Under pressure from all walks of life, the military government and the merchant groups did not engage in armed conflict, but they fell into a tense confrontation situation, scolding each other in the newspapers every day, exposing each other's shortcomings, flying soft knives, and from time to time sending telegrams to the whole country to show their righteousness, causing the city of Guangzhou, which was depressed in the market, to be in an uproar, and the broad masses of the people were at a loss and miserable. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In early October, the base camp led by Mr. Zhongshan finally made a compromise and returned the 4,000 rifles seized from the arms to the Guangzhou merchant group, and the sharp contradictions were somewhat eased, and the month-long strike came to an end.

Zheng Yi was finally able to take a day off to go to the city and deliver a full set of design materials and patent applications to White.

Zheng Yi was very happy to learn that the British Patent Office had approved the two patents filed last time, and the happy White excitedly told Zheng Yi:

"Tomorrow I will go to Hong Kong, transfer £80,000 to your dedicated account, and then rush back to London with these two patents for new motors, and start negotiations with four European companies and two American companies for the transfer of the two patents filed last time."

"If all goes well, your account at HSBC's head office in Hong Kong will soon increase by between £150,000 and £200,000....... Oh yes, this is for you, and in three days you can withdraw your money at any HSBC bank in the world at any time if you need it. ”

Zheng Yi took the passbook and a blank check from HSBC, and was very excited after reading it: "Thank you, Mr. White, cooperating with you is the most correct decision in my life." ”

White laughed and patted Zheng Yi on the shoulder affectionately: "You are less than twenty years old, and you still have a long life, and I am getting old day by day, haha!" Is there anything else I need to do? Or I can bring back what you want from the UK. ”

"Thank you! No trouble, I don't need much at the moment, I wish you a pleasant journey, and come back to England to say hello to Mrs. White for me. Zheng Yi said with a smile.

White thanked with a smile, thought about it and added: "I will come back in about half a year, if you need to buy weapons and equipment during this time, you can go to several European and American companies around to negotiate, everyone knows you, I have also said hello to them for your possible weapons procurement, as long as it is not artillery or other heavy weapons, it can basically be provided to you, if you need to use the shipyard's processing equipment to do something, just go directly, everyone knows you and likes you." ”

Zheng Yi was grateful: "Okay, I remember." ”

That night, Zheng Yi brought rich gifts to visit his brother Ade, drank with Ade's father and son until midnight and stayed overnight, and the next morning he and Ade went out shopping with his two children in his arms, and returned to the military academy in the afternoon with two large boxes of gifts.

Zhou Junruo was very happy to receive a suit and a pair of leather shoes from Zheng Yi, but the news he reported next shocked Zheng Yi and secretly called it a fluke:

Yesterday noon and this morning, three division commanders under Xu Chongzhi's command and Wu Tiecheng, commander of the Guangzhou Guard Army, led officers and men to pour into the military academy and divided up the remaining seized arms.

The teachers and students of the military academy were red-eyed, but they dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and President Jiang was angry and called the base camp and the generalissimo who had gone north to Shaoguan, and after gaining nothing, he smashed his beloved crystal cup and pen and ink inkstone.

Without this batch of munitions, which made all sides look at each other, the military academy also got rid of the biggest trouble, and the teachers and students who were exhausted entered a depressed period of recuperation, and the second batch of cadets entered the school in such an atmosphere.

However, within a few days of relative peace, the month-long military basic training of the second batch of cadets had just begun, and sharp contradictions between the base camp and the Guangzhou merchant group broke out again.

On 4 October, on the pretext that they had not returned all the seized firearms, the Guangzhou merchant group once again staged a massive strike to resist taxes, and intensively carried out a military plan to seize power by armed force -- the merchant group army was scheduled to be dispatched at dawn on 15 October to occupy the provincial offices, the public security bureau, and the financial organs in one fell swoop.

At this critical moment, the military assistance that Russian advisers had spoken of months earlier had finally arrived.

In the middle of the night of 10 October, the Russian cargo ship "Wollovsky" appeared in front of the dock of the military academy without the eyes of the customs and all departments, and the first batch of cadets and all the instructors who were excited all went out to unload all the 8,000 Mosin Nagant rifles, 4 million rounds of ammunition, and four disassembled mountain guns on the steamer in just one and a half hours.

Late on the night of 14 October, on the eve of the armed rebellion launched by the Guangzhou merchant group, nearly 1,000 cadets of the first and second phases of the Huangpu Military Academy, under the leadership of instructors, set out quickly in the name of an exercise and coordinated with Xu Chongzhi's Cantonese army, Li Fulin's Fu army, and Wu Tiecheng's guard army.

This battle had nothing to do with Zheng Yi, the quartermaster of the Whampoa Military Academy, who spent the whole morning in the warehouse where Russian-style weapons were stored, and in the name of counting firearms, he selected five rifles with the best workmanship and the most accurate rifling from more than 1,000 Mosin Nagant rifles, and moved back to his dormitory without blushing, citing the daily training needs of the Quartermaster Department.

