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"However, it may not be so easy to develop industry. We have no funds, no talents, and no technology and equipment. How can we do it when we have nothing?"

"Is it possible for us to ask the Soviet Union to help build it?" Mao Zedong further put forward his own idea: "Just like they helped build the Shaoguan Iron and Steel Plant and the Ishii Arsenal back then."

"Ask the Soviet Union for assistance?" Zhou Enlai frowned and thought for a while, then smiled bitterly: "Runzhi, we have offended Stalin on the Mongolian issue, and now he refuses to give us weapons and ammunition, so why are we still willing to help?" What about building our heavy industry? Unless the two of us take the blame and resign..."

After the Mongolia Incident, the relationship between the Soviet Union and the CCP has been cold. Stalin, who had realized that the CCP had a serious tendency of "social patriotism", decisively suspended all aid to the CCP.This is also the main reason for the current predicament of the CCP. If this indifferent relationship continues, the Red Army may run out of weapons and ammunition.If that time really comes, the positions of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai may also be shaken, right?This is probably Stalin's wishful thinking.

"The Soviet Union refused to aid in the construction..." Mao Zedong took a few puffs of cigarettes, then threw away the few remaining cigarette butts, and walked on the top of Pagoda Mountain with his hands behind his back, his brows gradually wrinkled.If you don't rely on the Soviet Union, it seems that you can only find a way in China, but who can you ask for help?al-Shabaab?Hehe, they are now vassals of the Kuomintang.The Feng Dynasty...a large amount of land in the Northeast cannot be developed, so how can there be energy to help develop the CCP's land?Are you still going to the KMT?

"Runzhi, why don't we try to cooperate with the Kuomintang? Aren't they going to build a big navy now? This navy...is an oil tiger! At present, China basically has no oil industry, and the only oil field is our Yan'an oil field. The trump card in our hand, we should play the oil card well." At this time, Zhou Enlai seemed to have thought of a way.

"Then should we raise it to the central government?" Mao Zedong's voice hesitated.If the matter of cooperating with the Kuomintang is brought up to the Politburo for discussion, I'm afraid it will cause an uproar again...

"They must use oil to develop their navy, and oil is only available to us." Zhou Enlai did not answer Mao Zedong's question, but continued along his own train of thought: "So this cooperation should not be proposed by us." , but to let the KMT propose and ask us to provide oil, so that we can take the opportunity to propose some cooperation conditions that are more beneficial to us, and the central government will easily pass it. But what card will Luo Yaoguo play? Really Headache."

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Mao Zedong: "This Luo Yaoguo is not easy to fool, we want to play the oil card, but we are bargaining with him."

Mao Zedong smiled wryly, why did he circle around this man again after a long circle?To be honest, other people in the Kuomintang are easy to fool, but this person is the only one who is not involved in oil and salt, and is very shrewd. It seems that he has a little ability to predict the future!

"How about we find a way to bypass the Kuomintang Armaments Department? Try to cooperate with the Ministry of Industry of the Central Government?" Mao Zedong tried to make a suggestion, then shook his head: "This will not work, the Central Government is just an empty shell right now, there are not many Money."

Zhou Enlai also shook his head: "Since we can't get around it, we have to find a way to defeat him! I don't believe that the navy built by the Kuomintang can do without oil? As long as they want oil, they have to come to us! And... our party There are many friends in the KMT, even in the Armament Department, there are people who sympathize with us! As long as we make a proposal through them, even Luo Yaoguo can’t see that our party is behind it, right?”

"What?" Mao Zedong suddenly felt his eyes light up: "Enlai, you mean, there are comrades from our party who hold important positions in the Kuomintang Armament Department?"

Chapter 0374 Take the road of capitalism ([-])

"Minister Luo, the imperialist aggression against China has not stopped! Instead, it has changed its appearance and appeared with a new look, which is more subtle and less noticeable." Zhang Naiqi, a gentleman with a high forehead and a bald forehead, walked into Luo Yaoguo office, and dropped such a series of inexplicable words:

"Judging from the situation in the past two years, the imperialists, especially the Western imperialists such as Britain, the United States, France, and Germany, have changed their methods of aggression from military aggression during the Qing Dynasty to economic aggression! And this economic aggression It has been upgraded from an aggression based on unequal trade to an aggression based on investment in commercial industries! This kind of aggression is unprecedented in its harmfulness and concealment! We must now take measures to curb this aggression. Otherwise, in the long run, China will become a place of origin of raw materials, commodity sales and production workshops of imperialism! Imperialism will conquer us without firing a single shot!"

Luo Yaoguo put down the document in his hand and raised his head.I saw the great gentleman Zhang Naiqi standing proudly with his hands up and down, looking at him coldly and with a little expectation with his awe-inspiring aura of a scholar inheriting his knowledge for the past and bringing peace to all generations.

