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Text Chapter 479: Sell me five ships, cash!

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    "The front is finished, a lot of water has enteredthe port side reported water in four cabins."

    "There is a leak in the No. 3 boiler room."

    "The pressure valve is locked. Inject cold water to prevent explosion."

    "Someone is injured, military doctor"

    When Chen Yuqiu got up again, his ears were filled with such sounds, and the deck began to tilt to the left little by little, which made everyone understand that the ship could not be saved.  Although the pilot ship did not have any equipment, it did have a lot of drawings and information, so he quickly grabbed the first mate who had not yet recovered: "Send a signal to the flagship. The pilot ship was severely damaged and flooded, and the information is being rescued! Fill the starboard cabin with water.  Try to maintain balance and order everyone to abandon ship."

    Seeing that he even spoke the colloquial language of navy flagship, the first mate quickly asked: "Captain, you"

    ¡°I want to grab the information, it contains my navy dream!¡± Chen Yuqiu rushed towards the storage room with a determined expression.  Inside the storage room are neatly 800 suitcases wrapped in waterproof tarpaulin, all of which contain the most urgently needed high-end industrial equipment manufacturing drawings and information in the country, as well as German ship design drawings and more than a thousand collected various books.

    "Captain, how do you move these? The lifeboat can't hold so many."

    "Strung together with hemp ropethese boxes are waterproof and can be hung on the lifeboat and dragged around!"

    "yes!"

    After receiving the order, everyone lined up and quickly delivered the boxes to the deck. Someone had already brought a few bundles of hemp rope to string them together, but before they were all moved, the seawater spread from each compartment.  Soon the feet will be soaked.  Seeing that the sea water was rising faster than expected, it was waist deep in the blink of an eye, and the temperature was extremely low and bone-piercing. Therefore, Chen Yuqiu also knew that if he didn't leave, no one would be lost, so he quickly stuffed the two boxes to his comrades next to him and shouted  : "Let's go, go quickly!"

    "Captain, you"

    "I'll move another box. Get out of here quickly."

    After Chen Yuqiu finished speaking, he took a deep breath and plunged into the biting sea water. At that moment, he felt that his blood could not flow, but in order to rescue more information.  Still gritted his teeth and started searching.  Every box here was placed by him personally, and of course he knew which ones were most important, so he set his target on the interior blueprints of the German York-class battlecruiser.  The York-class battlecruiser is a new type of battlecruiser that Germany has not yet built.  It is larger and better protected than the pre-improved Mackensen class, and has even exceeded the standards of the British Queen class battleship!  So all the improved drawings were packaged and purchased.  Considering that it would be easy to destroy them all if they were concentrated on one ship, he loaded here the turret shaft design and structure diagram and the power cabin layout diagram.

    For the sake of the battleship dream shared by all navy people, he opened the upper box with all his strength. When the two tightly wrapped large suitcases appeared, he immediately untied the belt and tied them together in ecstasy, dragging the boxes towards the deck.  .

    When he risked his life to rescue the information, Bingwen brought the icebreaker quickly towards here as the chance of taking advantage of the wind and waves diminished.

    Liu Mingzhao stood beside him, holding a thick cargo list in his hand. There was a clear feeling of distress behind his glasses: "There are two ships that we did not avoid. There are two hydraulic presses and a 250 steel plate hot rolling mill on ship No. 7.  There are alsoa total of 11 sets of equipment and 670 boxes of data and drawings. On the No. 16 ship is a large MAN marine diesel engine, a duralumin alloy cold rolling mill for the airship frame, and a linked crankshaft latheTotal  22 sets and 833 boxes of drawings and documents. Chen Yuqiu¡¯s pilot boat is also seriously flooded, and they are organizing a self-rescue.¡±

    "Stop rescuing!" Bingwen seemed to be a different person since he was woken up by Hakan.  Said: "It's too cold outside. Once he falls into the water, he won't be able to hold on for even a few minutes! Send a signal If the data and drawings are gone, we can still think of a way to ask him to abandon the ship first to ensure the safety of the people."