At noon the next day, the last group of teachers and students who participated in the war returned triumphantly, and the teachers and students of the third and fourth teams of the first phase who received the baptism of war and saw blood were in high spirits and extremely proud, and even their walking posture was different from the past.

The teachers and students led by Jin Fozhuang, Yan Fengyi, Fan Hanjie, Hu Zongnan and others saw Zheng Yile standing on the dock to greet him, and immediately raised their heads and despised Zheng Yi with a smile, like a rooster that had just cleaned up a flock of hens, smiled at Zheng Yi, and then hurried over, so angry that Zheng Yi wanted to scold his mother.

Three days later, the opportunity that Zheng Yi had been waiting for finally came.

Since there was no trace of the personnel of the repair institute recruited from Zhejiang, Zhou Junyan, director of the Quartermaster Department, and Yu Feipeng, deputy director of the Quartermaster Department, agreed to Zheng Yi's request after discussion, and won the title of official instructor of the military academy for Zheng Yi.

After a few days of rest, the first batch of trainees resumed normal training and learning again.

In the early morning of the first day of training, a tall and imposing young instructor appeared on the playground, only to see him in a straight military uniform, standing as solemn as a pine, with a commemorative Colt M1911 pistol that even Principal Jiang was envious of, and his feet were high riding boots with black light, and he calmly glanced at the students who kept running in front of him, calmly accepting all the admiring eyes.

When the last bell rang for the start of the first cultural class, this young and handsome officer walked into the first phase of the fourth team of cadets unhurriedly, and in the neat salute of more than 100 cadets, he unhurriedly ascended to the podium, slowly turned around and glanced at the respectful cadets for five seconds, and then calmly replied with a salute and said "sit down."

The students finally saw the young instructor's appearance clearly, and the low cry of surprise sounded irrepressibly, and the young instructor seemed to enjoy it very much, and when all the voices disappeared, he picked up the chalk, wrote "Zheng Yi" on the blackboard, and then said calmly in a slightly magnetic and peaceful voice to the students, who were all older than him:

"Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Zheng Yi, and from today onwards I will serve as your cultural instructor, taking into account your actual situation and the needs of the revolutionary struggle, we do not have time to systematically learn English, mathematics, physics and chemistry, and can only choose some basic knowledge that is closely related to military affairs and is easy to learn to communicate."

"In the next three lessons, I will explain the basics of ballistics to you step by step, and before that, if you have any questions and requests, I will do my best to answer them."

The students were stunned, countless pairs of eyes stared at Zheng Yi who was calm, and Yan Fengyi, who was sitting in the back row, and the six captains and deputy captains had never met such a teacher, and they couldn't help but look at each other, full of doubts.

Hu Zongnan, who was sitting in the front row, was the first to raise his hand, and after getting Zheng Yi's permission, he stood up quite angrily: "May I ask the sir, why don't you see you carrying handouts?" ”

Zheng Yi nodded with a smile: "Please sit down, Hu Zongnan, there are two reasons: first, because the school does not have corresponding teaching materials, and there is no cultural syllabus, it can only be determined by the instructor; Second, the knowledge I need to teach is all in my head, because it is all basic knowledge, so I don't need to prepare for the class at all. All you need to do is take good notes, and after the three lessons, you will definitely have different feelings. ”

"Boom" The classroom boiled, Zheng Yi smiled and picked up the red, blue and white three pieces of chalk, turned around and began to draw on the blackboard, drawing a lifelike infantry cannon and three different ballistic curves in less than ten seconds, and then began to write quickly in the admiration of the exclamation, not only the handwriting is very beautiful, and the faster it is written, a total of six minutes before and after writing more than 300 words plus a rather complex artillery ballistic legend, the overall effect is like a work of art, even the captains and deputy captains in the back row are also stunned, Join in the heartfelt admiration.

Zheng Yi put the remaining three chalk heads into the wooden box and glanced at the students who had not yet recovered: "To tell you the truth, everyone looks up to me so much, I enjoy it, really." ”

The hall was full of laughter, and several captains in the back row laughed and scolded Zheng Yi for being so thick-skinned.

After Zheng Yi finished his arrogant words, he couldn't help but smile: "Please be quiet....... Please be quiet, the content on the blackboard is the first lesson I will give you, as long as you copy the above content and memorize it, you can basically understand the most basic theory of ballistics, and the purpose of this lesson will be achieved. ”

"After the next two lessons, you can confirm the theory of ballistics in practice, and then you will inevitably come to a conclusion: this thing seems unfathomable when you first come into contact with it, but in fact, it is very simple!"

The exclamation sounded again, but Zheng Yi Shi Ran ended the lecture and walked away, leaving more than 100 teachers and students dumbfounded.

Hu Zongnan, who was in the front row, was shocked again and hurriedly took out his watch, and found that Zheng Yi had only spoken for ten minutes from beginning to end, and the impressive first class was over.