Xie Wan was not exaggerating. Before departure, when Chu Jiangnan conveyed the order to her, he told Xie Wan that he was worried that the evacuation would be blocked or even encounter a Vietnamese maritime blockade on the way, so the country sent the South China Sea Fleet to escort the evacuation passenger ship.
Counselor Xia does not belong to the military and is not particularly clear about the military's actions.
Sun Hao had been in contact with the country all along. He retreated one step ahead and did not receive any intelligence in this regard.
When Counselor Xia heard what Xie Wan said, he suddenly became more confident.
He straightened his back and walked towards the Hong Kong Garrison Headquarters with bold steps.
Xie Wan winked at his men and said, "You two, straighten your military uniforms and drive Counselor Xia over there. Be more domineering."
Two members of the Special Affairs Office followed.
At this point, Xie Wan was not worried at all that the Khmer Rouge would dare to stop him.
Here, she was not fighting alone. She believed that her motherland's naval fleet would not be more than two hundred nautical miles away from the port.
Counselor Xia came back about an hour later with a big smile on his face. He shouted to Xie Wan, "They agreed, but they asked that only our passenger ship enter the port."
Xie Wan nodded, "It doesn't matter, they don't dare to do anything weird."
Xie Wanxin walked towards the lounge, but was stopped by the dock staff.
Xie Wan pointed at the white people inside and asked, "Why were they able to get in?"
A local staff member said in broken English: "Because they paid, it's ten pounds for an hour's rest inside."
Xie Wan sneered and took out ten pounds and handed it to the staff.
Even when the country is in crisis, Xie Wan has to admire these local people for their business acumen.
After Xie Wanyao went in, he ordered a cup of coffee and sat down to wake himself up.
Now that she had nothing to do outside, she could just clear her head and think about what was going on with Xu Bing and the others.
Several white men were sitting far away from Xie Wan. When they saw Xie Wan sit down, they glanced at her military uniform and rank with an arrogant attitude and contempt in their eyes.
They wore fancy clothes, spent a lot of money, and talked about the Chinese outside while drinking coffee.
Xie Wan hadn't intended to listen, but her hearing was so good that even though they were several tables apart, every word those people said still fell into her ears.
"I bet that our country's ship will arrive first. Our country is the overlord of the sea, and our ships must be the fastest."
"That's not necessarily true. China is close by, so maybe they can get there first."
"So what if we get there first? How big can China's ships be? Can they build one now?"
"Hahaha, indeed. Maybe the Chinese can only use a sampan to pick us up?"
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Xie Wan finished his coffee, didn't even look at the white man, and left nonchalantly.
An hour later, the giant passenger ship "Zhenhua No. 1" with the five-star red flag flying slowly entered the Port of Kompong Som, and all the Chinese at the dock cheered.
The "Zhenhua No. 1" passenger ship, which can carry 15,000 people, is the "Chaoyang" ocean-going cargo ship that was taken from Li Zhaotian after the battle with the Li family last year.
The cargo ship Li Zhaotian was bought from the Bao family. When Xie Wan learned that the Bao family was selling off their shipping industry on a large scale, he asked Chen Baoluo to buy all of the Bao family's cargo ships and the three cargo terminals and one passenger terminal in the port city.
These assets are a good buy because the global shipping industry is in a downturn.
However, even with so many cargo ships, the volume of shipping business could not keep up. Xie Wan, through his friends, commissioned the domestic Hudong Shipyard to convert this giant 10,000-ton cargo ship into a giant cargo passenger ship.
This not only earned the country some foreign exchange, but also allowed domestic shipyards to accumulate experience in manufacturing 10,000-ton ocean-going vessels.
You should know that in the 1970s, the largest passenger ship in China, the "Long March" passenger and cargo ship, had a tonnage of only 5,926 tons, a passenger capacity of only 864 people, and a cargo capacity of 2,000 tons.
The Zhenhua 1 has five times the tonnage of the Long March and can carry twice as many passengers, while also being able to carry cargo.
At that time, there were no large ocean-going ships in the country, and the Chang Zheng only sailed in rivers and near the coast.
Before departure, Chu Jiangnan said that the organization was preparing to contact the Huo family in Hong Kong City, and the Huo family would send an ocean-going ship to pick people up.
Xie Wan suggested requisitioning Zhenhua Company's "Zhenhua No. 1" and arranged for Luo Xiaoyan and Chang Kuan to contact Fan Zhi.
After receiving Xie Wan's call, Fan Zhi contacted Zhenhua's shipping department and took personal charge of the matter. He went to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Office to handle the relevant formalities and promised that all expenses would be borne by Zhenhua without discussing any conditions.
Of course, Xie Wan knew that after this performance, Zhenhua’s shipping department would basically have the green light to open a Shanghai-Hong Kong route in the future, just like the Huo family in later generations.
The white people who were in the lounge poured out of the lounge.
At first, when they saw a giant ocean liner coming into the port from afar, they first guessed whether it was a passenger ship from the British Empire, or from Spain or France.
But when they gradually saw the five-star red flag flying on the ship, some of these foreign devils fell silent, while others shouted in disbelief:
"How is that possible? Aren't they saying that they have been blocking China's technology? Where did they get a 10,000-ton ocean-going vessel?"
"All the ports of offshore countries are blockading them. They can't develop ocean passenger transportation. What's the point of building such a large ocean liner?"
"I must be dazzled. Even if they rented it from a Hong Kong merchant, they should have hung the dragon and lion flag instead of the five-star red flag, right?"
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