Chapter 526: Conditions
In a quiet courtyard, Su Jin was lying on a lazy chair with half-squinted eyes, letting the warm spring breeze of April blow across his face, and a pot of tea was placed on the low table on his right.
Not far from him, Zhang Wanniang was walking around the yard with her toddler son, and at the back of the yard, Xiaoyu was busy by the stove, and a sweet smell wafted from behind from time to time, attracting Su Jin to look behind from time to time, and finally Su Jin couldn't help shouting.
"Xiaoyu, okay no."
"Alright...... All right...... Here it is! ”
As the voice fell, Xiaoyu, who was wearing an apron, walked out quickly with a plate, put the plate on the low table, and shouted with a smile.
"Miss...... Brother Su, how about you all come and taste the Dingsheng cake I just learned? ”
Su Jin looked at the crystal clear pink pastries on the low table, and couldn't help but praise in his mouth: "Xiaoyu, no matter how it tastes, I'm going to give you a compliment just for this appearance." ”
"Nonsense, what a like, net strange things." Xiao Yu gave him a blank look, although he had been married to Su Jin for almost two years, Xiao Yu was already a little unaccustomed to the "strange words" that his men popped up from time to time.
Su Jin didn't speak, he picked up a piece of pastry and took a bite, and a sweet and crispy taste came from his brain.
"Well, it's delicious!" Su Jin gave Xiaoyu a thumbs up and shouted not far away: "Bang Niang, you can also come and eat a piece, Xiaoyu's Dingsheng cake tastes very good." ”
Seeing Su Jin's praise, Xiaoyu smiled and narrowed her eyes, and said happily: "Brother Su, it took me half a month to learn, when you do it, you have to put the spinning yarn in the glutinous rice flour and steam it in a bamboo tube for 3 minutes, and then start to put the coarse glutinous rice flour and coarse japonica rice flour together into the wooden barrel and mix well, pick up the nest in the middle, add the white sugar and red yeast rice flour and stir evenly, let it stand for one night, and mix it with rose sauce after sifting it in the morning, it is troublesome to do." ”
Since Zhang Wanniang gave birth to a child, she has stayed at home wholeheartedly to take care of her son, Xiaoyu, a girl who is loyal to her, naturally stayed at home with her own lady and took on the responsibility of taking care of the family, sometimes Su Jin also said that some work can be done by the invited maids, but she is still happy to do these jobs since she was a child.
Tasting the pastries made by Xiaoyu, looking at Zhang Wanniang, who was taking her son as a toddler in front of him, Su Jin felt that the current life was really good, and it would be better if no one came to disturb him.
Thinking of this, Su Jin's brows were furrowed. The U.S. Secretary of State Hull somehow moved Chairman Chiang a few months ago to transfer his Third Army to France to prepare for the coming big war.
At first glance, when he heard Hull say this request, Su Jin almost didn't splash the teacup in his hand on his face, this old fox really took Lao Tzu for a fool, let me take the Third Army to France to help those Europeans fight, is it that you didn't take medicine or your IQ didn't recharge, you can even put forward such a brain-dead proposal.
After coming to this time and space for so long, he has fought dozens of battles with the Japanese, annihilated many Japanese troops and conquered the territory of Zhejiang, but Su Jin did not have a fever because of this, he knows very well that although he has the system plug-in of the "weapon cashing store", this system is not invincible, after all, these things are all things of World War II, and others have them, and they are still produced by themselves, which is much more awesome than his own hard work of cashing out weapons by relying on energy points to buckle the rope, If I really don't know whether to live or die, I go to France to fight the Germans in a hot head, I'm afraid I don't know how to die. However, on the grounds that the Third Army had not been trained well and that the soldiers had not yet been recruited, Hull had no choice but to embark on the ship back to China.
"Eh, what are you doing, it hurts!"
Just when Su Jin was thinking about it, he suddenly felt something constantly slapping his face, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was his own son who was looking at him curiously in his mother's arms, and a pair of small hands were slapping his face hard.
Su Jin took his son from Zhang Wanniang's hand angrily, slapped his little buttocks lightly with his right hand, and scolded with a smile: "You little villain, even Lao Tzu dares to fight, and it's against the sky!" ”
As soon as he beat down, the little young master immediately opened his mouth, and cried loudly, and for a while tears and snot flew together, making our Chief Su at a loss, he held his son and coaxed people in a low voice, but this little young master just didn't buy it, and still cried unusually loudly with a small mouth.
