() In the remaining days, Liu Fu and his party continued to wander around and have a good time in New York. During this period, they also took the time to attend several high-society cocktail parties and auctions. Of course, David was basically invited to these events, and Liu Fu
The two girls and I were just attending as friends of David.
Although he attended by the way, Liu Fu gained a lot. At a meeting held by a congressman, Liu Fu accidentally asked if he could visit the U.S. Navy. As a result, the congressman took over the task and promised to complete it in a few days.
The matter at hand was to accompany Liu Fu and his entourage to visit Norfolk, the U.S. Navy base on the east coast, and promised that not only would they be able to visit the military port, but they would also be able to take a cruise around the sea on a warship.
A few days later, Liu Fu and his party, accompanied by the congressman, arrived in Norfolk, the main base of the U.S. Navy on the east coast.
Norfolk is the largest port city in Virginia. It is located on the Elizabeth River, across the sea from the British seaport city of Portsmouth. Because the U.S. Navy had just begun to be taken seriously at that time, it had not yet been divided into the Atlantic Fleet and the Pacific Fleet.
, and the main threat to the United States comes from Europe, so most of the main warships are concentrated on the east coast of the United States and some ports in the United Kingdom. At this time, Pearl Harbor had just begun to expand into a military port and had not yet been put into large-scale use. In addition, Panama
The canal has not been dug yet.
In Norfolk Naval Port, Liu Fu saw a battleship of this era up close for the first time. The USS Massachusetts, the first of the newly built Indiana-class battleships in the United States, was a battleship with a displacement of 10,225 tons and was more than 100 meters tall.
It is long, with the thickest armor of 18 inches. It is equipped with four 12-inch main guns and 50 small guns of various calibers, as well as four torpedo tubes. Its top speed is only 15 knots, and its endurance is also insufficient, only more than 5,000 nautical miles.
While Liu Fu was visiting various navigation equipment in the control tower, he was wondering how this slow warship could catch up with the enemy and use torpedoes to attack it. The torpedo attack distance at that time was only a few hundred meters.
Although he despised this big iron guy from the bottom of his heart, Liu Fu still praised the advancement and power of this battleship. This was partly out of politeness, and the other half was the shocking power of the battleship. For Liu Fu, who had never been exposed to battleships.
For Fu, not to mention the various parameters and performance, as long as this big guy stands close with the cannon raised, it can give people a chilling feeling.
After visiting the USS Massachusetts, everyone boarded a cruiser and circled around the mouth of the bay. Liu Fu was not very interested in this old-fashioned cruiser. One torpedo would seriously damage it, and two torpedoes would sink it to the bottom.
From several sneak attacks, only the Russian battleship was able to withstand two Taiwanese torpedoes without sinking. The rest had the same fate.
Just when everyone got off the cruiser in high spirits and prepared to go to the base commander's home for lunch at his invitation, Liu Fu suddenly discovered a familiar figure parked in a corner of the military port, a small submarine. So.
, Liu Fu asked David to come forward and put forward a request to visit the submarine.
The commander of the Norfolk Naval Base who accompanied the congressman and his group did not hesitate to agree to David's request. While introducing the general performance of this submarine, he complained that although the cost of this gadget is not high, its performance is
It's even lower. Not only is it impossible to follow the big fleet into
The purpose is to attack the enemy, and it is necessary to send special warships to tow it. Otherwise, it will sink to the bottom. Anyway, there are a hundred people who look down on this kind of submarine and curse the people of the Navy instead of spending money to buy such things and equipment.
The navy might as well put this thing in a seaside paradise and use it as a toy for his grandchildren.
This is a Holland-type submarine, more than ten meters long, with a pointed nose. According to the US Navy, this submarine has been propelled by gasoline and electric power, and can sail at a speed of 5 knots underwater.
The voyage lasted about 2 hours, and it was equipped with a torpedo tube that could fire torpedoes underwater. However, because the torpedo range was too close and the speed was too slow, it basically had no combat effectiveness. This ship ordered one, and
It has not been put into actual combat, it is just an attempt by the Navy Department.
