"Hey! Hitler. "As soon as the day dawned, before the train entered the station, Major Li Kongrong heard the repeated slogan. Under the introduction of another self, he got a general idea of Germany - a fanatical and rigid country.

What I hear in my ears is 'Hey! Hitler', he opened his eyes and looked at the bed opposite, and the Italian woman disappeared. Based on his judgment and observation, this woman is likely to be a prostitute, and she actually left a phone number for herself at night, which is really shameless! Thinking that this woman was likely to be a prostitute, Major Li Kongrong couldn't help but subconsciously touch the pillow, and the important things he had pressed under the pillow after he slept last night. Still, he breathed a sigh of relief; Look at the carry-on luggage, it is still there. He was completely relieved, turned around and got out of bed, and he began to freshen up.

There weren't many people in the first-class carriage, and by the time he finished freshening up, the train had slowed down into the station. Standing in the aisle of the carriage, he suddenly saw the Italian woman, snuggled up to a man in another carriage, and it seemed that the two had done a good thing last night.

"You're Major Lee?" As soon as he got out of the carriage, a Chinese man greeted him. Italy had already informed the German embassy of his train number and carriage, perhaps because he was Kong Xiangxi's aide-de-camp, and three people had come in to pick him up. The first person to come up for questioning was a man with glasses, named Yao Dingchen, the third secretary of the embassy, and the older one was Tan Boyu, the first secretary of the embassy, who came on behalf of Cheng Tianfang, the ambassador to Germany. The other is an officer dressed in the uniform of a national revolutionary army captain, who introduces himself as Tang Zong.

Yao Dingchen helped take his luggage, and Tan Boyu and Tang Zong shook hands with him respectively. As the leader, Tan Boyu said: "Brother Shao Sheng, Mr. Ambassador happened to meet with Mr. Niu Wright, the German Foreign Minister, this morning, so I couldn't come for a while, and he asked me to welcome Brother Shao Sheng. The welcome banquet has been set, and Mr. and Mrs. Ambassador will wash the dust of the brothers......"

"Banquets don't have to." Of course, Major Li Kongrong knew that he was two pounds, and he could have such a reception, completely because he was Kong Xiangxi's adjutant, if it weren't for that, it would be good if someone could pick him up. "Brother is here on official business, let's go to the embassy first and discuss the specific situation in detail."

Li Kongrong looked kind, which immediately made Tan Boyu have a good impression, and Tang Zong sent by the Military Attache Office just smiled lightly - the Military Attache Office and the embassy belong to different systems, and the Military Attache Office is a branch of the Fuxing Society in Germany, so the civilian officials are not taken seriously. After receiving the telegram that Li Kongrong was about to go to Germany, the Military Attache Office had already figured out the identity and background of this naval adjutant, who was only a marine engineering major, and had nothing to do with Vice President Kong before, so Colonel Xu Bozhou, the military attache stationed in Germany, did not come forward at all, and only sent Tang Zong over to be polite and polite, which was completely based on his identity as an adjutant Kong Xiangxi.

Of course, Major Li Kongrong, an honest man, did not know that Tang Zong, who was known as a military commander and a multi-star in the future, only followed Tan Boyu into the embassy's car and rushed to the Bristol Hotel, the first stop. The hotel was very imposing on its façade, and if it was only on Chen Shaokuan's personal subsistence allowance of 100 US dollars and 1,000 marks, he would not be able to afford it, but before leaving, Mr. Lin, Kong Xiangxi's housekeeper, gave him a traveler's cheque with 1,000 US dollars on it, which was an advance for his expenses in Germany -- Kong Xiangxi's visit to Germany also required him to make some arrangements in advance, and at least to be clear about the internal movements of the Kuomintang Socialist Party in the past two years and the public opinion in Germany at this time.

After sending Li Kongrong to the Bristol Hotel, Tan Boyu and Tang Zong left, they asked him to have a good rest, and decided to pick him up in the afternoon to take him to the embassy, at that time the ambassador Cheng Tianfang happened to return to the embassy, and the military attache of the Military Attache Office, Colonel Xu Bozhou, would also rush there, and he could discuss any official business in front of everyone.

Tan Boyu spoke softly and respectfully, and Captain Tang Zong of the Military Attaché Office also smiled at each other, which made Major Li Kongrong have to sigh at the benefits of the fox and the tiger. When he had nothing to do, he went out for a walk after eating an early rest. The Bristol Hotel is located on the Elector Boulevard, which was originally built by Elector Joachim II to facilitate his own access to the hunting castle, because the buildings on both sides of the avenue are under the responsibility of the Candidate Strasse Community Association, which is actually the responsibility of a consortium of banks headed by Deutsche Bank, so the style of the street is not the Baroque style common in Berlin - it has no style.

