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Chapter 0375 Take the road of capitalism ([-])

"Anything else?" Zhang Naiqi shook his head, wondering what kind of medicine his younger brother was selling in his gourd, and he didn't want to donate money to the Communist Party, right?If that's the case, wouldn't it be over with a telegram?Why go all the way to raise money?

Zhang Qiuyang smiled, took out a letter written by Zhou Enlai from his pocket, and handed it to his elder brother: "Second brother, our party now controls the only oil mine in China - the Yan'an oil mine. Now the Kuomintang is running a large navy, presumably to use Got oil, right?"

"So that's the matter." Zhang Naiqi smiled and nodded: "This matter is easy to handle. The CCP wants to sell oil to the Armament Department, right? I'll discuss it with Mr. Ma Junwu tomorrow. He is in charge of the chemical industry right now. The Ministry of Armaments should buy all the oil from the Yan'an Oil Mine."

But Zhang Qiuyang waved his hand: "Second brother, our party means to comprehensively explore the oil resources in northern Shaanxi, and then expand the oil mines on a large scale. In addition, we also want to develop the rich coal mines in northern Shaanxi and the iron mines in Suiyuan Baiyun Obo. But This investment must be made by the Ministry of Armaments of the Nationalist Government, and all the oil produced in return will be sold to the Ministry of Arms. Most of the coal and iron will also be sold to the Ministry of Armaments. Do you think it is possible to conclude this deal?"

"Large expansion?"

Zhang Naiqi frowned, looking at his younger brother's expectant expression, he didn't know how to speak for a moment.When Yuan Shikai was in power, the Yan'an oil field invited American oil companies to explore it. At that time, the American opinion was that there was no value for large-scale development!Although this happened more than ten years ago, oil exploration and development technology has made some progress, and there may be new discoveries.But... If you want to start a large-scale oil project, you have to invest a lot of money to see the effect.In addition, the CCP also wants to develop the coal in northern Shaanxi and the iron ore in Suiyuan. These are indeed resources needed by the National Government's ruled areas, but large-scale investment is also required to develop them.But is Luo Yaoguo willing to pay this money?

Seeing his brother's hesitant expression, Zhang Qiuyang's face gradually turned serious. Now Zhou Enlai has very high expectations for these projects.Don't screw this up...

There was silence in the room, and neither brother said a word.

I don't know how long it took before I heard Zhang Naiqi sigh softly: "Yu An, the national government really needs oil very much. Now they are already exploring the oil mines in Yumen, Gansu, and they plan to invest heavily there. Lay the railway to Yumen. In addition, the Kuomintang also found two other ways to obtain oil through cooperation with the Germans. One is coal liquefaction technology. This is a method of liquefying coal into fuel oil mastered by the German Farben Originally, the national government planned to spend huge sums of money to introduce it. However... During this time, it seems that German experts discovered something called oil shale in Guangdong, which is said to be able to extract oil! And the oil shale in Guangdong The reserves are still very rich. It is estimated that if large-scale investment is made in development, it is no problem to obtain millions of tons of oil every year! Although the cost is relatively high, it is not unaffordable. Therefore, the Kuomintang is now planning to invest in Maoming, Guangdong to develop oil Shale!"

"There is such a technique!" Zhang Qiuyang was stunned again and again, he never thought that these Germans would have such abilities!In this way, wouldn't the tasks assigned by Comrade Zhou Enlai be yellow?

Hearing his younger brother's voice, Zhang Naiqi raised his eyebrows and chuckled: "What? Isn't it good to have such a technology? Is it because of this that the CCP's oil monopoly has been broken?"

Zhang Qiuyang just sighed: "Second brother, the difficulties in the Soviet area are too great now. They offended the Soviet Union on the Mongolian issue, lost foreign aid, and are surrounded by warlords with malicious intentions. If this continues, I'm afraid it will... I hope that the oil mines in northern Shaanxi can be sold at a good price."

