"Chairman Shao, as long as Gansu gives us the work of railway construction to Jardine Matheson to Chengguo, our bank is willing to give 500,000 oceans as a thank you afterwards." The person in charge of Jardine Matheson couldn't wait to find Shao Lizi and negotiate with Shao Lizi separately through the relationship before the press conference.

The corners of Shao Lizi's mouth twitched, since Jiang Li instructed him to release the news of the construction of a railway in Gansu, the thousands of kilometers of railways, including the purchase of rails, trains, and the production of future trains and locomotives in Gansu, are related to the investment of no less than 20 million US dollars, and for Gansu, a backward and remote inland, the cost of building a railway is higher than that in the southeast coastal area. Although Jiang Li felt a little suspicious of such an ambitious plan, after all, the funds consumed were too huge, and at the moment of national crisis, it was better to use so much money to build railways than to expand armaments.

Since Jiang Li and Huang Xiansheng actually took control of Gansu, Ning, and Qingdao, they have invested more than dozens of times in agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, infrastructure, and education in the three provinces. and all areas related to people's livelihood at this time. Including those machinery purchases, the funds directly involved are hundreds of millions of dollars. And Tibetan Shiyi still controls the eighty or ninety million cash brought from Fengtian. The scale of investment leveraged by this has reached around $1450 million. With such a huge cash flow, for countries at the peak of the economic crisis at this time, those business investors are like sharks smelling blood, flocking to Lanzhou. Shao Lizi was also overwhelmed for a while, Jiang Li was originally busy inspecting the military situation and the expansion and formation of the special combat team, but at this time, he also had to put down military affairs and help Shao Lizi share the pressure.

I have persuaded and persuaded him, since the money is from Jiang, Jiang Li can spend it as much as he wants. Shao Lizi sighed. His provincial chairmanship was jointly recognized by Yang Hucheng and Nanjing, and in terms of relations, he favored Nanjing a little more. At this time, Nanjing had already heard a little rumor, and he also asked Shao Lizi to try his best to promote the capital in the northwest to flow into industry, instead of using it to purchase ordnance. Obviously, in Nanjing's eyes, the harm of the 15th Route Army to buy arms was far greater than that of developing industry.

Doing it according to Jiang Li's idea can be regarded as fulfilling all aspects. If Jiang Li knew about Nanjing's law at this time, I am afraid that he would cover his mouth and snicker. Use the little money in your hand to buy ordnance, although you can be strong for a while, but no matter how much ordnance you have in your hand, you can't transport it out if you can't do it, even if Jiang Li has a hundred King Tiger tanks at the moment, but there is not much difference between holding it in your hand and scrap iron, first of all, you don't have a sufficient technical team in your hand to repair these expensive big guys, and then the Republic of China now simply doesn't have enough bridges to support the transfer of this tank team. For example, when he went to Shanghai this time, the Tiger King could not move on the battlefield at will. After all, at this time, the transportation base of the Republic of China was not enough to compare with Europe. No matter how many guys there are in their hands, but they can't be delivered to the battlefield in time, and being put in the warehouse is naturally no different from scrap copper and rotten iron. Besides, if the purchase of ready-made arms is blocked, once the transportation channel is blocked in the future, if the problem of self-sufficiency is not solved, where else can the northwest buy arms? Once the current investment in industry exploded into unprecedented power during the war, perhaps Nanjing would know how superficial its understanding was at this time.

"Chairman Shao, Chairman Shao!" The staff next to him called a few times.

It only took Shao Lizi a moment to recover from soul travel, looking at the foreigner in front of him, Shao Lizi smiled indifferently. "Mr. Jensen, our country is in a period of great peril. Every penny comes from the blood and sweat of the people. Any idea of keeping the money for yourself at such times is extremely sinful, so thank you for your kindness. As for the construction of the railway in the northwest of the entire Republic of China, it is still an open bidding. ”

"Really? Chairman Shao no longer thinks about it? We can even raise the benefits given to Chairman Shao. Jensen said in surprise, according to the experience left by his predecessors in the past, it is usually difficult to negotiate business in the Republic of China without taking out a part of the money to make rebates, and these backward and greedy people refuse only because the kickbacks are not enough.

"Mr. Jensen. I have limited time, so we'll see you at the bidding meeting. Shao Lizi didn't have the patience to entangle with Jensen anymore, and directly issued an eviction order.

"I am very glad to have reached an agreement with your company, and I think this is a great blessing for my country, which is still unable to solve the problem of food and clothing. Those who have survived because of the production of fertilizers will be grateful for your company's generosity. Northwest will not forget your company's friendship either. ”

Jiang Li enthusiastically stood up and shook hands with Witzenri in front of him. At the same time that Shao Lizi was presiding over the bidding meeting for the construction of the Northwest Railway, Jiang Li and Wei Jiang Enli from Germany also successfully completed negotiations on the purchase of equipment to establish a large-scale fertilizer and chemical pesticide factory in Tianshui. Similar to the previous negotiations, Germany did not make many concessions on the price, but it made relatively large concessions in the input of talents, and the technical team that guided the construction of fertilizer and pesticide factories in the Republic of China included an unprecedented one who had obtained a doctorate degree in related majors from the University of Berlin and two master's degree holders. Two of them were Jews.

"Helping the northwest to establish a relatively complete agricultural system, so that those poor people who do not have enough to eat will not fall down because of hunger, this is also what our company is happy to do, and our company is also happy to cooperate with people like His Excellency the General."

After completing a large order of more than four million US dollars, Witzenli also breathed a sigh of relief, this time back, the company's old-fashioned and stereotypical antiques are afraid that their eyes will fall to the ground. There is no shortage of rich people in any poor place, and Jiang Li's ambition to rectify the agriculture in the northwest is the first time he has seen it, and it is foreseeable that the investment in agriculture in the northwest will never stop at the moment in the future, and there is still considerable room for cooperation in the future.

"I wish the future cooperation will be as happy as ever." Jiang Li smiled and nodded.

Although Gansu, Qinghai, and Xining are located inland, as long as they have an army that is not too bad, it is difficult for the Japanese army to penetrate. But the population of these places is still relatively small. The Northwest has long been a subsistence small-scale peasant economy, and there will be a certain shortage of workers for a long time. It is only possible to rely on a large number of refugees and victims who have fled from other provinces. In the future, it will take hundreds of thousands of people to build a hydropower station, and a railway to Xinjiang will also cost 120,000 people. Most of the mineral deposits found in Gansu are also inaccessible, and often a large coal mine site also requires tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands. (To be continued.) )