Shinozuka stopped and stared at Matsumoto for three seconds before slowly speaking, "Okay! You only have three minutes!"
Taking a deep breath, Matsumoto thought about the wording for a moment and said, "Your Excellency, General, please forgive me for my incompetence. This communication equipment is too advanced and has exceeded my knowledge, so it cannot be restored!"
After speaking, Matsumoto bowed vigorously to apologize for his incompetence.
Shinozuka nodded and didn't care.
Seeing that Shinozuka was not angry, Matsumoto continued, "However, among these parts, only this battery can be found, and I hope to restore it and mass-produce it."
Shinozuka frowned, because it had nothing to do with intelligence, but as a general, he decided to listen to the end, "You still have two minutes."
"This kind of battery is very advanced. With such a large piece, it can reach 12.19w of power! The most important thing is that its voltage is very stable."
Shinozuka shook his head, "If you tell me what I'm interested in, I'll understand!"
"A 12.19W radio can cover most of China! In other words, if our communications troops carry this kind of battery, their load can be greatly reduced!"
Shinozuka's eyes flickered, and this time he heard something that interested him.
He knew that the individual soldier radios had a total of at least twenty kilograms of messy equipment. If this could reduce the weight, it would also improve the survival rate of many communication soldiers.
Shinozuka returned to the table again and picked up the biscuit-sized battery. "You mean such a small battery can run a personal radio?"
"Yes!" Matsumoto replied decisively.
"Then what other uses does it have?"
“It has many uses, and as long as it reaches mass production, it’s absolutely fine.”
Matsumoto kept talking, talking about military use first, and then civilian use.
Five minutes passed unknowingly, and Matsumoto finally revealed his true intention, "I want to apply for a research project on this kind of battery, and then apply for a grant."
It's easy to establish a project, but it's difficult to get research funding.
Shinozuka is highly educated and knows that research is a bottomless pit. Throwing countless amounts of money into it will probably result in no results at all. However, he was still a little tempted, because if Matsumoto's research is really successful, it will be a proper military achievement. .
After thinking for a while, Shinozuka decided to listen to how much money Matsumoto wanted, "How much funding do you plan to ask for?"
"I want 50,000 first! Beautiful knife!" Matsumoto asked tentatively.
Fifty thousand U.S. dollars is a lot of money. You must know that the estimated value of his bombed steel plant is only five to six million U.S. dollars.
This research battery costs 50,000 yuan, which is really unacceptable to Shinozuka.
But he is still a general after all. Although the budget is very tight now, he can still come up with 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.
"I'll think about it and give you an answer at noon. But 50,000 yuan is impossible. I'll give you 20,000 yuan at most. If it's not enough, I'll report it myself and apply to the military department."
"Thank you, General!" Matsumoto bowed ninety degrees in thanks. He was now very contented. Originally, he thought he only had one or two thousand in funding, but he didn't expect to get twenty thousand.
"Submit the detailed report of the project before noon!" Shinozuka left the Intelligence Department after saying this.
After a simple wash, Shinozuka went to the study as usual.
As soon as he entered the study, he found that someone had arrived a step earlier than him.
The study is equal to half of the headquarters, and there are many military secrets hidden in it. No one else dares to break in privately. Even Kazuki Yamamoto dares to wait at the door of the study at most.
"Good morning, Miyano-dono!" Shinozuka greeted as usual, but he felt a little unhappy in his heart.
"Good morning, Mr. Shinozuka!" Kazuo Miyano nodded slightly in return.
After finding a chair, Shinozuka sat down, then waved his hand, and the guard went down to prepare tea.
Not long after, the guard brought tea. Shinozuka picked up the tea bowl, scraped the foam from the tea leaves and said, "Miyano-dono, did you have trouble sleeping because you woke up so early?"
Shinozuka said with a pun.
Miyano looked slightly startled and said with a hint of shame, "I'm still relatively junior."
Midway through his words, Miyano turned his attention to the Shinozuka guard.
Guard Shinozuka himself understood what White House meant, but he still cast a questioning look at Shinozuka.
Shinozuka waved gently, and the guard understood, and immediately exited the study, and then closed the door.
The study was quiet, except for the sound of Miyano drinking tea.
"Miyano-dono, is it because of the gold thing that you can't sleep well?" Shinozuka spoke first.
Miyano put down the tea cup, "That's true! After all, the amount is huge!"
"The information is wrong!" Shinozuka said calmly.
Miyano's expression suddenly changed, "Wrong!? Isn't there this batch of gold?"
Shinozuka picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, and said calmly, "There is gold, but the amount is wrong! There is only 7.06 tons."
"Why is there so much less?" Miyano's tone was a little urgent.
"Isn't it normal for intelligence to have errors? Could it be that Miyano-kun is worried that Colonel Yamamoto's subordinates are corrupt?" Shinozuka's tone was a little harsh, and he sounded a little angry.
"That's not what I meant. It's just that I suddenly lost almost one-third. I can't help but feel a little gap in my heart."
Shinozuka smiled, "Miyano-kun, we are soldiers, not businessmen. We don't have to be too obsessed with money. What's more, this gold is almost the same as picking up for free. Wouldn't it be the same if it was more or less?" After that, look He glanced at Miyano, who had slightly dark circles under his eyes, and said, "According to Hua Xia, you have a look!"
Miyano also laughed, "Sir Shinozuka is right, it was for my sake! But after all, the war is tense now and the financial pressure is great. If you get this batch of gold, it can really relieve the financial pressure."
Shinozuka took another sip of tea, stood up, walked to the desk, pulled out a document from a file shelf and handed it to Miyano Kazuo, "This is a message from the special operations team. It was sent last night. Gold Already got it."
Miyano took it and read it carefully.
But just reading the beginning made the corner of his mouth twitch as a general.
After reading it, Miyano returned the telegram to Shinozuka, "This code name for Colonel Yamamoto's subordinates is very special."
After hearing this, Shinozuka shook his head with a wry smile, "It is indeed very special. They encountered the Eighth Route Army and the communication soldier was missing. The telegram was sent by another person as a last resort. Because there was no code book, this code word was used."
Miyano raised his head slightly, looked at Fang Liang and recalled the telegram just now, and after a while he said, "General Yamamoto, this subordinate, has quite a rich imagination. Well, especially the beetle general is simply a stroke of genius."
Miyano said the last words while looking at Shinozuka.
Shinozuka is not angry either, because using the word "dung beetle" to describe a Japanese person is not derogatory, but can actually be used as a compliment in certain situations. (End of chapter)
