Two hours later, it was already past six in the morning.
After having breakfast at the construction site, Wang Husheng and Xu Rui returned to the regiment headquarters together.
Along the way, Wang Husheng rode his horse forward and said to Xu Rui: "Okay, Old Xu, not only have you become more powerful in fighting, you are also good at deceiving people."
Xu Rui said: "How can this be deception?"
"Why isn't this cheating?" Wang Husheng asked angrily, "I gave you the machine gun for free, the bullets for free, and in the end I even gave you a man to be a machine gunner for free. Isn't this considered cheating?"
Xu Rui smiled: "This is called a volunteer soldier, do you understand?"
"Bullshit volunteers." Wang Husheng snorted twice and then said, "By the way, when that Ivanov agreed to join our regiment as a machine gunner, I saw you grinning from ear to ear. Did you think of that?
Any other good things?"
Xu Rui smiled and joked: "Old Wang, can you do it? You have seen such a secret thing?"
"Nonsense." Wang Husheng said with a smile, "As long as you stick your butt out, I will know whether you want to poop or pee."
"That's right." Xu Rui said happily, "It's really a good thing. Old Wang, weren't you worried before that we have fighter jets but no pilots?"
"Yes." Wang Husheng said, "Do you have any idea?"
"That's right." Xu Rui nodded and said, "Our Chahar Independent Regiment cannot find enough pilots. We are starting training now, not to mention whether we can catch up with the Suiyuan War next year. Even if we can catch up, due to lack of flying experience
, may not come in handy, so it’s better to go abroad to recruit experienced pilots.”
"Recruiting experienced pilots?" Wang Husheng asked dumbfounded, "Is this possible?"
Wang Husheng is an old revolutionary and Red Army veteran. He has long been used to hard times, and his whole thinking has been deeply impressed. Therefore, he does not even dare to think about hiring foreign pilots.
But from the perspective of Xu Rui, a time traveler, recruiting foreign pilots is perfectly normal.
Because in the original time and space, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek did this. Chennault's Flying Tigers were foreign mercenaries hired by the Nationalist government. But what's more embarrassing is that all the military pay for the Flying Tigers was clearly paid by the Nationalist government.
Yes, the fighter jets were purchased by the Nationalist Government with borrowed money, but were not under the command of the Nationalist Government.
Without Stilwell's permission, the National Army could not move a single aircraft.
But if Xu Rui recruits mercenaries, this kind of thing will definitely not happen.
Seeing Xu Rui's confident look, Wang Husheng realized that this was not a joke and started to think about it seriously.
After thinking about it, Wang Husheng said: "Even in Western countries, pilots should be scarce. Will the Western government agree to release them? Even if the government allows it, these pilots are unlikely to listen to your deception like Ivanov. They
There must be a salary, can we afford such a high salary?"
"Pilots are scarce?" Xu Rui shook his head and said, "No."
Xu Rui is not wrong. The cost of training a propeller pilot is much lower than training a jet pilot. Therefore, after entering the jet age, there are almost no private enthusiasts. However, in the age of propeller aircraft, private enthusiasts are rare.
It has a large number of flying enthusiasts and even has a public air show championship.
Therefore, it is not difficult to recruit experienced pilots from the West.
Chennault easily recruited hundreds of retired pilots from the United States.
"Okay." Wang Husheng nodded and said, "What about the salary? We can't afford high salaries."
"Actually, you don't need a very high salary." Xu Rui shook his head and said, "At this time, the United States has still not completely emerged from the economic crisis. The unemployment rate in the country is still very high, and the average monthly salary is only fifty dollars.
Therefore, as long as we offer a monthly salary of two hundred dollars, a large number of retired US military pilots will definitely apply."
After a pause, Xu Rui added: "We are only recruiting twenty people, maybe two hundred people will apply!"
"How can this be done? This is absolutely not allowed." Wang Husheng said quickly, "You deceived people from the United States and traveled more than 10,000 miles across the ocean, but in the end they were not hired. This is too much."
"Then we can only ask David." Xu Rui spread his hands and said, "Let him help us recruit people."
Wang Husheng snorted lightly and continued: "But even if the monthly salary is two hundred US dollars, this is still a big expense. Twenty pilots are four thousand US dollars, which is forty-eight thousand US dollars a year. When converted into oceans, it is nearly two hundred dollars."
One hundred thousand oceans! Two hundred thousand oceans, how many things can be done, but in the end, it only supports twenty people."
"The account can't be settled like this." Xu Rui said, "If we don't spend this money, we can't set up an air force. Without an air force, we can't protect the airspace. Baotou Industrial Zone will be bombed by Japanese bombers, and the final loss will be far more than 200,000."
An ocean, even two million or even 20 million oceans may not be able to defeat it."
"That's true." Wang Husheng agreed.
Xu Rui smiled and said, "Isn't that the reason?"
Wang Husheng said: "But the problem is, we have no money at all now!"
