I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

The Third Military Region, jurisdiction: Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, Anhui Province;

Fourth Military Region, Jurisdiction: Fujian Province, Guangdong Province;

Fifth Military Region, Jurisdiction: Shandong Province;

The Sixth Military Region, jurisdiction: Henan Province, Shaanxi Province;

Seventh Military Region, jurisdiction: Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Jiangxi Province;

The above 14 provinces were the substantive control areas of the national government at this time, and the Japanese-occupied areas and areas controlled by local warlords were not among them.

Jiang Weiguo's Shandong and Jin provinces belong to the Fifth and Second Military Regions, and the commanders of the military regions are naturally his people, because the troops in the military region are all his Nanjing Army.

After making arrangements for Jiang Jingguo and others, Jiang Weiguo couldn't wait to meet Bowman alone.

Bowman looked refreshed, which is not surprising, because Nazi Germany is thriving, thriving, and its national strength is increasing day by day.

When China and Japan were fighting each other, Hitler was not idle in Europe, and was also busy expanding.

First of all, Hitler ordered the German army to march into the Rhine Demilitarized Zone, making this area that belonged to Germany but Germany could not garrison it truly become German territory. In March of this year (1938), Hitler completed the German-Austrian merger without bloodshed Let Austria become part of Germany. At the end of last month (September), Hitler succeeded in getting the three countries of Britain, France and Italy to sign the "Munich Agreement" and annexed the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia (Jiang Weiguo knew it well, in March next year, Hitler would annex the entire territory of Czechoslovakia), these military and political adventures and successes not only made Germany's national power continue to expand, but also made Hitler's prestige, influence, and love and admiration by the German people rise together.

Jiang Weiguo knew that Hitler was about to launch a world war. In the original history, Germany blitzed Poland on September 1939 next year (9), that is to say, it was only one year.

Hitler, who was about to start a world war, urgently needed several powerful allies for Germany. For this reason, he tried his best to mediate the Sino-Japanese war, hoping to turn both China and Japan into Germany's allies. Forces intervened in the Spanish Civil War, mobilized several elite German troops to participate in the Spanish Civil War in the name of volunteers, and "hanged on" in the Spanish capital Madrid, preparing to control the new Spanish regime after the Spanish Civil War.

Right now, China and Japan have negotiated a peace and armistice, and Hitler was overjoyed. He sent Bowman with an obvious purpose: to fully assist China, support China's revival, and make China stronger as soon as possible.

Jiang Weiguo talked with Borman for more than an hour, and the final result made him both happy and worried. The happy thing is that Hitler was quite generous and promised to lend China [-] million U.S. dollars every year for the next five years (in Hitler’s plan, China It needs to be developed for five years, but Jiang Weiguo is very sure that Hitler underestimated the pace of the war he launched himself), as for the assistance in machinery, equipment, technology and technical personnel, Hitler is also generous and generous. The worry is: Hitler's aid was not given in vain, he wanted to train China to become Germany's war assistant, and his fundamental purpose was to tie China to Germany's chariot.

Borman conveyed Hitler’s meaning to Jiang Weiguo: If Germany goes to war with the Soviet Union, China (and Japan) must attack the rear of the Soviet Union’s Far East; if Germany goes to war with Britain and France, China (and Japan) must attack the Far East colonies of Britain and France to assist Germany, Win the war.

Hitler couldn't wait to plan for Germany, China, Japan, and Italy to conclude a war alliance and truly form a war camp.

According to Hitler's suggestion, he hoped that the leaders of Germany, China, Japan, and Italy could gather together for a "congress".

Jiang Weiguo knew that Hitler was indeed helping China with good intentions, but after all, Hitler was the head of state of Germany, and everything Hitler did served the interests of Germany.

To put it bluntly, although Hitler's aid is extremely generous, it cannot be taken lightly. Once it is taken, China will be in the same trench as Germany.

Of course, Jiang Weiguo can be a little shameless, take advantage of Hitler but not do things for Hitler, abandon Germany, and betray Germany.