Instead, Zhang Naiqi smiled and said: "Third brother, don't worry, oil is a strategic resource, after all, there is not too much. The problem is only the price. If your oil in northern Shaanxi is more expensive than the oil shale in Maoming, then they will naturally not like it." I am willing to pay for it. But it can always be sold for a good price, and I will try my best to help you get it. Besides, should we go to Mr. Liao Zhongkai and General Deng Zesheng?"

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In fact, there is no need for Zhang Naiqi to worry. The CCP has already arranged for envoys to contact Liao Zhongkai and Deng Yanda, two "close comrades in arms who have always supported the Chinese Communist Party."The little unhappiness they had with the CCP disappeared because of the CCP’s position in the Mongolian Incident.Right now, the relationship between the left wing of the Kuomintang and the CCP has become inseparable again.

Liao Zhongkai's home is now also in the mansion area by the East Lake. This is an independent small building with a small Western-style lawn in front of the building.The door on the first floor was open, and two guards with live ammunition stood there. Except for Liao Zhongkai's family members, no one was allowed to enter without Liao Zhongkai's consent.

In a living room on the second floor of the Liao mansion, several cups of tea wafted with a rich fragrance.Liao Zhongkai was dressed in Chinese casual clothes, sitting in an armchair leisurely, with an easy-going look.Deng Yanda did not wear the general uniform that he hated, but a plain cotton tunic suit, and together with Xuan Xiafu and Liu Bojian, who had just arrived in Wuhan, talked and laughed with Liao Zhongkai implicitly.

"Mr. Liao, General Zesheng." Seeing that the atmosphere was getting better, Xuan Xiafu smiled slightly and began to get straight to the point: "The next time I come to Wuhan this time is to facilitate another round of cooperation between the two parties."

When Liao Zhongkai heard the cooperation between the two parties, a smile appeared on his face immediately: "Brother Sword Soul, if your party has any good suggestions for cooperation, please speak up quickly. What are you selling in front of Zesheng and me?"

Deng Yanda, however, sighed: "Cooperation between the two parties is the long-cherished wish of me and Mr. Liao, but right now the Kuomintang is controlled by rightists, and even the President has nothing to do with them."

Xuan Xiafu smiled and waved his hands: "The cooperation proposal proposed by our party this time is a good thing that even the rightists of your party cannot refuse. This time our party intends to cooperate with your party to develop oil and coal mines in northern Shaanxi. There is also the iron mine in Suiyuan. Your party is now developing heavy industry and revitalizing the navy. I am afraid that these things are indispensable, right?"

Liao Zhongkai clapped his hands: "That's a good relationship! This kind of cooperation between the two parties is very beneficial to us. I'm afraid that Luo Yaoguo would laugh out loud in his dreams? As for your party's demands, feel free to mention them. Don't save those rightists. Right now They are rich!"

Deng Yanda also nodded with a smile: "What Mr. Liao said is that their military budget next year will be as high as 5000 million French currency! Among them, the Armament Department has almost [-] million. If your party does not help to spend a little of this money, it will probably have to give The gang of corrupt officials gave it to those who corrupted."

Hearing that the two friends had patted their chests and promised, Xuan Xiafu was naturally blunt. He nodded at the two leftists and said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, the current situation of our party is relatively difficult. Northern Shaanxi, Suizhou It is far from a barren land, and it is indeed overwhelming to support 20 soldiers. The only hope is that the oil and coal in northern Shaanxi can be sold for some money. But... these oil and coal mines are still buried deep in the ground , the traffic in northern Shaanxi is inconvenient, so I hope to dig out these underground treasures through the cooperation of the two parties and use them in our national defense. But... I don't know if the two can persuade Minister Luo of your party's Armament Department paid the money?"

Liao Zhongkai smiled and waved his hands: "What's the problem? If he doesn't pay the money, can oil still fall from the sky? Besides, it's just to build a railway! The oil and coal mines don't cost much, no The problem is on me. If he dares not agree, I will go to his uncle."

