Expedition to Europe

"It was so close. Mr. Qin, you don't know that the people from the Ministry of War arrived just after we left the factory. If we were a step later, all these tanks would have been allocated to the Americans." Chen Kangjian was half afraid and half boasting.

The Army Department is different from the War Department. The Army Department is only responsible to the Prime Minister. The current Minister of the Army is Lyautey. The War Department is responsible to the Parliament, and the Minister of the War Department is concurrently the Prime Minister himself.

The relationship between Lyautey and Qin Zhiyuan is beyond doubt. It is precisely because of Lyautey's insistence that Qin Zhiyuan led the First Brigade back to Paris from Corsica. In this sense, the First Brigade is the only unit loyal to Lyautey in the Paris area.

At least Lyautey thinks so.

The relationship between Qin Zhiyuan and the new Prime Minister Paul Panlewei is not good. Qin Zhiyuan has a close relationship with Clemenceau. Clemenceau and Paul Panlewei are political enemies, so Qin Zhiyuan will definitely not invite Paul Panlewei to meet him.

Qin Zhiyuan has been prepared for this. Qin Zhiyuan is not a popular lover and it is impossible for him to please everyone.

"Then, starting tomorrow, get familiar with the equipment immediately. I want to invite Foch, Lyautey, and Clemenceau to visit our armored forces in the next few days. Only if we can show strong combat effectiveness, they will not think that giving us these tanks is a waste of money." Qin Zhiyuan has a plan.

Regarding how to use the armored forces, Qin Zhiyuan did not want to hide too much. Fighting a war also depends on understanding, not that equipment advantage will definitely lead to victory. Only if Clemenceau and others believe that tanks can be given to the First Brigade, the tanks can play their greatest role, and Qin Zhiyuan will have the possibility of getting more equipment in the future.

"Don't worry, Mr. Qin, we have already practiced well in Corsica, and we guarantee that there will be no problems." Chen Kangjian promised.

Qin Zhiyuan nodded with satisfaction, so Chen Kangjian left with great insight.

Since Qin Zhiyuan returned to the Black Swan Castle, Julie sneaked over. She had been tired of Qin Zhiyuan for a day and a night. Even if Qin Zhiyuan and Chen Kangjian were talking about work, Julie was unwilling to leave Qin Zhiyuan too far. She just moved a chair to sit on the balcony and looked at Qin Zhiyuan from a distance.

I really like him. I can't see him enough.

Foch took office as the Chief of Staff of the French Army and went to the Ministry of the Army to work with Lyaute. Foch had no time to manage Julie. Pierre became Qin Zhiyuan's personal knight and turned a blind eye to Julie now.

In fact, Foch and Lyaute can't play any role now. Nivelle can't listen to other people's opinions at all, even the advice of his chief of staff and commander of the mobile force, General Alfred Michel.

General Alfred also believed that Nivelle's plan could not succeed. He chose a more intense way to respond to Nivelle's request and refused to execute Nivelle's order. As a result, Alfred was dismissed from his post as Chief of Staff by Nivelle, and then sent to the front to command an army group to attack Chemin de Dames.

If a general offends a battle commander, then the battle commander has countless ways to kill the general, and they are all fair methods. This is why Qin Zhiyuan tried his best to avoid serving under Nivelle.

If Qin Zhiyuan really went to Nivelle's headquarters, Nivelle might really throw Qin Zhiyuan a rifle and let Qin Zhiyuan attack Berlin.

So, since the relationship has deteriorated to this point, Qin Zhiyuan's invitation list does not include Nivelle's name, although in fact Nivelle is the most suitable candidate to be invited.

"Don't worry, Dad won't embarrass you." Seeing Chen Kangjian go out, Julie came to Qin Zhiyuan and gave him a reassurance.

"I know Ferdinand is a good man." Qin Zhiyuan smiled and shook Julie's slender hand, welcoming Julie's loving eyes as deep as the ocean.

"Qin..." Julie bit her teeth again and again, but was still too shy to speak.

"What's wrong?" Qin Zhiyuan was curious.

"Annie asked you to go back for lunch." Julie changed her words when she was about to say it.

"Okay, let's go back together later. Do you need to bring anything? Where's Ferdinand? Is he going back?" Qin Zhiyuan asked.

"Maybe I'll go back, maybe not. But I have to be careful. Anne has said it several times. If I dare to go home, I'll be scolded." Julie raised her voice as she looked at Pierre who was hiding far away.

"I'm not afraid!" Pierre responded from a distance, and his voice sounded a little guilty.

"I hope you'll still be so stubborn when you go home later." Julie was sharp-tongued.

"I'm very busy. I have something to do at noon. I won't go back with you." As a personal knight, Pierre often performs unqualified.

"Then you'd better hope you can hide forever." Julie took advantage of the victory to pursue.

"You sharp-tongued little girl, be careful not to get married for the rest of your life." Pierre was furious.

What surprised Qin Zhiyuan was that Julie didn't talk back, but looked at Qin Zhiyuan silently.

Qin Zhiyuan suddenly felt a little uneasy.

This feeling of uneasy was magnified to the extreme after lunch.

Foch did not go home, and Pierre finally came back. Just after dinner, he was twisted by Anne's ears and dragged to the study. Julie helped Natalie take the children to the children's room so that Natalie could clean up the table.

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Natalie was not busy cleaning up, but made a cup of tea and sat on the sofa to chat with Qin Zhiyuan.

"Qin, how is your relationship with Lily now?" Natalie looked playful.

"Very good, Lily has a gentle personality, I like her." Qin Zhiyuan nodded and smiled.

"Like" here means "like", which is a little more passionate than "favorable" and a little more rational than "love".

"So, don't you plan to give Lily a family?" Natalie looked at Qin Zhiyuan, and her right hand unconsciously touched the ring on the ring finger of her left hand.

It was a ruby ​​ring with bright color, transparency, purity and perfect cutting. It was very eye-catching with the silver-white ring setting and slender fingers.

"Of course, Lily and I will build a family at the right time. You know, I love Lily, just like I love my own eyes." Qin Zhiyuan promised.

Now, Qin Zhiyuan finally understood what the fear and uneasiness in his heart were.

Qin Zhiyuan has lived for so many years, and under the influence of his parents, he has a psychological state of yearning and resistance to family. Qin Zhiyuan certainly likes Julie, but at the same time, Qin Zhiyuan is afraid that he will not be able to give Julie happiness after forming a family with Julie.

"So, as a man, shouldn't you do something first, like give Lily an engagement ring or something?" Natalie turned the ring on her hand and looked at Qin Zhiyuan expectantly.

Engagement?

This is another new stage in life.