Jiang Weiguo is currently facing a very important problem, and this problem is also facing China right now:

After the Sino-Japanese peace talks and armistice, China has gained precious breathing time, and will build and develop well with the full help of Germany. What's next?Is China faithfully fighting a world war with Germany and Japan?Or keep their promises, resume the Sino-Japanese War, and fight Japan to the end?At that time, Germany started a world war in Europe, and China resumed war against Japan in the East.

This issue is very important, and it has to make Jiang Weiguo very upset.

More than that, this question also leads to a new and important question, that is: if Japan becomes an ally of China, whether Jiang Weiguo should use his unique vision and thinking of "beyond history" to give the Japanese "far-sighted guidance" "?

Germany is ready to assist China with all its strength, and at the same time, it will also assist Japan to a certain extent to help China and Japan develop their economies, build industries and armies, so that China and Japan can become Germany's capable helpers in fighting the world war. According to the German military plan, China's assistance in Germany Japan built a powerful army with the help of Germany, and Japan built a powerful navy with the assistance of Germany.

China fought wars for Germany on land, and Japan fought wars for Germany on seas.

Then, here comes the problem: Jiang Weiguo knows that the naval battle of World War II was based on the aircraft carrier as the core and decisive force. Right now, the Japanese are spending huge amounts of money and precious time on the construction of the battleship Yamato and the second battleship of Yamato, which are useless. The No. 1940 ship, Musashi, also intends to build No. 11 ship (Shinano, which was later changed to an aircraft carrier by the Japanese in the Pacific War), No. [-] ship (the ship started construction in November [-], and stopped working one year later. Disintegrated), more than that, the Japanese even planned to build a larger "reformed Yamato" battleship and a "Super Yamato" battleship that surpassed the "reformed Yamato" battleship after the Yamato-class battleship.

Needless to say, the crazy Japanese battleship building is completely idiotic, the financial resources to build 1 Yamato-class battleship can build 3000 aircraft, or, the financial resources to build 1 Yamato-class battleship can build 3 Soryu-class medium-sized aircraft carriers or 1.6 ships Xianghe-class medium-sized aircraft carrier.

In later generations, some scholars once calculated that if the Japanese did not build Yamato-class battleships before the Pacific War, but concentrated their financial resources and time to build aircraft carriers, then when the Pacific War broke out, the Japanese Navy would have 16 aircraft carriers, which would be a huge threat to the U.S. military. Form an overwhelming advantage (in the original history, the Japanese Navy only had 8 aircraft carriers when the Pacific War broke out).

Does Jiang Weiguo want to correct the major mistakes of the Japanese in the development of the navy?Originally, Jiang Weiguo was eager for the idiot behavior of the Japanese to build battleships, but history has changed. Japan may become China's war ally (it must be temporary, and China and Japan will fight again sooner or later), if Jiang Weiguo is still gloating Watching the Japanese continue to be stupid will inevitably damage China's interests in the end.

Do you want to "guidance" the Japanese navy?Jiang Weiguo was very hesitant about this matter.

Moreover, this matter cannot be delayed, once it is delayed, precious time will be wasted.

The Japanese have limited resources, limited funds, and most importantly, time is even more limited. If the time spent on building aircraft carriers is used by the Japanese to build battleships, this waste of time cannot be made up for anyway.

Although he hesitated, Hitler sent money to Jiang Weiguo anyway, so that many of his things that he couldn't start with could be solved easily.

Jiang Weiguo definitely wanted to manage the two provinces of Shandong and Shanxi well, led by Baiyenong, agriculture is the foundation of everything, if agriculture is not well developed, industry and so on are useless, after all, the premise of doing anything is to have a full stomach.

Jiang Weiguo sent people to make careful statistics. The total area of ​​the two provinces of Shandong and Jin is about 30 square kilometers. Among the two provinces, Shandong has more conditions to become an agricultural base than Shanxi, because the mountains and hills in Shandong are less than 30%, and the plains, depressions, lakes and swamps As high as 60%, while the mountains and hills in Shanxi are as high as 80%, and the soil quality in Shandong is very good, while the soil in Shanxi is relatively barren loess. In later generations, Shandong’s grain production ranks third among all provinces in the country, Shanxi Only No.18, Shanxi's grain production is 29% of Shandong's.

Jiang Weiguo had already had a plan in mind, and if he wanted to build a thriving and prosperous agriculture, land reform was the first necessary step.

