On the train, Wen Hao chatted with them.

Although Wen Hao doesn't look big, after all, the second is a human being, and their insights and experience can't be compared.

After talking, I learned that the middle-aged man was called Wei Tianming, and the leather merchant was called Xie Dongbao. His wife's name is Yu Cuilian.

After listening to Wei Tianming's introduction, Wen Hao knew that Harbin was also economically underdeveloped during the Republic of China.

Relying on the advantages of grain producing areas in Heilongjiang Province, Harbin has developed into the largest flour, bread, alcohol and beer production base and export base in Asia, thus making Harbin's Binjiang Customs rank first among the six major customs in the country. At the same time, there are 34 foreign banks in the world that have opened branches in Harbin, more than 1,280 online stores of various financial businesses in the city, and direct business contacts with international financial centers such as Paris and New York. At the same time, there are as many as 1,809 foreign business establishments in Harbin.

At that time, Harbin Railway Station, which connected the Trans-Siberian Railway and various domestic railways, also became the busiest passenger and freight railway station in Asia at that time, and passengers from Japan, North Korea and Southeast Asian countries needed to transfer to Harbin to various cities in Europe by train. Harbin Railway Station can now sell direct train tickets to various cities in Europe.

When it comes to railway transportation in the Northeast region, it was also absolutely first-class in China at that time. Before September 1931, the main trunk railways in Northeast China had been basically completed, with a total mileage of more than 7,000 kilometers, and most of the counties and some villages and towns were connected to trains.

On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union mobilized 1.5 million troops to destroy the invading Japanese army in Northeast China, and then from September 1945 to May 1946, most of the machinery and equipment and other materials in Northeast China were dismantled and transported back to China, and a total of more than 7 months were rushed.

According to historical records, at that time, it took 40 days to dismantle and transport Anshan Iron and Steel, which ranked second in Asia, with a total of more than 60 trucks shipped, and almost all metallurgical equipment such as blast furnaces, electric furnaces and rolling mills were rushed out. Before November 15, 1945, 200 trucks were going to the Soviet Union every day from Shenyang alone. By the beginning of 1946, more than 90% of the factories in Shenyang were empty shells, and even the doors and windows were demolished by the Soviet army. According to the statistics of the railway department, during this period, the Soviet army hijacked about 75 percent of the total number of railway locomotives in Northeast China, and 93 percent of the total number of railway wagons in Northeast China, which concentrated most of China's railway materials and almost all of the world's advanced transport vehicles at that time.

Therefore, the Soviet Union ostensibly helped China fight the Japanese, but in fact it also plundered China's wealth.

Therefore, modern Sino-Russian relations are both politically hot and economically cold, and politicians are in full swing for the sake of political interests, and they are not as good as Japan and South Korea economically.

The rise of the Northeast region is first thanks to the handsome Zhang Zuolin.

Although Zhang Zuolin has little culture, he has great respect for cultural people and has hired many people from all over the country to develop the economy of Northeast China. Moreover, although the warlords were fighting and the people were struggling to make a living, the northeast region never suffered a serious military rebellion, ensuring the sustainable development of the economy.

As we all know, for economic development, "stability" is too important, there is Zhang Zuolin in the northeast, and there is Yan Xishan in Shanxi, although they are not important coastal areas, but they have achieved very good development, and a very important reason is "stability".

Imagine looking at the period of the Republic of China, when the warlords were chaotic, the economy of the Northeast was so developed, but in the new society, it became an economic disaster area, and in order to stimulate the economy of the Northeast at every turn, shouting slogans to revitalize the Northeast, people at that time did not need to shout slogans, but the Northeast was so good.

It is still such a big warlord and reactionary leader that we see on TV, so a careful reading of history shows that these so-called warlords also have outstanding features.

Zhang Zuolin is a hundred times stronger than his son Zhang Xueliang, who only knows how to take drugs, but he is not as famous as Zhang Xueliang in modern history.

It can only be said that Zhang Xueliang is more like a successful speculator.

If the Zhang family and his son are evaluated in the name of the people, Zhang Zuolin can make the people rich, and Zhang Xueliang is just a successful political speculator to learn, it should be Zhang Zuolin who is easier to win the hearts of the people.

Although Zhang Zuolin also participated in the warlord civil war, causing domestic turmoil, at least he was able to stabilize the economic situation in the northeast before his death, which is also outstanding.

He is not a person who only knows how to engage in struggle, but does not know how to engage in economics.

It's not like some normal people who only think about engaging in political struggles after winning the world, but they don't learn from Zhang Zuolin to do a good job in the economy.

Sometimes, if you read history carefully, some warlords are not as good as they do in TV and movies, but they do not forget to do a good job in the people's livelihood and stabilize their own political power when they are fighting for power and profit, and they are much better than some normal ones.

Political parties are people-based, and people have both public and selfish intentions.

In order to stabilize his own regime, he can do something for the people.

In ancient times, Li Shimin was able to kill his own brother for power, but he could also create a prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty for the people.

Wu Zetian killed a lot of his own son for the sake of power, but such a vicious woman is for the benefit of the people.

Anyone who does something for the people should not ask the people to thank them.

Because they also have selfish intentions, in order to stabilize the regime.

It's not really selfless.

Wen Hao listened to the middle-aged man and the leather merchant talking about how rich and developed the Northeast was.

This made Wen Hao stunned.

I thought that after crossing over, he must know more than them, but it turned out that he didn't know about good things.

In his impression, people in the Northeast like to go out to work, and they have always been the object of the country's efforts to revitalize and develop, but they are also economically poor and backward.

Who knows that the Northeast also has a glorious history, not even worse than the city of Shanghai, and even stronger in some places.

I always thought that during the Republic of China, how bad China's economy was and how miserable the people were.

In fact, although China as a whole is relatively poor, some parts of the country are still very developed.

There are some similarities with the reform and opening up in later generations.

There are also economic imbalances.

And Wei Tianming is a business manager of the Daoli branch of Harbin Bank of Communications.

Such a powerful Northeast is in the hands of the incompetent Zhang Xueliang.

is also why the Japanese are bent on Zhang Zuolin's death, because one day when Zhang Zuolin is born, the Japanese really dare not attack the Northeast.

Because Zhang Zuolin has put so much effort into the Northeast, you Japanese dare to do it, whether he is for the public will of defending the country or treating the Northeast as his own private property, he will definitely fight back, and it is impossible to give the Northeast to others easily.

Therefore, although Zhang Zuolin has a relationship with the Japanese, he only takes advantage of the relationship, once he moves the Northeast and violates Zhang Zuolin's bottom line, Zhang Zuolin definitely does not need to issue any orders not to resist.

Don't say that Chiang Kai-shek asked him not to resist, and it can't be said by the king of heaven, because Zhang Zuolin just thinks that the northeast is his, and no one can move.

If Zhang Xueliang had three points to regard the Northeast as his home, he would not have given an order not to resist.

Therefore, a drug addict only has drugs in his eyes, and does not regard the Northeast as his home, so that the Northeast will fall.

Selfishness is two-sided, some people will betray the country because of selfishness, and some people will do things to defend the country because of selfishness.

The key is how selfishness is linked to national interests.