Deng Xihou was also stunned, to be honest, he didn't have any good way to do it, so he had to bow his head and remain silent.

In fact, what Liu Yun said, Deng Lao didn't think about it, but he just let the veterans under his command leave the army hastily, they either went to endanger the society, or died of poverty, he really couldn't bear to do it, so he had to drag it out for a day.

However, Liu Yun is also right, since he is a soldier, he has to go to the battlefield, if he is not good at learning and dies in the hands of the Japanese, he can't complain about others. But if it continues like this, it will indeed harm others and oneself, not only did these soldiers die, their families wept bitterly, but also caused the Chinese War of Resistance against Japan.

General Deng was silent for a moment before he asked Liu Yun for advice heavily, "Virtuous nephew, no, brother Yicheng, old brother I, I am a reckless man, I really can't think of any good way, I used to blame the number given on the top for less, and the army's salary is not enough, and now I know the seriousness of it."

Deng Xihou couldn't care about being reserved, and while sincerely asking for advice, he stood up and bowed to someone, "Therefore, on the settlement of these subordinates, please also ask Brother Yicheng to give me a lesson or two."

Seeing that Deng Lao asked sincerely and shamelessly, Liu Yun did not deliberately take any shelf, but commented on the administrative map of Guangyuan one by one, "Uncle Shi, please see, Guangyuan is located at the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu, which is not only the north gate of Sichuan, but also the throat of north-south traffic."

Therefore, Guangyuan's strategic position is very important, and it has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times. At present, the merchants inside and outside northern Sichuan have never stopped, so the business and transportation industry is the focus of Guangyuan's future development, but agriculture is the traditional strength of the local area, so there is no need to emphasize it for the time being, so only industry needs to be vigorously developed."

"Industry, in general, is divided into light industry and heavy industry. Needless to say, light industry has developed slightly, Uncle Shi only needs appropriate concessions and guidance, and businessmen from all over the country will naturally flock to help with development. As a result, only heavy industries, such as mining and the production of cement, need financial investment."

"Mining, cement, all this, how much money can you make?" Deng Xihou was a little unimpressed.

Liu Yun gave a general overview of the development status of western Sichuan. When Deng Lao knew that the wages of workers in western Sichuan were the same as the salaries of ordinary soldiers, and that the villas were distributed, his eyes suddenly straightened, he had heard similar rumors before, and he always thought it was just propaganda, but he didn't expect these to be true.

However, not to mention the few mineral deposits in western Sichuan, it is also located on the plateau of western Sichuan, which is extremely unfavorable for development, and now it has gathered tens of thousands of people. What's more, if a blessed land in northern Sichuan like Guangyuan develops smoothly, it will be completely easy to solve the 180,000 demobilized soldiers.

Now Deng Xihou is really tempted, not to mention the transfer of 108,000, that is, to solve 40,000, 50,000, his 45th army can also be reborn, if you configure some cutting-edge western Sichuan arms, he will dare to argue with the teaching corps in Nanjing, who said that the Sichuan army is not a real trump card.

For Mr. Deng's ambition, Liu Yun of course supported him with both hands and feet, and then immediately worked on the map, arranging mining sites one by one, such as gold mines, coal mines, iron mines and cement mines, etc., and then a series of processing plants, even including cement plants and petrochemical plants.

Deng Xihou was naturally furious when he heard it, but these all needed strong support from western Sichuan, not only financial support, but also the support of skilled workers and experts, and then he thought about it, he was too lazy to bother, so he simply packed it and let Liu Yun handle it with full authority, he only needed a large amount of arms and materials, and the settlement of the veterans.

According to his plan, about 1,000 skilled workers will be transferred from western Sichuan County and Maozhou City to build more than 10 large-scale mining sites, three or four cement factories, and some civilian factories and enterprises.

After a period of nonsense, Liu Yun and Deng Xihou were satisfied, and also reached the original intention of the talks with each other, marking that the tentacles of western Sichuan's forces have been extended into northern Sichuan, and it is hoped that the Guangyuan Prefecture will be built into a bridgehead for western Sichuan to march into the northwest, and it will be used as a transit station to transport arms to Yan'an.

The straight-line distance in the air from Guangyuan to Yan'an is more than 500 kilometers, and if the Flying Bear III transport plane is used, the air transport of arms and other materials can fly three times a day, and the transport volume of a single machine can reach about nine tons, and if there are more than ten Flying Bear III, the transportation volume can exceed 100 tons in one day.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, the 50 planes that Liu Yun sent to Yan'an can be transported in one day if they take off from Guangyuan, and if they are replaced with ordinary munitions, they can be equipped with tens of thousands of people.

And the reason why Deng Xihou was satisfied was because he and Liu Yun formed a preliminary strategic alliance. As long as Guangyuan's economy develops and the veterans settle down, the combat effectiveness of his 45th Army will also increase.

Commander Liu is a busy man, and he has no interest in chatting at all in the next few days, as for the question of Ma Hongbin and Minister He, it is better to wait for them to communicate with themselves, as far as western Sichuan is concerned, it really does not have the energy to take care of the development of Gansu and other places, or even the entire northwest, and it is already very good to be able to invest in Guangyuan at present.

These days, Liu Yun is not busy with anything else, one is to let western Sichuan make a good allocation of materials, and dispatch personnel and materials to Guangyuan in a timely manner, and the other is to drive a plane every day to wander around Guangyuan, he wants to try his best to understand the basic terrain of Guangyuan, Yan'an and Lanzhou, and even occasionally a few times, he also went to the sky above the city of Xi'an.

