"Commander Zhao, did you hear? The lights in Li Yan's office were only turned off at four in the morning yesterday.”
"I know, who doesn't know? I think everyone in the entire Shandong Military and Political Committee station knows. Director Guo said during breakfast that Commissioner Li doesn't know how to be a leader and how expensive the daily necessities are. He said that the lamp oil on the market is more than 200 RMB per catty, but Commissioner Li used at least three taels yesterday. He used up about 70 RMB worth of lamp oil, which is the amount that a person usually uses up for a week.”
Speaking of which, Commander Zhao did not quite understand. It was indeed not good to use more lamp oil, but after all, Li Yan had just arrived in Shandong. It was only the first day of work yesterday. It was understandable that he did not know the amount of each person's share. He could just find an opportunity to tell Li Yan directly. There was really no need to tell others in the cafeteria and make everyone know.
"Not only that, we should know from this incident that Director Guo still has some opinions. Not only is he targeting Commissioner Li, but he is also targeting the Shandong Military and Political Committee.”Secretary Zhu, on the other hand, made things clear to everyone.
"Secretary Zhu, from a general perspective, Director Guo did not make a big mistake.”
Commander Zhao didn't expect Secretary Zhu to say that. After all, everyone knew that Director Guo had some opinions. He and Governor Li had built the Shandong base from scratch. In the end, they could only be transferred to take charge of the party building work with their arrival. It was impossible for them not to have some opinions.
However, although he had some opinions in his heart, Director Guo did not make any mistakes in his work. Instead, he completed the tasks assigned to him by the Shandong Military and Political Committee. Now was not a good time to have conflicts with the enemy.
"I know, I know, Commander Zhao. What I mean is that we should find an opportunity to talk to Director Guo about Li Yan's important role. I hope that Director Guo can fully support Li Yan's work.”
"Sure, I'll find an opportunity to talk to him today or tomorrow. But is it really worth it for Li Yan?”Commander Zhao was also very suspicious. After all, no one in Shandong knew Li Yan well. No one knew if he was as outstanding as described in the telegram sent by the Northern Bureau. Now that Li Yan had no objections to Director Guo, wasn't it a little too much for him and Secretary Zhu to go and talk to him?
" Me too…" Before Secretary Zhu could finish, there was a knock on the door.
"Secretary Zhu, I'm here." Li Yan walked in with a few documents. "Commander Zhao is here too. Just in time. Take a look at this document. If there's nothing else, sign it.”
"This is?" Secretary Zhu took the document and saw Li Yan pass another document to Commander Zhao, who was sitting at the side.
"This is the regular report that I want to send to the UA Residence in China and the UA Navy Intelligence Office.”Li Yan didn't care what kind of impact his words would have. He continued," The contents of these two documents are basically the same, so you can just take a look.”
"It's not good for us to just look at these two documents like this.”After hearing Li Yan's words and knowing that these two documents were to be handed over to the UA Residence in China and the UA Navy Intelligence Bureau, the two of them quickly closed the documents. In their experience and experience, the documents of the UA Residence in China could not be casually flipped through, especially the UA Navy Intelligence Bureau. After all, it was an intelligence agency.
"What's the big deal? How are you going to sign if you don't look at it? How will others know that I'm telling the truth if you don't sign?”Li Yan was not as sensitive as the two of them.
"But, you're the one who's going to hand this over to the American intelligence agency after all. Wouldn't it be very inconvenient for you if it was leaked?”
Seeing that Li Yan still did not realize the seriousness of the document, Secretary Zhu was a little anxious. In his previous experience, he had seen too many intelligence personnel sacrifice their lives for the confidentiality of a document. He had also seen the serious harm caused by the leakage of documents, and he had also seen the means used by the intelligence agencies to eliminate the leaking points.
The harshness of that method even made him, who had been on countless battlefields, fought countless tough battles, and experienced countless dangers, feel terrified. If the people of the American Intelligence Agency knew that Li Yan had given them the documents that he wanted to send them, they would be afraid.
Then, even if Li Yan stayed in the Lunan base in Shandong for the rest of his life, he and Commander Zhao could not guarantee Li Yan's safety. After all, that was the US Navy Intelligence Bureau. If they were angry, then whether it was the military commander or the middle commander, they would be willing to spend all their efforts to help them complete the mission, no matter what the price was.
"No, why don't you guys understand?”Looking at their expressions, Li Yan knew that what they were thinking was not what he had explained. In order for the two of them to sign, Li Yan could only start from the beginning.
"How about this? Call Director Guo and Governor Li over. I'll explain it to you from the beginning.”
When Secretary Zhu instructed his clerk, Liu Xin, to call the two of them, Li Yan realized that he hadn't had breakfast yet, so he asked Secretary Zhu how to eat in the morning. Then he found out that it was different from what he thought. The Shandong Military and Political Committee ate at 7:00 in the morning and worked at 7:30.
