On April 1, 1937, history took a big change here, in the original history, Kong Xiangxi was going to take a ship to England to participate in the coronation ceremony of the British royal family, and in this time and space, because Jiang Cheng provided him with a list of Japanese spies lurking around Chiang Mediation, so that Chiang Intermediary judged from history that the war would not break out within a year into a major war that was about to break out, and Sato's diplomatic efforts had become out-and-out acting and calm before the storm in the eyes of Chiang Mediation. Therefore, Jiang Zhong secretly ordered Dai Li and others to jointly perform a big play for some special viewers around him.

I don't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, today is April Fool's Day in the West, Jiang Intermediary, Lin Sen, Song Ziwen and others came to the railway station, ready to send Kong Xiangxi and his party to Shanghai by train and then to the United Kingdom. Kong Xiangxi kept smiling and bowing his head, as if to show modesty. Kong Lingkan and others are accompanied by him, and it seems that everything is so normal, but the strange thing is that Kong Xiangxi is actually wearing sunglasses today, which is a little different from his usual image. The title of today's declaration is that Minister Kong is about to visit the United Kingdom or discuss a new Sino-British trade agreement.

At the Nanjing Airport on the other side, at this time, the outside was loose and the inside was tight, and Song Meiling accompanied the group and said, "Yongzhi, you will work hard for you to visit Germany secretly this time." ”

Kong Xiangxi said with a smile, "Madame, why do you say this, we are all our own people, and this time we are also for the party-state, and it is normal to take some risks." ”

Dai Li, who was next to him, said, "We have arranged a qiē, fly to Yunnan first, and then go to India, about five or six times to get to Berlin, but the plane is more dangerous after all, it is best to bring a parachute and be prepared." ”

Kong Xiangxi laughed and said, "Yunong, look at my appearance, isn't it a blessing?" ”

At this time, an old man with a western face standing next to Kong Xiangxi said, "We are also ready in Germany, please rest assured that Mrs. Song will definitely be smooth this secret operation." ”

Jiang Cheng couldn't help but feel admiration for the Ming Xiu plank road played by Jiang Intermediary and Dai Li, and secretly crossed Chen Cang. Kong Xiangxi and his entourage will secretly fly to Berlin, Germany, to discuss arms purchases, and Dai Li sent someone to pretend to be Kong Xiangxi and his entourage to go to Britain, and then exchange them back when the steamer arrives in Europe, so that China can avoid Japan's eyes and ears, quietly carry out war preparation activities, and try to delay the outbreak of a full-scale war.

The 1937 airliner was not as comfortable and fast as later generations, and everyone had to sleep and talk as much as possible to force themselves to forget about their physical discomfort.

Kong Xiangxi knew that Jiang Cheng's visit this time was due to Jiang's intermediary deliberately entrapping him, so he brought him to discuss many things, and the foreigner was Alexander von Falkenhausen, the former principal of the German Dresden Infantry School. Although he was German, he was extremely trusted by Chiang's intermediaries, and although he was not called the "Chairman Trustee" like his predecessor, Admiral Hans von Seeckt, he assisted China in developing a self-sufficient arms industry and helped build a defense system south of the Yangtze River. It can be said that the later War of Resistance can be resisted and successfully fought into a protracted war, and he has a certain credit. This time, he went with him precisely because he wanted to use his knowledge of European countries and military contacts to choose a cheaper and more suitable preparation for military procurement. As early as last year's arms purchase, he purchased a large amount of equipment for China that was extremely suitable for China, regardless of whether it was German or not.

Kong Xiangxi asked Falkenhausen, "Falkenhausen, what kind of equipment do you think we should buy this time?" ”

Falkenhausen raised his eyes and said, "We in China (I have to say that these Germans have really deep feelings for China after becoming Chinese instructors) are not financially adequate, but it is also a large country with a large population and a vast territory, and our enemy Japanese soldiers and weapons and equipment are far superior to us, although we are equipped with German armor divisions, but so far only three divisions have really completed training, and the other 17 divisions have just begun to be trained, but the weapons and equipment are far from the real German army, Especially in terms of heavy firepower, so I build yì this military purchase is still to supplement the equipment of these 20 German weapons, especially in terms of heavy firepower, according to our plan, is to prepare to stick to the first line of defense line in Nanjing, according to the European combat experience, heavy artillery, heavy machine guns and battle defense artillery are the most important fire support points, I think we are trying to buy hundreds of heavy machine guns this time, about 50 battle defense guns and about 10 heavy guns. ”

