Chapter 492 The North African Eagle is back

@@@@@@@ On the banks of the beautiful Huangpu River, countless reporters and Shanghai citizens gathered around the dock and looked at it.

Behind them, European-style buildings have added a bit of exotic style to the city. Higher and larger buildings in the distance are also rising. The emerging imperial businessmen seem to be having an architectural competition with New York.

Among them, the one who contributed to the flames was Li Xiufeng, the head of the Royal Family. After learning that Morgan had built a skyscraper in New York, he also said that he would build a 19-story skyscraper in Shanghai. It is said that even the name has been named the Empire State Building.

The name

once made Li Mo laugh, but he didn't care about it. As one of the earliest foreign cities to open a port, Shanghai has an important and indelible position. Coupled with its superior geographical location, it has become the first stop for businessmen from all over the world to travel to Xinhua, and the busy Yangtze River waterway brings the city. Countless opportunities.

If Washington and New York are the brains and hearts of the United States, then Yanjing and Shanghai are the brains and hearts of Xinhua.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China and the recovery of the South, it was separated from the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Zheng Axe, officially upgraded to a municipality directly under the Central Government, and was positioned as the capital distribution center of the Xinhua Empire from the beginning.

So now, when you walk along the Huangpu River, you can see all kinds of banks, insurance, futures companies and trust companies. These capital traders quickly learned the advanced experience of Europe and the United States, and it took ten years to turn it into the world's sixth largest capital trading center.

Therefore, the construction of a landmark building is indeed more in line with the status of a little international metropolis.

However, Li Mo did not come today to participate in activities such as the construction of the Empire State Building, but made a special trip to welcome those pilots who had just returned from North Africa. Coincidentally, they met their partners who had just returned to Shanghai after participating in the Olympic Games.

That's why there is the lively scene on the dock.

In the distance, three huge figures came slowly, first of which was painted with the standard light gray waterproof paint of the Imperial Navy, a high bridge, a triangular mast, and a majestic triple turret, all of which were full of flamboyant and cold domineering.

Shanghai, the second ship of the Yanjing class, was just delivered half a year ago. Many Shanghai citizens are familiar with this new navy, because the place where it was launched is named, and the warship was introduced in detail in the newspaper.

Today, they pay more attention to the two large milky white cruise ships behind, the Royal Ocean and the Royal Princess.

When the Shanghai finished the escort mission and slowly sailed to the Jiangnan Shipyard in the distance, everyone seemed to feel pressed on the face of a steel hill. The snow-white hull gave people a sense of nobility and purity. At the same time, the displacement of 45,000 tons really shocked all those who came to welcome.

This is the super cruise ship that Li Mo ordered from Dalian Shipyard in order to transfer the money earned from the United States. In order to build the best and safest super ship for His Majesty the Emperor, in addition to completely adopting the naval standard construction, the shipyard also specially found the Admiralty, and gave it a green light all the way to use the newly developed navy. The supercharged boiler and steam turbine of the heater, and the powerful engine of 90,000 horsepower, not only make this giant reach 23 knots, but also can continuously exercise 20,000 nautical miles at a speed of 15 knots!

But no one expected that the first task of this super cruise ship, which had just been launched, was not to send His Majesty the Emperor to inspect the sea, or to be sent to transport the young people of the empire who participated in the Olympic Games.

On the day the giant ship arrived in Stockholm, the whole of Europe was reciting the big guy, which even triggered a new cruise competition.

On the deck, dressed in uniform clothes, just after participating in the Olympic Games, the young people who were personally ordered by the emperor to send the best cruise ship to pick them up were excitedly waving their hands. They lived up to the expectations of the empire and finally won the first gold medal for the motherland after participating in the Olympic Games three times in a row!

They threw away the hat of "The Sickman of East Asia" fiercely!

So when the news spread that they would dock in Shanghai, the whole city was boiling, and people rushed here early in the morning to wait, hoping to see this group of young people.

In Building No. 1 on the Bund, Li Mo looked at the Ocean passing from the French window, quickly walked to Li Zhen, carefully checked his clothes, and then said, "Go, as the emperor's eldest son, you should attend some activities and welcome our Jian's home!"

"Yes, Father!" Li Zhen answered and was about to leave. Le Ning didn't know that he rushed out of there and shouted, "Brother, I'm going too."

"Ah, no, no!" Li Zhen quickly waved his hand. His two sisters were both wild surnames. If something happened to so many people, he dared not take care of them.

"No, father!" When Le Ning saw that it didn't make sense, he had to pull the corner of Li Mo's clothes again. He was so entangled that he had no choice but to wave to Du Dazhuang with a bitter face: "Da Zhuang, send a few more people to protect him."

"Yes!"

Finally, he drove the two brothers and sisters away, and Li Mo's ears were much cleaner. He immediately walked to the floor-to-ceiling window. He only saw a group of dark-faced young people walking down on the Royal Princess on the shore of Pier 2. Unlike the warm drinking scene in front of them, they were as quiet as they were.

