Mid-October.

Zhou Hexuan began to write "The Nanjing Massacre", and Rabe was responsible for helping out on the side. All the information has been cataloged, and whatever Zhou Hexuan needs, Rabe can find it immediately.

Yu Peichen, just rest for a while.

Pregnant women are already prone to depression, and Zhou Hexuan did not dare to let her be exposed to any more information about the massacre, and accompanied Yu Peichen to watch comedy shows every night.

On October 21, Guangzhou fell.

Hu Shi hurried over with Chen Guangfu, and when they met, he asked: "Mingcheng, you are a special envoy for negotiations, and you actually hid in the room for several months without showing up, and now the negotiations have been terminated!" ”

"Why did you terminate it?" Zhou Hexuan didn't raise his head and continued to write.

Chen Guangfu replied: "Because Guangzhou has fallen." ”

Zhou Hexuan put down the pen and comforted: "The fall of Guangzhou will only speed up the negotiation process, and will not let the loan go down the drain." ”

Hu Shi said hurriedly: "But Guangzhou fell too quickly, and Guangzhou is the largest hub for material imports. Now that Guangzhou is gone, the international arms purchased by the central government cannot be brought in, and the situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is extremely critical. President Roosevelt, fearing that China would no longer resist with all its might and would not be able to resist, terminated the loan negotiations. ”

Zhou Hexuan got up and took out a business report from the drawer: "You guys take a look at this first." ”

Chen Guangfu couldn't wait to grab it, quickly flipped through a few pages and said: "The evaluation and analysis report of the U.S. tung oil market is so detailed!" Where did Mr. Zhou get it from? ”

Zhou Hexuan explained: "When I first came to the United States, I hired a team of business consultants. It took them two and a half months and more than $8,000 to compile the report. From this report, it can be seen that the American industry is inseparable from tung oil. In the past, there was still the Guangzhou and Guangdong-Hanzhou lines to export tung oil, but now that Guangzhou has fallen, if a new tung oil transportation line is not opened as soon as possible, many capitalists in the United States will go bankrupt because of this. Therefore, the fall of Guangzhou will not only not end the tung oil loan, but will speed up the negotiations. ”

"But how can President Roosevelt's concerns be addressed?" Hu Shi asked.

Zhou Hexuan said: "You ask Lao Jiang to go, don't come to me." ”

"It was the chairman who asked me to come to you, and he said that you guarantee that the negotiations will be successful!" Hu Shi said depressedly.

Zhou Hexuan said speechlessly: "Let him issue a statement to express to the world and the Chinese people his determination to resist to the end." ”

Historically, Chang Kaishen not only issued a statement on the end of the war of resistance, but also threatened Roosevelt - if the United States does not borrow, he will directly surrender to Japan, and will not let the United States have a good time anyway.

After reading the report, Chen Guangfu was not as anxious as Hu Shi, but laughed: "With Mr. Zhou's report, I am now 80% sure that I can force the Morgan consortium to sign the loan contract." ”

"Really?" Hu Shi was a little skeptical.

Zhou Hexuan reminded: "The tung oil loan will definitely be successfully negotiated, and it is necessary to pay attention to the details of the contract, and it cannot all be signed according to the wishes of the Americans." ”

Although Zhou Hexuan didn't know the content of the Tongyou loan, he knew it with his ass that the Yankees would definitely take advantage of the fire to rob him.

Historically, Chen Guangfu was afraid that the negotiations would break down, and the Americans would do whatever they wanted, and as a result, he suffered a big loss in the export price of tung oil.

Due to the occupation of the three major commercial ports of Shanghai, Tianjin and Guangzhou, China's tung oil industry was on the verge of collapse, the price of tung oil plummeted, and the tung forests in many places were directly abandoned. However, the Americans demanded that the Chinese government not buy tung oil in a unified purchase of tung oil in the tung oil loan contract, resulting in a large amount of tung oil being exported at the price of cabbage.