The sudden aerial reconnaissance surprised the residents near Xi'an. Although the Zhang-Yang coalition army was also equipped with aircraft, about twenty or thirty of them, Liu Yun often disappeared before they could take off. Later, Xi'an also learned well and began to round up a large number of nets, but their speed was too low, so they had to see Commander Liu leave, which made all Xi'an pilots lose confidence for a while.

It is said that Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng were all furious, and ordered their intelligence officers to find out who the force was within three days, and wanted to challenge them, if they could not give a satisfactory answer, they would be killed, no matter how big or small. Overnight, the whole of Shaanxi and even the northwest of China were busy.

Liu Sanye didn't care about this, after just three or five days of hard work, the topographic information he wanted was basically understood, and the voyage reached as far as Yan'an, Lanzhou and Xi'an, and the rest of the places were not interested for the time being. Of course, due to the oil deposits, Lanzhou, Yan'an, Longdong and other places were closely scanned.

What makes Liu Yun depressed is that the place with the most oil is indeed near Yan'an and Longdong. As for the vicinity of Lanzhou, don't talk about big oil fields, even if there are not even a few small oil fields, but there are a lot of coal mines, is Ma Hongbin lying to him, these years are all people with a face, blatantly talking about cheating money, it is still not enough.

It wasn't until the arrival of Zhang Sili and Li Hansi that Commander Liu's doubts were really solved, it turned out that Yumen Pass was not near Lanzhou at all, but close to the edge of the Soviet Union and Outer Mongolia.

Liu Sanye was a little unbelieving, so he cheekily went to the headquarters of the 45th Army, and found a map of the whole of Gansu through Deng Xihou, which really confirmed this, his face changed very wonderfully, and his feelings were really unexpected.

In this way, Mr. Deng was also a little embarrassed. When Ma Hongbin fooled people in his official residence, he didn't say a word, and now that the bitter master has come to the door, he doesn't know how to say it, but fortunately, Commander Liu is a good comrade, and he quickly figured it out, and he didn't hold on to this and didn't let go.

What these things make Commander Liu really understand is that Gansu is really poor, and even a big man like Ma Hongbin has to surrender himself to deceive people into investing. However, it also reveals their urgency, and if you think about it from another angle, it may not be a good thing, and the possibility of controlling Lanzhou by means of arms and investment in the future has greatly increased.

Therefore, for Liu Yun, Ma Lao's move is not necessarily a bad thing. Then he remembered another incident, remembering that in the 21st century, Lanzhou's development was actually quite good, not only the momentum of economic development was very good, but it also seemed to be a well-known heavy industrial city, as if there was only one point of badness, and the air pollution was too serious.

Hehe, Ma Hongbin's original intention of wanting to deceive him is actually very simple, that is, he wants him to be a big wrongdoer and invest a lot of money in Lanzhou and Gansu, and the Yumenguan Oilfield is just the only bait he can get his hands on, so if Commander Liu really invests, isn't Mr. Ma at his mercy.

Liu Sanye was naturally happy, but he continued to enlighten Deng Xihou, asking him to comfort Ma Hongbin, and after he built the railway to Longnan, Tianshui, Dingxi and Lanzhou, he would promise to invest in Lanzhou with all his might. Because of the Yumen Oilfield, he is bound to win, and the nearly 1,000-kilometer railway is not a problem.

These fluttering words made Deng Xihou stunned. Deng Lao secretly said in his heart, the world has really changed in these years, especially these returnees who stayed abroad, none of them are normal at all, and the railway will be repaired from Guangyuan to Yumen Pass, but 17,800 kilometers, even gold and silver mountains are not enough, well, if it is not to invest in the railway, but to put this money into the army, Liu Xiang will have to bow his head and shout Lord.

Seeing the enthusiastic Commander Liu, Deng Xihou only smiled bitterly, and suddenly had a terrible thought, could it be that he himself is really old, and he can't keep up with the times, these old soldiers, as soon as they heard about the ocean and the army, their eyes were like copper bells, lest they take less.

Look at Dr. Liu again, but the dignified returnee elite, as soon as he heard about the army and government affairs, his head was three circles bigger, and even the chairman of Gansu Province disdained it, but when he heard about mineral deposits and oil, he couldn't wait to stretch out his throat and stretch out his hand, that kind of crazy and greedy energy, even Deng Xihou was a little afraid.

Anyway, green vegetables and radishes have their own love. Deng Xihou is depressed, and his vigilance against Liu Yun has also weakened a lot, at least he will not compete with him for troops and territory, and he himself is also not interested in oil and mineral deposits, and it can be exchanged for money, which is the only place he is interested in, which is the typical "each takes what he needs".

If Deng Xihou was allowed to study railways, minerals and industry every day like Commander Liu, it would be better to kill him. What's more, Liu Yun didn't lose him, and planned to form the "Guangyuan Group" with him, and his operating profits would be divided between the two of them, and Sichuan West would also be responsible for specific operations to solve the problem of settling down veterans of the 45th Army.

However, Commander Liu also had a request, imploring Mr. Deng to ensure the safety of the Guangyuan Group in Longnan and Guangyuan Prefecture, and to allocate funds immediately after he asked for money from the Nanjing Ministry of Finance. At that time, the construction of Guangyuan can be fully rolled out, of course, for now, it is better to build the railway first.

"Appropriation from Nanjing", Deng Xihou also understood. It is said that the generals in Sichuan have already made a secret bet to see when Sichuan West will go bankrupt, and they themselves have estimated that if according to Dr. Liu's wayward investment method, Liu Xiang himself will not be able to support it for half a year, let alone Yang Sen or Wang Lingji, which is why everyone always wants to find Liu Yun to invest.