The next day

In Hitler's office, Hitler was looking at Wen Jiàn, and the secretary suddenly came in and said, "Mr. Hiroshi Oshima, the Japanese military attaché, asks to see him." Hitler took off his glasses, thought for a moment, and said, "Let him in." ”

Hiroshi Oshima is the eldest son of War Minister Kenichi Oshima. His ancestral home is Gifu Prefecture, but he was born in Nagoya, his father was a pure soldier, and he studied in Germany when he was a captain, and he has a deep feeling for German training and education. Subsequently, he visited Germany several times and absorbed a lot of experience from the German army. Because of his father, Hiroshi Oshima had to memorize 10 German words every day and recite them before dinner when he was a child. Reputedly. On Sundays and winter and summer holidays, Hiroshi Oshima is always delivered to the home of the German embassy staff in Japan, and even the games are played in the German style.

Oshima Hiroshi later became the Japanese military attache in Germany, but this military attache often overstepped the bounds, without going through the embassy in 1935 and Haque to discuss the cooperation between Japan and Germany in the defense of the Soviet Union, this matter was known by the embassy, immediately reported to Tokyo, but Tokyo praised Oshima Hiroshi, Oshima Hiroshi has been running for the alliance between Japan and Germany, and has become the real person in charge of the Japanese Embassy in Germany.

Hiroshi Oshima entered the office and first gave Hitler a Japanese military salute, and then said in extremely fluent German, "Honorable Führer, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to see me." ”

Hitler nodded and said, "I wonder what is the important thing for our Japanese friends to see me this time?" ”

Hiroshi Oshima nodded and said with a stern look in his eyes, "We heard that the German government is preparing to sell a large number of weapons to China, I don't know if it's true?" ”

Although yesterday's incident was kept secret, the news that Chinese came to buy weapons slowly spread.

Hitler was a little unhappy and said, "It seems that there is no need for our German government to do such a thing to Japan." ”

Hiroshi Oshima shook his head and said, "As we all know, the Chinese government is already showing signs of reconciliation with the red issue, and at the same time, the Chinese government is vigorously propagating anti-Japanese sentiments, and we are very worried that these weapons will become a tool for them to provoke war after they reach the hands of the Chinese." We, the Great Japanese Empire, are very worried that the Chinese Government will do bad things against us, even against Manchukuo, and even against our Great Japanese Empire."

I have to say that most diplomats are indeed shameless.

Hitler was listening to a story as if China was going to invade Japan?? There must be a limit to shamelessness. However, now the cooperation between Japan and Germany is getting closer and closer, and Hitler admires Hiroshi Oshima very much, so he said, "We will consider the views of the Japanese government, but China and China have an entente in the past, and we have an arms trade agreement of 20 million marks every year, so this is just a simple business act, and it is not worth making a fuss, and I think this matter should not be worth making a fuss about." ”

Hiroshi Oshima understood that Hitler would not stop trading with China because of Japan, which he had already expected, after all, in the 1934 procurement, Japan also protested, but in the end it was ignored by Germany.

Hitler felt that he should still give Japan a step down, so he said, "The purpose of our deal with the Chinese government is to obtain rare metals and raw materials from China, and if Japan can find a way to solve this problem, we will not trade with China again." Moreover, most of the weapons we sell to China are light weapons, and we can assure our Japanese friends that we will abide by international agreements in the field of heavy weapons and will not provide them to China casually. ”

This is Hitler's heart, if China has no tungsten ore and no strategic materials, then China will indeed not be of much help to him.

Hiroshi Oshima knew that this time he had returned in vain, so he stood up and said goodbye to Hitler, and quickly sent the information to Tokyo.

Tokyo received the news that Oshima Hiroshi suspected that a Chinese envoy had gone to Germany to buy a large number of military weapons, and could not help but be a little puzzled, there were no important Chinese officials going to Germany recently, and finally had to send the news to the Japanese ambassador to China, Kawa Yueshigeru, so that he could verify, a charming woman beside Kawayue Shigeru immediately thought of Kong Xiangxi's mission as soon as she saw the telegram, and hurriedly launched an important dark line investigation, but what the Japanese did not expect was that due to Jiang Cheng's sideways interference, Most of Japan's spies in the Nationalist government were surreptitiously monitored.