Even without style or master-designed architecture, the 53-meter-wide boulevard is a high street comparable to New York's Fifth Avenue and London's Piccadilly. Of course, Major Li Kongrong has not been to these two places, in his opinion it is like the main road of Shanghai or Fuzhou Road, the buildings on both sides of the avenue are four-storey, the road surface is unusually clean and tidy, the sidewalks covered by plane trees on the side of the road are bustling with foreigners, the road is full of large and small cars, and those in yellow-brown uniforms are extremely eye-catching, they all carry a swastika mark on their left arm, and they raise their hands forward like puppets when dealing with people, and then shout: "Hi! Hitler. ”

"Hey! Hitler. After listening to it too much, Major Li Kongrong couldn't help but say it silently in his heart. He knew it was just a greeting, but there was an indescribable weirdness in actually shouting it.

"I'm going to ...... A copy..."Walking to the newsstand, Major Li Kongrong read the German words in a transposition, but he forgot them halfway through, and only after looking at the pieces of paper in his pocket did he say: "... A ...... Struggle... Mine, my struggle! ”

"Are you Japanese?" The newsstand owner looked at him with a smile, he respected the military, and a foreign soldier came to buy the autobiography of the great Führer "Mein Kampf", which made him extremely proud: Look! We Germans are not the only ones who revere the Führer, but also foreigners.

"Chinese." After Major Li Kongrong finished answering, he didn't notice that the smiling face of the newsstand owner had sharply retracted, and his hand in the pavilion had also moved from the paperback version of the eight marks to the hardcover version of the wedding of the twenty-five marks.

"Twenty-five marks!" The Germans pulled out a set of "Mein Kampf" in the shape of a Bible. He lovingly wiped the paper, carefully placed it on the newspaper, and looked at the yellow officer critically, as if he was worried that he would not be able to come up with the money.

"Mein Kampf" was another thing he wanted to buy, and Major Li Kongrong didn't care when he heard that it cost twenty-five marks, he paid the bill with a lot of money, picked up this Bible-like thing and wanted to leave.

"Don't need a newspaper?" When the German saw the thick mark in his wallet, he couldn't help but smile a little more, and patted the newspaper on top, which was the People's Observer. "Just five pfennigs!" Fearing that the yellow man had misunderstood that it was five marks, he took out a five-pfennig coin and shook it, indicating that it was only one-twentieth of a mark.

The People's Observer newspaper was all in German, and a picture of the German leader, Adolf Hitler, appeared on the front page, with a stern expression on his sideways face, a dark shirt and a swastika on his left arm.

"Yes." Major Lee Kong-wing took out a five-pfennig coin, bought a copy of the People's Observer newspaper, and then bought a map of Berlin. When he read the newspaper again on the way back, he suddenly remembered that the front page of the Central Daily that he had read before also had this shape on the front page of the Standing Committee, but the only difference was that the Standing Committee Chairman did not have a swastika mark on his left arm.

Sitting on a chair under the plane tree on the sidewalk, Major Li Kongrong read the newspaper for a while, and most of the words on it he did not recognize, but he could read the pictures. After reading the newspaper and then opening "Mein Kampf", although twenty-five marks is extremely expensive, the book is indeed very well printed, the paper is crisp, each page is printed with oak leaves, and the back cover of the book is a sharp short sword.

"Hey! Hitler. Two brown uniforms greeted him not far from him, and he looked up to see the embassy on the other side of the avenue with the blue sky and white sun flag, in addition to the two brown puppets. No wonder Secretary Tan would say that the hotel was very close to the embassy, it turned out to be on the same street, no more than a hundred meters apart.

The embassy is indeed at 218 Elector Avenue, while the Bristol Hotel is number 27, with the single number in the north and the double number in the south.

When Major Li Kongrong was looking at the embassy in Germany on the other side of the avenue, Tan Boyu, the first secretary of the embassy, was reporting to Cheng Tianfang, the ambassador to Germany, who had just returned from going out, about going to the train station to pick up Vice President Kong's adjutant Major Li in the morning. He said: "The Military Attaché Department only sent Tang Naijian to pick up people at the train station, and it doesn't seem to be very enthusiastic......

"Oh!" Before, Cheng Tianfang, a weak scholar, always listened to one sentence after another, but now he heard that the Military Attache Office only sent Tang Zong to pick it up, and his attention immediately increased, and he said: "That means that the Military Attache Office doesn't give this adjutant face?" ”

"This ......" Tan Boyu, as a first-class secretary, is naturally good at observing words and feelings, but this is just his guess, he said: "It seems to be so, why don't you go to greet Bozhou in person." ”

"Hmm. Reasonable. Cheng Tianfang took off his glasses, wiped them and put them back on, and then asked, "That means the banquet can be withdrawn?" ”

"Probably so." Tan Boyu replied with some hesitation. The embassy in Germany spends 5,000 marks a month, and all the expenses of the embassy are in it, so the expenses can always be saved. "I don't know what official duties he has."

