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"President, everything you said is an indispensable condition for economic development under the capitalist system. In addition, we also have a huge domestic market, abundant resources, and sufficient labor. With so many favorable conditions, the development Not surprisingly, it is strange that it cannot develop.”

"Then can the north also develop now?" Sun Yat-sen looked at Luo Yaoguo with his wise and divine eyes, waiting for his answer.

"It's hard to say, right now the north is still divided by warlords, and it hasn't really settled down. It's just a temporary truce for the sake of the president." Luo Yaoguo said with a serious face, "If we want to truly unify China, I'm afraid It’s still inevitable to fight.”

"Alas...there is still a war!" Sun Yat-sen shook his head and sighed, "I'm afraid this is also one of the purposes of your general war system and the mobilization of the national spirit?"

"The President's lesson." Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly answered the question before Luo Yaoguo, lest tonight's banquet became a place for dialogue between Sun Yat-sen and Luo Yaoguo.

This is a uniformed attendant clearing the table, and then bringing up a steaming roast whole lamb.A chef wearing a white hat also followed, carefully slicing the roast lamb with a knife.Divided into silver bowls.Each piece of mutton is full of oil and has a tempting aroma. After adding cumin and secret spices, the index fingers of all the guests are moved.

Sun Yat-sen picked up a piece of mutton with chopsticks, put it in his mouth, chewed it, and said with a smile, "Well, the taste is good. This Beijing barbecue is no worse than our Guangdong one. It should be said that each has its own characteristics. This roast lamb chef is the best in Beijing." Famous, ancestral craftsmanship. If he must be roasted with our Guangdong method, do you think he can still bake such delicious food?"

These words are said lightly, but they contain deep meaning.Naturally, Luo Yaoguo and Chiang Kai-shek could hear it. They looked at each other, and then Luo Yaoguo said, "Does the president mean that you don't want us to use force to solve the northern issue in the future?"

"There is a saying in the art of war: Subduing the enemy without fighting is good. Besides, it is easy to destroy, but difficult to build." Sun Yat-sen took a sip of wine, smiled slightly, and said: "Now let's find a way to build the south. Let the people see the real benefits of the Three People's Principles, and then negotiate to achieve the goal of peaceful reunification. It is better to avoid civil wars, after all, Japan and the Soviet Union are still eyeing it!"

"It is precisely because they are eyeing tigers, that's why we have to implement a system of general warfare, and if we establish such a system, we may be able to deter wars, so this can be regarded as surrendering without fighting, right?" Luo Yaoguo said after seeing this. He quickly inserted it, and began to sell his overall battle again:

"At the beginning of the outbreak of the last world war, the European powers immediately implemented a general mobilization in their respective countries, and thus mobilized millions of troops in a short period of time, providing enough resources to sustain the war. The source of soldiers. Just imagine, if the next world war breaks out between us and Japan and the Soviet Union. Japan and the Soviet Union, two countries that have established a complete overall warfare system, will definitely implement general mobilization as soon as possible. According to According to the experience of the last world war, the total forces excavated by all countries through general mobilization basically exceeded 6% of their total population. Japan alone, if their general mobilization in the next war can also reach this scale, then they will It will be possible to mobilize a huge army of more than 500 million people in a very short period of time! And how much is the total strength of our country even if the warlords of the northern factions are counted? It is only about 170 million. These troops are not enough to fight in the new Before our army is formed, we will be able to withstand the attack of 500 million Japanese troops! By then we may be about to perish!"

Dead silence.When everyone heard the exaggerated number of 500 million Japanese soldiers, they lost their appetite for a moment, staring at Luo Yaoguo's face, as if they were looking at an alien.In fact, the 500 million Japanese troops reported by Luo Yaoguo are not unrealistic.The largest Japanese army in history has reached more than 600 million!At that time, the number of the Chinese army on the books was only more than 500 million, but in fact... probably only more than 300 million!Fortunately, the Japanese did not implement the general mobilization immediately on July [-], [-].Otherwise, only God knows what this war will be like.But in this time and space, history has changed!Facing a China that has almost begun to rise, would the Japanese still be so arrogant to think that the war can be ended in three months without general mobilization?

