Fast forward in 1925 and another month passed, and by March 1925, as the Wehrmacht had grown in size, Accardo had recently been wrestling with how to secretly support such a large Wehrmacht spending.

Because of the savings of the Allied Arms Control Commission, the German government could not spend too much money on the Wehrmacht's military expenditure, although the Wehrmacht's funds for 100,000 men were enough to feed the regular army of more than 200,000, but because it actually had nearly 320,000 men, the Wehrmacht's funds were still stretched.

Accardo's merchant group within the Greater German Party has donated tens of millions of German marks to the revival of the Wehrmacht, and Accardo's private companies have provided nearly 1,000 cars and 3,000 motorcycles to the Wehrmacht free of charge, but the distribution of these equipment to 300,000 soldiers is still a drop in the bucket.

Recently, because Chiang Kai-shek led the Whampoa Military Academy Teaching Corps to organize the First Crusade, he ordered 200 million rounds of rifle and pistol ammunition from Germany, and purchased 30,000 M25 steel helmets for future military expansion.

In China, which is constantly fighting, relying on loans from the United States, Britain, and other countries to buy arms has reached a dead end, and China's lending credit in the banks of these countries has dried up, and in most cases, out of long-term considerations of the US and British governments, some funds have been lent to China, and the amount is no longer as huge as before.

And the Wehrmacht, which supported the Chinese Kuomintang clique the most, did not have extra money to provide to China in the distance because of its own development needs. After all, Germany's own funds are also very tight, and it has long owed France and Britain war reparations, and even owed its own civil servants travel reimbursements.

Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek of China and Accardo of Germany communicated by telegram in private, understanding each other's difficulties, and thus there was this barter arms trade of buying German guns with rubber and brass.

At this juncture, Accardo welcomes a special guest, Konosuke Yamashita, a diplomat who has traveled all the way from the Japanese Empire.

"Hello, Mr. Konosuke Yamashita. Accardo chose to meet at a private apartment in Berlin at Krupp, because the meeting was confidential and private, and it was not official in nature.

"Hello General Accardo. "As one of the right-hand men of the Japanese Foreign Minister, Yamashita was naturally very good to be selected to negotiate secretly in Germany, his German was first-class, and he was so polite that he bowed 90 degrees to Accardo as soon as they met, which made people very good.

"Mr. Yamashita, we don't have a bowing etiquette in Germany, and you can use a handshake the next time we meet. Accardo smiled and said to Konosuke Yamashita. The Japanese will not bow to a Chinese, they will only raise a butcher knife at them, on the contrary, the Japanese will bow to the Germans - it is still necessary to be self-reliant!

"The handshake is a polite etiquette in an equal relationship, but this time, I ask for you, so I dare not use this kind of etiquette. Konosuke Yamashita said with his head down.

Accardo smiled, then waved his hand: "No, Mr. Yamashita, at least we can be friends in private, don't we, you Japanese just like to make a lot of false courtesy, I'm not used to it." ”

"Etiquette is etiquette, how can there be such a strange saying as false etiquette?" asked Konosuke Yamashita, looking at Accardo.

Accardo laughed: "My friend, to be honest, if I don't have the strength, then you won't respect me even if you bow to me, on the contrary, if I have the strength to make you jealous, then even if you don't shake my hand, you will tremble when you talk to me, right?"

"General Accardo is such an interesting person, you seem to know us Japanese very well. If it weren't for the fact that you have such a handsome Western face, I would even suspect that you are Japanese. Konosuke Yamashita nodded in agreement.

Damn! You're Japanese! Your whole family is Japanese! Accardo scolded angrily in his heart, and after scolding, he found that it was not right to say this, Yamashita was originally Japanese, so Accardo scolded again in his heart: You are xxx, you are a big xxx! Your whole family is a big xxx!

Although he thought so in his heart, Accardo still had a smile on his face: "We Germans don't like to beat around the bush, may I ask Mr. Yamashita what is the purpose of coming to Germany this time?"

Now that the Korean Peninsula is under Japanese rule, isn't it from there that he has brought back to Japan some habits that he likes to recognize things from his own home? Accardo sneered in his heart, I know why you came here, you don't say it, I won't say it, see who can calm down.

"I can't tell you the truth, I came to Germany this time for the sake of the situation in the Far East and the trade between your country and China. Konosuke Yamashita bowed his head to Accardo again.