A hint of surprise flashed across Xuan Xiafu's face.Before coming here, he had listened to Zhou Enlai analyze the various factions in the Kuomintang at present, and knew that although the leftists of the Kuomintang were excluded, they were still an important party in the party.Especially in the situation where the two mainstream factions of the Kuomintang presidium are evenly matched, the precious vote of the left wing of the Kuomintang will definitely have the effect of turning things around!Therefore, as long as Liao Zhongkai and Deng Yanda help to speak, Luo Yaoguo will definitely not refute their face.

"Then I don't know, when will you two be able to get along with..." Xuan Xiafu hesitated for a moment, and then said, "When can I talk to Minister Luo?" The difficulty now is also a little bit bigger, right?

The two big leftists were startled, then smiled, and Liao Zhongkai explained: "Luo Fuwen left Wuhan by plane this afternoon for Shanghai. There is a General Motors factory in the United States that has just been completed and put into production. He, the Minister of Armaments, is invited to come to Shanghai. Ribbon cutting. Hehe, these Yankees are probably trying to sell us a car? Uh, do you want it? This GM car seems to be pretty good.”

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On the morning of November 16, [-], Shanghai.

When Luo Yaoguo drove through the city of Shanghai, just like what he saw in Guangzhou last time, the economic prosperity of South China had arrived.The city is now full of construction sites, and it seems like every house on either side of the road has been torn down and rebuilt.

What surprised him even more was that Shanghai's "Pudong Development" was also advanced to the 20s.Counties such as Chuansha and Nanhui on the other side of the Huangpu River have also been included in Shanghai. A road and rail bridge has been erected on the upper reaches of the Huangpu River, and the railway has been laid along the Huangpu River to Gaoqiao Town, where There is a large pier under construction...

On the east bank of the Huangpu River, there are densely packed factories that have been built or are under construction, and on the periphery of these factories are large areas of slums!Those low, poor, dilapidated houses without any sanitary facilities are the residences of the proletarians who work in these factories. The vitality and cruelty of the capitalist system are fully displayed in this emerging industrial city.

At this time, the bustling pedestrians on the streets of Shanghai seem to be full of vitality. Even the "gravediggers" living in those slums are now happily welcoming their future.After all, the cruel capitalist system pays them much higher salaries than they can earn from farming in their hometown.At present, if an ordinary female textile worker works twelve hours a day and six days a week, her monthly salary is usually 30 yuan.In addition, you can get red envelopes at the end of the year, and your annual income is about [-] yuan in French currency.This income is much higher than that of small and medium landlords in the countryside, and there is no risk.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that there is basically no foreign warship in the Huangpu River now, unless it is a friendly visit to China.This is not because of the toughness of the national government, but because of the two huge coastal defense fortresses at Wusongkou, Taiwan and Chongming Island, which gradually showed their fangs. Now there are twenty 1-inch and [-]-inch caliber guns. The cannon has been placed there.Any unfriendly warship is likely to be smashed by them within [-] minute.

Zhang Jingjiang, the disabled mayor of Shanghai and a revolutionary sage, was wearing a woolen top hat and a well-made gown and mandarin jacket. He seemed to be sitting proudly beside Luo Yaoguo.He kept pointing at the buildings and construction sites outside the car window, and introduced all aspects of the city, just like a parent introducing his child with excellent grades to others.

"Supplementary text, now Shanghai is faintly the largest industrial and commercial city in the Far East! In addition, it is also the shipping center and financial center in the Far East. Especially this financial center is really worth mentioning. Since the National Government successfully implemented it in the 14th year of the Republic of China After the legal currency, those big banks in Shanghai have successfully transformed. From the original banknote issuance and silver money as the main business, they have transformed into modern banks with savings, credit exchange and securities trading as the main business. In particular, securities trading has developed the most rapidly. The Shanghai Stock Exchange was established. There are dozens of bonds and hundreds of company stocks, as well as bulk commodities such as oil, coal, cotton, flour, and rubber. The daily trading volume is tens of millions of yuan. The government’s stamp duty alone costs tens of thousands of yuan a day, and tens of millions in a year! In addition, the development of Shanghai’s cultural industry is also amazing. Now there are dozens of film companies, hundreds of newspapers and magazines... ..."