Jiang Cheng listened to it next to him, and couldn't help but feel that this amount was too small, so he asked, "How much money do we have?" Why only buy so much? ”

Kong Xiangxi said with a wry smile: "Our Republic of China can be said to have been unable to make ends meet, if it weren't for Ziwen and I to make up for the seams, and borrow domestic and foreign debts, we would have been unable to operate a long time ago, and we would not have taken money for arms purchases between us and Germany." ”

Jiang Cheng thought about his memory and said, "Is it relying on agricultural products and ores to pay off debts?" ”

Kong Xiangxi nodded and said, "That's right, we have a loan agreement with Germany of 100 million marks, which was reached in April last year, with a term of 5 years, and we can use 20 million marks to buy arms in Germany every year, but we need to repay 10 million marks worth of mineral sands and other raw materials every year, and the repayment period is 10 years, which is equivalent to a credit loan of 10 million marks from Germany to China every year." ”

Jiang Cheng thought for a while and said, "This won't work, 20 million marks, we can buy too few things." ”

Falkenhausen said helplessly, "Jiang, I also know that we don't have enough equipment, but what can we do if we don't have money?" ”

Kong Xiangxi sighed, "We are clever women, it is difficult to cook without rice, now we can only find a way to use these 20 million marks well." ”

Jiang Cheng thought for a while and said, "Our war with Japan will probably break out this year or next year, and I would better spend all the 80 million marks at once this time, even so, I am not enough." ”

Falkenhausen smiled, "Unless you can convince Hitler, you must know that the last time we bought 150 howitzers, it was because we were taking out a loan that the German government was reluctant to do, and the price was quite high." ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "I have to think of a way." ”

Kong Xiangxi and Falkenhausen looked at each other, amused at the naivety and ignorance of this hairy boy, do you think the German government will help China so easily?

Along the way, Jiang Cheng listened to Kong Xiangxi and Falkenhausen discuss whether they should buy one more machine gun and ten fewer rifles, and Jiang Cheng was extremely twisted when he heard it, a country's procurement is actually so little, but now it is a time of survival, and he can't even get together the equipment of a dozen divisions with all his national strength, which is really unimaginable. Jiang Cheng couldn't help but wonder if he was trying to improve the equipment of the White Army, how much would it really change in China's future? Although I have known for a long time that the Golden Ten Years are not worthy of the name, the results are so dismal that I can't imagine that 20 million Reichsmarks are only 6 million dollars.

-- When Berlin Jiang Cheng and Kong Xiangxi and the others got off the plane, they only felt that their whole body was sore. The planes of this era are uncomfortable and slow, which can exhaust Jiang Cheng.

Since it is still a period of comprehensive cooperation between China and Germany, the Chinese mission in Germany is still quite courteous, when Jiang Cheng followed Kong Xiangxi off the plane, it was Hitler's confidant Joachim von Ribbentrop who came to greet him, Kong Xiangxi stepped forward and talked happily with Ribbentrop in fluent German, Gallagher was translating in real time, but it was just some words of mutual greeting, because this was a secret visit, so not many people came to greet him.

Kong Xiangxi wanted to talk to Ribbentrop about arms procurement, Jiang Cheng just wanted to take this opportunity to go to the employees of Weihua Company who came to Germany first, Kong Xiangxi actually didn't want to give Jiang Cheng the credit this time, so he let him move freely. When Jiang Cheng found the place, he found that it was a very large storefront in the center of the city, and there was a basement below, and the person in charge was a young gang member named Chen Nan who grew up in a German Chinese town.

