Chapter 34 Forget the roots
Lin Xianxin and Lin Zhun rushed to the shipyard after forty minutes, and waited for Wang at the gate. Rong Ying followed behind the car, at this time, Li Kongrong, who was casually doing something, was squatting at the door of the apartment and smoking, Lin Huiping spoke vigorously in front of him, and Xu Zhenqi was guarding the door with a wooden stick, the door was closed, and Li Kongrong's gun was pinned to his waist. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Stand-up!" Lin Zhun shouted after getting out of the car, and several people stood up and saluted.
"Humph!" Lin Xianxi glared at a few people angrily, and then asked Lin Huiping, "What about Zhiguang?" β
"Report to the chief, Zhiguang......" Before Lin Huiping finished speaking, the door of the apartment opened, and Wang Zhiguang, who had a few bags on his head, rushed out. Report to the chief, he ......" Wang Zhiguang pointed to Li Kongrong, who did not squint, with a crying voice. He ...... He beats people, and he shoots to kill! β
"Grab it!" Lin Xianxin said to several naval cadets who came over in the same car behind him, this is someone from Lin Zhun's group.
Li Kongrong did not dodge or dodge, and let them put themselves in the car. He was taken away, and Lin Xianxin said again: "Send Zhiguang to medicine immediately!" β
"Report sir, I'm fine." Wang Zhiguang was really fine, but he was beaten with a few sticks, "Just now he shot and killed people without saying a word, I ask the chief to uphold justice!" β
"You got shot?" Lin Xianxin looked at him, but he didn't find any scars there, except for a few bags and a few wounds on his head.
"No, sir." Wang Zhiguang didn't know what Lin Xianxi meant, but thinking of the shot just now, he said excitedly: "Just now Li Kongrong came in without saying a word and beat people, I here, here, and here, and ......, he still shoots!" He also shot at me......" Wang Zhiguang said about the situation just now and jumped quickly, for him just now it was nine deaths, if he hadn't seen the opportunity to run to the inner room early, he would probably have been killed on the spot.
"Is that so?" Lin Xianxin asked Lin Huiping and Xu Zhenqi, the two hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded under Wang Zhiguang's gaze. "And what do you want to do?" Lin Xianxin looked at Wang Zhiguang who was excited, and said, "Even if it is dealt with by military law, it is impossible for him to shoot him, and he will still come to kill you after he comes out." β
"He ......" Wang Zhiguang's face returned to his previous paleness, Li Kongrong's actions just now really scared him to death, especially the eyes of him when he was held by Lin Huiping and Xu Zhenqi, he was like eating people. It can't be sentenced to decades. He said aggrievedly.
"Have you ever heard of such a sentence of decades?" Lin Xianxin looked at him very seriously, "If you say it more seriously, it is an attempt to kill your comrades, and if you say it lightly, you will drink and make trouble, and if you don't agree with it, you will pull out your gun and go off the rails." What do you think the military judge will judge when the time comes? Don't forget that he is about to be awarded, the Order of the Blue Sky and the White Sun. β
Lin Xianxin said that Wang Zhiguang's face became worse and worse, and he finally said: "Zunzhi stay here, record what happened, I will take him back, throw him to the confinement room in the base first, and then try him after he comes out." However, before the trial is completed, the honor of the Navy is at stake, and each of you must not spread it around, let alone send a telegram back. Do you understand? β
"Yes, sir!" Including Wang Zhiguang, Lin Huiping nodded in agreement. Lin Xianxin saw that they agreed, so he got in the car and returned to the base, leaving only Wang Zhiguang, who was pale, and Lin Huiping, who looked at each other.
Three days later, Li Kongrong was released from the confinement room. In the duty room, Brigadier Lin put a meal in front of him and handed over another cigarette. Li Kongrong lazily took the cigarette, and after a few bites of food, he didn't eat it, only drinking water. Seeing him like this, Lin Zhun sighed and said, "Brother Hansheng, the junior brother has really convinced you." Are you really willing to give up your life for that submarine? β
"What is there to give up your life." Li Kongrong seemed to have gone to sea for half a month without taking a bath, and his whole body was stinky and itchy. "Since it came out, the head is tied to the waistband of the trousers, life and death are up to fate, wealth is in the sky, just let it be."
"But your Blue Sky and White Sun Medal is gone, aren't you a pity?!" A lot of things have happened in the past three days, Wang Zhiguang applied for transfer to return to China, Li Kongrong canceled the Order of the Blue Sky and the White Sun, and recorded a major demerit; At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Admiralty also dismissed him from his post as naval attachΓ© and withdrew his pistol. The trainees of Group B told him while he was in confinement. In Lin Zhun's opinion, everything else is nothing, but the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal is really a pity, which is actually to blame the Admiralty for negotiating with the Ministry of Military Affairs, in order to get more people to get the medal, it has been delayed until last month to compromise with the Ministry of Military Affairs.