At this time, Luo Yaoguo seemed to be listening intently, but he thought in his heart: "Which nerve is wrong with this gentleman? Didn't he just send him to the Ministry of Industry to collect some information on foreign direct investment in China in the past two or three years? As a result, I went there for a long time, and I didn’t appear in front of me until I was about to get off work. As soon as I appeared, there was a lot of dangerous words about the prosperity of the world. Is this posture not the outbreak of leftist thinking?”

Seeing the other party's modest appearance, Zhang Naiqi nodded slightly, smiled, and said, "I knew Minister Luo was aware of the latest trend of imperialist aggression, otherwise why would he send me to the Ministry of Industry to collect What about the relevant information?"

After saying this, he took out a large stack of documents from the briefcase that he carried with him, all of which were written in small script with a brush, and the handwriting was very good.This was copied by Zhang Junzi who spent most of the day in the archives of the Ministry of Industry.The copier or something hasn't been invented yet!

"These are the lists of industrial and commercial enterprises that the imperialists have invested more than 100 million yuan in French currency in the area under the rule of our national government in the past three years, as well as their main investment projects. There are thousands of enterprises with a total investment of more than 20 yuan. It’s shocking! It’s shocking! Imperialism has penetrated into every corner of our national economy through economic aggression. Not only the coastal areas, but also the inland market has become imperialist with the construction of a large number of roads and railways. A new target for economic aggression!"

After saying these words, Zhang Junzi looked at Luo Yaoguo with an expression filled with righteous indignation, as if he was waiting for his order to expel the imperialists from the country.

At this time, Luo Yaoguo was indeed deeply shocked.In just three years, thousands of foreign businessmen have invested more than 20 billion French currency, which is almost 5 million US dollars in China!Uh, that's right, right now is a booming period for the world economy, especially the US capital has been very active in the past few years, and the whole world is almost submerged in dollars!And before the Great Depression that started in [-], there should be an investment climax, right?It seems that we should make good use of this opportunity and attract more foreign capital.

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East Lake, Wuhan, Luo Yaoguo Mansion——In the study of Beilu, the uncles and nephews of the Luo family sat facing each other, and the blue flames flickered silently on the red clay stove beside them.

Natalie and Lu Xiaobei were fiddling with a set of coffee utensils, skillfully demonstrating the whole set of skills of brewing, grinding, brewing and straining, while the other was fanning the stove with a small fan.The two are quite a bit "sisterly".To be honest, among the four Mrs. Luo, the two of them get along best.Xiaobei probably accepted the traditional thinking a little too much, so she seemed to be tolerant and magnanimous to the sisters as a "big woman".And Natalie is Luo Yaoguo's favorite woman, and she is always with her at all times, so naturally she won't be jealous of those neglected sisters.In fact, the relationship in this family will become very complicated if there are many wives...

But after a while, Natalie brought over four steaming cups of strong coffee.The two women also held a cup and sat next to Luo Yaoguo. This kind of beauty really makes people envious of the descendants.But Luo Yiqun is not envious, uh, in fact, he also has several concubines!It is now [-], and the Kuomintang has not been "reformed" by the CCP, so the life of these high-level officials is actually very corrupt!But having said that, in this era of Japanese politicians and dignitaries, many of them also have concubines... The awareness of Asian men seems to be a bit low.

Seeing the coffee being served in front of him, Luo Yaoguo and his uncle smiled at each other, picked up the coffee cup, first smelled the aroma, then took a few breaths, and then took a shallow sip.

Putting down his coffee cup, Luo Yaoguo asked softly, "Uncle, is China's capitalism getting more and more prosperous now? Zhang Naiqi from the Ministry of Armaments got a lot of information from the Ministry of Industry, saying that in the past three years there have been more than 20 40 million foreign investment! If we add our country’s government and business investment, it will probably exceed [-] billion yuan? It seems that the Chinese economy is about to take off under the wise leadership of my uncle.”

Luo Yiqun gently turned the coffee cup in his hand and shook his head: "A wise leader? I don't even think I'm leading anything? I'm just a clerk. Speaking of the economy in the past few years... I'm really confused, short In just three years, there has been nearly 50 billion yuan in industrial and commercial investment! And this can still be counted. Investments below 100 million yuan are not reported at the local level. If these are included, it is estimated that it will exceed 60 billion yuan 60 billion! It’s scary to think about it. How can there be so much money? It’s incredible. When we were in Guangdong, we couldn’t get 600 million. Now the government’s tax revenue is more than 15 billion. This It can only be described as a miracle!"

