After letting the dock land, Gong Chuntai did not travel in the same car with the consul. It's called a nostalgic rickshaw. Tell the coachman to take him to Manila's Chinatown.

Chinatown is not far from the port, and the rickshaw quickly pulls Gong Chuntai to his destination, Gong Chuntai gets off in front of a Cantonese teahouse, looks left and right, and then walks into the teahouse.

At this time, the lunch hour passed the net, and there were still some diners in the teahouse, Gong Chuntai mingled among the diners, also ordered some tea and pastries, sat at a tea table by the window, and looked out the window while sipping tea. From time to time, I also took out the wall watch to look at the time.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, several men dressed as businessmen walked into the teahouse and walked straight to the tea table occupied by Gong Chuntai, and one of them greeted Gong Chuntai with a smile.

"This gentleman, let you wait for a long time, there is a delay on the way, do you think you are here to talk about business, or go upstairs to the private room to talk about business?"

Gong Chuntai pointed upstairs and said, "Go upstairs to talk, go upstairs to talk." ”

After speaking, he got up and met the tent, and ordered the teahouse to go upstairs to prepare a private room. Then Gong Chuntai accompanied these businessmen upstairs.

When he walked into the private room, the tea house guy had already put the tea and snacks on the table, and Gong Chuntai specially instructed that there was no need to wait, so the guy withdrew from the private room, leaving only these people to talk in the private room.

"Are you all right?"

Seeing that there were no outsiders, Gong Chuntai went straight to the point and no longer pretended to be businessmen, and those people also changed their serious expressions. "It's all settled, two people are settled in Chinatown, two people are settled in the countryside, they are all reliable people to cover them, and the Americans will definitely not be able to catch them. I wonder if Gong Tou has arranged it? When to go? Where to get there? ”

"It's also arranged over there, and I'll leave in a few days. As for where exactly? You don't have to inquire about what boat to take, go back and tell the four of them that they must not show their faces these days, and when they go to Sumatra, they will be considered free. ”

Gong Chuntai was also cautious, and did not say anything about his contact with Lu Ping, the commander of the Chinese task force. The less one person knows, the less risk of leaks, and until the four men left Manila, he was the only one who knew about it.

As for the four people who were hidden by Gong Chuntai. All of them are Vietnamese and belong to an anti-French force. It turned out to be organized by the anti-French elements in the highlands of northern Vietnam, with little combat effectiveness, and they were more bandits than guerrillas, and the anti-French forces had been indirectly recruited by the Military Intelligence Service not long ago. Some time ago, the armed group sent four assassins to follow a Vietnamese businessman who cooperated with the French colonial authorities to Manila, and assassinated him in Manila, retrieving a vital business document, which had been sent back to the headquarters of the Military Intelligence Agency through diplomatic mail, but the four Vietnamese assassins were not very cautious in the operation, showing their feet, and were targeted by the American colonial authorities in the Philippines, fortunately, Gong Chuntai acted in time to transfer the four assassins, but hiding in Manila is not a long-term solution after all, That's why Gong Chuntai went to Lu Ping for help.

These "businessmen" who came to the teahouse to meet with Gong Chuntai were also Gong Chuntai's subordinates, but they were not intelligence officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau, they were only members of the local Chinese community, and they belonged to the role of Jianghu. It is a peripheral organization organized by Gong Chuntai using the party network, and even if it is exposed, it will not involve the Military Intelligence Bureau and the central government, at most it will involve the Chinese community, and the entire Nanyang region. In the past, the colonial authorities adopted the means of using China to contain China, dividing and disintegrating these Chinese communities, coercing and inducing, and plunging them into internal strife, but now, under the organization of the Nanyang Small United Front, these Chinese communities are gradually moving towards unity, which is also very helpful for the actions of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Gong Chuntai didn't talk much with these subordinates, a few people sat in the private room and ate some tea and snacks, and then dispersed, and the members of the community left first. Gong Chuntai was the last to go, and after the tent, he sat in the lobby and read the newspaper for a while, and then left calmly and called a rickshaw on the street. Tell the coachman to take him to a hotel.

Outside of Chinatown, the hotel was a small American expatriate hotel, not a luxury. Gong Chuntai lived here during his stay in Manila, and by now he had lived in the hotel for more than ten days, always coming in and out every day, giving the impression of a hard-working Chinese businessman.

Gong Chuntai stepped into the main entrance of the hotel and raised his eyes to see a very familiar person, it was Jiang Lingwu, the military attache of the Chinese Consulate in Manila, who had served as a military attache in Manila for almost two years. During this period, he met with Gong Chuntai many times, but he did not know Gong Chuntai's true identity, only knew that Gong Chuntai was a leader of the party in Hunan in the past and had some friendship with the president.

"Xiao Jiang! Why are you here? I heard that you went back to China to report on your work, and you will return to the Philippines so soon? ”

Gong Chuntai stepped forward and greeted Jiang Yinwu, who was booking a room at the front desk.

"Brother Gong? Are you staying in this hotel? Or visiting friends? Jiang Huwu was also a little surprised.

Gong Chuntai glanced at the tall foreigner standing beside Jiang Lingwu, and hugged his fists at the two.

"I went to the Philippines to do business, and now I live in this hotel. Xiao Jiang, who is this foreigner next to you? ”

"This is Mr. Morrisson, the editor-in-chief of the Far East of The Times, and he came from Guangzhou by plane with me. I didn't expect Brother Gong to live here, if I wasn't in a hurry to leave, I would definitely ask Brother Gong to give me another day. ”

Jiang Huwu introduced the Australian reporter next to him to Gong Chuntai, and told Mo Lixun about Gong Chuntai's background in the rivers and lakes.