"What official duties can he have?" Cheng Tian smiled. As a student studying in the United States, he did not like the bureaucratic politics. Song Ziwen's attitude is arrogant and self-righteous, and this Kong Xiangxi seems to be easy to speak, but the old bureaucratic habits are very strong, and his adjutant goes to Germany to arrange food, clothing, housing and transportation first, and what official business can he have.

"That afternoon......" Tan Boyu was a little undecided, he didn't know what kind of tone he should receive this person.

"It's good to see you in the afternoon, no matter what, you have to go through the motions." Cheng Tianfang said. "But I think Kong Yongzhi's side will have to go to London to wait for orders, and he wants us to accompany him."

"Xiaguan understands! Xia Guan understood! Being reminded by Cheng Tianfang, Tan Boyu immediately understood that this Kong Xiangxi didn't want to wait in Berlin by himself, but he had to go to London to pick him up.

After the lunch meal and the people from the embassy did not come for a long time, Major Li Kongrong felt that something was wrong, and when he waited impatiently, the doorbell was ringed, and it was only the third-class secretary named Yao Dingchen in the morning, and the car was no longer a Mercedes-Benz, but a tattered Ford, but fortunately, the car turned a corner on the Elector Avenue and arrived at the embassy.

"Major Li Kongrong meets the process ambassador!" After the meeting, Major Li Kongrong saluted Cheng Tianfang, the ambassador to Germany, and then saluted the army colonel in his fifties who was a little sluggish standing next to him, "I've seen Commander Xu!" ”

"Major Li, please take a seat." Cheng Tianfang looked at Li Kongrong slightly, then asked him to sit down, and then said politely: "Major Li has come all the way from China, is this road safe?" ”

"Thank you, Ambassador Cheng, for your concern, the delegation has had a safe journey." Li Kongrong replied loudly.

"How is the chairman?" After Li Kongrong answered Cheng Tianfang's second question, this is a diplomat's cliché.

"The chairman and his wife are in good health, and before they came, the chairman of the committee also gave a personal lecture to the junior ranks, so as to complete the mission abroad." Major Li Kongrong replied. Because he mentioned the chairman's wife, Cheng Tianfang helped his glasses with some discomfort.

"What is the official business of that brother?" Colonel Xu Bozhou, the military attache on the side, heard that the chairman of the committee began to cheer up, and he was worried that there was really some task for the commission, so he only said: "As long as my brother can help, just give orders." ”

"Don't dare to do it." Major Li Kongrong said politely, he no longer spoke according to his own script, but according to another self-given rhetoric, he said: "Between China and Japan, a big war is inevitable!" At present, the armor repair has not been completed, and the committee is very worried about this. Vice President Kong's trip was all for the purchase of ordnance. Germany and China have signed a trade agreement on exchanging goods for goods, so Vice President Kong attached great importance to the trip to Germany, but the relationship between Germany and Japan has become increasingly close, and the President is worried that Japan will undermine it. ”

Li Kongrong glanced at Cheng Tianfang and Xu Bozhou when he said this, and saw that they were all listening carefully, so he said again: "A lot of ammunition and equipment for the army are all German goods, and the navy also wants to order a batch of submarines from Germany this time. If war really breaks out between China and Japan, the Japanese navy will definitely blockade China's sea routes, and the ports of Shanghai, Shandong, and Fujian will not be guaranteed, and only Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Liangguang will still have a glimmer of life, so the navy must hold the ports so that munitions and materials can flow smoothly and prevent the army brothers from being left without guns and bullets.

However, naval construction has never been easy, and only by ordering submarines can we maintain a certain amount of sea power, so I would like to ask you to pay more attention to the political situation in Germany, so as to inform Vice President Kong how to negotiate, so as to prevent Germany from fully turning to Japan; The second is to hope to understand the situation of German submarines, shipyards, and submarine fleets, so as not to be deceived when ordering. Brothers are alone here, and it may be difficult to do this without the cooperation of all the chiefs, and I also ask the chiefs to do their best to help each other for the sake of the party and the state! ”

After Major Li Kongrong finished his speech, he immediately got up and saluted again. Cheng Tianfang, a literati, was okay, but his attitude in his heart suddenly changed greatly, and Colonel Xu Bozhou, the military attaché, was a false response, so he didn't believe in the nonsense of submarines protecting sea rights, and Nanjing also sent a telegram asking the military attache office to assist the navy. Besides, if there is more navy, there will be less army, and although the submarine does not know what kind of submarine it is, and I don't know how many there are in a batch, this is always a huge amount of money, and if the navy spends all the money, what will the army still equip with.