"What do you think about the Anglo-Japanese conflict?" Powell knew that it would be difficult for Wang Maoru to get a specific number from his mouth, and that it would be difficult for this person to deal with, or that it would be difficult to confide information from him, so he asked another question. This question is related to the conflict between whites and yellows, and the United States, as a white country, has abolished the black slavery system, but it is still a white supremacy country in its bones. Therefore, the United States has always been on the side of the British, and now the United States has launched a tariff war against Japan, which has further caused Japan's economy to decline, which is also a reason for Japan's gradual retreat.

Wang Maoru knew that the Americans supported Britain, and the current Japan was isolated and helpless in the world, so he was very cautious about this issue, and he said with a Tai Chi smile: "I feel silent for the ordinary people who have been injured in the conflict, I hope that all conflicts will disappear, I hope that the world will be peaceful, and I also look forward to the signing of the Washington Treaty as soon as possible, so that the traumatized earth can calm down." And I just hope that everyone can negotiate and negotiate, the U.S. government emphasizes compromise, and China's policy emphasizes balance, which all means that both China and the United States are looking forward to a situation where world peace can be achieved without the military coming forward, doesn't it, Mr. Powell? ”

Seeing that Wang Maoru did not express his support for any side, Powell knew that this person was really worthy of the legendary cunning fox, so he changed the topic and asked: "Evaluate the commanders under you?" ”

Wang Maoru smiled and said, "Sixteen legion commanders? They're all amazing, where do I start? I think you Western journalists know them in detail, right? ”

"As far as I know," Powell said. "The generals of your descendant army are the best at fighting ......" he flipped through the prepared cards and said with a smile: "As far as I know, in your army." The young Admiral Zhao Zengfu will be your most capable general. ”

"No, John, you're using the wrong word." Wang Maoru said with a smile, "The National Defense Forces do not distinguish between descendants and non-descendants, I do not discriminate equally, and I believe that the army belongs to the country." Not personally. If one day the country needs me to be discharged and returned to the field, I will definitely follow the example of General Washington and give up the power in my hands. Back home and my wife and children enjoy the peaceful idyllic life. I would rather be a cowboy myself, taking my sons and driving the herd from the west of China to the east of China. Sell beef to others. Then he rode a horse with a gun and sang all the way home with the money he earned. ”

Powell laughed and said, "You're the first general who wants to be a cowboy." Wang Maoru laughed, and Powell asked again: "Please comment on General Zhao Zengfu, his army made extremely important contributions in the battle of reunification, and I don't know what kind of reward he will receive in the future." ”

Wang Maoru thought for a moment and said: "There are no heroes in the civil war, and there are no victors in the civil war." In the midst of a civil war, we are all defeated. That's why I don't like civil wars, and I'm even less inclined to devote the Wehrmacht's energy to civil wars. Zhao Zengfu is a general who is very capable of fighting, and he is also the mace among my eighteen weapons. ”

"Mace?" Helena wondered, "What is a mace?" ”

Wang Maoru said: "Miss Helena, I can help you learn about Chinese culture, especially the eighteen weapons, your character should be very interesting." ”

"Okay." Helena clapped her hands and smiled, "I'm really interested. ”

Powell smiled wryly and shook his head, this girl was too much of a headache for him.

The reason why Powell has a headache is the identity of this girl, she is not his own female secretary at all, how can a fifteen-year-old girl be a female secretary, he is the daughter of the new German consul in China. As a result of Germany's defeat in the European War and the ouster of Kaiser Wilhelm, Germany entered what historians call the Weimar Republic, while Germany retained the official state name of the German Empire. At this time, Germany experienced the pain of defeat in the war, and then experienced a domestic workers' uprising, and the country was in turmoil.

Since Weimar Germany did not have diplomatic relations with China at this time, Germany sent the former nobleman Laurensen to China as a consul in China to deal with a series of German problems in China. Helena's father, Sir Laurentian, had helped Powell, so Helena treated Powell like her own uncle, and Powell also had a headache for this "little niece".

Powell's interview was interrupted several times by Helena, but it made the interview very interesting, and before I knew it, I had been talking about it all afternoon. At the end of the interview, Wang Maoru said: "I remember that I was published in Time magazine in the United States twice, the first time the title was "China's General", and the second time was "He Redefined the World in the World", I don't know what title you are going to use this time? Moreover, I feel that you have an overly high opinion of me and I can't afford it. ”

Powell smiled: "Okay, I'll think about it, and I'll make a decision, but that's not something I can decide, you know, I'm just a reporter, not the editor-in-chief." ”

Later, Powell's bearded photographer wanted to take a picture of Wang Maoru and asked him where it was better to shoot, Wang Maoru thought about it and said that it was at the mouth of the army department, and the war department would be relocated to Fengtai next year, and the current army department would be abandoned, and he hoped to take a photo here as a souvenir. But it was too late to-day, so it would be better to send them back at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, when the sun was right, and the War Department car was sent back to them.

