Chapter 195: German Consul

"Commander Li must have also heard that the Japanese had been robbed by bandits, and Consul Otian had just come to look for me, not only informing me that the North China garrison had expanded, but also asking me to compensate for their losses. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The most infuriating thing is that I told me that they had been robbed of 300 tons of silver this time, which was really unbearable, and I had already rejected all of his requests.

However, the Japanese have been preparing to move recently, and the Japanese army is even more tense, and once the Japanese make a move, the two places will be in danger. I asked Commander Li to come in the hope that I could unite the forces of your and my armies to fight against the Japanese army. ”

When it came to the safety of Twenty-nine, Song Zheyuan didn't say too much greetings to Li Han, and bluntly stated his plans.

As the old saying goes, 'one fence has three piles, and one hero has three gangs', although the 29th Army is strong, but in the face of devils alone, Song Zheyuan is still a little lacking in confidence.

However, if he wanted to invite the Central Army to go north, Song Zheyuan was worried that Chiang Kai-shek would take the opportunity to recapture Hebei. Even if Shandong and Shanxi provinces were willing to send troops, Song Zheyuan would not be able to believe it.

Thinking about it, only Chahar, where Li Han's security army is located, is not only close to the Japanese-occupied area like him, but also not as strong as the 29th Army, and he doesn't have to worry that Li Han will rebel against the enemy and occupy Hebei.

Uniting the 29th Army to resist Japan is exactly what Li Han wants to see the most. The 29th Army is strong and strong, if this matter is brought up by him, Song Zheyuan will most likely kick his nose, even if he reluctantly agrees, it will most likely only be perfunctory.

Now that Song Zheyuan has taken the initiative to put it forward, Li Han can't ask for it, and there are many famous generals in the ranks of the 29th Army. Although they suffered a big loss in North China in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the performance of the 29th Army was still dazzling in the later anti-Japanese battlefield.

Liu Ruming's 68th Army and Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army both participated in the Battle of Xuzhou and made outstanding achievements, and then participated in the Battle of Suizao and the Battle of Zaoyi.

"What Chairman Song said is what I want to say, our army and the 29th Army are under the front of the Japanese, and only when we unite and work together to fight the Japanese can we ensure that we do not lose the two places.

As long as the Japanese dare to march to Pingjin and Tianjin, the 30,000 soldiers of our security army will be sent to the battlefield in North China as soon as possible. Li Han said.

After uniting with the 29th Army, he would be more sure of the Japanese Li Han, and he was not worried about angering the Japanese.

On the contrary, only when the Japanese have always adopted a high-pressure posture towards North China can the 29th Army maintain sufficient vigilance and make Song Zheyuan give up the unrealistic illusions in his heart.

"Okay, I'm relieved to have Commander Li's words, the Japanese are only 30,000 in North China, and you and I have more than 100,000 troops combined, so it's a big deal to fight the Great Wall again." Song Zheyuan couldn't help but laugh.

Having said that, Song Zheyuan did not want to go to war with Japan in his heart.

Li Han knew that Song Zheyuan was only coming to him to cooperate just in case, but this was what he wanted.

If by the time of the 77 Incident, Song Zheyuan still had the same idea in history, he could lead the people of the security army directly into Beiping, and at least save a few generals who died due to lack of preparation.

Li Han has nothing to worry about the affairs of the Japanese and Song Zheyuan for the time being, anyway, no one would have thought that it was his people who snatched the silver, as for whether the loss of land will go crazy or not, what does it have to do with him, if the North China garrison increases, let him increase it, anyway, there will be a war between China and Japan sooner or later.

Besides, if there are tens of thousands of Japanese troops guarding the gate of North China, even if Song Zheyuan doesn't want to offend the Japanese anymore, he has to put the corresponding troops to confront them.

The Japanese are not good at stubble, if they think that Hebei is just a piece of meat in their mouths, they can eat whatever they want, and what reason is there to hand over the rich Hebei to the 29th Army.

Li Han himself still has a big thing to do here, although the silver in Beiping was robbed by him, but this is only a small part of the silver purchased by Japan, and Tianjin is the big one.

If he didn't blow up the 22 million silver dollars in Tianjin into the sea, Li Hanxin would never be able to settle down, but this time he didn't need to do it himself.

