"Ahem, cough, cough, cough......" Jiang Baili kept coughing heavily on the side. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info he once studied in Germany, and naturally understood German, and the extremely important peace talks were actually pulled into superstition, and of course he had great opinions. It's just that this auspicious rui, which will be hung in Yishan, Guangxi next year, has a lifespan of less than 12 months, and it has long been unpleasant, so Li Kongrong continued to answer with Goering as if he hadn't heard it.

"Quack ......" Goering laughed again after his eyes lit up, he was not a very good deceitful person, and he was seriously wary of everyone, he said: "If you can predict the future, then why not prevent the Sino-Japanese war in advance?" ”

"Being able to predict and being able to change are two different things. Just like childbearing, even if you know that your wife is pregnant with a boy, can you turn her into a girl? Li Kongrong asked rhetorically - he had been preparing for many days to pretend to be a magic stick.

Goering was stunned by what he said, and felt as if it were true. He suddenly thought of an idea and smiled: "Then I want to know if my wife is pregnant with a boy or a girl?" If you're really good at precognition, I think you can predict the outcome. ”

Goering is forty-four years old, and after the death of his beloved wife, he has remarried another wife, and this year, this wife, she is pregnant. As a successful father at the age of forty-four, Goering cherished the child. It is said that every day he will stick it on his wife's belly to listen to the child's heartbeat, Li Kongrong has just become a father, so he made the analogy of childbirth, and Goering had an idea to ask Li Kongrong to guess boys and girls. In this era without B-ultrasound, this is indeed the most difficult thing to predict, but unfortunately, Li Kongrong knows the answer.

"Of course, while every prediction shortens the life of the forecaster, I'm here to help." Li Kongrong ignored Jiang Baili's cough, and still talked about the problem of divination as if no one was around.

"Shorten the life of a forecaster?" Göring asked with interest, not quite understanding why.

God's will must not be predicted, or God will punish him. Either a catastrophe, or an early death. It depends on whether the predicted thing is important or not. Li Kongrong said. Your Excellency, I will send you the results early tomorrow morning. ”

Ten minutes later, Cheng Tianfang and Jiang Baili Li Kongrong went out of the Prime Minister's Mansion and got into the car, he shook his head vigorously at Li Kongrong, and he said: "Brother Hansheng, you are so ......, what if you miscalculate?" ”

"What if it's right?" Li Kongrong smiled. He didn't care about Jiang Baili, who was pale, even if Jiang Baili had already thought of him as a fanatic who wanted to be famous and not to lose face. Now seeing Li Kongrong answer like this, he said angrily: "We are here to talk about the Sino-Japanese war, not to guess the birth of a boy or a girl." I will report today's events to Nanjing, and I don't need you to accompany me to meet anyone in the future! ”

Jiang Baili was furious, he felt that Li Kongrong was disgraced by the country, Zhou Yi was superstition in the final analysis, superstition was backwardness, and now Li Kongrong showed the backwardness of the country, and he was in pain.

Li Kongrong did not have the slightest good impression of Jiang Baili, and when he saw him, he only said: "The chairman of the committee does not want peace talks at all, and we cannot hold peace talks, and the waste of so much time today is purely to give Germany the impression that we want peace." It was my relief that Mr. Baili didn't need my help, and I didn't want to drive overnight on a snowy day, almost kill myself on the road, and then rush to Berlin to do something that didn't make much sense! The Nazis were gods, and their study of astrology began very early. ”

Jiang Baili, who was refuted by Li Kongrong, almost vomited blood, but Cheng Tianfang only heard the last sentence, and he said: "Brother Hansheng, is this true?" ”

"Of course it's true." Li Kongrong is confident. Hitler himself was a chatterer, and he only wanted to deal with Goering and gain some favor.

