Overnight, the tense atmosphere that hung over Guangzhou suddenly intensified, and there were no longer any hawkers on the streets who raised their voices to sell their hands, and the people who hurried to the streets looked nervous, and groups of armed men of merchant groups dressed in civilian clothes, carrying long and short guns, and all kinds of swords rushed to the main intersections, and even a company of British armed sailors was added to the Shamian Concession, and the two passages into the taxi area were sparsely populated and heavily guarded. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Near noon, Zheng Yi successfully entered the concession with Swire's work ID and came to the manager's office on the second floor of the company.

White, who had just sent away the two local compradors, looked coldly at Zheng Yi, who was dressed in civilian clothes: "Why, you didn't enter that military school?" ”

"I just went to report yesterday."

Zheng Yi pointed to the large paper bag placed on the low table next to the door: "My military uniform and weapons are inside, I just went to the Xiguan Photo Studio to take a photo of the officer's ID, and then made a special trip to ask for your help." ”

White's face became more and more ugly, but Zheng Yi didn't seem to know, and said in his mouth: "All my current possessions add up to only more than 1,300 silver dollars, which is not enough to buy fifty tons of rice, two tons of cured meat, and the necessary salt, oil, sauce and vinegar, so I can only come and ask you for your generous help." ”

White sneered, "Haha! That's the price you pay for being that worthless cadet quartermaster? ”

"No, no one asked me to do this, I did it on my own initiative, because the military academy is very poor, and there is no way to use this money to buy the necessary grain, oil and food. According to my understanding, the Guangzhou business group will launch a strike and anti-tax movement that will affect the entire Guangdong Province within three days at the latest, and it will be difficult for the military government to obtain sufficient financial revenue for a long time to come, and I and the officers and men of the military academy will starve. Zheng Yi honestly said what he thought.

White shook his bare head pityingly, and didn't embarrass Zheng Yi anymore: "How much?" ”

"If you can, lend me 5,000 Hong Kong dollars, the merchants in Guangzhou no longer accept banknotes issued by the military government." Zheng Yi was quite helpless, Song Ziwen's financial policy was, to put it bluntly, plundering in disguise.

Huai nodded and said, "It's not much, the cash in my drawer is enough, and I don't need to write another check...... Here you go, remember to pay me back when you have the money. ”

Zheng Yi accepted it calmly, and was quite curious to see White take out a beautiful cardboard box again.

White put the carton in front of Zheng Yi: "The Zeiss Navy version of the telescope you want, and these ...... Considering that you have a hard time getting four or five pistol cartridges for the American cowboy's Cole, I have five boxes for you, let's talk about it when you run out, and besides, does your military school have any plans to buy weapons? ”

Zheng Yi shook his head: "Not for the time being, even the two hundred pistols and one hundred Zeiss binoculars that I planned to buy have been postponed because of the current difficult situation, but the military academy will send four conscription teams to Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Hunan provinces within a week, and recruit three regiments of recruits to be sent to the military academy for training, but I don't have the ability to meddle in the procurement of this batch of weapons and equipment, because there are too many wolves, and I am not strong enough." ”

White smiled knowingly: "There is no need to rush the matter of arms trading, but you need to hurry up and get out the technical drawings and patent applications of those two new motors as soon as possible, I have checked a lot of information in the past few days, and sent telegrams to London, Liverpool and New York, and learned from the feedback that there is no one in the world at present that you are designing the two advanced motors, so you must hurry!" You owe me money now, and I'm still your boss. ”

Zheng Yi immediately puffed out his eyes, and White laughed.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Zheng Yi, with the help of Ade, finally bought 4,500 catties of cured and smoked meat and 20 boxes of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar that could be stored, and rushed to the grain warehouse on the west bank of Baietan, opposite the concession, and hired merchant ships and coolies to load 50 tons of high-quality rice.

