While everyone was talking to Mr. Chen, Captain Wang accidentally saw Jiang Weidong whispering to Li Hailong,""It's getting late. Hailong, who else is in your village? Why don't we get more people to come over and help? Otherwise, we won't be able to finish it by nightfall.”
"I think it's a little troublesome. There are quite a lot of things on this ship. It's a little difficult to complete it tonight with these people, but you know the villagers. Most of them have gone ashore. I think there are 300 people in the village who have been holding up the sky for the past two days. However, I'll go and take a look first.”
"That's good. There's no other way now. If we don't get the things on those broken ships, it might not be worth it if the wind comes and sink the ship! I think you don't have to care about the old and the young. Just pull them all over. There's strength in numbers.”
"Good! You also have to check the lights and whatnot. If you're really late, I'm afraid you'll have to use them!”
Captain Wang realized that the relationship between them must be real. However, he understood it after thinking about it. After staying on the island for so long, the relationship between the place and the station must be much closer. However, it was a bit strange that he had never seen it before. He must have missed something. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look around the island. Although he would come here sometimes, he didn't come here like this time. Usually, he would just go through the calculations and take a quick glance before rushing off. However, this time, he didn't know how long he would be staying here. With such a mood, he naturally observed more carefully. The distance between this island group and the mainland was quite far. It was at least a hundred kilometers. Four to five small islands surrounded the center and had a larger area. There should be a Tokyo Island of more than ten square kilometers, sitting alone in the middle of the East China Sea. Unfortunately, it was a little off the sea route. If not for the fact that there was still some area, would there be people living on it? Fortunately, these people were living here. Otherwise, the shorty in the east would cause another incident on the Senkaku Islands!
Looking back at the dock, it was located in the southwest of the island. Sitting in the north-southwest direction, it was like facing the sun. The mountains on both sides were not very high, and they curved inward to form a natural bay. The mouth was small and the inside was big. It was definitely a good port. There were several rows of steel fishing boats weighing 400 to 500 tons parked neatly in the bay. There were hundreds of them. There were also more than 30 fishing boats weighing more than 1,000 tons parked in the middle. A few transport boats were shuttling around. Who knows what they were preparing? However, he heard from Director Lin that there should be more than a thousand ships on this island. The dock was built quite large. Along the bay, two to three miles of roads were paved with cement floors. It was a hundred meters wide and was almost like a small airport! It could be seen that the investment on this island was not small! The area with a row of green roofs to the northwest should be the factory area. Further away, there were six or seven oil tanks painted white in a conspicuous circle. That was the dedicated dock area for fuel storage and refuelling on the island. Looking back, three cement roads behind the dock extended to the center of the island in different directions. There were four to five small plains surrounded by mountains that were 100 meters high. From a distance, there were also a few farmlands. The eye-catching thing was the tall white wind turbine bases on the three mountains. It seemed that the power on the island was not enough. The last time I came, I only saw two of them! Before Captain Wang finished reading, he had been dragged by Superintendent Zhang and the others to interrogate the captives. Captain Wang and Zhao Liang thought that it was good to listen to the news since they were not clear about the situation. Therefore, they followed Superintendent Zhang and the others to the barracks not far from the dock. A warehouse beside the barracks was temporarily used as a detention center for prisoners.
When the Westerners were selected one by one and interrogated, everyone was shocked by their confessions.
These Westerners kept clamoring for them to release these Westerners, or the British Empire would take revenge! When they were asked what time it was, these foreigners all said it was July 8th, 1842. When they were asked what they were here for, they actually said it was a war with the Qing Dynasty on the mainland!
It was fine if it was just one or two people, but when eight or ten of them said the same thing, Director Zhang, Captain Wang, Li Hailong, and the others who came later were also deeply puzzled. They were not sure if the news was true or wrong! Everything that had happened so far made them suspect that this news was definitely not groundless!
Then, they brought a few people with long braids who looked like the Qing Dynasty people in movies and television to interrogate them. These people's answers made them even more crazy. It was now the Qing Dynasty on the mainland, and Daoguang was the emperor. The year was the first day of June in the 22nd year of Daoguang. These Westerners had already conquered Xiamen, Dinghai, Ningpo, Zhapu, and Shanghai. Now, these Westerners had already headed in the direction of Jiangning. Because they could speak a few words of the foreign language, they were captured by the British stationed in Dinghai and taken on board as a translator. The two ships they took were called the fast sentry ships. This time, they did not follow them to Nanjing. According to the people on board, they had robbed too many things. They were not separated from the other ships, so they were given a hard time and sent to guard Dinghai. Since they had nothing to do in Dinghai, they came to the sea to wander around...
One of them was a middle-aged Qing man who was braver. He explained in more detail that his name was Huang Deqiang and that he was a businessman in Cixi. Because he was braver, he still ran his business regardless of the war between Britain and the Qing Dynasty. After returning from Japan, his ship had just docked in Dinghai and was unfortunately caught. Then he tried to escape, but the British kept a close eye on him and did not manage to escape. However, he took this opportunity to observe that there were not many British stationed in Dinghai, only about 400 to 500 people. There were only four boats, and now, nearly half of them had been captured. Although the people interrogating him did not have braids, they could tell from their appearance that they were from China. Therefore, they encouraged Director Zhang and the others to snatch Dinghai over because he saw that the weapons of the people here were better than those of the British. Moreover, the speed of the boats was also faster, so they should be stronger than the British! As he spoke, he kept observing everything around him, looking courageous and shrewd.
Hearing this, how could everyone who was listening to the interrogation continue to listen? They hastily dismissed the prisoners and then huddled together to slowly digest this shocking news. At this time, the patrol boat sent to scout the mainland also sent a message, confirming that the mainland was no longer a high-rise building, but a dilapidated appearance. The boats were all small broken wooden boats, and these boats only came and went near the shore. There was not a single one in the distant sea. Then, Hope Island would give them a new mission. Is there any new instruction on the island? He told them to hurry back carefully.
A group of people sat in the conference room with their heads lowered. Some drank tea, some smoked, and none of them knew how to react to this shocking news!
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