Jiang Baili's face darkened, Cheng Tianfang fidgeted, the car arrived at the embassy, and the three of them sat down in the small conference room again. When he left the Chancellery just now, Goering promised to convey their reply and request to the Japanese Government, but he could not guarantee that the Japanese Government would heed the advice of Germany, which had suffered heavy losses in the previous month. Thinking of the meeting just now, Cheng Tianfang sighed, "Nanjing is going to be lost!" ”

"I'll be back in a few years." Li Kongrong replied, he Jiang Baili still had a black face, so he got up and said, "Both, if it's okay, then I'll go to the hotel to rest first." ”

Cheng Tianfang glanced at Jiang Baili, and when he saw that he was silent, he said, "Brother Hansheng, go ahead, you were in the car last night, and you didn't sleep even if you wanted to." ”

Why didn't you sleep last night? The temperature at night was extremely low, the snow during the day was all frozen on the road, the ice was very slippery, and the two people almost drove the car down the mountain, but fortunately there was a tree on the side of the road, and Zhong Qiangong, who could not brake, directly hit the car into the tree. Li Kongrong said goodbye with a wry smile, and after he left, Cheng Tianfang said: "Mr. Baili, Brother Hansheng is still a little young and vigorous......

"How arrogant is he?!" Thinking of Li Kongrong's disrespect and contempt for himself, as well as his disrespect and arrogance, Jiang Baili said a little painfully. "He's proud of his talents, and nothing good will come of it."

Jiang Baili talked about Li Kongrong in the embassy, and Li Kongrong returned to the hotel and stayed for a while before going out, and in Berlin, he had only one person to meet, and that was Susan Esposi.

"The person you want has been found." There are still few people in the café. Susan took out a stack of photos from her handbag, and the top chapter was a tall, thin middle-aged German man with a pair of round monocles, and behind him was not the cigar tube-shaped pulse jet engine that Li Kongrong imagined, but a thing that resembled a jet plane, this thing was so advanced that Li Kongrong looked at the pile of photos for a long time before asking in surprise: "Is this an airplane, not an engine?" ”

"It's really an airplane, but the engine is inside." Susan smiled coquettishly, and her chest was surging, and Li Kongrong only noticed this now. But his interest was clearly not there, and Susan continued: "This is what Mr. Schmidt showed me, and he let it go on for a while, and the flames rushed out of the tail of this thing, like ...... It's like a motorcycle. ”

"Buzz, huh?" Li Kongrong put away his surprise, it seems that the previous design of the Germans was to merge the engine and fuselage into one, and not to place the engine on the side of the fuselage like the V1. It is said that this was done because the engine vibrated violently, and if it was mounted on the fuselage, it would affect the navigation accuracy of the missile.

"Yes, buzz." Susan also restrained her smile, she felt that Li Kongrong was not so easy to deceive, even if it was such a very professional thing, such as he could accurately say the sound of the engine, the sound was indeed 'buzzing'.

"Where did you find him?" Li Kongrong thought it would take her months, but now it's only a little more than a month.

"Munich." Susan shook her hair, as if to signal that her ability to find someone in Germany was unmatched.

"How do you know he's in Munich?" Li Kongrong asked, he couldn't guess how this woman was looking for people.

"Do you know Madelon?" Susan asked rhetorically. She saw Li Kongrong shaking his head, and said, "Georg Hans Madelon? ”

"I don't know, who is he?" Li Kongrong shook his head helplessly, he had never heard of this person. "Say it."

"He was the director of the Aviation Research Institute, and I met him at a rally at the Rocket Club. I pretend to tell him that I like rockets too, and I hate all things propeller planes......" Susan said of her month-long activities, which took about two cigarettes. Li Kongrong didn't know that she actually went to the rocket club first, so he couldn't help but smile and asked, "In addition to showing you Schmidt's design, did he mention another person?" ”

"Who?" In Susan's description just now, during the month-long operation, she was a wealthy Italian noblewoman who was very interested in rockets, and she also took the initiative to donate 10,000 marks to the rocket club (of course, it was paid by Li Kongrong's company), so she immediately became the favorite of Berlin rocket enthusiasts.

"Wiener von Braun." Li Kongrong lit a cigarette and said a name that would become famous in later generations.

"You know, the old man at the club talks about him, but he doesn't come to the club now, and he doesn't show up at the testing ground." Susan replied, wondering how Lee could ask this man, "Who is he?" Also inventing rockets? ”

"It doesn't matter who he is." Ballistic missiles are not something that a small character like Li Kongrong who has no money can afford, unless he digs up the Spanish shipwreck, or pits Chang Kaishen 100,000 pounds. "Tell me about Mr. Schmidt in Munich, what is his situation now?"

