The third child of the William family was a boy, and a month before his birth, his maternal grandfather, Andrew Mellon, rushed back from abroad and took away the child's naming rights and named him Leo. His full name is Leo Mellon William.

Since then, he has been living in Los Angeles, where he likes strawberries, apples and other fruits, and the antique artifacts collected by William Manor also make him nostalgic.

"The Spanish Civil War has been going on for almost a year, and so far there is no winner or loser, which side are you optimistic about?"

Mellon was walking, Situ Nan walked beside him, carefully supporting Mellon, the eighty old man was as thin as a piece of firewood, his eye sockets were deep, his spirit was not very good, his clothes were loose, and his clothes were raised as soon as the wind blew, as if a gust of wind could blow him down at any time.

Is this what old age looks like? If I hadn't had an accident, maybe I would have walked the streets of Guangzhou with my elderly parents, right?

Situ Nan secretly sighed in his heart. Unknowingly, in this life, he has also entered the age of not being confused, and his mentality can be described as quite old.

Hearing Mellon ask him, Situ Nan replied: "Since there is no winner or loser, it is natural to continue fighting, so if the head is broken and the blood flows, the winner will be determined after all." No one is a loser except the Spaniards, and neither is the Kremlin, at least the Kremlin gets the gold of Spain. ”

The Russians suddenly became more generous, and not long ago they made a big purchase of equipment in the world, which attracted Situ Nan's attention.

"It was not Franco who decided the victory, but Hitler and Mussolini, and Britain and France were indifferent and stood by, believing that they would not let go of such a good opportunity to train their troops."

Situ Nan said again.

Not so long ago, the Germans marched into the Rhine with trepidation. Hitler ordered to withdraw as soon as there was enemy resistance.

As a result, the French and Belgian troops ceded the Rhine. Hitler's adventure was a success. Seeing clearly the essence of Britain and France, he became more and more emboldened and began to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.

"Europe is going to be messed up again." After a while, Mellon spoke.

Maybe it's because he's old and his heart is a little soft, Situ Nan heard a little helplessness from his emotion.

Back at the door, four-year-old Leo took the freshly picked strawberries to Mellon: "Eat strawberries!" ”

It is the most naughty age, in the blink of an eye. I don't know where to go.

"It's so sweet, you can eat it too!" Mellon tasted a strawberry, smiled kindly, touched his grandson's head, and stuffed another strawberry into his grandson's mouth.

"And me?"

Situ Nan was about to reprimand his son, but he only cared about his grandfather and forgot his father, when he saw Laura coming over in a hurry.

"The old Rockefeller is dead." Laura said solemnly.

Mellon's face changed and he was shocked, and the strawberry in his hand fell to the ground. I didn't speak for a long time......

The old Rockefeller's funeral was solemn and simple, buried in the Rockefeller family cemetery. A few square cemeteries, a cross marble tombstone, no voluminous and flashy burials, and no large mausoleums to satisfy one's vanity after death, all in all, it was a great life of a Puritans.

The time was May 1937.

After attending the Rockefeller funeral, the elder Mellon was in a low mood, and when he returned to Pittsburgh, he fell ill again.

When Situ Nan saw him again, the old man was running out, and he called Laura and Paul to the bedside to arrange the will in the presence of a lawyer.

The businessman, known for his tax cuts, showed his shrewdness by arranging his death, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars worth of shares to posterity to avoid the high estate tax, which is not subject to inheritance tax!

In doing so, he was not stingy, but just a shrewd tactic of a businessman, and he left the country's museums worth tens of millions of dollars, as well as Mellon University.

"When I died, all of those collections were donated to build a national museum, and the bank money was used to finance the construction...... The family business was left to Richard......"

Holding Laura and Paul's hands, Old Mellon commanded.

Laura and Paul have no intention of taking care of the Mellon family business, Stuart South and Robles also have their own businesses, and the Mellon family business is naturally managed by Richard Mellon.

Laura's eyes were red, and Paul kept his head down, silently obeying his father's commands.

Old Mellon's eyes swept over everyone, and finally stayed on Situ Nan's face, motioning for the others to go out, leaving him and Situ Nan in the room.

