Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 120 Foxconn
Subtitle of this chapter: Be born into a good family, find a good backer, and have someone to support you.
Major Eisenhower helped his wife back to the guest room to rest.
Our Master Yuan bowed to the hostess and said, "This beautiful lady is the hostess of this place, right? Mrs. Barton, thank you and your husband for your hospitality."
"Mr. Yuan, Mr. Yuan, it's as it should be, it's as it should be, it's as it should be." Mrs. Beatrice Barton was struggling to speak clearly.
This Chinese man is not only extremely handsome and talented, he is also a charlatan...well, a psychic.
There are few true atheists in the world these days, especially in a quasi-religious country like America. For example, FDR had his own astrologer. So a master like Yuan Yanshu who has supernatural powers is definitely something that people look up to.
Moreover, his exaggerated appetite and his pretentious behavior just now made Mrs. Barton even more awed.
Master Yuan nodded and said, "That's right. It is your host's duty to treat me, your guest, to a good meal. So it is my duty as your guest to give your host a gift."
"Xiaokang, go get my gift." He turned around and gave an order.
Soon, Condor brought a box made of exquisite calfskin.
The surface of this suitcase is painted, with a Chinese dragon baring its fangs and claws on one side and a phoenix singing loudly on the other. The dragon and phoenix pattern is full of Seres style, especially suitable for fooling... well, satisfying the aesthetic taste of foreigners.
"Mrs. Barton, this is my gift to you."
With a "click", Yuan Yan suddenly opened the spring buckle of the small suitcase, and inside was naturally a beautiful...
"Mahjong?!" The four eyes of Mr. and Mrs. Barton all lit up. They saw that these mahjong tiles with ivory faces and bamboo backs, together with chips and dice, were elegant in shape, well-made, and beautifully carved. They looked more like real works of art than gambling tools.
Mrs. Barton said in surprise, "Mr. Yuan, this is the mahjong that has become popular in New York and Washington recently, and even the President and his wife love it very much, right?"
Therefore, if you want to promote entertainment activities, you still have to start from the top down. For example, a big boss in Seres was a bridge enthusiast, so Seres, who had no foundation in bridge, actually popularized bridge in elementary school during a period of time.
As the saying goes, if the superiors are good, the subordinates will certainly be even better. Mencius's words are still very reasonable.
Major Patton nodded and said, "Beat and I have always wanted to learn, but unfortunately there are too few teachers in the Washington Mahjong Club, and we can't invite a Mahjong teacher to come to our place..."
"George, I'm here, aren't I?" Master Yuan said with a smile, "Come on, guys. I'm here to teach you how to play mahjong!"
"Mame, you awake?"
Mrs. Eisenhower smiled at her husband's concerned look and said, "Ike, I'm awake."
Major Eisenhower said infatuatedly: "Mamie, this is the first time I've seen you smile in months."
"Ike, this is the first time I've seen you so energetic in months." His wife reached out and stroked her husband's face.
"Mamie..."
"Ike..."
Then they hugged and kissed each other...
In the original timeline, the death of their son created a deep rift in the couple's relationship.
In the original timeline, Eisenhower fell in love with a British female driver, Kay Summers, in 1944. This incident caused a big stir at the time, and British and American newspapers gave it a sensational title such as "The Grand Affair".
At that time, he really planned to divorce Mamie in order to marry this English woman.
Army Chief of Staff George Marshall was forced to write a sharp letter to Eisenhower, threatening to discharge him from the Army if he did not change his divorce plans. Eisenhower then cut off contact with Kay.
Regardless of whether it was for the purpose of obtaining those cards or not, Yuan Yanshu did do a good thing by using a shock therapy similar to psychology to relieve the couple's inner demons.
“Clatter…”
Nearing dusk, the Eisenhowers, who had regained their energy after a nap and a bath, came to the game room holding hands intimately, and saw that the battle of Fangcheng was in full swing.
However, Yuan Yanshu and Major Patton were not among them. In addition to Miss Moman and Mrs. Patton, there was also a new pair of male and female guests.
The man, who was about 40 years old, had a handsome appearance and elegant temperament. He was also wearing a neat custom-made military uniform with two dazzling gold stars on his shoulder straps. This man turned out to be a major general in the US Army..
The middle-aged woman was dressed very fashionably and gorgeously, and looked like a wealthy lady.
In fact, these two are also old friends of the Eisenhowers.
Major Eisenhower said with some surprise: "Mrs. Connor, Major General Connor, you are here too?"
This Major General "Foxconn" is not well-known in later generations, but he is a very important figure in the history of the US Army.
If General Pershing, the commander of the American troops participating in the European War, can be called the "Father of the Expeditionary Force", then Fox Coner is the "Midwife of the Expeditionary Force."
He was Pershing's most trusted assistant. Pershing once said that there was no more talented staff officer in the headquarters than him... In the American Expeditionary Force, no one else could be needed except him.
In addition to his outstanding ability as a staff officer, Fox Connor is also very charismatic.
During the expeditionary force's participation in the war in France, he gathered around him a group of young army officers, who were called "Shaun's Gang". At that time, the US military headquarters was in Chaumont, France, hence the nickname. Among them was the future Army Chief of Staff George Catrill Marshall.
George Patton was naturally also a member of the "Chaumont Gang".
In 1916 he became a lieutenant aide to General Pershing (of course because of his sister), while Connor was a major on the staff. From that time on, the two of them were good friends.
In fact, the two had very similar backgrounds. Connor's family was a wealthy landowner in Mississippi, and his wife Virginia was the daughter of a millionaire who ran a licensed drug business (Aphrodisiac).
One autumn afternoon during his stay at Fort Meade, Patton introduced Eisenhower to Connor at a social party he hosted. It can be said that this meeting changed Eisenhower's fate.
He himself said in his memoirs: "Fox Connor is the most talented person I have ever met. Among the great and good people I have met in my life, he is... the one I am most grateful to, and my debt to him is immeasurable."
It is indeed as Eisenhower himself said, among the "Three Imperial Commanders" in World War II: in terms of fatherhood, he could not compete with Douglas MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Theater; in terms of backers, he could not compete with Marshall, who was highly appreciated by Pershing.
If it were not for Fox Connor's appreciation and promotion, Eisenhower would never have become the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the European Theater in the future.
To say that Connor is his "noble man" is appropriate and not an exaggeration at all.