"So you're the one" Chef Revolution. The protagonist of the company, fortunately, fortunately. I didn't think you would become a businessman. ”

As a well-informed reporter, of course he still remembered the legendary stories in the "Wushen Revolution" of that year, and the uprising of the cruiser "Haishen" of the Qing court navy was undoubtedly one of the more impressive revolutionary events.

"Polite, polite. Now these days. Doing business to make money is the right way, besides, I am free and loose, "two are accustomed to military discipline, so I simply abandon the military and engage in business"※

Gong Chuntai shook the Australian with a smile, he had no intention of focusing on his past, so he immediately turned the topic away and complimented Morrixun a few words.

It turned out that Mr. Morrison had arrived in Manila by plane, but the "Progress, No.? Mr. Morrison must have been a brave and fearless journalist. To be honest, I don't dare to fly now, for fear of falling halfway through. When I was planted in the sea, I was not very watery. ”

Seeing that Gong Chuntai was talking funny, Morrison also smiled, pointed to his legs, and then pointed to his feet.

"Truth be told, my legs and feet were shaking all the time during the take-off and landing. Speaking of bravery and fearlessness. I am nowhere near as revolutionary as Mr. Gong. As well as officers like Colonel Chiang. ”

A few people were polite, and then Gong Chuntai and Jiang Huwu agreed on the time of the next meeting, and then they dispersed, Gong Chuntai went back to the guest room, and Mo Lixun also carried his briefcase and followed the hotel manager to the room that Jiang Huwu had booked for him just now.

Morrison followed the hotel manager into the room. I first looked at the furnishings in the guest room, although it was simple, but clean, and there was an electric fan. There's even a radio at the desk in the corner.

Beat away the hotel manager, Morrison took off his shirt, and then walked to the brand-new electric fan, and before turning on the switch, he deliberately looked at the trademark and inscription, which was actually made in China, so he turned on the power switch of the electric fan with great emotion.

"China's progress is really fast, I think. If the war in Europe continues for a few more years, perhaps Chinese goods will dominate the entire Southeast Asian market. Even American goods cannot compete with it

Huang didn't get distracted for long, he quickly turned his attention to his work, as a journalist with a keen sense of smell, Morrison was always looking for valuable news clues, and now, there is a piece of news worth following.

Sitting down at the desk in the corner, Morrison took pen and paper from his briefcase and quickly began drafting a press release.

"As a journalist, I'm very excited right now, for the simple reason that I was probably the first journalist in the world to travel long distances by plane, and just today I boarded a passenger plane from Guangzhou, China. I flew directly to Manila City in the Philippines via Hong Kong, and was warmly welcomed by the Manila authorities as I stepped off the plane, and if all goes well, readers may see me with the pilot in the newspapers in a few days.

This passenger plane, which can fly long-range missions, is made by an aircraft factory in China, and it is worth mentioning that this aircraft is an all-metal structure, which is not only stronger than those with wooden skeletons and canvas skins, but also lighter!

Yes, this is what the Chinese call "progress." The passenger plane was certainly lighter than a wooden plane of the same size, because it used a new aluminum alloy that was not only hard but also lightweight, and this new alloy material was able to be manufactured in large quantities thanks to the hydropower stations and electrolytic aluminum factories that the central government had concentrated on building in the southwest of China, without which the Oriental country, which was once far behind the times, would probably never have been able to make this alloy and the planes that were made from it.

A reader once wrote to ask why China was reluctant to join the side of the Entente and take concrete actions to defend world peace and uphold international justice. And not just lip service to the call for peace and justice?

Now, perhaps you can see from the Progress, passenger plane some of the reasons why China is reluctant to join the Entente camp, because in the eyes of many Chinese, in friendly actions towards China. The Germans were far ahead of the other powers. Without the industrial technical assistance of the Germans, the Chinese could not have achieved their current industrial achievements. To put it in a less exaggerated way, the Chinese factories are now making products as small as a screw or a passenger plane as small as a passenger plane, and now the Chinese factories are using these German technologies to make cheap and high-quality goods to occupy the vast markets of Asia, while at the same time, Chinese businessmen, accustomed to extracting profits from the land, have benefited enormously from this frenzied industrial expansion. And they are also just as Western businessmen once did, using the huge profits brought by industry to further expand their industrial empire, which of course cannot be separated from the guidance of the government, but without sufficient industrial technical support, this rapid industrial expansion is impossible to achieve.

Even now, when the war in Europe has turned the prosperity of European industry into smoke, in China, in this and in the Eastern countries, there are still many German technicians assisting their Chinese counterparts, researching new technologies and exhibiting new technologies. How, then, could the Chinese abandon their friendship with the Germans under such circumstances? Although it is true that this friendship is based on mutual benefit.

It is said that the aluminum alloy used to make the "Progressive" passenger plane was developed by a group of German metallurgists, and there is no formula for them. Maybe the plane won't fly at all. So. I still had to come to the Philippines by ship this time.

The reason why Chinese technicians call the passenger plane they have built that can carry 20 people "progress." Perhaps it is the best expression of their voice, China needs progress in this era, and they are indeed improving.

No matter how Europeans evaluate China's position in the European war, it cannot change the fact that while Europeans are using guns and ammunition made in European factories to turn Europe into ruins, the Chinese are taking advantage of this rare opportunity to show their industry and national power. Perhaps, when the Europeans have finished their conflict and look back at the Far East, they will be surprised to see that a sleeping lion is opening its eyes, and although it may still be a little confused, it has woken up after all, and its roar may only be a matter of time