MI6 has already arranged a secure place to live and travel, but Lee Kong-wing did not come to Hong Kong just to transit. The www.biquge.info Manila is a secret base for U-38, and it is impossible for him to invite everyone to Manila to talk about things, and when he came to Hong Kong, he expected to meet his immediate superior, Colonel Russell of the Navy Division, who was not in Hong Kong -- the director, Admiral Sinleck, died of illness, and the head of the second division, the military division, Stuart Menzies, took over MI6, and the new director asked the most effective agent in the bureau to go to London immediately to report on his work. So Colonel Russell of the Admiralty is still in London.

Since he decided to go to the United States via Europe, it is not a problem to report on his work, but Li Kongrong has his own activities along the route: in Hong Kong, he wants to meet with Long Yun's representative, the North Korean Li Fanshuang, and Lin Dingli, a spy who has been looking for a special high school spy who has finally successfully contacted him, and is likely to meet Du Yuesheng once; In Singapore, it is natural to meet with Malayan overseas leader Tan Kah Kee and Indonesian overseas Chinese leader Zhuang Xiyan; In Paris, he wanted to meet the dignitaries of the Polish government-in-exile - the V2 base in Penemünde was on the German-Polish border, on the Baltic coast, and if he wanted to send a commando to carry out a looting operation, the support of the Poles was indispensable. In addition, starting in Hong Kong, he will meet with some reporters to make the voice of the navy heard, and this is not for people on the mainland, but for millions of overseas Chinese.

It was impossible for Li Kongrong to tell the specific matter directly, and after listening to his Hong Kong arrangement, the Hong Kong head of the intelligence bureau Dreige shook his head vigorously, and he said: "Colonel, I do not recommend that you live outside the barracks, nor do I recommend that you meet with reporters in public, because this is very dangerous. There is evidence that people in Japan and Chongqing are looking for you, and they will be extremely unfriendly to you, which the director will not allow. ”

"There will be no problem." Li Kongrong insisted. "I'm not just an MI6 intelligence officer, I'm also the organizer of the Chinese naval fleet, and in order to rebuild the fleet, I have to meet these people. Also," Li Kongrong stopped Drech, who was about to speak, and he took out a note and said: "This is my gift to Director Menzies, a German heavy cruiser." ”

"What?" Drech was taken aback, he wanted to see it but held back, and asked, "Can I watch it?" ”

"Are you a German spy?" Li Kongrong asked with a smile.

"Of course I'm not." Drech also laughed, and he opened the note and found that it read: Count Spee, the mouth of the Río de la Plata, mid-December. "Colonel, is that all?" He felt incredible.

"There is a time and a place, and it is important to pay attention to confidentiality when acting." Li Kongrong smiled, "These are enough." ”

"Okay. I'll report to London right away. Dreich got up and was about to leave, but Li Kongrong said, "What about the documents?" ”

"Oh. File? Yes, I brought. Drech took out the paperwork he had prepared, and added, "Mr. Colonel, the Director advises you to handle this matter in London, which is the quickest, and of course you can fill out these documents first." ”

"There should also be a special exemption document from His Majesty's government exempting me from taxation?" Li Kongrong emphasized the word 'exemption from taxation', "The assets of the navy are only nominally vested in my name, and they will be used in the war against the Japanese, so they cannot be taxed." ”

"Mr. Colonel, the documents are still in London, and Mr. Chief says everything is ready." Drech smiled, and he flew to London to tell the Admiralty to send a fleet to the mouth of the Río de la Plata to sink the German heavy cruiser.

"There you go. Mind you, I have to have freedom of movement. Li Kongrong finally emphasized again. After he left, he came to the second floor and handed the documents given by Drech to Xu Peipei, "Fill in these documents, and paste the photos as well, as well as the children." ”

"What is this?" The documents are all in English, and there is also the insignia of the British Empire.

"Naturalization papers." Li Kongrong sat down, he took out his British passport and said: "I also have an identity as an overseas Chinese in the UK, since you are already my wife, you can naturally become a British citizen, and so can your daughter." ”

"Really?" Xu Peipei looked at the passport and was a little puzzled, she was surprised why her husband had a British passport.

"It has to be." Li Kongrong said vigorously, "It is troublesome for the Chinese to enter the United States, but the British are not in trouble; The safety of you and your daughter is very important to me, and it is not safe in Hong Kong, and it is only when you become British that the Chongqing agents will be a little taboo when they do it - I am not worried about the Japanese, they will deal with me at most; Finally, the Republic of China recognizes double-tier nationality, and becoming a British citizen does not mean that you have to give up your Chinese nationality. ”

"Okay, I'll fill it out right away." Xu Peipei smiled, she didn't care what nationality she was, she cared that her husband cared about her.

