Horikichi walked up to Contini with a smile and shook hands and hugged him, then asked, "How is the president's scrap sales business going?" ”

"Close, close......"

"Hurry up, hold on." Horikichi said with a smile, "I have written a report to submit it, Italy has scrap steel, Japan also has it, if you have to activate your brain, why can't you sell it?" It doesn't matter if you can't receive cash, you can collect products and resources, and you can also consider installment payments, even if you don't rent a piece of land or build a wharf! It's peacetime, and making more money is the truth! ”

Contini's eyes widened and he feigned dissatisfaction: "You want to rob me of my business? ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, the Japanese system has decided that it will take at least 6 months for me to submit this report before I get a response, not to mention that I haven't submitted it yet, you still have a lot of time."

Contini smiled: "That's enough, that's enough......"

Looking at this lively scene, I don't know that I really think that the two are old friends who have reunited after a long absence, in fact, the two have known each other for less than a year: in April last year, Horikichi attended the relevant League of Nations meeting in Geneva as a member of the Japanese delegation Navy, and Contini was also on vacation in Switzerland to accompany Adriana and the child, and then went to Geneva The Italian delegation shook around, wanting to hear what the follow-up Navy actions were, because the Italian Navy has moved a lot in the past two years, and he was afraid of attracting everyone's attention, and the result was not particularly exciting. Everyone is still messing up - even if Italy makes these small moves, its strength is still too small, and Britain and the United States don't care.

Contini was relieved about this, who knew that he happened to meet Horikichi, at first he was not interested in this small Osa, but soon understood - this is Horikichi! "Iron Ambition" has implicit parameters, Horiki Yoshi was a normal level before the big horn personnel, but after the big horn personnel suppression, there will be attribute bonuses, and if used well, it can explode (just like the old game "Cao Cao" of the Japanese glorious company, Zhang Liao's explosive power, attack power, and dominance will be increased by more than 30% in Xiaoyaojin) Others don't understand, how can he Contini not understand? Of course, this guy can be a naval adviser in the future.

Horikichi didn't look at Contini at first, thinking that he was an Italian diplomat's attaché, after all, he was 20 years older, and he was proud all the way, and he spoke with the attitude of a superior, and it was not until later that he saw that the deputy head of the Italian delegation and the dignified vice admiral were respectful to Contini, and he couldn't wait to run over to carry the president's bag, and he realized who this was, and he felt deeply rude - this is the actual prince of Italy.

came and went, and the two who had the intention of making friends with each other became good friends.

The scrap steel in the mouths of both sides has a special point, referring to the old naval ships, according to Contini's vision, the Italian navy that built 15 years ago, coal-powered light warships, including cruisers and destroyers, should all be disposed of! Then build a new warship, and the military budget is not enough for him to make up for it!

This move shook the Admiralty, but what the president said also made sense, now Italy controls the two largest oil fields in Africa, crude oil is rolling in, and it has jumped from an oil-poor country to an oil exporter, and the navy is still using coal-powered warships, isn't it ridiculous? Under the guidance of this line of thinking, the warships of the Italian Navy are being sold one after another, the Garibaldi class was sold to Zhang Dashuai, other warships were also sold to Turkey, some were sold to South American countries, and even one was sold to Siam.

Before leaving this time, Chen Shaokuan heard that the Northern Army had bought the Garibaldi class, so he suggested that he should also buy a cruiser, because now the largest warship in the Southern Navy is the Revolution, with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons, and the next second largest warship is only about 2,700 tons of Hairong and Haichip, which are 30 years old so far, and the speed is less than 20 knots, continue to add larger and newer warships, according to Chen Shaokuan's original idea, is to add more than 10,000 tons of armored ships or battleships like the Northern Navy- Corresponding to the Queen Elena class, and then building a large cruiser of 7-8000 tons - corresponding to the Garibaldi class, Chiang expressed support in principle, but also told him that the government really had no money, and the 28 million money of the Revolution crushed the Guangzhou government to death.

In the end, Chen Shaokuan could only find a way to send a telegram to Huang Xinguo, requesting to buy 1-2 cruisers of about 4,000 tons, which was easy to do, and Contini suddenly turned over the inventory - the Italian Navy has 2 reconnaissance cruisers, Nino Bickshaw class, with a displacement of almost 3,600 tons, a speed of up to 28 knots, and more importantly, the condition is good, which was only completed in 1914, and the service has not even been completed for 15 years. The asking price of a single article is 2 million oceans, and the down payment is 400,000. The 400,000 Guangzhou government can barely squeeze out one, but the other 1.6 million is difficult to settle. Finally, Chen Shaokuan, as a Fujianese, made a suggestion that was not a suggestion, and exchanged Fujian tea, granite and Yunnan tung oil!

