Republic of China game

"Of course! Comrade Stalin has already named the two battleships, and these two names fully reflect the friendship between the Soviet Union and Germany. The first ship of this battleship is named: Karl Marx; the second ship is named : Friedrich Engels."

Speaking of these two great names, Mukelevich's tone was full of reverence.According to Stalin's plan, the Soviet Union will also build several such battleships by itself, and they will all be named after the leaders of international communism, including the Lenin and Stalin...

"Uh, it really reflects the Soviet-German friendship." Gustav Krupp smiled awkwardly: "Then according to the convention, this class of battleship will be named the Karl Marx class! This will He is the overlord of the ocean in the future!"

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On the other side of the world, the dinner party at Hu Hanmin's house has also ended.The real rightists in China are sitting scattered in the living room of the Hu mansion, drinking the best green tea, and discussing the general trend of the world.

"Comrade Wang Zhaoming sent a telegram from Beijing, saying that Japanese Prime Minister Yuyuki Hamaguchi sent a special envoy to meet him inside. The Japanese seem to be willing to make friends with our Kuomintang, but we just hope that we will not blindly be pro-American and pro-German...especially Do not discriminate against Japan in terms of trade and investment, what do you think?"

It was Hu Hanmin who was speaking. He was leaning on a large sofa, holding a cup of fragrant green tea in his hand. There was no expression of joy or anger on his face, and he was just talking lightly.

"Then what is Comrade Wang Zhaoming's opinion?" Xu Chongzhi and Hu Hanmin sat face to face, with tired faces and yawning profusely.If Hu Hanmin's face was not too great at today's party, he would have returned home by now.

He understands the current situation of the Kuomintang, and the future will definitely be collective leadership.And he has the status of one of the "big five".Chiang Kai-shek needs him to be the head of the Cantonese faction in the army, otherwise the Cantonese in the National Revolutionary Army will all follow the lead of the uncle and nephew of the Luo family.Similarly, Luo Yaoguo also needed his big Buddha to contain Chiang Kai-shek and maintain the balance within the Kuomintang.Besides, the Kuomintang respects seniority and inferiority, so if Luo Yaoguo's younger generation commits crimes and kicks him out, I'm afraid they won't be able to win the hearts of the Cantonese generals.

Hu Hanmin adjusted his glasses, glanced at the slack-faced Xu Chongzhi, and complained in his heart... Now that there is a three-legged confrontation in the Kuomintang army, isn't it because you, the well-deserved boss, have no energy?Otherwise, where would it be for Chiang Kai-shek and Luo Yaoguo to jump up and down?

"Of course Wang Zhaoming is pro-Japanese. Now the Soviet Union is no longer pro-Japanese, so he can only be pro-Japanese." Zou Lu Yinyang replied angrily: "Why do those Japanese say that we discriminate against them in investment and trade? They are Yankees. If you have money, you spend a lot of money on investment, and the Germans have the technology to produce first-class products, and they are willing to teach us a little bit. What do they have in Japan?"

"There are geisha." Xu Chongzhi answered without thinking.The living room roared with laughter, and the strange uncles of the Kuomintang in this room still had a good impression of the little Japanese loli... There are not many Chinese in this era who like big white girls like Luo Yaoguo.

"Comrade Wang Zhaoming doesn't dare to ask for it." Hu Hanmin's words were serious, but it sounded like a joke no matter what.

When the people in the room had laughed enough, Hu Hanmin sighed softly, and said again: "I also know that these Japanese are not a thing, but the Zhang family in Manchuria was supported by them. We want to subdue others without fighting." If you are a soldier, you have to make a deal with them. This time the Japanese proposed to jointly establish the Pukou Iron and Steel Plant, do you think you can agree?"

"We promised...they are willing to give us Manchuria?" Zou Lu shook his head, asked himself and answered, "It is impossible for the Japanese to be so eloquent."