After a pause, Wang Husheng continued: "Don't talk about spending four thousand dollars a month to recruit pilots. Even the construction of the industrial zone can hardly be maintained. You are not a rich man who doesn't know how expensive firewood and rice are. The independent regiment has two thousand dollars."
With how many people and horses there are, how much food and fodder will be consumed every day if people eat horse chews? There are also the office expenses of the democratic government, and prisoners of war also need to eat, right? And the wood for strengthening the factory buildings must be purchased from lumber merchants in Gansu. These
It all costs money…”
"Stop it, stop it." Xu Rui quickly interrupted Wang Husheng and said, "I'm just thinking of a solution."
"I hope your method will work." Wang Husheng shook his head and said, "Old Xu, I am not saying that I am discouraged. If your method does not work, and if public opinion cannot convince Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, the construction of this industrial zone will have no choice but to
There is a timeout, otherwise, all the brothers in our regiment will starve, and all the horses will starve to death."
"Don't worry." Xu Rui said firmly, "It will definitely work."
…
Two days later.
In Chongqing, Chairman Chiang's official residence.
"Haha, haha, haha." Chairman Chiang sneezed several times in a row.
Mrs. Jiang said with concern: "Darling, are you catching a cold?"
"It's okay, there's nothing wrong with it." Chairman Jiang waved his hand and said, "Madam, don't worry."
"You, you should pay more attention to your health." Mrs. Jiang said helplessly, "Don't worry about day or night when you get busy. After all, you are not young anymore." After saying this, Mrs. Jiang paused and warned Wang Shihe again.
He said, "And you, please help me watch more, and don't let your chairman stay up too late."
"Yes, you must pay attention to your humble position." Wang Shihe nodded repeatedly.
Mrs. Jiang then picked up the porridge bowl and left the study.
Wang Shihe immediately asked with concern: "Are you feeling uncomfortable in some way? Is this a lowly job for you?"
"No, I don't feel any discomfort, I just feel it." Chairman Jiang shook his head and said, "I was lamenting that I was useless. In the blink of an eye, my wife has been following me for more than ten years, but I have not
Thinking about being able to give my wife a stable life for one day, it really hurts my heart and lungs. It really hurts my heart and lungs."
Wang Shihe didn't know how to answer the call.
Because Wang Shihe knew that Mrs. Chiang's life was actually very comfortable. Even if a large area of the country fell, the entire Song family and even Mrs. Chiang's life were not greatly affected. They still lived the same luxurious and exquisite life as before. Chairman Chiang really sighed
The problem is that for so many years, it has never been able to fully control China's political situation.
Wang Shihe could not express his opinions on such national affairs.
Of course, Chairman Chiang also felt this, because he had already smelled an ominous atmosphere.
It must be admitted that Chairman Chiang's political sensitivity is still very strong. When the Douglas III transport plane from Smedley landed at Chongqing Baishiyi Airport, Chairman Chiang had a premonition that something bad was about to happen. Sure enough,
, that Smedley moved into the Sun Mansion as soon as he got off the plane.
Then, many media figures, including Powell, the editor-in-chief of Miller Review, were invited to a dinner party at Sun Mansion. What was even more disturbing was that only Western media figures were invited to the dinner, including the Central News Agency and the Central News Agency.
Reporters from Chinese media, including daily newspapers, were not invited.
Because of this matter, Chairman Chiang has been so anxious that he is almost angry in the past two days.
Just now, Mrs. Chiang brought lotus seeds and red dates soup to calm Chairman Chiang's anger.
However, the lotus seed and red date soup obviously cannot relieve the anxiety and uneasiness in Chairman Chiang's heart. At this time, the only person who can dispel his doubts is probably Director Dai.
Chairman Chiang took out a book from the bookshelf, opened it and wanted to read a paragraph carefully.
But after opening the book, Chairman Chiang found that he could not read even a single line of text.
At that moment, Chairman Jiang closed the book and asked: "Shihe, if you call again to urge me, why don't you come?"
Wang Shihe agreed, and just when he was about to turn around and call Luojiawan No. 19, rapid footsteps suddenly sounded in the corridor outside the door. Upon hearing the rapid footsteps, the two knew that Dai Li must have arrived.
Because only Dai Li could enter Chairman Chiang's study without notification.
As expected, it was Dai Li who came.
As soon as Dai Li entered the study, Chairman Jiang asked: "Yunong, have you checked it out?"
"The report committee has been clarified." Dai Li saluted the military salute and gasped, "Mrs. Sun held a dinner party in Sun's mansion for two consecutive days and invited many Western media people to attend, just for one thing: to create
International public opinion put pressure on the National Government and you, forcing you to let Xu Rui bid publicly for the shares of Baotou Tea Trading Company."
"I knew it, I knew it would be up to no good!" Chairman Jiang became angry when he heard this, "Nang Xipi, I knew that this Smeder came to Chongqing this time, and there must be nothing good going on!"