In addition, almost all grassroots people in China are farmers, and farmers account for a very high proportion of the national population. At this time, there are more than 5200 million farmers out of a population of more than 5000 million in the two provinces of Shandong and Jin. The land reform is to liberate productivity, promote productivity, and develop agriculture. On the one hand, it is to win the support of the grassroots. Don’t you see, since ancient times, the vast majority of grassroots people in China have been eager to own their own land, and even put their heads on their waistbands to rebel.

In order to do a good job in the land reform in Shandong and Jin provinces, Jiang Weiguo invited Dong Shijin, Zhang Xinyi, Ma Yinchu, Liu Dajun, He Lian, Fang Xianting, Chen Daisun and a group of outstanding agronomists and economists in China at this time with a humble attitude of respecting the virtuous corporals and paying attention to the thatched cottage. When they came to Lujin to help make suggestions and formulate the outline of land reform, the experts all admired Jiang Weiguo's "feat" of land reform and gave them full support.

Jiang Weiguo's land reform must have been "very moderate."

In later generations, there were two kinds of land reform in China, one was land reform in mainland China, and the other was land reform in Taiwan. No one died, no one fought, it was Chen Cheng who presided over it.

There are four main reasons why Chen Cheng's land reform in Taiwan was very successful in the past. First, the resistance is relatively small, because before Taiwan's recovery, the rich and powerful were basically Japanese. After Japan surrendered, these people They went back to Japan, and the KMT personnel who moved to Taiwan had no interest in Taiwan; second, Chiang Kai-shek brought a large amount of capital and gold to Taiwan from the mainland at that time, and thus had important "start-up funds"; third, the Japanese had been operating Taiwan for 50 years Fourth, Chiang Kai-shek knew that Taiwan was his last place to settle down and had to make up his mind, so he gave Chen Cheng the utmost support, and Chen Cheng himself had clear principles and unswervingly promoted land reform.

It is worth mentioning that the Kuomintang also tried to carry out land reform when it was in control of the mainland, but it failed in the end. There are two main reasons. One is that the society is too turbulent. Second, a large number of high-ranking officials in the Kuomintang and the National Government are big landlords, and the land reform will seriously touch their vital interests, so they obstructed it in every possible way and created great resistance. This is like Chiang Kai-shek's anti-corruption. Corruption has gone to the bone.” Anti-corruption is tantamount to cutting one’s own flesh. The same is true for Chiang Kai-shek’s land reform. The Kuomintang itself is the largest landlord organization in China. How can it do it?

Jiang Weiguo carried out land reform in the two provinces of Shandong and Jin, and the process went very smoothly because he had excellent conditions.

Jiang Weiguo wanted to "thank" the Japanese in his heart. Because the Japanese invaded and occupied Shandong and Shanxi, many local snakes in these two provinces were wiped out by the Japanese. The two largest local snakes, Han Fuju and Yan Xishan, were killed. The elimination made the landlords in the two provinces very weak. In addition, Jiang Weiguo did not deal with those landlords "hands-on".

Jiang Weiguo's land reform, first, there is not much resistance, second, he has money and "start-up funds", third, his background is the most powerful in the country, and his strength is super strong. Some troublesome things are the need to make good statistics on the land data of the two provinces of Shandong and Jin.

According to statistics, the existing crop planting area in Shandong Province exceeds 7400 million mu, the existing crop planting area in Shanxi Province is about 2800 million mu, and the crop planting area in the two provinces exceeds 1 million mu. However, the population is less than 8% of the rural population of the two provinces. Landlords own more than 75% of the arable land, while 90% of farmers have less than 25% of the arable land. There are tens of millions of rural people who are tenant farmers and farm laborers without land. More than 50%, some even as high as 80%. Obviously, this situation has not only led to serious uneven distribution of land, but also led to a large number of agricultural products that should belong to the country being obtained by the landlords, which has damaged the interests of the country.

If this is solved, the government’s revenue will also increase greatly, because there will be no landlords between the farmers and the government, and the farmers’ land harvests will be directly paid to the government in accordance with the national law, thus eliminating the heavy and harsh rents paid to the landlords in the past.