"They also want to peg the legal currency to the yen and join the so-called yen group. In this case...they will give up their support for Fengzhang, oh, but their special rights in Manchuria still have to be maintained. In addition, Japan is willing to cooperate with We, China, signed an alliance to jointly oppose the Soviet Union and the Communist Party!" Hu Hanmin's tone was full of hesitation.The requirements of the Japanese are indeed a bit harsh, but the temptation to unify China without a war is indeed not small.

"What! Join the Yen bloc? This is absolutely impossible! Mr. Zhan, have you forgotten? US Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, a billionaire, recently proposed the concept of a dollar bloc. Americans want our fiat currency to be decoupled from silver , and instead pegged it to the U.S. dollar to implement a fixed exchange rate to facilitate U.S. investment and trade with China. At most, if we offend Japan right now, there will be no way to unify, and most of the country will always be stable. If there is a conflict in the Soviet Union, who can support it? Maybe even the old nest in the south will be lost.”

Zou Lu shook his head as he spoke, it seemed that he... had embraced the thick legs of American imperialism!However, there is some truth to this. At present, the Japanese are relying on the U.S. imperialists for their oil and scrap iron supply. As long as the U.S. imperialists are willing to impose sanctions on Japan during the Sino-Japanese conflict, Japan will undoubtedly lose.

"Of course I haven't forgotten this... It's just that Manchuria is also very important!" Hu Hanmin sighed, and said again: "Right now, Yuyuki Hamaguchi of Japan really wants to live in harmony with us. If we can reach an alliance with Japan, And to unify China, the price should be worth it. What do you think?"

"Ah... well." Xu Chongzhi suddenly yawned and smiled: "Mr. Zhan, in my opinion, we are already half-buried, and it's good to be famous now. This kind of dealing with Japan It’s better for us to be less contaminated. Let the juniors do this kind of thing, it’s because of your good leadership, if something goes wrong, it’s someone else’s betrayal of the country.”

Hu Hanmin nodded: "It makes sense! Let Wang Zhaoming deal with Luo Yaoguo on this matter first...Let him fight Luo Yaoguo."

Before the words were finished, Zou Lu's voice suddenly sounded again: "Then shall we agree to the dollar bloc proposed by the Americans?"

Hu Hanmin smiled and waved his hands: "Let Liao Zhongkai, Wang Jingwei and Luo's uncles and nephews compete with each other!"

Chapter 0381 Take the road of capitalism (nine)

Northern Shaanxi, Yan'an.

In the past few days, good news can be said to have spread to this sacred place of the Chinese revolution one after another.

First of all, the "cold war" between Moscow and Yan'an is finally over.After the contact between the two parties was interrupted for many days, the red radio waves of the Comintern finally came from Moscow.Although the content is somewhat inexplicable, the instructions stated: "From now on, the labor movement led by the CCP must not target any German investment companies in China or Sino-German joint ventures. An investigation by the Communist Party." Monk Zhang Er was really puzzled... But, since it was requested by the Communist International and had special significance for the world revolution, it should be done accordingly.Anyway, those German companies did not have many labor disputes... Unlike Japanese-funded companies, the whole is a hotbed of labor movements!

Secondly, there is also good news from Wuhan. The Kuomintang leftists and patriotic national capitalists have raised a huge sum of about 600 million French currency, which is ready to be used for energy development projects in northern Shaanxi!Moreover, the Ministry of Communications of the Nationalist Government also approved the railway construction plan from Xi'an to Luochuan. The CCP only needs to build more than 100 kilometers of railway from Yan'an to Luochuan.

The third piece of good news came from Kulun, Mongolia.The traitor Wang Zhongyi decided to send Ye Ting, Cai Tingkai, Hou Jingru and others to lead an East Route Army back to Daxing'an Mountains to join forces with the Northeast Front Army led by Zhang Guotao!The Northeast Front Army originally planned to go to the pass, but the "Hairar Incident" that now looks suspicious happened, so it moved to the Daxing'anling to open up a base area.Now, Wang Zhongyi organized the group of loyal communists in the Mongolian Front Army into the Eastern Route Army and sent them to the Northeast. In any case, it can be regarded as saving a considerable part of the revolutionary force, which will only benefit the party's revolutionary cause in the future.

