"Thank you for the advice, John. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 🔥 I'll think about it seriously. Lucius's answer seemed sincere. But John soon discovered that he wasn't listening. Because Lucius didn't ask him about anything related to the civilian airport renovation project at all, but turned the topic to some gossip from the top of the War Department.

John never thought that Lucius would immediately take his advice. After all, he has been working in the engineering corps for more than 20 years, and many things cannot be given up by saying that he can give up. When people reach middle age, they suddenly change careers into a completely unfamiliar field of work, and everyone who changes has to think about it.

However, John still felt a little strange about Lucius's attitude. His suggestion, while somewhat risky, is a good solution to Lucius' current predicament. How could this "lemur" not be interested in the slightest? Could it be that he already has a better place to go?

Previously, Lucius said that he wanted to teach at a military school, and John took it as a joke. Ordinary people may still be fooled by campaign propaganda and believe Roosevelt's lie that he would never send troops to war. Those of them who are middle-level officers don't know that the big boss in the White House is determined to go to war.

In peacetime, it would be a good way out to become a professor in a military academy. But at a time like this, who is a little ambitious would want to miss the great opportunity to participate in the war and run to the military academy to become a teacher. At least John was sure that Lucius was definitely not the kind of person who was willing to be lonely.

Could it be that Somerville has already arranged a place for him to go? John thought about it for a moment and decided that it was unlikely. As soon as their training class had only started for less than a week, Somerville would not have had to send him here for "further study" if he had been able to arrange Lucius's whereabouts so quickly.

Second, in the field of engineering troops, there is no suitable position for Lucius. Go to the sappers of the combat units below, but it's a pity that Lucius's professional skills are skilled. If he had stayed in the Army Corps of Engineers and Construction, his rival Groves would have been promoted to deputy secretary. Even if Lucius leaves the Pentagon project, he will still have to work under him. With the personalities of these two people, sooner or later they will have to break up. Savimore has already learned his lesson once and will not be so unwise again.

So, why did Lucius hold on when the defeat was already decided? Even if he is unwilling, he has to accept the facts, can he still turn the tables around?

That's right, turn the tables! John's eyes lit up suddenly, and he guessed what Lucius was up to. This guy may have caught Groves with some kind of trick in his hand, and now he's looking for an opportunity to knock out his opponent in one fell swoop.

Thinking of this, John's eyes immediately felt a little chill when he looked at Lucius. I'm afraid that this dead "lemur" will be calculated on his head. You must know that if you want to turn the tables in such a situation where the overall situation has been decided, it is not just Groves who Lucius wants to offend, but Somerville behind the two of them.

Essentially, Lucius was slapping his old boss, Somerville, in the face. If it succeeds, it is better to say that although Somerville will be unhappy, it is more likely that he will finally pinch his nose and admit it. After all, if Groves falls, he still needs Lucius to deal with this emergency. Lucius still has a chance to slowly repair his relationship with his old boss. But what if it fails...... Hehe, isn't the ending obvious?

John now finally understands why Lucius completely broke away from the engineering system and turned into a civilian officer. must have been secretly engaged in small actions, trying to bring down Groves without success, but offended the backers. As a result, I couldn't mix it up at all, so I had to start from scratch.

Of course, that's not the point. The point is that John woke up, and when Lucius was talking about gossip just now, he kept leading the topic to Uncle Stimson. This guy couldn't have learned about his relationship with Stimson from Eisenhower and wanted to use his hand to attack Groves.

In order to verify his guess, John deliberately pretended to be a little drunk, and proudly boasted a few words about his relationship with Stimson through the strength of the wine. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Lucius to leak his feet.

"Have you heard? Secretary Stimson and Senator Woodram had a fight at a congressional hearing. Lucius squinted his eyes and said mysteriously.

