Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 233 A Miao's Mind and New Ship
At the end of March, Zhao Xin returned to Fuldan.This trip made him tormented enough, and he fell asleep when he returned to his residence.

When Liu Sheng heard that he was back, he planned to send someone to call him.But he heard that Zhao Xin fell asleep as soon as he came back, so he knew he must be exhausted.When they met in the afternoon, they reminded Zhao Xin: "I heard that A Miao is ill. If you have time, go and see her. The little girl is pitiful alone."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Xin ate a few mouthfuls of food hastily, then got up and left.

Liu Sheng originally thought that Zhao Xin would be back in a while, and he planned to discuss with him about going north next month.As a result, Zhao Xin left and didn't come back until the next morning.

"What's wrong? I see that your eye circles are dark, didn't you sleep well?"

"Hey!" Zhao Xin took a sip of strong tea and shook his head helplessly.In front of his good friend, Zhao Xin could only tell him some things. "It's a big deal! I thought A Miao had a strong personality, but now it seems that it's just a superficial appearance. This child's family was gone when she was nine years old, and she's only 11 years old now. Her psychological endurance is actually quite fragile. "

A Miao is indeed sick, but the biggest problem is heart disease.Zhao Xin chatted with her for a long time before he figured out what was going on.

Since following Zhao Xin, what A Miao misses the most is the time in Xiongdao.At that time, Zhao Xin could chat and laugh with her almost every day, and there were not so many rules; in his spare time, he teased King Duofu, or he took Xu Shounan's little follower around.At that time, Ah Miao felt that she had a family again.

But after coming to Beihai Town, Ah Miao couldn't speak to Zhao Xin a few times in a year, and many times they just passed by each other after saying hello in a hurry.Later, she studied medicine with Liu Siting, and Ah Miao also worked hard, but she felt more and more lonely.

After Zhao Xin and Shen Xuan got engaged at the end of last year, some miscellaneous rumors began to spread in the medical station, and gradually spread to A Miao's ears.Why did Zhao Xin look down on her, so she was assigned to work in the medical station.What kind of nonsense is there for a wild girl from the mountains who still thinks about sparrows climbing high branches.

It has been three months since Liu Siting left, and now she has no one to protect her.A Miao was already thoughtful, but now she was even more worried, did Zhao Xin and the teacher not want me anymore?After a lot of grief for the spring and autumn, and nostalgia for his life experience, his heart disease became more and more serious, and it would be no wonder if he didn't fall ill.

After hearing Zhao Xin's words, Liu Sheng said angrily, "Who said the bullshit you told me? I'll settle the score with them in a while!"

Zhao Xin shook his head and said, "Forget it, it's not easy for us to train a few medical staff. Besides, this kind of gossip is not new at all, it can be found everywhere."

Liu Sheng said: "How do you plan to deal with this matter?"

Zhao Xindao: "What else can I do? Bring A Miao back and live with me first, and at least have Guisheng to help take care of her. Go north in a few days, take her with you, let's relax."

Liu Sheng frowned and said, "You treat her like this, be careful that you won't be able to get rid of her in the future."

"Ah? What do you mean?"

Liu Sheng said bluntly: "You once told me that women in this era have to depend on men to live. If you look after A Miao like this, who will dare to marry her in the future?"

Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "Let's take one step at a time, change the environment first, maybe it will get better gradually. Li Ji, Zhi Nai, A Miao, and Sheng Haizhou, these seven are the first to follow me. It has been a long time. , more or less have feelings."

In the next two days, Zhao Xin would find time to talk to A Miao, and the little girl's spirit obviously improved a lot.Another day later, A Miao took her own luggage and followed Guisheng into Zhao Xin's woodcut courtyard in Zhuergen City.As a result, as soon as A Miao entered the house, she felt like she had come home.Regardless of Guisheng's dissuasion, he started to clean the inside and outside of the house.

Zhao Xin explained the precautions to Guisheng, and Guisheng will take care of A Miao when he is away, and Liu Sheng will often come to see her.

Gui Sheng said with some resentment: "Master, you have been away for many days without even taking me with you. If you do this again, I will fall ill like A Miao."

Zhao Xin slapped Guisheng on the head twice, and scolded with a smile: "Silly boy, your parents are in Yangzhou! If you don't want to work with me, I'll ask Boss Shen to take you back."

"Don't! Master, I haven't become a man yet." Guisheng thought at this moment that the little eunuch Chunlai had been begging him for a long time, but there was nothing to say, so let's talk to Zhao Xin today.

"Master, that Chunlai wants to follow you."

Zhao Xin was taken aback: "Chunlai?" He had so many things going on, he had long forgotten that there was such a person.

