Did he trick the young marshal into becoming sworn brothers and then go south to Huangpu Military Ac

At the field airfield in early spring, dozens of foreign mercenary pilots, recruited by Lin Qi with US dollars and whiskey, gathered in twos and threes by the hangar, drinking and playing cards out of boredom.

The Dongjiang Campaign ended, and there has been no fighting for the past few months.

These mercenaries, who earn a high salary of five hundred US dollars a month, are feeling guilty and anxious.

They lived in constant fear, terrified that the cold-blooded Eastern boss would think they were just freeloading and kick them back to Europe and America, leaving them unemployed once again.

When they saw Lin Qi's private car drive into the airport, all the mercenaries stood up as if they had been electrocuted, and tension appeared on everyone's face.

"God, the boss is here. He's definitely here to fire us."

A French pilot swallowed hard and muttered to himself.

Lin Qi pushed open the car door and strode up to the group of foreigners.

His gaze swept over everyone, and without uttering a single wasted word, he went straight to the point.

"Gentlemen, it seems these past few months of peace have rusted your bones."

Lin announced loudly in English, "Headquarters has just decided to establish an aviation branch school. Starting tomorrow, all of you will be reassigned as flight instructors. Your mission is to train the students I recruit into killing machines capable of killing in the air."

As soon as he said it, he started calculating in his mind whether he should give each of these guys an extra two hundred dollars a month in allowance in order to get them to obediently become teachers.

After all, his original contract was for fighting a war, not for teaching students.

Based on that foreigner's ridiculous logic, they would most likely disagree and demand "more money."

Just as Lin Qi was preparing to give them a raise, before he could even say it...

"No problem, boss! We're willing to do it!"

"Praise be to God! Being an instructor is fantastic! I guarantee I'll train them to be faster than eagles!"

The foreign pilots listened as if to heavenly music. Without any bargaining or hesitation, they stood at attention and loudly agreed.

Lin Qi was slightly taken aback, then chuckled to himself.

He overestimated the integrity of this group of people and underestimated the purchasing power of five hundred dollars in this era.

For these retired veterans who can't even afford to eat in China, as long as they aren't fired and can continue to receive a monthly salary of $500, they would agree to be instructors or even just sweep the track!

Landis, the ace pilot with a centipede-like scar on his face, was as excited as a child who had received a new toy.

He strode up to Lin Qi, pounding his chest excitedly, spitting as he boasted, "Boss! You can rest assured and hand the men over to me! I don't need those cowardly training manuals! Give me fifty trainees, and I guarantee I'll train them all into demons who dare to ram warships with their planes! I'll show them what true killing art is!"

Looking at the foreign coach who was even more enthusiastic than himself, Lin Qi nodded in satisfaction.

Once you've made up your mind, if the teacher really teaches well, then you can pay more.

half a month later.

The entrance examination for the Huangpu Aviation Branch School was held as scheduled on the campus of the Huangpu Military Academy.

Upon hearing the news, students from the first and second classes of the Whampoa Military Academy rushed over, and the playground was filled with onlookers.

The news of Guangzhou opening an aviation military academy had already spread throughout the country through major newspapers.

In an era when airplanes were still a rarity and represented advanced military power, countless young people with patriotic fervor packed their bags and traveled from all directions, crossing mountains and rivers to Guangzhou.

However, when Lin Qi received the registration book and arrived at the examination hall in person, he was still dumbfounded.

It wasn't because no one came, but because the identities of those who did come far exceeded his expectations!

On the Huangpu playground, a long line of people stood in a dense crowd.

Lin Qi's sharp gaze swept across the crowd, and he noticed that the vast majority of these young people in line were wearing sharp suits, long gowns, or university uniforms from various places.

These candidates spoke politely, and some even communicated in English.

Flipping through the roster, it was filled with engineering graduates from certain universities and top students from certain high schools. Many of them even had entourages, clearly wealthy scions from well-to-do families!

Lin Qi originally thought that the most applicants would be ordinary people and poor farmers who could endure hardship and were absolutely obedient.

However, among the thousands of people who signed up, these two types of people were extremely rare, practically as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns!

"What... what's going on?"

Lin Qi looked at the roster in his hand, his brows furrowing deeply.

After all, being an air force pilot is a life-threatening job, and aren't all rich kids afraid of dying?

After a brief moment of surprise, Lin Qi began to ponder and quickly grasped the cognitive barriers of this era.

In 1925, the vast majority of ordinary people in China had never even seen a car, let alone an airplane.

In the eyes of these farmers who toil in the fields, flying into the sky is an act of witchcraft that offends the gods and defies the ancestors!

This awe and fear of the unknown makes them dare not even venture into this field.

On the contrary, it was intellectuals and wealthy young people who had received modern education, were enlightened, and had read about Western science who were able to break through feudal superstitions.

They knew it wasn't a god, but a machine, a modern industrial marvel capable of changing the fate of the nation.

Only they possess the vision and courage to take on this danger and yearn to pilot a warplane soaring through the skies!

"Damn the limitations of our time."

Lin Qi cursed inwardly, but he did not insist on his own opinion.

He was a pragmatic industrial fanatic.

Airplanes, as war machines, require not only courage, but also extremely high qualities from their pilots, including an understanding of physics, mathematical common sense, and mechanical comprehension.

Letting an illiterate person who can't even read a single word fly a plane would be a real disaster.

Looking at the energetic and eager faces on the playground, Lin Qi made a decisive decision.

"Relay my orders!"

Lin Qi turned to Zhou Zhirou beside him and said, "Immediately revise the enrollment plan! If the budget allows, double the number of students admitted in the first batch!"

As he spoke, his eyes gleamed with a thirst for talent: "Airplanes can be bought with money, but in this chaotic world, highly qualified personnel with modern scientific thinking and the courage to take to the skies are priceless treasures! As long as they are physically fit and have good reflexes, I'll take them all!"

Under Lin Qi's decisive decision, the construction of the Huangpu Aviation Branch School was launched in a fervent and enthusiastic atmosphere.

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