1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 33 The North American Gang

After the special working group returned from Fushantong, the personnel of the military and police department also returned to their respective positions. The two catamarans "Flying Speed" and "Lightning", which are the mainstay of maritime patrols, finally resumed their normal sea cruises.Another captured Ming army navy ship, Haicang, is temporarily used as a sailor training base for the Ministry of Shipping. , It seems that the training is very hard, but I don't know how the captains of the future fleet are doing now.

The alarm clock was ready to go off at six in the morning, waking up Tom Wang from his sleep.He rubbed his eyes, and quickly stretched out and sat up.After sitting for about half a minute, Tom Wang jumped out of the bed and walked out of the cabin, turned on the faucet, took a glass of water and began to rinse his mouth.The "Velocity" is similar to the smaller "Blitzkrieg" in internal structure, with three separate living cabins, a common living cabin, toilets and galleys.However, the hull of the "Velocity" is slightly larger, and the interior space is also more spacious.

But these are secondary issues now, because except for Tom Wang, everyone in the North American gang has moved to the prefab house at Base [-] to live in. The space on this ship is currently his own world.Just out of the need for strategic preparations, the North American Gang will take turns sending one person to spend the night on another "Blitzkrieg" every day. After all, there are very few people who can live at sea for many years like him, even if they all have sailing boats. The same goes for the North American gang of yachting skills.No one likes to stay at sea for a long time like Tom Wang. In the eyes of others, sailing to sea should only be a work or a pastime, and it will never be the whole of life.

Tom Wang's worldview is indeed different from theirs. After participating in the first Vendee round-the-world sailing race, he knew that he was the kind of person who was born to belong to the sea.So over the next eight years he took part in what is considered to be the most brutal sailing competition for two more times.

This round-the-world sailing race organized by the French is held every four years. The participating sailboats start from France, go south along the west coast of Africa, go around the Cape of Good Hope and then all the way east, around the entire Antarctic continent, across Cape Horn, and then along the east coast of South America. The shore went north, crossed the Atlantic and finally returned to France.This sailing route through countless dangerous seas and strong storm belts can be described as "maddening", but what is even more maddening is that this race is actually set as a "non-shore single-person round-the-world sailing race", what they want Overcoming not only bad weather and indistinguishable headings, but more importantly, living alone for several months on the endless ocean, facing everything alone, it can be said that every captain who can complete the entire four-month race. They are all heroes with skill, courage, and a strong will.

King Tom has completed such a cruel competition three times. If he hadn't participated in this time-travel event, he knew that he would definitely participate in the next one, and he might be expected to break the old competition record with his rich competition experience.But in the end, Tom Wang gave up the sailing race and decided to participate in the crossing, because as an avid navigator, there is nothing more exciting than crossing to the early 17th century and experiencing the era of great sailing.Although it was too late to catch up with the discovery of the New World, it doesn't matter, the various routes in Tom Wang's mind are enough to make him the greatest navigator of this era, what Columbus, Dagama, Cabral, Di Ash, Magellan, all will be defeated by the fast routes that he will open up in the future with the help of ocean currents.Tom Wang believes that in a few years, people will commemorate his great sailing pioneer with a regular round-the-world sailing race named after him.

After washing, Tom Wang put on his clothes, and then habitually patrolled the cabin and the deck to make sure that the ship was in good condition, and then he went down from the gangway at the stern to the pier trestle.At this time, Morgan, who happened to come out of another "Blitzkrieg", saw him, and the two raised their hands to say hello to each other.

Morgan is the oldest of the six members of the North American gang. He is 44 years old this year, but he did not take part in the crossing with his family like Johnson.Tom Wang has known Morgan for nearly ten years. He knows that the old Morgan got divorced last year, and his son and daughter ended up with his ex-wife Susan. It is said that the family is living happily on a farm in Texas.Old Morgan is a very gentle and introverted person. Although he never mentions it, Tom Wang thinks that this may be the reason why he travels to another time and space with a few old partners - saying goodbye to the past life, saying goodbye to his family, and trying to forget everything in the past.

Neither Tom Wang nor anyone else has comforted Morgan, which is not what American men do.As a good friend who has been with him for many years, he should find a way to help him get back on his feet, not just verbally say "I'm sorry" and other innocuous words.Fortunately, the trick of traveling back to the [-]th century has obviously worked, and my companions can all feel that Morgan has become a lot more cheerful recently. When he was in the free clinic in Litong two days ago, the old Morgan even had the first time to communicate with the natives who did not understand the language. Make funny faces and play tricks.