"It's the exiled little eunuch we met in Ninggu Pagoda, the one who gave the emperor too hot tea."

"Oh! It's him. What's he doing now?"

"The old eunuchs who came with them are now sweeping the floor every day in Fuldan City, or serving patients in the wards of the medical station. They can't do heavy physical work, and they look so pitiful."

"What happened to them in the past few months?"

Guisheng knew what Zhao Xin was asking, and hurriedly said, "It's quite normal and honest. I found two people to keep an eye on them."

Zhao Xin thought for a while and said: "Guisheng, you need more strings in your brain. I don't discriminate against eunuchs because their identities are too sensitive, and Master Liu doesn't either. In this way, you let that spring come and go to the agricultural unit, don't be all day long. Thinking of serving people."

Upon hearing this, Gui Sheng quickly said, "Master, I understand."

Zhao Xin suddenly asked in a low voice: "During my absence, everything in the city is still normal?"

Guisheng leaned over and whispered in his ear, "Don't worry, both sides are fine. Now that the farming is busy, the soldiers and civilians are either clearing up wasteland or building roads, everything down here is normal."

Zhao Xindao: "Keep an eye on it, when there are too many people, all kinds of mess will appear."

Guisheng nodded, understanding.

Two days later, Zhao Xin saw that A Miao was fine, so he gave some instructions and left.This time he was going to West Africa to pick up Deng Fei and the others. The refit of the freighter had been completed, and now he was waiting for him to pay the final payment.

Thinking of spending tens of millions to buy heavy fuel oil when the freighter left the dock, Zhao Xin was no longer just suffering from pain in the flesh, but pain all over his body!

On the way to West Africa, Zhao Xin met Andrew somewhere in Europe as agreed.

"Zhao, I have already asked you about the matter you asked last time." As soon as Andrew said this, the FSB official wearing glasses appeared in Zhao Xin's mind.

"800-ton class, plus all supporting systems, 50."

Zhao Xin knew that there was a "million" after the other party's 50, but he didn't say it. He thought that you are not killing me, you are killing me!However, he did not directly refuse, but put it another way.He smiled and said, "Andrew, are we friends?"

"Of course! We are close buddies!" Andrew has known Zhao Xin for a long time, and he has learned a lot of the other mantra.

"Okay. Andrew, the price is not expensive to be honest, I plan to buy two."

When Andrew heard this, he was so excited that he got up and hugged Zhao Xin. Zhao Xin hurriedly said: "I haven't finished yet. I don't need anti-ship missiles at all. Do I want to drive an 800-ton boat to provoke all over the world?" ? No! This is my personal item, as long as it can guarantee safety and fulfill my dreams. Besides, I don’t need anti-aircraft missiles.”

When Andrew heard it, he also felt that what the other party said made sense.Only to hear Zhao Xin continue: "There are also helicopters and decks, and I don't actually need them."

"Zhao, do you want a hull?!"

Zhao Xin patted Andrew on the shoulder and said, "How about this, replace the original 76mm rapid-fire gun with an AK190, add two more multi-barreled automatic guns, and install a BM-21 rocket launcher in the empty space at the stern. , and give me two bases of high-explosive bombs. Buy it now, 35 each!"

Andrew was dumbfounded when he heard it, what would the boat look like if it was done like this.He stroked his train of thought before tentatively asking: "Do you want a radar system?"

"Of course." Zhao Xinxin said that if the radar was removed, he could only go to the sea to fight with bayonets.

"35 definitely won't work! Zhao, 40, right? Pay a 30% deposit first."

"Okay." There is no way, the private transaction can only be done at this price.

After talking about the ship, Zhao Xin proposed to buy ten more D30s and two sets of BM-21 rocket launchers.The rocket launcher is cool to shoot, but a rocket costs several thousand dollars; 40 directional tubes, hundreds of thousands of dollars are gone after one shot.As for the long-range rockets, one cost more than [-] knives, which is really unaffordable!

In fact, Andrew was also wondering why Zhao Xin bought all traditional weapons in the past two years?However, one of the most important principles in this business is that you cannot inquire about the customer's purchase intention, so he can only hide the doubt in his stomach and digest it by himself.

On the night after the meeting, Andrew conveyed Zhao Xin's strange request to the previous supplier.When the supplier heard about it, they were also puzzled.Are anti-ship missiles not good now?Are anti-aircraft missiles so unpopular?Is this person planning to carry a 76mm rapid-fire gun and a 122 rocket launcher to find someone to fight hand-to-hand?I can't figure it out!

The supplier thought hard for a long time, and finally decided not to.Compared with those old and broken things that Zhao Xin bought before, the two frigates are already considered big business.Since the other party has already paid the deposit in advance, let's do it happily!Anyway, in the future, we can use satellite monitoring to see what the other party is up to.

