Chapter Twenty-Three: In the Dark
Qiangyun Company, like the famous Yangzi Construction Company in later generations, is a private company of the Kong family, and the money is transferred to Qiangyun Company, and then the Qiangyun Company gives people 'Qiangyun' out, which is one of Kong Lingkan's tricks to make money. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The officers and men of the Fujian nationality of the Info Navy are obviously not of the same mind as the central government, and now that they are in financial difficulties, why should they 'sell' these people to the Navy?
Kong Lingkan told Lin Guogeng this method in New York, and a few days later, in the Nanshan apartment in the southern suburbs of Chongqing, Song Ailing was also complaining to her sister that her husband had lost a lot of weight recently.
"He, he often can't sleep in the middle of the night when he is busy with official business, so I can't sleep well, and I can't open my eyes when I get up every day. What is the price of the pound, the equalization fund, hey! I'll just say, you, the national government, refuse to let out the rich, and do everything possible to invite the poor to come in, how can you be so in charge? Now it's the enemy who killed his father, as long as people are willing to borrow money, this revenge must be avenged slowly, right, now this level will be passed first......"
The Xinzhong company's willingness to borrow money has long been known to the top officials of the state government, but Xinzhong is a navy company, and the navy is full of thieves, so the chairman of the Standing Committee privately said that he could not do it before the matter came to light. The Standing Committee Chairman said that it was just a sentence, but it was very tricky to implement it in the Executive Yuan. The depreciation of the pound will always bottom out, and now there are still millions of pounds in the equalization fund, but once the foreign exchange market stabilizes, those large and small companies that do not cash out for the time being will have to vigorously arbitrage foreign exchange. U.S. borrowing can only be used for the U.S. to buy U.S. goods, and once millions of pounds are used up, the fiat currency can only stop converting, and if there is really a panic, more and more people will sell fiat currency, and the consequences are really unimaginable.
Song Ailing chattered, talking about family affairs, but actually talking about state affairs. Song Meiling heard it in her ears, and she could only smile bitterly at this. She said: "Their slander of the Father of the Nation is really ......, and the second sister has a lot of opinions, thinking that the Navy reverses black and white and deliberately slanders the Prime Minister." ”
"It's just a matter of winning and losing." Song Ailing said. "After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, they said that they could not slander the prime minister for a single point, but if the Anti-Japanese War failed, it would not only be the navy, but also the hawkers in the streets and alleys who sold fried rice and ponds and boiled water. Yesterday I received a letter from New York, saying that we had come up with another solution, and that he would go to your place early this morning. ”
"Came up with another solution?" Song Meiling was surprised, she remembered that it seemed to be Kong Lingkan in the United States, could it be that he came up with some idea?
"Yes. Didn't the Navy want to get back to their old people? Hasn't the government always been dissatisfied with the Fujianese's monopoly on the navy? Now, it's okay to sell these people to them. Song Ailing said with a smile, "The foreign exchange sold can enrich the national government, and secondly, the national government can also use a small part of the money to rebuild the navy, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone." ”
"......" didn't expect it to be human trafficking, Song Meiling was even more surprised when she heard it, "Buying and selling ......, it's not good for this to get out." ”
"This was originally done by the Navy itself." Song Ailing smiled brightly, "You know what? Although the naval officers and men on the Mawei side are under the jurisdiction of the local army, they have now been sold by them. It seems to be how many dollars a person is, anyway, there are different officers and soldiers, and the price is high and low. Chongqing's control is stricter, but there are also many people who sneak away. If there is a sneak run, there is a sneak release, and there are naturally benefits to stealing, and there is a lot of money anyway. I think it won't be long before all these people in the Navy will run out, except for some that are not easy to run. ”
"Ahh Song Meiling was taken aback, she never thought that there would be such a thing, and it had happened for a long time.
"It's true. I already knew about it below, but everyone didn't say it. "Song Ailing said." In this case, why not let a company under the Ministry of Finance come forward to negotiate this kind of business directly with the Navy, and the money bought can also subsidize the state treasury. This is the way the officers and men of the Navy deal with it, and there is another thing: Isn't the Air Force short of planes and pilots, and what team does the Navy want to send back to China, and they want to disobey orders, and they still want to hang a broken flag that they don't know where to pick, so Ling Kan said that he simply set up the Overseas Chinese Air Force in the United States, so it has nothing to do with the Navy, and those who do not give orders will take the opportunity to act when the time comes. Isn't it all about hitting Japanese planes and protecting the capital, this is an order. They said that they should replace training with war, so it is better to use war instead of training, and if the casualties reach a certain level, can they not fight? ”
"That'...... So what do they say? Compared with foreign exchange, the Air Force is what Song Meiling pays attention to, so looking at Song Ailing, who was pausing to drink tea, she hurriedly asked, she wanted to know the Navy's answer too much.
