The journey starts from the Titanic

"Yes, they are all here, are they training inside this time?" He Yongyuan smiled.

"Yeah." Situ Nan smiled and nodded. He already heard the sound of basketball coming from inside, and he quickened his pace and walked in.

"Everyone stop here." He Yongyuan clapped his hands and gathered several Chinese youths in the field.A few days ago, He Yongyuan came once, so all the team members knew him and knew that He Yongyuan was a big man.Because of He Yongyuan, they can enjoy such a luxurious training hall.

He Yongyuan smiled slightly and stood beside Situ Nan and introduced: "This is your captain and coach! Situ Nan is also the team leader of this game."

"Introduce a few of them!" Situ Nan ordered.

He Yongyuan then introduced that the players in the field were all selected from Chinese students in the United States, including Shen Siliang from Columbia University, Shu Hong from Springfield University of Massachusetts, and the rest from William University.

"Springfield University? It's James? Naismith's school, right?" Situ Nan smiled and looked at a young man who was half his head short in front of him interestingly.

James?Naismith is the inventor of basketball, and he is an old acquaintance with Situ Nan. Under Situ Nan's improvement, the basketball rules are basically close to the basketball rules a hundred years later, so the development of basketball is faster than normal history.

Now the American college class is not only the Ivy League where basketball emerged, but the Pacific University League in the west is also popular in basketball, and the basketball professional league came into being.

"That's right. Shu Hong is the proud disciple of Mr. Naismith. He studies sports at Spring Field School and has good control of the ball." He Yongyuan smiled.

"Yeah." Situ Nan nodded slightly, noncommittal, hoping that Shu Hong would be qualified for the role of play point guard and share one or two for himself.

Except for Shu Hong, the only person Situ Nan could admire was one of the tall men, about 1.9 meters tall. His body was relatively strong, and he was also considered an odd number among the Chinese.

With thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a tiger-headed look, Situ Nan suddenly thought of his former bodyguard Han Gang.

"What's your name?" Situ Nan asked, patted the tall man's chest, his muscles were quite strong, and Situ Nan was satisfied.

"Yao Daniu!"

"Yao Daniu?" Situ Nan listened for a while, turned his head and looked at He Yongyuan, as if asking—"This guy has such a dirty name, can he go to college?"

"Daniu's hometown is Shandong, and later immigrated to Nanhua with his family and his uncle. He is strong and responsive, so he was selected to join the University of William at Nanhua. I specially got it from Nanhua."

He Yongyuan introduced.

Situ Nan nodded, probably guessing Yao Daniu's family background, probably a relative of Shandong Chinese workers who joined Nanhua early.

"Can you jump? How high?" Situ Nan asked, and then tested Yao Daniu.

The results made him happy, especially his jumping ability, which was almost the same as that of black basketball players. He could touch the upper corner of the box in the middle of the backboard. This data can also be done when Situ Nan broke out, but it is physically exhausting.

"Can you dunk? Like me!" Situ Nan finished speaking, picked up the basketball and jumped high, and came a one-handed dunk.

In the end, Situ Nan was disappointed, but Yao Daniu did it, and his actions were more violent.Fortunately, the basketball hoop was specially made by Situ Nan, otherwise Yao Daniu would not be able to withstand the abuse.

"Mr. Situ, this is an illegal action!" Shu Hong said.

"I know! I like this." Situ Nan smiled slightly, looked at Yao Da's bull-like figure, and thought: This is all right, I finally found a meat shield, otherwise the Chinese body really can't fight the white people physically. what!

Well, in addition to Yao Daniu, he also needs a tall and strong man. Situ Nan thought to himself. He glanced at the audience and was a little disappointed, because he himself was already the second altitude in the audience.

Do you want me to do the coolie of grabbing the rebound and fighting at the bottom?

Situ Nan shook his head lightly and thought: It seems that there is one more black man in his team.The black man he refers to refers to one of his bodyguards, who usually plays basketball with Situ Nan.And the rest, just take it as a substitute!

With cold eyes, Situ Nan swept across the faces of the few young people in front of him, and said lightly: "I don't talk too much nonsense. Don't waste it in my team. Starting today, everyone will cheer me up. To be honest, you guys My first impression made me a little disappointed."

This made everyone feel uncomfortable, if it weren't for Situ Nan's aura, they would have rebutted.

"Except for Yao Daniu, everyone else is testing. Let's try out everything! Start with you, Shu Hong!" A bodyguard next to Situ Nanchao nodded, indicating that they weighed how much their teammates weighed.

Except for Yao Daniu, it was Shu Hong's performance that satisfies Situ Nan, as He Yongyuan said, dribbling skillful, calm, rational, and a big picture.Although he is a little smaller, he is a good point guard.

"It seems that I have really learned a lot from Mr. Naismith. You can play point guard in the future!" Situ Nan said to Shu Hong, and then arranged positions for others.

"Mr. Situ, I heard that you have very good skills, why not let everyone know it?" Shu Hong asked a little defiantly. Just now Situ Nan dunks can only show that he has a good bounce, but it can't explain other things. Why should he be the captain?