The next day, Powell and others came to the Ministry of Defense on time to take a propaganda photo of Wang Maoru, and at the gate of the former Army Yamen (i.e., the Ministry of National Defense), Wang Maoru took a black-and-white photo, and this photo with the background of the Army Yamen also became the cover photo of Time magazine in the United States a month later, with a line of text under the photo: "The strongest man in China." Below this line of text is also quoted Sun Liwen's nickname "Nine-Tailed Fox" for Wang Maoru, which is defined by Americans as the most cunning fox, and also vividly introduces the characteristics of Wang Maoru to the West.

The American Times Magazine is very fond of digitization and comparison, and the magazine not only did an exclusive interview with Wang Maoru, but also introduced Wang Maoru's main subordinates, such as Jiang Fangzhen, vice minister of national defense, Wang Maoru's think tank, He Rufei, chief of military affairs, and four famous generals and four generals. They believe that the four famous generals under Wang Maoru are Ren Yuanxing, Gong Xiaoqi, Gai Tianjiu and Zhao Zengfu, among which Ren Yuanxing is evaluated as "a military genius who fought against Soviet Russia, so that Soviet Russia did not dare to enter the outer northwest", and quoted the nickname "Zhi General" given to him by the Chinese people, calling him the Zhi General Ren Yuanxing.

The Americans' evaluation of Gong Xiaoqi is "he is the one who defeated the Austro-Hungarian army, and he is also a general who gives the Japanese a headache", and said that his image among the Chinese people is loyalty, courage and arrogance, and to describe him as a famous person in Chinese history, he is like Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms. It is precisely because of Gong Xiaoqi's arrogance that when he was in Italy, the Chinese ** regiment always existed as a combat unit, not as a porter of Britain and France, and even more than two dozen army divisions of the Americans were scattered into hundreds of regiments to become logistics troops, while the Chinese only had two divisions but always served as combat units, and even the proud British could not make this proud Chinese general bow his head.

The evaluation of Zhao Zengfu is "Wang Maoru's sword, swept all the domestic stubborn enemies, solved the civil war in one fell swoop, and helped Wang Maoru unify China", Americans believe that Zhao Zengfu is a genius of the civil war, and the opponent of the domestic war is rare, but because he has not fought with the foreign ** team, the evaluation of him is slightly worse.

The evaluation of Gai Tianjiu is very interesting, is "he is a bandit-born marshal, but Wang Maoru's most loyal believer", the American character is somewhat incredible about the loyalty of the Chinese, this loyalty is even far more than the European knight's allegiance to the lord, this loyalty is when the object of allegiance asks him to give his life, he will not hesitate to do so, of course, when Gai Tianjiu was guarding Liaodong Town, he fought with the Japanese Zhou Xuan several times, and was a bandit leader who made the Japanese suffer.

The Americans believe that Wang Maoru forced many opponents in the process of reunification, and at the same time trusted them, and finally won the reunification of the country, and these four major generals also contributed a lot. They are Wu Peifu, Zhang Zuolin, Tang Jiyao and Liu Xiang, the evaluation of Wu Peifu is "a military genius, a hero who guards China's most vast grassland", Wu Peifu went to Mongolia after accepting the reorganization, suppressed the rebellion in the northwest, expelled Russian bandits, and encroached on Russian territory.

Their evaluation of Zhang Zuolin was that "his troops were invincible and invincible, just because they met Wang Maoru, but he made the wisest choice to join them." In the eyes of the Americans, "I can't beat you, I'll join you" is not ashamed, Zhang Zuolin was driven to the northwest by Wang Maoru and became the king of the northwest, as if he was already a hero, and making a wise choice shows that he is both heroic and smart.

The Americans' evaluation of Tang Jiyao is that "he is a man of great talent, an experienced general, and a former king of the southwest." Because the Americans really don't know much about Tang Jiyao, they have a general evaluation of this person who finally accepted the reorganization and finally made the country unified.

But their evaluation of Liu Xiang is that "the general of a state (actually a province) with the most soldiers and the most people under his command wisely chose to give up his power for the country", and he is China's Grant. Obviously, the Americans simply thought that the Sichuan army, which had nearly 300,000 soldiers, was a form of government, and that Liu Xiang, the leader of the Sichuan army, gave up power for the sake of the country. But in fact, Liu Xiang himself had no more than 50,000 soldiers, and more than half of them relied on smoking cigarettes to fight. In the process of reorganizing the army, the Sichuan army's big smoke soldiers were cleared out of two-thirds, 300,000 Sichuan troops, and finally only 100,000 people remained. The Wehrmacht does not settle accounts after the fall, but there are strict regulations on the future, soldiers are absolutely not allowed to smoke opium, and the soldiers who remain must cut off any relationship with opium from now on, and many of the 200,000 Sichuan troops are voluntarily discharged home, because they can leave the rifle, but they cannot do without smoking guns. (To be continued.) )