"Hey, something is wrong, don't eat it, let's see what's wrong."

At the T-junction outside the courtyard, in front of the wonton stall, Senge drank a sip of soup beautifully, and just as he looked up and was about to observe the situation again, he suddenly found that a group of people had gradually gathered outside the courtyard, which was very different from the slightly deserted situation before.

Seeing this scene, Senge didn't care about wiping his mouth, and hurriedly reminded his subordinates next to him: "Hurry up, I'm afraid something has happened to the people of Zhina, we have to hurry over and have a look!" ”

"Uh......h Hiccup...... "I don't know why, Yamashita couldn't even say a word."

Senge felt that something was abnormal, and turned around sharply to find that his subordinates were still there dealing with snacks, just because he was in a hurry to eat, he accidentally choked, and now he was eating wonton soup, barely swallowing it.

Looking at each other, the soup bowl picked up by Yamashita Fu was put down in an instant, and he lowered his head and said, "Sengejun, just ......"

Before he finished speaking, the furious Senge directly slapped him: "Baga! Stupid pig one! ”

Even the soup bowl was knocked over on the ground, and half of the body of the mountain man was scattered, but now where is he willing to go down in front of him, because of the establishment of a flour mill in Tianjin, he was specially called out to investigate Cheng Nuo.

It's a pity that because Cheng Nuo's vigilance is relatively high, all he knows is just some skins, and he caught up with Cheng Nuo to run around, and in the end, it was gone.

Now that Cheng Nuo has returned with steel and radio technology, he has staggered the flour industry on the surface, which is logically a great thing for Senge, and after the news of the Iwasaki brothers in Shanghai, he learned that Cheng Nuo's threat is getting stronger and stronger, which is really a big trouble.

If you don't do anything, you just let your subordinates lead the way, and prepare to meet each other in person.

"Yamashita Fu, is that why you can't gather information? With such a working attitude and extremely low efficiency, I think you are not as good as those students in Shanghai Tongwenguan! After a glimpse and seeing the whole picture, Senge thought that he had found the reason for the failure of the previous intelligence work, that is, the unknown use of personnel.

"Hey! Senge-kun, just now I also noticed the situation of the people in China. Through the afterglow, Yamashita had already noticed the situation on the other side of the courtyard, and his face was not red and he was not panting, and he was talking nonsense: "The reason why I bowed my head was not to eat, but to think about the reason for this abnormal phenomenon." ”

Senge stared at his subordinates tightly, and after looking at it for a long time, he didn't find out why, and asked the general suspiciously: "Is it true?" Have you thought about it? ”

Yamashita's breath stopped instantly, thinking about how to answer this question, and said that it was not easy to dispel the suspicions of the old fox opposite, even if it was a lie, at least it had to be three points true and seven points false, otherwise it would be easy to be exposed, and he would only die worse when the time came.

"Yamashita Fu!?" Senge seemed to sense something unusual.

"Senge-kun!" Yamashita immediately straightened up, and just when he was so anxious that he didn't know how to answer, he suddenly saw a child eating candy, and instantly blurted out: "The person of Shina is brushing up his reputation." ”

"Reputation?" Hearing this explanation, Senge's eyebrows furrowed into a knot.

Maybe it was to make the other party believe, or maybe it was to give a hint to himself, Yamashita hurriedly repeated: "Yes, the people of China are just making a name for themselves?" ”

Senge turned around, looked at the courtyard and wondered, "What is the reason?" ”

Taking advantage of this effort, Yamashita quickly wiped the sweat on his head: "This person is a chicken thief, and now he is famous, and he has long had a certain reputation inside and outside China, but there is a crisis hidden under the fame, and some people have long regarded him as a thorn in the eye." ”

Senge's face softened slightly, and he seemed to agree: "So in order to ensure that others don't dare to do anything to him, this branch man deliberately pretends to be kind and charitable, to help the victims, give alms to young children, and gain a good reputation from the branch group, so that others don't dare to do anything to him!" ”

"Yes, yes, Sengejun is worthy of being a pillar of the empire, just such a short period of observation has reached such a conclusion, which is really worth learning from our subordinates." Yamashita didn't care whether the other party's inference was right or not, and he blew it directly, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Everything is most afraid of brain supplement, originally a very small thing, after brain supplementation is likely to become extremely complicated, originally he was still thinking about how to continue to make up nonsense, but now the boss took the initiative to diverge his thinking for him, and he was really sleepy and sent a pillow.