"You mean the hearing on the new Office Building for the War Department?" John waved his hand disdainfully, "Nothing." Woodram is something. He only dared to quarrel with Brigadier General Leibold (head of the Army Corps of Engineers and Construction). ”

"If you want me to say, Woodram is purely looking for trouble. The War Department should have had a centralized office long overdue. Now, in addition to Foggy Hollow C Street (the main office building of the Army Department), the Quartermaster Building (the main office building of the Army General Staff), and the Ammunition Building (the main office building of the Army Air Corps Command), Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and seven or eight other office locations, it is difficult to hold a meeting. John continued to "perform."

"Not really." Lucius nodded again and again: "I heard that this time we are going to build a super office building that can accommodate 20,000 people at the same time." Guess where they chose their address? ”

"Where?" John pretended to be interested.

"Arlington County, Massachusetts, is the farm next to the National Cemetery."

"That's a nice place. It's big enough to be across the Potomac River from Washington. John said disapprehantly.

"It's all floodplains, and the geology is so bad that you can't build tall buildings at all." Lucius hurriedly explained: "I went to the field to see it, and with the geological conditions, it can only build a building of four or five floors at most. To fit so many people, you can only develop horizontally. The terrain is restricted, and it is an irregular pentagonal shape. ”

To say that Lucius is still very good at professional skills. Historically, the Pentagon was designed based on this topographical feature of Arlington Farm. Later, after protesting that the new building would block the view of Arlington National Cemetery from Washington, Roosevelt ordered the final location to be relocated to a nearby abandoned airport.

But because the redesign was too expensive and time-consuming, the pentagonal design was retained. And because it got rid of the shackles of terrain, it became a regular pentagonal shape that was well known to later generations.

"Well, why not change places?" John took the initiative to put the words on Lucius's lips.

"It's not the Groves trickster yet." Lucius looked like he hated the corrupt to the core, "He's one of McCawshaw's dogs." In the past few years, they have colluded and scooped up a lot of oil and water. The scattered plots around the farm were bought by them behind their backs, and there were more than 200 acres. ”

"McCorshawn? You mean the building king of Philadelphia? John thought it was a little funny, this McCorshawn was a well-known building contractor on the East Coast of the United States. He built many famous buildings, such as the Washington Airport and the Jefferson Memorial.

However, he did not believe Lucius's words, which was not something that a colonel of Groves would dare to do. Lucius was bullying himself as a layman. He had heard that some military projects were generally not very happy because of the congressional approval of money, and they would often do some tricks on the land in advance. To put it bluntly, it's the military and contractors who work together to get a lot of money from Congress.

Groves may use his position to help McCorshawn, but he will definitely not take advantage of it right now. Generally speaking, the return on these "upfront investments" will wait for him to retire before being realized. At that time, Groves could legitimately go to McCorshawn as a vice president or senior partner or something, and take the money reasonably and legally.

"Are you sure? This kind of thing has to be substantiated. John reckoned that it was likely that Groves was caught in some irregularities when he was helping McCorshawn with the land price.

"As long as you want to check this kind of thing, you can't hide it." Lucius said bitterly: "The point is that no one wants to investigate." He is now a deputy minister, and he does not know how much taxpayers' money he will embezzle in the future. I'm a junior lieutenant colonel and a soft-spoken lieutenant, and if you have the chance, you can talk to Minister Stimson. This moth can't be allowed to run wild any longer. ”

John said in his heart, you know that no one wants to look up. If this matter is big and this financial road is blocked, I don't know how many people in the army will hate the guy who reported it. Lucius wanted him to be a substitute for the dead.

Maybe in Lucius's eyes, a person like John wouldn't be in the army for long anyway, and stabbing this wasp won't have any effect. But John didn't like to be taken advantage of. It's a shame that he still wanted to help Lucius before, but he didn't expect him to be this kind of person. Even though he knew that Lucius might be useful to him in the future, John secretly warned himself that it was better to stay away from Lucius.

This kind of person, if there is any conflict of interest with him in the future, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not be stabbed in the back. And the closer you get to him, the more he knows about you, the more harmful it becomes. In the future, it's better to maintain a nodding friendship, even if you have a friendship with Lucius, can you compare to Somerville, who has carried him all the way? When you need to use him in the future, it's better to lure him directly, it's much more reliable than talking about friendship.