"What else can they say?" Song Ailing saw that her sister was anxious and made up her mind, "They are not short of money or people now, as long as the matter of the navy officers and soldiers going abroad is solved, the matter of the air force will not be difficult to solve." Ling Kan said that he visited the Navy's aircraft factory in the United States this time, and said that it seems that the name of the Navy is different from that of the Air Force, the Air Force is called a destroyer, what is the name of the Navy......" Song Ailing patted her head, as if she was hanging her sister's appetite again, "I can't remember it at once, anyway, that kind of plane was built by the Navy itself two years ago, and now it has just been put into production, and the entire factory is making planes for the Navy." I said that since the whole factory is building planes for the Navy, then the Air Force can also buy some there in the future. But we have to see if the plane is good or good first, and then we buy it. ”
"The Navy is called a fighter." Song Meiling exhaled after listening. She knows something about the situation of the Navy in the United States, and they did it themselves by bidding for new aircraft, which they did two years ago. At that time, the aircraft factory was still very worried about whether the Navy would be able to buy enough quantities, and who thought that the Navy would be willing to pay a deposit for this. As soon as the European war began, the American aircraft companies were full of orders, and the national government did not say whether there was foreign exchange, and even if there was foreign exchange, there was no place to buy planes, and the orders could not be delivered. The Resources Committee has a way of building its own aircraft engine factory, but no one knows whether this will work.
"Yes, it's called a fighter." Song Ailing smiled, and then she said a question that made it difficult for Song Meiling to breathe: "The navy also said something very important...... saying that there is an oil field under Sichuan. ”
"There are oil fields in Sichuan? Where is it? Song Meiling not only found it difficult to breathe, but couldn't even sit still.
"Say it's in the middle of the river." Song Ailing said, "Ling Kan said that there is no problem with the navy saying that there is no problem with an annual output of less than 100,000 tons of oil, and they can provide a general range area, if the oil wells are drilled more, it is not possible to exceed 100,000 tons, but it depends on luck." ”
"How do they know that there is an oil field in the river?" Song Meiling stood up too quickly and felt dizzy, and sat down again. She is one of the members of the Navigation Commission and is not unaware of the importance of oil. If Sichuan really has oil fields, then the Air Force's training hours can be extended, the Air Force's training hours can be guaranteed, and there are good planes, and the current situation can be improved.
Ling Kan didn't ask, but the navy said that it was Li Hansheng who said it. Isn't he a famous golden finger, you can find treasures in the sea so deep, and it shouldn't be difficult to find oil fields. Song Ailing said with a smile. It's a pity that he got married, and he married the singer Xu Peipei, if he didn't get married, I would marry Ling Yi to him. At that time, there was still no distinction between you and me, everyone was a family. ”
Song Ailing laughed out loud as she spoke, and began to talk about the first time she saw Li Kongrong on a cruise ship to the UK a few years ago. Song Meiling also longed for her for a while, but she still couldn't sit still because she had something in her heart, and left after a while.
At the same time that Song Ailing persuaded her, Kong Xiangxi was also reporting to Chang Kaishen at the Huangshan Villa. This was his initiative to report, and the negotiation with the navy was also his private order, Chang Kaishen didn't want to listen to two sentences, he had to resign and threaten Chang Kaishen to finish what he said. Forget everything else, Chang Kaishen, who heard that there was an oil field in Sichuan, finally put away his tired expression, and he raised his eyebrows: "There are oil fields in Sichuan?" ”
"What Li Hansheng said should not be false." Kong Xiangxi said, "The location, depth, and output are all roughly clear, as long as Sun Yueqi leads people to dig." If it can really produce 100,000 tons of oil per year, it will ...... foreign exchange."
"Let him dig! Dig out 100,000 tons of ......, don't want 100,000 tons, dig out 50,000 tons and I'll release people, don't think about it if you can't dig it out. Kong Xiangxi wanted to say more, but he didn't think that Chang Kaishen waved his hand and agreed in one breath, but his method was simple and rude.
"You promised?!" Kong Xiangxi personally went into battle here, and asked his wife to do Meiling's work over there, but he didn't expect Chang Kaishen to nod when it came to oil. He was not aware of the urgency of the Ministry of Military Affairs for oil -- before the fall of Guangzhou, oil was imported from Guangzhou, and after the fall of Guangzhou, most of the oil was imported from the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway. Although the Japanese army did not occupy Nanning, it had already cut off the Yuegui Highway. If the situation is really like what Li Kongrong said, France will be defeated in a month, the Japanese army will definitely enter French Annam to cut off the Yunnan-Vietnam railway.
The French side allocates a monthly quota of 15,600 tons to the Chinese side for the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, of which gasoline alone accounts for 4,900 tons. Once the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway is cut off, the more than 2,000 tons of gasoline transported by the Yunnan-Burma Highway every month will not be enough, not to mention other oil and military supplies. Even if the traffic volume of the Yunnan-Burma highway increases, it is difficult to reach the monthly traffic volume of more than 15,000 tons of the Yunnan-Vietnam railway. In the last negotiations, the navy mentioned a waterway, that is, from the port of Kyaukphyu in the direction of the Indian Ocean, to be transported by road to the Irrawaddy River, and then by water to Bhamo, and then to connect to the Yunnan-Burma Highway.
