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Chapter 451: Meeting in Wind and Cloud (First update, please subscribe)
How expensive can a ferry ticket be?

One boat ticket requires twenty small yellow croakers!
But even so, not everyone can buy it. I don’t know how many people, holding up the gold bars in their hands, can’t buy a ticket, so they can only wander helplessly in front of the ticket office of the Borneo Shipping Company.

At this time, the yard of the shipping company was also in chaos. Dozens of employees were throwing large amounts of documents into iron barrels. The black smoke from burning documents could be seen hundreds of meters away.

"All these documents have also been destroyed..."

Xia Shijie shouted loudly as he took out a thick stack of documents from the safe.

Soon the document was taken out by the clerk. After the clerk exited, he looked at the secretary and asked.

"Secretary Chen, have all our employees applied for passports?"

"Manager Xia, don't worry, they have already applied for passports. When the situation stabilizes, they will take the train to Suicheng or Hong Kong."

Xia Shijie said before Chen Zeli finished speaking.

"Don't go to Suicheng. Those damn guys are just a bunch of pigs. You can't expect them to fight. They are all experts who have transferred in. Maybe they will be liberated before you get there. You can go directly to Hong Kong City. , that side has been handed over to the British again, the company has an office there, don’t worry, the company will not ignore everyone, and there will definitely be jobs for you in Nanyang."

Xia Shijie then asked about the payment of salary. After confirming that the salary had been paid half a year in advance, he nodded and said.

……

Liu Zhongzhou said. Although applying for a Nanyang passport has certain academic qualifications and family property restrictions, there are still many people who have received a Nanyang passport, but that's it. Maybe the passport is just a plan for them.

Like many people, Liu Hongjie, who was fifteen or sixteen years old, looked at the sea in confusion after the boat left the mouth of the Yangtze River.

What Liu Hongjie cares about is not Uncle Wang, but his daughter, their childhood sweetheart.

Like all ships, the ship was overcrowded. The ship that once transported immigrants had become a merchant ship. Even though the ticket price soared to fifteen to twenty gold bars, everyone still rushed to buy tickets and board the ship.

"They should come. I heard that their family has already obtained passports from Nanyang. I guess they want to come here when the situation becomes more stable."

Dozens of minutes later, the last Nanyang Airlines C95 aircraft took off from Hongqiao Airport. A few hours later, the airport defenders revolted.

"I feel relieved now...Okay, Secretary Chen, see you in Chang'an."

Amid the crowds of people celebrating, several foreign ships sounded their departure whistles in the middle of the river.

Passengers crowded the decks, cabin walkways, and passages, and even the steps were crowded with people! People who could not move were more grateful that they could board the last ship.

Except for a few young and strong workers on the ship, most of the passengers bought tickets at high prices. Those young and strong workers were not idle either. While people were scrambling to get on the ship, they used ropes to hoist passengers who could not climb onto the ship to the hull. The port was crowded with people and noisy.

Then, amidst the chaos, Xia Shijie got into a car and drove toward the airport amidst the crowds of people.

"Dad, do we really want to go to Nanyang?"

"Nanyang 133" was the last ship to leave Shanghai. It left under the watchful eyes of the soldiers. Although it was an LST tank landing ship, because it flew the Nanyang merchant ship flag, it could still communicate with other foreign merchant ships. Likewise, he left Shanghai under the watch of soldiers.

Afterwards, Xia Shijie walked out of the office with his briefcase and said goodbye to the staff he met one by one as he went downstairs, telling them to take their families to Nanyang after the war subsided.

"Will Uncle Wang's family come over?"

"Goodbye Chang'an, Manager Xia."

Two days later, Shanghai was already a sea of ​​red.

Liu Zhongzhou nodded. Unlike other people who bought tickets with gold bars, as a university professor, he boarded the ship with a pass issued by the consulate. However, on the crowded ship, no one cared whether he was a university professor or an ordinary person. , everyone huddled together.

"Ok!"

As the ship sailed toward Nanyang, the people on the ship stared at the mountains and rivers of the motherland that were far away, with everything behind them.

In the following months, although there was still a steady stream of immigrants entering Nanyang by boat, there were fewer and fewer people.

..."The sky is going to change..."

Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Zhou Dafa let out a long sigh, and then looked around. Three years ago, when he first arrived in Dongning from Rabaul, Puyapura was just a small town with only a few thousand natives. With the arrival of the army and the arrival of workers, in just a few years, it has become a city with a population of hundreds of thousands.

However, the real transformation here happened five months ago. After the Dutch sold Dongning to Nanyang, immigrants poured into Dongning on a large scale. Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people came here every month.

Factories and plantations have sprung up outside the city.

While Zhou Dafa was sighing, the whistle of merchant ships entering the port was heard in the distance.

It's a ship.

"beep!"

Zhou Dafa, who heard the whistle, glanced in the direction of the port, and then a familiar LST tank landing ship slowly sailed into the port. He and his brothers came here from Rabaul on this kind of ship.

To this day, he still remembers how excited he was when he saw that the Nanyang troops on the ship were actually compatriots. They jumped into the sea to greet them, swam hundreds of meters and climbed onto the ship to share the joy of being together.

Soon the landing ship docked at the port. The moment the hatch was opened, thousands of people poured out. Seeing this, Zhou Dafa waved his baton and blew his whistle to restore order.

"Line up, don't crowd, don't crowd, avoid being trampled..."

Although the whistle was harsh, no one paid any attention to him. Zhou Dafa, who had long been accustomed to all this, immediately took out his left-hand revolver and pointed it into the air and pulled the trigger.

"Bang! Bang!"

After two gunshots were fired, the impatient people finally calmed down.

"Everyone lined up, walked forward along the railing, and went to the waiting area on the left with their families separated..."

Under the command of Zhou Dafa and his colleagues, order on the pier was slowly restored. When Liu Zhongzhou, who was following the crowd, walked forward, his eyes were always looking at the policeman. His appearance seemed familiar, as if he was somewhere. Seen places.

Zhou Dafa, who was maintaining order, glanced at the crowd when he noticed someone looking at him, and suddenly said in surprise.

"You, you, you..."

Looking at the familiar appearance, Zhou Dafa's name was constantly changing, and he didn't say it until the end.

"You are Professor Liu! Yes, yes, Professor Liu!"

"Officer, you are..."

Liu Zhongzhou looked at the man in front of him. He looked familiar but couldn't remember where he had seen him before.

"I, I am Zhou Dafa of the 88th Division. When I was imprisoned in the concession, I met Professor Liu at the "Lonely Army Camp". You helped us at that time..."

Before he could finish speaking, someone next to him exclaimed in shock.

"Oh my god! He's a brother from Lone Army Camp."

The people who had been crowding to pass the customs all crowded to the railings, asking him how he got here and where they were.

When they learned that they had been taken to Rabaul by the Japanese to do coolies, people immediately cursed the Japanese loudly. When they learned that there were still thirty-three brothers from the solitary camp living here, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Some people survived.

The unexpected reunion between "old friends" made the atmosphere on the pier a little more relaxed and gave these newcomers a little peace of mind.

Maybe this is not the main island of Nanyang, but at least it is still Nanyang.

When Professor Liu said goodbye, Zhou Dafa did not forget to tell him.

"Professor Liu, when you arrive at the place where you live, the police will come to inquire. At that time, you only need to answer their questions carefully. I work at the Port Police Department. If anything happens in the future, you can just come to me. .”

(End of this chapter)