"He's working on this thing on a farm." Susan explains, "Because of Mr. Madelon's introduction, he was happy to receive me and describe to me this flying plane without propellers. He wanted me to fund his research, and promised that I would be rewarded immeasurably if I had the results in the future. ”

"Sponsor him?" Somewhat oddly enough, the order he gave Susan was to buy (if Paul Schmidt was being funded by the Luftwaffe, to steal it). Money is not a problem if it is ...... - von Braun said that until the summer of 1935 'the annual budget never exceeded 80,000 marks'[note 47], which was a ballistic missile, and then because the Air Force had invested five million marks in order to snatch the project from the army, and then 'millions and millions of dollars were needed'. But the question is, how is the technology secret? If the weapon wants to be sold at a good price, it is best to be exclusive.

"Let's buy it." Li Kongrong weighed it repeatedly for a while, and felt that it was better to buy it. In fact, the rocket body can be successful as long as it is tested, and the real difficulty is the navigation equipment. Braun's V2 missile is a firework if it doesn't have an autopilot system. Since the most important part has to be invested in separately by itself, then why develop it with the Germans?

"Buy?" Susan's expression was a little twisted, she had a very pleasant conversation with Paul Schmidt last month, and she also said that she could fund the rocket project, and she didn't want Li Kongrong to buy it.

"Yes, buy it. Don't forget, our previous goal was to buy some technology. Li Kongrong emphasized.

"But then you informed me that there was a shortage of researchers, and asked me to keep an eye on recruitment." Later, Li Kongrong only wrote letters or telegrams instructing Susan to act, which led her to make some misjudgments, such as agreeing to fund Schmidt and asking for a return on the project.

"I'm asking you to keep an eye out for research talents, but I mean go to some Jews who have nowhere to go right now!" Of course, Li Kongrong will not say that he is wrong.

"So what now?" Susan said. "I've agreed to fund Mr. Schmidt and fund his research."

"Then tell him that when you come back you find that this is indeed a good project, so you are going to sell its results to the Italian Air Force, so you have to buy it and say that it is an Italian study." Li Kongrong said. "If it's a German project, it will damage the pride of the Italian military and it will be very bad for sales."

"Then who's going to study it after you buy it?" Susan is Italian, and of course knows how strong the national pride of leader Mussolini is, and that 'the Italian army only uses weapons invented by the Italians' is a good excuse. But she now knew that the Swiss company she was working for was just a shell company, and there was no one else but her.

The lack of research talents is indeed Li Kongrong's weakness, and he really doesn't know where to find some talents who have research in aviation and automatic control. Fortunately, when he first left the embassy, Tan Boyu, the commercial counselor, gave him an up-to-date list of European students, and he might be able to find some people from it. In addition, it is said that Yan Keats, a well-known physicist in China, is in Berlin, and he may be able to help find a few talents who can be used.

The Chinese are one source, and the Jews are the second, and Li Kongrong immediately asked, "What about the Jews I asked you to find?" ”

"......" Susan looked down and smoked in silence - the Jews did not have a clear price, and she did not find any trouble.

"It's a pig's brain." Li Kongrong scolded in a low voice. He taught: "Susan, Orientals are very emotional, and the more intimate people are, the less willing they are to talk about money. If you just want a commission, it's very simple, one day the company doesn't need to buy the technology, you're fired, you have nothing to do with the company. Finding talent is just as important to a company as buying technology, and the reason why I don't specify how much it costs to find a Jewish technologist is because I hope that you can become a member of the company or even a shareholder for a long time, and some things you must do consciously and not only have a commission......"

"Can you become a shareholder?" Susan knew that the company had a registered capital of £200,000, which was a lot of money. Although it was only an empty shell, the money in the bank's account was borrowed for a short period of time at a high cost (more than 1,000 pounds a day).

"Of course. Before the company goes public, it will sell shares at the original stock price, and will also give some shares to some old employees. In view of Susan Esposi's ability, Li Kongrong said some routines in the future, and planned to officially incorporate her as a temporary worker. (To be continued.) )