Chapter 236 Arming the Chinese Army
This arms trade in the Northland has indeed brought a lot of wealth to Fengtian, and the time is very concentrated, and it is only a few months of trading time before and after. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Among these big customers, including the central government's government procurement funds of 50 million oceans, Shanxi's Yan Xishan also purchased 30 million oceans, others such as Li Zongren, the king of Liangguang, purchased 30 million oceans, Guizhou 10 million oceans, Yunnan Longyun purchased 20 million oceans, Sichuan Liu Xiang also had 15 million oceans, and other large and small local forces almost 40 million silver dollars, totaling more than 200 million oceans.
This is also a win-win result, most of the current Chinese army weapons and equipment are very backward, even the rifle of the Nationalist Government is only a formal rifle, the goods of the First World War.
Rather than letting the Chinese army buy guns from foreigners and be extorted by Westerners, it is better to buy them locally, at least Fengtian is cheap and fair, and will not be extorted because of strange goods.
Feng Tian, on the other hand, urgently needs to collect the ocean or silver, and this transaction is beneficial to both parties.
Feng Tian also has a thought, the time for the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance is getting closer and closer, and it is imperative to improve the quality of weapons and equipment of the Chinese army.
In the previous life, as a backward party, Chinese soldiers fought with inferior rifles against the Japanese army, paying the price of Chinese soldiers' lives, and the tragedy was outrageous.
Let's take the Sichuan Army, on July 7, 1937, after the outbreak of the "Lugou Bridge Incident", in the eight-year bloody war of resistance, the Sichuan Army invited Yingchuan to leave the Sichuan, the Sichuan Army has a total of 3.5 million people to participate in the war, and the Sichuan Army has a total of 6 group armies (a total of 12 armies, about 300,000 people) who have been fighting on the front line against Japan all the year round.
The Chinese army was quite large, and it is said that the Sichuan army alone was more than twice the strength of the Japanese army.
But is it useful to have a lot of people?
What kind of weapons are these Sichuan troops holding to fight?
During the Anti-Japanese War, the equipment of the Sichuan army was all some old-fashioned firearms, and even the back and forth lines were polished.
The Sichuan army went out of Sichuan in winter, wearing single clothes, wearing straw sandals on their feet, without provisions, fighting with a hungry belly, how hard do you say the Chinese soldiers are in the eight-year War of Resistance?
It's nothing to be bitter, but what is serious is that because of the backward weapons, the soldiers of the army on the battlefield are simply fighting with their own lives.
According to statistics, in the 8-year war, the Sichuan army was famous for its hard and bloody battles in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, with 3.5 million soldiers before and after Sichuan, the highest among all provinces in the country, and the casualties accounted for about 20% of the country, with a total of more than 640,000 casualties, including more than 263,000 killed, more than 356,000 wounded, and more than 26,000 missing.
Think about it, what a terrible war it was.
Because of backwardness and lack of excellent weapons and equipment, how many more soldiers will we die on the battlefield?
Therefore, Feng Tian is happy to sell weapons and equipment to these domestic armies.
Especially the Sichuan army, such a large province with soldiers, must improve their level of weapon preparation, and can no longer go to the front line with inferior weapons to fight with little devils like in their previous lives.
For this reason, Fengtian also specially provided the Sichuan army with weapons and equipment for three divisions, which was also based on this consideration.
The rifle is only the beginning of the arms deal, and since the first deal has been made and a relationship of mutual trust has been established, the cooperation will continue.
General conventional weapons, Fengtian has them here, as long as the other party has money, Fengtian has no reason not to do business.
In addition to rifles, these orders for weapons in general, such as grenades, mortars, artillery, machine guns, are ordered in a wide variety. A lot of these weapons and equipment were sold piecemeal, and silver flowed into it in an uproar.
Why silver, and not silver dollars?
There are not many silver dollars, isn't it the same for silver, even if it is a silver dollar, Fengtian needs to be turned into silver, and there is one more process, why bother.
From 1932 onwards, Fengtian began to plan to absorb silver, and this step was a successful end, and the savings were small fights, and there were not many domestic silver goods.
There was enough silver in his hand, and Feng Tian had the confidence to start calculating the plan for the next silver war.
Of course, it is still a little difficult to make waves in the international market by relying only on the capital of Feng Tian.
It doesn't matter, Feng Tian has already calculated it.
Feng Tian will not do it brutely, he is taking advantage of the east wind and taking advantage of the trend.
This east wind was the Gold Act of the United States, and later the Silver Act.
In other words, Fengtian has to calculate the Ross Mansion.
Since the Rus Mansion calculates that China is the first, and it is not easy to be kind, Feng Tian does not have to be polite, borrowing the hand of the Rus Mansion and slapping the Rus Mansion, this game is still quite interesting.
As a descendant, I have no good impression of the economic monster of the United States.
This merchant government is full of calculations in his heart, as long as that country is targeted by him, there will be no good things, and it is not far from bad luck.