"Morning-morning-good!" Morgan greeted Tom Wang in Chinese word by word.Learn to speak Chinese as soon as possible, this is the basic requirement of the Executive Committee for the North American Gang.Although there are not many people with English conversation skills in the entire team, it is obviously unlikely that the executive committee will give special care to the six of them in this regard, and Chinese will definitely be identified as the cross-group's in their lifetime. The official use of language exists, so learning Chinese has become another important task for them besides patrolling the sea every day.

Among the six members of the North American gang, only Wang Tom's Chinese is slightly better. Although his accent is a bit strange, he can basically communicate with other members.Therefore, most of the task of teaching Chinese falls on Tom Wang's shoulders. Occasionally, Gu Kai and Schneider will come over to teach them language classes at night.But no matter what language you’re learning, it’s important to keep your mouth shut and practice, and Morgan clearly nails that.

The entrance of the cafeteria at Base No. [-] is obviously not as lively as it used to be at this time. Now with the two of them, there are only a dozen people waiting in line for breakfast. Because of the hydropower project, most of them have now moved to the camp of Base No. [-]. Living, so there are almost only one-fifth of the people in Victory Port and Base No. [-], and those cultivators who struggled in the mud pond all day yesterday are probably still screaming because of excessive fatigue. sleeping.

Soon the other four members of the North American gang also appeared. Johnson was dispatched by the whole family, and his wife Laura was holding two daughters, Jessica and Emily, 11 years old and [-] years old, respectively.Qiao Zhiya, on the other hand, was talking eagerly about the unfinished poker game last night with two good friends from ABC, Roger and Shi Diwen.Roger and Shi Diwen were both senior technicians of General Motors Corporation before crossing over, and they were also special personnel who belonged to the dual establishment of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Military and Police. It is of great use, so it is basically in accordance with the arrangement of the military and police department, and is mainly responsible for maritime patrol and security tasks.

The breakfast served in the cooking class today is porridge and steamed buns. If necessary, you can ask for a little kimchi.Qiao Zhiya sighed as soon as he saw the steamed buns. He really didn't like the taste of this kind of "Chinese bread", and a few days ago he tried to get the people in the cooking class to "cut the steamed buns into slices and bake them", but he was taken for granted. Zuo came to find fault, and almost had a conflict because of it.

Johnson's two daughters were obviously treated much better than the unfortunate Joe Chia, who each received a glass of milk and an egg in addition to the staple food.This is the "Children's Nutritional Protection Plan" specially formulated by the Executive Committee, that is, on the basis of ensuring sufficient food supply, the children of the traverse community must also take into account nutritional supplements. At present, the level of agricultural development in the trad In the initial stage, the nutritional products that can be provided stably are only milk and eggs for the time being.

"Good morning everyone!" With a greeting, Gu Kai appeared beside the North American Gang with a smile on his face.

"Kevin, why are you here?" As an old friend, Tom Wang still used to call Gu Kai's English name: "As far as I know, apart from those of us who are going to patrol the sea, there are only women and old people. And children will stay here, please tell me, which category do you belong to?"

"Like you, I'm also going to patrol the sea." Gu Kai deliberately spread out his hands and turned around. At this time, everyone in North America noticed that this lawyer who always used a suit and tie to swindle, was wearing a camouflage today. The training uniform appears.This is really the sun coming out of the west. You must know that this guy Gu Kai is a complete pacifist and has never liked military-related things. What kind of madness is today?

Tom Wang suddenly thought of something, and said stunned: "Yesterday, the executive committee informed us that someone will go out to sea with us on a special mission today. Could it be you who sent it?"

Gu Kai put away his smile and nodded solemnly: "Yes, I am the Central Commissioner you are waiting for. I am in charge of today's special operations, and all of you must obey my orders!"

Unsurprisingly, Gu Kai got twelve middle fingers stretched out by Qi Shushua as a response. Obviously, his bluffing stuff is not enough for these people in North America.

Gu Kai didn't care, shrugged and said, "I'm not joking with you, let's have a meeting on board after breakfast."

After 15 minutes, everyone left base one file.The bearded Johnson also kissed his wife and children goodbye, and then came to the "Speed" with his companions.

"Okay, if you know something, say it quickly. If you play tricks again, I can't guarantee that they won't throw you into the sea." Tom Wang threatened with his sleeves rolled up.

Gu Kai raised his hands to signal his surrender: "Okay, this is the case, the Executive Committee has arranged a place that requires you to do a field survey, and my duty is to make an objective assessment of the results of this survey and provide it to the Executive Committee for advice. The next action plan is for reference.”

"Is this about to go to war again?" "Are you going to attack the city of Yazhou, a hundred miles west of Sanya?" The few militants who missed the previous battle immediately became excited.

"Uh... things are not what you think, there will be no battle, I think you are probably disappointed." Gu Kai quickly tried to calm the emotions of these guys.

(End of this chapter)