It wasn't the 7:30 pm lunch and 8:00 pm office that he had expected. He had arrived half an hour late, and the cafeteria had already closed. Of course, he couldn't find a place to eat. He had originally planned to force his way through, but he knew that Secretary Zhu didn't see him when he was eating. He knew that he didn't know what time to eat, so he left half a cornbread for himself.
Although the cornbread didn't taste good when it was dried, Li Yan had no choice but to eat it with the hot water in Secretary Zhu's office.
When Li Yan finished eating the cornbread, Director Guo and Governor Li also rushed over. After a few people exchanged pleasantries, Li Yan also began to talk about why he was here.
"By the way, what I'm about to say may need to be kept a secret. Can Secretary Zhu and Commander Zhao promise me this?”
After getting the two's assurance and Secretary Zhu getting his clerk Liu Xin to stand guard outside, Li Yan spoke again.
"I told Secretary Zhu before that I was still the vice president of production at Ford last year. In fact, I didn't even know how big China was before, because I had no intention of coming to China at all. Therefore, compared to China, I'm more concerned about whether Ford's production line can complete the production task. After all, my income is mainly the production reward.”
Seeing that Director Guo was about to say something, Li Yan immediately stopped him. "Wait a moment, let me finish."
" I'm standing here today because of one person. He's Nelson Johnson, the U.S. envoy to China. He returned to China last year for an exclusive interview with Time magazine and went back for Christmas. He came to me on January 10th after Christmas, accompanied by Colonel Mason Connor, the director of the Asia Division of the US Navy Intelligence Office. He asked me to come to China to help the Chinese government deal with the increasingly serious military conflict with the Japanese government.”
" After all, Japan is no longer satisfied with just competing for the interests of China. It even intends to replace the dominant position of the United States in Southeast Asia. This has been revealed in the National Defense Program issued by Japan in 1940. After all, the program clearly stated that the United States 'Pacific Fleet will be Japan's number one imaginary enemy in the future. What is needed is that Japan has been doing this for many years, but no one has taken it seriously before. What? Japan wanted to have a military confrontation with the United States? Fine, it seemed like they were going to embark on another global voyage.”
As if he was telling a joke, Li Yan told him the attitude of most Americans towards Japan.
"But this year, the UA Navy Intelligence received a piece of shocking news.”Looking at the confused crowd, Li Yan continued to add.
"The A-140F6 mentioned in Japan's '03 Warship Replenishment Plan' in 1937 was confirmed to be launched in the middle of this year. In fact, before knowing this news, everyone in the US Navy Intelligence Bureau treated this matter as a joke.”
" After all, a 70,000-ton displacement battleship with a 460mm cannon doesn't look like something an Asian country could build. Even the next generation of South Dakotas-class battleships that the United States plans to build only has a standard displacement of 45,000 tons and a cannon caliber of 406mm. The South Dakota-class battleship, which had just started construction and was scheduled to be launched in 1942, had a standard displacement of only 35,000 tons, and its cannon was also a pitiful 356mm.”
" This means that in the next three to five years, there will be no battleships in the United States that can fight against the new generation of battleships in Japan. The Pacific Ocean will become Japan's bathtub. The United States Navy and the United States Intelligence Agency are crazy. Even during Christmas, most of them did not get a break. They all worked overtime to adjust the future naval construction plan.”Li Yan took a sip of water and swallowed the last mouthful of cornbread before continuing.
" First, the original plan to build six South Dakotas-class battleships was reduced to four. If it weren't for the fact that these four battleships had already been built, the US Navy would have preferred not to build any at all. However, the Navy also requested that the 406mm 45x caliber artillery previously prepared for the next generation of battleships be installed on South Dakotas-class battleships, and that the launch date be brought forward from the original 1942 to mid-1941. The next generation of battleships had originally hoped to be equipped with 460mm cannons like the Japanese, but considering that there might not be enough time to urgently modify the plan, they could only keep the original 406mm plan unchanged, but strengthen the main cannon from the original 45 times the caliber to 50 times the caliber.”
" But it's not enough. The US Navy didn't have much need for the war between China and Japan. It's just like the British Navy and the German Navy. It's good to be a spectator. If it looks good, clap your hands. If it doesn't look good, shout twice. Even if China surrenders tomorrow, the US Navy won't suffer any losses. However, things were different now. The United States Navy hoped that China could drag it out, and it would be best if they could drag it out until the South Dakotas-class was launched in mid-1941. Then, the United States could not just watch like before. Oh right, what date was it now?”
Li Yan suddenly brought up a topic that had nothing to do with this story. Secretary Zhu and the others were stunned for a moment. Commander Zhao reacted faster and answered Li Yan's question first." Today is March 5th, 1940. It's 9:10 in the morning.”
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