Chapter 668: Gift to the Admiral
The world is too big, and there are too few Chinese people, which has always been a headache for Long Live Lord.
Standing on the deck, Chen Qiang, the commander of the Nanyang Metropolis, looked at the endless sea and the small islands that occasionally appeared between the sea and the sky, and deeply felt what the Lord of Long Live was thinking.
As the son of a farmer in Hunan, Chen Qiang never thought about what he had to do with the sea in the first fifteen years of his life.
When he was seven or eight years old, Chen Qiang followed his father and brother to work in the fields.
If it weren't for a cousin who entered the Hunan army in a daze, and a battalion officer in a daze, Chen Qiang probably wouldn't be much different from his parents in this life.
Chen Qiang still remembers that it was a day when it was snowing heavily in northern Hunan, and the cousin who was rumored to be a senior official by the township returned to the village with two personal guards.
Chen Qiang was in the crowd, looking at his high-spirited and high-spirited cousin, who was very envious.
He also wanted to get out of the mountains, out of this rich and barren land, and see the outside world.
So when the cousin found his father and said that he wanted to find a boy to meet Li Dashuai's recruitment and eat food to become a soldier, Chen Qiang agreed without thinking too much.
It wasn't until later that Chen Qiang's parents knew that what they were talking about at that time was not to eat food and become a soldier at all, but to sell them to Citigroup to be a boy for foreign devils.
No wonder Ergouzi is not looking for his younger brothers, but to find our family!
Chen Qiang's parents wanted to find someone to theorize, but it was already too late, and the person had already left.
Fortunately, Chen Qiang's family does not have only one son.
The old couple was sad for a while, and they could only silently accept the reality.
Until four years ago, when the great son returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors, Chen Qiang and others were also granted a two-month family leave.
To be honest, two months is too far to go back to my hometown in the ravine.
Most of the time is spent on the road.
But Chen Qiang still returned home without hesitation.
This time, he also brought two personal soldiers and a mother-in-law.
The pro-soldier is a Japanese person, and in the early years, he was a personal guard for the guy named Toyonobu Yamauchi.
It looks crooked and cracked, but the knife skills are really good.
Without the guns of the admirals, Chen Qiang was not sure to deal with them.
Of course, the most important thing is to be easy to use.
Carrying a bag, running an errand or something, handy.
As for the mother-in-law, she is a North Korean.
He is quite tall, his legs are long, he is not shorter than Chen Qiang, and his skin is very white, in short, he is very satisfied.
When Chen Qiang took his mother-in-law to hold the baby, followed by two samurai bodyguards, and a large ox convoy hired for half a month's salary, and returned to the village with the local products rented and bought in Shanghai Ming, this small village in northern Hunan completely exploded.
After Chen Qiang distributed the gifts to the villagers, he took out a gold watch produced by Fengdu Watch Factory and planned to send it to his cousin's house to thank him for his kindness.
Regardless of his intentions, Chen Qiang was fortunate to be one of the first batch of Xianghuai international students, and Chen Qiang really felt that he was extremely lucky.
And the cousin is his own nobleman.
However, Chen Qiang soon learned that his cousin had followed Zeng Dashuai to the north to suppress the twist, and he had been shot to death in Cao County, and even the corpse was not transported back.
Taking advantage of the night, he secretly buried the gold watch in front of his cousin's empty grave, where Chen Qiang stood for a long time.
"Cousin, one day, the Chinese in this world will not fight Chinese...... again"
Chen Qiang sighed and turned to leave.
On the second day, the people in the village found out that Chen Qiang and his party had left.
Before leaving, he left behind 50 taels of silver and ten letters of introduction.
The men took the money happily.
But the ten letters of introduction to the Ming Dynasty to join the army have disappeared.
All kinds of past events come to mind.
Chen Qiang looked at the vast sea and did not complain about the villagers.
If you have never seen the sea, how can you know how small that little village is between heaven and earth?
Although the land of China has raised hard-working and simple Chinese children, sometimes they forget to look at the broader world.
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Chen Qiang did not set out from Luzon.
The strength of the Ming Navy is far inferior to that of the Army.
In order to concentrate forces and engage the British in the Atlantic, the fleets of several other theaters of operations were relatively small.
Fortunately, the Royal No. 1 and No. 2 shipyards in Xinjin, and the mixed-ownership shipyards of the Xinqiong and Xinyue generations, launch new warships every month.
This time, Chen Qiang led the officers and men of the naval division of the Nanyang Theater to the New Qionglei Peninsula (Baja California Peninsula, the narrow peninsula in northwestern Mexico) to receive the newly formed fleet.
The warships built by the Southern Legislators were inferior in performance to those of the First and Second Royal Shipyards.
The quality of steel alone has always been impossible for the Southern Shipyard to compare with the Royal Shipyard, which can receive special steel from His Majesty Zhu Fugui's internal funds.
However, the Atlantic Theater is facing the body of the British ghost and the French animal, so it is natural to use good steel.
Good steel is used on the cutting edge.
The South Seas Theater does not need such luxury.
The steel produced by the Daming steelworks themselves, and the cast battleships were enough for the job.
After two weeks of training and acclimatizing to warships in the Eastern Pacific, the brand-new South Sea Fleet set out on its way to the Exile Islands.
Of course, this trip will not go straight to Australia, but will uproot all the colonies of the great powers in the South Pacific.
For example, 30 days earlier, in the first war, the South Sea Naval Division had thrown all the Spanish colonists and black slaves of the Galapagos Islands into the Pacific Ocean.
There's no way, as Mo Bai's adjutant, doing things is so simple and brutal.
And the vast sea, deep, and in an isolated island, it is inevitable that the road will be a little wilder.
But at the very least, they saved the Galapagos tortoises from being overfished and killed and turned into bacon.
Of course, the bacon that has been made, Daming Shui Shi can only go to the pot with tears.
Not to mention, it tastes great!
Chen Qiang specially left 500 catties of tortoise bacon, preparing to return to Fengdu to honor the soul of the Ming Navy, the pioneer of the Nanyang Navy - Admiral Li Chunfa.
Five hundred catties of tortoise meat should be enough for his old man to eat a simple bite.
The factory master specially asked someone to bring a message, saying that his old man heard that the Australian animals are strange, spiders can be as big as a toilet, and what is too chewy to climb snakes, and his old man is more curious.
As we all know, Grandpa Li likes small animals and prefers big animals.
So......
Chen Qiang understands.
Protecting species diversity is the responsibility of our generation of Ming warriors, and the rational development of biological resources is also reasonable!
Chen Qiang decided that he must bring some kangaroo essence to Gonggong Li to strengthen his prestige!