In the next two days, accompanied by Zhang Da, Ouyang Yun and his entourage first visited the pillar industry sugar mill in Guangdong. Then he visited the paper mills, power plants, cement factories, sulfuric acid plants and other emerging industries in Guangdong. Finally, as an expert, he visited the Ishii Ordnance Factory and the Pajiang Artillery Factory.

The Shijing Ordnance Factory and the Pajiang Artillery Factory can be regarded as Chen Jitang's proud works, which he has always been proud of, of course, because of the existence of the "Weiqing style" and the "disease-free style", he will not compare them with the Xuebing Arsenal. However, this did not prevent him from accompanying him personally, and let all the senior generals of the Cantonese department accompany him, so as to show his importance to Ouyang Yun and the Xuebing Division.

The Ishii Ordnance Factory mainly produces regular rifles, bullets and grenades, but also imitates Mauser pistols (i.e., shell guns) and Czech light machine guns; The Pajiang Artillery Factory mainly produces mortars and artillery shells, and also produces 75 mm caliber mountain guns.

When visiting the Shijing Weapons Factory, Chen Jitang accompanied Ouyang Yun, first introduced some information about the factory to him, and then asked tentatively: "Commander Ouyang, do you think that with the conditions here, can you produce 'Weiqing-style' automatic rifles?" ”

Ouyang Yun didn't answer his question immediately, but pretended to be surprised and asked, "Commander-in-Chief Chen, where did you hear about the 'Wei Qing-style' automatic rifle, this is the secret of our apprentice division-" At this point, he stopped abruptly, as if he had suddenly found that he had lost his words.

Chen Jitang smiled like an old fox: "Senior Ouyang, you are really not enough friends, if I don't take the initiative to mention it, I don't think you will tell me this, right?" ”

"Hehe, this, huh!" Picking up a freshly assembled Zhong Zheng, he asked, "Is this a Zhong Zheng?" ”

Seeing that he deliberately diverted the topic, Chen Jitang did not feel unhappy, but continued to ask: "Senior Ouyang, you haven't answered my question yet?" ”

Ouyang Yun pretended to grit his teeth, looking very embarrassed, and later, he said: "In the manufacture of guns, materials and processes are the key, and the process is easy to solve, as long as you can have a few mechanics who have mastered the know-how, but the casting of materials is not easy." I don't know if there are any steel mills in Guangdong that meet the requirements. ”

"We have it at the steel mill, why don't we go and see it?"

Seeing that Chen Jitang was so anxious, Ouyang Yun secretly despised him in his heart, and said: "I'm afraid not, I don't know much about steelmaking, and I need experts to see the clues in this regard." ”

"Oh," Chen Jitang was a little disappointed, but he didn't give up when he wanted to obtain the "Weiqing-style" manufacturing process, and asked in a tentative tone: "I don't know which expert is in charge of this process in your army, if you can, can you invite him over now?" It's best to come with an expert who is in charge of gun manufacturing. It's not a problem to pay for the road or anything. The losses inflicted on your army will also be borne by us. ”

Hearing such naked words, Ouyang Yun couldn't help frowning, secretly thinking in his heart that Chen Jitang was really greedy, he shook his head and said, "Commander Chen, have you heard of the Patent Protection Law?" ”

The Patent Protection Law has been implemented in Europe and the United States for many years, but it is definitely a foreign word to Chinese who have no experience of studying abroad, Chen Jitang shook his head.

Ouyang Yun didn't care about the sequelae that might be brought about by these words, and said unhappily: "The 'Wei Qing style' and the 'disease-going style' are the result of our research from the arsenal of our military division spending millions of dollars and half a year of research, and we have all their intellectual property rights, and have applied for patents in European and American countries. In other words, it is illegal for any factory in the world to produce them without our authorization. After speaking, he looked at Chen Jitang with blazing eyes.

"Hmm!" First of all, he was dizzy by the new terms "patent protection law" and "intellectual property rights" in Ouyang Yun's mouth, and when he understood that such a large number of words actually meant that he could not teach "Weiqing-style" production techniques, Chen Jitang couldn't help but be very embarrassed. Before this, he actually knew that this was impossible, so although he was embarrassed, he was not angry. It was time for Zhilu Dao to shake out the matter of cooperation, and he smiled and said, "Of course, I know that the manufacturing process of Lu Dao's 'Weiqing Style' is related to the secret of the Cadet Soldier, and if you want to obtain it, you must pay a certain price." Well, I wonder if Senior Ouyang is willing to cooperate with us? Although the Cadet Division and our Cantonese army are located in the north and south, we have a common pursuit--we both have the determination to resist Japan, and we are both dissatisfied with Lao Chiang's compromise policy with Japan. Senior Ouyang, what do you think? ”

Because of the agreement reached with Hu Hanmin, Ouyang Yun has actually been waiting for Chen Jitang to bring up the matter of cooperation in the past few days. The reason is that Dongshan County is too tempting to him. With such a seaport in Dongshan County, which is far away from the area controlled by the Japanese Navy, it is too important for the industrial development of the cadet in the future.

