Chapter 503: Tram
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However, the unswerving look on Guba's face also let the old man Emma know that at this moment, the supreme commander of the French forces in the Far East no longer had the patience to continue to let the warship roam the China Sea. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Hey!" Seeing this, the old man Emma couldn't help but sigh deeply in his heart, after all, the current France is no longer the French kingdom of the past, and the Bourbon family has long been ousted from the throne. Although the influence on France is still very deep, it is not the era of the previous one.
Therefore, it is impossible for the Bourbons to force the French naval fleet to search for their own children, and it is still at a time when the French operation to seize the Vietnamese colony is in difficulty. You know, this is a matter of public outrage.
After all, now there is a separation between the state and the private.
Thinking of this, the old man Emma's face became even more sad.
"General Guba, a month, let the navy find a month in the sea of China, if you still can't find it, then the general will ...... Just withdraw the fleet!" said Emma, with regret and reluctance in her words.
"Okay, Mr. Emma, don't worry, I'll let the fleet go all out to find it this month!"
After finishing speaking, Gu Ba was also relieved in his heart, he didn't want to be unhappy with the Bourbon family, after all, he would have to work hard in the French political and military circles in the future. If offended the Bourbons, these political ambitions of his. There may be no more possibilities for this to be realized.
"Then please general!"
Now both sides took a step back and maintained a semblance of peace.
"Mr. Emma, don't worry!"
After saying this, although Lone tried to keep him to stay for lunch. But the old man Emma, who is worried about Helen's safety, still has some interest in having a dinner there. After a few perfunctory words, he walked out of the station of the headquarters of the French Far Eastern Army.
"Are you old Mr. Emma?" Just as Emma was about to get into the carriage and leave, a young man of medium stature, slightly darkened, and extremely capable came over.
"You are?"
Although the young man spoke French very well, Emma was sure that he did not know the man.
"Mr. Emma doesn't need to know who I am. You just need to know this!" said a gorgeous earring in the hand of the capable young man in a flash.
But just staring at this moment made the old man Emma's whole body tremble. His expression suddenly became excited.
"How did you get this? Where did you get these earrings, tell me about them!" said Emma, who couldn't help but take two steps forward, as if grabbing the young man's arm.
But he was doomed to be in vain. As a full-time agent of the Security Bureau, Mao Feng's outstretched hand is not comparable to that of an old man who is more than half a hundred years old. So just a flick and get out of the way.
"If, I want to know where the owner of this earring is. Just come with me! You can only come by yourself, they can't!" As he spoke, Mao Feng pointed to a few strong Western men who were secretly on guard next to him.
At the beginning, they also came to the east to protect Helen, and together with the old man Emma, they were raised from the sea by the Huo family's army. So several people are still together.
"Okay, I promise you!"
After listening to Mao Feng's words, Old Man Emma agreed almost without hesitation.
"Steward!"
"Sir, you can't go with them, if there's ...... danger!"
But not yet. He was interrupted by Old Man Emma, "Alright. You don't need to persuade me, I've already decided!"
This earring was the only clue he had seen in the four months since the shipwreck that he could find the young lady, and the old man Emma was not willing to give up anyway.
"Please come with me!"
After listening to Mao Feng's words, the old man Emma nodded, followed the young man farther and farther away, and gradually disappeared into the flow of people.
Several bodyguards couldn't help but look at each other, and finally shook their heads helplessly and returned to their accommodation. Wait for Old Man Emma to come back.
Unfortunately, they are destined not to wait!
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"This is Nanyang? This is the territory of the Chinese People's Army? This is Pontianak?" Wang Wenbin, who had just stepped off the cruise ship, looked at the busy docks, the crowd of people, and the high-rise buildings that could not be seen in the distance, and asked three questions, completely expressing the shock in his heart.
Like him, Lu Kangcheng, who came to Nanyang for the first time and came to the territory under the jurisdiction of the Huo Jiajun, couldn't help but be shocked.
Originally, in their hearts, the Nanyang at this moment should be a small place like an ordinary county town in the Qing Dynasty, but when they actually saw it, they noticed how prosperous Pontianak, a city famous throughout Asia, was.
"Hey, look at those two people stupidly, they must be Qing people who came to Nanyang once!"
"Well! Look at that stupid appearance and know that it is! Forget it, don't look at it, the people who came out of the broken place of the Qing Dynasty came to the territory of our Chinese People's Army for the first time!"
"Also, it's a bun of dirt buns who haven't seen much of the world. ”
Just when the two were in a daze, two middle-aged men in gray new Hanfu looked at them, talked and laughed with each other and left.