As a result, two 800-ton frigates originally built for their own navy were ordered to be refitted by someone.The engineer in charge of the project was at a loss, thinking which idiot would make such a strange combination of weapons
Zhao Xin really has no good way to avoid satellite surveillance.Ships are not cars, they can be driven into the warehouse; the dock has no roof.

In the past, Andrew mentioned that he could spend money to buy the trajectory data of reconnaissance satellites, and use the gaps between satellite reconnaissance to evade.But Zhao Xin understands that whoever dares to buy this kind of data in the international market will definitely be making fun of a mouse—looking for trouble for nothing.All he can do now is to avoid a certain G satellite, because the satellite map of the other party is only refreshed every six months.

Two days later, when Zhao Xin arrived at the port in West Africa, when he first met Deng Fei and Ding Guofeng, they complained all the time.The general idea is that I have seen lazy ones, but I have never seen such lazy ones!Working depends entirely on his mood. He works hard all day long, and a few people even steal things from the construction site. Ding Guofeng was so angry that he almost beat people with his hands.

Zhao Xin didn't have time to worry about these things. He chose to renovate here because he thought that the management chaos and corruption would keep him from being noticed.He asked Deng Fei, "How is the quality of the modification?"

"With that Swiss company as the supervisor, there is no problem with the quality."

Zhao Xin said again: "That's fine. How about the port?"

Ding Guofeng smiled wryly and said: "There are countless thieves, not to mention rigging, those leftover materials will be stolen by the workers if they are not careful."

It is said that in order to avoid confrontation with the workers, Deng Fei and the others had to check those suspicious people who disembarked with large backpacks every day.Several warehouse doors on the ship were locked with anti-theft locks. In addition to these, the two also hired a security company to patrol the ship 24 hours a day.

Zhao Xindao: "Is everything up and down the port settled?"

Deng Fei said: "Basically all the money you gave has been spent, and all departments have taken care of it. As for the guards sent by the port prosecutor, I gave them several boxes of instant noodles and four packs of cigarettes, and I was so happy from ear to ear."

Deng Fei said it simply, but Zhao Xin knew that the time between the two of them must not be easy.A major feature of West African ports is that there are usually no fewer than ten departments that manage ship procedures.Although the local living conditions are poor, the boarding inspection is of a high standard; the local immigration bureau is even more notorious.Once the problems are identified by these departments, sky-high fines will be proposed.

"Don't worry. It's all done." Deng Fei patted Zhao Xin on the shoulder.Because he can speak French, he fought wits and courage with these departments for two months.

In addition, Deng Fei also took a good look at a second-hand tugboat parked in the port in advance, and negotiated the price.This tugboat is 4000 horsepower, with a speed of 10 knots and a bollard pull of 56 tons.Although the operation of the tugboat is extremely professional, but the new ship is so big, it is impossible to directly dock and enter the port like the Thor.

When Zhao Xin paid the final payment and completed the delivery procedures, ten days had passed.During this period, the new ship started to refuel. Considering the price, Zhao Xin decided to only refuel by half.Anyway, he doesn't plan to continue buying heavy oil in this time and space.

After the three completed all the formalities, they waited patiently for two days.At this time, all the relevant personnel in the port had already spent money to manage it, and there was no one to restrain them; so the operation began at three o'clock at night.By the morning, the three of them had already boarded a flight.

And the people at the port didn't even fart in the face of empty berths early in the morning.They didn't care where the two boats, one big and one small, went. The money Zhao Xin gave was enough for them to live happily for a while.As for work?Let's talk after the money is spent!

In mid-April, the three of Zhao Xin returned to Beihai Town non-stop.The new ship was named "Jinglei". The huge blue hull shocked the entire Beihai Town. Tens of thousands of people, old and young, came to the beach to watch it every day.

The original pier was too small to accommodate the Jinglei to dock at all, so it could only be parked in the deep water one kilometer away from the shore.Every day, Deng Fei could only drive the tugboat with Zhao Liang and other workers on board to install weapons.

Because the new D30 and BM-21 have not yet arrived, what Zhao Liang and the others can do now is to imitate the MK93 defense system and weld dozens of heavy machine gun frames with shield plates around the deck of the Jinglei. Just install PKM upwards.

Zhao Xin couldn't wait for Jinglei's modification to be completed, and he wanted to return to Fuldan immediately to lead the team northward.And Deng Fei will drive Jinglei later, carrying the second batch of workers, and arrive in the northeast of Bitter Leaf Island in mid-May.

　Bollard pull: the tension value measured when the main engine is running at rated power when the ship is fully loaded and towed away from the dock (fixed point) with a 100-meter-long towline, also known as dock pull.

　　
　
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