The lingering between husband and wife will always end, especially during the day. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Kongrong wanted to pull the woman to take a bath, but Xu Peipei, who was worried about her sister's jokes, ran out of the bathroom with a smile, and only when Li Kongrong said that she had something serious to discuss with her, she walked in again.

"Giggle......" Xu Peipei leaned against the door and looked at the man in the bathtub, feeling that he was trying to trick himself into bathing with him. Li Kongrong was laughed at by her, and he really thought of something, he said: "Do you know domestic film directors?" ”

"Film director?" Xu Peipei looked at him puzzled, not understanding what he was going to do.

"Yes, the Navy wants to invest in a movie, but unfortunately Hollywood's foreign directors are not suitable, so I wonder if there can be a good director in China to take over. Do you know each other? Speaking of business, Li Kongrong didn't have the heart to take a bath. He was worried about the ability of domestic directors, and then continued: "Then forget about the director who sings in the middle of the night, there are still ......." He thought that the domestic literary and art circles and film circles were completely dominated by the Left League, and if these people were the directors, they would definitely shoot for the class struggle and the toiling masses. And he wanted a war movie, not a revolutionary movie, so he finally said: "Also, as long as it is a person who has a relationship with the Left League, whether it is a director, an actor, or a screenwriter, I don't want any of them." ”

"Don't ...... the Left Alliance" Xu Peipei originally wanted to recommend Yuan Muzhi, who directed the Angel of the Road, but the relationship between Yuan Muzhi and the Left League is well known. As for the Left League, she had heard quite a few things. After thinking about it, Xu Peipei finally thought of someone, and she said, "Then there is only Mr. Fei who sent the Wolf Mountain Bloodbath." ”

"Wolf Mountain Blood? Mr. Fei? Li Kongrong couldn't figure out which Mr. Fei was.

"Mr. Fei Jizhi, the word respects. Xiang Xuehai and Chopping Hall were also photographed by him. Seeing that the man didn't know, Xu Peipei had to take a few steps closer to speak. His big name was Fei Mu. ”

"Fee...... Solemn? Li Kongrong was about to carry the woman into the bathtub, but he was stunned when he heard Fei Mu's name. Xu Peipei was hugged by him, her body was stained with water and screamed, she just yelled, Xu Xiaoxin, who had just entered the door, thought that something had happened to her, and immediately ran over, "Sister and sister-in-law", who thought that her sister and brother-in-law were bathing together, and she blushed and ran out again when she saw this scene.

"Look at your ......" Xu Peipei was soaked all over, and she felt very embarrassed for her sister to see this scene.

"What are you afraid of, isn't it your sister?" Li Kongrong didn't care, he felt that this little sister-in-law was quite in the way at this time.

"She's so small......" Xu Peipei's face also turned red, although she was a sister, she was very ashamed when her sister saw her bathing with a man.

"Still young?" Li Kongrong smiled evilly, just now when Xu Xiaoxin was struggling in his arms, he inadvertently touched her breasts, which was already very small.

"You rascal! Little Red Guy. It is impossible for Xu Peipei to know what the man is laughing at, she immediately took a sip, then hugged the man's head, and said angrily: "Don't let you think crookedly!" ”

"I didn't think about it." Li Kongrong is positive, he thinks it's boring to think about his sister-in-law. "Fei Mu knows, his movie ......" Li Kongrong's understanding of Fei Mu only comes from the Spring of the Small Town, and the film is delicate and gentle, so I don't know if this Fei Mu can control the big scene of a war movie like Pearl Harbor." Can he try, do you know him? ”

"Hmm." Xu Peipei nodded. Because of the man's orders, she stayed in the concession in the first year of the war, and there were so many people in the film and art circles, and after a few occasional gatherings in Shanghai, she naturally met Fei Mu and others who also stayed on the isolated island.

"Find him, just say......" Li Kongrong thought about his itinerary, after capturing the German cruise ship, the next step was the Battle of Guinan, maybe he could go to Hong Kong once before the Battle of Guinan. Let's just say that there is an American company that wants to invest in a movie, and the capital is about two million dollars, and it is war-oriented, well, mainly the naval aircraft carrier combat ......"

"Why are you Navy going to make movies again?" Xu Peipei has always wanted to do something for men, and she was a little curious while writing down these things, "Two million dollars is ......, ah!" That's 20 million yuan. So much money? ”

By the second half of 1939, one fiat currency was only ten cents against the dollar, and two million dollars was 20 million national dollars. Li Kongrong couldn't help but laugh when he saw her like this, "What's the matter, your eyes are red, aren't they?" ”

"It's not mine, I'm red in the eye." Xu Peipei stuck out her tongue.

