Song Zhewu pondered and said: "For us, the most important issue is the financial issue. Without money, we will not have the ability to expand our army, increase our weapons and equipment, and of course we will not have the energy to engage in scientific research, or even manage the local areas well. Because there is no money, we have to find a way to get money, and local taxation is of course an option, and the people in the area under governance will inevitably be overwhelmed by the excesses and miscellaneous taxes, and they will inevitably complain. It is said that most of the warlords in Sichuan now have received their taxes a few years later. Therefore, it can be said that without adequate financial support, we will not have everything. You can imagine that if Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army could have the financial resources of our Fourth Route Army, he would also have more and better weapons and equipment than he has now, although he may not have a high salary like us, but he can recruit more soldiers, and his troops will not be only more than 500,000 at most, but 700,000, or even 1 million. If his strength is so strong, Han Fuyu and the others may not leave him Feng Yuxiang, and Feng Yuxiang will never be forced to resign from his position and go to 'Huashan to study' before he can do anything. This point, Canxuan should know best. ”

Li Wentian thought deeply and nodded in agreement with Song Zhewu's opinion.

Indeed, if Feng Yuxiang had such financial resources as the Fourth Route Army, his troops would definitely not be 500,000, and the Northwest Army would always be able to endure hardships, and it would not be too much to double it. If that were the case, even if Feng Yuxiang couldn't enter Nanjing, he would at least sit in Wuhan and lead a group of small warlords to confront Chiang Kai-shek, rather than resisting Chiang Kai-shek alone.

Song Zhewu continued: "Regarding the financial problems of our Fourth Route Army, except for me and Chief of Staff Xiao, no one else knows, and now we also need to let everyone have a number in our hearts, so I will tell you the family background of our Fourth Route Army." ”

The reason why Song Zhewu wanted to inform the most important secrets of the Fourth Route Army to the people present was mainly due to three negative reasons: first, these people were all generals under him, and they would even stand alone in the future, so they still had to know about this matter earlier, and they would take the initiative to think about the economic interests of the Fourth Route Army in future strategic considerations; Second, these people here know that the Fourth Route Army can have today, mainly because of his Song Zhewu's money, and they are all taking his Song Zhewu's money, not the money given by Chiang Kai-shek to support the Fourth Route Army, and he Song Zhewu is the real master of the Fourth Route Army; Third, he also hopes that they will understand the importance of his big factory building, and he will build a lot of factories in the future, and those factories will only hand over the things they produce to the Fourth Route Army for free. Those factories should really come in handy and become the pillars of the Anti-Japanese War and even the economic construction in the future.

If you don't have money, that's a no-go! Others don't know the important surname of money, but Song Zhewu knows, once he doesn't have money to support the development of the Fourth Route Army, he Song Zhewu will also be forced to go up the mountain to study, and he will not let his Fourth Route Army wait until the Anti-Japanese War.

After taking a sip of water, Song Zhewu said again: "Before the end of last year, the military expenses of our Fourth Route Army were basically paid by me, Song Zhewu, personally, and although Chairman Shang Zhen also gave us some military expenses, it was only less than 400,000 yuan before and after, which was a drop in the bucket for the more than 100,000 people of our Fourth Route Army at that time. The lack of military spending is all solved by ourselves, and it is all the money earned by my factories. There is another source, which is the treasure stolen from Sun Dianying's Dongling Tomb that we obtained from Zeng's village. The total value of that treasure was about 50 million. ”

This treasure is only known to Xiao Guodong, Wang Xu, Zhang Yafei and Ye Changgui, and the others are all rumors, Tao Rong and the three including Chu Feng and Li Rujuan are even hearing about it for the first time, and everyone can't help but be surprised.

