Chapter 173 Recruiting Soldiers

"Hua Chong and Yang Zhibin are absolutely amazing people."

This was the conclusion Xiao Peng came to after interacting with the two people.

The two of them easily loaded the three-and-a-half-ton "Hailong-2's second unit" onto the ship using the ship's crane. However, a problem arose: the Dragon Boat lacked a large enough cabin to accommodate the ROV. Hua Chong and his companions were no pushovers, welding a cabin and slide directly onto the deck to house the ROV.

Xiao Peng rented a house from the proprietress of Hull Bar to house the five of them, but Hua Chong and Yang Zhibin insisted on living on the boat to guard the machine.

Well, as long as you are happy.

Anyway, we can start work now.

The question now is: should we go after the S-80 first, or should we salvage the Pescara first, or should we salvage the Ansaldo first? The backlog of work over the past six months is too much.

Fabian has been very busy recently.

He kept bringing new people home.

The first one was a Slavic man named Ahmed Kashin, whose arms were thicker than Xiao Peng's thighs! This was the guy Walter mentioned whose work visa was canceled by France.

Xiao Peng was at a loss as to why his visa was cancelled.

A few months ago in Paris, during a May Day parade, people clashed with French police. (How could such a thing not be surprising?) A female reporter from ITAR-TASS was reporting on the incident, and the French police, without any reason, beat her with batons.

Cassin happened to be at the scene, and he happened to be the boyfriend of the female reporter. Seeing this scene, he was furious and knocked down eight fully armed French policemen with his bare hands.

The French side felt very embarrassed about this matter, so they directly revoked the interview permit of the female reporter from RIA Novosti and cancelled Kashin's work visa!

The situation escalated into a political battle between France and Russia: France demanded Russia cover the medical expenses of eight injured French police officers; Russia, however, ignored France's demands and instead demanded compensation for the female journalist's medical expenses and emotional distress. As for Kasim, the alleged attacker, no one cared.

As for why Kassin is so good at fighting?

He is from Russia's "Vostok Battalion"!

In terms of actual combat experience alone, there is probably no other army in the whole of Europe that can compare with Russia's Chechen "Eastern Battalion". From its establishment to the present, this army has either been fighting or on the way to fight. Those who come out of the "Eastern Battalion" are all ruthless!

However, what Xiao Peng could not have imagined was that although Kasim looked big and strong, he was an absolute game fan and was quite good at it. Xiao Peng would drag him to play games whenever he was free.

The other person Fabian brought was Didier Caballe, a New Caledonian, who was also French, as New Caledonia is a French overseas territory.

Although countries around the world now say that there are no "colonies", in fact many countries have so-called "overseas territories", which are exactly the same as the colonies of the past.

The country with the most "overseas territories" in the world today is naturally the "most democratic, freest and most peaceful" United States of America. They have a total of sixteen overseas territories!

The second place is the United Kingdom, with 14 overseas territories, and France is third with 13 overseas territories.

But if we talk about the area of colonies, Britain ranks third.

Today, the UK's overseas territories are small islands, such as Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the Virgin Islands. France, on the other hand, has five overseas departments, four overseas territories, and two regions with special status. In terms of overseas territory size, French Guyana alone is larger than all of the UK's overseas territories combined!

This difference stems from the different colonial policies of the two countries. Britain emphasized meritocracy: indirect rule through leading colonial elites; while France treated its colonies as if they were its own. Colonies were required to speak French, be managed by French people, and be taught in schools. Today, speaking French is more effective than knowing English in Northwest Africa. Eleven countries in Africa now use French as their sole official language, and many still use the French franc as their currency.

Generally speaking, the people in France's overseas territories are still very happy.

For example, the African island of Mayotte.

Mayotte has always belonged to the Comoros, the African nation that donated $100 to China during the global pandemic. In 2011, the people of Mayotte joined France through a referendum, becoming the country's fifth overseas department. This was done so that residents of France's overseas territories enjoy the same benefits as French citizens.

That’s such a blessing!

At least it's better than America's overseas territories.

Residents of the overseas territories of the United States have no right to vote and cannot elect the president. They are not even considered American citizens but "nationals". There is no harm without comparison.

Look how happy the residents of France's overseas territories are! They shout "Long Live France" every day!

And Cabaye is the captain of the unlucky Titan Company rescue team.

After leaving Japan, he did not return to Marseille, but went to Tuscany, Italy.

In 2012, a luxury cruise ship called 'Concordia' ran aground and capsized there, and 'Titan Salvage' is now working hard to salvage the sunken ship, rescue the property on board and search for the bodies of the missing.

And how much would it cost to salvage the ship?

Six hundred million pounds!

And if any unexpected situation occurs during the salvage process, this figure may rise further, making it the most expensive ship salvage operation in history!

So Titan is a salvage company that makes a lot of money!

Cabaye went to Tuscany, Italy, to plead for mercy for his men. The problems with the salvaging of the Raven were his own, and he couldn't let his men lose their jobs.

I heard that after enduring a lot of humiliation there, Cabaye finally allowed his team members to stay and participate in the salvage work of the "Concordia", while Cabaye was expelled and sent home.

There were three other people who joined the company at the same time as him, one was Varane and the other was Dio, both of whom were close friends of Cabaye.

All three of them are married with children. It is said that men are children who never grow up. Many men only know how to work hard to support their families after they have families and children. They were originally worried about their livelihoods, and Fabian came to them and asked if they needed a job.

Although deep-sea salvage was a completely different job from their previous one, making money was more important to them than anything else! So they didn't refuse Fabian's invitation.

Now that all the work is ready, everyone is waiting for Xiao Peng's order to decide which command to execute first.