Before getting off work, dozens of workers were summoned by Zhang Guangcai to the slipway of the Meteor to prepare for a simple launching ceremony.

In fact, after the ship was eighty percent complete, it had been immersed in water, and it had been years since it was counted, and this meaningless ritual could be completely omitted. However, this was the rule that Mahler had made while he was still alive, usually smashing a cheap bottle of champagne and then giving more bonuses to the workers of the factory.

Zhang Guangcai proposed to cancel the launching ceremony a few days ago, and at that time, he was still thinking about his boss wholeheartedly, hoping to save money in such a recession. However, Lin Xiuxuan actually wants to scatter some money on the workers' side, not only because he has money now; There is also some guilt among them; There will come a time when some of the workers here will be affected by the earth-shaking actions they are about to make.

He withstood Shu Ping's pressure and did not let the workers participate in the production of 419 parts, also based on this consideration, hoping that in the future, the workers would be able to calmly say nothing to the Japanese who came to investigate, but the gendarmerie and the special high school are not a reasonable place.

No matter how you weigh it, some losses are inevitable. Just as 419 just overheard the enemy's communication, this morning, the Japanese raiding team took 20 motorboats to storm Xishan Island in Taihu Lake, and reportedly annihilated 52 people from an advance detachment of the loyal salvation army on the island, which was exactly double the losses of the Japanese who were ambushed that day, and the main reason for the losses suffered by these anti-Japanese forces can also be considered to be implicated in the 419 operation.

This also leads to some new serious problems, such as Zhang Guangcai's recent abnormal behavior, he seems to be clumsy, but he systematically probes Lin Xiuxuan's details, which means that the concealment of him is on the verge of failure. No one knows whether he was just out of personal curiosity or if he had sided with the Japanese, the latter of which seems to be a bit unfounded. But out of prudence, maybe he should be eliminated before taking action according to Brother Ma's method, but considering that there is a large family behind him, who can make such a decision?

For several days, the boatswain had already exchanged some gold bars for Koyo on the black market, and he took advantage of the connections of a few scalpers provided by Binggen, divided them into several times, and carried out such an operation carefully, leaving little behind. The ultimate goal of raising cash is waiting for this day to come.

Now Lin walked into the crowd with a box of money.

Not far away, the Japanese sailors on the cruiser Yubari lay on the railing of the class with great interest, watching the launch of this rusty cargo ship made by the Chinese, and they looked at this place that condensed the essence of China's modern industry, and finally saved such an inconspicuous small broken ship, some places of paint were omitted, and some portholes were not installed. Several of them couldn't help but shake their heads, just because the Chinese built such a ship, it would not pose much of a threat to Japan in the future.

Amid the cheers of the workers, Lin threw a bottle of Qibao Region (champagne could not be found) at the stern of the boat, smashing it with a thud. Then the two workers standing at the stern of the boat threw down the paper flowers, and the ceremony was completed.

Originally, Zhang Guangcai wanted to buy flowers, but in recent days, he has not been in a high mood, and in the end he has not implemented it, and I don't know where the workers found a handful of shredded paper flowers to fill the number, no matter how you look at it, it looks like it was removed from the wreath, but it is better than nothing.

The shredded paper flowers were thrown down, and everyone applauded together, and the Japanese sailors on the Japanese warship not far away also clapped their hands together.

Subsequently, Ma Xiaodi gathered the workers together, and Boss Lin personally distributed the bonus.

Everyone originally thought that in such a bad situation, the boss could only mean it, but they didn't expect Boss Lin to be generous, and the ordinary workers gave ten yuan, and the special contribution was twenty yuan. None of them are the various messy banknotes circulating in the occupied territories, and some of the employees who did not come to work because of the air raids are also recorded in the accounts and paid at the time of check-in.

Everyone rushed up to shake hands with the boss, then smiled and took the money home. For most workers, the completion of the ship means that there will be nothing to do from tomorrow, and the former owner, Mahler, will lay off a certain amount of staff after a single business; However, Boss Lin did not use the launching ceremony to hint that the workers would be dismissed, which is simply better news than paying money.