Businessmen, how to get rich without calculation, the country that is calculated thinks that it is unlucky, who made you stupid and let people calculate?
In any case, Feng Tian is very willing to calculate the United States, and the important thing is to calculate success.
If you want to succeed, you must be ready, and Feng Tian must have silver in his hands.
And looting silver from the Nationalist Government and various warlords was also the last resort for Feng Tian to prepare for silver, so Feng Tian thought of arms trading.
The arms trade was beneficial to all parties, not only helped the domestic army to improve its weapons and equipment, but also got the silver it needed, and both sides were happy to take what they needed. Of course, you can't buy and sell at a loss, and Fengtian just guarantees that the price here is fair, and it will never ask for a price.
Now, Fengtian's action to collect the ocean from the domestic people is almost over, and the effect will not be too good if it continues, because the silver dollars are getting fewer and fewer, and you can't take back a pair of paper tickets, right?
Of course, there are still some consequences for the flapping of this little wing, and the financial department of the national government has already noticed the shortage of circulating currency in the market, and the problem is very serious.
Originally, the national government only had to implement the fiat currency in 1935, but I am afraid that this life will be brought forward, and it is estimated that it will be launched soon.
Because the market is almost depleted of silver dollars and there is a shortage of currency, the government has held several meetings for this purpose and finally decided to launch it by the end of the year.
Besides, I have already agreed to Song Ziwen's request, so I have to honor it, right?
Therefore, the measures to gradually increase the price of products in the north should be implemented immediately.
Increasing product prices will inevitably affect product sales and cause a backlog of products in Northland. Of course, this will have an adverse impact on the production of the Northland, and moreover, it will affect the income of the Sealed Sky and the economic interests of the Northland Volunteers.
Feng Tian had already thought about this, and he also had a countermeasure in his heart.
In the past, the government of the Northland imposed military control, and the people of the Northland only had enough to eat and ration food, which meant that there was almost no purchasing power in the market in the Northland.
The rationing system implemented by the government is only to maintain a minimum amount of procurement to meet the minimum living needs of the people in the Northland.
Now, the Northland government is about to lift the ration system, and at the end of the year, the people in the Northland will be paid half a year's salary.
Nowadays, the population of the Northland is also quite large, and the tens of millions of people are centrally purchased, and its purchasing power is quite amazing.
It is conceivable that after fleeing from the northeast to the northland, except for a little food with him, he was probably destitute.
In other words, the people of the Northland have to buy the products they need from scratch, and almost all the goods are needed, and the scale is very huge.
In this way, the purchasing power of the people in the north will make up for the loss of the Central Plains market, and it will inevitably digest the product backlog of the northland enterprises. With this commodity sales target, the industrial and mining enterprises in the north will not stop production due to changes in the Central Plains market.
Perhaps, due to the strong purchasing power of the Northland, those industrial and mining enterprises still need to work overtime to produce to meet market demand.
I have to say that Feng Tian's calculations are very accurate, some routines are interlocking, and the soup does not leak.
The price dumping strategy on the mainland has come to an end temporarily, and Feng Tian has focused his attention on the deployment of the silver dollar war, although the domestic silver dollar price has increased slightly, but in Feng Tian's view, this is not enough, so let the price be more violent.
In fact, manipulating the price of silver dollars is very simple, maybe Feng Tian has not done it himself in his previous life, but he has seen too many similar methods.
The manipulation of the price of silver dollars is really pediatric for Feng Tian.
Feng Tian has already sent out some people to do this thing, and let people go to various places in the Central Plains to walk the streets and alleys and buy silver dollars at high prices.
Of course, they will spread the word that silver dollars have become a rare coin, and that they are becoming less and less common, and that they can be used as collectibles, and that the older they are, the higher their prices.
This primitive approach works, at least in this era.
You can't compare to the powerful spread of the Internet in later generations, and you don't have the necessary media, so rumors are an effective way to do it.
The question now is that it's not about how many dollars you can get in, it's important to let people know that the price of the dollar has gone up and will continue to rise.
There are not many silver dollars in the people's hands, plus this link, can people who have silver dollars in their hands not cherish them?
Therefore, the silver dollar will inevitably rise sharply next.
As a result of the sharp rise in the silver dollar, it may be unprofitable for Westerners who are aware of it to enter China to buy the silver dollar. Moreover, the shortage of silver would further raise the price of the silver dollar, forcing the Nationalist government to reform the currency as soon as possible.
In this way, the calculations of the speculators and the Americans who intend to resell the silver dollar will be in vain.
One of the key goals of the Americans in implementing the Silver Dollar Act was to target China.
China has too many people and a market large enough to accommodate large quantities of American goods to contribute to the recovery of the U.S. economy.
This is what the Americans have always done, sacrificing the interests of others and enriching themselves.
It's a pity that Americans are a little unlucky in this life, because there is a sealed sky in it to muddy the waters.
(To be continued.) )