Chapter 133: Typos and Giving Up an Inch
"Qin Yu, the commander of the 27th Division, has arrived!" Outside the courtyard of Harano Iji, a middle-aged man wearing a black kimono with a sturdy body reported to the courtyard.
Harano Iji's house is very spacious, and there are carriages parked outside, there are no cars in Fengtian City at this time, and when the usual wealthy people put on a show, they are all carriages, and there are only a few people like Qin Yu who ride horses directly.
"Master Qin, you are here, you will miss the distance, you will miss the distance." Harano Iji greeted Otsuki with a smile.
"Mr. Harano, you speak Chinese really well, and you have been in my country for many years." Qin Yu shook hands with Harano Iji.
"Yes, I came to your country in the first year, and the empire is now getting stronger and more prosperous, but it's a pity that I am the duty, and I have no time to separate, I really miss the beautiful cherry blossom tree, and I don't know when I will be able to go back in the future." Harano Iji's words seem polite, but this style undoubtedly regards himself as the master here.
A year of the first day? Isn't that what we call the First Sino-Japanese War? Qin Yu snorted coldly in his heart, "Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in the west, maybe General Yuanye can live in Japan for a long time in the future, although our Northeast people are hospitable, but we will not always entertain them." ”
"Really? If God does not take it, it will be blamed. I don't think I'll have much chance of returning to China in the future. "Where would Iji Harano not be able to hear Qin Yu's words.
Some of the people present who could understand didn't expect that Qin Yu would exchange swords with the master of Harano Iji as soon as he came.
"Okay, today is General Yuanye's birthday, and there are still a lot of people to greet, so I won't block your door." Qin Yu shrugged and smiled, too lazy to engage in a senseless verbal dispute with Harano Iji.
Qin Yu took Ding Cheng and Gong Baotian to the side. Glance at the eye. Walk towards the German consul Tiggs.
"Hey, old friend, you're so early."
"Yes, but not everyone has the qualifications to be late, the weightless ones always come the earliest, and only a person with great power like Senior Commander Qin will arrive at the back." Egus joked with Qin Yu. "But Master Qin and General Yuan Ye don't seem to have a very pleasant conversation."
"A little bit of a dispute. It's not interesting to say too much, when will the equipment I ordered arrive? Qin Yu asked.
"Senior Commander Qin, you've urged me several times." Tiggs said with a bitter face.
"Isn't there anything I can't help it, the faster Fengtian develops, the more things are needed."
"I have good news for you, Lord Qin." Tiggs Road.
"What's the good news?"
"The head office of Siemens will send someone to contact Master Qin, who believes that Master Qin is a very potential partner for cooperation."
"Really? That's really good news. Qin Yu nodded, Siemens at this time, in the field of electricity and electrical appliances. In the entire world, the technique is at the forefront. Until later generations, Germany was still the largest exporter of high-precision instruments, and even the powerful United States had a lot to import from Germany. Increasing cooperation with Germany is a long-term strategy in the future. Even the famous Japanese Zero fighter in later generations came up with something called wind metal after doing scientific research with German scientists. It made the dead weight of the Zero War low and the endurance unique in the early days of World War II. The U.S. Air Force couldn't find the north.
"Siemens has great interest in Mr. Qin's cooperation project, and I believe that the cooperation between Mr. Qin and Siemens will be pleasant."
Egus laughed. As a consul, he was not rich himself, but he was able to bring a large amount of business to Siemens, and to local steel mills, bringing enough commercial benefits to the big businessmen in China. Such an achievement can undoubtedly make Tagus's status rise sharply, and Tagus can also earn a generous intermediary fee, so Tags is very enthusiastic about Qin Yu, a big financier.
"Of course, for friends who have business interests. I am very welcome, by the way, this time I also plan to buy 200 transport trucks, of course, my people will not drive these things, if something goes wrong, they will not fix it, Daimler in your country is not bad, Mr. Tiggs can help me introduce it. ”
Qin Yudao, with the rise of wool spinning, leather goods, and brewing industries in Taonan, the requirements for the transportation of goods have become higher and higher, and the transportation cost of ordinary carriages is too high, and the characteristics of low efficiency have begun to be revealed, of course, it is not too serious at this time. In addition, groups of horses come and go from Changchun and Taonan, so that the environment on both sides of the Changtao Highway is not very good, and the fishy smell of horse manure and horse urine is all year round. Even if you assign someone to manage it, you can't eliminate this situation. Replacing horses with machinery is a historical necessity, and Qin Yu is only speeding up this process now.
