The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 461: No Cooperation with the United States
"By the way, do you want to meet that American businessman I heard you mention earlier?"

Zhang Tingshu changed the subject, "My people reported that the American ambassador George and his businessman Winston have gone to see our handsome man."

"The content of the conversation was obvious. They were definitely trying to promote the Tumen River estuary... I didn't expect that even the Americans would be thinking about it."

After he finished speaking, Sun Zhengnan turned to Zhang Tingshu and asked, "Second Master, are you serious?"

"Ge Lin mentioned it to me once, but I really wasn't involved—"

Jiang Cheng was shocked when he heard this, and immediately turned his angry eyes away: "Damn it, Yang Yuting told you about it, why didn't you report it to me right away?"

Sun Zhengnan looked at Jiang Cheng and said helplessly: "People around Mr. Shuai are very tight-lipped... I only know that he has met Americans, but there are many ministers and consuls from various countries coming and going."

"Ge Lin mentioned this to me, and I was wondering why he mentioned Americans - this, Mr. Jiang, I do have a problem too!"

Sun Zhengnan's face turned pale. He knew that as the chief of staff, he had made a big mistake in his work.

"In the future, situations like this with obvious directions must be reported promptly!"

Jiang Cheng didn't want to offend his chief of staff, so he said, "Actually, I guessed this a long time ago."

"Behind the European battlefield was actually the uneven distribution of spoils from foreign expansion among countries, which then led to wars for colonies."

Jiang Cheng took a deep breath, "Europe may fight, but the United States is an exception - it's too far away, spanning the entire Pacific Ocean;"

"But he also needs to expand outward and develop his global colonies, so he will definitely target the Far East."

"Look carefully, Vladivostok is indispensable to gaining a foothold in the Far East. And most importantly, once the United States has a port in the Far East, it will certainly be of great benefit to colonization."

Zhang Tingshu nodded thoughtfully: "That's right! I always heard people from the Military Academy say that war is the continuation of politics..."

Jiang Cheng smiled: "What are we talking about? The most important thing right now is that we have to keep it stable... Think about it, we have soldiers, resources, a lot of money, and good guns, cannons, and tanks from Europe!"

"With more and more White Russian soldiers and some impoverished Germans, French and British coming to our side, we don't even lack tank drivers. What are we afraid of fighting?"

At this point, Jiang Cheng's eyes became clearer, "The Japanese and the Americans are getting impatient and are eager to take action... We are different. If we delay for a few months, until the power plant is built and we have more tanks, we will have more initiative to win this war!"

When Jiang Cheng returned to the office lobby that day, he seemed to have completely forgotten about the change of guard and was completely focused on the construction of Jilin.

The agricultural and resource circles surrounding Siping have been completely stabilized, and this year's bumper grain harvest is just around the corner;
Changchun, relying on its geographical location as a central railway hub, has become a commercial distribution center that spans the entire Northeast and even Rehe, Inner Mongolia.

The capital city of Jilin is now gradually stabilizing due to the White Russian Regiment's efforts to suppress bandits and eliminate Japanese invaders.

At this time, the people from the Chamber of Commerce had just finished their report when Yu Fengzhi and Yang Yucheng came together.

"With my third sister and her husband here, the drug has been approved, and the next step is to market it, and the discussion is going smoothly..." Yu Fengzhi handed a stack of American documents to Ye Hai, and sat down on the sofa opposite Jiang Cheng's desk. "Based on the current progress, it will be approved for marketing in the United States by the end of this month or the beginning of next month at the latest."

Ye Hai knew that this was a good thing, and he trotted over with a smile and handed the document to Jiang Cheng.

"Strange, why is there no clear pricing authority on this?"

Jiang Cheng quickly glanced through it and thought he had read it wrong, so he lowered his head and read it carefully again, "Also, besides not having clear pricing rights, why do we have to provide the drug formula when we obtain the batch number?"

Yu Fengzhi looked at Yang Yucheng, who stood up and said, "Master Jiang, my third brother-in-law knows about this. He said that our drugs are listed in the United States, and some rights and interests must be determined by the state governments. Now the states with the most relaxed approval of foreign drugs have relevant regulations."

"We only have the right to negotiate and set prices. As for the drug formula, the US says it needs to be kept for record... What they mean is that if imported drugs cause a large-scale clinical accident, they will use the registered formula to claim compensation from the relevant pharmaceutical companies."

Jiang Cheng was furious: "Bullshit! If something goes wrong after using our medicine, is there a difference in the formula and you want us to pay compensation?"

"The Americans are quite shameless... If we just take the formula away, what's the difference between that and giving them the method to copy?"

Yang Yucheng knew that Jiang Cheng was angry, so he blinked and added quickly, "Master Jiang, my third brother-in-law is also in a difficult situation."

"In fact, the conditions originally proposed by the Americans were more stringent. Some specific rights, such as bargaining power, were also won by my third brother-in-law through a lot of struggle. The conditions proposed in the current document are already the so-called biggest concession made by the Americans."

Jiang Cheng plunged the pen in his hand into the ink bottle and threw the stack of documents on the table: "Isn't this a joke? The so-called biggest concession is to ask for our formula, and then they have to decide the price of the medicine!"

Yu Fengzhi also sighed helplessly: "To go public overseas, of course we have to follow the laws of the other country--"

"According to their reasons, overseas listing, product promotion, and even financing are all handled by the US side. It seems that we only need to produce and ship, but with such regulations from the US, I am afraid that in the future we will only have production."

Jiang Cheng nodded silently.

Decades later, isn't China still constrained by all kinds of unfair agreements, regulations, and written conditions in foreign trade?

In fact, from the very beginning, these European and American bigwigs intended to use them as a source of cheap labor and raw materials, as well as a market for foreign trade dumping.

"Big sister is right. I have read the document... If I sign such a contract that will cause loss of rights and interests, I will forget about doing business properly."

Jiang Cheng raised his hand and tore the document with the red seal of the United States in half and threw it on the table.
"Yucheng, send a telegram to inform the negotiating personnel of the American foreign bank, saying that we have reviewed the contract and will wait for the reply from the superiors as to whether to sign it or not."

"Damn American capitalists, they are just treating us like cormorants, working for us and making money while they make the most money!"

Yu Fengzhi looked at him admiringly, but added with some concern: "But if our medicine is not exported from the Americans... I'm afraid it will be difficult to promote it."

(End of this chapter)