Chapter 12 Invited

Although Anton's collection is not valuable, he is also a knowledgeable person, and seeing the brilliance of the jade jade horse on the table, Anton's saliva is about to flow out. After looking at the jade jade horse for a while, Anton, who forcibly withdrew his gaze, turned his face to look at Zhuo Fei, and opened his mouth to ask, "Mr. Zhuo, what do you mean by your umbrella company?" I remember that you have a saying in China that says, "No merit is not a blessing", and I would like to know what you are trying to do with such a valuable gift to me. ”

When Antun said the five words "no merit and no merit" in jerky Chinese, Zhuo Fei almost squirted out the coffee he had just drunk in his mouth, and said in his heart that this damn British old man actually knew Chinese colloquialisms. "Settle Major, this gift means nothing else, it's just a gift. I promise you that this gift from our umbrella company has nothing to do with the business we are going to talk about next. Sean didn't wait for Zhuo Fei to speak, and then preemptively explained.

already knew that Zhuo Fei was his true identity, and he no longer took Sean's answer seriously, but looked at Zhuo Fei without blinking, Zhuo Fei didn't speak, just nodded to admit that Sean's answer just now was not wrong. "Major Anton, this gift is just to show our sincerity, and we hope to be able to gain the friendship of Major Anton, which will lay a good foundation for the upcoming cooperation." These words were still spoken by Sean, and Zhuo Fei still did not say anything to stop Sean's snatching words.

After receiving the guarantee, he couldn't wait to hold the jade jade horse on the table into his arms, and played with it carefully. "I've already accepted the gift, you can tell you about the business, and in fact, I'm curious about what this big deal of over £100,000 is all about." After playing well, he put away the jade horse carefully, and then concentrated on asking Zhuo Fei and Sean about business.

Under Zhuo Fei's suggestion, Sean took out another map from the suitcase and spread it out on the table, and then used his pen as a baton to point on the map, "Major Anton, our umbrella company rescued a large number of Jewish refugees from the hands of the German Nazis, and when countries around the world took in these Jewish refugees by force, the Chinese government extended a helping hand to these compatriots of mine. Here, the Chinese government has set aside a piece of land for us Jews to recuperate, but there are so many Jews here that we continue to provide all kinds of supplies to my compatriots. ”

"Leaving the port of Yangon, we can rely on Myanmar's railway network to get all the supplies we buy from Europe to Lashio, but from Lashio, we have to rely on vehicles to transport them. There is no oil in China, and all the oil produced in the Ringanqiang oil field is under military control, and without enough oil to sustain those trucks, the rest supplies we procured from Europe can only stay in the railway stations and warehouses along the road for the time being, while my compatriots can only wait for rescue. ”

"If we look at this map again, Lashio is actually not very far from Wan Town, and the terrain along the road is very flat, so our umbrella company thought about whether we could build a direct railway from Wan Town to Lashio. With this railway, we will be able to go all the way from Yangon Port to Wan Town, and we will be able to save countless manpower while saving a lot of fuel. ”

Sean's explanation had already made Anton understand the purpose of Zhuo Fei's coming here to meet him, but this matter was not something that he, a little major, could not decide, and he had no choice but to get up and move the jade jade horse that he had just put away again. "Both, although what you said is a good thing, it's a pity that I'm just a little young man, and I can't help you in this matter without the Governor's consent."

An Dun said that he wanted Zhuo Fei and the two to take back the jade jade horse on the table, but the reluctance in his eyes made Zhuo Fei and Sean laugh secretly, and under Zhuo Fei's instructions, Sean pushed the jade jade horse in front of Anton. "Major Anton, as I said just now, this is a small gift from our Umbrella Company, this gift has nothing to do with this business, you can accept this gift."

"On the Governor's side, our Umbrella Company will naturally persuade you, in fact, our Umbrella Company is ninety percent sure of convincing the Governor to agree to build this railway." Zhuo Fei, who hadn't spoken for a long time, only said one sentence, and he had already made An Dun look sideways, listening to Zhuo Fei's tone of words, it seemed that it was not difficult to convince the governor.

It was certainly not difficult to convince the Governor, for some of the supplies that arrived in Lashio each day were ordered from the Governor's private trading houses. The two thousand-ton ships under the Governor's name would bring back a huge amount of rice grain from the Philippines and other places every few days, and these rice grains had already been ordered by the Umbrella Company, and the price of the order was enough for the Governor to be willing to wave the flag for the Umbrella Company on certain matters.