On the other hand, the negotiations between Kong Xiangxi and Pentrop continued. Kong Xiangxi looked at Pentrop opposite and said with a smile, "What we mean is that we hope that your country can lend us 80 million imperial marks, and then all this money will be used to buy your country's industrial products, and on the issue of repayment, we hope to pay with ore raw materials, and repay in installments over 10 years, and we hope that the price can be further discounted." ”

Pentrop looked at the information and said, "The Führer has already instructed me about the loan, and there is no big problem in principle, but it must be repaid within five years." Let's talk about the price first, 98K rifle plus 500 rounds, our offer is 70 dollars, what do you think? ”

Kong Xiangxi shook his head and said, "We hope that the price is 50 US dollars, after all, our purchase this time is extremely large, and we have provided a lot of information, I think the price should be reflected." ”

Perhaps Hitler had told Pentrop about this before, but Bentrop didn't emphasize anything too much, so you and I, although there was some quarrel, but most of them were well discussed.

Finally, the initial pricing was $60 for the 98K rifle plus 500 rounds of ammunition, $750 for the MG-08 machine gun, $750 for the MG-08 machine gun plus 10,000 rounds for each 10,000 rounds of ammunition, $850 for the MG-34 machine gun, $1,000 for the MG-34 machine gun plus $1,000 for each 10,000 rounds of ammunition, $45 for the 30,000 barge pistols plus 1,000 rounds for each bullet, and 200 PAK37 anti-tank guns plus 1,000 rounds of ammunition each1$20,000 IG18 75mm infantry guns, 500 plus 1,000 rounds of shells each, $35,000 for Bofors M1930 75mm mountain guns, plus $50,000 for each 1,000 shells, 24 SFH18 150mm howitzers, plus 1,000 rounds of shells for each $600,000 for 50 tanks, 50 tanks for No. 2 with 300 rounds of shells and 5,000 rounds of ammunition, $15,000 for German uniforms, helmets and other miscellaneous items, plus freight. The total price is $33 million, or about 82 million Reichsmarks. 110,000,000,000 fiat.

And that's just the price of weapons, plus the various industrial equipment and other supplies that have been aided, the salaries of technicians, and so on. The total order book is close to 160 million fiat. Looking at the price of this order, Kong Xiangxi was sweating profusely.

You must know that in 1936, China's fiscal revenue was roughly 636 million yuan in tariffs, 131 million yuan in unified taxes, and 247 million yuan in salt taxes. Jiang Cheng and Kong Xiangxi are also preparing to go to several other countries to buy light machine guns, tanks and other weapons, so that it may exceed 200 million legal currency, and one fifth of the country's income will be lost, according to the modern algorithm, China's fiscal revenue in 2014 is about 14 trillion, and nearly 3 trillion yuan will be used to buy weapons. It's no wonder that Kong Xiangxi doesn't sweat.

Kong Xiangxi thought for a while and said, "This price is still too high, we hope that the price in your country can be more favorable." ”

Pentrop sighed and said, "Now that we have loaned you 80 million marks plus the previous 80 million marks, there is no need to really pay at all, and you can buy our industrial products again, what is there to hesitate about?"

Kong Xiangxi actually knows some about the price of these weapons, knowing that the Germans are actually on light weapons with normal prices, and fiercely increase the price of heavy weapons, which is mainly sold by every European country in light weapons, really asking for too high a price, the Chinese may not buy it, and heavy weapons are not what you want to buy, especially sharp weapons such as 150 howitzers, often with political conditions, and Germany also package delivery, which is too attractive to the Chinese.

Seeing Kong Xiangxi's hesitation, Pentrop said with a smile, "That's it, the price of this military purchase will be added by one layer, and the return point will also be added by two, how about it?" ”

Kong Xiangxi couldn't help but be moved when he heard it, anyway, it was the loan money, no matter what. Then he said viciously, "Add three points, and I'll let you add one and a half layers." ”

Pentrop nodded and said, "Okay, then nice to work with." ”

Kong Xiangxi seemed to be about to collapse, but in fact, he did not have the right to decide on such a large amount of orders, so he had to go back and discuss with China before continuing. Then he said, "Whether the deal is specific or not, we still have to nod our Chairman Jiang." ”

When Jiang Cheng saw this offer, he was speechless to the Germans, a 150 gun that cost only 40,000 US dollars, even if you add shells, trucks, etc., it will not exceed 130,000 US dollars, and the Germans actually asked for 700,000 yuan, these Hans are too friendly to China.

