At that time, since the Marco Polo Bridge Incident last year, as the war between China and Japan intensified, countries around the world had focused their attention on Asia and the top leaders of China and Japan.
Among them, the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France danced the most happily and participated most actively!
The reason is also very simple, war costs money! We need material supplies, resource exports, and military equipment!
What's more, once upon a time, as members of the eight strong men who stabbed Cixi's chrysanthemum, these countries had considerable financial capital such as factories and banks in China; Shanghai, Wuhan, Guangzhou and other places were full of concessions;
One day at a time! A single move can affect the whole body. It's strange that they are not active!
The Americans, in particular, on the one hand encouraged the Central Army to resist the war in order to promote automobiles, tungsten steel and other military products; on the other hand, they secretly collaborated with the Japanese to smuggle oil and steel, and absorb silver coins and silver coins looted from Nanjing, Shanghai and other places at the end of the year. Gold, etc., truly making money on both sides!
The old guys in the Military Commission were not clear about this, but due to the current situation of the war of resistance with internal and external difficulties, these arms dealers in the name of peace were needed to provide ordnance supplies, so they pretended not to know and turned a deaf ear.
Because of this, when I heard that a little-known Chinese defense force suddenly emerged from the land of Sanjin, not to mention its extremely advanced equipment, it actually regained the provincial capital Taiyuan with a small victory and a large number, so there were envoys, counselors, and gentlemen from various countries fighting. I came here in the name of watching the ceremony to find out.
However, seeing that Li Yunfeng was unmoved by his enthusiasm, Chris could only continue:
"Commander-in-Chief Li! Your army is the most elite and bravest I have ever seen in China! We are willing to work with you to build a joint venture to develop the coal resources of this land, and we will also provide you with a steady stream of funds! "
【really! The weasel greets the rooster! It looks like you have no good intentions! 】
It turned out that Chris had set his sights on the rich coal reserves under everyone's feet, and planned to develop and excavate them at a low cost, then sell them to the Central Army, Shanxi-Sui Army, and even the Japanese!
If you don’t go abroad inside and outside, you can make money by changing hands! You can even collect a deposit from the buyer in advance!
"Okay! But I will provide the people, you will provide the money and equipment, and we will split the money 50/50! By the way, you have to buy the entire land and mine yourself. The land is jointly owned by hundreds of thousands of people in Taiyuan. Commander-in-Chief You can’t make the decision for them! As for income audits and tax stamps! We, the Chinese Defense Forces, must account for at least half of them!”
"ah?"
Chris was startled. He originally thought that since Li Yunfeng, a country bumpkin from a poor ravine, didn't know anything about capital operations, he could fool this guy by just spending some money. However, he never thought that this guy was also well versed in the ways of doing business. He not only asked for You have to provide your own money, equipment, and even do audits and taxes!
[Is this the rumored crazy person who eats Japanese flesh? Don’t want to! 】
Looking at the backs of Li Yunfeng and others moving forward, Chris looked suspicious! Not long after, two white pigs wearing top hats and tuxedo suits came forward. Before Lu Tianyun could make an introduction, they spoke in an authentic London accent:
"I am Rolle, the first secretary of the British Empire's Legation in Peking! I now make the following ten demands to the Chinese Defense Forces!
1. Guarantee the personal and property safety of our British Empire residents in Taiyuan! Second, grant me most-favored-nation status from the British Empire, and our merchants’ goods imported and exported from Taiyuan will be exempted from inspection and tax exemption! three…………"
But he never thought that before he finished speaking, Li Yunfeng snorted and smiled: "Monk!"
"arrive!"
"Throw these two pigs out to me! From now on, any British guy who steps into the territory of my defense army will do the same!"
"yes!"
The monk at the end of the team couldn't stand the arrogant attitude of the white-skinned pig for a long time. He picked up one in one hand, jumped off the stage and walked away in front of everyone. Seeing this situation, Lu Tianyun was just about to open his mouth to remonstrate, but Li Yunfeng glanced at him with a condescending look, and he was frozen in place.