Look at the process with the conclusion, and the process is just as it thinks.

The more Senge looked at it, the more he felt that his inference was extremely correct, and the lines on his face gradually exaggerated: "I'll just say, in terms of intelligence, that person is definitely not as good as our Yamato nation, which has been reflected as early as the Sino-Japanese War, and he can only play clever, after all, he is just a chess piece on the chessboard." ”

Yamashita hurriedly echoed: "Yes, yes, what Sengejun said is very right, it won't be long before this chess piece will be eaten by us under Sengejun's wise command!" ”

Senge laughed, and then deliberately said implicitly: "It's hard to say, when the time comes, it won't be only my credit, the role of the empire will be greater!" ”

The corners of Yamashita's mouth twitched, but he still hid it in time: "In terms of the main role, it depends on Senge-kun's, what kind of Iwasaki family is just a group of waste materials that don't know how to change, and the credit must be yours." ”

Senge laughed even more rampantly: "Don't worry, there must be a share of yours, now let's go over and see what the situation is......"

Seeing that the two of them were about to leave, the female boss of the chaos stall was about to catch up, but before she could take a step, she was grabbed by the male boss.

"Old man, the Oriental people have dropped all the bowls, we can't just let them go like this." The female boss was puzzled, seeing that the customers were getting farther and farther away, she couldn't help but raise her voice: "They haven't lost money yet, why did they leave?" ”

The male boss had a bitter face, pointed at the two and said, "Do you know what they have in their waists?" ”

The female boss wiped her hands with her apron and frowned, "What else?" ”

The male boss squatted down and cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks on the ground: "They have knives pinned to their waists, which is the kind of long and sharp Oriental knife, wipe it on the neck, and the head will fly down immediately, and the public will not care about it at that time!" ”

Hearing this, the female boss's face turned pale instantly, and she trembled: "That...... Forget it, we'll do it...... Make a small business, a coarse porcelain bowl is rotten and rotten, we don't want it. ”

The male boss sighed, swept all the pieces in the dustpan, and when he walked next to the female boss, there was an unprecedented sense of pleasure on his face, and he muttered in his ear: "When I was cooking for them just now, I quietly added some ingredients, and I didn't plan to ask for this bowl, but it's just right." ”

As he spoke, he dumped all the garbage in the dustpan into the garbage heap.

The female boss's eyes widened, she looked left and right, and finally pulled the male boss's arm tightly: "You...... You're going to die, aren't you afraid that they'll wipe your neck with that foreign knife? ”

The male boss said angrily: "What's so terrible, it's a sin to live one more day in this world, and I've already lived enough, just because they forcibly occupy our Qingdao, I can't get over it with this breath in my heart." ”

The female boss snorted: "Alas, what should we do now?" ”

The male boss raised his eyebrows, and threw the chopsticks used by the Japanese just now into the fire, and the fire instantly became a little stronger: "Don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts, Oriental devils are also ghosts, wait for them to come over and continue to cut materials!" ”

……

On the other side, at the snack stall next door, Xiao Liuzi looked at the bean juice in the bowl and stopped talking, and finally put it down helplessly.

"Mr. Pryde, I'm still not used to eating this thing, the more authentic snacks in old Beijing, the more I can't enjoy it, or you will eat my bowl too, right?"

"Then how can it work, what you want is already a small portion, as a 'foreigner' on my side, can accept it, how can you, as an authentic Chinese, not eat it?" Pride pushed back the bean juice that the other party had pushed over, with a curious face: "You might as well try again, I think it's still okay." ”

In order to help the other party and say that what he said was true, after Pride finished speaking, he took a big sip directly, with a face full of enjoyment, more like an authentic Beijinger than the uncle next to him.

This scene saw the little sixth son of the Zhang family grinning for a while, as if he was drinking just now, and he didn't forget to swallow a mouthful of spit.

But the matter has come to this point, Xiao Liuzi also wants to show his manhood, and he mustered up the courage to fight to the death with bean juice, and the bowls were served, and it happened that the Japanese smashed the bowl on the wonton stall and made a noise.

Seeing that his countrymen were being bullied by the Japanese again, Xiao Liuzi was about to sit up and complain, but was pulled hard by Pride.