Jiang Cheng looked at the empty basement and felt that it was a good teleportation point, so he put the space-time seal here, and said to Chen Nan, "I'm going to contact our people to transport the medicine over, you immediately go and buy two houses on the front and back, on the left and right, gather more people, and be optimistic about this place." I'm going to find a way to talk to the German government and ask them to help us protect this place. ”

Chen Nan said he understood. Jiang Cheng found Huang Biao again and instructed, "I'm going to go out to transport goods, don't let anyone into the warehouse, understand?" ”

Huang Biao had already seen Jiang Cheng's magic once last time, and he knew that he shouldn't ask more, so he nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'll be in the store." ”

Jiang Cheng entered the warehouse alone and immediately traveled back to the modern era, and when he opened his eyes, there was a warehouse of medicines, and it seemed that Yao Tian had piled up the goods according to his instructions. Since it was daytime, he found Yao Tian after leaving the warehouse, Yao Tian was a little surprised by Jiang Cheng's sudden appearance, and didn't say anything, just asked, "Mr. Jiang, do you have any instructions?" ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and asked, "Are the medicines ready?" I'll be ready to ship it away tomorrow. ”

Yao Tian nodded and said, "It's all in the warehouse." ”

Jiang Cheng thought of something again and said, "Is there a camera in our warehouse?" ”

Yao Tian shook his head and said, "It's not inside, it's just that there is a decoration at the door, what's the matter, Mr. Jiang, do you want to tune the video to see?" ”

Jiang Cheng shook his head and said, "Go and unload all the cameras, from now on, our warehouse is not allowed to have cameras." ”

Although Yao Tian didn't quite understand, he still nodded and said that he would do it.

Jiang Cheng looked at the feeling of the same, just wait for the 30-hour cooldown time to pass, and also take the opportunity to go back and prepare to take a break, Yu Na was also very surprised to see Jiang Cheng, but when she heard that it was just a turn and went home to rest, and when she was about to leave tomorrow, she was a little depressed, but she didn't lose her temper willfully, but prepared a lot of good dishes to comfort Jiang Cheng, Jiang Cheng was not very happy when he returned home because he was not very happy in the Republic of China, but it made Yu Na worried, When eating, I persuaded Jiang Cheng from time to time not to work too hard.

Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just that the business didn't go well, okay, don't think about it, I will definitely be able to win the business this time." As he spoke, he hugged Yu Na, indicating that there was me.

When Jiang Cheng returned to Germany again with a lot of medicines, Chen Nan was stunned when he saw these drugs, and hurriedly called to help the people to keep an eye on the warehouse 24 hours a day, fortunately, this warehouse is an underground warehouse, just stare at the entrance.

Jiang Cheng looked at these drugs and said, "Now that the medicine has arrived, the business can also be started, contact the news reporter immediately, Chen Nan, you will come forward to announce the establishment of the Berlin branch of Weihua Company." ”

Huang Biao and Chen Nan responded and immediately went to make arrangements.

When the reporter outside heard that Weihua Company, which had been listed for almost a week, was finally going to open, he immediately boiled, Chen Nan took the opportunity to stand outside to be interviewed by reporters, constantly emphasizing that the main reason why Weihua Company will open in Berlin again is because of the long-term friendly cooperation between China and Germany, followed by satisfaction with the German business environment, and at the same time announced that there will only be one branch in Berlin on the European continent to sell penicillin and sulfonamides.

When not only penicillin was sold at the same time, but also sulfonamides, reporters scrambled to ask about the price and quantity.

Chen Nan took out the bill of goods that Jiang Cheng gave him and said, "In the Berlin branch outside, 300,000 penicillins and 10 million sulfonamides are prepared outside. The price is - 8,000 units of penicillin only 20 marks, sulfonamide a grain of a mark, of course, gold we are more welcome, there are early pick-up and discounts, but the goods are limited, natural persons are limited to 5 penicillin or 20 sulfonamides each time. ”

A reporter asked excitedly: "Could it be that your Weihua Company no longer collects gold?" Have you started collecting banknotes? ”

Chen Nan replied, "Because we need to use the Reichsmark we receive in Germany to buy the materials that we urgently need in China, we also accept paper money, of course, if we find that the Mark we receive cannot be used in Germany, then we will only accept gold." ”

A reporter laughed and said, "If you can't spend it, we will help you buy supplies, you have brought a lot of cheap medicines to our German people, and we thank you that it is too late." ”

Most of the headlines in the German newspapers that night were headlines such as the flower of Sino-German friendship -- Berlin Weihua Company.