At the right moment, several men in gray-blue military uniforms approached. Li Yunlong changed his playful smile, and the brigade commander introduced him directly:
"Commander-in-Chief Li, this is the deputy commander of the 129th Division of our army. Previously, he led the troops mainly in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei! He just came back a few days ago to report on his work!"
"Commander Li!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the deputy division commander took the initiative to salute, making Li Yunlong look horrified.
It wasn't until the two parties exchanged a few words and left that they held the corner of his brother's clothes and gritted his teeth and whispered:
"You're so good, bastard! Now even Master Laozi salutes you! You paint a tiger's head on your pigskin, you're so proud!"
The sourness of his tone and the sharpness of his words were unheard of!
Just because this deputy division commander has a special status! The founder of the former Fourth Front Army, the old leader of Li Yunlong’s immediate superior, the brigade commander! One of the few commanders and fighters of the entire army!
Don't look at the fact that he is just the deputy of a division now. You must know that due to the deliberate squeeze by the president, the Eighteenth Army had only three divisions when it was first founded. However, with the strong strength and capital of each division now, each division is the size of three armies, especially Represented by the 129th Division Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region!
As the deputy division commander who single-handedly created the base, Li Yunlong, in the pre-Qing Dynasty, was a frontier official with heavy troops!
He can be rogue with the brigade commander, and skin with the division commander! But he did not dare to provoke the old leader; but he never thought that the other party would actually salute his brother today. If word of this spread, it would bring glory to him, Lao Li, the head of the regiment!
[Is there really smoke coming out of our old Li family’s ancestral grave? 】
Looking at his younger brother's tall back, Li Yunlong buried his head in thought and glanced at the high-ranking officials and envoys on the stage from time to time. He had never dared to imagine this scene before!
With Rohr's lesson learned, envoys and guests from other countries treated Li Yunfeng with great respect, no matter what their purpose, but they only kept polite greetings in their words, and did not make any unnecessary requests for trade or mutual trade!
In their eyes, they must have equated Li Yunfeng with uncivilized barbarians. They were too busy to escape from this place of right and wrong, so they had no time to discuss with him what was and was not!
Although Taiyuan is big, its status is still two levels lower than that of Pingjin, Chongqing and Shanghai. You can make money with him, and you can make money without him! Can't shake the overall situation!
Li Yunfeng didn't care about this, as long as he gave himself some time to research the weapons that the system had given him earlier, when this group of foreign devils came to show their courtesy!
As for now, let it be! Of course, in sharp contrast to those foreign adults, it was the representative of the Shanxi-Sui Army who respectfully saluted Li Yunfeng and then politely begged the Chinese Defense Forces to sell them some of the captured Japanese weapons.
Since Li Yunfeng snatched the equipment of more than a hundred military trucks from the opponent more than a month ago, the firepower equipment of the Shanxi-Sui Army has plummeted. Apart from Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment and several other main groups that were established earlier, most of the Most of the newly formed troops still carry the old sleeves that were eliminated by the 18th Army and were made in Hanyang.
I wanted to take out my coffin and buy equipment from the foreign devils. But I don’t want everyone’s attention to be on the Central Army. Your Jinsui Army can also want equipment! A rifle costs fifty silver dollars! A regiment with more than 1,000 guns costs 50,000 silver dollars! Yan Laoxi was so anxious that he couldn't sleep that night!
In the end, I had to place my hope on Li Yunfeng! After all, those are the guns and ammunition of more than 13,000 people, and they are all Japanese weapons. They are much better than the equipment used by the foreign devils to deceive people by an era! At the right time, Chu Yunfei, who had dealt with the two Li brothers, also came forward. He clenched his fists and bowed to Li Yunfeng with an earnest look on his face:
"Commander Li, can you please help the old officer for Chu's sake?"
