Anti-Japanese War: I have a million soldiers and you call me a division commander?

Chapter 418 Superpower! Chu Feng: "We lack time and talent, not money!"

"what's going on?"

"Trick you? Can the government trick you?"

After a few seconds of silence, Li Mingqiang became interested and pulled Chu Feng back to the office. He looked at Chu Feng with a face full of curiosity to hear gossip and couldn't wait to ask questions.

Looking at Li Mingqiang with a gossipy look on his face, Chu Feng smiled and introduced the details to Li Mingqiang.

After listening to this, Li Mingqiang couldn't help but complain: "The government is really cunning. They want to take everything after opening an oil field."

"The Yumen Oilfield is not the Yanchang Oilfield. It's thousands of miles away. Just transporting it would cost a lot, and it's so far away from us."

"If we can get closer, it's not impossible. Although we can't offer the same conditions as the Eighth Route Army, it's closer."

"But the Yumen Oilfield is too far away, and coupled with the character of the government, it's true that I don't want to get involved."

Hearing Li Mingqiang's complaints, Chu Feng smiled and said nothing.

"By the way, Commander-in-Chief, if the National Government chooses to sell the Yumen Oilfield to you as a package, would you like it?" Li Mingqiang suddenly seemed to think of something and asked Chu Feng.

"want!"

"In my opinion, I simply don't want to cooperate with the government and don't want to get involved with them."

"But if they use the Yumen Oilfield as a trading partner and give it to me, why wouldn't I want it?"

"However, if you really want to give me the Yumen Oilfield, it can't be just the Yumen Oilfield. I don't want just one oilfield."

"I don't trust the Nationalist government, nor do I trust the Ganma people in the northwest. Otherwise, I'd invest so much equipment and money, and let them sabotage me."

"So I want an enclave, an enclave in the northern border area. I want to not only extract oil, but also develop agriculture and animal husbandry based on the Shule River, and turn it into an oil industry base, an agricultural and animal husbandry base, and a transit base for the northwest."

"When the time comes, if 100,000 troops are sent there, the three horses in the northwest won't dare to even look at them, and it will intimidate the entire northwest region."

Upon hearing Chu Feng's words, Li Mingqiang instantly understood what his commander-in-chief meant.

Although the northwest is relatively barren, there is such a large piece of land here, and they will eventually develop here.

Yumen is one of their forward bases.

Holding on to Yumen can deter the three northwestern hordes. When the time is right, we can simultaneously attack from Yumen and the northern border area to expel the three northwestern hordes.

It can also monitor the Western Regions further west. This is the only way to the Western Regions and the only way to Tibet.

"Will the government agree?"

"And the three horses from the Northwest, can they agree?"

Li Mingqiang understood Chu Feng's thoughts, and he was also very clear that once Chu Feng put forward this harsh condition, the National Government and the Three Ma of the Northwest would also understand.

"That's not something I need to think about!"

Chu Feng waved his hand and said confidently, "If you want me to accept the first proposal, then these are necessary. Otherwise, you can choose the third one. At worst, I can wait until the time is right and then march west."

"As we develop, we will eventually come into conflict with the three Ma brothers of the Northwest and the National Government. Furthermore, the input and output of the Northwest region are ultimately inferior to those of the North China Plain and the North. There is no need to compromise on these things."

After hearing Chu Feng's explanation, Li Mingqiang thought about it for a moment and knew that Chu Feng was right.

"Then I'll wait for good news!"

Knowing that such matters still needed Chu Feng to handle and decide, Li Mingqiang did not ask any more questions.

"That's right, Commander-in-Chief!"

No longer dwelling on this matter, Li Mingqiang looked at Chu Feng and said, "Each force has submitted its transaction list."

"The final deal should be reached by tomorrow or the day after tomorrow at the latest."

"It's just that our plan to recruit people still requires their cooperation. Should we just tell them that, or should we give them some concessions so that they can pay more attention and actively cooperate or even help us?"

Li Mingqiang's words were very general, but Chu Feng understood them. He thought for a moment and said, "After the contract is signed, I will communicate with them when we are working together."

"We are short of people right now, desperately short of people. If we ask them to cooperate, they might give us face, but they won't take it seriously."

"So the best way at this time is to promise them benefits to motivate them."

"Especially these southwestern provinces, because of the war, they absorbed too many people from all over the country."

"If we take the initiative and offer some concessions and benefits, they will be very willing to do so."

"With a large population, they can't provide jobs, which is a burden for them. If they can pass it on to us, it will be easier for them."

Hearing Chu Feng's words, Li Mingqiang also reacted and said with a smile: "That's right, for us, the population we need is a burden to them."

"If they can get some profit from us and get rid of the burden, they will naturally be very willing to do so. After all, we are solving their difficult problems for them."

At this point, Li Mingqiang looked at Chu Feng and asked, "Then Commander-in-Chief, what do we need to pay?"

"money!"

Chu Feng blurted out without hesitation after hearing this, "For something like this, the main thing is to cut the Gordian knot. Aren't they going to hoard our Saibei currency?"

"We don't need to use methods like deductions or exchanges for supplies. This is too troublesome and not intuitive enough."

“We just pay!”

"How much will we pay for a hundred people? How much will we pay for a thousand people? How much will we pay for ten thousand people?"

"To put it bluntly, we're treating people like commodities. There are too many refugees fleeing to the southwest. All we need to do is register them, arrange for them to come to us, provide them with food and guidance along the way, and once they reach their destination, we'll pay them per head."

"On the one hand, we can thoroughly promote the Saibei currency. We can't say that it will replace the legal tender as the national currency, but we can allow these people to hold more Saibei currency."

"This is an opportunity for us to increase the influence of the Saibei currency. After they take our Saibei currency, they will eventually shop with us, which means we can make money and collect tax revenue."