Of course, besides the good news, it seems... there is also a little bit of bad news!The bad news is that the Kuomintang reactionaries are finally going to "traitor the country"!Comrade Deng Xixian, who was temporarily in charge of the work of the Southern Bureau, sent an urgent telegram, informing that the Kuomintang Rightists were now secretly negotiating "traitorous conditions" with Japanese imperialism and US imperialism!

The current situation is that Wang Jingwei, a rightist of the Kuomintang, is in secret contact with the Japanese side; he is trying to use "coincidence with Japan" and "China-Japan economic cooperation" as conditions in exchange for Japan's support for the Kuomintang's annexation of the Feng Faction and the conclusion of an anti-Soviet alliance!Of course there must be anti-Communist...

At the same time, there was another group of Kuomintang rightists who wanted to defect to the United States.They are preparing to respond to the US government's "Dollar Group" proposal to delink fiat currency from silver and link it to the US dollar!To facilitate US investment in China and Sino-US trade.What's even more frenzied is that these rightists also plan to sell 50% of the silver stored in the major banks in the training area to the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States in exchange for a large amount of US dollar cash!In return, the U.S. government will provide the national government with a low-interest loan of [-] million U.S. dollars to help stabilize the credit of the legal currency.

Uh, it seems that some of the legal currency issued by the national government has become unstable during this period of time!This should be a signal that the Kuomintang rule is about to go wrong, so this news is not entirely bad.

In a certain cave at the foot of Wangjialing, several bigwigs from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China were sitting scatteredly.While drinking tea and smoking a cigarette, they expressed their opinions and discussed the latest changes in the current domestic situation in China, mainly discussing the economic situation in the training area of ​​the Nationalist Government.In fact, Marxism is essentially economics, so Marxists are all economists, and it is naturally not difficult for them to analyze the root causes of the economic problems in the current national government training area.

"Comrades, the inflation and instability of the legal currency in the so-called 'training districts' under the rule of the Nationalist government should be very beneficial to our party! The system’s policy of relying on British and American imperialism has reached the brink of bankruptcy! It also proves that the capitalist system is not suitable for China’s national conditions. Only the Communist Party and the socialist system can save China and the Chinese economy that is increasingly falling into collapse! "

The person who made such an analysis was Wang Ming, the new Secretary of the Southern Bureau who had just become an alternate member of the Politburo.He picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and said with a smile: "According to the statistics of the major banks in the training area, since the full implementation of legal currency in southern China, its exchange rate against the US dollar has been falling all the way! It has been from the very beginning. Three to one, down to the current 16 to 5! It has fallen by more than 50% in three years! As a result, the people in the training area have suffered heavy losses. As for the inflation in the training area, it has been rising all the way. It is higher than 20% every year, which is already on the verge of hyperinflation! And it is particularly worth noting that in the past three years, the price of food in the political training area has been rising steadily. It has increased by as much as 30%! A load of 16 catties of flour only cost [-] silver dollars three years ago, but now it is as high as [-] French dollars! People’s lives are in dire straits. In addition, according to the announcement of According to the statistics, the trade deficit in the so-called political training area has been in deficit year after year for three years, and there is a trend of more than one year! The trade deficit in the coming [-] years of the Republic of China may be as high as [-] million U.S. dollars! Comrades! That's equivalent to [-] billion French currency! It's really shocking, if things go on like this, our Chinese wealth will be wiped out by these traitors!"

Mao Zedong slapped the table and snorted: "This Sun Yat-sen doesn't know how to control them. It's so amazing if it goes on like this!" Speaking of which, the worried leader sighed deeply, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and wiped it. A match was lit, the cigarette was lit, and the smoke was smoked.As a patriot, the most painful thing is to see one's motherland sink and be powerless.The situation in China right now... maybe that's it?

