After receiving a telegram from Long Yun, a representative of the Yunnan Provincial Government, Zhuo Fei, accompanied by Xie Kunyan, took only four escorts, including Zhuo Yan, and rushed to Kunming in two American jeeps. At first, Angela did not agree that Zhuo Fei only brought four people to Kunming to meet Long Yun, in her opinion, whether it is the construction of a railway or the construction of a hydropower station in Ruili, it is the Yunnan Provincial Government that gets the most benefits from it, according to common sense, it should also be Kunming to send people to Ruili.

"Angela, do you know what's most important to us right now?" A major change in the world is coming, and if Umbrella Company wants to grow, the chaotic period before the outbreak of World War II is the best opportunity. "Time, what we need most now is time, the Japanese are pressing forward step by step, and the German side is also on the verge of breaking out, once the Germans do it, many of the channels we have worked so hard to build will no longer be useful. At the moment, the most important thing is time, and we have to do our best to stock up on all kinds of supplies before we start in Germany, so the passage of goods is extremely important. ”

Zhuo Fei's explanation is already very clear, but there are still misunderstandings in Angela's thinking, "But we now have Ruili, according to the agreement between us and the national government, the area around Ruili is our sphere of influence for dozens of miles." In such a big place, not to mention hoarding supplies, it is okay to accommodate more than 100,000 Jews, why spend a lot of oil to send the materials we got from Europe to Kunming for storage? ”

Angela's rhetorical question made Zhuo Fei speechless for a while, and he had no way to tell Angela now, saying that once the European war broke out, the number of Jews waiting to leave the German sphere of influence would be hundreds, and according to the secret agreement between him and Hitler, the umbrella company would have the right of first refusal to buy the arms and war trophies captured by the German army in the European war. To face the Japanese army that invaded China with more than one million, it was not enough to rely on assault rifles, and Zhuo Fei had to equip his army with better and stronger weapons and heavy equipment.

Compared with the German army or the U.S. army, perhaps the military equipment of many European countries is not mentionable, but if Zhuo Fei can bring these trophies that are not valued by the German army to China, I believe it will definitely give the Japanese army a headache. At a time when the Umbrella Company does not yet have the ability to build heavy equipment, buying trophies from the Germans seems to have become a shortcut for the Umbrella Company to improve its combat effectiveness, otherwise Zhuo Fei would not have to hand over the design drawings of the Leopard tank and the Iron Fist anti-tank weapons to the Germans one after another.

Hitler already had a secret agreement with Zhuo Fei, and Zhuo Fei had to be prepared to receive a large amount of loot from the European battlefield in advance, but if there was no smooth transportation channel, the heavy equipment that Zhuo Fei had worked so hard to get might have stayed on the Sino-Burmese border without achieving anything. Because this is a secret agreement between Zhuo Fei and Hitler, Zhuo Fei can't tell Angela all this now, and in the face of Angela's doubts, Zhuo Fei can only ask the other party to act according to his orders.

Following a convoy of supplies to transport supplies, Zhuo Fei and several people hurried to Kunming, which also gave Zhuo Fei the opportunity to experience the Yunnan-Burma Highway on the spot. Fortunately, Zhuo Fei got a lot of road construction machinery from Europe, and the hard-working Jewish workers were also conscientious, and in just a few months, the originally dangerous Yunnan-Burma Highway had been widened and reinforced. But even so, the several dangers encountered along the way still made Zhuo Fei nervous.

Long Yun is known as the king of Yunnan, of course, this is not a title he got for himself when he had nothing to do, but the title of the king of Yunnan was circulated from within the Kuomintang. Don't look at Long Yun as a die-hard supporter of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, and he himself is in a high position in the Kuomintang, but it's a pity that Long Yun, a native of Yunnan, only wants to develop Yunnan. Long Yun is a high-ranking member of the National Government, and the umbrella company is only up-and-coming, so even with Xie Kunyan's company, Zhuo Fei still failed to see Long Yun as soon as he arrived in Kunming.

arranged Zhuo Fei and his party to stay in the hotel, and Xie Kunyan, who was in the dust, rushed to Long Yun's official residence in a hurry, he was Long Yun's confidant, so he naturally knew that those people in the provincial government said that Long Yun's patrol could not be true. "Father-in-law, Zhuo Fei has come to Kunming, father-in-law, why don't you meet with that Zhuo Fei?" Sure enough, Xie Kunyan saw Long Yun, who was supposed to be on patrol, in the official residence, and when Xie Kunyan saw Long Yun, the latter was playing mahjong with several staff members at home.

Xie Kunyan is Long Yun's adopted son, this is not a secret thing in the Long family, and several staff members present also know about it, but if Zhuo Fei knows about the relationship between Xie Kunyan and Long Yun, it will be quite a headache, because he has criticized some of Long Yun's shortcomings in front of Xie Kunyan. Xie Kunyan is the only one of Long Yun's many righteous sons who has stayed abroad, and Xie Kunyan's father lost his life on the battlefield to cover Long Yun, so Long Yun has an indescribable value and favor for Xie Kunyan, otherwise he would not have sent him to Ruili to spy on Angela and them.