At this time, the price of trucks was very expensive, although the price of cars in the world fell due to the influence of the Ford Model T, but it was still around 13,400 US dollars, and 200 trucks were nearly 300,000 US dollars. At this time, Daimler was far from being the famous Mercedes-Benz trident in later generations. Originally, Qin Yu liked the cheap Ford. However, at this time, the Ford Model T was very popular, and its price advantage was popular in the world, and the scenery was unparalleled for a while, and no car company could compare with it. The icing on the cake is not as good as charcoal in the snow. The Ford Model T, which produces hundreds of thousands of taels a month, may be surprised by Qin Yu's 300,000 US dollars, but he will not have too many surprises under his huge profits of millions or even tens of millions of dollars a year.
But the $300,000 meant something completely different to Daimler, and under the huge threat of Ford Motor Company, such an order could at least help to survive the difficulties for a while.
For Qin Yu, a transport truck of 13,400 dollars a piece is undoubtedly very expensive, but it is worth paying a small price to promote the automobile industry to take root in Mukden Province as soon as possible. First, this batch of cars was used to train a certain number of maintenance workers, and then the equipment for the production of automobiles was generated, and some auto parts were produced. After the technicians, technicians, and some simple accessories can be produced by themselves, it will be natural to launch the automobile production line, so that no one will use a lot of machinery when they buy it back. It is impossible for Qin Yu to directly recruit a large number of technicians and mechanics who produce automobiles from Germany. Also get Mukden natives.
Therefore. Even if the price paid now is higher, it is necessary, and it seems that it is a loss in front of it, but looking back, in a few years, time cannot be bought by money. In the next month or two, or even less, the money will be earned.
"Brother Zhang, you're here too." After chatting with Egus. Qin Yu raised his glass and raised his glass to Zhang Zuolin, who was walking this way.
"Yes, I didn't expect General Harano to invite me to this unpopular character." Zhang Zuolin laughed at himself.
"Brother Zhang's words are a little humble, you are also a number one person in Fengtian City, if Yuan Ye dares to put on a face here, the two of us will leave directly, they are all raised by their fathers and mothers, and they don't need to dump others." Qin Yu said with a smile.
"Brother, this is what I said in my heart." Seeing that Qin Yu didn't look pretentious, Zhang Zuolin also felt a little emotion in his heart. In fact, the tempers of the two people are very compatible, and they want to clean up the bandits at the beginning. They have also fought together, but unfortunately there is only one in Fengtian City, and no one will let go easily, although they are still polite on the surface, they are already on the same page in private. "There's a dance party in a minute, my old arms and legs. I can't dance anymore, Brother Qin is young and vigorous now, why don't you find a favorite dance partner to kill time. ”
"In this place, I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at me, and it is very uncomfortable. Where do you get the spare time to dance, besides, I really can't dance. ”
Qin Yu and Zhang Zuolin sat aside, but the Japanese obviously didn't want to make Qin Yu and Zhang Zuolin stop so easily.
Yuan Ye was polite at the front desk for a while, and then shifted the topic to Qin Yu and Zhang Zuolin, "I am fortunate to invite Master Qin and Master Zhang to two distinguished guests today..."
"General Yuanye's love for calligraphy and painting is well known, and he usually likes to collect some Chinese poetry and ancient paintings, I wonder if Master Qin and Master Zhang can leave ink treasures for General Yuanye to celebrate his birthday?" In the eyes of these reporters, Qin Yu and Zhang Zuolin can be regarded as generals in the Republic of China, but the Republic of China is weak and Japan is strong. The gold content between the two is obviously not the same. Seeing that others were polite to Harano Iji, Qin Yu and Zhang Zuolin sat aside and didn't buy it much, so they naturally felt uncomfortable. Qin Yu and Zhang Zuolin's past, most of these Japanese are clear, one is a gentleman and evil, and the other is a beard, they are all the same, they don't know how to learn, and they don't have a few taels of ink in their stomachs. That's when he said that he squeezed the two.
"Yes, let's welcome Master Qin and Master Zhang with applause! Being able to see the two of them is really a great joy in life. "Harano Iji had an unpleasant quarrel with Qin Yu just now, and he didn't have a good chat with Zhang Zuolin, and he also wanted to rectify the two of them a little and make a fool of them.
Mother Ni wall, Qin Yu scolded secretly in his heart, so many people coaxed, he is not a big girl, if he can't rely on it, I'm afraid that before people get out of the yard, the jokes have already been spread, but his family knows his own affairs, and he has a few catties and taels Qin Yu knows very well, the pen words can barely be handled, and the brush words are called ghost paintings. If you don't go up to be laughed at, you will be laughed at if you go up, and you won't please both sides.