Luo Yaoguo nodded, and said with a smile: "Such a small amount of money surprised you? In fact, the current situation is completely expected. We Chinese are a hard-working race. Most of the time, China's gross national product accounts for more than half of the earth! Since ancient times, as long as China has settled down, the government should not deliberately suppress economic development, and should not be too incompetent or corrupt. This society and economy can develop at a high speed Yes. In my opinion, this kind of development in China is just at the beginning!"

"But... now our rapid growth seems to be too dependent on foreign investment. Some people say what this is...economic aggression, we are economic traitors. This..." Speaking of these, Luo Yiqun's "good face" is bitter twisted into a ball.

Luo Yaoguo waved his hand indifferently: "They're all talking nonsense, what do these people know? It's a good thing for someone to invest, and of course we should welcome it. But, our domestic national industry also needs us to focus on supporting it. And mainly Support a group of important enterprises that are related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, especially those with high technology and high investment. As for the general processing industry, let's open up to competition. The businessmen in our country are not so fragile and can definitely survive in the fierce competition down."

Of course, these words he said have the experience of later generations in them.In another time and space, China's manufacturing industry is very strong in the low-end and low-end fields, whether it was Taiwan, Hong Kong at the beginning, or mainland China later, and there is no need for "protection" at all.As for high-tech and capital-intensive industries such as automobiles and aviation, the competitiveness is indeed slightly weaker.But right now, we can't take care of so many. At present, China's private capital is still far away from these industries!There is no need for protection at all.Only a few joint venture companies with Germans under the Ministry of Armaments are involved in this investment. These companies have the support of the Ministry of Armaments and German technology. If they are squeezed out by British and American companies, it will be the problem of Minister Luo Yaoguo. .

"What you said makes sense." Luo Yiqun picked up his coffee and took another sip: "The industries that we Chinese businessmen can do right now are indeed not afraid of foreigners robbing our business. Only automobiles, electronics, steel, pharmaceuticals, etc. How to develop industries that many businessmen can’t do? Should our government invest in it?”

"Uncle, the government's investment must be prudent. My opinion is to find a way to guide foreign investment."

Luo Yaoguo explained carefully: "Government investment is often a bureaucratic enterprise, which lacks vitality and chaotic management, and is prone to corruption. Right now, the management of the enterprises in our hands is already strenuous enough. Supporting consortiums is like Japan's "industrial development". Our Armament Department first invests capital, introduces technology, and establishes the enterprise. Then it is gradually privatized through public listing or finding a big capitalist to take over. The government just formulates Industrial policies and protection of fair competition in the market are enough. In addition, for foreign-invested high-tech industries, my idea is to try to let them move their core industrial sectors to China, and we can make some fuss about import and export tariffs.”

"Currently our tariff management is relatively rough, almost a one-size-fits-all approach. In fact, we should levy different tariffs on different products. Take automobiles as an example. Now we have 25% import tax plus 10% unified tax (equivalent to value-added tax). This tax is actually very unreasonable. We should think of ways to improve it, so as to guide foreign auto companies to move their core production departments such as engine gearboxes to China to increase the localization rate. In case of any conflict between us and Japan in the future The war, foreign trade was cut off, these companies can continue to maintain production. My idea is to increase the import tariff on the whole vehicle to 30%, and set the parts at 20%, including 30% for the engine and gearbox. In this case, foreign companies To maximize the benefits, more production lines will definitely be moved to China.”

"But in that case, wouldn't it be more difficult for our domestic enterprises to survive? Right now we don't seem to have a car factory?" Luo Yiqun shook his head, his tone full of hesitation.

Luo Yaoguo smiled faintly: "We don't have a car factory, but don't we have an aircraft factory? Many of the technologies of the two are common. For example, the in-line engine technology in the car engine technology and the aircraft engine are basically the same thing. The Germans we are cooperating with are much better than the United States in this respect. After I finish my work for a while, I plan to go to Europe and the United States, especially to Germany. See if I can get those German industrial companies to increase their investment in China .In addition, I just want to introduce some schools.”

"Bringing in schools? This seems to be a matter of the Ministry of Education, right?" Luo Yiqun glanced at his nephew, who had stretched out his arms, with a hint of reproach in his tone.The current Minister of Education, Zou Lu, is a veteran of the party and the country, and he is also from the same hometown as the Luo family's uncle and nephew, and has a particularly close relationship with Luo Yiqun, almost as part of the same party.

Seeing the reproachful look in his uncle's eyes, Luo Yaoguo explained: "Of course Haigong (Zou Lu) has a very good idea of ​​running education. He has been in charge of compulsory education these years. But now my nephew still has a way to develop by leaps and bounds. , This is very important to the development of our China in the next few decades! So I have to stretch my hand a little longer, presumably Haigong can understand? And my nephew is just a suggestion, if Haigong If you can understand, these tasks are still the responsibility of the Ministry of Education. My nephew’s idea is to invite first-class industrial technical colleges in Europe and the United States to set up branch schools in China. We can subsidize the funds, provide school sites and buildings, and invite them to run schools. Right now we It should be very easy to do this with your finances, right?"