Without the landlords exploiting and deducting "between the government and the peasants", the enthusiasm of the peasants for production will naturally be greatly enhanced, and agriculture will inevitably develop rapidly. While enabling the peasants to stand up and be liberated, it will also greatly fill the government's finances.

Jiang Weiguo’s land reform was divided into three stages. The first was to reduce rents. It was strictly stipulated that landlords should not collect more than one-third of the total harvest or 33.3% of the land rent from tenants and farm laborers. Therefore, on the premise of recognizing the landlord’s private land rights The ownership and use rights of land are separated, the interests of tenant farmers and farm laborers are guaranteed, and the dependence of landlords on land is weakened; the second is the release of public land, which distributes land in the hands of the government to tenant farmers and farm laborers who do not have land, allowing them to obtain their own Land, to become a real farmer, of course, is not given for free, it has to be bought with money. Considering that the tenants and hired farmers do not have enough money, the tenants and hired farmers are allowed to pay land rent to the government for several consecutive years to obtain land ownership; the third It is land redistribution, the government uses funds to buy land from landlords and encourages landlords to invest in industry and commerce, or gives landlords IOUs and allows them to obtain stocks of factories and enterprises run by the government, so that they can be converted from landlords to owners of industrial and commercial property rights, so as not to damage The interests of the landlords, while stimulating and promoting the industrial and commercial development of Lu Jin.

Generally speaking, Jiang Weiguo's land reform was very moderate, "do not seize the land of landlords and rich peasants by violent means, do not rob the rich and give to the poor", and strive to "make tenants and hired farmers who have no land become farmers, let landlords transform into entrepreneurs, and do not violate the landowners. private property ownership", safeguarding private property rights and free trade.

Jiang Weiguo's land reform was called "bloodless", but in fact there must have been bloodshed during the period, but not much.

After the land reform was formally carried out, many bully landlords and local tyrants and evil gentry in Shandong and Jin provinces who were unwilling to lose their land or income carried out various boycotts and rebellions. To resist the government, Jiang Weiguo's countermeasure for this is to "be polite first and then fight."

Within half a year, Jiang Weiguo mobilized the Nanjing Army to quell more than 200 incidents of resistance to land reform in the two provinces of Shandong and Jin, and executed more than 500 bully landlords, local tyrants and evil gentry and their servants who violated the national law and committed heinous crimes. implemented smoothly and thoroughly.

By the end of 1938, Jiang Weiguo's land reform in the two provinces of Shandong and Jin was completely on the right track. In just two years, more than 2000 million mu of land in the two provinces of Shandong and Jin had been legally reclaimed by the government, allowing more than 200 million farmers to obtain The land benefited more than 1000 million people. At the same time, according to Jiang Weiguo's request, the provincial governments of Shandong and Shanxi organized a large number of landless tenant farmers and hired farmers to reclaim wasteland, increasing several million acres of arable land and allowing hundreds of thousands of farmers to obtain land.

In the end, Jiang Weiguo's land reform achieved great success, which not only greatly promoted the agricultural development, industrial and commercial development, and government fiscal revenue of the two provinces of Shandong and Jin, but also allowed him to gain great popularity and support from the people, and won the hearts of the people. .

A large number of Lu and Jin people who were full of love and respect for Jiang Weiguo no longer called Jiang Weiguo "Second Young Master", but called Jiang Weiguo "Mr. Jiang Xiaoer" or "Mr. Weiguo".

Of course, Jiang Weiguo invested more than 1 million U.S. dollars in this land reform movement, which can be regarded as a lot of money, but he did get rich returns.

After the problems of agriculture and peasants were perfectly solved, Jiang Weiguo had a firm foothold in the two provinces of Shandong and Jin, and his great cause was basically guaranteed.

Agriculture was just the beginning. At the same time, Jiang Weiguo worked hard to build and develop the industry and commerce of Lu and Jin.

Section 382 Construction and development (2)

If agriculture is the foundation of the country, then industry is the backbone of the country.

When China and Japan negotiated a peace and armistice, the Japanese were forced to "give up" another province or city, allowing the government to make a choice, whether to want Shanxi Province or Shanghai City.