After a while, Sun Yat-sen turned his face to Chiang Kai-shek, who was sitting on Song Meiling's left: "What do you think, Jieshi? Is it possible for the Japanese to mobilize an army of 500 million? This number sounds really scary. If they can do this If we do, our general warfare system really must be established.”

"President, Japan now has a population of 8000 to 300 million. According to their propaganda, they have more than 60 active troops, more than 500 million soldiers in the countryside, [-] million middle and upper-level students, and an army of more than [-] young people! If they want to mobilize, [-] million can really be mobilized. However...to equip so many troops with sophisticated equipment, I am afraid that an island country with poor resources like Japan cannot afford it. "

"Oh, there really are!" Sun Yat-sen frowned, "Will they come to attack us?"

"If you study the Japanese nation carefully." Luo Yaoguo said in the tone of an undertaker, "They will come to attack sooner or later, there is no way to avoid it."

"But haven't we risen now?" Sun Yat-sen's face was slightly livid: "Is Japan so sure of defeating us?"

"Are they sure about defeating the Manchu Qing? Are they sure about defeating Tsarist Russia? Besides, if we hadn't established a general war system, how could they not be sure about defeating us? Even 500 million Japanese devils with rifles are a A very terrifying force! In the Russo-Japanese War, Japan mobilized more than 100 million troops, and some of them didn’t even have rifles, so they still defeated Tsarist Russia?” Luo Yaoguo shrugged his shoulders and cited the Russo-Japanese War example of.

"Well, I believe it now." Sun Yat-sen sighed: "It seems that if we don't implement the system of general warfare and follow the road of militarism, we may be about to subjugate the country. Then tell me, if we implement this general How much power can the war system mobilize? How much time will it take?"

"There are about 5000 million to 6 million Chinese on the territory of the Nationalist government. If calculated according to the 2000% standard, the force that can be mobilized in the end should be more than 2000 million! We strive to establish a sound overall system within ten years. war system." Luo Yaoguo stated his goal very frankly, it sounded a little crazy! An army of more than [-] million people!

There was a soft exclamation in the restaurant, and everyone looked at Luo Yaoguo in surprise, as if they were looking at a strange person.

"Uh, don't look at me like that, my face hasn't blossomed yet." Luo Yaoguo waved his hands and said a joke.Then he said solemnly: "Isn't the biggest advantage of our China is the large number of people? The advantage of a large population is reflected in the military. Naturally, there are more soldiers! From this point of view, the overall warfare system and the national mobilization plan are actually the most beneficial to China. , so we must establish it. As long as we have this system, we will definitely be the big winners in the next world war and get enough benefits. If we don’t do it, I’m afraid it will be a disservice to history and future generations committed a crime."

"The next world war? Who will fight whom? When will it start?" Sun Yat-sen's eyebrows tightened even more.

"Who else? Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Soviet Union, the United States, us, oh, and Poland." Luo Yaoguo glanced at the beauties beside him, smiled slightly, and said, "Anyone who is counted in the world All powerful countries must be involved. As for the time...I estimate it will be ten to 15 years later."

Of course Luo Yaoguo knew the time when World War II broke out, but in this time and space history has changed, who knows if it will affect the time when World War II broke out?

Sun Yat-sen smiled: "Oh, there are still ten years of peace, and the people of the world should cherish this time. We in China should also cherish these ten years. If we can reunify by then, we will establish a total war system , and heavy industry needs to go further. This will probably prevent the flames of war from burning on our land, right? If it can be like the United States in the last war, stay out of it, make a lot of money from the war, and finally join in at the most critical moment. That would be great, don't you think?"

"That's exactly what we want to pursue." Luo Yaoguo and Chiang Kai-shek echoed Sun Yat-sen in a hurry. Although they both knew that such wishful thinking would probably come to nothing, neither of them wanted to dampen his interest at this moment. .

"But Luo Fuwen doesn't seem to have said who will attack whom in the next war?" The voice was soft with Wu Nong's words, which was very pleasant. The country that is most likely to be attacked by communism is the Soviet Union. Maybe the next world war will be when the imperialists unite to attack the Soviet Union? At that time...we won’t participate, right?”

"We attack the Soviet Union?" Luo Yaoguo chuckled and shook his hands: "Actually, if they don't come to attack us, they will be on fire. A powerful country like the Soviet Union will definitely not be the first country to be attacked, on the contrary , They should be the one that started the war!" Having said this, Luo Yaoguo glanced at Natalie next to her. Historically, her homeland, Poland, was attacked by two of the world's most powerful land powers from the very beginning, and the country was almost subjugated. There is no doubt about it.In this time and space, it is estimated that there is still no salvation.