When you ask for help, you are low, and when you stab a knife, you are steady and ruthless. Accardo raised his eyebrows, then pondered for a moment before he spoke: "The Chinese market is very large and attractive, and I think companies in any country would want to do business with generous Chinese businessmen, and we in Germany are no exception. ”

"With all due respect, General Accardo, your country and China are engaged in an arms trade, and we have recently received information that a German Hercules-class transport ship loaded with ammunition is being unloaded at Canton, which has had an impact on the strategy of our Empire Japan in the China region. Yamashita Konosuke said with some indignation.

"Where did this come from? We did provide China with a lot of arms, but I don't know much about the recent arms sales to China, are you sure the information is accurate?" asked Accardo, pretending to be confused, looking at Konosuke Yamashita.

Yamashita nodded: "We have our intelligence channels in China, this information is very accurate, we even know that Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang troops actually have more than 900 cannons instead of 100 as claimed by the outside world, and they have sold close to 500 cannons to warlords in various places. ”

Yamashita glanced at Accardo, and then said: "And most of these cannons are advanced howitzers produced by the German company Krupp. Chiang Kai-shek also secretly hid dozens of planes and was secretly building an airfield near Canton.

Those traitors and traitors should have been hanged, and Accardo hated to think that the Japanese could get all the information they wanted in China, and the accuracy of this information was surprising, and the total number of artillery and even the number of planes sold by Germany to China was already known to the Japanese.

What did Chiang Kai-shek's counterintelligence department do to eat? They were like naked women, who had no secrets in front of the Japanese. Accardo felt that it would be better for him to open the list of weapons that were secretly traded with China and read it in front of the Japanese. The Japanese in the province imagined China's power to be too strong.

"Mr. Yamashita, as I said, Germany has indeed sold some weapons to China, and your country has no right to interfere with the foreign trade of our merchants. These trades include the arms business. Accardo said with some displeasure: "Even the Coalition Arms Control Committee can't stop my * fire dealer from making a profit. ”

"Japan can cooperate with Germany, including in many areas. We can buy a lot more arms and supplies than China. Yamashita took out the biggest chips he had brought this time.

"We can make more, if we continue to sell Chinese weapons, and you will buy our weapons to suppress China, it's two dollars, right?"

"How do you know we're going to buy your weapons, and we in the Great Japanese Empire can produce our own weapons!" Yamashita retorted excitedly.

Accardo sneered: "You guys, your weapons are not good, our German weapons are the best in the world." ”

It's like saying that Japanese cars are bad in the previous life was always sour, but now saying that Japanese cars are not good always has a sense of righteousness!

"What if the navy of the Imperial Japan stepped up its patrols along the southeast coast of China, caught suspicious smuggling ships, and happened to catch some of your country's transport ships?" Yamashita threatened.

He glanced at Accardo, sneered and said, "After checking, the Krupp company may not have produced this batch of German fires that we seized at all. The Coalition Arms Control Committee will be able to intervene in this matter. ”

"Hahaha. Then why don't you try, what are you doing here?" Accardo laughed for a moment before he said, "I can send a car to take you there, it's not far from here, it's only about twenty minutes away." ”

I'd have gone a long time ago if I could!" The roots of Yamashita Konosuke's teeth itched, but he couldn't say it yet. The Japanese intelligence department learned from China's smuggling of German fire, and knew that Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union were all tied to the same chariot of German interests, and if Japan found out about this matter, it would cut off the financial routes of Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and the Soviet Union, and even the Netherlands.

"So, may I ask General Accardo, how can we get Germany to stop arms exports to China?" Yamashita finally sat back on the butt of the sofa and looked at Accardo helplessly.

"Don't always think about China, Japan has its own friends in the far West, right?" said Accardo with a smile, a hypocritical smile on his face.

"Yes, General Accardo, you are a loyal friend of the Japanese Empire far away in the Western world. Yamashita almost vomited in disgust after saying this, but fortunately he was a diplomat, a qualified diplomat.

"Well, there's nothing to talk about between friends, right?" Accardo continued.

"Yes, exactly, Your Excellency General Accardo. "Yamashita was a little crying and laughing.

"Next, let's have a good talk about China's weapons. Accardo smiled and held out his hand.

Yamashita Konosuke was helpless, so he had to stretch out his hand and hold it tightly with the hand stretched out from the other side.