Dreaming back to 1949, the great powers were there to deceive us

As soon as Hu Zhenhua walked out of the meeting room, he saw Qu Xiaodou leaning against the wall with a sad face.

Hu Zhenhua waved at him.

"Xiaodou, what are you doing? You look so absent-minded!"

Qu Xiaodou came over angrily, lowered his head, and said in a low voice,

"Azhu's children can already help with cooking!"

Hu Zhenhua suppressed his smile and comforted her,

"What's the big deal? If she's married, your only competitor is her husband. If she's not married, you might have dozens or even hundreds of competitors!"

Qu Xiaodou raised his head with a look of contempt.

"Boss, you're disgusting!"

Hu Zhenhua laughed heartily and prepared to go back to sleep. Before he had taken two steps, he heard Qu Xiaodou muttering behind him,

"I just wasted a bag of chocolates. I should have given it to Xiaohong!"

Wait, who is Xiaohong?

Hu Zhenhua was just about to turn around and gossip when that annoying guy Carter came towards him!

"Hu, you're finally back!"

Old Hu had no choice but to go up to meet him.

“My friends, welcome to Chinachem!”

Carter seemed anxious and said,

"Hu, Jinling is going to be lost!"

Isn't this something that was expected? It would be strange if Jinling was not lost!

Hu Zhenhua waved his hand.

"My friend, let's go to the conference room and talk!"

Carter then realized his gaffe. He followed Hu Zhenhua into the conference room and was greeted by a strong smell of cigarettes. Just now, Hu Zhenhua and four others were puffing away in the room.

Carter felt better after opening the window.

"Hu, to prevent any unexpected events, the industrial zone must begin construction immediately!"

Hu Zhenhua was secretly happy, as this was exactly what he hoped for. However, he showed an embarrassment on his face.

"Carter, if we rush into this, the cost will be much higher! Not to mention anything else, the labor cost alone will have to at least double!"

Carter held Hu Zhenhua's hand and comforted him,

"Hu, the consulate has decided to provide you with a sum of approximately 1500 million RMB in rice. You can use this to pay your workers. In addition, we will also provide you with a batch of food and industrial products, all of which are in high demand in China!"

Hu Zhenhua sneered in his heart.

The purpose of aiding Mi Yuan is to speed up the pace of Mi Yuan's invasion.

As for industrial products, it is probably the "first sip of milk theory" that has made those officials in the United States go crazy, and they can't wait to launch an economic invasion.

If you don't take advantage of the benefits, you are a bastard.

Hu Zhenhua showed hesitation on his face.

"Carter, aid is aid, but don't try to trick me with food infested with insects!"

"Absolutely not! This is all wheat from last year's harvest. The grains are plump and absolutely top quality. We were originally planning to ship it to Japan, but after my mediation, we changed the route to the Magic City. It will arrive in three days at most!"

Picked it out from the little Japanese pig's mouth?

Hu Zhenhua's mood improved instantly, but his face was full of pity.

"I heard that Japan is very short of food. Is it appropriate for us to do this?"

Carter couldn't care less and said impatiently,

"Japan has been short of food for a long time, so we can afford to pay off these 10,000 or 20,000 tons of wheat!"

More than 10,000 or 20,000 tons?

Hu Zhenhua was overjoyed and shouted,

"Carter, I'll return to Chongnan Wharf immediately and personally monitor it. I have the funds and food, and I'm worried I won't be able to recruit people. However, when will the production line on the contract be ready?"

"It will definitely take at most half a month to reach the port."

So fast?

Hu Zhenhua seriously suspected that the production line given to him was second-hand!

"Carter, you're not deliberately shortening the construction period just to force me to work on this junk that no one wants, so that I don't have time to inspect it?"

The United States has always been cunning in its foreign aid.

Lao Hu once read a report analyzing the differences in foreign aid between the United States and the polar bears.

To sum it up in one sentence, the assistance from polar bears allows you to have hematopoietic function, while the assistance from Americans is like a blood transfusion!

Polar bear aid is often in the form of systematic industrial equipment assistance, such as the 156 projects in aid of China, which enabled China to transform from an agricultural country that could not even produce bicycles independently to one that could produce airplanes and cars in just 10 years.

It can be said that these 156 industrial projects laid the foundation for China's industry.

In comparison, the US aid is much more cunning.

Take the Marshall Plan as an example. The plan was nominally intended to revitalize Europe, but in reality, it served the United States' global strategy.

Economically, the United States requires that most of the aid funds be used to purchase American goods. With this, a large amount of aid funds to Europe flowed back to the United States, and a large amount of business exchanges made the United States Europe's most important trading partner!