Watching the two walk away, Wang Wenbin and Lu Kangcheng couldn't help but smile bitterly at the same time, like when they were in the Qing Dynasty, they were also real children of the family, and they boasted that they were well-informed, and even the Forbidden City had not been once or twice. Unexpectedly, he was despised by others as soon as he came to Nanyang.
"Brother Kang Cheng, I didn't expect you and me to have a day when we were said to be dirt buns!"
"Yes, but what we have heard and seen along the way is completely different from that of the Qing Dynasty. Now when I see this city, I realize that you and I were just sitting in a well and watching the sky, and the outside world has long been completely different. Lu Kangcheng said with a sigh on his face.
Hearing this, Wang Wenbin also nodded in agreement, "Fortunately, it was Lu Dong and Wang Wei's little rabbit cub who secretly came to Nanyang, so that the head of the family had the idea of letting us come to Nanyang to investigate, otherwise you and I may not know that the two families will decline with the decay of the Qing Dynasty!"
Only comparison will know the gap, in order to visit the head of the Huo family, they were also shocked by the changes in Taiwan, and they stayed there for nearly half a year.
Although they never saw the head of the Huo family in the end, it also made them truly understand the fact that the Qing Dynasty had decayed and declined.
"This time I went back, no matter what, I had to move the head of the family and send more family members to Nanyang for a journey. Moreover, the family's business should gradually develop towards Nanyang in the future. Otherwise, in the future, we and the King Lu family may fall behind the Li and He families. ”
After listening to Lu Kangcheng's words, Wang Wenbin also nodded in agreement.
"Speaking of which, Li Hongzhang and He Jing are still shrewd? They actually saw the potential of the Huo family five years ago, and they had already set up a relationship between the daughter in their group and the only heir of the Huo family. With the prestige of the Huo family in Nanyang, their family's development in Nanyang in the future can be described as smooth sailing, much stronger than us!"
Seeing the envy on Wang Wenbin's face, Lu Kangcheng also sighed with some regret in his heart, they stayed in Taiwan for half a year, in addition to inspecting Taiwan, they still hoped to meet the principal of the Huo family and see if they could also climb into a family affair with the Huo family. The daughters of King Lu's two families were also married into the Huo family.
But unfortunately, in half a year, they did not succeed.
In the end, I couldn't wait any longer, so I came to Pontianak, the capital of Borneo Province of the Nanyang Chinese People's Army.
"Sir, do you need a ride?"
Just when the two of them were telling each other about their feelings, a man in his thirties wearing a white placket and shoulders with a small flat head walked over.
"Sit!" After agreeing, Lu Kangcheng looked around and asked, "Where's your car?"
"Hehe, it seems that this is the first time you have come to our Pontianak. Horse-drawn carriages are not allowed in the port area, so if you want to take the bus, you should come with your luggage!"
"Okay!" If they are not familiar with the place, King Lu and Wang can only follow the customs of the countryside and follow the baton of others.
However, this time, both of them came out with two servants each, so they naturally didn't need to carry things.
"This is your carriage?"
Seeing that the style in front of him was completely different from the internal carriage of the Qing Dynasty, but more like the four-wheeled carriage ridden by foreigners in the north-capital, Wang Wenbin asked in surprise.
"Yes!" he agreed, "but I don't know how many years this carriage will be able to drive in the future?"
Listening to the coachman's slightly regretful words, Lu Jiacheng asked while directing the servants to put the carriage in the luggage room: "Why?
"Yes, this business used to be good, but since the advent of this tram, the business of this carriage has become less and less!" If it weren't for the appearance of the tram, which stole most of the business, he wouldn't have gone directly to the dock to solicit customers.
Now only these people who have just come to Pontianak from the Qing Dynasty and don't know anything about trams will make his carriages.
"Tram?" said Lu and Wang in surprise at the same time.
"Oh, that's right! I forgot that you just came to Nanyang!" After reacting, the owner patted his forehead with a little annoyance, and then stretched out his hand and pointed not far away, "Look, that's the tram!"
Looking in the direction of the owner's finger, the two immediately saw that the flow of people who were originally standing under a sign at this moment walked towards a thing more than ten meters long and more than two meters high, like a train carriage.
After everyone entered, they saw that the iron car did not make any huge movements, let alone the smoke of the steam engine of the train, and left quietly in the disbelieving eyes of King Lu and the others. Of course, the iron chain behind the butt of the car that was dragging on the ground and sparkling also made the two of them feel particularly weird. (To be continued.) )u