At a time when negotiations on the Yunnan-Burma railway are difficult to negotiate in a short period of time due to border issues, this waterway, which was reached between the former Qing Dynasty and the Burmese side, may be able to find a way to open it. However, the volume of waterway transportation is not optimistic, Yunnan said: if the river is not dredged management, the port is not expanded and rectified, the average monthly volume is only more than 2,000 tons. 2,000 tons is a drop in the bucket, and even if the dredging is expanded, the ship to Bamo will still squeeze out the traffic of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, unless it is transported ashore in Mandalay along the Irrawaddy River and transported by rail to Lashio. The greatest significance of the waterway is simply to have another way of access to Rangoon when it is occupied by the enemy.
Foreign transportation channels, volumes, oil, and gasoline reserves ......, and no one cared about the loss of the 88th Army after the end of the Guinan War, and the problem faced by the national government was a trade strangulation war. Cars cannot be used without gasoline, heavy artillery cannot be towed, planes cannot take off, and the last bit of modern equipment of the army will be lost. When Songhu was in Songhu, there were three divisions fighting the Japanese army and one division, and there was no gasoline, so how many divisions would it take to fight one division of the Japanese army?
The above is not known to Kong Xiangxi, he asked a question, seeing that Chang Kaishen did not answer and wanted to ask a second sentence, Chang Kaishen said: "They also have to dig out the oil first." ”
"This can definitely be dug up!" Kong Xiangxi's superstition about Li Kongrong was even worse than Chang Kaishen's, and he immediately wanted to go out and call back to New York, but Chang Kaishen stopped him. "Brother Yong, remember, this matter has nothing to do with the government, and the government does not recognize the existence of cooperation with the navy. As long as the oil is dug up, those who are willing to follow them will go with them. The air force is called the Overseas Chinese Air Force, and it is not allowed to play the navy's signboard, hang the 18-star flag, and slander the former prime minister and the ...... of the state government. ”
"Of course, of course." Kong Xiangxi nodded vigorously, he was afraid that Chang Kaishen would not agree, who knew that he had no foreign exchange to endure, he could endure being bombed by a Japanese plane, but he couldn't bear it without gasoline. "Brother Jie, the fog season is coming to an end, can we let the Navy ......, no, no, it's the Overseas Chinese Air Force, don't we say that we can let the Overseas Chinese Air Force settle in the capital as soon as possible?"
"Are they reliable, they won't drop bombs on the government, will they?" Chang Kaishen asked thoughtfully, he had heard that Li Kongrong had threatened to drop a bomb on Luojiawan No. 19.
"Then ......" Kong Xiangxi was also stupid, he didn't expect Chang Kaishen to be so wary of the navy.
"Let's let them be in Kunming first. Guilin and Shaoguan are also available. Our air force is not light, and we don't need their protection to accompany us. Chang Kaishen said three places, these are airports far away from Chongqing. Although the air force is an overseas Chinese, it must obey domestic laws at home, hang the blue sky and white sun flag, the portrait of the former prime minister, and sing the song of the Three People's Principles. If you can't do that, don't come. ”
Fortunately, Chang Kaishen only said the flag, portrait and the song of the Three People's Principles, and did not say anything else. Kong Xiangxi breathed a sigh of relief, and he said: "I will immediately tell the New York side to send someone to dig for oil as soon as possible, and the officers and men of the Navy will be allowed to leave the country after digging out the oil; And then the air force will also tell them about these requirements. ”
"Hmm." Chang Kaishen seemed to have made a huge concession, and he wanted to say something and endured it. He said, "That's all, you go." It's okay to deal with this matter privately, and don't involve the state government. ”
Kong Xiangxi ran out of Yunxiu Tower like a jumper, it was easy for others, but it was not easy for him to be such a fat man. As soon as Kong Xiangxi left, Chang Kaishen, who was sitting in a half-loud voice, made a phone call to Dai Li, and as soon as Dai Li came, he took the information provided by Kong Xiangxi and asked: "Isn't it forbidden for naval officers and soldiers to go abroad, how did these thousands of people go out, and what do they do with their passports?!" ”
"Report to the principal, it seems that the people from Yunnan helped the navy, and Guangxi and Shanxi provinces also have it." Dai Li didn't expect it to be this, but fortunately, he had heard about it before. "Most of them use photos of Navy personnel, but their names and household registrations have been changed."
"Humph! You have to investigate this matter thoroughly, and the rest of the people must take pictures and keep them on file at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and they will be forbidden to leave the country. Chang Kaishen said angrily, if it weren't for Kong Xiangxi's outspoken statement today that there are no less than three or four thousand naval personnel going abroad, he would still be kept in the dark.