On the big stone slab on the side of the wharf, Ade looked at the bags of rice that were constantly being loaded into the ship with some distress: "Where can soldiers eat such good rice, if you buy old rice, you can get tens of thousands of catties." ”

Zheng Yi patiently explained: "The teachers and students of the military academy have not eaten a single meal of good rice for several months, but they have worked hard day and night without complaint, so I want them to eat a few good meals." Don't look at the current revolutionary army is cornered by the merchant group, and the situation will be reversed in less than half a year, so even if you can't set up a stall for two or three months after the strike, you must not join the merchant army, and if you have time, you will go home to accompany your parents, wife and children, if you fight, close the door immediately, let alone close to Xiguan and the concession, if you don't have enough money, come to the military academy to find me, as long as I enter the city, I will go to see you and my uncle and aunt, remember? ”

Ade, who was full of sadness, nodded obediently: "Go back and steam the last pot of wine with my old beans, stop and see what the situation is, if there is a fight, I will hide at home, you must also be careful, don't participate in the war, the bullet is not long, I will wait for you to drink." ”

"No problem! It is estimated that I will not be able to keep two jars of ten jars of good wine that you gave me today, and I can only go to your house to ask for them after drinking...... You find an opportunity to hide your old beans under the bed and move out the jar of deer whip seahorse wine, why do you have to steal two catties to have a good time. ”

Ade laughed happily after hearing this, and the sadness on his face disappeared in an instant.

In the evening, Zheng Yi led two wooden-hulled boats to slowly berth at the dock of the military academy, Zhou Junruo and the two brothers of the quartermaster department had been waiting for a long time, stepped forward to talk with Zheng Yi for a few words, and immediately commanded more than 100 students who had just been transferred from the base camp to unload the boat, Zheng Yi did not know that among the more than 100 students who carried heavy rice bags and carried baskets, there were more than a dozen people such as Zuo Quan, Chen Mingren, and Ding Delong, who would carry the famous generals on their shoulders in the future.

The officers and cadets of the third and fourth teams who were on guard duty were overjoyed, and they cleared their mouths when they looked at so much grain and baskets of cured meat and wine jars in bamboo baskets.

Jin Fozhuang and Yan Fengyi and other leading officers were also very happy, and they came to Zheng Yi to ask if God had opened his eyes.

Zheng Yi explained: "I am more familiar with the situation in the city, and the quartermaster department has been very busy in the past two days, so Director Zhou and Deputy Director Yu of the headquarters handed over this procurement task to me. ”

Jin Fozhuang said with great emotion: "This batch of food is too timely, just now a few of us are still worried about the food of the students, worried about hunger, the current situation is becoming more and more tense, the counterattack of the merchant group is imminent, every second may launch a retaliatory action, our two district teams need to rush to the Generalissimo's Mansion for reinforcements at any time, as long as the fight starts, I am afraid that no businessman dares to sell anything to us." ”

Zhou Junruo quietly revealed the latest news: "Early in the morning, Mr. Hu Zhantang (Hu Hanmin) and Mr. Wang Zhaoming (Wang Jingwei) called, advising the principal to return the seized weapons and equipment to the merchant group to reach a settlement, the principal argued with reason and firmly refused, and then Mayor Sun Ke also called to persuade the principal to consider the impact more, and the principal also did not relax, and once again telegraphed to the generalissimo to reiterate three opinions, fortunately, to get the support of the generalissimo, otherwise I am afraid I will not be able to withstand it!" ”

"Why go back? Just rely on those so-called provincial and Hong Kong celebrities to privately find them and send them ...... Plea with them? In the face of major rights and wrongs, do you still want principles? Even when it comes to heaven, this batch of weapons and equipment of the merchant group is illegal smuggling and must be confiscated. Jin Buddha Zhuang guessed the shady deal, and was very annoyed.

Yan Fengyi and Zhou Junruo were very smart, and they were worried that the upright and bold Golden Buddha Village would say something unpleasant again, so they comforted them in a low voice.