"Ha ha, athletes are still popular, Hou Bin, let's switch to athletes." Xiaohe couldn't help but warm up when he saw that the distance was full of reporters and welcoming crowds.

"Fast!" Zhu Houbin glanced at the front of him and smiled proudly, "When we really return in triumph one day, the welcome will be more lively than here!"

"Yes, it will definitely be more lively than them!"

The sudden voice made these young people who had just got off the ship and broke out of the name of the North African eagle quickly turn their heads. Only then did they find that a 30-year-old man next to him had come over with the chief of staff. Zhu Houbin was wondering why he was so familiar with it, and he had shouted beside him.

"Your Majesty, it's the Emperor."

"Regone!"

"All of them have it."

"The Fifth Flying Brigade, pay tribute to the great emperor!"

With Tian Yun's loud slogan, all the pilots and soldiers immediately lined up neatly to salute. Li Mo and Chen Ping raised their right arm and walked past the thin and dark faces. It was not until they looked at everyone and said loudly: "Today, it's only me and the Chief of Staff, but I believe that the next time the whole country I will come to welcome you!"

"Thank you for winning pride for the country!"

"You are a bunch of real eagles!"

"Welcome home."

"Father!"

Just as Li Mo finished speaking and was ready to shake hands with everyone and ask them about their life in the fighting in North Africa, a long white dress broke the atmosphere on the dock. When Princess Le Ning appeared in the distance with the bodyguards, almost all her eyes were attracted.

"This little girl."

Li Mo couldn't laugh or cry. She didn't know why she didn't meet the athletes but came here again. She quickly waved: "Come here."

Le Ning ran over like a dancing swan. Her beautiful posture and temperament immediately attracted all her eyes. In the face of so many pairs of eyes, she was a little nervous like a deer, secretly blaming herself for not coming here.

"This is my daughter, Le Ning."

"The Fifth Flying Brigade, I have seen Her Royal Highness!" Zhu Houbin was the first to react, quickly pushed the captain Tian Yun, and took the lead in saluting and shouting.

The soldier's unique loud voice scared Le Ning to stick out his tongue slightly. Her beautiful eyes swept over the thin and dark but always felt very capable young man. Somehow her heart beat faster. Fortunately, the strict etiquette education made her quickly come to her senses. She stretched out her little hand to learn what Li Mo just said just now, and whispered, "Le Ning welcomes you back. Home."

"Thank you, princess!" After being stunned for a moment, Zhu Houbin held the stretched out little hand, and a trace of warmth washed away the tyranny caused by the continuous killing for several months.

Looking at Le Ning shaking hands with a pilot and soldier, the corners of his eyes always glanced at the young man who had just taken the lead from time to time. Li Mo slightly hooked the corners of his mouth and couldn't help sighing that time passed quickly, and his children grew up slowly without knowingly.

"What's the name of that young man?" Li Mo turned his head and asked Chen Ping quietly.

"Zhu Houbin is the person who shot down the most planes this time. According to the standards of the Air Force, he is enough to be an ace pilot." Chen Ping immediately introduced Zhu Houbin's combat experience in North Africa. He was not as thoughtful as Li Mo. For him, after these eagles flew back from North Africa, the air force and naval aviation would get a chance to be greatly promoted.

"Zhu Houbin?" Li Mo frowned. He always felt a little familiar with the name. He seemed to have seen it there and asked again, "Who is his father?"

"It seems to be a Chinese businessman living in France. Now he has returned to China to open a factory that produces pumps and lives in Shanghai."

"Oh." Hearing the word France, Li Mo finally remembered why this was so familiar. Although the name was not as famous as Feng Ru in later generations, it participated in the First World War and became the Chinese ace pilot of the French Air Force.

Unexpectedly, the first Chinese air combat in later generations is now connected with the flight again under the fan of his own butterfly, and he has become the ace pilot of Xinhua. He immediately smiled and said, "It's a good seedling. Where are you going to send him?"

"Le Fei is struggling with Xue Muhua, but with Long Guozhang to support him, I estimate that nine times out of ten, he will enter HNA." Thinking of the "war" between HNA and the Air Force in the past few days, Chen Ping also laughed happily.

"HNA is good." Li Mo nodded. Just as he was about to ask a few questions, a staff officer suddenly ran to Chen Ping's ear and muttered a few words. After listening to it, the latter's face darkened slightly. He walked to Li Mo and whispered, "Your Majesty, Truc reported that one of our hydrological investigation ships and a protected destroyers were jointly blocked by an American cruiser and a British cruiser. Gilbert!" .

"Say that we illegally entered British territory."

"Hmm, the action is quite fast!" Li Mo's eyes suddenly shivered: "Where is the nearest battleship!"

"Hong Kong is training in Guam."

"What are you waiting for?"

"Yes!" ......

(to be continued)