Situ Nan sat on the edge of the bed, holding Old Mellon's hand, thinking that he was not worried about Laura and Paul, and promised, "I will take care of them." ”

"Nope." Old Mellon shook his head weakly, staring at Situ Nan's gaze, there were too many questions in his eyes, which had been hidden in his heart for too long, "Who are you?" Where did it come from? ”

Situ Nan didn't panic, looked at the dying old man with soft eyes, smiled slightly, leaned into his ear and whispered something, old Mellon was a little surprised at first, then suddenly, and finally satisfied - closed his eyes and never woke up.

In 1937, two billionaires died one after another, both of whom were symbols of the Gilded Age in the United States, and when they died, the Gilded Age became the dust of history blown away in the wind......

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Wuhan.

At the Hankow wharf, the black, red and yellow horizontal striped flag fluttered in the wind, a steamer from Germany, and hundreds of German officers were boarding.

Germany has expanded its armed forces, and the Ministry of Defense has been urging the return of German military soldiers who had served overseas.

This was not the first batch, nor was it the last, and the number of German officers remaining in China and South China was indeed small.

"General, thank you for the changes you have brought to our country, and I hope we still have the opportunity to fight side by side."

Xu said to Guderian with emotion.

"It was the years of my life, and now you don't need my guidance, and my country needs me."

Guderian has served in this country for many years, made great achievements on the battlefield, witnessed how this country rose step by step from decay, and single-handedly participated in the construction of a strong armored army, and now he is leaving, and he naturally has a feeling in his heart.

And his comrade-in-arms Rommel, who had returned home half a year earlier, was said to be reused, and the Führer welcomed them as officers who had been tested by the fire.

Bidding farewell to Guderian, Xu went to visit his old boss, General Situ Yong, before returning to Shenyang.

Situ Yong warmly welcomed Xu Qian. If it was influenced by Situ Nan before. Situ Yong took care of these officers in front of Xu. Looking more at Situ Nan's face, after the test of the battlefield, it has now become an appreciation from the bottom of his heart, and he has been vigorously promoted.

"Don't be busy going back to the Northeast yet, accompany me to inspect armament construction! See what the results of this tank race are? Situ Yong said.

"Okay." Of course, Xu agreed before.

In the tank competition, he was the one who wanted to be one of the judges to see how much the technical level of domestic tank manufacturers had improved in recent years.

The competition was held at an armored training base in Wuhan. The participating companies include Yangzi Machinery Company, Meihua Power Company, Wudou Tractor Company, veteran arms dealers, as well as Dasheng Automobile and Shanghai Motor, two automobile giants, who have to compete for orders for tanks, armored vehicles, transport vehicles, motorcycles and other projects.

The army is a major military spender, and in order to improve its military strength, it needs a new generation of various equipment, and if it obtains an order from the military, it will become a supplier of a certain main battle equipment. It's the equivalent of finding a long-term meal ticket.

In the design of the new generation of tanks, the military required a weight of about 25 tons. Armed with a 75 mm gun with a speed of 35 km per hour, as well as XX thick armor.

This is a medium tank and probably the most equipped.

"BMW motorcycles are good, but building tanks is average."

In the tank competition, the tank designed by SAIC actually fell halfway and fell on the track, and was out of the game first, Xu looked at it and shook his head.

This is despite the fact that the engines used are from engine factories that have partnered with BMW.

In contrast, the tank designed by Dasheng Automobile Company is much better, at least it runs the whole way.

However, compared with other competitors, there are still many shortcomings, after all, Dasheng Auto's specialty is to build trucks, armored vehicles and transporters are their targets, and they do not focus too much on tank projects.

The winner of the tank race was ultimately the Wudou Tractor Company, and Situ Nan's former secretary, He Yongyuan, married Liu Wudou, a legendary woman, and naturally became the general manager of the tractor company.

In order to get this project, he specially consulted Situ Nan, and under Situ Nan's secret guidance, the scheme designed by Wudou Tractor Company was similar to the famous T34.

The T34 tank may not be the best in some aspects, but it achieves a balance of firepower, mobility, and armor, and has a relatively simple structure that is easy to produce and maintain.

Situ Yong and Xu also liked this tank called T34 before, although the power of the 450-horsepower Cummins diesel engine is a little smaller, but compared with the more powerful gasoline engine, the diesel engine has a cost advantage, it is not easy to catch fire on the battlefield, and it is safer.