Originally, a considerable number of high-level government officials planned to want Shanghai, because Shanghai is the largest port in China and the financial center of the Far East. In addition, Shanghai is only about [-] kilometers away from Nanjing. Back, was threatened by the Japanese force, but Jiang Weiguo resisted all opinions and firmly chose Shanxi instead of Shanghai. There is no other reason. Shanghai is important and has too many advantages, but Shanxi is more important. Shanxi It can become China's resource base and heavy industry base. China that lost Northeast China really can't lose Shanxi anymore.

China must have a certain scale of heavy industry, so China must have Shanxi.

In the two provinces of Shandong and Jin in Jiang Weiguo's hands, Shandong is fertile, densely populated, facing the sea on both sides, and has many ports, so it can vigorously develop agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, maritime trade, and light industry. Of course, Shandong's natural resources are also very rich. It is rich, so it can develop a certain amount of heavy industry, but the richness of resources in Shanxi is much higher than that of Shandong, so Shanxi is Jiang Weiguo's heavy industry base.

After expelling the Japanese and Yan Xishan, Jiang Weiguo got Shanxi, and he felt like he had found a treasure, because Shanxi is really "treasures everywhere".

As we all know, what is Shanxi called?The hometown of Ugin!The land of coal and iron!In later generations, when Shanxi was mentioned, what came to Chinese minds was the rich and filthy Shanxi coal boss.

Except for the Northeast, Shanxi is the only place that can be called the resource industry base of China.

Jiang Weiguo has worked hard to develop China's modern heavy industry, and the foundation of industry is naturally resources. Now that he has Shanxi, a huge treasure house of resources, it is no different for Jiang Weiguo.

"Obtaining Shanxi is no less than obtaining one hundred tons of gold!" Jiang Weiguo was delighted from ear to ear.

In order to obtain Shanxi, Jiang Weiguo used all means to prevent Yan Xishan from returning to Shanxi, and even secretly spent money to hire the Japanese army to stop the Jin army. It is unscrupulous.

Shanxi is extremely rich in mineral resources, among which coal, aluminum ore and iron ore are the most important.

The province is endowed with unique coal resources, covering 111 of the 85 counties in the province.

It is no exaggeration to say that almost all counties in Shanxi Province have coal, and there are more than 6000 coal mines in various places. The province's coal reserves are as high as 2700 billion tons, accounting for one-third of China's total. The most valuable is , Shanxi not only has very large coal reserves, but also has a complete variety, high quality, low ash, low phosphorus, and high calorie. These high-quality characteristics are unmatched by coal mines in other parts of the country.

In addition, Shanxi's coal is not only suitable for various industrial production needs, but also has thick coal seams and shallow burial, which is very conducive to large-scale mechanized mining.

In addition to coal, Shanxi is also rich in aluminum, iron ore, copper ore and other resources. Aluminum ore reserves exceed 14 billion tons. You must know that aluminum is an essential material for manufacturing aircraft.

Historically, during the six years of occupation of Shanxi by the Japanese, they crazily plundered this treasure land of resources that absolutely did not exist in Japan. Hundreds of millions of tons of high-quality coal were excavated by the Japanese army and transported to Japan. Because there was too much coal, The Japanese did not have time to complete the procedures of excavation, transportation, and hoarding, and directly sank the coal plundered from Shanxi into the seabed near the Japanese mainland, resulting in the artificial seabed coal fields on the extended seabed of many ports in Japan. Near every large coal yard, there are mass graves.

The Japanese army forced Chinese civilians to work as laborers to dig coal around the clock. Due to the high intensity of work and the extremely poor health care and accommodation conditions, a large number of Chinese laborers died of exhaustion, illness, freezing, starvation or torture, and countless corpses were thrown away Near the coal yard, a mass grave with many bones was formed.

The Japanese occupation of Shanxi is no different from the robbers entering the Ali Baba Cave.

Such a rich and important mineral treasure land is now in the hands of Jiang Weiguo. Jiang Weiguo naturally wants to firmly control it and build it into his own modern industrial base.