"There's no hurry." Li Kongrong patted her, "You have to use ...... until London"

"Report." Li Kongrong wanted to stay with his wife for a while, but suddenly a report came from outside that it was Zeng Guosheng who brought Long Yun's people.

"Hansheng, these are the representatives of Chairman Long, let me introduce them." In the living room, Zeng Guosheng stood with four Yunnan people, and he pointed to the first one and said, "This is Mr. Gong Zhongjun, the senior staff of Chairman Long; This is Mr. Miao Yuntai of Fudian Bank; This is Chairman Long's son, Mr. Rope Zu; This is the head of the Yunnan Air Force......"

"We seem to have met when we were in San Francisco, Colonel Chang." Zeng Guosheng shook hands with Li Kongrong every time he introduced a person, and when it was Zhang Ruhan's turn, he called out this person's surname without waiting for Zeng Guosheng to introduce him, Zhang Ruhan hurriedly clasped his hands with Li Kongrong, and the guests and hosts were extremely harmonious.

"This is Lieutenant General Huang Huanran, commander of the Marine Corps, and he will enter Yunnan to take full charge of the training of the Marine Corps." Li Kongrong also called Huang Baitao and solemnly introduced them, and after his introduction, he said: "Everyone, since the former Qing Dynasty, the relationship between the Fujian Navy and the British Royal Navy has been extraordinary, so I am now receiving you in the British military barracks, and I hope you will forgive me, and please keep this secret, there are too many flies outside." ”

"Of course, of course." Gong Zizhi saw Li Kongrong call the spy a fly, and he laughed for a while. They were not surprised by Li Kongrong's relationship with the British, and the submarine could fight in the South Sea, and it must have the support of the British. "We're going to keep our mouth shut." The four of them replied in unison.

"I believe in your promise." Li Kongrong gave a cigarette to a few people as he spoke, and he lit one himself. "There is a basis for cooperation between the Navy and Chairman Yunnan Long, and everyone wants to keep one side safe, and no one will annex the other, and it is on this basis that we cooperate. You need me to help you train the Air Force, and I need a place to train the Marine Corps, and that's to take care of each other. In the future, if the Japanese really hit Burma, then we can also attack by sea and land, Qinzhou was originally attacked by sea and land a few days ago, but unfortunately it was destroyed by Chongqing. ”

Li Kongrong leaned comfortably on the sofa, and he followed Li Zongren's train of thought and said, hoping that Long Yun could see the role of the navy. Gong knew that he didn't know his logic, and when Li Kongrong said it, he kept nodding his head, and when he finished speaking, he asked: "Brother Han Sheng, do the Japanese really want to fight Burma?" ”

"I think it's possible, the key is France." Li Kongrong said, with a smile (he could guess that the British were eavesdropping): "If Germany attacks France and France surrenders, then with the close relations between Germany, Italy and Japan, Japan will definitely send troops into Indochina; Once the Japanese army was stationed in Indochina, Thailand's neutrality could not be guaranteed; Thailand fell, then the Japanese army had a springboard to attack Singapore and Burma. As far as I know, Singapore is a ship without a bottom, and its fortresses and shore guns are all aimed at the sea and with their backs to the land, and it is very likely that it will fall.

If Singapore falls, then the Japanese army will be able to enter Burma via Thailand and Malaya. Now that Nanning is fighting fiercely, there is only one real external passage left, the Yunnan-Burma Highway. Why did the Japanese fight Nanning? Isn't it just to cut off domestic supplies? If the Japanese army occupies Burma, then Yunnan will no longer be the rear but the front. I don't think Chang Kaishen would agree to let all the Yunnan troops be transferred back to Yunnan without sending the central army into Yunnan, and he certainly wouldn't do that. Once this happens, I don't want to say what will happen in Yunnan. ”

Li Kongrong said that he was deliberately silent, Long Rope Ancestor was at a loss and didn't know that it was okay, Gong Zizhi, Miao Yuntai, and Zhang Ruhan were all pondering, and finally Gong Zizhi, who sighed, said: "Then may I ask Brother Han Sheng, how should we deal with ourselves?" ”

"Be prepared to assist the British army in the defense of Singapore and Burma." Lee Kongrong said, "We are on the side of Britain in dealing with the Burma issue. Although the British are not very easy to deal with, but if you help him, he will help you, Burma will be safe to hold India, and then the Dian army will inevitably expand and grow, and then Japan will surrender hundreds of thousands of Dian troops to return to Yunnan, even if there is a central army in Yunnan, they will be immediately transferred to the northeast, north China, and east China, how can they stay in the poor countryside in the southwest? ”

"But what if the central government orders the Dian army in Burma to be transferred by sea to East China, North China, and even Northeast China?" Gong Zizhi knew that he was worthy of being Long Yun's think tank, and he was also familiar with Chang Kaishen's temperament, so he immediately found the problem of Li Kongrong's countermeasures.

