The next day, the first day of April.

The spring rain in mid-spring came and went quietly, and when the most diligent citizens woke up from their sleep, they found that it had rained for half the night last night.

Although the air is fresh, the streets are damp, and puddles of water have accumulated in some places with poor infrastructure, and the delicate bamboo shoots seem to have grown half a fist tall overnight.

"At 6 o'clock in Nanjing time, there are convective clouds in the west and south of Gaoqiao Airport moving slowly northward, the cloud top is 4 to 6 kilometers high, there are scattered clouds at an altitude of 600 meters, the ground wind direction is 280, the wind speed is 4.3 meters per second, and the visibility is 17 kilometers......

Due to the rapid development of civil aviation in various countries in the world in the past two years, the growth momentum of domestic and international flights is very considerable.

As a result, the Ming Air Force has halved the required interval for reporting meteorological conditions every two hours in order to cope with increasingly heavy air traffic.

Two Junker Ju-52 passenger planes carrying more than 20 diplomats from the German Embassy emerged from the clouds, slowly descended in altitude, and landed in a landing posture with their noses slightly tilted after aiming at the runway.

In addition to the regular turnover of embassy staff, the Germans also intended to negotiate trade issues.

The sharp drop in imports of rare metals has significantly affected the company's industrial production, and some factories have had to apply for the transfer of rare metal stocks from strategic reserves in order to maintain production.

Except for a few people who shoulder heavy responsibilities, the remaining fourteen men and five women were all transferred to the German Society Legation in Daming for rotation, which can be regarded as a mediocre routine.

In the ranks of military attachés, the chief military attache is held by Major General Justers Kohler. The Main Directorate of Staffi Reconnaissance exchanged the status of Chriss-Richter with the rank of Major of the General Staff of the Army, who came with him as a technical attaché.

Of course, the actual task is naturally to engage in intelligence collection, summarization, and collation.

Even though the principle of "long-distance friendship and close attack" is well known, the difference in ideology still gave these Germans special treatment - as soon as the plane landed, the agents of the Foreign Investigation Factory approached and did not allow them to move around without permission.

For native Germanic speakers, it is almost impossible to learn Chinese quickly in a few months.

Looking at the huge Chinese characters on the sign, Chrissy's recognition pattern is almost trying to recall the meaning of each word in her mind, and then piecing them together one by one.

Thanks to the simplicity and straightforwardness of the basic grammar of Chinese, it would otherwise be more difficult to identify—because if you can't skillfully put together the meanings of words in grammatical order, you will also not be able to understand the meaning of words or sentences.

I don't know if it was to save money or trouble, the German Legation still used the building of the German Empire.

This is a Renaissance architectural style courtyard, with two large and one small three houses, the main color is gray and white, and it has a unique sense of symmetry and geometric beauty in the configuration; In the upper left corner, the black, red, and yellow tricolor flag with a hammer compass flutters in the breeze.

“…… For handover work, important documents must be signed and photographed for archiving, and confidential documents to be destroyed must be brought to the shredder by the custodian. ”

Looking at the current mountain of documents and excerpts of notes, Chrissy couldn't help but be speechless - that's too much, right?

I knew I would have come here to be constrained and hard work, so I might as well go to Wellington or Santiago.

At the time, I wanted to be able to play outside of work, but now it seems that I have undoubtedly made a wrong decision.

Because the German society was in a hurry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Rites and the Department of Commerce of the Ministry of Industry quickly sent officials to participate in the talks, and the Ministry of War and the Metropolitan Governor's Office were naturally no exception.

Reasonable use of loopholes in the clause to exploit loopholes is still far from malicious violation of the agreement in nature, and for the Ming court, which generally pays attention to the credibility of the country, exploiting loopholes is almost an acceptable upper limit.

The Germans roughly estimated what the Akito wanted, and this time they brought with them a lot of weapons, technology, and equipment videos and individual objects, and the film alone contained two large special safes.

The "first to bear" is the DB600 V-shaped liquid-cooled engine produced by the state-owned Stuttgart FAW Group (Daimler-Benz).

Left and right double exhaust cylinders, V-shaped 60° angle arrangement, displacement 33.9L, weight 575kg, bore 150mm, stroke 160mm, each cylinder has two inlets and two rows of four valves, including a one-stage one-speed supercharger, four carburetors, the maximum output of up to 1000 horsepower.

If you don't consider the British company Rolls-Royce, this liquid-cooled engine from Mercedes-Benz is definitely the first class thing today.

Liquid-cooled engines and air-cooled engines have their own advantages and disadvantages, and there is no difference between high and low comprehensive performance - the former has a smaller frontal area and lower wind resistance, but it is very difficult to maintain; The latter is the opposite, because it is air-cooled, in order to ensure the contact area with the air, the cylinder should be tiled on the front, so the appearance is round and blunt.

The Ming Air Force does not want to go all the way to the dark on air-cooled engines, and some people may still need to have a usable liquid-cooled engine, so that it is easier to create top-notch fighters, even if their reliability and attendance are not good.

Therefore, the Air Force is recently preparing another path, that is, seeking a source of technology for liquid-cooled engines.

Naturally, the British would not agree, and the Americans, in addition to the air-cooled engines of Wright and Pwt-Whit, only Allison had liquid-cooled in-line engines, but they were not excellent.

Since they have already chosen to introduce foreign technology in order to save trouble, they must try to do the best, otherwise it is better to develop it themselves.

Therefore, the Air Force has taken a fancy to the 12Y-21 liquid-cooled engine of the French company Sispano-Suza (this is actually a Spanish company), and is already preparing to issue an application for a production license.

However, it costs money.