Zhang Jingjiang introduced his city excitedly, while Luo Yaoguo listened absent-mindedly.At this moment, his mind had already flown to the automobile factory he had just visited.Those Yankees are still very shrewd in business. As early as the end of [-], when the National Government unified South China and announced the withdrawal of tariff autonomy, they realized that South China would become one of the fastest growing regions in the world. Therefore, An investment plan was quickly made.

They are now able to assemble two types of trucks and one type of car in China, especially the one-ton Chevrolet-T truck that costs [-] French currency and is definitely the most suitable product for the current Chinese market.With this truck, the National Revolutionary Army should be able to try to motorize the infantry division.Of course, it is not possible to place an order right now. Maybe the Germans will have better products. It is better to wait until I return from Europe and the United States to make a decision.

In addition to the landing of trucks, there is also a breakthrough in oil.German experts have just discovered oil shale in Maoming, Guangdong, which is a major breakthrough, because the technical difficulty of extracting oil from oil shale is much lower than that of liquefying coal.In fact, human beings used industrialized means to exploit oil shale several years earlier than the utilization of oil.As early as 6, the shale oil industry in France started. However, the exploitation of oil shale is very troublesome and the cost is relatively high. Therefore, the development and utilization of oil shale in the world is relatively slow.However, the oil shale discovered in Maoming, Guangdong this time has a very high utilization value, and it is said that the recoverable reserves are as high as billions of tons!The oil content is [-]%. If it is developed on a large scale, millions of tons of shale oil (petroleum extracted from oil shale) can be obtained every year.

With such shale oil production, China should be able to maintain a fairly strong mechanized force and naval fleet in the next world war, right?The only problem is that Maoming is also located in the coastal area. If the Japanese know that there is oil they dream of, they will do everything to snatch it, right?It seems that the navy's investment still needs to be increased... It is really impossible to have sea without defense.

"Brother Fuwen, are all the iron mines under the jurisdiction of the national government under the management of the Armament Department?" Zhang Jingjiang suddenly raised his voice, pulling Luo Yaoguo out of his thoughts.

Luo Yaoguo nodded with a smile: "Does Mr. Jing want to build a steel factory? That iron ore mine? Even though we are all on our own, how can we stop Mr. Jing from making a fortune?"

In fact, not only iron mines, but also important strategic resources such as coal mines, copper mines, bauxite mines, and tungsten mines are all under the control of the Ministry of Armaments.Uh, the army was also sent to guard, and private digging and indiscriminate mining are strictly prohibited.Those things are treasures that will be used in the world war in the future. If they are not monopolized, what if some unscrupulous businessmen dig them up and sell them to Japan?

Zhang Jingjiang smiled lightly, and shook his hands: "It's not me. How can I open a steel factory with my worth? It's an American friend, Bethlehem Steel Company. You are a student in the United States, you should have heard of it? They are currently building a shipyard in Pudong , and want to open a steel plant in Nanjing to produce steel plates for shipbuilding, do you think it is possible to transfer the two iron mines in Nanjing to the Americans?"

Luo Yaoguo took a deep breath, and thought, "Bethlehem Steel Company seems to be the second largest steel company in the United States in this era, right? The steel production this year seems to be more than 1000 million tons! And the steel plates of this company seem to be pretty good. It also has more than a dozen shipyards, and built more than 1000 ships in World War II! If such a large company is allowed to come to China to open steel factories and shipyards...can it be used by me in the future?"

"Okay." Luo Yaoguo nodded emphatically: "I agree to this matter in principle, but the specific contract should be negotiated with their senior management when I visit Europe and the United States."

Chapter 0376 Take the road of capitalism ([-])

Luo Yaoguo was still wandering around Shanghai.Inside the Luo Yiqun Mansion in East Lake, Wuhan, there is a business deal going on.

