Chapter 67 The Legend Begins
It was not smooth sailing. First of all, in the Army, Phillips took out his old qualifications and made a guarantee, which allowed the approval from the Army to pass. Once the formation of Zhang Yang's troops was smooth, the number was essential. The approval and filing of the number must be reported to the Army, otherwise they would know if you are your own person on the battlefield.
The next one is to resolve the pressure from the Army. After all, the Super Soldier Plan guaranteed by Phillips is carried out by the cooperation between Congress and the Army. Of course, Dr. Erskine, the core figure of this plan, is Phillips's person, which is also the fundamental reason why Phillips is fearless.
Congress is still easy to block its mouth. Anyway, as long as the Yangyang troops do not affect the normal progress of the Super Soldiers plan, Congress will be too lazy to ask more questions. The troops are not under their command anyway. What they value most is how much benefit a whole team of super soldiers can bring to the US government once this plan is successful.
Not to mention, once such a super team appears, it will have a huge impact on the battlefield. The morale of American soldiers and the Allied forces will at least increase a lot, and it will also have a considerable shock to Germany and Japan. Moreover, these members of Congress are all aiming at it. If these soldiers come forward and endorse the government bonds, I believe that the civilians will be very happy to take out the banknotes in their pockets.
Treasury bonds are more secure than venture capitalists, deposits, etc. In the past, most of the people who bought Treasury bonds were older people, and these old ladies were not very confident about bank deposits. The tragic impact of the Wall Street stock market crash in 1929 has been lingering until now.
On the contrary, the US government led by President Roosevelt, who promoted the New Deal, is definitely much safer to issue national debts than to those big capitalists. This is the idea of most of these people who are in the grade, and Congress has also raised a lot of funds from these people, but this is far from enough.
The government needs to operate, the MPs pay wages, the war costs money, and even the workers who clean toilets also need money, so the money naturally comes from taxpayers. As the saying goes, the wool comes from sheep, and the politicians who are best at using this method soon came up with new solutions.
Since older people have no money to make, politicians have focused on younger people. Most of these middle-aged people have funds, but their caution in using funds far exceeds politicians' expectations. Because of the Wall Street stock market crash, these people are more cautious than the other. They would rather hold it in their hands than spend it.
They don’t spend money, where does the US government collect taxes and where does it pay? Everyone knows the principle of money making money, but it is not easy to persuade these middle-aged people. However, Congress immediately noticed a scientific research project called the Super Soldiers Project. It was originally proposed by the US Army, but the funds and other aspects were somewhat inconvenient. Congress immediately took the liking of the benefits that the plan might bring. He took the initiative to contact Colonel Phillips, and the two sides hit it off. Then the plan received funding and other support from Congress, and the progress accelerated a lot.
In Congress's view, as long as the profits brought by the successful plan are much greater than the money invested now, then this investment is still worth the last bet.
But no one expected that the plan was successful, but it could be said to be a failure. In addition to Steve Rogers, the only finished product, the core character of the plan, Dr. Erskine, was shot and killed, and the last serum was also snatched away. Only Dr. Erskine knew the specific formula for the serum, and it would be useless to organize it from other research materials.
After all, the Army was not satisfied with the loss of the deal in Congress, and then threw Steve to Congress to pay the bill. Fortunately, Steve was lucky. With the strong publicity of the US government, Captain America's reputation quickly resounded throughout the country, and the government bonds endorsed by Steve also increased steadily. Both sides took their own needs, but the one who was most disappointed was undoubtedly Phillips.
Dr. Erskine died, his serum was damaged, and Steve was taken to all parts of the country and even the army to promote national debt. However, he had nothing to lose. The brigade general who was sure to win was also wasted. Fortunately, Zhang Yang's plan made him regain some face, and of course this was already a story.
At this time, Steve's weak performance made Phillips dislike him no matter how he looked at it. But the other party was brought in by Erskine himself, and Erskine insisted on letting the other party conduct an experiment. Phillips had been arguing with him. In his opinion, any person he could not pull out was much stronger than Steve.
After Zhang Yang pulled Steve away from his team, Phillips was so happy that he could not stop him? And a strange thing, Erskine only asked Zhang Yang about the situation after knowing Steve's situation, but he did not ask more about it, acquiesced to this behavior.
Maybe in Erskine's eyes, Steve can still be stronger?
Zhang Yang didn't understand Erskine's thoughts, and he didn't need to understand. After Phillips solved these pressures for Zhang Yang, Zhang Yang's work became much simpler, just focus on the next training.
A total of 41 people were assigned to three teams, with 13, 13, 15 each, and the first, second and third teams in the order, and Steve was in the third team of 15 people.
Zhang Yang had a premonition that Steve should be very close to participating in the test, and he was likely to leave the team at that time, so he left his position in advance. Even if one Steve was gone, the third team was still over-organized by 14 people. As the captain of the squadron, Zhang Yang was still an auxiliary staff member, carrying the position of a squadron leader, while the other three teams each selected three captains.
Yes, it's just a black man who is good at operating various electronic equipment, telegraphs, radios and other things. He actually has a university degree, which surprised Zhang Yang when he first saw the information and directly appointed him as the team leader.
The captain of the second team, Zhang Yang, is very familiar with him. Yes, the big guy Ben Frank who had had a fight with Zhang Yang when he was just a first time.
Although Ben Frank was big, he was not slow to figure. The fight with Zhang Yang that day made him a lot more honest, and his training performance was very outstanding. At first, Colonel Phillips was a little unwilling, but later he let him go and stayed in Zhang Yang's team.
Chapter completed!