    "It was sent, they said" Liu Mingzhao raised his head and pointed outside.  One thousand meters away, the howling cold wind brought a body of seawater onto the pilot boat, which was almost flush with the sea. Dozens of lifeboats nearby were struggling to make their way here, dragging five or six hundred data suitcases.  The top of the tall mast behind them.  The signal light was still flashing, and there was only one line of words in the translation.

    "Rescuing data is in progress."

    "Come out! Get out of here!" Chen Yuqiu screamed with wetness all over his body. With a red face, he dragged the stuck suitcase out with all his strength. When the suitcase was finally pulled out, he almost fell down due to weakness.  After bending down and taking a few breaths, he opened the hatch and walked out while holding on to the armrests with his hands.

    "Yuqiu, it's Chen Yuqiu, he's not dead Hurry, hurry!" Under Bingwen's strict order, the sailor saw that the sea water had almost closed the cabin, but Chen Yuqiu didn't come out, thinking that he had been martyred, so  All have left in lifeboats.  Now that he suddenly saw him coming out, everyone shouted and shouted excitedly, and several boats immediately rowed back to try to rescue him.  Seeing that his comrades were about to venture back, Chen Yuqiu quickly picked up a piece of hemp rope and tied one end to the suitcase.Finally, he used all his strength to throw the end of the rope to the lifeboat.  When the end of the rope accurately landed on a lifeboat, and the suitcase carrying the dream of a naval battleship slid little by little toward the lifeboat, his legs went weak and he suddenly fell onto the already submerged deck.

    After too much seawater was poured in, the icebreaker began to make a terrible creaking sound, and a large number of whirlpools began to appear around the hull. To ensure safety, the lifeboat had to stop moving forward. Many people even threw ropes in the hope that he would catch it.  But Chen Yuqiu knew very well that he, who was already soaked all over, would die at any time at this temperature. No one could survive in the sea water at this temperature, and the action just now had exhausted the last of his strength, and he could not hold on to the rope at all.  , not to mention that he could already feel his heart slowing down and his blood gradually freezing.

    "It's a pity that there are still more than a hundred boxes that have not been rescued. Boss, Shiying If the York-class battlecruiser is built, please remember to burn some photos for me" He raised his hand  Eyelids, looking at Bingwen standing on the deck directing the rescue, the last thought was frozen in his brain forever.

    In the lens of the telescope, Chen Yuqiu, a naval younger who was particularly afraid of the cold from Guangxi, is now like a consolidated ice sculpture. The frost climb his cheeks, eyelashes, and hair from his arm.  Slowly turns white and hard.  His hand was frozen to the steel pipe and remained intact even when the ship sank.  Bingwen slowly put down the telescope and solemnly raised his right arm.  Everyone who saw this scene saluted solemnly This is a portrayal of China's young generation of naval personnel fighting the sea to challenge themselves.

    He is not the first, nor the last.

    Hakan came over and looked at Chen Yuqiu, who was sinking with the ship like an ice sculpture. He silently took a white silk scarf from his pocket, prayed according to the Bavarian tradition, and threw the scarf into the sea to say goodbye to him.  After doing all this, they patted Bingwen and Liu Mingzhao, who had red eyes: "This is an ice mountainous area. We must leave immediately."

    ??******

    Today is the day for small-scale discussions at the Paris Peace Conference.

    In the past, every time Yang Qiu read this piece of history, he would be surprised and stunned by the half-year-long meeting process. He felt that the meeting was long, protracted and even boring.  After personally experiencing and participating in it, I finally understand why this situation occurs, because there is no opponent

    After World War II.  Because there was the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, the interested parties quickly divided into two parties and opposed each other, with clear and unambiguous goals. But nowGermany and Austria have fallen, and Lenin is still insignificant, causing Britain and France to lose their goals.  The United States is an ally, Italy and Japan are also allies, and even China has become an ally that has made outstanding contributions.  It's sad to be defeated alone. Without an opponent, you can only compete with yourself, just like Zhou Botong's left and right fights, so Britain and France broke up, Britain and the United States fought together, China and Japan had cross-eyes, and so on.