"What if it's yours?" Li Kongrong suddenly found out that his wife might be a money fan, and he immediately investigated it deeply.

"20 million national dollars to make a movie? It's too expensive, it's too expensive! Xu Peipei smacked her tongue. After becoming famous, she has an understanding of domestic film production, and the investment in a film is generally between 10,000 and 40,000 yuan, half of which is the shooting cost, and the other is the production, publicity and other expenses. Even with such a small investment, there is also the possibility of losing money. Thinking of this, she probably guessed the man's mind, "Do you want to send the movie to the United States to be released?" ”

"Of course, it will be sent to the United States for release." Li Kongrong nodded, "Otherwise, how can I get back the cost of two million dollars?" Guess how much box office Gone with the Wind will have after its release? ”

Xu Peipei is for the post-production of Gone with the Wind, and the movie uses the eternal episode of my heart that she sings. Thinking of the producer's rejection of herself, she was very worried: "I don't know about Gone with the Wind, but can movies made by Chinese really be released in the United States?" ”

"Others may not, but this one will." Li Kongrong does not mind the xenophobia of Americans, he himself is xenophobic, and he does not like American movies being released in China. "Gone with the Wind will have a box office of more than $100 million, or a billion dollars. The navy invested a million in it, and it could earn at least a few million, but it was a pity that the investment was too late, otherwise it would ......"

Thinking of Li Kongrong's investment in Gone with the Wind, he was very uncomfortable, and he rubbed himself a few times before saying: "Since the American box office market is so profitable, then we will make a movie to make money, and we don't ask for hundreds of millions of box office, I will be satisfied if I can have seventy or eighty million, so that the dividends will be distributed in half, and in the end, even if we are half right, we can earn one or two million US dollars." If you have these 20 million, you can drown little Japan with a plane! ”

"Hehe......" Xu Peipei laughed, she felt that her man was a money fan.

"What, you don't believe it?" Li Kongrong looked at her with an unquestioning expression.

"I believe, I believe." Xu Peipei couldn't help but laugh in response. "If Mr. Fei agrees to direct, what about the actors? Where else to shoot, do you want to go to the rear of Chongqing to shoot? ”

The title of the film is called Pearl Harbor, and it is naturally filmed at Pearl Harbor, but it ...... "Pearl Harbor is a military port, and it also involves foreign filming and framing, visas and other issues." Fortunately, there is already Zhang Pengchun on the American side. Li Kongrong finally pressed his mind and said, "You go and find Fei Mu first, and then I will have a good talk with him, and it will be in Hong Kong, and the time will be about October." ”

"October?" Xu Peipei happily kissed the man on the cheek, she thought that the United States would not be able to meet until next year.

"Have you changed your passport?" Li Kongrong suddenly, he was worried about the safety of women.

"Yes, when I was in Yangon, a British embassy official named Mitterrand called me and asked Xiao Xin and I for a photo." Xu Peipei remembered her and her sister's passports, but what made her feel strange was that Zhou Yingming knew that she had a British passport and wanted her to come to the United States as a Chinese citizen.

"That's good." Li Kongrong nodded, and he immediately explained the whole thing. "Your father-in-law has done the British a lot of favors, so I asked them to change your British passport and Xiaoxin as well. But in order not to let them know where I am, Shuchun asked you to come to the United States under other pretexts, and the navy did not want the British to know that we had a German submarine in our hands for the time being. ”

"Then I'll go to Hong Kong......" Her husband never talked to him about business, and Xu Peipei listened attentively.

"It's okay if you go to Hong Kong." Li Kongrong said, "It's not that you have to avoid them all the time, just avoid them in August." ”

"So what are we going to do here?" Xu Peipei asked, according to her original itinerary, she would go to any place with a large number of Chinese, including some cities in Canada.

"You just say that you are not feeling well, cancel the tour of the port, and accompany me." Li Kongrong overbearingly made up his mind for the woman, and then began to think about his own affairs.

He's done with the eastern part of the United States. The former is naturally not a problem, and the latter is hindered by the Chinese government's bad wishes to borrow again, at least large, long-term, and noticeable loans are impossible, but fortunately, the short-term mortgage loan has been agreed, and it is expected to raise 18 million dollars in the stock market in August.