In contrast, the Germans were clearly carrying a lot of chips – of good quality, and without spending real money.

The two sides quickly reached a consensus on this point, and the process went very smoothly.

As for other weapons and equipment, the Germans did not hide it, and generously displayed all kinds of weapons equipped by the People's Army, and even took out new gadgets that were still in the experimental stage.

New 7.92mm heavy machine gun, new 20mm anti-aircraft gun, new 13mm aviation machine gun, new 533mm hydrogen peroxide torpedo, new 20T class infantry support tank......

A large number of dazzling weapons, these videos, drawings, and scaled-down models were placed in front of the Ming interlocutors.

However, most of these things are nothing to be afraid of, and the only thing that can attract Akito's attention is the hydrogen peroxide torpedo.

Although the Treaty of Versailles did not restrict the Germans from developing heavy machine guns, the universal machine gun was born.

Treaty restrictions are just one of the factors driving the development of general-purpose machine guns, and the exploration of the use of "machine guns" as a weapon is also an important factor - I just want to have the best of both worlds, and I want a machine gun that can be used for both light and heavy purposes, suitable for infantry tactics, or why don't you try it?

Therefore, after the Germans developed the traditional heavy machine gun MG28, based on the MG31 (historical MG13) and MG30, they still tossed out the MG34 general-purpose machine gun.

Because of the high degree of secrecy of the MG34 by the Germans, the military expedition sent by the Ming to Spain did not obtain samples, but only collected verbal descriptions and some photographs by hearsay.

However, the international brigade used it because it received a batch of weapons directly assisted by the German Society, and the report written by Zhou in Qixia Military Prison specifically expounded its evaluation, saying that this is a weapon of extraordinary significance and groundbreaking, but it does not conform to the national conditions of the country.

The military personnel who reviewed the report accepted his opinion, but now after watching the video, several military personnel present were a little shaken - without it, only sharp ears!

With a high rate of fire of 900 rounds per minute and a weight of 12 kg, the bipod light machine gun state, the tripod heavy machine gun state, and the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft anti-aircraft state can be quickly converted, which is really excellent in terms of service performance.

However, after asking for technical details, they "changed their minds" again.

With a raw material utilization rate of only 25%, it takes about 50kg of high-quality steel to make each one?

The total number of parts and components of the whole gun is as high as 200, which is more than 20% more than the Type 37 heavy machine gun.

The failure rate of continuous firing is close to 1.5 percent, far from the 0.2 percent standard set by the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of War.

Are the Germans making guns or craft toys?

The MG34 failed to enter the eyes of the military personnel, but they felt that the design idea of the light and heavy machine gun was valuable.

As for the hydrogen peroxide torpedo, the Chinese representatives made their intentions clear - the Navy has been tossing and turning on this for many years, and it has not been going well.

Although the proposal for basic defense cooperation was rejected, the idea of exchanging technology and machines for resources was agreed, and the win-win situation was a win-win situation for both sides.

It was noon on the fifth day of the fourth month of April, and after the talks, the two parties had a low-key luncheon with a harmonious atmosphere.

"Today's report has been agreed, but it must be accompanied by security personnel."

"Okay, I got it."

It is universally recognized that the military attaché of an embassy is a military intelligence officer who is dressed as a diplomat.

Although on the surface there was no restriction on the personal freedom of diplomats, it was obvious that the imperial court could not tolerate foreign military attachés wandering around the capital, so it was mandatory to be accompanied by agents of the Foreign Investigation Factory before going out, and the travel route must be reported in advance and could not be changed without authorization.

Because of this, Chrissy now regrets it.

The application route included a military station, which was denied; The meeting passed through the combat readiness warehouse and was rejected; The meeting passed through the air defense position, which was rejected; It is possible to overlook the Forbidden City Miyagi security deployment, which was dismissed.

You can't go anywhere with a co-author, can you? Why didn't you inquire carefully in the first place? I still chose to come to China in a hurry.

Even though they protested, the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Rites still ignored them, and their reply was always:

And what's going on?

It's none of our business.

Wait, the bosses are still working on it.

Your request is improper, and you are not allowed to do so.

Fortunately, her application yesterday was approved - it is possible to visit the other party, but it needs to be accompanied.

Yesterday was the last day of Zhou Changfeng's vacation, and he planned to fly to Tokyo this evening, only to be told that an uninvited guest was coming.

Shen Yu called, "Do you know this woman?" ”

Zhou Changfeng was stunned when he heard it, "Huh? From the embassy? German? Female? ”

On the side, Xia Xiaoshi was walking over with a plate of purple-red mulberries, and immediately stopped when she heard the sound.

"Anyway, let's get ready, after all, I'm also a foreign affairs official on the surface, so I'll be courteous, I'll be there later."

"Okay."

Foreign intelligence agents visiting their own military officers by name? And it's a guy with a "criminal record" like Zhou.

Considering that ordinary agents might not be able to cope with it, Shen Yu decided to come in person.

"Xiaoshi, don't look at me with that kind of gaze, I really don't know."

"Humph!" Xia Xiaoshi waved her hand, with a look of "I know", "Ouch, everyone has come to the door, do you still say you don't know?" ”

"It's so wronged, I really don't have an impression."

Half an hour later.

A knock sounded, and Zhou Changfeng, who had been lingering in the front yard for a long time, glanced at Xia Xiaoshi, and then stepped forward to open the door.

Blue eyes, blond hair, tall ......

In an instant, Zhou Changfeng's memory was dragged back to Talavera, one of the two captains who came to give orders on the liaison plane in the headquarters of the 50th Brigade.

"Is that you?" He asked tentatively, "In Talavera?" ”

(End of chapter)