"Changqing, what are you talking about? How can the principal do things without discipline, that Zhuo Fei is just a yellow-mouthed child, let's cool him for a few days. Sharpen his temperament first, this matter, the principal has his own charter. It was not Long Yun who answered Xie Kunyan, but one of Long Yun's subordinates when he was the principal of the Yunnan Army Martial Arts Hall, but looking at Long Yun's expression at the moment, he obviously agreed with the answer of his staff.

Xie Kunyan is not a fool, since Long Yun already has a plan in his heart, he didn't ask about it anymore, but found a chair and sat beside Long Yun to watch the battle silently. The game lasted until dinner, during which neither Long Yun nor Xie Kunyan mentioned that Zhuo Fei had come to Kunming, but waited for Long Yun's staff to leave the official residence, and Long Yun, whose expression was obviously a little dignified, beckoned Xie Kunyan to his study.

"Let's talk about it, I know that you are not a happy person, why did you suddenly help that Zhuo Fei speak, and accompanied that kid back to Kunming? I asked you to go back to Kunming last time for a blind date, but you kid kept saying that you couldn't leave, how can you have time to come back now? Settling down in the familiar rattan chair, Long Yun began to ask Xie Kunyan about the real purpose of his return to Kunming this time. For Zhuo Fei and the so-called umbrella company, Long Yun has always been vigilant and scrutinistic, if it weren't for the arms obtained by the umbrella company, maybe Long Yun wouldn't have been able to agree to let those Jews enter Ruili at the beginning.

Xie Kunyan is Long Yun's righteous son, so he naturally knows himself very well as his father-in-law, seeing that Long Yun is putting on a posture of asking for guilt at this moment, Xie Kunyan didn't dare to hide it, but just relayed the words that Zhuo Fei said to him that day to Long Yun. "Are you sure that's what he said?" After listening to Xie Kunyan's retelling, Long Yun, who has always disliked appearances, couldn't sit still, although Yunnan is located in the southwest border, Long Yun still has a way to understand the outside world, especially the current world pattern, Long Yun has always understood and paid attention to it.

Suddenly hearing Xie Kunyan's relays, Long Yun was still a little difficult to digest for a while, but after he carefully looked at the large world map hanging in his study, the panic in his heart had already spread to his whole body. Long Yun was born in the military, and he also served as the principal of the Yunnan Army Martial Arts Hall, so there is naturally no shortage of certain military qualities. According to what Xie Kunyan relayed, Long Yun carefully deduced it on the world map, and found that the results of his deduction were almost the same as what Zhuo Fei said.

Yangon and Fangcheng are the only outlets of the Nationalist Government to the sea, and a large number of materials needed for the Anti-Japanese War can only enter the work through these two ports, but the scale of Fangcheng Port cannot be compared with Yangon Port in any case. According to Zhuo Fei, the reason why the Japanese still allow the Nationalist Government to keep these two ports is only because the Japanese cannot rashly turn against Britain and France at present. However, if the Germans really wanted to provoke a war in Europe, Japan, which was already allied with Germany, would inevitably ignore the threats and pressure of Britain and France, and by that time, both Fangcheng and Rangoon would fall into the hands of the Japanese.

"What did Zhuo Fei say about the railway?" The construction of a railway between Lashio and Kunming has long been in Long Yun's calculations. Long before the construction of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, Long Yun had already discussed with his staff whether to build a railway or a road, but at that time, it was only due to various reasons such as the inability to guarantee the supply of materials and the amount of work, Long Yun would focus on building a road.

Zhuo Fei said that the umbrella company can now carry out the survey of the route, and the purchase of equipment and rails from Europe can also be carried out at the same time. As long as you can agree and support, the Umbrella Company is willing to bear the cost of the construction of this railway, and the Umbrella Company does not need to own any interest in the railway. Zhuo Fei only asks that, under the same conditions, you can guarantee that this railway will give priority to the transportation of strategic materials belonging to the umbrella company. ”

Xie Kunyan's words relayed again made Long Yun couldn't help laughing, and the strategic materials, as long as these things enter Yunnan, they will not belong to the so-called umbrella company and him Zhuo Fei. This is Yunnan, he is the king of Yunnan, Long Yun doesn't have the heart to play any fair and public games with this little-known umbrella company, as long as the materials enter Kunming, and he can see it, he can take it directly.

Xu saw what Long Yun was thinking, and Xie Kunyan said, "Father-in-law, I don't think that Zhuo Fei is an idle person, a young offspring who is only 20 years old, not only does he thrive in Germany, but he can also get hundreds of thousands of Jews from the Germans, I am afraid that such a person is not so easy to deal with." And I think that the guards under Zhuo Fei are not good people, not to mention that this matter was assigned by the National Government, if they really fell out with them, how should the National Government explain it? ”