The men sent by the golden dragon have been lurking in Tianjin for months, just waiting for the imp's ship to go to sea.

It may be that Li Han's silver robbery this time disrupted the little devil's plan, the steamer originally scheduled to depart on June 15 has been postponed to the end of June, and it seems that if he doesn't make up enough 30 million silver dollars, the little devil is not a big deal.

It is impossible for Li Han to wait in Beiping for half a month, and his silver will rust if he waits, and since he has come to Beiping, Li Han plans to complete the matter of the arms and rifle production lines at the same time.

Thanks to the "Silver Act", the actual value of the 8 million silver dollars in Li Han's hands was already equivalent to 11 million silver dollars before the promulgation of the bill.

Unlike other black-hearted merchants who resold silver, Li Han did not use the money to resell, but a normal trade transaction, spending silver in exchange for guns.

Besides, he robbed the money, used the devil's money to buy weapons and then fight the devil, Li Han spent it without any psychological burden.

Li Han found Will again, but this is not an ordinary order, although Will said that his value has risen a lot recently, but obviously he can't do the master of this transaction, Li Han is just contacting the top management in Germany through him.

Of course, I also took care of Will by the way, after all, everyone has worked together for so long, and Will can be regarded as helping himself a lot, without the weapons he sold him, it would not be so easy for Li Han to develop so quickly.

"Commander Li, this is the consul of our German government consulate in Beiping, Weimar."

Will happily introduced to Li Han that he was grateful to Li Han for providing him with this opportunity.

Weimar is a high-level of the German government, although Will is also a high-level of Lihe Foreign Company, but compared with Weimar, it is still a big difference, if it is not for Li Han to let him be an intermediary, he would not have had the opportunity to contact Weimar at all.

Weimar, like the diplomats of this year, wore a black tuxedo, a bowler hat, black leather shoes, and at the same time had typical Western characteristics.

"Hello, Mr. Weimar, I'm Li Han. I believe that Mr. Weir has already told you what I have requested, and now that Mr. Weimar is here, we can talk about it now. ”

"Yes! Mr. Lee, you can now state your specific requirements, and the German government can meet all your requirements, as long as you have sufficient ability to pay. ”

Weimar was a politician, not a businessman, and if it weren't for the high price offered by Li Han this time, Weimar would not have come to see Li Han at all.

There are too many generals like Li Han in China, not to mention far from it, Song Zheyuan, who occupies Beiping, often talks to him about selling arms, and even organizes a military exercise for this purpose.

"That's for the best, Mr. Weimar, this is my purchase list, and I'm sure this big deal will satisfy Mr. Weimar."

Since Weimar had been sent to China as a consul, it was not difficult to understand Li Han's purchase list. As a result, after Li Han had the list in his hand, he looked at it carefully, but the more he looked at it, the more surprised Weimar's face became, even for the German government, this was definitely a big deal.

Li Han's purchase list is actually a list of military purchases, considering that he also purchased Mauser's production drawings and production lines for 1924 from the Germans this time, there are basically no other light weapons except light machine guns.

Therefore, this time, Li Han mainly wanted Germany to purchase 100 Bofors field guns, 18 105-caliber howitzers, 96 80 mortars, 200 Maxim heavy machine guns, and 500 Czech-style light machine guns, and then each gun was equipped with hundreds of shells and a number of bullets. The total value of the arms was around six million silver dollars.

"Mr. Li, I have to say that this purchase order is very attractive, and I can guarantee it in terms of weapons, but the matter of the rifle production line is not easy to handle."

This order really made Weimar excited, even the Nanjing government and their arms purchase orders, of course, the German government and the Nanjing government are now very close cooperation.

He also knew that the Nanjing government was planning to give them a big order, but at present, Li Han's order was definitely the largest order that the German government had received in China.

"Mr. Weimar, as far as I know, our central government has purchased 20,000 rifles from your country, and you have handed over to them the production line of shooting rifles, and 20,000 rifles are at best two million silver dollars, and the total amount of my order this time has reached six million silver dollars.

Let me tell you this, the rifle production line is a prerequisite for our deal. If the German government does not agree to hand over the production line of the rifle to me along with the drawings, it will have to look for other partners, and I believe that the American businessmen in Shanghai will gladly accept this order. ”

Li Han said without changing his face.