On Monday, November 18, when Ayres went to work, he took Li Junhao to the State Department, asking him to go to the Far Eastern Division to report on his work, and then go to the Admiralty in the afternoon.

The current director of the Far East Department is Riggs McDaniel, who is also known - at the end of October last year, this person participated in the Far East Observation Mission, and together with the 5,500 additional troops, he went to Shanghai and participated in and witnessed the merger of the two concessions.

When the two met, they naturally remembered the original scene, and after more than a year, when they met again in China, they felt like old friends were reunited.

When McDaniel saw him, he was very happy, got up and let him sit down on the sofa in the reception area, asked the secretary to bring coffee, and asked him cordially about his current situation.

Li Junhao didn't deal with him much in Shanghai at the beginning, but they were very polite to each other at that time, but they didn't talk about it deeply, but at this time, because of the relationship between acquaintances, they became more affectionate.

In terms of position, Li Junhao came from the diplomatic system, starting from the first attaché of the Consulate General in Shanghai, and until now he is also serving as the deputy consul general, but now his main position is the commander of the Shanghai-Strait Joint Command belonging to the military system, and he is no longer a simple diplomat.

In fact, even the post of deputy consul general is not inferior to McDaniel's director of the Far East Department at the administrative level, but he has to accept the guidance of the Far East Department in business.

McDaniel was originally a very sleek professional diplomat, and naturally he would not snub Li Junhao, a young man with a great future who straddled the military and political circles, and never put on a stand from his superiors.

The other party treated him politely, and Li Junhao naturally reciprocated, took the initiative to report the current situation in the Huhai Concession, and sent a report on his work that had been prepared long ago, and he did an impeccable job in terms of work.

Li Junhao's actions made McDaniel very happy, he didn't want to offend promising young people is one thing, and the importance of work is another, and now the other party takes the initiative to do his job in place, so that his side can successfully complete the work task, of course, it is a happy thing.

The conversation between the two was very harmonious, and it didn't take long for them to get to know each other like friends......

At noon, McDaniel specially invited Li Junhao to the State Council's restaurant for dinner, introduced many people to him, and by the way, publicized his arrival.

For the staff of the State Council, many people have heard of Pan Sen's name, and when they met the real person, the common feeling is that this deputy consul general in Shanghai is so young! ——

In the afternoon, after contacting Lieutenant Colonel Bidal first, Li Junhao took Nick and Avne to the Admiralty on Pennsylvania Avenue in the northwest district of Washington.

At this time, the Pentagon had not yet begun construction, nor had it set up a Department of Defense, and the highest organs of the US military were the President's Council of Military Advisers, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Army, and the Air Force had not been set up separately.

Among them, the Admiralty actually has more powers, because it not only has the naval forces that command the whole United States, but also has its own naval air force, manages the relatively independent Marine Corps and Coast Guard, and receives several times the annual military allocation of the War Department.

Therefore, among Li Junhao's three military ranks, the official rank of lieutenant colonel in the Navy is more valuable than the wartime lieutenant colonel of the Marine Corps and the wartime colonel of the army, and one of his main posts is also the Far East intelligence officer of the Naval Intelligence Bureau. However, when he went to the Expeditionary Operations Department of the Admiralty this time, he reported on his performance of his duties as joint commander of the Shanghai Strait.

The Admiralty is an eight-storey building with 12 baroque columns on the outside, and 40 steps leading to the roadside.

When Li Junhao's car arrived at the door, Lieutenant Colonel Vidal was already waiting at the foot of the steps. After greeting each other, they walked up the stairs together, and Vidal acted as a guide, introducing him to the Admiralty building for the first time......

Ten minutes later, under the guidance of Vidal, Li Junhao came to the expeditionary operations office on the fourth floor and met with the director, Major General Presitto Vaughn.

Vaughn was a small, glasses-wearing, middle-aged white man with a somewhat serious expression, more like a high school teacher than a professional soldier, if not in a Navy uniform.

Li Junhao saluted first and said, "Hello, General Vaughn, I'm Ognyan. Lee Panson, report to you. ”

"Hello, Lieutenant Colonel Pansen, it's a pleasure to meet you." Vaughn replied scrupulously, "Please sit down, we can talk about what you are doing in the Far East......

As in the report at the Far East Department of the State Council, Li Junhao prepared a debriefing report in advance, and this time he handed the report to Director Vaughn before he began to report - because he could see that Vaughn was a person who paid great attention to details, and he believed that he should do things in a rigorous style, so words and data were more telling about the problem.

Sure enough, after opening the report and listening to Li Junhao's explanation, Vaughn obviously showed a look of appreciation, and expressed great satisfaction after he finished the report.

However, Vaughn concludes by asking the question: If the United States and Japan declare war on each other, will the Huhai Concession be able to hold?

In this regard, Li Junhao could not give a clear answer, he could only say that everything he had done before was preparing for this, and as for the result, there is no answer at present.

Vaughn listened to him and nodded in agreement, but he expressed his admiration for what Li Junhao had done for it......

Overall, the debriefing was a success, and Li Junhao received a triple-A evaluation, which means that the Far East and Shanghai Maritime Affairs led by him will receive full support in the Expeditionary Operations Department of the Admiralty in the future.

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After leaving the Admiralty, Lee took Nick and Avne around the streets of Washington, buying a lot of things before meeting up with the driver and driving back to Ayers' home.

In the evening, he told Ayers in detail about today's two debriefings, and by the way, he reviewed them and found no mistakes or omissions. As a result, there is only one thing left for him to come to Washington this time: to meet the president.

Ayres told him that the meeting had been scheduled, and that it would be tomorrow afternoon, expected to be between four and five o'clock, an hour in time, and that the president might ask him some questions, and that he would just have to answer them as he understood.

However, Li Junhao still didn't expect the president to ask him any questions, but he was not worried, because it was nothing more than those things, and he was really interested in seeing this hero who was called the hero of World War II in later generations!

(End of chapter)