At this time, the economic depression in the Western countries of Europe and America was obvious, and Western trading houses in Shanghai were selling machine tools at low prices. King Kong had some money in hand, so he took the opportunity to buy some machine tools and set up a mechanical processing workshop.
Sun Yutian, the blacksmith's shop of Dalong's master, which only made some farm tools and tongs, was not doing well in business. Sun Yutian did a good job as a fitter, and the machining workshop also needed a forging process, so King Kong brought him and two of Dalong's senior apprentices over to work in the machining workshop.
He asked Tian Jiawang to come out and poach several of his fellow apprentices to work on machine tools. Of the mechanical work that was supposed to be outsourced, only the castings were outsourced, and everything else was produced in-house.
When buying the machine tools, King Kong also took into account the need to produce firearms and bought some corresponding machine tools.
The Meiya Consortium often came to inquire about the progress of the chemical plant and was satisfied with King Kong's work. Seeing the two places of the King Kong Machinery Factory and the Ceramics factory, Vice Chairman Yang said that if there was something, he should ask King Kong to call and ask if there were any vacant cars in the company, and if there were any, the company could send them to him.
There are too many cars in the company, but there aren't enough drivers. King Kong said that if he had a car, he would drive himself. None of the big bosses at the time drove their own cars, but since King Kong said so, Vice Chairman Yang assigned a car to King Kong.
When he learned about it, it turned out that it was "easy to buy a car, hard to keep a driver"! A car costs around 1,000 yuan, and cheaper ones can be bought for just a few hundred yuan. A car driver costs at least 80 yuan a month, a car driver usually earns 100 yuan, and there are also those who earn two or three hundred yuan. Not just because few people know how to drive, but because this driver often has the intention of being a bodyguard. Those who own cars are rich and are the targets of robberies and kidnappings by gangsters, while drivers are bodyguards and are often the first to be killed in the incidents.
It turns out that driving a car is a high-risk occupation! King Kong had to carry a pistol with him every time he drove to feel a little safer in his heart.
Zhou Yufu, a disciple of King Kong, was from Shaoxing. "His ancestors were wealthy," but by his grandfather's generation, the family had fallen on hard times. But he was studious and often eavesdropped in front of the school. The teacher, seeing that he was smart and well-behaved, sent him to the school for two years. He also sent his teacher some dishes and a chicken for the New Year to express his gratitude.
But two years later, when he was fifteen, because of poverty, his family sent him to a distant relative in Shanghai who ran a Chinese medicine store.
After two years, the business was ruined because the relative was addicted to opium. Zhou Yufu decided to stay in Shanghai on his own and went into the Meiya Chemical Factory. Despite having only studied for two years, that one stroke of writing could make ninety-nine percent of the descendants of college students feel ashamed!
Not only did Zhou Yufu have good handwriting, but he also had an exceptional memory. King Kong often only felt familiar with the common workers in the factory and couldn't recall their names. Yu Fu, however, could call each of them by name. So King Kong carried him around as if he were his secretary.
Now when King Kong drives to the bank or business, people are very polite to Zhou Yufu and others who get out of the car (he often takes Dalong, Erlong and other children in the car as a reward for obedience), and leave King Kong out. Zhou and others tried their best to explain, but they still looked at King Kong with puzzled eyes. After all, no boss drives for his subordinates. When this happened again, King Kong had to find a place to park a little further away from his destination and walk a few more steps to avoid misunderstanding. Another thing is to teach Zhou Yufu, Dalong and the others to drive.
Ryan and Dr. Hans each introduced several more patients to King Kong, all asking for antibiotics. For some poorer patients, King Kong would charge a little less, and for some wealthier ones, he would give a little more, averaging around 300 yuan per pill.
This also caused a bit of trouble for King Kong. A itinerant doctor named Ren Zhenyu came to the door and insisted on becoming King Kong's disciple.
Ren Zhenyu is twenty-one years old. His former master was a itinerant doctor who died of old age while traveling in Anhui two years ago. So Ren Zhenyu had to take up the banner of his master himself and enter the profession.
He was too young, so his business was not good. After wandering to Shanghai, he also wanted to continue learning. Now Western medicine is in high demand, while traditional Chinese medicine is being suppressed by the government, so he wants to learn from a Western doctor. No Western doctor is willing to take on apprentices. He was working as a nurse for the inpatients at Guangci Hospital, looking for a master while secretly learning something. When he learned about the King Kong, he asked for it.