In the end, Su Jin, who was helpless, had no choice but to return his son to his daughter-in-law, who was staring at him, he touched his nose a little sneeringly and was about to speak, but he heard the voice of the servant outside.
"Sir, madam, there are people looking for you outside!"
"Oh...... Okay, I'll go right away! Su Jin, who was amnesty, was really grateful for this timely voice, and after answering the voice, he quickly ran out of the backyard and came to the front hall, but when he came to the front hall, he felt that he might as well look at his daughter-in-law's eyes in the back.
"Oh, General Su, we're meeting again!" The person who was sitting in the living room saw Su Jin and only looked at it with a smile, and strode over to him.
"Hello, Mr. Hull, why are you back again?" Su Jinqiang smiled and showed a reluctant smile, the old man in front of him who was not Hull?
"Dear General Su, I haven't seen you for a few months, and I found that I miss you so much!" Hull laughed and shook Su Jin's hand vigorously, his intimacy was comparable to seeing a long-lost relative.
"I don't want you!" Su Jin felt his head swell for a while, why was this old man so persevering, he remembered that in another time and space, the United States didn't seem to care so much about Germany's invasion of France, why was it so enthusiastic now.
What Su Jin didn't know was that due to the appearance and reminder of his butterfly, Roosevelt re-studied the situation in Europe and found that the current situation was extremely similar to World War I.
Before World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Ferdinand and his wife, who were shot dead by the Serbian youth Gavrijo Princip, became the trigger for the war. According to Roosevelt's analysis, once the war starts, it will be difficult for Britain and France to resist the attack of the Germans, and it is not in the interests of the United States to intervene in the war at this time, so in order to continuously let Germany bleed, it is the best way to mobilize the Chinese army to the European battlefield, so after listening to Hull's report on the combat effectiveness of the Third Army, Roosevelt quickly made a decision, Let Hull rush to China again, and transfer at least 100,000 men of the Third Army to Europe by any means.
After Hull sat down, he said very seriously: "General Su, after these months of preparation, I believe that your unit has completed the expansion and training. Now that the situation in Europe as a whole is dangerous, and war could break out at any time, President Roosevelt thought it was time to transfer your troops to France, because we feared that once the war broke out, the Germans would engage in unlimited submarine warfare, as they had done last time, and that it would be very troublesome to mobilize troops and materiel at that time. ”
"Mr. Hull, I never promised to send the Third Army to France!" Su Jin shook his head: "I don't have such noble feelings, I have already made it very clear last time, I will not use the blood and lives of my own soldiers to help other countries when my motherland is still being invaded." ”
Facing the tough attitude of Su Jin, Hull was not discouraged, but continued to persuade: "But General Su, I also said that everything has a price. Our Government has promised that if the Third Army is willing to go to France to help Britain and France defend against the Germans, we are willing to increase our military assistance to your country, knowing that what your country lacks most now is not soldiers, but precious military supplies, isn't it? ”
Su Jin sighed lightly, his expression gradually became solemn, and he stared at Hull Zhengse and said, "Mr. Hull, the Third Group Army was established by me with countless painstaking efforts, and the Chongqing government did not give me the slightest help during this period. Although I can resist the Japanese invaders with them out of the position of national righteousness, this does not mean that I can exchange my life for guns and materials in their hands, do you understand when I say this? ”
Hull was silent, Su Jin's words couldn't be clearer, he didn't have the slightest interest in the European battlefield. After a long time, he said sullenly: "General Su, how do you agree to go to France to participate in the war?" ”
"I ......" Su Jin just wanted to speak, but he saw that there was no longer a trace of a smile on Hull's face, and he knew that if he refused again, he was afraid that the Americans would turn their faces. Although he was not afraid to turn his face with this old man, after all, no matter how unhappy the Americans were, they would not do anything to him, but what he was most worried about was that the Americans would cut off military aid to China in a fit of rage, and once there was no military aid from the outside world, the Chongqing government, which was already exhausted, would really fall into a desperate situation.
Su Jin thought for a while, and a bright light suddenly crossed his mind. He suddenly raised his head and said, "Mr. Hull, it is not impossible to get the Third Army to rush to France, but I would like to know what kind of benefits your government can give me." ”
"Huh......"
As soon as he heard this, Hull's eyes suddenly lit up, for a diplomat like him, he is not afraid that the lion will open his mouth, he is afraid that the other party will not mention the conditions, as long as the conditions are proposed, it means that things can be discussed, as long as they can be discussed, it will be easy to do. (To be continued.) )