"If... imperialism gave you enough benefits, wouldn't you participate in the war to attack the Soviet Union?" Soong Ching Ling couldn't help but asked again.

Luo Yaoguo looked at Sun Yat-sen, saw that he nodded in agreement, smiled slightly, and said, "The Soviet Union is an industrialized country far stronger than ours. It has a vast territory, rich resources, and a population of more than 1 million to nearly [-] million. If such a country is fully mobilized The war potential it possesses is terrifying! Moreover, the core of the Soviet Union is not in Siberia, nor in the Far East, but in its European part. Therefore, if the imperialists want to attack, it is also from the east, that is, from Natalie's It started in Poland, the motherland. And what is decisive for the war is the gains and losses in the western part of the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union wins in the western battlefield, we will not join the anti-Soviet war anyway. Assuming that the Soviet Union completely fails in the western part, If Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, and Donetsk are lost...the Soviet Union will perish, and we will naturally inherit a little inheritance from the perishing empire! And inheriting the legacy from the perishing empire is our next step. Principles to be followed in World War I."

After hearing these words, Sun Yat-sen threw his head back and laughed loudly: "This principle is good, I like it very much. The property of those empires in Asia was originally taken from us. If they are finished, we will go It seems natural to inherit it! Well, this is very good, I agree with the general war system and the mobilization of the national spirit, Jieshi and Fuwen, please do it well.”

Chapter 0373 take the capitalist road (a)

November [-], [-] AD.

Luo Yaoguo, who had just returned from Beijing, just walked into his office in the Armament Department, and was about to bury his head in the mountain of official documents.Secretary-General Soong Meiling brought two American guests, one of whom was a blond man in a black suit with white stripes, about 30 years old, with a tall forehead and a thin brownish-red face.There is a pair of rimless glasses on the high bridge of the nose, and a pair of light blue eyes behind the glasses are sharp and piercing.Song Meiling introduced that his name was Lester Truth, and he was the manager of the Chinese branch of the American General Electric Company.The other American is a woman in her 20s, with an oval face, very dark complexion (not black, but a bit darker compared to a white girl like Natalie), dark brown hair, wearing a pair of huge glasses, looking Looks like a Latino or a Jew.Uh, Luo Yaoguo doesn't know the difference between them very well, but Natalie would be able to tell at a glance.The woman, Janice Jastrow, was Lester Truth's secretary and translator.It was she who translated General Motors Corporation into General Motors Co., er, literally.

Reluctantly putting down the documents in his hands, Luo Yaoguo put on a sincere smile and let the guests into his own small reception room.Then he ordered Natalie, who had just been transferred to the Armament Department to be in charge of making coffee, to deliver mellow and rich coffee.The guest and the host exchanged pleasantries in this way, and then the Yankee named Truss said something that almost stunned Luo Yaoguo.

"Your Excellency Marshal, our company hopes to invite you to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Anting Automobile Factory. This is the first automobile factory invested and opened by our company in China. The products include cars and trucks. I think your Armament Department should need some of them. some products?"

"The car factory? Has it been completed? When did it happen? How come I don't know at all?" Luo Yaoguo was stunned again and again.A car factory was built on Chinese soil without making a sound!And I, the Minister of Armaments who is in charge of the construction of China's heavy industry, knows nothing about it!This thing is really ridiculous.

To Luo Yaoguo's reaction, Truss felt a little strange.Isn't it just a car factory, and it doesn't want to produce tanks and cannons. Does it need to be reported to the Armaments Department?Moreover, the national government does not seem to have any regulations in this regard, just register with the Jiangsu Industrial Bureau, and it can be done in an hour.Besides, factories like this abound in southeastern and southern China. I heard that Henry Ford is also planning to open a branch factory in Shanghai!

"The Anting factory was built by our GM China branch at the beginning of last year, with a total investment of more than 200 million US dollars. It has a car assembly line and a truck assembly line." Truss took a sip of coffee and replied: "Right now, We assemble cars in China by importing spare parts, but the engine and gearbox factories have also started to be built, and some companies that provide parts for GM also plan to open branch factories in China.”

