C1877 Gales Journey (1/2)
Standing beside Xiao Letian was Zai Chun, who was dressed casually preparing to go ashore to play with his. When he heard that they were quarreling, he immediately rushed up to his without waiting for Xiao Letian to say anything.
”What's going on? Why were they arguing! ”Let me judge …”
When the surrounding chefs saw that it was the Great Qing's Emperor, they did not dare be negligent and hurriedly kowtowed to greet him. ”Long live the Emperor, long live the Emperor!”
The cooks were all elites that Xiao Letian had invited from the south, and a few of them were famous chef Fu Sang. Adding on to that, there were a few local cooks from the Ryukyu, their respect for the Emperor's authority was great. They were so afraid that they did not even dare raise their heads when they saw the emperor.
One of the British captain was also stunned. When he found out that the other party was the Great Qing's emperor, he immediately saluted and did not even dare to blink.
The busiest person in the fleet was Chief of Internal Affairs, Jin Sanshun. He was in charge of the fleet's material consumption data, and all the purchase orders and staff members' rest time were placed on his shoulders.
Seeing that His Majesty had walked over, Jin Sanshun quickly said with a smile, ”Your majesty is too much of a joke, these British people are too inflexible, we already know that we have to follow the procedures and get them to add a ship's transport personnel, they just won't do it …”
So the problem was actually Xiao Letian's entourage.
Xiao Letian was very clear about the historical location of this trip to Europe. This was the first time that a monarch level country visited Asia and Europe in the past thousands of years, and taking the opportunity to do France with Prussia was one of the most important missions.
Therefore, in this expedition team, not only are there soldiers, but there are also a lot of people accompanying them. For example, top Chinese chefs, folk artists, jugglers, beautiful singers, bands, and so on … Even the precious gifts from the East had drawn a whole boat.
Soldiers had strict military training, and they had a spirit of endurance and a strong physique. They could still survive on the sea for a long time, but these followers couldn't take it anymore.
Especially for the group of chefs, because their cooking skills were too good, all of the British officer s that they had eaten were like greedy cats. The most exaggerated was that the fifteen people had all eaten fourteen pieces of fillet fish in one go.
A quarter of the hundred plus chefs in the chef team had been sick due to the heat stroke. Now, they had finally seen land and land and were about to go crazy.
Jin Sanshun was managing these chefs right now, and he did not dare to offend these masters who were in charge of managing everyone's work, so he could only agree to everyone's requests and get permission to rest on the shore for two days.
If they wanted to get ashore, they would need to use a ferry. However, the British were too stubborn, and did not provide the boat, so after going in and out of the area, the group of people had already started quarreling.
”Your Majesty! You say they want to welcome us, but they won't give us even one ferry. Are there so many ships on the sea that we can't even bring one out? ”Isn't it because they look down on us Chinese …”
”That's right, they've just been eating our food. Your military officers almost came to our place earlier, and they've been eating like fat pigs everyday. If they don't acknowledge such a small favor, don't tell me they've fed us good food?”
After a series of curses, the British captain did not understand anyways. He knew that it was not a good thing to say, so he said indignantly, ”No, no, no...” We have to follow the plan. With such a huge fleet, the replenishment task is too difficult! We can't mess up the tempo... ”