However, what Liu Yun said is also right, Xikang Province, which is located on the Sichuan-Tibet Plateau, what do you want such heavy artillery fire for, the terrain conditions are not good, and the roads are also dirt roads, the soldiers of Xikang are so tired that they vomit blood, and they can't run around.

Since Liu Wenhui of Xikang has thought about it, Liu Yun has nothing to say, only asked Liu Wencai how to pay for this money, this time Liu Erye no longer dared to go crazy, so he had to ask timidly if he could take credit, or use other materials to offset the amount, 13 tons of gold, he really couldn't take it out for a while.

Liu Yun also has a headache, because Xikang Province is really poor, and it is notoriously "big and thin", if it is given away for nothing, it is not good, one is broken rules, and the other is difficult to do in the future, although everyone is a family, if they all come to take it for nothing, the arsenal will not be closed soon.

couldn't write two Liu characters in one stroke, Liu Yun had to compromise, I just hoped that Liu Erye's price would not be too outrageous, so he asked how much gold he could pay, Liu Wencai said the truth at hand, the gold was only 3.5 tons, and the ocean was more, about more than three million yuan.

Liu Yun made a little calculation in his heart, it has reached seventy percent of the cost of this batch of arms, in fact, it is not bad, everyone is their own people, the remaining little final payment, see when Liu Wenhui is convenient, it is not too late to give, to say a bright word, if the hand is really tight, it is okay to erase it.

Liu Wencai, who had a sideways face, finally said something embarrassed, he was helping Liu Dashuai manage the accounts, but these gold and oceans are emergency military expenses, and the purchase of many necessities depends on this hard currency, let's just say more than three million oceans, or Lao Jiang took their compensation.

"Co-optation", Liu Yun was also stunned, and quickly reacted, yes, it is now the end of July 1935, and it is time for Lao Jiang to rectify the armies of Sichuan and Xikang, due to the battle of Wenchuan Yingxiu, the situation in Sichuan has changed greatly, and the "Chuankang army" has been postponed for more than two months.

Liu Wenhui's hands are only sixty or seventy thousand people, and Lao Jiang actually gave more than three million oceans, of course, it is not that there is more money and people are stupid, but to put a knife in the back of Liu Xiang and the Sichuan army.

In other words, the money that really belongs to Xikangjun is only 3.5 tons of gold, which is why Liu Wencai was crazy at the beginning, Liu Yun secretly speculated that the gold should be able to eat it all, and Dayang can get half of it at most, because Chuankang's army is about to be reorganized, and it is inevitable that the survival of the fittest will be needed.

However, incompetent soldiers will inevitably be eliminated, and elimination requires dismissal and settlement, these things require money, and in addition, with the urine of large and small warlords, one will usually be eliminated, and two new recruits will be secretly recruited, so that three million oceans are not only not enough, but even need to be upside down.

This is the real reason why Liu Wenhui stretched out his hand to Lao Jiang to ask for money, but at the same time secretly prepared a few tons of gold, so sending Liu Wencai to sell arms in western Sichuan County was more of a temptation, after all, Lao Jiang was good for money, and his stinginess with arms was world-famous, so he had to take precautions.

Temptation is temptation, but it is not about Liu Yun, he is an arms dealer of the Republic of China, and he does not agree to the matter of taking money for nothing, so he deliberately looked incomprehensible, and directly asked Liu Wencai how he planned to pay for the arms, and the gold and the ocean were not enough to pay for this batch of arms.

Seeing this guy's shameless posture of asking for money, Liu Wencai had no choice but to admit it, gritted his heart and took out a bunch of house deeds and land deeds, which were the good land, houses and shops that these two brothers had secretly acquired over the years, and also prepared a list of celebrity calligraphy, paintings and antiques.

Seeing the dazzling array of bills, Liu Yun sighed in his heart, he likes money, but he doesn't dare to ask for some money, so he chose among a bunch of house deeds, and finally took a fancy to a few properties in the city, as well as a few granges in counties and cities near the city, seven folds and eight deductions, it was five or six hundred thousand oceans, and in desperation, he had to choose some antiques and calligraphy and paintings.

Liu Yun's eyes are very poisonous, and all the choices are some unique or rare books, which makes Liu Wencai's eyelids jump, but he also has to thank Liu Daguan for accepting these antique calligraphy and paintings, which are much better than those of Europeans and Americans, for example, the Germans identified gold, and no matter how much calligraphy and painting they have, it is useless.

Soon Liu Yun made a good choice, put the list of these bills in front of Liu Wencai, although Liu Erye was heartbroken, he was still very satisfied, such as the field he was most concerned about, Liu Yun did not move his "heart tip field", but some elegant scenery, to say that it is a suitable land for living.

In the Republic of China in the 30s, although the population was relatively large, it was only more than 40,000, compared with the 15.6 billion in later generations, it was still much better, in general, real estate and the like were still relatively cheap, Liu Wencai, this guy, was a typical reactionary landlord, bought land when he had money, exploited tenants when he bought land, and continued to buy land with exploited money, like a snowball, endless.

As for calligraphy and painting antiques, Liu Wencai himself is also attached to the elegance, and the value of it is also half-understood, so it is only a superficial heartache, in his opinion, it is broken copper and iron, plus a bunch of butt paper, if Liu Yun can agree, I can't wait to exchange all these rags for money.