At that time, as long as the American businessman was engaged in the tung oil trade, the profit was more terrible than the smuggling of opium. Chinese tung oil traders take profits layer by layer, and after the tung oil is shipped to the United States, the price can still increase more than tenfold. This situation lasted for two and a half years before the national government promulgated the "National Measures for the Unified Purchase and Marketing of Tung Oil", and at that time the daylilies were cold - not that the central government was too stupid, but that the contract could not be broken, and it could only wait until the contract was fulfilled before daring to purchase and sell it.

What is very nonsense is that the Nationalist Government's implementation of the unified purchase and sale of tung oil has not brought much benefit to the common people, but has become a tool for bureaucratic capital to make money.

At that time, the price of tung oil had slowly returned to normal, and the Yankees had taken almost the advantage they should have taken. The trick played by the national government continued to harm the tung oil practitioners, resulting in the domestic tung oil purchase price being forcibly depressed.

Well, Zhou Hexuan's reminder is also redundant.

The Yankees took advantage of the situation, and then the Chinese bureaucracy continued to take advantage. And from the beginning, although the Yankees did not take advantage, the money was also taken away by the bureaucrats and nobles, and it was the common people who suffered.

If you think about it, it's actually better to let the Yankees take advantage. Because this follows the laws of the market, the price of tung oil can rise in a year at most, and the remaining one and a half years will be the Chinese tung oil practitioners who will benefit - until bureaucratic capital enters the market.

Zhou Hexuan shouldn't have reminded Chen Guangfu of his ......

Of course, there is also the possibility that the reminder will not work. Chen Guangfu was eager to negotiate, and most of them would not insist, and finally signed the contract according to the Yankees' wishes.

The biggest role of Zhou Hexuan's participation in this matter is to increase the loan amount. Because Chen Guangfu already has the confidence that he does not have to be as cautious as in history, it is possible for him to double the amount of borrowing, which will make a huge contribution to China's war of resistance against Japanese aggression, which is tight on military spending.

Sure enough, Chen Guangfu took the business investigation report and said with a smile: "I am ready to borrow 100 million." ”

"Are you crazy?" Hu Shi looked at him in surprise, because the bottom line of their borrowing was 20 million, and now it has directly increased by 5 times.

Zhou Hexuan said: "100 million US dollars may be a bit painful, but 80 million is still possible to negotiate." ”

Chen Guangfu said proudly: "I care about him so much, and when the negotiations restart, I will ask him for 150 million yuan, how much can he borrow." ”

"You're amazing." Zhou Hexuan said sincerely.

Neither Zhou Hexuan nor Chen Guangfu expected that by doing so, they would not only increase the tung oil loan, but also extend the tung oil loan contract. As a result, the loan contract that was supposed to purchase only 220,000 tons of tung oil suddenly became 400,000 tons, and the Nationalist government did not dare to purchase and sell tung oil until the beginning of 1943.

The one-and-a-half-year period extended out of thin air in the middle has become a golden period for the development of China's tung oil. Because at that time, the market price had returned to normal and rose higher than before the war, and the national government did not dare to come forward to reduce the price, so that China's tung oil practitioners lived a very nourishing life.

Inadvertently, Chen Guangfu made the best choice to let the Kuomintang nobles swallow countless people's fat and ointment.

Well done!

Chen Guangfu pulled Zhou Hexuan to discuss negotiation methods, while Hu Shi's attention was on those manuscripts, and he asked casually: "What book is Mingcheng writing again?" ”

Rabe, who was on the side, replied, "The Nanjing Massacre." ”

Hu Shi nodded and said: "I heard that tens of thousands of innocent people were killed in Nanjing, this kind of atrocity should be written and exposed!" ”

"More than tens of thousands," Rabe said sadly, "after we have sorted out and speculated, there are at least 200,000 people killed in Nanjing, or even more!" ”

"200,000! Make no mistake, right? Hu Shi was dumbfounded.

Rabe pointed to a large number of first-hand information next to him: "Look for yourself." ”

Hu Shi first looked at the photo, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he became, he couldn't help kicking over the chair and bursting into foul language: "Fuck the little Japanese, it's better to be a pig and a dog!" ”