This guy has been traveling far and wide for many years. He's good at flattering people and has a thick skin. In just a few days, he moved into King Kong's home.
King Kong said he was an engineer and couldn't take him in, but still gave him a little knowledge of Western medicine. Let your own children listen as well. A little medical knowledge is always useful. As a result, Ren Zhenyu pretended to be a disciple of King Kong and ate and slept at his home.
Some people, upon hearing that King Kong was good at diagnosing patients, came to him. King Kong was usually not at home, so Ren Zhenyu treated people as a disciple of "Mr. CAI Mi", and fortunately nothing went wrong. King Kong was a little scared. If something happened, who would be responsible?
King Kong had no choice but to introduce him to Hans as a nurse for free on the condition that he could eat and live at home, and to Hans' clinic to work and study every day.
But the good times didn't last long. Before Ren Zhenyu had learned much, Hans came to see King Kong in mid-August. His uncle who ran a hospital in Germany died and asked him to return to Germany to inherit the estate. The fare for his return and the rent owed to the clinic would cost at least 370 yuan. He wants to sell the things in his clinic to King Kong. The only valuable thing in the clinic was a Chase microscope, for laboratory use; Down there was an iron bed, a table and the like. Here and there are surgical instruments, thermometers, stethoscopes, red medicine water, cotton wool, a little Western medicine, etc.
King Kong gave Hans four hundred yuan, thanking him for treating Chinese people for free, including not charging for treating Xiaofeng before.
Hans also left his pet, a white mouse, for King Kong. He kept two wire cages with wheels and such for the mice to play with in his shop. He said the two mice should be kept separate frequently to prevent them from reproducing too quickly.
Wu Feng and Xiao Feng were very fond of the mice when they saw them. Westerners are white, and Western mice are white mice! King Kong left the mice to play with. The male mouse was named Mickey and the female mouse was named Mina.
On August 21, the day Hans boarded the ship, King had just driven him to the dock. Father Whited and Dr. Ryan and others went to the dock to see Hans off. One of Hans' friends introduced a Chinese to him, saying that this was the secretary of the late President Sun's wife, Mrs. Sun, and asked Hans to deliver a letter to a Chinese in Germany.
The secretary was named Huang Qixiang and the letter was for General Ye Ting.
General Ye Ting? Was it the Northern Expeditionary Army... ?
It's that famous general of the Northern Expedition! King Kong asked Secretary Huang, and it was indeed him! Is he living in Germany now? Studying at the German Military Academy?
No, making a living by running a Chinese restaurant.
Run a Chinese restaurant? What a pity for talent!
Secretary Huang doesn't look like a scholar, but rather like a soldier? When asked, sure enough! He used to be a soldier. A friend of General Ye Ting? Yes, good friend! It turns out that Mrs. Sun, Secretary Huang and General Ye Ting all lived in Germany. This May, when the mausoleum of President Sun in Nanjing was completed and President Sun moved the mausoleum, Mrs. Sun and Secretary Huang returned to China.
It was a grand event, and King Kong also learned about it from the newspapers.
Among those who saw Hans off, there were not many from the Great China. However, King Kong was eager to get acquainted with General Ye Ting, so he started chatting with Secretary Huang. At that time, the Chinese people were most concerned about the invasion of the northeast by Rosu, and they talked about it.
The invasion of the Great China by the Rosu people in Northeast China was due to General Zhang Xueliang of Northeast China, instigated by Jiang Zhongcai of the central government, wanting to reclaim the right of way of the Northeast China Railway, which led to the "China Railway Incident". As a result, the Rosu Kingdom sent troops to invade Northeast China and fought with the Northeast Army.
In recent years, the Great China has still reclaimed some concessions and such, such as the British concession in Wuhan. Some concessions, such as those in Jiujiang, were also set to be reclaimed. Jiang Zhongcai also claimed in early 2009 that he would abolish all unequal treaties within three years. The former leader of Rosso had promised to return the Chinese Eastern Railway to the United States, but now refused. And Zhang Xuelang was young and impetuous. After the negotiations for the return of the Chinese Eastern Railway were rejected, he arrested Rosso's "Chinese Eastern Railway" staff and searched the Rosso consulate, which led to this incident.