"I think our party should consider redefining the characterization of the Kuomintang right wing." Luo Fu, who attended the meeting, saw a serious expression on his face: "The current situation has shown that the Kuomintang right wing does not represent the interests of the national bourgeoisie in China, but It represents the bourgeois interests of imperialism and compradors. Therefore, the Kuomintang under the leadership of the right is not a political party of the national bourgeoisie, but a lackey of the comprador bourgeoisie! The national bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie and proletariat Similarly, in China at present, they are all revolutionary and progressive oppressed classes. It is the progressive force that tends to our party. The establishment of the Northern Shaanxi Energy Company has won the support of the national bourgeoisie, which just proves from the side over that."

Zhou Enlai also smiled: "Comrade Luo Fu's words are exactly what I want. At present, our party only pays attention to the peasant movement and the labor movement, and does not pay enough attention to the national bourgeoisie and intellectuals. Therefore, I suggest that our party should focus on carrying out research on The united front work of the national bourgeoisie is to win over to our side this progressive force oppressed by imperialism and the Kuomintang reactionaries!"

"Oh, Enlai just mentioned the peasant movement. I remembered that there is another piece of news that Comrade Xixian just sent back, saying that the leftists of the Kuomintang are now preparing to carry out land reform in Henan Province! They plan to spend four years and spend a lot of money. The [-] million French currency will completely resolve the land conflict in Henan... Comrades, what do you think of this news?" Li Lisan, the leader of the Communist Party of China who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke. Forgot something important.It seems that the position of the central leader should not be...

"Land reform! The Kuomintang is also planning land reform!" Mao Zedong's face suddenly darkened. This news is as important as it can be said!If the tiger has learned how to climb a tree from a cat, what should the cat do?

"Hey! What is there to worry about! Their economy is about to collapse, so why not do land reform?" I don't know who suddenly reminded me, the atmosphere in the cave was active again, and everyone expressed their opinions and plans. So what should the CCP do after the economic collapse of the political training area?

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Most of China under the rule of the Nationalist Government is indeed experiencing some economic problems right now!The root of this economic problem is actually Luo Yaoguo.Uh, this Luo Yaoguo traveled to this parallel world by chance and coincidence, and flapped his butterfly wings to change history randomly... But he doesn't know any super technology at all, and he doesn't have any way to change money.There are only some institutions confirmed by the great powers and later by the "Asian Miracle".And these systems obviously gave birth to certain "investment bubbles" during the prosperous period of the world economy in the late 20s.

More than a dozen provinces in southern China were ruled by the National Government.Tariffs were successfully recovered, social stability was restored, the chaotic currency system was reformed, finances were rebuilt, compulsory education was implemented, and investment was actively attracted. At the same time, the government also increased infrastructure construction.

All these have finally turned the ancient China into a hot spot for international capital investment!In just three years, the inflow of foreign capital, including overseas Chinese, exceeded one billion U.S. dollars!After the massive inflow of investment, countless new projects have also caused China to have a huge trade deficit in the short term.Because of the need to build factories and infrastructure, it is natural to import a large amount of equipment and raw materials, and there is no way to follow up with exports in the short term... The trade deficit will naturally rise steadily!At the same time, these projects need to employ a lot of labor and pay a lot of wages, so the prices will definitely rise.Coupled with the unrestrained issuance of legal currency by the central bank of the national government in order to absorb the foreign exchange invested in China, the banking industry in southern China issued a large amount of loans for these projects, thereby improving the turnover efficiency of funds.It all adds up to a massive trade deficit plus inflation.

In order to increase exports and curb unnecessary imports, the Central Bank of the Nationalist Government took the initiative to lower the price of legal currency for silver. As a result, the willingness of the people to hold U.S. dollars and silver dollars has greatly increased!The national government's foreign exchange reserves decreased a lot for a while.Under such circumstances, U.S. imperialism, seeing an opportunity to take advantage of it, proposed a so-called "dollar bloc" to help China.They want to link the fiat currency, which always jumps up and down with silver, to the US dollar, so as to facilitate their trade and investment with China.And this move was naturally welcomed by the pro-American faction in the Kuomintang, and of course many people opposed it...

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On December 16, 24, in the Wuhan office of Northern Shaanxi Energy Co., Ltd.A special "board meeting" is being held.In the meeting room, the aroma of high-quality green tea and a bit choking smoke wafted.