Interests are sometimes far more effective than guns, Zhuo Fei may not make the governor bow his head with a gun, but in the face of a steady stream of benefits, His Excellency the Governor who is as tough as he is also bowed. Spending a high price to order rice and grain from the Governor, most people in the Umbrella Company did not agree with Angela's decision, and only Zhuo Fei, who knew the inside story, would praise Angela for doing a good job, and no one would know that more than half of the large sums of money paid to His Excellency the Governor every time were counterfeit.

The meeting with Major Anton did not go well, but an agreement had been reached that if the Umbrella Company could convince the Governor, the Umbrella Company would open the door to the Umbrella Company, and the Umbrella Company would only need to pay Anton and his British soldiers a monthly fee for so-called labor. "Sean, you did a good job today, as long as it can be solved with money, it's not a difficult thing, keep working hard."

On the way back to Wan Town from Lashio, Zhuo Fei praised Sean, which made Sean, a Jewish businessman from the slums, very excited. Relying on money as the only means to open the way, the umbrella company soon opened up various joints, and after obtaining the support and consent of the governor, a large number of road construction machinery belonging to the umbrella company drove across the Wan Town Bridge into Burma. More than 30,000 idle Jews also joined in the construction of the railway, and more than 30,000 Jews and more than 100 road construction machines were in full swing in the 130 kilometers of wilderness from Lashio to Wan Town.

The construction of the railway line had already been surveyed by the domestic experts invited by Long Yun, and the Jewish engineers involved only had to follow the drawings, that is, after adopting the working method of starting construction in sections at the same time, the construction of the 130-kilometer railway embankment from Wan Town to Lashio was completed in less than a week. There is only one cross-river iron bridge that can cross the Wan Town River, and the railway extending from Lashio can cross the river into the territory of Wan Town, and all this, Zhuo Fei can no longer see.

At the moment when the construction of the railway between Lashio and Wan Town began, Zhuo Fei was already on the jeep back to Kunming, because he had received an invitation letter from the military commander, and Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the Nationalist Government, invited Zhuo Fei to meet in Chongqing. The meeting with Chiang Kai-shek could not be avoided, and in fact, Zhuo Fei also wanted to meet this historical figure who had a mixed reputation in later history books.

Chiang Kai-shek sabotaged the anti-Japanese united front, pursued and suppressed the Red Army in his early years, and then wantonly hunted down and persecuted anti-Japanese soldiers. However, from another point of view, Chiang Kai-shek was an excellent statesman, and after the Northern Expedition in China, the warlords in various parts of the country were divided, and Chiang Kai-shek devoted his life to regaining power from the central government, in a vain attempt to restore the central government's command over the localities.

Chiang Kai-shek could not be blamed for the Japanese invasion of China and the early defeat of the Nationalist Government, and it was true that the Nationalist Government did not have an advantage in the balance of power between the Nationalist Government and Japan at that time. What's more, at that time, the warlords of all walks of life set up their own hills, and the coalition forces could not accept unified command when fighting, and were often broken by the Japanese army's divide and rule. In the later generations where Zhuo Fei lived, the world was able to objectively comment on Chiang Kai-shek, and many people thought that if it were not for Chiang Kai-shek's painstaking management at that time, perhaps China would have been fully occupied by the Japanese army.

Soldiers don't interfere in politics, this is a sentence that Zhuo Fei heard his captain say when he entered the special forces in later generations, so in Zhuo Fei's opinion, as long as Chiang Kai-shek is sincere in resisting Japan, this person is not a bad person. Regarding Chiang Kai-shek's invitation, Zhuo Fei happily went, not only did he accept the invitation to Chongqing, but also brought Angela with him, and said that this was a vacation opportunity for Angela.

Zhuo Fei didn't want to hide the strength of the umbrella, and took advantage of the opportunity to go to Chongqing to meet Chiang Kai-shek, Zhuo Fei simply planned to show off the fangs of the umbrella company. Bowman personally led the team as the escort captain of the trip, and selected 20 guards, using the configuration of Yishui's imitation special forces. AK assault rifles are indispensable, and each escort also has two pistols on the left and right leg straps, and two of the newly made Iron Fist anti-tank bazookas, but these are nothing compared to the huge weapon backpack on Zhuo Yan's back.

I went to Chongqing to show my face, and Zhuo Fei naturally couldn't forget to bring the Barrett sniper rifle that he exchanged from the system, and after using the sharing coupon for Zhuo Yan, Zhuo Yan could also use the weapons that Zhuo Fei exchanged from the system. This Barrett sniper rifle, which is coveted to look at, has become Zhuo Yan's special weapon, and Zhuo Yan has become Zhuo Fei's secret weapon to show his face in Chongqing.