Situ Nan didn't know about the scene in Wuhan, and if he did, he would definitely be looking forward to the scene of the Chinese version of the T34 across the Asian continent.

If there is any difference from the original, it is that the radio communication system was specially installed, and the development of China's electronics industry is much stronger than that of the Soviet Union.

Recently, it seems that a new type of radar has been developed.

At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Germany broadcast the games live on television, and television sets began to be used in sporting events. Similarly, in Shanghai, Wuhan and other places, the Chinese have also built small-scale commercial television sets.

It's just that the TV set is terrifyingly shabby, and Situ Nan occasionally pays attention to technological progress and doesn't pay much attention to it. Probably, the only use of the TV that excites him may be as a display and as a radar.

Several major companies involved in the tank competition have their own income, and they have divided up contracts for tanks, armored vehicles, transport vehicles, etc., and these companies have the support of steel companies behind them, and the steel companies have the support of banks behind them, forming several consortiums.

Compared with the army, the Air Force is also unwilling to be lonely, and even flying competitions have a wider influence and popularity in all walks of life, and there are four or five hundred large and small flying clubs across the country, with more than 100,000 members, and tens of thousands of flying enthusiasts have had flying experience.

Not everyone can become a pilot, but the Air Force has hundreds of pilots and thousands of potential pilots.

In the Air Force competition, the BF109 fighter with German characteristics and the Stuka dive bomber, these two prototypes became the choice of the Air Force.

However, neither of these planes came from American Chinese Airlines, which did not believe that American aviation technology was derived from American aviation technology, and digested American aviation technology, and they would lose to the Germans with their own characteristics, and they were very unhappy about this, although they won research contracts for transport aircraft and large bombers.

However, in South China, American Chinese Airlines won a complete victory. Gain access to research projects for fighters, bombers, and transport aircraft.

This probably explains the reason why the Chinese Airlines mentioned above has been subjected to a certain degree of resistance in Wuhan.

The restlessness of the Army and Air Force also spread to the Navy. Lin Yurong, who has become the commander of the South China Sea Fleet, has also urged major aircraft manufacturers to develop fighters suitable for the Navy through the Admiralty.

The South China Sea Fleet has the only two aircraft carriers in the country. It is the main force of the navy, and because of its wariness of the Japanese combined fleet, the Chinese navy has deployed its main fleet in the South China Sea and does not easily pass through the Taiwan Strait.

More often than not, he went south to the South China Sea and conducted exercises with the South China Navy.

China and South China have signed a secret treaty, the two sides have formed an alliance, and in the event of war, the South China Sea Fleet will go south. Join the South China Navy to form the Chinese Combined Fleet to counter the Japanese Combined Fleet. Now the Japanese obviously feel that the South China Sea is no longer a safe route for them, and the Combined Fleet does not dare to run to the South China Sea easily.

The Chinese Navy and the South China Navy also did not dare to easily run to the East China Sea to avoid a sneak attack, and the two sides maintained a delicate balance.

Apparently feeling insecure, the Americans have scaled back their presence in the Philippines and concentrated their forces in Hawaii, thousands of miles away.

The British are very worried about this, and the British, who are good at finding a balance, will not get involved in the two delicate powers of China and Japan. Hong Kong's Royal Fleet existed in name only, and was transferred to Singapore and India.

It's good for the British to wait and see the play. The premise is that they are in a good mood and will not be upset by the aggressive Germans.

Wuhan, Admiralty.

Lin Yurong reported to Navy Commander Chen Shaokuan on the training of the South China Sea Fleet, and made an excessive request by the way: "Commander, the army and air force have updated a lot of equipment, so why can't the navy lag behind?" ”

"Oh? Two aircraft carriers of the South China Sea Fleet and four aircraft carriers of the United Fleet of China can't satisfy your appetite? ”

Chen Shaokuan asked with a smile.

If it weren't for the fact that there are still two aircraft carriers under construction and are planned to be incorporated into the East China Sea Fleet, and the North Sea Fleet will also get one-third of the country's submarine production capacity because of the government's vigorous investment in the Dalian Shipyard, it is estimated that it will not be convinced?

The Admiralty and the Military Commission's great love for the South China Sea Fleet has always been criticized by the officers and men of other fleets.

Lin Yurong understands this, and he himself often becomes the object of jealousy of others.