Liu Wencai took out the pocket-sized abacus he carried with him, and with a crackling calculation, the total price came out, a total value of 2.1 million oceans, Liu Yun also undoubtedly discussed, so he said his bottom limit, gold is naturally all wanted, now the ocean is forgotten, the remaining difference, just use beef and mutton and other local specialties to offset the number, Liu Erye is also ecstatic, really unexpected.

Of course, Liu Wencai still has a little opinion on the matter of gold, but when he saw someone's black face, he had to swallow it in his stomach, and then discussed with Liu Yun again, local specialties such as beef and mutton and cordyceps, such as how to price, how to transport and trade.

As the saying goes, "people leave their hometowns cheaply, goods leave their hometowns are expensive", Kangzang's beef and mutton is a typical, in Xikang local, only the poor eat meat every day, people with status, drink tea and eat rice every day, and beef and mutton really can't afford to sell at a price, a yak of more than 1,000 catties, only five or six silver dollars.

Liu Daguan is a person who has seen the world, and he knows a lot about Kangzang's beef and mutton, so he suggested that Liu Wencai go back and directly process the beef and mutton into canned food or beef jerky.

The production specifications of these local products are relatively high, but the price is even higher, which simply opened the eyes of Liu Wencai, the old landlord, to give a simple example, just say that a yak, full of a few hundred catties of meat, not only is it more troublesome to transport out, but also not worth a few dollars.

However, according to Liu Daguanren's meaning, processing into beef jerky, not only the weight is greatly reduced, easy to store, and the price has skyrocketed, a million profits, a yak meat is all processed, enough to have more than 100 catties of jerky, worth more than 20 silver dollars, compared with the original value of several times.

Seeing that Liu Wencai was still a little skeptical, Liu Yun was simply a good person to the end, and told the processing methods of beef jerky in later generations one by one, and at the same time asked the ant robot to make a few processing machines for roasting beef jerky, and by the way, let Liu Erye operate it himself.

With the methods and machines of later generations, if you want to process beef jerky, it is easier than making bread, Liu Wencai immediately cried, if he knew this method, why bother to take advantage of it, and tarnished Liu Wenhui and his reputation in vain, Xikang lacks everything, but there is no shortage of beef and mutton.

Liu Wencai was ruthless, he had already decided, as soon as he returned to Xikang Province, he must personally promote the practice of beef jerky in the counties under his jurisdiction, since it is five or six catties of silver dollars, but no matter what happens to a county every year, more than 100,000 catties of beef jerky is still very easy, which is tens of thousands of oceans.

With this income alone, it can solve the cost of garrisoning troops in various counties, which is more guaranteed than operating tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in the interior, and Liu Yun is also afraid that this guy in Xikang Province will make people angry and resentful, and the sky is three feet high, so he hurriedly persuaded him that it is best to keep a long stream of water and give the local people some sweetness.

In this way, these ordinary people will support the rule of the old Liu family, Liu Wenhui will be rich and noble in Xikang, Liu Wencai is also open now, and he is also deeply touched by the words with Liu Yun, and naturally he can still listen to it, and he still has a lot of regret for his own previous things.

In addition, with the connection between Xikang and the mainland, the arrival of bulk trade, the road of Xikang has become a fatal problem, Liu Yun does not have a good way, he means to take three steps, one is to set up airports in various counties of Xikang, and in the future, it will mainly rely on air transportation.

Second, the counties and cities in Xikang Province do it themselves, responsible for repairing the road from Xikang to Sichuan, at least it can open heavy vehicles, and for some really difficult places, it can be handed over to West Sichuan County to do, such as some large-scale road and bridge projects, such as reservoirs and bridges, as well as mountain tunnels and so on.

The third is to make preliminary preparations for the construction of the Kang-Tibet railway line. This made Liu Wencai a little frightened, it was difficult to even breathe on the plateau, and what kind of railway should be built, isn't this a blind toss, but Liu Yun smiled and said that this was just an idea, and it should not be true.

Just when Liu Wencai was about to leave, Liu Yun told him that he must repair the airport and roads, preferably to connect with the British colony of India, and there will be a lot of business to do with Britain in the future, and now is the right time to pave the road.

It doesn't matter if Liu Wencai doesn't understand, anyway, it is to repair the airport and the road, whether he can do it or how to do it, he does not have the right to make a decision, and he reports to Liu Wenhui after he goes back, it is now the negotiation period anyway, and it is not a transaction, and it is common for both sides to express their opinions.

Looking at Liu Wencai who was far away, Liu Yun himself was also very entangled, "layout Kang-Tibet", in fact, it is also a risky move, you must know that from India to Tibet, and then from Tibet to Xikang, from Xikang to Sichuan, the road is far away, not to mention, if from an economic point of view, the cost is too great, and it runs through the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the "plateau disease" alone will kill many people, and the actual value is really difficult to say.

On the other hand, Liu Yun was relieved, in addition to improving the transportation of Kang-Tibet, there is also the meaning of taking precautions, preparing an international channel for the Anti-Japanese War, whether it can be used or not, he himself did not count, the Yunnan-Burma Highway was not completely blocked by the Japanese until 1942, after the Battle of Yangon, and in the next few years, it was all supported by the Hump route, which was just a drop in the bucket, and the spiritual assistance was greater than the actual assistance.