"Mr. Liao, the Party Central Committee would like to hear your views on the current KMT's rightist economic policy and the corresponding measures we will take."

The person who spoke was a somewhat delicate-looking young man with a tall, pointed nose full of aura, giving people a clever and intelligent impression.This person's name is Chen Yi, who was originally in charge of the labor movement in Shanghai. He has just arrived in Wuhan in the past few days to take over from Deng Xixian, who is about to return to Yan'an, to preside over the establishment of Shaanxi North Energy Co., Ltd.Of course, there is also the united front against the Kuomintang leftists and patriotic capitalists.

Hearing Chen Yi say "economic policy" instead of "traitorous policy", Liao Zhongkai was slightly taken aback, a trace of surprise slipped across his face.In my heart, I feel a little more fond of the young communist in front of me.In fact, this time the Kuomintang rightists proposed to join the "dollar bloc" in exchange for low-interest loans from the United States to stabilize the legal currency. The leftists of the Kuomintang do not object to it in their hearts...they are more or less British and American If it hadn’t been for the gunshots of the October Revolution, they would be all vicious “pro-American factions” in custody now.

"Hehe, what's there to say about their economic policies, they just sell China's resources and cheap labor in exchange for investment from the British and American imperialists." At this time, Zhang Naiqi answered Chen Yi's question first. He thought for a while, and then said: " Their wishful thinking is to complete China's industrialization by attracting foreign capital and technology. This, hehe...just wishful thinking!"

"How to say..."

Liao Zhongkai suddenly raised his head, looking worriedly at Zhang Naiqi who had just finished speaking.

Zhang Naiqi sneered: "In the final analysis, the imperialist investment in China is to plunder our wealth and resources and exploit our people. But the Nationalist government is now willing to open the country to welcome them. It is really more traitorous and depraved than the Manchu Qing Dynasty." Liao Gong, think about it, what kind of strength are the big imperialist companies at present? And what is our national capital like? If we put the two in the same market and let them compete freely , What will be the result in the end? The Empress Dowager Cixi knows such a simple truth, but the rightists of the Kuomintang don’t know it? The president is also the same, why..."

Seeing Liao Zhongkai's slightly gloomy and cold face, Zhang Naiqi shut up immediately knowingly.The Kuomintang leftists are the Kuomintang after all, so it is okay to scold Hu Hanmin and Chiang Kai-shek in front of them, but if you say that Sun Yat-sen is not... then it is a taboo!This Zhang Naiqi is very straightforward.

"Then now, between the dollar group and the yen group, how should we leftists choose?" Liao Zhongkai frowned and asked again.

Zhang Naiqi sighed deeply: "Of course the best choice is to neither join the dollar bloc nor the yen bloc, but to restore the silver dollar to curb the tendency of the national government to issue paper money indiscriminately. Because the US imperialism and Japanese imperialism are both Imperialism, their essence is the same, they all want to plunder us, but the means are different. The United States is relatively milder and conceals it better. For example, they transferred their rights and interests in the Shanghai Concession to The Nationalist Government, in the "Guangzhou Secret Treaty", supported us to restore our tariff independence, and provided a large amount of loans. Now it is willing to borrow another [-] million US dollars to help the Nationalist Government stabilize the legal currency. But look at the US capitalists in China in the past three years. From the investment situation, we know that they are actually on the same level as Japan. Now in China, the southeast coast has become the world of American capital, while South China is divided by the United States and Germany. Our national bourgeoisie can only survive in the cracks. If If you join the Dollar Group..."

"...In addition, I have another worry. Once we join the dollar group, Japan will never let it go! Compared with the United States, Japan is a naked imperialist aggressive country. Their domestic economic foundation is weak and resources are poor. The population density is large. The reason why this country can develop is completely by aggression and expansion, especially the aggression against our country. They actually regard China as 'Japan's India' long ago! If we once joined the dollar bloc If so...with Japan's current military superiority in the Western Pacific, the United States may not be able to defeat it."