"How can four be enough? In the future, when we go into the Pacific Ocean and compete for hegemony on the sea, why will we need ten or eight aircraft carriers before we dare to go out to meet people. Lin Yurong joked rarely.

Chen Shao was happy, and when he saw that he said outrageously, he waved him away: "I understand your intentions, and I am also applying to the old men of the Military Commission and the Prime Minister's Office to expand the number of naval ships." ”

Both the South China and the Chinese Navy are firmly following the aircraft carrier route, and the traditional BB Party is not a climate.

Coincidentally, the equally radical Japanese, the aircraft carrier faction has gradually become the mainstream within the navy, but it is not as extreme as the Chinese, completely abandoning battleships, which still have a strong market in the Japanese Navy.

After the loss of Northeast China, the Japanese invested even more in their navy, building six aircraft carriers in one go, and they remained the hegemon of the western Pacific, although the rising Chinese navy occasionally made them feel thorny in the back.

Although many German officers left, more German engineers did not leave and continued to contribute to Sino-German industrial cooperation projects.

Tanks, airplanes, artillery, submarines, and other cooperative projects have yielded results one after another, and there is no secret that Chinese-made weapons may be the most advanced in the world.

The Germans carefully taught the Chinese technology, and also received a large amount of materials and some advanced technology from China.

In the past five years, the strength of China's equipment manufacturing industry has been greatly improved, and it has been able to manufacture the vast majority of industrial equipment.

Steel, coal, oil, these hard indicators of industrial strength have also been greatly improved, with the North Iron and Steel Company, Anshan Iron and Steel Company and Baotou Iron and Steel Company as the representative of the rapid development of the northern iron and steel industry, China's steel output of 11 million tons, and is still increasing rapidly, is expected to reach 20 million tons of steel output by 1942.

With a coal output of 500 million tons and an oil output of 1,500 tons (thanks to the Daqing Oilfield, Shengli Oilfield, and Karamay Oilfield, which have been put into production one after another, but still need to import oil from South China), the industrial scale and economic strength have surpassed the old British and French empires, which can be called an industrial miracle.

Comparable to it, only the USSR!

Both are equally large and rich, and their industrial strength is about the same, but their development potential may be much greater in China.

In the past 20 years, China has also built a railway network that basically covers the whole country, with a mileage of 70,000 kilometers. Half of the railways are electrified.

Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Tangtang and other urban circles. A network of highways has been built one after another. The mileage of highways at all levels has reached 100,000 kilometers.

China's automobile production also reaches 400,000 units per year, the vast majority of which are domestically produced.

All in all, China became the engine of the world economy, to some extent saved the capitalist world, a position sixty or seventy years earlier than in another time and space.

Accompanied by Wang Geng, director of the General Armament Department, Lin Yurong and Chen Shaokuan came to Yangzi Machinery Company to visit the 100MN die forging hydraulic press that the company had just successfully developed.

"This is our introduction of German 30MN forging die hydraulic press technology, to improve the research and development. It took five years and more than 20 million yuan to finally successfully manufacture a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, which is also the third in the world. The first is a 150MN forging die hydraulic press from Germany, and the second is a 120MN forging die hydraulic press that has just been developed by the United Kingdom.

With this machine, China's aircraft, ships, and automobile manufacturing capacity will be greatly improved......"

The engineer proudly explained that he hoped that the navy masters would continue to support them in developing larger die forging hydraulic presses.

Lin Yurong naturally knows the role of this machine, and the landing gear of aircraft girders and carrier-based aircraft is inseparable from this machine!

In addition to forging hydraulic presses, the General Armament Department and the Navy and Air Force generals are also interested in the hard aluminum alloy invented by the Guangxi Pingguo Aluminum Company, and are ready to apply this technology to aircraft manufacturing. Achieve the effect of reducing the weight of the aircraft.

Unbeknownst to the Chinese, Japan's Sumitomo Metal Company also invented a similar technology. They thought the same way, and they did it to the extreme, almost to the point of cutting corners, and finally built a generation of Divine Machine Zero fighters............

Vienna, Austria.

After the secret signing of the German-Austrian pact last year, Germany basically controlled Austria's foreign politics and was only one step away from annexing Austria.

Hitler had just returned home in good clothes, and after giving an exciting speech, he turned around and went to the house of the arms dealer Mandel for a banquet.

