Chapter 140 Big Toy
"Peggy, actually, I don't think you need to stay in the Strategic Science Bureau. They don't value you at all. Except for the "torture" that day, no one even came to ask you. Why don't you come out and help me? You agree, the general manager of the New York Group branch is yours!" Josie said while peeling an apple for Carter.
"Thank you, Josie, but I can't just leave like this. Bucky hasn't disappeared yet, and I'm not reconciled!" Carter leaned on the hospital bed, took a bite of the apple, but finally shook his head and refused.
It has been four days since Carter was hospitalized. During the past four days, Josie took some time to visit him every day, brought her snacks and fruits, and invited a young female nurse named Colin to take care of her. The expensive medical expenses are also borne by Josie - American medical insurance is still a super pit in the 21st century, let alone this era.
Although the salary of the Strategic Science Corps is good and there are medical subsidies, but if you want to support the expenses of the intensive care unit of a top hospital like the Presbyterian Hospital, it is a drop in the bucket.
If you want to say that Peggy Carter is not grateful to Josie, that is impossible. If it were an ordinary woman, she would have even thrown herself into her arms long ago.
It's just that it's still the early days of the war, and Steve Rogers is still her "nightmare", and it's not so easy to get out, but now, Bucky, Steve's most important friend, has been arrested inexplicably, and even more so. It deepened Carter's stubborn mood.
So at this time, it is absolutely impossible for Peggy Carter to leave the Strategic Science Bureau.
And Josie actually strangled Carter's mind before he proposed the above invitation. The purpose was to deepen Peggy Carter's feelings of indebtedness to him, and it was not sincere.
Josie, including what Peggy Carter thinks, visits him every day, but recently Josie is buying land along the East River in Manhattan—in fact, he is choosing which places to buy, and he doesn’t have to worry about the specific sales, so I am relatively free, and I often wander around, so I come to see Carter every day.
Of course, if Peggy Carter loses his mind and agrees to his invitation, Josie doesn't mind pushing the boat along.
As one of the oldest capitalist countries, the United Kingdom opened up higher education to women earlier than the United States, such as Oxford and Cambridge, which opened to women in the 1920s.
Although Carter did not graduate from a prestigious university, he did go to college. He is also a well-rounded student in this era, and he is more than capable of being a regional general manager.
"Okay, then I won't say anything more. But remember, you can come to me if you encounter any problems that cannot be solved, we are friends!" Josie nodded, and stopped trying to persuade "I just bought it in Huntington, Long Island A house, if you have something to do, just go there, even if I'm not there, the housekeeper over there will notify me."
The plot of Manhattan is intended for the United Nations. He plans to copy what Rockefeller did in the original time and space, and "send" part of it to the United Nations through the relationship of the council.
Then drive the commercial value-added of the surrounding land.
Moreover, the whole area was originally a light industrial area. After it was acquired, it had to be demolished and rebuilt before it could be used.
So Josie bought another manor in Long Island as his residence in New York.
"I will!" Carter nodded.
"Then you rest, I have some things to do today, so I won't bother you!" After chatting for a while, Josie got up and said goodbye.
Just as Josie left, a young nurse came in.
The little nurse is named Colin O'Brien.
is the full-time nurse that Josie specially hired for Carter.
"Wow, Peggy, Mr. Kahn is so kind to you, he comes to see you every day!" Colin said enviously, "If only there was such a young, handsome and wealthy man who could treat me like this!"
"Don't think too much, Josie has a fiancee and children, we are just friends!" Carter rolled his eyes and said, I don't know where Josie found such a cute gossip, but he is quite nice , and took good care of her during this time.
Hearing what Carter said, Colin pouted, friendship? Who would believe it.
On the other side, after Josie left the hospital, he went straight to the port.
A dozen nautical miles away from New York Harbor, a small fleet headed by a mighty warship flying the flags of Austria and the United States is slowly heading towards New York Harbor.
It is also the flagship of the new Austrian Navy, and this fleet is naturally the newly formed fleet of the Austrian Navy.
It is obviously a bit shabby to use a heavy cruiser as the flagship of the entire navy, but for Austria, it is undoubtedly a huge breakthrough.
You need to know that the last time Austria had a large warship, it had to be traced back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I.
Now, 27 years have passed since the Austrian Navy was partitioned in 1918.
In the past 27 years, not to mention warships, there has not even been an entrance to the sea.
The reason why the Prinz Eugen is the flagship actually has a reason.
Prince Eugen's name originally came from Prince Eugen von Savoy, a famous general of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
At the same time, during World War I, among the only four Dreadnought-class battleships in the Austro-Hungarian Navy fleet, there was one, also called Prinz Eugen.
So this name has a very special meaning for Austria.
The purpose of the Prinz Eugen coming to the United States is also very simple, that is, to visit the pier.
But Josie is not here to pick up the Prinz Eugen, but one of the fleet, a behemoth bigger than the Prinz Eugen—the Europa aircraft carrier/cruise ship.
Europa, originally a giant luxury cruise ship built in Germany in 1930, won the Blue Ribbon Award on its maiden voyage—an award awarded for breaking the Atlantic voyage record.
And became one of the top cruise ships in the Atlantic at that time.
However, with the advent of the war, this cruise ship was requisitioned by the German army. It was originally planned to be used as a troop carrier, but it turned out that there was no chance to use it at all-the Army did it when fighting Finland and Norway, but it had no chance to use it when fighting against Britain.
So the German army tried to transform this giant cruise ship into an aircraft carrier, but just like the ill-fated Zeppelin aircraft carrier, this plan was not able to be completed in the end-after all, the tonnage of the Europa was twice as large as that of the Zeppelin , which is so easy to transform.
Since then, this half-cruise, half-aircraft semi-finished giant ship has been parked quietly in the bay of the Baltic Sea for 3 years. It was not discovered by the US military until the end of last year, and then it was bought by Josie at a price close to scrap metal. down.
At the same time, there was also a warship named De Grasse, which was also an unfinished warship that was originally to be converted into a light aircraft carrier, but the tonnage was only one-fifth of the Europa, and it was directly transferred by Josie. It was given to the Austrian Navy, and it should still be undergoing transformation.
As for the Europa, Josie is planning to tow it back and turn it into a cruise ship again, a big toy that belongs to him.
In the original time and space, these two warships have a common feature, that is, after the war, they were given to the French Navy by the United States as part of the compensation for Germany's invasion of France in World War II.
Especially the De Grasse, which was originally a French warship. After less than half of its construction, France surrendered and belonged to Germany.
It's just that this compensation is not required by any agreement. It depends entirely on whether the Americans are happy or not.
In other words, Josie bought these two warships from the Americans to cut off the French.
Well, yes, Josie did it on purpose.
Who made you French like deadbeats?
Although under the coordination of Truman, the French have agreed to repay the debt, but will it prevent Josie from collecting some interest? no hindrance.
And this is just the beginning.
As long as there is an opportunity in the future, some of them will be accepted by the French.
(end of this chapter)