Zheng Yi smiled and did not express his opinion, this kind of thing is not uncommon in two lifetimes, he even knows better than Jin Fozhuang what kind of people Hu Hanmin, Song Ziwen and Sun Kezhi are, so he has no interest in talking about it, but admires Principal Jiang's toughness, as long as Principal Jiang withstands the pressure this time, he will definitely establish great prestige and get more benefits.

After chatting with each other for a while, and quickly talked about the seized batch of weapons and equipment, Yan Fengyi asked Zhou Junruo if he had opened it and seen it? Zhou Junruo said that he had seen it, and even the three specifications of a total of three million rounds of ammunition had been opened and spot-checked, but he was not very familiar with weapons and equipment, so he asked Yan Fengyi to ask Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi reported the quantity, quality, and manufacturers of various weapons and equipment and three types of ammunition one by one, and told the various parameters of the Czech imitation Mauser rifle and the Maxim heavy machine gun, and also told in detail the quality and background analysis of five boxes of Bergman MP18, commonly known as the Flower Machine Gun:

"The manufacturing quality of the Czech State Arsenal is very good, the materials used are high-quality medium carbon steel of higher quality after the World War, both the bolt and the barrel are extremely exquisite, and the butt is also made of strong and wear-resistant whole piece of fine walnut, which is really good!"

"I estimate that after Germany's defeat in the war and the strict restriction of weapons production, it will be difficult to manufacture and sell our favorite Mauser rifles and light and heavy machine guns in large quantities in China, and even if they are manufactured, they will be transferred to the surrounding countries such as Belgium, the Czech Republic, Sweden or the Netherlands, and then sold by countries such as Norway that have not signed the arms embargo treaty.

Everyone was stunned, they didn't expect the young Zheng Yi to be so familiar with weapons and equipment, and he could see farther, and his level was very high.

Jin Fozhuang joked: "Xiao Zheng, it's better to transfer to our coaching department as an weapons instructor." ”

Zheng Yi is also not modest: "Brother Jin, don't say it, if you really want to be an weapons instructor, I will never mislead people's children, at least in the fields of weapon design principles, manufacturing processes and material processes, there are few people in the school who surpass me, as long as I am given the right materials and a few ordinary machine tools, I can imitate firearms of trustworthy quality, I also said in front of the principal, I can even make more complex marine diesel engine spindles and many parts, imitate a few rifles, pistols, there is no difficulty at all." ”

"Little brother, can you be modest?" Zhou Junruo criticized with a smile.

Zheng Yi replied solemnly: "Big brother, being too modest is hypocrisy, and the Chinese people are looking down on foreigners because they are too modest, I am not modest but let the foreigners look at them differently, otherwise how could the British give me a monthly hundred and fifty oceans and not count dividends and bonuses?" ”

"Besides, I got the rank of captain when I entered the military academy, how can I be convincing if I don't show my ability as soon as possible? These are the truths, just tell the truth, I just have the ability, what do you want me to do? ”

Jin Fozhuang and Yan Fengyi laughed, and Zhou Junruo shook his head frequently.

Yan Fengyi asked with interest: "Or, when the current matter is over, how about you come and give a few firearms lessons to our four team of students?" ”

Zheng Yi smiled: "No problem, but I can only teach a few classes, and our Director Zhou and Deputy Director Yu have agreed to my request and recommended me to the school committee as a cultural instructor, responsible for the teaching of English, mathematics, physics and chemistry for the second phase of students." ”

"The repair institute is about to be established, and there will be dozens of apprentices in less than a month that you need to bring, where do you have so much time?" Zhou Junruo reminded.

Zheng Yi didn't care: "Time is like a woman's cleavage, just squeeze it." ”

Everyone was stunned again, and it took a while to understand what the cleavage was, and then burst into laughter, scolding Zheng Yi as a little rascal.