"What's a pity!" Li Kongrong did not despise those soldiers who won this medal, but he had no love for Chang Kaishen and the party-state, so he naturally didn't care about this medal. "A man's medal is desperately taken by himself, why bother others to give it!"
"Hey! I really can't do anything about you, now it's okay, everyone is afraid of you, do whatever you want. Lin Zhun smiled bitterly.
"Are you going to do it?" Li Kongrong asked him rhetorically. He suddenly found that he was no longer a little white face, he ate well and lived well in Germany, and Lin Zhun looked more and more like a little white face.
"I can't do it!" Lin Zhun shook his head and didn't explain why.
Lin Zhun didn't explain, and Li Kongrong didn't ask. He said in a deep voice: "Then don't get in the way!" β
"Who dares to get in your way now?!" Lin Zhun really didn't know what to say to him. "Go take a shower at once, the chief wants to see you."
Same as three days ago. Li Kongrong saw Lin Xianxin again in the hotel outside the base, but this time Lin Xianxin was alone. He didn't say sit when he saw Li Kongrong come in, but pulled out a chair, and he said, "There is no one next door, now you should give me an explanation, what is the plan for the future?" β
"Yes, sir!" Before Li Kongrong beat people, he thought that his military rank was going to be demoted, and he didn't want the military rank to be still colonel, it seems that Lin Xianxi spent a lot of effort on this matter. "The most important thing for the reconstruction of the Navy is funding, and there are currently two events following, one is the Spanish shipwreck in Cuba, which was mentioned last time, and now there are eyebrows, and the initial estimate is that the money is about 10 million US dollars, which is only the upfront funding. If the wreck can't be salvaged, it's penicillin, which may be more troublesome, but it's the only way we can do it. β
"Is that moldy thing?" Lin Xianxin thought of what he saw in Switzerland, and Saben Iron also described the situation of penicillin to him in more detail, which made him finally have some understanding of penicillin.
"Yes, it's a miracle drug. If one million copies can be sold a year, it will be a turnover of $50 million, and a profit of about $30 million after deducting costs, especially the cost of sales. However, this was not possible in the early days, and I estimate that the turnover in the first two years was only a few million. Li Kongrong said.
"It seems more unlikely than a shipwreck." As one of the original participants in the naval reconstruction plan, Lin Xianxin has always thought about the treasure of the shipwreck, but this is also a very unremarkable thing in his opinion, the sea is vast, not to mention the bottom of the sea, it is extremely difficult to find a Spanish sailing ship.
"If you really don't have the money, you can drag the captured merchant ship into the dockyard and change it slightly, renovate the interior, and finally sell it under a different flag, which is also a few million dollars. The money to rebuild an aircraft carrier and the money to buy an aircraft can be regarded as there. Li Kongrong repeated the words of a year ago. Indeed, even if the cruise ship cannot be changed to an aircraft carrier, it can be sold for money.
"Where did you get your money now?" Lin Xianxin asked his own question.
"Miss Kong gave it." Li Kongrong said, "Some of it is her private money. β
"How many can there be?" Lin Xianxi didn't believe it, the Swiss side was 70,000 pounds a year, 1 million national dollars, and Kong Lingyi could have so much money.
"Miss Kong is the goddaughter of the chairman's wife, and the chairman's wife has no children, and treats her better than her own daughter. She herself doesn't have so much money, but the chairman's wife does. The chairman's wife's money is not used in the bank account for the time being, and it may not be impossible to invest it. β
It is unbelievable to say that Kong Lingyi and Lin Xianxin are unbelievable, but when it comes to Song Meiling, Lin Xianxi can't believe it. He glanced at Li Kongrong strangely and asked, "Don't you have something to do with Miss Kong?" Xinzhong Company is still acquired by others. β
"I don't have anything to do with her, I'm just a normal friend." Lin Xianxi didn't smoke, Li Kongrong took out a cigarette and lit it for him and himself, and the room was full of smoke for a while.
"You kid!" Lin Xianxi took a few puffs of cigarettes, and actually took off his shoes and stepped on the chair with one foot, this is his inherent smoking posture, he likes to smoke and talk like this. "Ouyang Ge is dead, but the Lightning School is still there, and the upper authorities are also very wary of the navy, and this is what you mean by canceling the medal this time. Some time ago, he said that he was going to run a training regiment at Wuhan University and notified the navy, but the matter was pushed back by Ji Liang. Whether there is a (Fujian) navy after the battle depends on how famous you can make on your side.