Looking at Luo Yaoguo's face, the surprise had completely disappeared, replaced by a faint smile.At this point he already understood what was going on.China is currently implementing a free capitalist system. Except for military factories, it cannot be opened casually. Other industrial enterprises can be established without any difficulty after simple registration.Therefore, after nearly three years of stable development of most of China, foreign direct investment has also begun to pour in.In fact, there were quite a few foreign-funded factories in Shanghai, most of which were textile factories, and there were also shipbuilding/ship repairing Yesong Shipyard, British Shanghai Power Plant, gas plant, water plant and other relatively large industrial enterprises.But is this situation good or bad?

From the perspective of supporting the national automobile industry, it must be bad for a behemoth like GM to open factories without restrictions!And now that GM can come, then of course foreign-funded automobile manufacturing companies such as Ford, Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, and Opel (not yet acquired by GM) can also come to set up factories.In addition, since the automobile company can come to open the factory, can U.S. steel come?Can Alcoa come?Can Caterpillar come?Can Pfizer come?If they all come... China's own national industry will have a headache!

However, from the perspective of reserving combat power for World War II, it is a shortcut to let these foreign multinational companies invest in China!For example, if they don't come to open GM's automobile factory, the Armament Department may not be able to afford it in three to five years.In addition, isn't the Jesson shipyard of the British businessmen now also accepting the aircraft carrier order from the Ministry of Armaments?These foreign-invested factories can still produce arms for the National Revolutionary Army during wartime, and can also create a lot of tax revenue and employment for the National Government in peacetime...

In addition, there is one more point. At present, European and American powers, especially the United States, support the rise of China. I am afraid that the winks of these multinational companies are also indispensable, right?The United States can be called "a country managed by big companies." If these big companies and big banks have invested huge sums of money in China, if Japan invades in the future...the United States will definitely stand by China's side, right?

On one side is the immature national industry, and on the other side is the looming World War II!Which one should you choose?What a dilemma.

……

The cold wind swept across the Loess Plateau, chilling everything in the world.This year's winter in northern Shaanxi seems to have come a few days earlier than in previous years, and it is also extremely cold.The Pagoda Mountain in winter has also lost its verdant greenness. The bare loess is exposed to the cold wind, like the skin of an old woman, dry and full of wrinkles. The grass hides in the cracked rocks, stubbornly rejecting the cold winter. .The meandering Yanhe River has already formed a thin layer of floating ice.Occasionally, the sound of ice cracking at the bottom of the river can be heard, which means that the ice layer is constantly thickening.

Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai walked side by side along the hillside trail and slowly walked towards the top of the mountain. They were silent all the way, but they frowned.Obviously, the mood at the moment is not very happy.

The news from all over the country is very bad. The Kuomintang seems to be going further and further down the road of dictatorship, and there are faint signs of embarking on the path of militarism and no return.The information that Sun Yat-sen approved the national government's implementation of the general war system was passed to Yan'an immediately through the righteous people in the Kuomintang.The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Wangjialing suddenly seemed to explode.Especially Wang Ming, Hu Xun, Xia Xi and a group of Bolsheviks who came back from the Soviet Union were jumping around and cursing, wishing to fuck all eighteen generations of Sun Yat-sen's ancestors in Russian.But what good is that?It will not be affected at all whether the Kuomintang should conduct a general war or a general war, and whether it should mobilize the national spirit or engage in national spiritual mobilization.

As for launching a revolutionary war against the militarist reactionaries, even Comrade Wang Ming dare not propose such a proposal.The current situation is very clear, as long as Sun Yat-sen is still there, the KMT's power will be as unshakable as an iron barrel.The rightists of the Kuomintang probably welcome the CCP's military confrontation very much, right?In this way, they also have a reason to launch a counter-revolutionary war.

Several guards followed the two leaders far away, not daring to disturb them for a walk.During this time, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai often walked along the mountain path of Baota Mountain like this.By the way, let's discuss the revolutionary situation at home and abroad, and exchange views on some sensitive issues.In this situation, two people can talk freely, and nothing will be heard by the third person. It is indeed extremely safe.