    As the conference was gradually controlled by Britain, France and the United States.  China, Italy and Japan were squeezed into the second tier, while small countries such as Siam were even in the third and fourth tiers and even simply packed up and went home.  Just like the Republic of China in history, no one here will listen to them.  So Yang Qiu also spent a comfortable time.  But today's meeting is different. In addition to Lloyd George's personal invitation, it also includes Italy and Japan.  This shows that Britain is going to have a final showdown.  "Nice to meet you, Your Excellency Prime Minister." In the former Royal Library on the third floor of the Palace of Versailles, there is a small hexagonal table.  After Yang Qiu arrived with his delegation, he saw Yiichi Tanaka and Lloyd George seeming to be talking about something. Since Wilson was infected with the flu, he was replaced by US Secretary of State Lansing.

    Lloyd George looks handsome and has an extraordinary bearing, although he is not very satisfied with the closer relationship between China and France and China and the United States.  But he still held Yang Qiu's hand very enthusiastically: "I am also very happy to see you. I hope you will visit the UK at the appropriate time. Our British Empire is very concerned about the changes in the Far East."

    "There will definitely be a chance."

    Tanaka Yiichi was a little jealous of the relaxed manner of the two chatting like old friends. Especially Yang Qiu's fluent language advantage that did not require translation made him worried, for fear that Sino-Ying would suddenly come in and tip Japan's ship.  Yang Qiu was also paying attention to him quietly. When he saw him pricking up his ears, he suddenly felt teasing in his heart. He deliberately raised his voice and asked Lloyd George: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, I heard that your country's Navy is considering selling several old-fashioned ships.  Battleships? Our country happens to need to train naval personnel, why not sell us 5 ships?"

    5 ships!

    The jaws of Tanaka Yiichi and several Japanese representatives dropped!  How many battleships does Japan have?  There are 2 Kurama-class ships that can barely squeeze into the main force, 2 Kawachi-class ships that are already old, 4 Kongo-class ships, 2 Fuso-class ships, and 2 Nagato-class ships that have just started construction. There are still 4 ships left in the Navy's Eighth-Eighth Fleet plan!  Although there are still a lot of Fuji, Shikishima-class, Satsuma and a Tsukuba-class Ikoma, they are all former dreadnoughts and have long been proven to be unable to participate in the main decisive battle, so this time I gritted my teeth and decided to buy a few German ships even if I bought them.  The battleship goes back.  But I haven't seen the shadow here yet, but China has already opened its mouth and asked for 5 ships in one go.?Even Lu Zhengxiang and Song Ziqing who were following Yang Qiu almost stumbled. A few days ago, Ye Zugui was kicked out of the study by Yang Qiu because he argued that he must buy two battleships. Why did he turn around and buy again?  I want 5 ships at once!  Lloyd George also stared at him. Buying and selling a battleship was no small matter, how could it be so straightforward!  Has it become difficult to make money in recent years?  France and Italy also became jealous, secretly wondering whether they could take the opportunity to sell the Austro-Hungarian destroyers to China. Lansing thought that Yang Qiu was afraid of Japan's Nagato-class battleships, so he decided to take the road of winning with numbers.  .

    Yang Qiu seemed not to notice the strange looks around him, and called out the names very seriously: "New Zealand, Australia, Lion, Royal Princess and Agincourt, each worth 1.2 million pounds, which can be paid in cash!   Do you think it¡¯s okay?¡±

    Cash?  !  Mamma Mia Lloyd George really had the urge to nod immediately.

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