I don't know much about your plan, but you're too dead to leave any room at all. You judged that Germany would go to war next year, and you also said that the Japanese would go south to occupy the South Seas, and the United States would eventually send troops. None of these things can be wrong, and as long as one of them is wrong, the plan is likely to not work. Not to mention the rest, with only aircraft carriers and cruisers, and no destroyers, what kind of war are you fighting? β
Lin Xianxin was full of doubts in his heart, but the situation became clearer and clearer: if he didn't take a risk, the Fujian Navy would soon become history. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was not only a reshuffle of the major political forces in the country, but also a reshuffle of various military forces? Houfu is brainless and doesn't know how deep the water is, but he, Chen Jiliang, Zeng Yiding, and even the retired old men like Sa Zhenbing fully understand this. Chang Kaishen used the War of Resistance to consume the major domestic forces, and once the War of Resistance was won, the central system would definitely dominate the world in the future. This not only repelled the Japanese, but also consumed dissidents, and it was a routine to encircle and intercept the Red Army in those years, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Before coming, he hid from Chen Shaokuan, and met with Chen Jiliang, Zeng Yiding, and various captains, and also talked about the issue of naval reconstruction. Chen Jiliang once thought that if the navy waited for Chang Kaishen to rebuild, then everyone would have to go to the training regiment, and the Fujian system would definitely be excreted, and in the end it would be the Chang family army that came out. Rather than this, it is better to make a desperate bet and press the treasure to Li Kongrong's side.
Li Kongrong quietly listened to Lin Xianxi's complaints, only smoking and not talking. He didn't think clearly about the navy before, but he could feel that many people were supporting him in this Wang Zhiguang incident, and then he thought that Wang Zhiguang was Chen Shaokuan's adjutant, and he withdrew it, which shows that Chen Shaokuan's opinion within the Navy Department is not in the majority.
"Tell me, how many boats can you get?" After nagging for a while, Lin Xianxi finally made an offer.
"At least three." Li Kongrong silently calculated in his heart, "If you do it well, there may be four, it depends on luck." He caught a glimpse of Lin Xianxian frowning, and added: "These are all aircraft carriers, each with a crew of more than a thousand people, can they have fun?" β
"Why can't you play? If you don't know how to practice, it's just fine. Lin Xianxin smiled, "Don't you have cruisers and destroyers?" β
"Nope." Li Kongrong shook his head. "It's hard for us to have money to refit four aircraft carriers, and if we want to have cruisers and destroyers, we can only build them ourselves, and we definitely don't have this money. As far as aircraft carriers are concerned, the money for the hull accounts for almost 50 percent, and the money for modification only needs to install armor, increase boilers, and rebuild the top floor, which is not much, and it is very expensive to build cruisers and destroyers. β
"But there are twenty or thirty captains in the ministry, how do you divide these four aircraft carriers? You can't take your turns, can you? Lin Xianxin asked, he was already old and didn't want to be a captain anymore, but those forty or fifty-year-old captains dreamed of driving a ship, and he took them to ask.
"It's not easy." Li Kongrong began to draw a big pie, "Once Japan and the United States go to war, our fleet will be relative to the American fleet, after all, the enemy and the theater of operations are the same, and when the time comes, just ask the Americans directly to borrow it." β
"Will this work?" Lin Xianxin didn't believe it.
"There's no need to pay it back if you borrow it." Li Kongrong said with a smile. "I can't guarantee how much I will borrow, but how can I borrow some of the cruisers and destroyers that are equipped with four aircraft carriers. If it was not enough to borrow, then it would have to wait for the surrender of Japan, and at that time it would all be captured, and the battleships and cruisers, as long as they were not sunk, would be picked by themselves. β
Lin Xianxin was a little dizzy by Li Kongrong's flickering, and he was silent for a while before saying, "Is this really the case?" β
"As long as everyone believes that the United States can win, that's it." Li Kongrong said. "I can open a fleet list, and you can pick up battleships and cruisers. But then again, the amount of capture depends on the record of the war, and if we do not work hard and have no record, the Americans will not agree to how much loot we take. Those who want to be aircraft carrier captains should learn to fly planes now, and those who can't fly planes are not qualified to be aircraft carrier captains. And I remember that the Navy had trained two pilots before, where are these people now? β
Li Kongrong began to oppose the customer, he didn't care if he was from Fujian, the key was that the personnel must be qualified, and there was no way to be the captain if he was not qualified. Lin Xianxin was also aware of the control in Li Kongrong's hands, but he couldn't do anything about it - the matter was completely controlled by Li Kongrong alone, and the key funds were also raised by him alone, and it was difficult for the Admiralty to grasp the whole thing, so it was not impossible for him to jump to the Kong family and take over the electric thunder school.
"I brought the information of those former pilots of the Navy." Lin Xianxin said, "But there are a few things you have to agree to first." β
"Well, sir, please." Li Kongrong said.
It seems that after thinking about it for a long time, Lin Xianxin finally sighed after several hesitations - for a person who can rebuild the navy out of nothing, it doesn't make much sense for him to agree to some things. He said, "It is useless to say more. I'll just say one thing: don't forget your roots! (To be continued.) )