Kong Xiangxi sighed, "It's not that we can't make such a cannon, after all, we can actually make other weapons ourselves, but the production is a little lower." If your skills are not as good as others, you will naturally suffer. But it's okay, thanks to your information, we don't have to really pay for it now, so let's pay it back slowly. ”

Jiang Cheng asked, "Kong Gong, do you think this price can be pushed down?" ”

Kong Xiangxi nodded and said, "It's certain that the price will be lowered, but I don't think it will be much, and with those factories, it's still too expensive." ”

Jiang Cheng sighed and said, "Let Chairman Jiang decide." ”

After all, according to Kong Xiangxi's report, it is possible to obtain a large amount of German armament equipment this time, and depending on the quantity, it may be possible to equip dozens of divisions, and this is a real German armament division, not some German helmet divisions with only German helmets, but the price of such a large amount of equipment is also very expensive, and more importantly, those factories and military equipment manufacturing technology, these are really too important for China, which is about to go to war. But does the Republic of China have the financial resources now?

Jiang Zhong pressed the bell on the table, and Chen Bui came in and asked, "What do you have to say, Chairman of the Committee?" ”

Jiang intermediary said, "Go and call Ziwen to see me." ”

After a while, Song Ziwen came to the office, and Jiang asked the intermediary, "How much money do we have in the treasury now?" ”

As soon as Song Ziwen heard this, he knew that Jiang Intermediary wanted to spend a lot of money again, so he asked, "I don't know if there are any additional expenses?" ”

Jiang intermediary nodded and took out the telegram to Song Ziwen to see, Song Ziwen looked at it, his head jumped and said, "Gu Quan doesn't know the situation, forget it, doesn't Brother Yong know the situation in our country?" We don't have the financial resources to pay for such a large amount of equipment, especially when I see that there are no light machine guns on the list, I must be going to the Czech Republic to buy them, which is another large expenditure, and the number of tanks and armored vehicles is also relatively small, that Gu Quan must have other plans, this is just nonsense. ”

After listening to this, Jiang Intermediary sighed and said, "Yongzhi and Gu Quan both hope that our White Army officers and soldiers can have more and better equipment, not for anything else, just for the above article, whether China is in a state of war or not, the order must be completed, we can't give up this order, Ziwen, Germany collects our ore and agricultural products, can we do something in this regard?" ”

Song Ziwen thought for a while and shook his head and said, "It's difficult, in order to pay for the previous debts and orders, we have already mined with all our might, and besides, we only have rare mines, and many mines are actually not in the hands of our government, unless"

Jiang asked the intermediary, "Unless what?" ”

Song Ziwen replied, "Unless we open new treasury bonds, and then buy ore at a low price in China and give it to Germany, but then I am afraid that public opinion will be everywhere." Or the German side is willing to extend our payment deadlines, and in order to prepare for the upcoming war of resistance, our money is already tight. ”

Jiang Zhong shook his head and said, "We can't do this, when we really start fighting, military spending will definitely increase greatly, Ziwen, you have to quickly come up with a way to solve this problem." ”

Song Ziwen nodded and said, "Yes, don't worry, Chairman of the Committee, if there is really a war between China and Japan, Yongzhi and I will never let our soldiers cut off their salaries." ”

Jiang nodded and said, "Then you send a telegram to Yongzhi and tell him that we must talk to Germany well, and if it succeeds, I will make a great contribution to him." ”

-- Berlin Kong Xiangxi saw that Nanjing had made up his mind to win this order even if he smashed the pot and sold iron, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and wanted to sell a benefit to Jiang Cheng, so he found Jiang Cheng and said, "Gu Quan, there is a letter from Nanjing, and we have agreed to our procurement plan, I think we can talk about it again, press the price down a little more, and we will sign, I want you to sign on behalf of our country, how about it?" ”

Jiang Cheng asked strangely, "Minister Kong, this time you are the representative, naturally you should sign it, and I think we can talk about this price, if they are not willing to return the price, then let them give us some rifles or something." ”