After listening to his nephew's suggestion, Luo Yiqun felt his eyes light up again.To be honest, this idea is indeed very brilliant.At present, the Ministry of Education of the national government does have a lot of funds, and many universities are busy opening, but the question is where can I find so many university professors?There are enough to teach politics and national studies, but the shortage of talents in science and engineering is really a headache.If we directly send money to invite first-class foreign universities to open branch campuses, wouldn’t it be possible to introduce a large number of university teachers who are at least second-rate in the world?

Now Luo Yiqun would never have imagined that this policy would introduce more than just second-rate university teachers to China in the future.After the head of state made his debut in Germany, a considerable number of Jewish scientists, doctors, and university professors who were kicked out of Germany by the head of state went directly to the Chinese branches of those German universities, which made Uncle Sam tangled for a while.

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At the same time that the uncle and nephew of the Luo family were looking forward to the bright future of the capitalist system.In a newly completed apartment building in Hankou, Zhang Naiqi, director of the Restructuring Office of the Armament Department, was drinking wine with a fat young man, talking about brotherhood.It turned out that this person was Zhang Naiqi's younger brother Zhang Qiuyang, a member of the Communist Party of China and an activist in the Shanghai labor movement.He is currently the chairman and party secretary of the Shanghai Staff Federation.This time he suddenly appeared in Wuhan, and naturally he was instructed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to ask his brother Zhang Naiqi for help.

"Alas...the Kuomintang is rotten to the root, and there is really no hope!" Zhang Naiqi said this.The younger brother who is a communist has not started to criticize the Kuomintang, but he, a high-ranking official of the Nationalist government, is the first to accuse him.It seems that the KMT really can't be saved.

Zhang Qiuyang frowned slightly when he heard the words. He knew what his brother was like.Saying such words shows that my brother is really disappointed in the Kuomintang!But once his elder brother is really disappointed, he might leave the national government and find another job.In this case... can the tasks arranged by the organization be completed?

"Second brother, what happened?" Zhang Qiuyang asked.

Zhang Naiqi snorted: "What else can happen? The imperialists' economic aggression against us is about to permeate our bones! But this group of senior officials of the Kuomintang only know how to indulge in money and money, and they don't care about it at all! How can this go on like this? ah!"

Zhang Qiuyang frowned and thought for a while, but for a moment he didn't understand what his over-smart second brother was talking about?

"Yu An (written by Zhang Qiuyang), you work in a labor union in Shanghai, so you should be able to feel the intensifying economic aggression of imperialism, right?" Zhang Naiqi sighed, and said again:

"I just got statistics from the Ministry of Industry. Since the 14th year of the Republic of China to the present, the direct investment of imperialism in China has exceeded 20 billion French currency! And it has penetrated into automobiles, shipbuilding, steel, military industry, mining, electricity, railways , machinery, aircraft manufacturing and other important fields related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. Moreover, the scale of this investment has been increasing over the years, and it is estimated that it may exceed 10 billion yuan in the next year! It is really amazing."

"There are so many!" Zhang Qiuyang blurted out.

Zhang Naiqi sighed deeply: "If it continues to develop at this rate, within ten years China will become a raw material base for imperialism, a production workshop, and a place where products are dumped! At that time, people will be able to earn money from China without doing anything. Take huge profits! We Chinese are going to be their slaves!"

Zhang Qiuyang nodded hurriedly, and replied: "Second brother, in the current situation, we can no longer rely on the Kuomintang! The only thing that can save China is the Communist Party of China! But now our party is in trouble because of the blockade of the Kuomintang reactionaries. Dilemma!"

Zhang Naiqi was taken aback when he heard the words: "Blockade?"

Zhang Qiuyang replied with a stern expression: "Second brother, you can't imagine the difficulties in the Soviet area in Wuhan! The Central Soviet area is now surrounded by the youth party reactionaries in the west, reactionary warlords Yan Xishan and Zhang Zuolin in the east, and Kuomintang warlord Feng Yuxiang in the south. , the north is...well, in short, it is surrounded by enemies, the economic situation is very difficult, and it urgently needs outside assistance."

Zhang Naiqi frowned and shook his head: "Yu An, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to help the CCP's difficulties. My current position doesn't have much power. The most I can do is to advise Luo Yaoguo, asking him to persuade the Youth Army and Feng Yuxiang to lift their restrictions on the Soviet area. blockade."

When Zhang Qiuyang heard that the second brother was willing to help, a gleam of joy flashed across his face: "Second brother, the organization doesn't ask you to speak to Luo Yaoguo, but has other entrustments."