"Boss, I heard you're planning to recruit people? And Germans like me are needed? Schuchmann rushed to Lu Yuan's residence early the next morning, and Lu Yuan knew that Hogg must have gone to find Schuchmann last night, and told Schuchmann that he was going to recruit more Germans. Lu Yuan did not answer Shu Heman, but ate breakfast leisurely, Shu Heman, who was ignored by Lu Yuan, was a little restless at the moment, not knowing if his little boss would be upset about this matter.

Shu Heman's reaction was all secretly seen in Lu Yuan's eyes, and while he couldn't help but laugh in his heart, Lu Yuan was still eating breakfast quietly, and Fu Bo, the housekeeper who pretended to be busy in the dining room, also held back a smile, saying that Shu Heman, a foreign devil, was a simple-minded person. Finally, when Lu Yuan finished breakfast, Shu Heman came up again and asked, "Boss, you haven't answered my question just now." ”

"Schuchmann, do you know why I hired Mr. Hogg?" Lu Yuan took the coffee handed by Fauber, sat down comfortably on the sofa, and motioned for Schuhman to sit down and talk as well. "Because I need someone who can help me think things through, you may be a good soldier, but you are not a good executor, especially when dealing with people, Mr. Hogg should be more suitable than you."

Lu Yuan's answer made Schuchman shake his head again and again, "No, boss, you may have misunderstood me." I'm not jealous of Hogg, I just want to know, boss, how many Germans like me are you going to hire? If you need more manpower, I can recommend some to you, and I assure you that their conduct is absolutely reliable. ”

It wasn't until this meeting that Lu Yuan finally understood Shu Heman's intention, and Lu Yuan couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart, this was really someone who brought a pillow just after dozing off. "Schuchman, I can tell you clearly, I will need a lot of manpower this time, but the specific number of people, I can't determine the specific number of people yet, I have to wait for Hogg and you to go to Nanjing, I can determine the final number of people." Lu Yuan's words were not a polite refusal, and Schuhman could naturally hear it.

Lu Yuan didn't want to hide from Schuchman about going to Nanjing, originally Lu Yuan was going to summon Hogg and Schuchman to his residence today to agree on a plan, but now with Schuchman's self-recommendation, Lu Yuan can save a lot of time. "It's better to do this, Schuchman, you can go back now and help me recruit 30 people, as long as you can trust them. You can also tell them that the hire will likely last from August to February of next year, except for you and Hogg, who will be paid $300 a month, and we will have food and lodging. ”

From August to February next year, this is half a year, with a monthly salary of $300 and food and lodging, and $1,800 in half a year, which is definitely a huge amount of money for those who are in the same situation as Schechmann. Shu Heman, who got an exact answer from Lu Yuan, left happily, and Lu Yuan interrupted his daily training for the first time, and calculated all the money he could mobilize in the study with the housekeeper Fubo.

"Young master, our family now has 3,000 US dollars, 2,000 fiat currency, 1,200 pounds, and 400 oceans, in addition to 24 large yellow croakers of 5 taels, 12 small yellow croakers of one tael and some gold and silver jewelry. The size of the yellow croaker can be regarded as hard currency, but those gold and silver jewelry have to find experts to get rid of the price will not be depressed, now the market price of gold bars is a small yellow croaker for 30 oceans, I roughly estimated, we can now take out the money will not exceed 8000 oceans. ”

"Fu Bo, you are like this, you calculate, if our family's 8,000 oceans are used to buy all of them into grain, how much can they buy?" Knowing that the money he could mobilize in his hand was actually as much as 8,000 oceans, Lu Yuan's heart was very excited for a while, but he didn't know much about the current prices, so he could only turn to Fubo to help calculate.

Fu Bo naturally didn't know why Lu Yuan calculated this by himself, but this was what Lu Yuan meant, and Fu Bo could only act according to orders. "Now the rice on the market is 15 catties of a piece of ocean, and the flour will be slightly more, almost a piece of ocean to buy 17 catties, and our 8,000 pieces of ocean can almost buy 120,000 catties of rice or 130,000 catties of flour." With the results estimated by Fu Bo, Lu Yuan also has a bottom in his heart, and 120,000 catties of rice are converted into public standards, which is 60 tons.

If calculated according to one pound of rice per person per day, the 120,000 catties of rice can be consumed by 40,000 people within three months at most, and if Hogg and Schuhmann accept no more than 40,000 refugees after the city of Nanjing was breached by the Japanese army, this money is probably enough to buy food. But the money that Lu Yuan needs to pay is not only the 8,000 oceans, because the refugees not only need food to survive, they also need enough medicine and other supplies, and even fuel and clothing to survive the winter, so Lu Yuan must also prepare more money.