The people around King Kong are a little worried about the war between China and Romania, fearing that Rosu will invade Northeast China, just as it did eight years ago when it invaded Outer Mongolia. "The Rosu people are so bad. They have taken a lot of Alaga and they are bullying Alaga! Mr. Caimi, do you think the IRA will come in again?" Zhang Qingfa asked King Kong.
As a science and engineering college student, King Kong was unaware of the "Middle East Road Incident" in another time and space. "I don't think so." Because the two times and Spaces are somewhat similar, and King Kong has never heard of this battle.
To King's surprise, or is King's knowledge of history too poor? Or because of the difference in time and space? In late July, the border between China and the Soviet Union began to fight. At the beginning, the fighting was small, with the Northeast army avoiding battle, fighting and chatting. But these days, the Rosu forces are getting deeper and deeper, and the battles are getting bigger and bigger.
When talking to Secretary Huang about the war between China and the Soviet Union, King Kong said that the Northeast Army, facing the Soviet army with aircraft, tanks and warships, should not always fight a frontal defense battle. Instead, they should lure the enemy deeper and attack their flanks more often. We should take the initiative and use our strengths to attack our weaknesses; Fight night battles, close combat, surprise attacks, the enemy's transportation, logistics... . What about mobile warfare, guerrilla warfare? Anyway, it's just talk on paper. Anyway, King Kong copied guerrilla tactics a few months ago, so it sounds decent.
Secretary Huang, who was also an expert, agreed with King Kong's strategy and tactics and was astonished that a manager of a chemical plant had such military skills.
After Hans' ship set off, King Kong drove Secretary Huang home. Secretary Huang lived in the French Concession, which was also on the way. King Kong left his business card to Secretary Huang and told him to go and look for it if he needed anything. Secretary Huang also left his business card, saying he was glad to have made a friend with Xu Guangzhi.
When he got home and talked to Zhou Yufu, he realized that he had been ruined by his unfamiliarity with this new time and space! This Huang Qixiang was also a famous general of the Northern Expedition, known together with Ye Ting as the "Two Heroes of the Northern Expedition"! How could Mr. Light know Ye Ting but not Huang Qixiang? !
Huang Qixiang and Ye Ting are both Hakka from Guangdong, both graduated from the sixth class of Baoding Military Academy, fellow townspeople and classmates. Huang later stayed at the school as an instructor and was Chen Cheng's teacher.
Huang Qixiang went to Guangzhou to join the revolution in 1922. During the Northern Expedition in 1926, Huang Qixiang and Ye Ting were both in the Iron Army of the Northern Expedition: the Fourth Division. Both of them were regiments, and both regiments achieved remarkable feats. After the Battle of Tingsi Bridge, Huang Qixiang was promoted to the rank of Major general for his military achievements! Among the Northern Expeditionary army, only Ye Ting and Huang Qixiang were promoted to the rank of major general, so they were called the "Two Heroes of the Northern Expedition". Soon both were promoted to division commander. Huang was promoted to commander of the main division, the Fourth Division, while Ye was promoted to commander of the new division, the Eleventh Division. Later both divisions were promoted to the rank of army (4th Army, 11th Army), and both of them were promoted to the rank of army commander.
Huang Qixiang and Ye Jianying were fellow townspeople from Meixian, Guangdong, and had a very good relationship. When Huang was the commander of the Fourth Army, Ye Jianying was the chief of staff of the Fourth Army. When the Fourth Army was stationed in Guangzhou, Huang put Ye Jianying in charge of the city's defense. Ye Ting, who had come to Guangzhou after the failure of the Nanchang Uprising, along with Ye Jianying, Zhang Tailei and others, launched the Guangzhou Uprising. Huang urgently mobilized his troops to "suppress the rebellion", and after subduing Guangzhou, he asked Ye, the chief of staff, how he was doing? Did he get wounded by the rebels? It turned out that Ye, the chief of staff, was one of the commanders of the uprising.
The Congress Party held Huang Qixiang accountable for "covering up and citing the Workers' Party" that led to the uprising in Guangzhou and wanted to arrest him. As a result, he fled abroad and ended up in Berlin.
After the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, Ye Ting went to Moscow, where he was unjustly criticized by the Red International. In a fit of rage, he broke away from the Workers' Party. Ye also went from Moscow to Germany, where the "Two Heroes of the Northern Expedition" met.
It's not the King Kong's fault for not knowing Huang Qixiang. Ask the people of the 21st century who don't know Ye Ting? But how many know about Huang Qixiang?