Hitler looked at the newspaper and said, "They are now opening the company to our Berlin?" ”

Himmler raised his glasses and said, "Yes, they are now starting to collect marks, and they also said that they will spend all the money they receive in Germany, I think their goal is this arms purchase." ”

Hitler put down the newspaper and stood up for a while, thought about it, and said, "Our German equipment is the best in the world, they can buy it if they want, as long as it is light weapons, they can sell it, but the price must be increased, you must know that they are spending all the money we lend them now, in addition, do not sell them heavy weapons such as artillery tanks casually, we ourselves are not enough." ”

Himmler nodded and said, "Even if we want to supply it in large quantities, I don't think they have the financial resources to buy it, China is not a rich country." According to Ribbentrop's report, this time China mainly relied on the 20 million marks borrowed from China and Germany, but they also mentioned that they could use the remaining 60 million marks in advance, but we refused. ”

Hitler nodded and continued: "Now we have given the Chinese a loan of 10 million marks a year, we can't raise it any more, and listening to the report, now the contradictions between China and Japan seem to have eased, China and Japan we need, we can't be too partial to China, this matter is like this first, unless they can have better quid pro quo." The most important thing for us now is to revive our army, not only in terms of weapons, but also in the plain habits of the soldiers, and we must find a way to put the shackles that Britain and France put on our necks. You can now report on the situation in Austria now. ”

When Jiang Cheng returned to the Chinese Embassy in Germany, Kong Xiangxi was worried about military purchases, and when he saw Jiang Cheng, he couldn't help but sigh.

Jiang Cheng asked, "How is it, Minister Kong, how are our arms purchases?" How many ordnance are the Germans willing to supply us? ”

Kong Xiangxi shook his head and said, "It's not much progress, light weapons are easy to say, but this artillery is very stingy, and Germany is not willing to provide too many advanced weapons for China to use, saying that it is afraid of being gossiped by the international community." And the price is also very high, we just have such a small amount of money, we really can't buy much? ”

Jiang Cheng asked, "Isn't there any way?" ”

Kong Xiangxi sighed, "The Germans mean either pay or exchange for something else." Where is the good thing in our country, oh, your penicillin is the same. ”

Jiang Cheng knew that Jiang intermediary let him come in case he hoped that he could use penicillin to trade with Germany for the sake of the country, but he didn't want to contribute penicillin for no reason, although he said to Yu Qiaqing in Shanghai that he would send penicillin to Germany if it was really not possible, but now he has not reached this journey. Jiang Cheng thought for a while and said, "That's why they treat their equipment as treasures, what if they know that their equipment is actually garbage now?" Will they still keep these things guarded? I'm afraid we'll be hoping that we'll buy it and equip it with new and sharper gear. ”

Kong Xiangxi nodded and said, "Of course, but Germany's equipment is notoriously sophisticated, how can it be so outdated that they want to abandon it?" ”

Jiang Cheng stood up and walked around and said, "Give me five days, I will let Germany's equipment fall behind the world overnight, Minister Kong, are you willing to believe me?" ”

Kong Xiangxi said in disbelief: "Do you know magic? How is it possible in five days? ”

Jiang Cheng said with a smile, "Although the world war has passed for so many years, but the development of equipment in Europe has not relaxed at all, Minister Kong, please invite the central power personnel of Germany to have a small dance party in five days, let me give you a little magic." ”

Kong Xiangxi said sternly, "Gu Quan, don't be joking, once this goes wrong, it will become an international diplomatic incident, and now we and Japan are already about to storm, if we lose the friendship of Germany again, the two of us will definitely become national sinners." ”

Jiang Cheng said confidently, "Don't worry, we don't have anything to do anyway, let's treat a dead horse as a live horse doctor." ”

Kong Xiangxi thought to himself, this is okay, anyway, I will take the merit, and you have resisted.

"I'm going to make some preparations when I get back." After saying that, Jiang Cheng left the room, came to the pharmacy, and said to Huang Biao, who was guarding us, "Prepare a room for me, I will retreat for a few days, don't send anything in, and don't allow anyone to come in, understand?" ”

Huang Biao knew in his heart that this magical owner was about to disappear again, and went to find the power behind it, and said loudly: "Understood." So he took his stool and sat down at the door, ready to keep watch.