Although Stanford's influence is not as good as it used to be, it is very simple to help Avery seek a position as a reporter in a small and medium-sized newspaper, and arrange for this reporter to interview the "good employees" who are going to participate in the middle training of the MacDonald consortium. So it didn't take long for Brontë, who went by the pseudonym Dantès, to become a reporter for the newspaper "Courier". And through an interview with a McDonald consortium fertilizer plant in San Francisco, he obtained a list of people who would be attending the training.

"Rodriguez, an engineer, has a wife, and two sons, and it is expected that after this training, he will be promoted to chief engineer. Well, Arnold, the salesman, well, is very conscientious and diligent in his work, regardless of personal gain or loss, able to endure hardships and losses, and is still a bachelor - I can't imagine that there is such a person now......" Brontë was telling Miss Alley about the information he had received. And by the way, this intelligence is accompanied by its own comments.

"That Arnold, you pay attention to it." "In this day and age, such people are likely to be people who are full of ambition to climb up and willing to take risks for it," Avery said. Especially since he doesn't have a wife and children yet. People like this should be more willing to do risky things. Of course, the possibility of him betraying us is not small, as long as the benefits are enough from there. Therefore, it is necessary to be cautious when making contacts. ”

"Miss, I understand." Brontë said.

……

Meanwhile, in Cleveland, a new resident has just moved in to a small yard about a kilometer from the McDonald Foundation's employee training center.

The old Tom family, who originally lived here, are said to have moved west. This surprised the neighbors slightly, for they had never heard old Tom say anything about such a plan before. However, the new family handed over the house to Old Tom in front of everyone, and although Old Tom still had a reluctant look on his face, there seemed to be no forced or reluctant taste.

The family who came in was surnamed Gonzalez, well, it's a Spanish surname. The family is said to have come from Cuba in the south. Here they opened a small rum shop selling rum from Cuba. The Gonzalez family, father Parker and son Rembert, seem to be in their own right, but not the others who frequent the area. Many of the people who come and go here don't look like good people at first glance, and some of them obviously look like gangsters. But this is normal, because everyone knows that almost all the rum sold in the American market is smuggled from Cuba. Although this smuggling is in some ways connived at by the United States Government -- the smuggling of various industrial products into Cuba is of course much more profitable than the tariff loss caused by smuggling a little rum, tobacco, sugar, etc. from Cuba. While allowing the smuggling syndicates to smuggle industrial goods into Cuba, it is inevitable that they will make some more money on rum and sugar on their return trip. Besides, the United States does not produce these things anyway, and it will not have any impact on the domestic industry of the United States.

Early that morning, a horse-drawn carriage stopped at the gate of this small courtyard. The wagons were filled with oak barrels, and needless to say, they must have been filled with rum.

Several men in the carriage, along with Gonzalez and his son, moved the barrels in.

There is a small yard of about two hundred square meters at the back of the house. The yard is enclosed with a blue brick fence, not too high, but enough to block the view from the outside, although there are many high-rise buildings in Cleveland today, but this yard is in the suburban slum, there are no such high-rise buildings here. The MacDonald Consortium set up the training center in this area entirely because the location is remote and the land is cheap.

A few men carried the barrels into the courtyard and closed the door. Then several people took one out of the pile of oak barrels and pried it open. Then a steel pipe was taken out of it, and then some other parts - the barrels contained not rum at all, but a dismantled 70mm infantry gun!

The McDonald 70mm Infantry Gun, a copycat of the Japanese 92 Infantry Gun from later generations, like its original, can be easily disassembled into small parts one by one, and then let several people carry them and run. Moreover, when this cannon was designed, it was considered that it could be manpower after disassembly, so every part after disassembly could be carried by manpower in terms of weight, plus these parts were generally not large in size, except for the gun shield and wheels, as well as the retraction plow, all of which could be loaded into oak barrels. As for the unpacked gun shields and wheels, in principle, they were not indispensable, anyway, in the plan, such guns would be used as large sniper rifles, and also as disposable supplies, and they had no intention of taking these things with them after the attack. So, of course, the wheels are useless. As for the shield, and he doesn't intend to engage the enemy head-on, of course, that thing is useless.