Today, the two leaders just hung their heads with their hands behind their backs and were only concerned with climbing the mountain. After a while, they climbed to the top of the mountain and began to overlook the land of northern Shaanxi.The winter in northern Shaanxi is desolate. From a distance, there are only endless mountains and ravines, all of which are bare without a trace of greenery.The barren hills everywhere seem to be telling the bitter ridge of northern Shaanxi. In fact, not only northern Shaanxi, but also base areas such as Suiyuan, Northwest Shanxi, and Eastern Gansu are all barren lands.But the CCP now relies on the poor people in these mountainous areas to maintain an army of nearly 20!Obviously, the development of the CCP has now encountered a bottleneck.On the one hand, the barren base area has been difficult to support a large number of Red Army, on the other hand, the powerful military force is useless.At present, China has formed a coalition government, and all factions have stopped all civil wars at the request of Sun Yat-sen. Under such circumstances, if they attack Shanxi again, they will risk the disgrace of the world, right?But if we want to disarm... the threat of the Kuomintang reactionaries is real!It's really impossible to advance, and it's impossible to retreat. It's really worrying.

"Runzhi, look at this matter..." Zhou Enlai frowned tightly, and broke the silence first: "A 20-strong army costs more than 100 million per month in personnel expenses, but the territory is only so small, and it is not rich. It's really overwhelming!"

Mao Zedong nodded in agreement, thought for a while and said, "Right now, Sun Yat-sen has banned all civil wars, and we have to abide by it. In this way, we can no longer use the method of going to the white areas to fight local tyrants to raise funds. If this continues..."

Mao Zedong’s “go to the white areas to fight the local tyrants” refers to the method that the Red Army and some of the poor and lower-middle peasants in the base area invaded the white area bordering the Soviet area, went there to fight the local tyrants to share the floating wealth, and then retreated to the base area before the enemy counterattacked.The main purpose of this kind of battle is not to expand the base area, but to raise funds and improve the life of the poor and middle peasants in the base area, and win their support.However, it has also produced extremely serious negative effects in history, that is, "non-class confrontation between red and white".Because in this kind of struggle against "local tyrants sharing floating wealth", the poor and lower-middle peasants in the white areas basically get nothing. The situation of being deprived.After this happened frequently, the people in the White Area bordering the Soviet Area were often confused by the enemy, and they took the side of the enemy, and even came to the Soviet Area to plunder under the organization of landlords and rich peasants... Finally, the people in the Soviet Area and the White Area The serious confrontation between the Kuomintang reactionaries won a large number of supporters for no reason.

However, in this time and space, "going to the White Areas to fight local tyrants" does not refer to the KMT's political training areas, which do not border the CCP's Soviet Areas.It refers to going to Shanxi under the rule of Yan Xishan to fight the local tyrants. Those rich locals in Shanxi can live and often have a lot of savings, and the Jin army's fighting skills are not up to standard.So the harvest in the past two years is not bad, but now...

At this time Mao Zedong took out a cigarette from his pocket, put it in his mouth, lit a match, lit the cigarette, and took a deep breath: "Well, our Red Army is a heroic team that cannot be defeated by any difficulty! Even the Kuomintang reactionaries have nothing to do with us, so how can a small financial difficulty bind us?"

Zhou Enlai nodded slightly, but his expression was still serious, and his thick eyebrows were still tightly locked.Naturally, it is impossible for the Red Army to be defeated by financial difficulties, but where will the money come from? Isn't it still unclear?

Mao Zedong took a few more puffs of cigarettes, and then smiled deeply: "The Kuomintang reactionaries want to use finances to stifle us, but we have to face up to the difficulties. We have to do it ourselves and have enough food and clothing! I suggest launching a large-scale production campaign in the base areas. Right now Doesn’t the Red Army have no combat missions for the time being? We can use this short period of peace to lead the Red Army, lead the cadres and the masses in the base areas, open up wasteland for production, build water conservancy, divert canals to irrigate the fields, and strive to increase food production. And not only to develop agriculture , industry and mining must be greatly developed! We have oil and coal in northern Shaanxi, and iron ore in Suiyuan. Why can’t we take advantage of such good conditions? As long as the industry and agriculture in the Soviet area are developed, we can still use them Are you afraid of the army of the 21 divisions of the Kuomintang?"

"Letting the Red Army go to the fields is a good way. At least it can increase some grain production and alleviate our financial difficulties to a certain extent." Zhou Enlai still shook his head: