Li Kongrong on the other side of the ocean set off a wave, causing overseas Chinese and the American people to pay renewed attention to the basically disappeared Chinese navy, while in Wuchang, thousands of miles away, the government seemed to be a little unhurried and unfazed by the so-called reconstruction plan of the navy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 In the office of the Ministry of Military Affairs, He Yingqin made an appointment with Navy Minister Chen Shaokuan, but the purpose was to bring the Navy pilots back to the Navy.

"Minister Chen, the Air Force has a lot of opinions about the Navy repatriating pilots." He Yingqin, the Minister of Military Affairs known as He Mother-in-law, is best at making peace with the mud, and the Navy and the Air Force have a conflict with the pilots during this time, so things naturally come to him. "The strength of the air force is already weak, and the navy will send another group of pilots back, won't this help the Japanese weaken the air force?"

"But the navy needs to be rebuilt!" Chen Shaokuan is weak and tired both inside and outside, and if he wants to return to the pilots externally, he can't suppress those captains internally. "The chairman of the committee knows about this matter, and when the Ninghai went to sea last year to break diplomatic relations, the chairman of the committee had already agreed to convert the captured Japanese mail ship into an aircraft carrier. Some of the pilots in the Air Force were transferred by the Navy, and we just wanted them to come back. ”

"The chairman of the committee really knows about this, but he just wants to transform the mail ship into an aircraft carrier, which is ......" He Yingqin also learned that the navy had designed such a plan, and admired the navy's long-term vision and felt that it was incredible. Aircraft carriers can't be managed in one or two years, right? How much does it cost to rebuild an aircraft carrier? Besides, what can an aircraft carrier in the Navy do? You can't be like the Ninghai, lying in the port for half a year without moving, right? At the moment of the stubborn enemy, we must unite to win......"

He Yingqin looked kind, but when he said that the pilot's temporary stay in the Air Force and the reconstruction of the Navy had been postponed temporarily, Chen Shaokuan felt aggrieved in his heart and at the same time had a good mood to watch the show - he really wanted to see what Chen Jiliang and the others would have after learning about the decision of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and would they jointly petition?

"Minister Chen, look ......" Chen Shaokuan did not fight, but Lin Weishu, the deputy minister of military and political affairs, had already arrived at the door. He Yingqin had already seen that he was ready to compromise. Seeing this, he said again: "Since the affairs of the Navy should be postponed, can the four training planes be temporarily lent to the Air Force for a period of time?" You also know that after the victory of Lanfeng, the Air Force suffered cautious losses, and the Soviet and Russian trainer planes were not very easy to use, and these four trainer planes could just train new pilots. ”

"The trainer plane was originally donated by overseas Chinese, and it was specified that it was to be handed over to the Navy, so it is not appropriate to lend it to the Air Force for the time being." Chen Shaokuanqiang said with a strong smile. "Since the Air Force is unwilling to release people, the Navy has no choice but to hire foreign pilots. Minister He, please be busy first, and Shaokuan will come back to visit that day. ”

After greeting Lin Wei with a smile, Chen Shaokuan said goodbye and left the Ministry of Military Affairs, and when he left, Lin Wei asked, "What does the navy say?" Did they hand over the trainers? ”

"The Navy has an aviation department and has this establishment, so why should I ask them for a trainer plane?" He Yingqin restrained the polite smile just now, lit a cigarette for Lin Wei and himself, he thought: "This navy is ......, the Ninghai has a great impact, if it is really abolished according to everyone's will, public opinion will really be in an uproar." ”

The Navy wants to run an aviation school, and this kind of thing is absolutely not tolerated by the Air Force. Although the Aviation Committee did not shout that everything that could fly in the sky was under the control of the Air Force, it also asked the Navy to suspend the aviation school program through various connections. However, there was already an aviation department in the navy's establishment, and the Ninghai had a great influence, so the Ministry of Military Affairs did not take any other measures except to veto the Admiralty's request to return the pilot.

Returning to the Admiralty, Chen Jiliang had a few people who were already waiting, Chen Shaokuan sat down heavily, and said disappointedly: "The Ministry of Military Affairs rejected our request, and the pilot is temporarily returned to the Air Force. ”

"I knew those people wouldn't agree..."Chen Jiliang's brows tightened, and his face became extremely stiff.

"What then?" Chen Xun swims. Although it was considered that the Air Force would not agree, how to deal with it was still very tricky.

"What else can I do?" Zeng Yiding sneered, after this anti-Chen faction learned about the navy reconstruction plan, it completely became a rope with Chen Jiliang and others, and the navy has never been so united. "We always have ghosts in rebuilding the navy! I think Shao Sheng is right, if necessary, he can ignore the reaction of the national government and rebuild the navy independently. Lao Jiang is by no means like fighting with us, fighting the War of Resistance against Japan, saying that he is fighting the Japanese, why is he not fighting us dissidents? Brother Houfu, I still said the previous sentence, we must not be trapped by the old man, we must still make a decision when it is time to decide, as long as the navy can be rebuilt, what can he Chang do to me? ”

Zeng Yiding is still the former independent Zeng Yiding of the Shanghai team, and his scheming skills are first-class. If he hadn't been on the wrong side of the line back then (in 1923, taking advantage of the Navy's arrears of salaries in September, Zeng Yiding through his brother Zeng Yujun relied on the money of the Anfu Department to instigate the independence of the Navy, and was later asked by the Minister of the Navy Du Xigui to the Beiyang Government (direct line) to make up the military salary), this Minister of the Navy would definitely be his.

"If the navy is to be rebuilt, it is necessary to abandon the national government." Chen Jiliang completely agreed with Zeng Yiding's statement, and now the Ministry of Military Affairs will not agree to just want to return to the Navy as a pilot, and the Ministry of Military Affairs will certainly not sit idly by and watch the navy's aircraft carriers dock and launch one after another, and one new carrier-based aircraft will enter service on ships. It is extremely expensive to rebuild the navy, and although I don't know how Li Kongrong raised funds, once the navy really starts to be rebuilt, Chang Kaishen and the Ministry of Military Affairs will definitely interfere with it.

"Aside from the fact that the national government is a big matter, I think it is better to wait for Brother Shiying to go to the United States before making a decision." Chief of Staff Chen Xunyong glanced at Chen Shaokuan, who was silent, and came up with an idea to postpone it. "If Li Shaosheng can really raise enough money, it will not be too late for us to leave the government, otherwise it will not be good to make it difficult to settle at both ends at that time."

"Of course, we have to wait for Li Shaosheng to raise money before leaving the government, but we have to have such a plan." Zeng Yiding also glanced at Chen Shaokuan, with a smile - he felt that if Chen Shaokuan had half of Du Xigui or Yangshuzhuang's decisiveness, things would not have been the way they are now. Skipping his gaze to Chen Shaokuan, Zeng Yiding looked at Chen Jiliang again, "Brother Shiying should be careful along the way to the United States this time, and Shaosheng should also ask clearly: Where did he get the money to rebuild the navy?" He can't concoct a shipwreck treasure to send us away, and tens of thousands of people in the navy are counting on him. ”

"This is really something to ask about." Chen Jiliang nodded deeply, from last year to now, Li Kongrong, who was unknown earlier, has brought too many surprises to everyone, so much so that people like Lin Xianxi have begun to blindly believe in him. Whether it is predicting the movements of the Japanese army or judging the international situation, the reconstruction of the navy requires real money, and no matter how capable he is, he cannot conjure up money out of thin air. "What about the pilot?" Chen Jiliang asked again. "Now that the navy doesn't have pilots, you can't really hire foreign instructors, right?"

When it came to the pilots, the three of them all looked at Chen Shaokuan, and Chen Shaokuan had to say: "This matter does not make sense with the Ministry of Military Affairs, and I think I can only find the chairman of the committee." Although the chairman's whereabouts are uncertain, I can always find someone if I keep searching. You should go to the United States and talk to Li Shaosheng first, what the third province said is right, we really have to talk to him about the matter, where the money for the reconstruction of the navy comes from, we must find out, we must not be sloppy, this is related to the livelihood of more than 10,000 people. ”

"I understand, I will ask him as soon as I arrive in the United States." As Chen Jiliang spoke, he suddenly thought of the $10,000 Sichuan capital that Lin Xianxi remitted from the United States, which was all raised by Li Kongrong for the four training planes, as well as the research institute in Switzerland, I really don't know where he got so much money. The officers and men who had heard for a long time that the navy was going to be rebuilt were looking at the ministry from top to bottom, and as soon as the training plane arrived in Wuhan, they were all enthusiastic. Thinking of those officers who were close to going on a relationship, Chen Ji smiled in his conscience, and he said again: "Do you want to bring the preliminary list of aircraft carrier training ships to show them?" ”

Zeng Yiding had a good time before, and he couldn't help but get nervous when he heard Chen Jiliang mention the pre-selection list of aircraft carrier training ships, and he also stuffed a lot of people in it, but after all, it was a minority, and Chen Shaokuan's principle was to hire on the basis of merit.

"I haven't even written a word yet." Chen Shaokuan noticed Zeng Yiding's movements and smiled in his heart. "You go and talk to him about the funding first, and then we'll decide on the list of training ships after the talks. Didn't Shuchun make a training plan with the help of the Brazilian Navy, and when the time comes, we will consider it comprehensively and see how to rotate the training. ”

"Understood." As soon as Chen Jiliang heard about the rotation training, his mind drifted away, and he couldn't wait to go to San Francisco now.

When Chen Jiliang's mind drifted to San Francisco, Li Kongrong and his entourage had just flown to San Francisco. San Francisco is a big port according to the overseas Chinese, and there are tens of thousands of overseas Chinese, and everyone was looking forward to Li Kongrong's coming to San Francisco, and they didn't want him to do some activities in New York, so they actually appeared on the cover of Time Magazine -- 'Prophecy or witchcraft, we will wait and see', this is the text on the cover of Time Magazine, and at the bottom is a photo of Li Kongrong stretching out his hand to make a V-word and predicting that China will win the final victory within 2,000 days. In the photo, Li Kongrong, dressed in a navy uniform, has a determined expression, and his deep and shining gaze seems to be able to penetrate the future.

For the Chinese, the prophecy of 2,000 days is really a long time, but this still does not affect their enthusiasm for Li Kongrong, after all, several major victories in China are related to Li Kongrong; For the American public, the fact that France would surrender in forty days was a bit of grandstanding, but Lee Kongrong's description of America's mineral bottlenecks caused widespread concern, and what should have been submitted to Congress in 1939 was submitted to Congress a year earlier. In addition, Li Kongrong's remarks at the family reception hosted by Gu Lin, chairman of the "United States Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression Committee," were widely recognized by the attendees, who remembered this somewhat magical Chinese.

The cover of Time magazine, the approval of the bigwigs, and the warm welcome of overseas Chinese did not interrupt Li Kongrong's thinking: after recruiting almost all the international students from MIT who majored in mechanical engineering and aeronautics, he found a flaw when providing the design drawings of the helicopter, that is, there seemed to be something wrong with the transmission system between the control hub and the blades.

The propeller aircraft realizes the control of the aircraft through the movable mechanisms of the flap tail, and the only place where the helicopter can move is the blade and the tail, and there are many mysteries to realize the operation through these two mechanisms, the most important of which is the three hinges that connect the blades. Li Kongrong remembers that the appearance of the tail and hinges was enough to make his helicopter maneuver not inferior to that of later generations, but he did not know the entire control system of the helicopter well.

"Let's put away your pictures first." Seeing that Li Kongrong, who had returned to the hotel, took out the things that he had been thinking about all the way again, Zhou Yingcong politely reminded him. Later, Lin Xianxin is going to bring someone up.

"I didn't understand how I could put it down." Li Kongrong was unmoved, he was used to this, and he didn't stop until he finished something. He feels that the helicopter is nine out of ten, but there are uncertain problems in doing it.

"You......" Zhou Yingcong looked at it and sighed, he didn't expect that Li Kongrong would take in more than a dozen international students in one trip to Boston, and he was also going to build a plane that didn't need to take off and land at the airport, and he would think that he had a problem with his brain. I don't know how your brain grows! ”

Zhou Yingcong sighed, and Lin Xianxi, who heard it through the door, immediately replied, "How do your brains grow?" ”

"Oh, sir!" Seeing Lin Xianxin push the door in, Zhou Yingcong immediately got up and stood upright, although Li Kongrong was unwilling, he also stood up immediately.

Lin Xianxin was not alone, he was accompanied by Colonel Ma Deji, director of the Mawei Shipyard, and Colonel Chen Wenlin, director of the Naval Aviation Department, as for the other naval officers, all of whom were at the San Francisco Aviation Academy.

Ma Deji and Chen Wenlin are both in their forties, Li Kongrong and Zhou Yingcong are in their thirties, and all four are colonels, but they are more than ten years old. Ma Deji, who was more polite, said with a smile: "Seeing Hansheng and Shuchun, I suddenly feel old." ”

In addition to studying shipbuilding in the United Kingdom, Ma Deji also went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States to study shipbuilding during World War I. In fact, in the Naval Shipyard, there are several people who are graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Shipbuilding Department, which is comparable to the current Jiaotong University students who go to MIT.

Ma Deji was polite, but Chen Wenlin, who was a little unruly, looked at Li Kongrong a few times, and in the face of Li Kongrong's nonchalant smile, he finally stretched out his hand and said solemnly: "Brother Hansheng, fortunately!" ”

Lin Xianxin did not introduce Li Kongrong first, but let a few of them know each other to say hello, seeing that Chen Wenlin, who thinks highly of himself, was also polite to Li Kongrong, he smiled at the corner of his mouth and said, "It's all a family, so don't be so polite." Let's get down to business. ”

As the chief, Lin Xianxin beckoned everyone to sit down and spoke, he didn't wait for Ma Deji and Chen Wenlin to introduce the situation, looked at Li Kongrong and said directly: "Let's talk about it, what things need to be done in a hurry at the moment, and those things can be slowed down." (To be continued.) )