But the retreat plow is essential. However, it is longer than a standard oak barrel and cannot be fitted into an oak barrel at all. However, this was not an unsolvable problem, and the two ploughs were mixed in a large pile of timber and brought in long ago under the guise of being used as raw materials for the construction of the cellar.

It was in this courtyard that a 70-mm infantry gun was quickly installed, and with the exception of the fact that it had no wheels and could only be erected on a fixed wooden pedestal, the infantry gun seemed to be in perfect condition.

"Very good!" Parker nodded and said, "The quality of this cannon is okay, right?" Have you tested it beforehand? ”

"I tried it in Colombia, but I haven't fired a cannon since I entered the United States. The cannon is new, and when we got our hands on it, it was still brand new, and we didn't fire a single shot. Later, we tried more than 10 guns in Colombia, and the accuracy was quite good, and within a distance of 2,000 meters, we could almost shoot anywhere. To say that the goods of the MacDonald Infantry Weapons Company are good. A porter-like man who followed along, stroking the barrel of a 70mm infantry gun with his calloused hand, said this.

"I've heard that this weapon was designed by that bastard Scrooge MacDonald himself. I don't know what he will think when he finally dies under this weapon of his own design. It's an exciting question to think about. Parker's "son" Lembert squeezed the words out between his teeth.

At this time, several other people also moved a whole box of shells out of a barrel. Placed next to the cannon.

Gently opening the green-painted iron shell box revealed twelve 70-mm shells wrapped in oiled paper.

"All the latest semi-armor-piercing shells for striking fortifications." Another explained, "Compared to ordinary high-explosive shells, this thing uses a time-delay fuse that can explode after it has pierced the ceiling of the auditorium at the McDonald Staff Training Center." Just to be able to break through the fortifications, the steel walls of such shells are thicker, and the charge is naturally less. So the explosion is a little less powerful. And the auditorium of McDonald Employee Training is a little bigger. Although the rate of fire of the 70-mm infantry gun was already quite high, it was not enough to cover the entire auditorium. It can still give the guy inside a chance to escape. Moreover, although our gunners have been trained in South America, their level is still not comparable to those elite gunners, and in their hands, 70mm infantry guns cannot hit the maximum rate of fire. But for the sake of secrecy, we can only use our own people, not those mercenaries, otherwise, if we are not careful, those guys who are fighting only for money will sell us. So in two days, we'll send two more guns. Firing all three guns together like this should ensure enough density of fire to kill that damn hypocrite. ”

"Be careful with secrecy and don't let people find out. In addition, three cannons require at least nine people, and these people certainly can't all fit into a small shop like mine. And when Scrooge will come here, we will know at most a day in advance. So our gunners had to be on standby in this area during this period of time. We're going to have to find a way to put these gunners nearby. Parker said.

"No problem, I'll do it." The man replied.

……

"Morgan is playing on the generation. The idea of the French national debt? Isn't this snatching food with Rothschild? Looking at a copy of the text, Scrooge laughed.

"In this way, it is understandable that Morgan suddenly began to withdraw funds." Carroll said with a smile, "Mr. Morgan is so confident that he can deal with the Rothschilds in the French treasury market?" ”

"It's not a full-scale confrontation, he probably wants to take advantage of the opportunity for the Rothschilds to focus on acquiring shares related to the Suez Canal, and make a fortune in the French government bond market." Catherine said, "Of course, the Rothschilds will not let go of this market for nothing." But their funds are now going to the Suez Canal project as a priority. So as long as Mr. Morgan and the others can raise enough money, they will definitely be able to make the Rothschilds retreat for a while. But when things are done on the Suez Canal, the Rothschilds will definitely launch a counterattack. In this way, there is a good show to watch. I just don't know if that guy Morgan will have already made money and retreated safely. ”

"Morgan is a man who seems bold and adventurous. But in fact, before every action, he calculated deeply and made all kinds of preparations. I reckon he'll be able to retreat in time. Therefore, it is estimated that we will not be given the opportunity to rob while the fire is hot. ”