In fact, before Jiang Weiguo, Yan Xishan had already created a large-scale modern industrial system in Shanxi, including mining, metallurgy, coal mining, power generation, machinery, chemical industry, military industry, cement, leather, wool spinning, papermaking, cigarettes, etc. , matches, railways, salt industry, banking and other light and heavy industries, the total assets reached 2 million silver dollars, the large scale, small investment, fast speed, high efficiency, among the best in the country, greatly enhanced Yan Xishan's reputation Strength and power, it should be admitted that Yan Xishan had great achievements and political achievements in governing Jin (Yan Xishan was originally from Shanxi, and Shanxi was his hometown and the base of warlords, he must be wholeheartedly governing Shanxi), which made Shanxi Province obtain " The honorary title of "Model Province", and the enrollment rate of Shanxi children is as high as 80%, which is very advanced in the world.

Yan Xishan has indeed brought great prosperity to the people of Shanxi. He has developed Shanxi's industry, agriculture, commerce and other industries in an orderly manner, making Shanxi's society stable, and various production tasks have developed and improved by a large margin. Industry, education, The military and other aspects have also formed a system and scale. This achievement is indeed remarkable.

However, after the Anti-Japanese War, Yan Xishan's system had been smashed to pieces by the Japanese, and it happened to be inherited by Jiang Weiguo and rebuilt, expanded, and developed.

Jiang Weiguo is not only a soldier, but also a powerful businessman. At this time, he controls the six major companies in China, namely: Eastern Airlines (Jiang Weiguo is the chairman, Song Meiling is the general manager), Liupanshui Coal Company (Jiang Weiguo is the director President, Zhu Jiahua is the general manager), Panzhihua Iron and Steel Company (Jiang Weiguo is the chairman, Zhu Jiahua is the general manager), China Petroleum Corporation (Jiang Weiguo is the chairman, Zhu Jiahua is the general manager), and Zhongwei Shipping Company (Jiang Weiguo is the director and major shareholder , the general manager is Chen Shuntong), Minsheng Shipping Company (Jiang Weiguo is a sensible and major shareholder, and the general manager is Lu Zuofu).

After embarking on this large-scale construction and development, Jiang Weiguo invested no less than [-] million U.S. dollars in reorganization and expansion of the six major companies under his control.

First of all, Jiang Weiguo successively imported hundreds of Junkers transport planes from Germany, half of which went to the Air Force and half to Eastern Airlines, which greatly strengthened the strength of Eastern Airlines, which made Eastern Airlines completely defeat and annex China. The two major airlines: China Airlines, a Sino-US joint venture, and Central Airlines, a Sino-German joint venture, have become the only giants monopolizing and dominating China's private air transport industry at this time.

In fact, Jiang Weiguo’s Eastern Airlines has a very strong military background and is completely in cooperation with the Chinese Air Force. The company does not have the ability to build airports by itself, so the airports used are all owned by the Chinese Air Force. The Chinese Air Force has a total of 17 large Airports, scattered in 14 provinces in the Kuomintang-controlled area at this time: Taiyuan, Jinan, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Xi'an, Nanjing, Xuzhou, Hangzhou, Anqing, Wuhan, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Nanchang, Changsha, Guiyang, Chongqing, Chengdu, Eastern Airlines can use These 17 airports, at the same time, during the war, the Chinese Air Force has the right to requisition the company's transport aircraft for military use.

By the end of 1938, Eastern Airlines had more than 120 planes, and its strength was strong. Most of its business was for the government, and a small part of its business was expanded to the private sector (after all, there were not many rich people who could afford to fly at this time).

Liupanshui Coal Company and China Petroleum Corporation were merged by Jiang Weiguo and expanded into "China Energy Corporation", and Panzhihua Iron and Steel Company was expanded into "China Metallurgical Corporation" by Jiang Weiguo.

In fact, Jiang Weiguo has trained talents while producing these three companies for such a long time after the establishment of these three companies, so the three companies have trained a large number of new talents, including technical engineers and skilled workers.

Jiang Weiguo has the foresight. He knows that nothing is more important than talents, so he told the person in charge of the companies after he founded these three companies, "The production can be slowed down, and the training of talents is the top priority." The three companies Both have set up specialized technical schools. Right now, Jiang Weiguo is vigorously expanding the company, and there is no shortage of talents.

After obtaining the two provinces of Shandong and Shanxi, China Energy Corporation and China Metallurgical Corporation immediately followed Jiang Weiguo's order and entered Shandong and Jin on a large scale to expand their business in a snowballing manner.