continuously travel nautical miles at a speed of 15 knots

But no one expected that the first task of this shortly launched super cruise ship was not to send His Majesty the Emperor to inspect the sea frontier, or to be sent to transport the young people of the empire who participated in the Olympic Games.

On the day the supership arrived in Stockholm, the whole of Europe was chanting about the big guy, so much so that it even led to a cruise race.

On the deck, the young people dressed in uniform who had just finished participating in the Olympic Games and were picked up by the cruise ship sent by His Majesty the Emperor himself waved their hands excitedly, and they did not live up to the expectations of the Empire, and finally won the first gold medal for the motherland after participating in three consecutive Olympic Games

They threw away the hat of the "sick man of East Asia" with all their might

So when the news spread that they were going to dock in Shanghai, the whole city was boiling, and people rushed here early in the morning to wait, hoping to see this group of young people.

In the Bund No. 1 building, Li Mo glanced at the Ocean sailing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, quickly walked in front of Li Zhen, carefully checked his clothes, and said: "Go, as the emperor, you should attend some activities, go and welcome our athletes home."

"Yes, father" Li Zhen answered and was about to leave, but Le Ning didn't know that he came out of there, and shouted: "Brother Huang, I'm going too." ”

"Ah, no, no, no" Li Zhen hurriedly waved his hand, his two sisters are wild, so many people don't dare to take care of anything if something happens.

"No, father" Le Ning saw that the eldest brother couldn't make sense, so he had to pull the corner of Li Mo's clothes again, he was really entangled and had no choice, he had no choice but to beckon to Du Dazhuang with a bitter face: "Da Zhuang, you send a few more people to protect it." ”

"Yes"

Finally drove the two brothers and sisters away, Li Mo's ears were also a lot cleaner, and he immediately walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, only to see a group of dark-faced young people walking down on the Royal Princess docked at the second pier.

"Hehe, athletes are still popular, Hou Bin, or let's switch to athletes." Xiao He couldn't help but warm up when he saw the crowd of reporters and welcoming people in the distance.

Zhu Houbin glanced at the front of him and smiled proudly: "When we really return triumphantly one day, the welcome will be more lively than here."

"Yes, it will definitely be livelier than them"

The sudden sound made these young people who had just gotten off the boat and broke out of the name of the North African Eagle quickly turn their heads, and found that a person with an extraordinary bearing in his thirties next to him actually walked over with the chief of staff, and Zhu Houbin was wondering why he was so familiar when he was already shouting next to him.

"Your Majesty, it's Your Majesty."

"Risaki"

"All of them."

"Fifth Flying Group, Salute to His Majesty the Great Emperor"

With Tian Yun's loud slogan, all the pilots and soldiers immediately lined up in a line to salute, Li Mo and Chen Ping raised their right arms, walked in front of these emaciated and swarthy faces, until they looked at everyone, and said loudly: "Today there are only me and the chief of staff, but I believe that the whole country will come to welcome you next time."

Read the book and thank you for winning the pride of your country."

"You are a flock of real eagles"

"Welcome home."

"Father"

Just as Li Mo finished speaking, he was about to shake hands with everyone and ask them about their fighting and living conditions in North Africa, a long white dress broke the atmosphere on the dock, and when Princess Lening appeared in the distance with the guards, almost all eyes were attracted.

"This little girl."

Li Mo couldn't cry or laugh, she didn't know why she didn't go to greet the athlete but came here again, and hurriedly beckoned: "Come here." ”

Le Ning ran over like a dancing swan, his beautiful posture and bearing immediately attracted all the attention, and in the face of so many pairs of eyes, his heart was also a little apprehensive like a deer, secretly blaming himself for not coming here.

"This is my daughter, Le Ning."

"The Fifth Flying Brigade, I've seen Her Royal Highness the Princess" Zhu Houbin was the first to react, and hurriedly pushed the captain Tian Yun, taking the lead in saluting and shouting.

The soldier's unique loud voice frightened Le Ning slightly out of his tongue, and his beautiful eyes swept over this thin and dark young man who always felt very capable, and her heart beat for some reason, but fortunately, the strict etiquette education made her come back to her senses, stretched out her little hand to learn Li Mogang's words, and said softly: "Le Ning welcomes you home." ”

"Thank you, princess" Zhu Houbin was stunned for a moment, then held the little hand that came out, and a trace of warmth washed away the tyranny brought about by the continuous killing for months.

Looking at Le Ning shaking hands with pilots and soldiers, but the corners of his eyes always swept to the young man who had just taken the lead from time to time, the corners of Li Mo's mouth hooked slightly, and he couldn't help but sigh that time had passed very much, and his children had all grown up unconsciously.

"What's that young man's name?" Li Mo tilted his head and asked Chen Ping quietly.

"His name is Zhu Houbin, he is the person who shot down a lot of planes this time, and according to the standards of the Air Force, he is enough to be an ace pilot." Chen Ping immediately introduced Zhu Houbin's combat experience in North Africa, he didn't think as much as Li Mo, for him, after these eagles flew back from North Africa, the air force and naval aviation would get a chance to be greatly improved.

"Zhu Houbin?" Li Mo frowned, this name always felt a little familiar to him, as if he had seen it there, and asked again, "Who is his father?" ”

"It seems that he is a Chinese businessman living in France, and now he has returned to China to open a factory for the production of pumping machines, and he lives in Shanghai."

When he arrived in France, Li Mo finally remembered why this was so familiar, although this name was not as well-known as Feng Ru in later generations, but he had participated in World War I and became a Chinese ace pilot of the French Air Force.

Unexpectedly, this first person in the history of Chinese air warfare in later generations is now under the fan of his own butterfly, but his fate is once again linked to flight, and he has become Hua's ace pilot, and he suddenly smiled: "It's a good seedling, where are you going to send him?" ”

"Lefei is fighting with Xue Muhua, but with Long Guozhang supporting him, I estimate that there is a good chance that he will enter HNNA." Thinking of the "war" between the Navy and the Air Force in the past few days, Chen Ping also laughed happily.

"HNA is good." Li Mo nodded, and was just about to ask a few words, when a staff officer suddenly ran to Chen Ping's ear and muttered a few words, the latter's face sank slightly after listening, and he walked to Li Mo's side and whispered: "Your Majesty, Truk reported that one of our hydrographic survey ships and the protected destroyer was blocked by an American cruiser and a British cruiser in Gilbert."

"Say we're illegally entering British territory."

"Hmph, the action is quite good" Li Mo's eyes suddenly cold: "Where is the battleship close?"

"The Hong Kong is training in Guam."

"So what are you waiting for?"

"Yes"

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