Everyone thinks Chen Shaokuan is crazy, what does an Italian want Fujian tea for? Granite and tung oil may still be a little useful, but unexpectedly, granite was first excluded - because Italy has no other resources, but the stone is the top in Europe, the residential construction of United Real Estate is all Italian granite and marble, because the country is in full swing to develop real estate, so that the use of stone is very extensive, and so that when the United Real Estate creatively uses stone dry hanging as a high-end community symbol, the boom is even more unstoppable, there is a boom in excavation stones everywhere, and the overall surface landform of Italy is changingAlthough some of the environmental problems are now caused by the influx of miners in the mountainous areas that were once untouched, Mussolini's government welcomed the large-scale development of stones, considering that it would be good for employment. Now Italian stone sells well in Europe, it is not enough to go to Turkey and Greece, and it is not possible to travel thousands of miles from Fujian.

But the deal was finally negotiated, and the key was Fujian tea. Because there are now 150,000 Chinese in Libya and the weather is hot, the amount of tea used is not small, which is the first sales channel; The second is the establishment of a new plate of the United Group, the 13th is United Medicine, the 14th is United Food, and the food is the first to bear the brunt of all kinds of convenience food, fast food, eat fast food, naturally including military compressed biscuits, drink also have to have fast food, the first one is instant coffee, in fact, instant coffee was available 20 years ago, but the quality is not stable enough, under the key research of the joint laboratory, United Coffee came out, in order to promote, Now the urban movies produced by United Pictures have the plot of brewing instant coffee, and people can see that it is the Union brand - implying that this is the life and rhythm of little Bourgeois.

In addition to instant coffee, the second priority item of Contini's directive is tea bags. Chinese drink tea at this time almost without bag packaging, while European and American tea drinking is filtered tea leaves, so bags have a special meaning.

Tea bags are also made by Americans 20 years ago, but Contini believes that the packaging of Americans is too lo, under his instructions, although Italy's tea bags started very late, but the momentum is very huge, not only a reversal of the traditional square tea bag design to launch a round tea bag, pyramid-shaped tea bag, as well as a rope and a delicate tail pendant - the above is the advertising slogan of United Foods "For a better life, and there are various flavors such as black tea and green tea in tea bags, although Italians do not like to drink tea as much as the British, But it is also a leader in the European continent.

Due to the special status of the United Group, it is obvious that all the instant food products of the Italian army are covered by the United Company, which is a fairly stable sales channel, so Chen Shaokuan's proposal of Fujian tea to offset the military purchase money won the heart of Contini, and he immediately decided to establish a teabag production plant in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.

As for tung oil, it was originally the main raw material for the manufacture of paint, because Italian real estate is under construction in large quantities, and the furniture industry is also thriving - the factory that produced components for the aircraft found a new world after the aircraft structure gradually turned to duralumin, and naturally it was continuously supplied, so that the second factory in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone also took advantage of the situation to develop - the paint factory. As for the textile mill and yarn factory, they have been thought about for a long time, and they are waiting for the concrete implementation of negotiations with Japan.

Therefore, Contini agreed to deliver a cruiser to Guangzhou first, and if the Guangzhou government can still pay a down payment of 400,000 yuan next year, he can agree to sell another ship of the same class, and in order to show his sincerity, he promised that the warship will retain the priority to the Guangzhou government for one year and will not be sold to other countries.

"Hori-kun, since you have become the captain of the Mutsu, then I want to tell you that you want our people to come and visit, you can't hide your secrets."

"Of course, of course." Hori said with a smile that Contini introduced the rest of the Japanese crowd to Contini, "There is absolutely no problem with visiting, the Ministry of the Navy said, you can see whatever you want, we are friendly countries, but the Ministry of the Navy is also very interested in which carrier-based fighter of the United Group, I want to ask if we can buy a batch, and then grant us a patent to produce it in Japan." ”

"Absolutely, I still have a new torpedo machine, do you want it?"

"Torpedo machine?" Horikichi was stunned, "I haven't heard of it." ”

Contini shrugged: "It's a special postal plane, the kind of ...... that can carry 800 kilograms of postal parcels"

"Understood, understood...... Horiyoshi said with a smile, "and I also know the floating airfield, this time you can go and see our floating airfield, the Akagi, which was rebuilt from the hull of a battleship." ”

When she had a little free time, Agnes asked, "Calais, you know this Japanese man well?" ”

"It's a little familiar, I made a bet with him......"

Agnes laughed: "Sounds so interesting, how to bet, what is the bet?" ”