Kong Xiangxi thought to himself, "No matter which of us signs, will the credit still be due to me, the head of the mission." But he said, "This should be okay, I think so, anyway, do you sign it, you sign the same, I am going to go to the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden to buy the other weapons you said, as well as the American heavy machine gun you said, I don't have much time, it is better for you to sign on your behalf." ”

Jiang Cheng thought for a while and nodded, "Our time is indeed urgent, and it makes sense for Minister Kong to think so, but the kid is unofficial and nameless, forget it, let any other person in the embassy be more suitable than me." ”

Kong Xiangxi thought that Jiang Cheng wanted to be modest at first, but he didn't expect Jiang Cheng to resolutely refuse after saying it a few times, and then he saw that he really didn't want to go, so he nodded and said, "Since Gu Quan thinks like this, I also understand, okay, then so be it." Then let's talk to the Germans about price suppression. ”

Before Jiang Cheng and Kong Xiangxi could go to Hitler, Himmler found them first.

Kong Xiangxi and Jiang Cheng were not clear about Himmler's intentions, so Kong Xiangxi asked, "I don't know what General Himmler is about?" ”

Himmler pointed to the room and signaled that he wanted to talk secretly, Kong Xiangxi nodded and said yes, Jiang Cheng waited outside alone, and after a while, Kong Xiangxi and Himmler both walked out happily.

Jiang Cheng waited for Himmler to leave, and hurriedly asked, "I don't know what happened to Himmler this time?" ”

Kong Xiangxi smiled and said, "He wants to cooperate with us in intelligence, it seems that you completely bluffed them last time, and now he firmly believes that we still have a lot of information in our hands, and said that in order to show the sincerity of cooperation, he will persuade their head of state to extend our repayment period." ”

Jiang Cheng smiled, "This is great, but I don't know what kind of intelligence cooperation they want?" ”

Kong Xiangxi sighed and said, "It's not Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union, I said Gu Quan, this is because you Wei Hua has made a big effort, Mrs. Song can tell me that your Wei Hua's intelligence ability is bottomless." ”

Jiang Cheng touched his nose and didn't speak, just smiled bitterly, bottomless, this is not a good thing, it seems that he has been blacklisted, it's just that, anyway, he can leave at any time.

Kong Xiangxi said again, "Gu Quan, if Germany has done it, it will be much easier for other small European countries to order." The Czech Republic will give goods if you have money, no matter who you are, but fortunately, we can already copy the ZB-26 ourselves, this time I came mainly to buy some gun barrels or something, our country's industry is too poor, the gap between the barrel or something and these European countries is still very large, you said anti-aircraft guns or something, I also sent someone to negotiate with Switzerland, Jiang Cheng, I have an idea, can you take a look? ”

After this cooperation, Jiang Cheng felt that Kong Xiangxi was still quite concerned about this matter, so he asked, "Minister Kong, what do you say?" ”

Kong Xiangxi rolled his eyes and said, "I think so, you see, our military purchases are almost over, and the others are some bits and pieces, but guns are not enough, you have to have money, this time I went to the UK for another purpose is to issue treasury bonds, but I think it will issue at most 30 or 40 million pounds, I hope you can go to the United States to seek loan support from the United States." ”

Jiang Cheng was embarrassed and said, "I'm just a junior military attache now, and I'm not an ambassador or anything, it's not appropriate for me to go." ”

Kong Xiangxi thought to himself: "If you do it well, I won't let you go, you have already made a great contribution to the arms procurement case, I can give you a little bit of the kickback, you still don't want to go to participate in the British coronation, in case you rob the political capital, you can't do it." He said, "It's okay, I'll let the ambassador to the United States fully support you, so it's decided." ”

Jiang Cheng wanted to say something, but Kong Xiangxi hurriedly said, "This is for the country, I hope you will not postpone it." ”

Jiang Cheng saw that Kong Xiangxi didn't say anything like this, so he nodded and agreed.

In the end, when the treaty was signed, Germany took a step back, and the loan was allowed to be paid within seven years, the total payment was 150 million marks, and Germany was willing to guarantee that the goods would reach China. Basically spent all the loans, which is also because Jiang Intermediary has begun to judge that the war will break out within a year or two, so he simply spent it and pulled it down.

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