Inside the flower hall, several cups of fragrant tea wafted the fragrance that only the best oolong tea can have.Luo Yiqun, Liao Zhongkai, Deng Yanda, Chen Shaokuan, and Zhang Naiqi sat in a circle, sipping tea and chatting about the big deal of cooperation between the two parties.At present, the history of China has really gone astray, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party actually put their lives on the line instead of revolution, and started business!And it's a big business about oil and coal development.

"Good! Good! Good! Your proposal is really great, and I, someone, raised my hands in favor!" Luo Yiqun stroked his newly grown goatee, nodded with a smile, and spoke with a strong Cantonese accent. , repeated sighs of emotion.

Liao Zhongkai smiled: "Brother Yichen, what's the use of just talking about it? The Communist Party is not necessarily willing to cooperate with us! We have thrown away the three major policies of uniting Russia, uniting the Communist Party, and assisting workers and peasants. They But still in a fit of anger."

Regarding this cooperation, Zhou Enlai had already made it clear to Liao Zhongkai, Zhang Naiqi and others in the letter that it must be proposed by the Kuomintang.It is impossible for the CCP to raise it right now, and this reason is naturally attributed to the KMT’s violation of the three major policies.So Liao Zhongkai's words are not false.

Hearing what he said, Chen Shaokuan, the Minister of the Navy who came with him, became a little impatient, and hurriedly shouted: "Yi Gong! Our navy cannot be without oil! If there is no oil, all our warships will have to lie down." It’s a nest. Mr. Yi, you must think of a way, if it really doesn’t work, even if you restore the three major policies?”

Luo Yiqun just pursed his lips and smiled, Liao Zhongkai also smiled lightly, and said softly: "General Houfu, just relax, friends in the CCP are not so unreasonable. The Mongolian incident has shown that they are all genuine Patriots, you won’t miss important national affairs because of a little personal grievance with some people in our party. It’s just... our party should also show sincerity, brother Yichen, don’t you think so?”

Having said that, it is already clear that the "energy cooperation" between the two parties will not be affected by the Kuomintang's violation of the three major policies.However, the Kuomintang must also give the CCP sufficient compensation in terms of economic interests, otherwise this matter may still fall through.

But Luo Yiqun still smiled and said nothing.This "energy cooperation" between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, if the CCP just wants to do business, it doesn't matter if Luo Yiqun says a few words.After all, the prices of oil and coal are subject to change. Just look at the transaction prices reported by the Shanghai Stock Exchange.But according to Liao Zhongkai's tone, it seems that this cooperation requires some additional benefits from the Kuomintang, which is not easy to handle.

In fact, he, the executive president, is not as powerful as the outside world imagined, but just the head of the clerk, and he is also supervised by various parties.Every major expenditure of the Executive Yuan must be budgeted in advance, and then repeatedly reviewed and approved by the Legislative Yuan and the Supervisory Yuan, and finally submitted to the National Government Chairman Hu Hanmin for signature.Although the Legislative Yuan and the Supervisory Yuan are also controlled by the Kuomintang, Hu Hanmin is also the chairman of the Kuomintang.But this Kuomintang is no different from the Communist Party, and it does not have the strict discipline that subordinates obey their superiors and the whole party obeys the Central Committee.Moreover, the current struggle within the party is smooth and drizzle, and no one knows how to write fearful words.A large number of veterans who rely on the old to sell the old have also been stuffed into the Legislative Yuan and the Supervisory Yuan. These talents will not buy the account of the Executive Premier who is not yet 40 years old!Even what Sun Yat-sen said, these people sometimes dare to contradict!

If the budget report on the extra benefits provided to the CCP is brought to the "two chambers" for deliberation, why should he, the executive director, be scolded on the street?After all, cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is a matter between the two parties. Even if the Kuomintang has done something wrong to the Communist Party, it has to pay compensation, so it shouldn't use government money?The party dues of the Kuomintang should be used, which is very clearly divided at the moment.