Politically, Europe has completely turned to the United States and become its vassal.

One of the purposes of the United States' foreign aid is to transfer its excess domestic productivity.

In this industrial zone plan, the United States has trucks, tractors, steel mills, refineries, and even fertilizer plants. At first glance, it seems that the Americans are very generous, but in fact, this is the usual routine of the Americans.

To sum up, the US aid routine is: first give you a loan, but attach a lot of economic and political conditions, and then this loan must be used to purchase US goods.

It's a loan, it will eventually expire, how are you going to pay it back?

Naturally, they export a large amount of goods to the United States to obtain US dollars.

So, what can you export to the United States?

The United States is the most technologically advanced country on the blue planet. You cannot compete with it in exporting industrial products, so you can only export low-value-added raw materials and semi-industrial products.

Over time, you will become a vassal of the United States!

Therefore, a former US Secretary of State would say: Being America's enemy is dangerous, but being America's friend is deadly.

Carter saw that Hu Zhenhua had seen through the US's tricks, and his face turned ugly. He hesitantly explained,

"Hu, time is too tight. We really don't have enough time to produce new equipment! Besides, the price we quoted is the price of second-hand equipment!"

Hu Zhenhua really wanted to rush up and punch Carter, but he held himself back.

For the sake of China's industrial development, enduring some humiliation is nothing!

Hu Zhenhua stood up, walked to the window and looked into the distance.

Only in this way can his mind be broadened.

Carter was very nervous when he saw Hu Zhenhua remained silent for a long time.

At this time, he couldn't speak first.

In psychological warfare, whoever speaks first will suffer!

After a long time, Hu Zhenhua sat down on the sofa again and said lightly,

"You must compensate me, otherwise I will not participate in the industrial zone!"

Carter's anger was rising.

He is the noble American consul. No one can threaten him, and no one can threaten the United States!

Carter wanted to refuse outright, but after thinking about it, he endured it, because the industrial zone was not only related to the US layout in the Far East, but also to his future!

Carter took a deep breath and asked,

"What compensation do you want?"

Tolerate each other for the sake of the country! The overall situation is the most important!

Hu Zhenhua did not answer directly, but talked about other topics.

"Does the government want you to consult about production lines for airplanes, tanks, artillery, and other weapons?"

"Yes!"

Hu Zhenhua pointed at the cigarette butt in the ashtray and said,

"Do you know who just came? They're high-ranking officials from the Nationalist government. They want to use my industrial zone to help them produce weapons. Mr. Carter, tell me, can I refuse?"

Whether it is Shanghai or Chongming County, they are all the territory of the national government. How could such a big movement in the industrial zone be hidden from them?

Carter leaned helplessly on the sofa and replied,

"cannot!"

Hu Zhenhua lit a cigarette, looking melancholy.

"After dealing with the Nationalist government, I still have to deal with the Chinese Communist Party. Through indirect inquiries, I found that they are not very interested in the refinery because there is no oil underground in China. So, I plan to give them some drilling equipment and let them go to find oil! This can be regarded as giving them some hope!"

When Carter heard the conditions, he agreed without hesitation.

"No problem, five sets, is that enough?"

Hu Zhenhua nodded and said,

"The industrial zone needs more investment. I hope you can secretly provide me with a pharmaceutical factory. Besides the penicillin production line, which is essential, the rest can just produce some conventional medicines!"

The production of penicillin is not a US patent; many countries can produce it.

It is precisely because of this that Hu Zhenhua dared to make such a request.

Carter felt very upset. The industrial zone had not even started yet, and the United States had not only invested a large amount of food and industrial products, but now it had to build a pharmaceutical factory.

He was silent for a moment, then said,

"I can meet your conditions, but I require you to carry out emergency construction in the industrial zone, just like you did with the airport, 24 hours a day!"

Hu Zhenhua stretched out his hand, shook Carter's, and said with a smile,

"No problem! To speed up the construction progress, I hope you can provide me with some construction machinery, such as bulldozers, rollers, concrete mixers, cranes, etc."

Carter: ...%@

This request was reasonable, and Carter had no choice but to accept it.

After reaching an agreement, Hu Zhenhua personally led Carter to Chongming.

The white devils were well prepared and brought geological experts to select sites for steel plants and oil refineries.

The butterfly flapped its wings, and the wind and clouds surged thousands of miles away.

At the same time, large quantities of materials and production equipment from Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, the United States, the Philippines... began to be urgently loaded and shipped to Shanghai.