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Chapter 1212 Song of the Prosperous Era (Second update, please subscribe)

As the Dongfangshuo icebreaker sailed toward the South China Sea, a submarine was sailing at a constant speed at a depth of 200 meters in the waters south of the Cape of Good Hope. This was the Jiaolong nuclear submarine, which was about to enter the Indian Ocean and head toward the mainland.

"Yes, it's a Soviet cruiser!"

"One cruiser, three destroyers, and two cargo ships!"

The sonar soldier's report made Qi Guotao frown. Encountering the Soviet fleet at the Cape of Good Hope was itself a very unusual thing, so in order to avoid being discovered, they would carefully sail at a silent and constant speed.

If he was not on a mission, Qi Guotao would even want to try to launch an "attack" on the Soviet fleet. After all, such an opportunity is very rare.

Moreover, he is extremely confident in the performance of his submarine.

"There must be submarines!"

Soon, the sonar soldiers confirmed Qi Guotao's guess that there were two submarines below the fleet.

“When did the Russians enter the Indian Ocean?”

What Qi Guotao didn't know at this time was that after the successful military coup in Ethiopia, it soon signed a "Friendship Treaty" with the Soviet Union. In the past few months, in addition to providing military assistance to Ethiopia and sending a large number of military advisers, the Soviet Union also reached an "agricultural cooperation agreement" with it to help Ethiopia achieve agricultural modernization. At the same time as a large number of Soviet agricultural advisers moved in, at the invitation of Ethiopia, the Soviet Union established a naval base in Eritrea.

This small fleet was the first Soviet fleet to enter Eritrea. In order to avoid irritating Britain, France and other countries, the Soviet Union decided to let its fleet go through the Cape of Good Hope instead of entering the Red Sea through the Suez Canal.

The encounter between the two sides lasted for more than ten hours, and soon they were heading off in different directions.

After getting up the next day, Qi Guotao looked through the crew members' information. When he saw that crew member Wang Rulin's 32nd birthday was today, he silently wrote it down.

"Well, that's today."

Afterwards, Qi Guotao went to the kitchen and asked them to prepare a cake.

The long underwater voyage not only tests the performance of the submarine, but also the sailors. Due to the frequent maneuvering of surfacing and diving, the sailors on the submarine began to show boredom. The doctors on the submarine carefully found that the sailors became irritable, their physical fitness declined, their appetite became worse, and even some soldiers had serious violent behaviors. The psychological boredom and relaxation of the soldiers will bring unpredictable crises to the unknown voyage.

Qi Guotao immediately reported the situation to the higher-ups, who attached great importance to it. The Navy's ocean-going command immediately ordered effective measures to mobilize the sailors' combat enthusiasm and adjust the frequency of combat duty, and also provided more humanistic care to the sailors.

For example, the submarine's radio broadcasts can be used to celebrate sailors' birthdays, praise soldiers with outstanding performance, and gently advise soldiers who are lazy. In this way, the atmosphere on the nuclear submarine becomes lively again, and the soldiers seem to have found the joy of life again. The monotonous and repetitive life gradually becomes richer, and the tense mood of the sailors is relaxed.

For the Jiaolong, it is getting closer to the mainland every day. After entering the warm Indian Ocean, home is just ahead! In a few days, they will enter the Sunda Strait and return to the South China Sea, returning to their long-lost home, completing this round-the-world dive.

Since leaving the Truk base, they have never surfaced and have been sailing under the sea. However, this also means that they produce a large amount of domestic garbage every day, and the disposal of these domestic garbage is a problem that must be dealt with. Unlike ordinary submarines that first put the garbage into a special garbage bag and use a knife to poke some holes to release the air, the garbage disposal device of the "Jiaolong" submarine is more complicated. There are garbage compressors and reels on the boat. The compressor first compresses the garbage into shape, and then puts the formed garbage into a perforated metal sheet garbage can rolled by the reel, and finally discharges it out of the boat through the residue throwing device. No matter which method is used, lead blocks must be added to the garbage to ensure that it can "sink into the sea."

However, every time the garbage is discharged, it is an attack operation for the officers and soldiers of the Jiaolong submarine. They will point the garbage at imaginary enemies and send it out by launching torpedoes.

At 18: in the afternoon, Wang Rulin, who was in the torpedo room, directed the sailors to load the "torpedoes" and prepare for the attack as usual.

"emission!"

With a command, the "torpedo" was fired from the launch tube and sank to the cold seabed.

Just then, the captain's voice was heard on the radio.

"Sergeant Major Wang Rulin, please come to the command cabin immediately."

After hearing the order, Wang Rulin immediately handed over the work to his assistant, then quickly walked through the submarine's cabin and headed towards the command cabin. Unlike when they first set out, when every corner was filled with supplies, the cabin was no longer so crowded. When they first set out, even the beds were filled with supplies.

Just as Wang Rulin arrived at the command cabin, he heard the captain's voice.

"Up to 32 meters!"

"Up to 32 meters!"

“The water is 32 meters deep!”

When the submarine remained at a depth of 32 meters, Qi Guotao turned to look at Wang Rulin and said with a smile, "Happy birthday, Sergeant Major!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the cabin was filled with congratulations. The sudden congratulations made Wang Rulin stunned at first, and then his face immediately filled with excitement.