"Okay! Come to a training match! You newcomers, me and these other gentlemen. Ten balls!" Situ Nan blew the whistle, calling his bodyguards over.

Knowing that Situ Nan had the intention to show it, his bodyguards were happy to work hard, and all passed the ball to Situ Nan.The result was obvious. Situ Nan beat Shu Hong and the five people to a dazzling speed, even Yao Daniu couldn't help it.

"Okay! I have something to do, let's go now. Go ahead!" Situ Nan nodded one of the bodyguards and motioned to the other party to continue organizing the training of the players.

"Mr. Situ is really amazing, the action is too fast, I didn't know his direction and broke through." Yao Daniu praised, looking at Situ Nan's back with admiration.

Situ Nan turned his head and smiled: "The name Daniel is not good, so let's call it Yao Ming from now on! Also, don't call me Mr. Situ from now on. You can call Captain or Situ or Anan."

He left without looking back.

Interestingly, after returning from West Point, Situ Nan contacted MacArthur and asked him if he was interested in participating in the Olympics.

MacArthur, who was bored in Manila, immediately followed Situ Nan's suggestion and applied to the country to lead the team to participate in the Paris Olympics. The military readily agreed to MacArthur's application.

Before MacArthur applied, Situ Nan approached John Dulles, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dulles hinted to the Ministry of Sports. The Ministry of Sports wittily offered to let senior military generals lead the team to participate in the Olympics, showing that the US delegation Demonstrated to Europeans: Americans are not the casual cowboys they call!

Secretary of State Dawes realized that after the First World War, the United States fell into a glorious isolation and its influence on Europe was greatly reduced. Now it is necessary to improve the image of the United States. By the way, he also cheered for the ongoing "Dawes Plan" to support the German economy. So nodded in agreement.

"It's cheaper for that guy!" Situ Nan put down the telegram and smiled softly.The telegram was sent from the Philippines, and MacArthur said he was looking forward to meeting Situ Nan in New York.

"Haha. Not only did MacArthur get a bargain, but his godson also got a lot of benefits, and this time he was touched by them again."

He Yongyuan smiled and walked in, "Look, the preparations for the Nanhua delegation are ready, and more than one hundred athletes are training in Medan. Nanxing Shipping Company specially arranged a cruise ship to Europe, plus the hundreds of Chinese delegations. People, Paris is sure to be very lively this time."

"Does that have anything to do with MacArthur's godson?" Situ Nan asked with a smile.

"The Philippine delegation did not know where to hear the news and proposed to form a group with us, oh, no, it was a boat! It ran our boat!" He Yongyuan smiled.

"That's true!" Situ Nan was a little unhappy, but smiled happily, "This is great! It can improve the environment around Nanhua and promote us to open up the Philippine market. A good relationship with the Philippines will help expand the influence of the Chinese in the Philippines. Although the Canadian bug has jumped out, hasn’t South China successfully circumvented the American Chinese Exclusion Act and invested a large number of immigrants in the Philippines?"

"Yeah. I think so too. Or, just bring the Siamese with you?" He Yongyuan said with a thought.

"Thai people?" Situ Nan felt a sudden, thinking a little bit evilly: In addition to Japan, the other three Asian countries have boarded South China's ships. Doesn't this just improve South China's international status?

"In fact, there are a large number of Chinese in Siam, and we should help them. The participation of overseas Chinese in Siam in the Olympic Games on behalf of Siam is also conducive to improving the social status of Chinese in Siam." He Yongyuan persuaded, seeing Situ Nan not speaking. Thought Situ Nan was unhappy.

"This is a good idea!" Situ Nandao thought for a while, then said, "Now Siam's rice trade has been controlled by us. Acorn International should increase its rubber plantation in Siam. Also, in the Philippines. , We must increase investment in forestry and papermaking. These are the sources of raw materials for Nanhua’s factories in the future."

He Yongyuan nodded and sent a report to Nanhua, notifying Tan Kah Kee and Lin Qingquan of Situ Nan's opinions.Interestingly, because of He Yongyuan and Situ Nan’s little joke, the South China government extended an olive branch to the Siamese government to provide travel expenses for the Siamese athletes at cost.

Chinese companies in Siam took the initiative to provide sponsorships to solve part of the expenses of the Siam delegation. So the Siam delegation also sent more than 30 members to Europe on a South China ship, and more than half of the members were Siamese Chinese.

Sun Liren knew that after the Chinese United team was intensively preparing for the battle in New York, he wanted to take the time to train, but unfortunately it was close to graduation, and he was too busy to do so. Until Situ Nan and the others left New York, they only came to participate in the training camp twice, but they did not meet Situ Nan.

Because Situ Nan was busy again, he should not only pay attention to the Dawes plan that Robles participated in, but also reorganize Cummins Electric.

After a lot of thinking and familiarity, Gerald?Swope finally failed to reject the hospitality of Situ Nan, left General Electric, switched to Cummins Electric, and became the president of Cummins Electric. Since then, Cummins Electric has entered the "Gerald? Swope era."

Situ Nan fulfilled his promise and gave Gerrard?Swope trusted enough to convince the board to reward Gerald?Swope shares, support Gerrard without hesitation?Swope reorganized Cummins Electric.