Chapter 30: The Young Master is Here!
Chapter 30 The young master is here!
People are always in a tense busyness, and they can't feel the passage of time, Huo Shan is quite touched by this situation now! After getting two big treasures and falling into the excitement of work, Young Master Huo, until Huo Wolf reminded him, did not know that more than half a month had passed unconsciously.
"It's time to go to the United States!" Huo Shan secretly thought in his heart, to be honest, he was still very interested in American society at this time, after all, the kind of rural idyllic life shown in later Hollywood movies was really enviable.
"However, how should I tell my mother and Ping'er, this little girl!" Huo Shan thought with a headache, although now he is behaving very demonic, and he has taken care of the Huo family's huge family business in an orderly manner!
But so far, he has never left Taiwan for half a step, and without leaving his mother's side, Huo Shan is afraid that his mother will stop him! After all, his actual age is only more than six years old!
"That little girl is not easy to convince!" Huo Shan thought about Ping'er, who grew up with him, and it was difficult to decide in his heart.
However, after wandering around the study, after nearly half an hour, Huo Shan thought of a way that he thought was more clever. That's 'running away from home'!
"When we get to the sea, they won't be able to stop me!" After Young Master Huo finished writing the last word and nodded with satisfaction with his handwriting, he picked up the paperweight on the desk and pressed his parting letter on the table!
"Leizi, are you all ready?" asked Huo Shan after picking up the luggage he had already packed.
"We're ready to go! We'll board the ship at Keelung Harbor, head to Saipan, and then pass through Honolulu, Hawaii, to the San Francisco Seaport Terminal in California!
Seeing that this guy, who usually has a cold face, was so excited to go out this time, Young Master Huo couldn't help but pout.
"Then what are you waiting for, let's go quickly! Otherwise, if my mother finds out, it will be bad!"
Hearing his words, Huo Lei also nodded desperately, as one of the eighteen iron guards, looking at the other brothers, either in the army or in business, everyone has something to do, just he nests by the young master's side every day, although he knows that the responsibility is heavy, but in the end, he is a young man in his twenties, and he still yearns for the outside world.
Looking at the somewhat sneaky figures of the two, although the servants of the Huo family were a little strange, they didn't dare to ask about the master's family. After all, the Huo family's monthly salary is sufficient, and if you lose this job that everyone in Taipei envy because you don't follow the rules, it will be too worthless.
Throwing the luggage in his hand into the carriage that had been prepared long ago, after Huo Shan climbed up with his hands and feet, the two of them left the Huo family's manor in a hurry like thieves!
After running for several hours in a row to Keelung, Huo Shan didn't even go to the shipyard where new warships were being built not far away, so he boarded the passenger ship waiting in the port early.
"Young Master, you're here!" Huo Wolf, who was standing on the deck, looked at the two guys who seemed to be being picked up by a dog behind his buttocks, and greeted with some confusion.
"Okay, Huo Wolf, quickly tell them to start the boat!" said Young Master Huo with a roar.
"Yes, young master!"
Looking at the Keelung Port wharf hidden in the sunset, Huo Shan let out a long breath, and now he can finally rest assured!
Huo Lei, who had never been to the sea before, scratched his head and asked with some doubts: "Young master, didn't you say that the sea is all blue?
Hearing this, Huo Shan couldn't help but roll his eyes, and said angrily: "This is a shallow sea, and when you get to the deep sea, the sea water is blue and big, I usually ask you to read more books, but you just don't listen!"
Not to mention what the expressions of the Huo family will be after they find out that their young master has run away. Anyway, Huo Shan was at ease, and in the room that had been prepared for him on the ship, he fell asleep.
After a night of silence, Huo Shan got up early the next day, stood on the bow deck, handed Fu Bo to him a boxing technique that could strengthen his body, and after a serious fight, he couldn't help but revel in the blue sea and blue sky.
The steel hull hit the waves, he had never been to the sea, looking at the beautiful scenery of the water and the sky not far away, he couldn't help but be interested, took out the fishing gear that had been prepared, took a small bench, sat on the deck of the cruise ship, hooked the bait, and threw the fishing line into the sea water that was constantly rippling, and leisurely hoisted the fish.
This is the most relaxed moment since he came to this world for nearly half a year, without all kinds of constraints, leaving behind all kinds of troubles, and enjoying every day leisurely!
"What a beautiful dream, but it will never belong to you!" Huo Shan looked at it in a daze, and thought of the blue sea under his feet. However, these worries were soon driven out of his mind by the joy of his first harvest.
With the help of Horay, a four- or five-pound sardine became a delicious meal at noon in Huoshan!
At noon the next day, Saipan, set like an emerald in the blue sea, appeared in the eyes of everyone.
Soon the observation post set up on the island spotted a passenger ship coming from afar through a large telescope!
Looking at the sail-type training ship slowly sailing towards here, Huo Shan's face couldn't help but smile, and he secretly said in his heart: "It seems that it's time to replace the navy with a better ship!"
Because of Huoshan, there was no one else on this passenger ship except for some internal guards who followed him out and ammunition supplies sent to overseas military bases! After all, the islands they now occupied still nominally belonged to the Spaniards!
"Young Master!"
"Huo Feng, you kid, but you've tanned a lot!" Huo Shan looked at the young man he hadn't seen for a few months, and said with a smile on his face.
"Hehehe, it's nothing! Isn't this for the young master, the twenty-four new warships that were promised?" Huo Feng touched his head and said with some embarrassment.
"What's the matter?"
"Yes, Brother Long just sent a few days ago, the newly recruited 10,000 sailors, after telling us about this matter, they hurriedly returned to Taiwan to supervise the construction of the new warship!
He touched his nose a little embarrassed, he couldn't say in front of his subordinates that he was from a family, so he hurriedly changed the topic.
"How's your naval academy doing now?"
Sure enough, at the mention of this, Huo Feng immediately became excited, and then began to gush endlessly: "Although the young master of the Qing Dynasty army is very rich, their sailors are really good, these guys who graduated from the Mawei Shipbuilding Academy are rare talents, those military books compiled by the young master, they learn very quickly, and everyone admires the young master's "Theory of Sea Power" even more!" Now that our Naval Academy on Saipan is using them as teachers, we have recruited more than 1,000 new cadets and are training them with all our might, and I believe that after they complete their three-year studies, the shortage of talents in our Navy will be greatly alleviated!"
"Yes, you have done a good job! Our navy recruits students once a year! After graduating from the first batch of cadets, we will set aside 200 people to serve as teachers at the naval academy! In the future, as the scale of our naval fleet continues to expand, we will need a large number of naval professionals!" Thinking of the era of dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts in later generations, the naval power at that time was often hundreds of thousands of people, which is more than the population of some small countries! Thinking of these Huo Shan's hearts, he couldn't help but feel a burst of indescribable excitement!
"Understood!Young Master!" Huo Feng happily agreed, and from the information that came out of the young master's mouth, he understood that the period of great development of their navy was coming soon!
"Don't just smirk, when this batch of naval cadets graduates, I will personally test it, if they fail the final test, be careful that I will settle accounts with you!"
"Young master, don't worry! Our training must be the strictest in the world!" Huo Feng replied confidently.
As they spoke, the passenger ship continued to move toward the island under the tremendous power of the reciprocating steam engine! Not long after the time passed, the pier of Saipan was already faintly in sight, and the faint burning figures on the shore began to become clearer. After World War II, the United States military base in the Pacific Ocean was famous for a long time in his previous life.