"Chairman Nalong should go to Burma or India immediately and find all sorts of reasons not to get on board." Li Kongrong said, "Chongqing's countermeasure is to appoint a new provincial chairman in Yunnan, but he can't sit still without the support of the Yunnan army." Unity within you is also important, and some anti-bones are to be cleaned up. As soon as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended, it must be the Kuomintang and the Communist Party grabbing territory, the Communist Party was already in North and East China, and it just emerged from the countryside, all in the southwest, so we must hurry up and move back, and a delay of a month is fatal. ”

"I'm worried about fighting." Gong Zizhi sighed again, he did not doubt Li Kongrong's goodwill and speculation, but it was really difficult for Yunnan or the Yunnan army to get rid of Chongqing's control.

"Then you just wait to step down, and the family property is also waiting to be confiscated." Li Kongrong still laughed. "This is the only way for Yunnan to maintain the status quo after the war. Moreover, this is in no way sabotaging the war of resistance, and this practice is definitely beneficial to the war effort. If the Yunnan army does not enter Burma, the central army will enter Burma through Yunnan, and the military rations will be supplied by Yunnan. But what are these Central Army? They have never drilled into the rainforest at all, they don't know how to fight in the mountains, and there are still some people on top of them who are blindly commanding, so the Central Army will be defeated when it goes out. As soon as the Japanese are defeated, they will follow them, and western Yunnan will definitely be lost, and if they cross the Nu River, then Kunming will also be shaken......"

Li Kongrong said that history was extremely certain. He believed that if the Dian army went to Burma, even if it was also pitted by the British, it would not be possible to fall into the situation of Savage Mountain, so many times it was really miserable to think about the middle and lower-level officers and soldiers of the Central Army.

"Okay, this time it's not about how to maintain the status quo in Yunnan, Yunnan is not my place, why should I worry if Chairman Long doesn't worry about it?" Li Kongrong said very honorably, "What I want to talk about today should be these three things, right?" One thing is that the naval air force is stationed in Yunnan, the second is that the marine corps is stationed in Yunnan for training, and the third is the increase in the number of Yunnan cadets in the naval aviation unit. ”

"Ahem......" Gong Zizhi was about to nod, Miao Yuntai coughed lightly, and he said: "Brother Hansheng, now that Yunnan is undergoing currency reform, some of the silver and gold accumulated by the provincial government over the years is just to see if it can make an investment in the United States." ”

"Currency reform?" Li Kongrong is a little unclear. "How can Yunnan want currency reform?"

"Yunnan has always used Yunnan currency, which has silver, gold and foreign exchange reserves." Miao Yuntai is the president of Yunnan Fudian Bank, and he is here to invest in reserves. "Now the central government wants to change the legal currency, Chairman Long means that the money is from Yunnan Province, and it is not appropriate to hand it over to the central government, in case it is changed back to Yunnan currency after the Anti-Japanese War, and it will definitely not work without reserves at that time."

Miao Yuntai muttered for a long time, talking about the Yunnan currency reserves. Fiat currency is waste paper, even if it is not resisted, it is necessary to rely on money printing and inflation to scrape ****, otherwise the national debt economy of the Nanjing National Government cannot be supported. However, this is only for ****, and the fiat currency for foreigners is definitely exchangeable. But the local authorities would never dare to be so scoundrels, they had to provide reserves for the paper money in their hands, and they had to keep these reserves properly even in war. Long Yun's famous three don'ts: don't give face, don't give officials, don't give money; Yan Xishan's budget-conscious narrow-gauge railways all mean this.

"Trust the Navy, then let the Navy assist in handling it." Li Kongrong is becoming more and more pleasing to Long Yun, and he has been in charge of Yunnan for ten years because he will be responsible for it. "With the war in Asia, the development of Europe, and the recovery of American industry, investing in the stock market must be very profitable, and investing now, minus the share of economic firms, can also have several times the income by the end of the war."

"Well, the stock market is too risky." Miao Yuntai stroked his glasses uneasily, he was a doctor in the United States, and he still remembered the Great Depression vividly. "It's better to do some industry, I heard that the Navy has a lot of industries in the United States, and helicopters are run by the Navy......"

"Helicopters?" Li Kongrong didn't expect Long Yun to want to start an industry. He said: "Part of the navy's money is fished from the sea, and the rest is fished from the stock market. In fact, the industry makes the least money, but the shipyards and steel mills that were acquired at low prices in the past are about to go public recently, which is to make money, but the rate of return is not high, and the base is large. In this way, Chairman Long can send a representative to the United States and invest whatever he thinks is good. (To be continued.) )