As for the helicopter company, under the persuasion of Wu Xuelin, Bei Jiyao and others, Qian Xueyu, Gu Guangfu, Jin Xiwu, Zhong Langxuan and others voluntarily gave up all equity and withdrew from the helicopter company to return to China, leaving only Li Yaozi, Cao Youcheng, Cheng Jiayuan, Zhang Rumei and more than 10 others. Li Kongrong did not regret this result, these people who left were not indispensable backbones, or rather, they left precisely because their talents in the helicopter company could not be brought into play.

Li Kongrong did not stay, so he did not come forward to meet these people, but under the leadership of Li Yaozi, he visited the Z-4 helicopter that had been finalized and produced and the Z-12 helicopter that was under development at night. The former is similar to the Sikorsky R-5 model, because the engine shaft runs vertically through the entire fuselage, so there are only two crew members on board, plus two pilots sitting side by side, a total of four people are carried, so it is called the Z-4; And the latter is the H-19 helicopter that Li Kongrong has been talking about, which was named Z-12 because it can carry ten soldiers.

As soon as the prototype of this type of helicopter was released, the US Army Airlines cut the original order for the Z-4 and ordered the Z-12 instead, and also added an additional order of 200 aircraft and paid a deposit. It's just that the development of the Z-12 is very problematic, although Li Kongrong provides a mature hinge control structure in later generations, but it takes time for the hydraulic system of the helicopter's internal control to mature; Then the weight of the fuselage is difficult to control - the H-19 benefits from magnesium skin and castings, the weight of the fuselage accounts for only 17 percent of the total weight, while the aluminum alloy fuselage accounts for 30 percent of the total weight, and the result of the test is that the Z-12 is likely to be renamed the Z-10, and the range of 1,000 kilometers can only achieve 800 kilometers.

There is no doubt that the Z-12 will be a difficult birth, but even more tricky than the technical is the yield. The U.S. Army Airlines wants all production of the Z-12 to be fully covered by itself, and they plan to order a thousand Z-12s. This is naturally contrary to Li Kongrong's plan, especially before the early production was expanded, he needed at least 200 Z-12s for the Burma campaign, but the annual output in the early stage was only expected to be about 300. One is the U.S. Army, the big richer, and the other is the Chinese Navy, the investor, and the two sides do not give in to each other and have many contradictions.

"What are you thinking?" The man suddenly became silent, and Xu Peipei looked at him for a long time and suddenly spoke.

"I'm thinking about ......, what's going on on the plane." Li Kongrong wanted to say it but didn't know where to start, his world women didn't understand.

"Is it hard?" Xu Peipei rubbed his brow with his hand, with a distressed expression.

"With you, everything is simple." Li Kongrong reluctantly looked at the watch next to him, he remembered that he had to go to see Douglas's prototype in the afternoon, so he had to get up and say, "I want to go out once in the afternoon, you ...... Just wait for me at home. ”

"Okay, I'll wait for you at home." Xu Peipei smiled in disappointment.

The development of a torpedo dive bomber was not an easy task, and as a dual-purpose aircraft, its development was even more difficult than that of a fighter. So, after Lee left the United States last year, Curtis, Grumman and a little-known Fleetwings aircraft company were also awarded contracts for prototypes, making a total of six companies in the bid. Over the course of a year, all six companies made their own prototypes. For now, the more interesting ones are Douglas and Grumman.

Curtis ingeniously installed the prototype with the R-3350 2,000 horsepower engine, and was shot in the heart by Li Kongrong before testing it - the R-3350 engine was later installed on the B-29 bomber, although the horsepower is not small, but the design is very problematic, and the engine fires at every turn, which makes the B-29 bomber cost as much as $1.5 million a year in the first days. Using this engine as a carrier-based aircraft engine is not asking for your own death.

The prototype of the Martin company is a built-in torpedo compartment, not better, one is frightened, Grumman, Northrop, Fleetings, Douglas four are external torpedo compartments, each time can also carry two British-made 700 kg torpedoes to attack, after the change of four all said that they can carry two 900 kg torpedoes, in the loading performance of Martin completely behind.

Northrop lacked experience in the design of carrier-based aircraft, and the prototype he created was extremely mediocre; Fleetings persuaded Lin Xianxin and Chen Wenlin with the blueprints, and the company's contract total was only $50,000 for a prototype, and the shortfall was raised by Fleetings himself, which was not the focus of the Naval Ordnance Department. (To be continued.) )