"Thank you, thank you Captain, thank you everyone!"

Then the cake was brought over. Although it was not big and only had a small candle, Wang Rulin was still too excited to control himself. At this time, Qi Guotao held his hand and said:

"Congratulations! Everything we have done is a birthday gift for you. Blow out the candles now!"

Fires can be used on submarines, and the Navy even allows smoking on submarines, but it must comply with relevant rules and regulations. In the past, there were special smoking areas on submarines, and if you were addicted to smoking, you could go to the smoking room with air purification equipment. This was to maintain the combat effectiveness of the crew.

What surprised Wang Ruolin the most was that he also received a gift - extra talk time with his wife and children. When he heard the voices of his wife and children via communication satellite, Wang Ruolin felt the care of his comrades-in-arms, which really excited him.

On this day, at a diving depth of 32 meters, Wang Rulin celebrated his 32nd birthday.

He also received some small souvenirs that day, which were all homemade gadgets by his comrades, and Wang Rulin has carefully kept them. From then on, this day became a day he will remember for the rest of his life. Many years later, in an interview with a reporter, he still couldn't help but get excited when he recalled the situation at that time, with a happy smile on his face.

On this day, the Jiaolong sailed silently in the sea, heading towards home, from sunset to sunrise.

But thousands of miles away in Southeast Asia, this was just an ordinary day.

For many people, this day is just ordinary.

With the rising of the sun, they will start a new day of life, living an ordinary life as usual.

As usual, after getting up, Qian Haiyue did not wash up immediately, but turned off the air conditioner, then opened the window, and the fresh breeze blew into the room through the screen.

What comes into view are standard Nanyang-style community cottages, which are all similar and have no special features. These early houses even deliberately simplified their structures. Not only do they have attics, but even the windows have been reduced in size to reduce costs. In Nanyang, such houses are called "a generation of national housing."

Feeling the gentle breeze, an idea came to his mind.

"This must be the prosperous era mentioned in history books!"

For Qian Haiyue, who had experienced war and displacement, the four words "peaceful and prosperous times" have given him a very deep understanding, whether it is his personal experience or the shocking wars, massacres and atrocities he encountered when writing history books.

I also understood why the ancients sighed, "It is better to be a dog in peacetime than a man in chaos." Only those who have experienced war know the value of peace. Looking at the similar houses outside the window, the front and back of the houses are covered with flat grass, and most of the flowers and plants are planted near the walls, most of which are mosquito-repellent chrysanthemums and wild mint, which are used to repel mosquitoes.

Although society carries out mosquito control every week, mosquitoes have always been the biggest enemy in Southeast Asia.

Smelling the faint mint scent in the air and thinking of this, Qian Haiyue's mouth corners raised with a helpless smile on his face. This is the difference between a peaceful and prosperous age and a troubled age. Only in a peaceful and prosperous age do people care about mosquitoes.

But Qian Haiyue didn't know that, in fact, since the first day he returned to North Borneo, mosquitoes have always been the biggest enemy in Nanyang. Unlike other regions, mosquitoes can spread malaria, which is fatal to a certain extent. 40% of the world's population is deeply affected by it. There are more than 3 million patients, and tens of millions of people are infected and millions die in Southeast Asia every year.

Knowing well the harmful effects of malaria on tropical development, Li Yian made mosquito control the focus of all his work from the first day he arrived in Southeast Asia. Even among the first batch of factories established in North Borneo, there were two gauze factories that specialized in producing screen doors and screen windows. In addition to installing screen doors and screen windows in all rooms, mosquitoes were also killed by spraying DDT. The first batch of products put into production by KJT Chemical Industry in Nanyang was DDT. Even in parks, mosquito repellent crops such as mosquito repellent chrysanthemum and wild mint accounted for a certain proportion.

It is thanks to this series of work that the incidence of malaria in Southeast Asia has been effectively controlled. There is a simple figure: in cities and reclamation areas where immigrants are the majority, the incidence of malaria is one in fifty thousand, while in tribal reservations where natives live, the incidence is as high as 30%. Since the use of DDT in tribal areas began in 27, the number of new malaria patients in the country has dropped to by last year.

The disease has even been eradicated in urban areas.

Because of this, the construction of Nanyang could be smoothly realized without being affected by tropical diseases.

Of course, for Qian Haiyue, who only came to Nanyang in 1949, he was not clear about the real reasons behind all this. He was more impressed by the difference between prosperous times and chaotic times. While expressing his feelings, Qian Haiyue's gaze fell on the house of his neighbor opposite. Although it was not National Day month, the national flag was still planted in the corridor. In the community, many families did the same. They hung the national flag in the corridor to express their love for Nanyang.

This sense of belonging comes from the heart. I don’t know when it started, but even Qian Haiyue would use “our Nanyang” or “our Nanyang people” when referring to Nanyang. This is an emotional expression from the inside out.

After sighing for a while, Qian Haiyue left the bedroom to wash up in the bathroom, then went to the restaurant to have breakfast before walking out of the house as usual. When he opened the door, he saw a national flag hanging in the corridor in front of the door.

The double-star flag flutters in the morning breeze...

(End of this chapter)