"Mr. Pryde, what are you pulling me for? Just don't listen to the birds in their mouths, with the sour smell of sea fish in their bones, they know that the two of them are Japanese, and their compatriots are being bullied now, how can they sit idly by now? Xiao Liuzi was very puzzled by this.

Pride said with a cautious face: "It's because they're Japanese that make you don't meddle, don't forget what your father told you before you set off this time!" ”

Xiao Liuzi's fists were loose and tight, tight and loose, and finally said helplessly: "Make friends and avoid enemies." ”

Pride put his hands on the other party's shoulders and pressed them back into his position: "Yes, don't forget your father's major event now, he is preparing to pacify the Northeast and plan the Central Plains, and now he is preparing to ease relations with Japan. ”

Xiao Liuzi was originally impulsive, but now that he was poured cold water on this, he instantly sobered up a lot: "Yes, my father asked me to come over to have a good relationship with Professor Cheng and see if I can cooperate in some aspects. ”

But after all, the young man still has a lot of enthusiasm, and Xiao Liuzi gritted his teeth again: "In this way, when those Japanese are gone, we will go and help the pair of uncles and aunts, and we can do as much as we can." ”

Pride nodded with satisfaction: "This can be done." ”

Fortunately, it was just the Japanese who started their own infighting, and they didn't involve their compatriots much, and after making a few weird moves, they turned around and left, and Xiao Liuzi breathed a sigh of relief: "It's the deputy dishes and chopsticks, fortunately, nothing big happened." ”

"yes, nothing serious." One second Pride's face was still full of smiles, and the next second he noticed that the Japanese were going to Cheng Nuo's courtyard, and his face was instantly covered with dark clouds: "Little Liuzi, no, things may change, where do you see the two of them going?" ”

Following the direction of his finger, Xiao Liuzi also noticed the abnormality: "Are they also looking for Professor Cheng?" I'm afraid it won't be a good thing! ”

Pride shook his head: "Maybe it will have a negative impact on the purpose of our trip!" The Japanese have long had plotted against Tohoku. ”

Xiao Liuzi gasped: "Is it an armament?" ”

Pride immediately grabbed Xiao Liuzi's hand: "Sincerely!" ”

Having said that, at this time, the Zhang family had just robbed the Japanese ordnance purchased by the direct family to arm the strength of their own army, and it was not long after entering the customs, although Xu Shising was appointed as the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces, but in fact he did not fully control the northeast, and there was still some distance from the hat of the "king of the northeast".

If you want to dominate one side, you must have a large enough team.

The Feng army, with a maximum strength of 350,000 troops, became the largest armed group in the country at that time, firmly controlling the three eastern provinces, not to mention, but also thinking of unifying the whole country by force and controlling the central and central regimes.

In terms of numbers, it is easy to say that if you can't recruit soldiers, you can catch strong men, but in terms of weapons, you can't be so rude, and if you want to improve your military strength, you must have enough arms.

Historically, due to well-known reasons, these armies basically did not have unified standard weapons, which led to a great reduction in their specific strength, and how to logistically supply them was a difficult problem.

In the late Qing Dynasty, although Li Zhongtang and other foreign affairs officials made great efforts to make the country prosperous, military procurement and imitation were mistaken by the specious "painting one", and the concept of the system was weak; although a small number of standard guns, artillery, ammunition, and medicine appeared, the weapons and equipment system of the army and navy was far from being formed.

At present, the Beiyang government has tried to determine the basic standard weapons, but it has not been successful due to the current situation.

Standard weapons are not only the embodiment of the regularization of the national army, but also have many advantages in design, manufacturing, testing, assembly teaching, training, repair, procurement and upgrading, etc., and their finalization and installation are one of the most critical links in the modern weapons industry.

Although Zhang Bazi, who was born in the green forest, didn't understand this aspect, he also knew the benefits of standard arms, and he happened to know about Cheng Nuo Iron and Steel from the newspaper, and wanted to send his son to contact him first.

Although there was its own arsenal, the Shenyang Arsenal, which was the largest manufacturer owned by the warlords in the 20s of the 20th century, with 17,000 workers, including more than 1,500 foreigners, although most of them were technicians, there were more Belarusians and Germans than British and Americans.

However, domestic manufacturing requires not only materials, but also technicians, and equipment.

If the self-development cooperation fails, you can still try to see if you can directly purchase arms and see if there are any special channels on Cheng Nuo's side.

"It is rumored that Krupp has a special relationship with this Professor Cheng University." (End of chapter)