The crowd gradually dispersed, and Zhang Guangcai, who had always been diligent, also left early, and in the end, only Ma Xiaodi was left to debug the machine for Lin Xiuxuan.

After the main engine is warmed up, it begins to idle, and thick black smoke comes out of the chimney. Deputy Captain Chu Aiyun rolled up his sleeves and stood in the captain's position, trying to give a few orders, and it seemed that the speed of the main engine was stable and there was no problem. Then he did not give the order to raise the anchor, but simply extinguished the fire. Seeing that everything was normal, Brother Ma also said goodbye and left.

Now that everything is ready, just wait for night, Lin Xiuxuan does not dare to drive the ship out of the berth when the sky is so bright, so that the Japanese on the nearby warship will see the direction in which the ship is leaving, which may cause unnecessary trouble.

He and Chu Aiyun returned to the office building, ready for the evening, and he had most of the boxes of silver dollars and some dollars left, which were ready to pay for the balance of the Asian oil and possibly to persuade the Russians. The phrase that money can make a ghost grind will work on a stubborn old Soviet captain, he doesn't know. As for the future, there is another major item of money, that is, the dismissal of workers, of course, he cannot say it in advance, lest some workers get angry and do something unpredictable.

If all goes well, there will soon be a new problem - how to get out of Wusongkou. The best way is, of course, to break out at night, if the puppet government's marine police boat is ready to board the ship for inspection, he can use the anti-smuggling boat in his hand to hit the sloppy eye, if this still doesn't work, he can only kill people and kill people, he still remembers what Gong Tianjian once said to him: When will a few floating corpses not float away on the Huangpu River?

At the same time, Lu Qingshan had already gone to the crematorium again to keep an eye on it, and the helicopter had to be recovered tonight anyway, otherwise its power would not be able to fly back. Since Zhang Guangcai looked suspicious, Lin asked Xu Chong to take over the factory guard, and now Xu Chong is squatting in the dormitory building to check the drone video, the production of Ershuping is still ongoing, and some of the parts that have been completed will be shipped to the ship later, and then sent to Hangzhou Bay with fuel, and the other part will take a few days to complete.

"It seems that I can't do without you here, and it's up to you to control this big ship today."

Lin threw a three-fort cigarette to Chu Aiyun and said, recently, he has been used to smoking these goods without filters, and since he entered the concession, he has only seen expensive British cigarettes with this filter.

"Small meaning, this kind of thousand-ton boat is not difficult for me, on 419, when it comes to boating, only Cheng Dayang is slightly stronger than me."

"How about crane loading and unloading?"

"I'm also very good at mechanics, and I'm very well-rounded in all aspects, maybe only Shuping is better than me in this aspect, but that Soviet ship is much taller than the Meteor, so I can only use their crane."

The two of them swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog and planned the next step, Lin felt that Chu Aiyun was a smart person and could be a staff officer, so he confessed his worries and hoped that Chu Aiyun could come up with ideas.

"Xiao Chu, do you think Zhang Guangcai is a little abnormal?"

"I think he's been weird for the past two days, not before."

"You think so too."

"That's right, since we entered the factory, he has come to the workshop every day, and Shu Ping has come forward to support, but he has not come in the last two days. Just now on the slipway, I noticed that others were applauding, and he was also half a beat slower, obviously having something on his mind; In addition, I have heard the workers call him the number one sycophant, and I have seen a lot of sycophants, and it is certainly not like this. ”

"I always felt that something was wrong with us, and he noticed something, and if so, this person is now a no*, and there is no good solution.

"Yes, it's tricky," Chu Aiyun nodded in agreement, "I understand this, we can't touch him at the moment, perhaps, the safest way is for you to buy him off with gold bars." ”

"Why didn't I think of doing that? But is it really foolproof to buy? If you were him, and you accidentally saw an important secret that might kill the legal person, would you leave it behind? ”

"Of course I will, I will tell the most reliable people around me the clues I have, in case you kill them, this is human nature. But we don't know much of what he knows. ”

"I think I'll talk to him tomorrow, pick it out on the side, and then give him a sum of money."