"Fauber, bring me all the gold and silver jewelry, I'll use it later." After thinking about it secretly, Lu Yuan decided to take those gold and silver jewelry to Hansen, after all, the only capable person he could trust in Shanghai was Hansen's strange old man. Lu Yuan went to Han Sen with a bag of gold and silver jewelry, in addition, Lu Yuan also specially brought a few weapon drawings that he drew in his spare time, and these weapon drawings were the stepping stones specially prepared by Lu Yuan.

"Mr. Hansen, I know you're not a black marketeer, and I don't want to know too many things, but I need you to do me a favor now, and it's very important to me." Lu Yuan used the bag of gold and silver jewelry to exchange for a stack of banknotes from Han Sen, but he didn't leave immediately this time, but handed the weapon drawings to Han Sen with a serious expression. "Here are a few infantry weapons that I designed during this time, and I think the German government should be interested in this."

Hansen's expression became equally serious with Lu Yuan's words, and the corner of his eye swept over the drawer in front of him where the pistol was placed, and Hansen finally didn't take out the pistol. Stretching out his hand to take the weapon drawings handed by Lu Yuan, Hansen's expression became wonderful as the drawings unfolded, especially when he carefully studied the drawings of the Garand rifle, his eyes were even more excited.

"This is the design drawing of the American Garand rifle, according to the information I have so far, the Americans have finalized this 7.62mm caliber semi-automatic rifle as early as October of the previous year, and named it the M1 Garand rifle. Because of the rifle's high firepower and high accuracy, as well as the ease of gun maintenance for soldiers, the U.S. military has been equipped with this semi-automatic rifle since the beginning of last year. ”

Seeing that Hansen's eyes were all focused on the drawings of the American-style Garand rifle, Lu Yuan secretly called negligence and at the same time, he was very attentive to Hansen. This drawing of the American-style Garand rifle was an auxiliary means for Lu Yuan to copy it out from memory to solve his doubts and find solutions when he encountered difficulties in modifying the rifle.

"Compared with your country's Mauser rifle, this Garand rifle is slightly heavier in weight, but it is almost the same in terms of effective range. Moreover, the Mauser rifle is still a bolt-action rifle, and this Garand rifle is already a semi-automatic rifle that can fire continuously in a single load, and the reload capacity has also been increased to 8 rounds. I had the privilege of seeing this Garand rifle firing with my own eyes, and I can responsibly say that only four Garand rifles were needed to completely suppress the counterfire of a Bander soldier. ”

Han Sen's face was already very ugly at this time, so Lu Yuan was going to say what he was going to say next, so he automatically chose to block it, but Lu Yuan secretly laughed in his heart, it seemed that the purpose of his trip had been achieved. "What do you want? Or what exactly do you want me to help you do? "Han Sen is worthy of being a scheming old fox, and just by taking a breath, he already understood the purpose of Lu Yuan taking these weapon drawings.

"Mr. Hansen, since you have already asked so, I will not hide it from you anymore." Lu Yuan smiled and continued to take out a map from his purse and spread it out on the table. "The situation in Shanghai is becoming more and more chaotic, and the intention of the Japanese to send troops to Shanghai is becoming more and more obvious, and I am sure you have heard of it, Mr. Hansen. This is Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist Government, but Nanjing is too close to Shanghai, and I think that once the Japanese army takes Shanghai, they will definitely attack Nanjing. ”

"Because Nanking was the capital of the Nationalist Government, the Japanese would think that as long as they took the capital of the Nationalist Government, they would force the Nationalist Government to surrender to Japan in full. What I want to say is that I'm not worried about the Nationalist government or the garrisons, I'm worried about the civilians who live in Nanjing. If the Nationalist government gathers heavy troops to defend the city, of course, everyone will be happy, but it is afraid that the Nationalist troops will have a large-scale rout when they are defeated, and the Japanese army, which has suffered heavy losses, may vent its anger on those innocent civilians after entering the city. ”

Han Sen's expression was still disdainful at first, but as Lu Yuan's analysis unfolded little by little, Han Sen's expression began to become solemn. "What I want is to send these weapons drawings to the German consul through you. After Hogg and the others brought people into Nanjing, I would provide them with the convenience and help they could, and if what I feared really happened, I hope that the German consulate in Nanjing can help Hogg and them to set up a refugee camp and prevent the Japanese from harassing the refugee camp. ”