October 1, 1938, late at night. Exhausted www.biquge.info John returns to his new home on the banks of the Potomac River in Washington. As early as a month ago, Adele and little Ella had moved into the small white two-story building, but John himself had only come back a handful of times.

Since attending the "interview" at the Little White House, John has been busier than ever before for more than a month, and he can only sleep three or four hours a day, and he has lost a lot of weight. So much so that Adele was startled by his blue face and bloodshot eyes.

"What's wrong with you?" Adele was so distressed that she stroked John's stubble cheek and said, "Why don't you take care of yourself so much, what should you do when your body is exhausted?" ”

"Isn't it all in the making?" John took off his coat and collapsed on the fluffy couch, "Thank goodness I can finally rest." ”

Last month, John's schedule was just too tight. First, the chaos was cut through and the administrative team of Hughes Aircraft Company was finalized, and a German Jew named Reginald became the deputy general manager in charge of the company's day-to-day affairs.

This guy was recommended to John by a Wells Fargo manager, who used to be an executive at Messerschmidt in Germany, and moved his family to the United States earlier this year because of Nazi anti-Jewish policies.

John had just handed over the mess of the factory relocation to the company's new management team when a team of experts from the Army Air Corps came to the door to inspect the D2 long-range bomber retrofit project. John, who was afraid that something would go wrong again like in history, had to go back and forth between Washington and Los Angeles. In the end, he had to let Tom Jr. stay in Los Angeles as the company's assistant general manager, tracking the progress of the project throughout the process.

Little Tom himself was very happy about this, but without a full-time airplane pilot by his side, John himself would be miserable. Today's civil aviation industry in the United States is far less developed than in later generations, and many times John has to choose to travel by train. Often, when you finish an errand in one place during the day, you have to catch a train to the next. All told, you spend more time on the road than you do at work.

The reason why John needs to run around the country is because after a period of fermentation, the "Long Island Express" has become completely popular in the United States. Since FedEx signed a cooperation agreement with the New York State Relief Agency, seven or eight more states have come to the door to discuss cooperation. If it is a general corporate cooperation, Walter and they are fully capable of coping. In cooperation with the state governments, John really couldn't say anything if he didn't come forward, so he could only bite the bullet and "wander around".

Even during his stay in Washington, John was not much easier, and many times he could only sleep in his office. First of all, there is a lot of work on the side of the "Committee for Freedom to Fight". Although Hughes had accepted John's suggestion to serve as press spokesman for the "Fight for Freedom Committee". But he still needs to cooperate with the New York Expo Bureau to go around the country, and John has to help him set up the shelves in the committee's press office first.

John originally thought that the entire "Fight for Freedom Committee" was still in the works, and that he only needed to deal with some internal affairs, and that he would not have to deal with the media for the time being, so there should not be much trouble. Who knew that before the committee was established, the "neutral faction" and the "war faction" among the "interventionists" began to tear apart, and even the chairman could not be decided for a long time. John was so dizzy in the midst of it that he wanted to "hang up the crown" at once.

And that's not all, Donovan jumped out again to find trouble for him. Ever since John made it clear to Stimson that he was willing to become a member of the Military Production Commission, he had been avoiding the "father of the CIA" who had always wanted to recruit him. The reason is simple, John is more reluctant to offend the sinister and cunning Hoover than Donovan, who has a fiery temper and likes to go straight. He didn't want to spend the rest of his life in F.B.I. eavesdropping and surveillance.

Who knew that Donovan would go straight to the press office of the "Committee for Freedom to Fight" to find him. Donovan's purpose was simple: the intelligence agency he was working on (still under the banner of the Press Coordination Office) needed a covert training institute for secret agents, and he had his eye on John's training base for the "White Mountain Brigade".

At this time, it dawned on John that it was no wonder that Donovan, a guy who was dismissive of intelligence analysis, would be so enthusiastic about pulling himself in. What else is said is just to use the sign of the training base to cover people's eyes, and by the way, borrow the training ground and facilities. This guy fought from the beginning, and he had the calculation of packing up the entire "Baishan Training Base" and taking it away.

If John had agreed to join Donovan's team, it is estimated that the training base would have been incorporated into a secret service school by this time. But now, John won't be polite to Donovan. It's impossible to borrow for nothing, and Roosevelt didn't approve funds for you, so just take the money to rent it, and at most give you a discount. This kind of pure business cooperation, I believe that Hoover will not say anything if he knows about it.

As a result, John had to accompany Donovan on another trip to Detroit and signed a loan contract for the training base. As for the original staff of the base, who are willing to stay and work with Donovan, I'm sorry, please terminate the contract with FedEx first. John was not obligated to pay Donovan's men.

Everyone is in Detroit, and John has to go back to FedEx to see how the company is operating, and by the way, urge GM, Ford, and Kleist to speed up the design and development of container trucks. Westinghouse's gantry cranes have already begun to prepare for production, and it will not be good if the truck production cannot keep up with it at that time.

Before John could finish dealing with Detroit, a phone call called him back to Washington, this time it was Stimson. It turned out that as Germany's attitude towards Czechoslovakia became more and more tough, the whole of Washington began to fall into a state of tension and unease. Everyone feared that if the "peace talks" between Chamberlain and Hitler broke down, Europe would immediately be drawn into the war.

Even the most radical pro-war factions did not want war to break out when they were completely unprepared. But now, the decision is not in the hands of the Americans. Stimson: They can only hurry up and speed up the pace of all preparations.

Stimson told John to put the "Fight for Freedom Committee" aside and report to James Burns immediately. John was glad to be able to get out of the quagmire of the "Committee for Fighting for Freedom", and he went off in a hurry.

Later, John found out that there were many troubles on the side of the Military Production Committee. James's assignment to John is related to Arnold, the commander of the Army Air Corps, who has just taken office this month. This veteran brigadier general finally became the head of the army air force, and as soon as he took office, he pointed the finger at the problem of the lack of aircraft and personnel in the air forces.

James asked John to coordinate with the aircraft manufacturer to help Arnold fill the gap as soon as possible. John originally thought that this was not difficult, and that it was not necessary to expand the army, so there was no need to pass Congress. Even if the military can't make up the payment for the goods for a while, will there be aircraft manufacturers who will refuse the military's order because of the slow payment?

In John's mind, he was an overseer sent to the aircraft factories, urging them to get to work quickly. Who knew that something would go wrong in the first step - when placing an order? The personnel, operations, intelligence, and logistics departments of the War Department gave different numbers for aircraft vacancies. (Historically, this was true, and the War Department departments had inconsistent numbers of personnel and equipment, and finally a statistical control office was formed to solve this problem.) ）

Not only John, but even Arnold himself was shocked by the situation. In the end, John could only take a list of vacancies that no one knew was right, and began to visit military aircraft suppliers one by one. Fortunately, Arnold still had a conscience and provided him with a Douglas DC-2 as a round-trip business jet. If he had been allowed to run back and forth by train, John would have had the heart to die.

Finally, before John could exhaust himself, someone rescued him, earning him a chance to take a breath of relief. This person is the British Prime Minister who is thousands of miles away -- Neville Chamberlain.