Zhang Zuolin also looked at Qin Yu with the same eyes, the green tendons on his forehead jumped, obviously scolding his mother in his heart.
"Hengshu is a dead word, go on, just retract it and I can't afford to lose this person." Qin Yu sighed in a low voice.
"Brother Qin is right, it's going to rain in the sky, and the mother wants to marry, so he's a bird." Zhang Zuolin is also free and easy, and said hesitantly.
At that moment, the two of them got up, and Dao walked to the front desk with great momentum.
"Since you are warmly invited, I will not refuse, I am a well-known person who loves tigers, and the tiger roaring picture on the wall is not bad, take it down and let me inscribe it, and it can be regarded as staining the light of others." Qin Yu is straightforward, Nima's, if you want me to make a fool of me, labor and management won't let you have a good time, so why don't you spoil a good painting.
"No problem." Harano Iji immediately asked people to take down the tiger roar picture on the wall, and then asked Zhang Zuolin what he wanted.
Zhang Zuolin said, "Just give me a blank piece of paper and write a word casually." ”
Soon someone brought in the table and laid out the paintings and white paper.
Qin Yu lifted the brush and peeked at Zhang Zuolin, and found that Zhang Zuolin was also decent, with an intellectual look.
You just pretend, Qin Yu pursed his lips, and the magnesium lights next to him flashed from time to time, obviously the Japanese wanted to record the ugliness of the two.
Qin Yu held the idea of losing people and not losing the battle, just pick up the pen and write, put the pen horizontally, and then make a vertical bend, and suddenly remembered that something was wrong, Qin Yu was ready to write the four words of the Northeast Tiger Roar. I suddenly remembered that there didn't seem to be a simplified Chinese character yet. But most of the words have been written incorrectly, what should I do? It's definitely not going to work if you keep writing.
Qin Yu injured his brain, and directly went down with a big fork, and then wrote a crooked "East" word next to him. Seeing that fork, Qin Yu wiped a sweat in his heart, and continued to write, and when he wrote to Xiao, something went wrong. A fork fork has been added.
After the Siberian Tiger Roar is written, I have to write a line of words next to it that I mentioned it, fortunately, the name can be written, otherwise I will lose my face.
In short, after a line of words was written, with four or five forks and then rewritten words, Qin Yu put the brush on the table with great momentum.
When he looked at Zhang Zuolin again, Zhang Zuolin had already finished writing, although a huge tiger character was not very good-looking, but it was also a little imposing, and it could be regarded as stable. However, the inscription on the back left a "Zhang Zuolin's hand black", and someone found it at the moment and immediately pointed out the typo. Qin Yu was a little funny in his heart, but fortunately, it was not labor and management who made a fool of himself.
Zhang Zuolin saw that he had indeed made a mistake, and in the face of the coaxing of several Japanese reporters, his eyes narrowed a few times, and suddenly lit up, and he said loudly, "I don't know that there is soil under the ink characters of Lu Dao?" In the First Sino-Japanese War, Liaodong fell, lost sovereignty, and lost the country, but unfortunately I didn't go to the battlefield at that time. ”
"Good! Mr. Zhang said it well. In addition to the Japanese reporters present, there were also local officials in Fengtian, who immediately applauded, although Zhang Zuolin was uneducated, but this impatience was something that others could not catch up with.
Harano Iji didn't expect Zhang Zuolin to make such an answer, so he was bored, and looked at the painting with Qin Yu's inscription at the moment.
Qin Yu realized that something was wrong, he was patronizing Zhang Zuolin's liveliness just now, and only then did he realize that there was a soil character missing under his ink. As the saying goes, the first strike is strong, and the second strike suffers, Qin Yu said angrily, "I don't give up an inch of land!" ”
Zhang Zuolin originally thought that he was already very uneducated, and when he looked at Qin Yu's inscription, he almost couldn't help laughing out loud in front of him, and the four words "Northeast Tiger Roar" were crossed out and two words were rewritten, and the words with a brush in one hand were crooked, and there was a typo like himself at the end. Hand ink is written in hand black. The words are written like this, but seeing that Qin Yu's momentum is a little more than him, he can't help but sigh in his heart, the young people nowadays are shameless, they are much stronger than their generation.
Decades later, Qin Yu unified the Republic of China, defeated Japan, conquered the Western Regions, and fought against the Soviet Union. A hundred years after Qin Yu, this picture was also the only painting of Qin Yu with a public inscription, which caused crazy bidding by the auction house, and was auctioned off by a worshipper at a sky-high price of 300 million Chinese coins, creating a miracle in the history of auctions. (To be continued......)