While having lunch at the enthusiastic naval commander's home, Liu Fu and the naval commander found a common language. The two chatted about naval guns, ship layout, and torpedo launch tubes to steam turbines. In the end, the naval commander insisted on giving
Liu Fu wrote a letter of recommendation, giving Liu Fu the opportunity to
When he goes to England, he can take the letter to one of his military school classmates and ask him to take Liu Fu to see the situation of the British fleet. In the words of the commander, the current U.S. Navy is more powerful than the British Navy.
Get up, it's a river fleet, it's unforgettable!!!
After bidding farewell to the naval commander in Norfolk, Liu Fu and his party returned to New York. After resting for two days, they boarded a cruise ship from New York to Europe. The destination was Southampton, England. Before boarding the ship, Liu Fu repeatedly warned
David, when you buy your ticket, be sure to remember that you cannot ride on any ship with the name "Titanic".
This time when they went to England, Rosalia and Jacqueline also went with Liu Fu. After getting along with each other for these days, Liu Fu felt that these two girls were pretty good. Although they were social butterflies, Liu Fu did not look down on them. Anyway, Liu Fu
I don't plan to marry them as wives. As long as they are nice, there is no harm in keeping them by my side. At least I will have someone who cares about me, whether they really care or not.
At this point, I have to introduce Liu Fu’s attitude towards his relationship and family life in this life. Ever since he knew that he had traveled through time, Liu Fu has had an ambivalent attitude towards this new student. On the one hand, he does not intend to go too deep into it.
In this era, he does not intend to interfere with this era too actively, because he really can't figure out that if he changes history, then another person will
Will he disappear in this time and space? On the other hand, he doesn't want to travel through it once in vain. The chance of this is lower than winning 10 five million at once. If he hides in a corner and secretly passes through
After finishing my life, it seems that I have wasted my quota for this time travel. If my contemporaries who are still queuing up and waiting to travel know about it, they will scold all their ancestors for eight generations.
Because of this ambivalent mentality, Liu Fu thought for a long time before deciding that he would no longer occupy a quota among his male compatriots in this life. Passers-by should act like passers-by. Instead of leaving countless descendants in this era, it is better to "do things"
He took off his clothes and hid his body and name deeply."
However, not getting married or starting a family does not mean becoming a monk. In my previous life, I did not enjoy being surrounded by beautiful women. It is necessary to find a few girls that I like in this life and discuss the body structure together. You cannot travel through time.
After a hundred years, in the end, you still have to rely on the fifth girl. Therefore, not talking about marriage, not talking about relationships, only talking about transactions, only talking about enjoyment, this is Liu Fu's current attitude towards women.
Transoceanic travel at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century was itself a vacation. Since large passenger ships did not yet use steam turbines at that time, the speed was generally maintained within 20 knots. It usually took about a week to travel from New York to a British port.
Since they stayed on the ship for a long time, and most of the people sitting in the first class were wealthy people from Europe and the United States, the large cruise ships at that time basically decorated the cabins and various public places with extremely luxurious decorations to attract wealthy people.
People ride.
Liu Fu and the others were aboard the North German Company's luxury cruise ship "Kaiser Wilhelm". This cruise ship launched in 1897 was the largest and most luxurious cruise ship at the time. Its entire hull was more than 200 meters long and had four thick chimneys (
People at the time believed that the more chimneys and boilers there were, the faster the ship would be and the more high-tech the ship would be). The maximum speed was 22 knots and it could carry nearly 2,000 passengers at a time.
Of course David bought a first-class ticket, and it was the most advanced first-class cabin. Not only was it a suite like a big hotel, but it also included a chess and card room, a smoking room, a billiards room, wine and other entertainment facilities. In the first two days after departure,
Due to psychological effects, Liu Fu couldn't sleep at all. He lay in bed doing nothing, so he asked Rosalia and Jacqueline to have an in-depth understanding. As a result, within three days, Liu Fu had a pair of big dark circles under his eyes, looking like a