Now, Chen Jitang finally proposed the matter of cooperation, but Ouyang Yun was not in a hurry. In fact, it was not that he was not in a hurry, but because of Hu Hanmin's warning, he didn't dare to show it. At this time, what he needs to do most is to forbear, until Chen Jitang first picks out the bottom line, he can sit on the ground and repay the money.

Pretending to be surprised, he looked at Chen Jitang and asked, "Commander Chen, I heard you right, right?" Cooperate with the Katsura family? However, aren't the Cantonese and Gui systems incompatible? ”

Chen Jitang saw his sincere expression, thinking of his young age, maybe he didn't know the current domestic situation, he didn't doubt him, shook his head and smiled: "Li and Bai and I were indeed rivals, but at this time and then, now Lao Jiang wants to attack us, Lao Jiang is powerful, and under the banner of the central government, we can naturally only form a group." ”

"That's it! Then you want to fight against the Nanjing government? Ouyang Yun said and frowned.

Thinking that he was afraid, Chen Jitang first despised it in his heart, and secretly said that after all, he was a young man who had never experienced a major event, and he had enough momentum but no courage to do great things, he sneered and said: "What's wrong with Nanjing, don't look at the Central Army controlling most of the Yangtze River, but our Guangdong Army and Gui Army are not vegetarians." Don't forget, in history, our Guangdong army had the Iron Fourth Army, and the Gui family had the Iron Seventh Army. Hmph, if you really want to talk about war, who have we been afraid of in the Guangdong army? ”

Ouyang Yun was silent, he had naturally heard of the great names of the Iron Fourth Army and the Steel Seventh Army, but that was already ten years ago. The current Cantonese army has long been a matter of fact. The so-called Iron Fourth Army was even canceled and merged into the Central Army in the name of the Fourth Division, although it was later re-established in the hands of Zhang Fakui, but in the end it was still difficult to escape the fate of being absorbed by the Central Army. As for the Seventh Army of Steel, although they still retain their numbers, they have not fought for several years and have undergone a major blood change, can they still maintain their previous sharpness?

Seeing that Ouyang Yun was unmoved, Chen Jitang continued: "Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi will go to Guangzhou tomorrow, and we can sit down and have a good talk then." I think that with the strength of Guangdong and Guizhou and the military engineering skills of the cadet divisions, not to mention the three northeastern provinces, even the whole of China can compete for it. Master Ouyang, what do you think? ”

Ouyang Yun frowned, still maintaining his previous style, and said solemnly: "The stakes are too important, the Yue Army and the Gui Army are deeply rooted, and they can give it a go, but our military division is different, our strength is too weak, and if we don't do it well, it will be the end of the whole army, Commander Chen, you have to let me think about it." ”

Xu felt that he was reasonable, Chen Jitang did not make persistent efforts to force him to express his position, and the group continued to visit the factory......

In later generations, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were both well-known figures in Ouyang Yun's ears, because in the War of Resistance Against Japan, they jointly commanded the Battle of Taierzhuang, which won the first major victory for the national army on the battlefield of resistance against Japan. From the perspective of personal morality, no matter what political ambitions these two people have, one thing is worth affirming, they are worthy of the reputation of patriotic soldiers.

Li Bai and the others are not good-looking, to put it mildly, but in terms of appearance, they even seem a little obscene. Of course, as Ouyang Yun, who was already familiar with their historical merits, he would definitely not judge people by their appearance. Therefore, at the first meeting of the four warlords of old China, Ouyang Yun just showed his respect for Li Bai and the others, so that Li Bai and the two were not like Chen Jitang, they were angry with Ouyang Yun when they met for the first time, and even thought of sending them to call Huazi to "entertain them with delicious food and drink and then let them go".

After the four of them, together with Hu Hanmin, took their seats in a small conference room at the headquarters of the Guangdong Army, Li Zongren opened his mouth and went straight to the point, first talking about the threat faced by Yuegui from Lao Chiang, and then analyzing the current survival situation of the cadet division, and then proposing the matter of forming an alliance.

After he finished speaking, because the two departments of Guangdong and Guizhou had already communicated, everyone's eyes fell on Ouyang Yun's face, waiting for his decision.

Ouyang Yunzhi Dao would definitely not be able to survive today, so he had made full preparations last night. His face looked very serious, and he said softly, "I communicated with Commander Chen about this matter yesterday. I don't think I'm actually worthy of sitting here. The Guangdong and Guizhou armies are both heroes of the success of the national revolution and are also the backbone of the army, compared with us, our military division is just a toddler, I don't think the military division has the qualifications to stand on the same level as the Guangdong army and the Gui army to have a dialogue......"