Except that the young and beautiful hostess was not very enthusiastic, the banquet was a success, the man was very enthusiastic, Hitler left satisfied, and he had already won the support of the Austrian arms giants.

"He is a demon, an enemy of us Jews, how can you cooperate with him?" Hedy Lamarr was upset and criticized her husband, the old philistine man who had probably forgotten that he was also Jewish.

"Enough!"

Mandel was furious when he heard his wife's accusation again, this time he must let her learn a lesson, he picked up the gun, pointed it at his wife and yelled, "You are not qualified to educate me, you don't care about my business, you know?" ”

Heidi was frightened, her face turned pale, and she nodded quickly.

Mandel slammed the door, and the slamming of the door brought Heidi back to her senses, and her heart was shattered when she saw her favorite movie "Enchanted" film smashed to the ground by her husband.

The Nazis are about to descend on Vienna, so be sure to escape this hell!

She made up her mind and secretly escaped through the window.

Soon after arriving in France, Austria fell, and the Nazi persecution of the Jews intensified, and it was not long before Mandel, a popular arms dealer, became a prisoner.

Europe is in turmoil, and perhaps the other side of the ocean is the place of rebirth, with a large influx of immigrants into the United States, including Heidi, who has never dreamed of it, and she is free and has renewed her passion for the colorful Hollywood.

"Dear sir, my hometown has fallen, Paris is not quiet, I plan to go to the United States, I hope to get your help.

- Hedy Lamarr. ”

The annexation of Austria was the will of the people and the result of the appeasement of Britain and France, and Situ Nan did not feel that there was anything wrong.

Situ Nan is still sympathetic to Hedy Lamarr's experience, after all, this is a young beautiful woman who has just escaped from an old man, and Hollywood should have her share.

Sympathetic to the plight of the Jews, the Jewish Union, South China and China expressed their willingness to accept the "filthy population" that the Germans did not want through diplomatic channels.

Hitler agreed, and now he is not perverted enough to build concentration camps, he does not yet have arrogant capital, and he needs not only the resources and markets of the East, but also the allies of the East.

An opening was opened, and the flood gushed out.

The same was true of refugees, who were increasingly flooded into China from Europe after being exploited, and South China became the main receiving country.

Nan Hua, Ho Man-so, and Wu Man-li discuss the Jews, and the two share Situ Nan's letter.

"Human beings should not have ethnic discrimination, and as far as personal evaluation is concerned, we should adhere to the principle of only judging character, regardless of race. Of course, this is more difficult to do, and bias is everywhere.

If there is really discrimination, then the black and green people should be the first choice, black and green, and the crime should be eradicated.

……

Some people say that the Chinese and Jews have the highest IQ, but this is nonsense, and it is appropriate to remove the most word.

I have a lot of Jewish friends around me, they are all creative and wonderful people, and I believe that a considerable number of Jews may be the lubricant for the development of South China. ”

"This guy is funny, saying a bunch of contradictory things." He Wenxiu took the letter from Wu Manli's hand, shook his head with a smile, and took out a lighter to burn the letter.

"At least the Jews in the United States are willing to invest in some industry in South China to settle their compatriots. Jews from Europe are generally better educated than peasants from home for skilled work, aren't they? ”

Wu Manli said with a smile.

Nearly 20 years after the implementation of the cage exchange plan, countless migrants from the north have gone south, and the first means of the Wuhan government to solve the disaster situation is to send the victims to South China.

The population of South China exceeded 60 million, and the Chinese became the most populous ethnic group in South China, with a population ratio of nearly 60 percent, while the Chinese population on the main islands of Java and Sumatra was as high as 70 percent.

The disappeared natives either became human fat or migrated and fled to the outer islands, with the Malay Peninsula to the northwest, the Dutch-controlled Magolo Islands to the east, and the island of New Guinea further east becoming the active and passive choices of the Javanese and Sundanese.

The name of the island of Java, which has no Javanese people, has gradually been forgotten, and the South Chinese and Japanese have become more and more fond of calling the main island the main island.

How so?

Because of the black and green cleanup, Nanhua has a poor reputation in the international community, but for the Germans who were struggling in their early years, and the desperate Jews today, Nanhua is a new continent with a bright future.

The reason why they were criticized by Our Lady of International is only because they were a little later than the European immigrants who flocked to North America more than a hundred years ago, and there is no difference.

(To be continued.) )