Looking at everyone's expressions, Song Zhewu smiled a little helplessly and said: "I have sold most of this treasure by me, and I have received more than 4,000 yuan." ”

Afraid that everyone would misunderstand, Song Zhewu hurriedly explained: "What I sold was some gold, silver and jewelry, and the rest were classic calligraphy and paintings and important cultural relics with historical significance, these things are all national treasures, and I, Song Zhewu, will never exchange them for money, otherwise I, Song Zhewu, will be a sinner of our nation." ”

"Chiang Kai-shek gave us the establishment of five divisions and three brigades, which means that he will give these formations military expenses. According to the establishment we reported, the five divisions and three brigades are 202678 people, and he will only give us more than 200,000 military expenses. Moreover, the military expenses of more than 200,000 people will only be paid according to the standards of the Central Army at most. According to the standards of the Central Army, we can only meet less than half of our needs, and we have to find a way to solve the shortage of more than half of our military spending. The military expenses of the 150,000 people who are not on the payroll have to be fully settled by ourselves. ”

Song Zhewu frowned slightly, and then said: "In the past, the military expenses of our troops were all earned by our own factories, but in the past six months, our Fourth Route Army has developed extremely rapidly, and the money earned by these factories alone can no longer fully meet our military needs, not to mention that we have to buy weapons and ammunition. Now we have five factories that make money: flour mills, textile mills, dyeing mills, canning factories, and pharmaceutical factories. Moreover, although the canned food of the canning factory and several Chinese patent medicines produced by the pharmaceutical factory are selling well, the output is not very large because of the raw materials, and it is not possible to make a lot of money for the time being. In addition to the money given to us by Chiang Kai-shek, there is still a big gap, and this gap is supplemented by the money from Zengjiazhai. ”

Song Zhewu looked at everyone and said: "Although the amount of money we have is large, there will always be a time when it will be spent, I can tell you that there is only 16 million left in that money now, which is only enough for our military expenses for two months, even if we count the profits of those factories in the past few months, it will be three months at most, and this is still under the condition that we do not purchase weapons and ammunition." ”

In fact, since the first day of Song Zhewu's crossing, Song Zhewu has been planning how to make money, and his plan has been basically successful, and it is even very close to the final success.

As soon as he returned to Laiyuan, Xiao Guodong handed over the letter from Song Zhewen, who was far away in the United States, to Song Zhewu through Situ Leiden. The contents of this letter are of course top secret, and if anyone opens it, he will be surprised! Because the letter was not written in Chinese, nor in English, nor even in German, French, or Latin, no one knew what language it was, because he was in Hanyu Pinyin.

Now there are only four people in this world who understand, in addition to Song Zhewu, there are also Song Zhewen, Xiao Guodong, Wang Xu, Song Zhewu and Xiao Guodong and Wang Xu's telegrams are all using pinyin as a password.

Song Zhewen told Song Zhewu in the letter that the two brothers' investments in the United States have been very successful, and according to Song Zhewu's instructions, the stocks they have invested in are very successful, and the stocks are now worth more than $2 billion. Due to the huge amount of shares, in order to sell all the shares before October as Song Zhewu requested, Song Zhewen has now begun to gradually reduce the number of shares in his hands and invest the proceeds in futures trading for short selling. Song Zhewen asked Song Zhewu to rest assured that he would definitely follow Song Zhewu's explanation and invest all his $1 billion in futures, and now he is gradually selling oil, wheat, rubber, non-ferrous metals, and other bulk trading varieties, and the delivery period will be at the end of this year and early next year. The rest belonged to Song Zhewen's part, and Song Zhewen decided to buy gold based on Song Zhewu's prediction that there would be a major crisis.

Song Zhewen praised Song Zhewu in the letter for having a good economic vision, and even surpassed him, a high-achieving student who graduated from Haval, and the stocks pointed out by Song Zhewu have risen the fastest, and they have increased several times so far. It's not that Song Zhewu knows which stocks will rise sharply in this era, but Song Zhewu knows that those old big companies in the United States in later generations, since they can persist and develop greatly, it means that they have always operated very well, otherwise, they would have collapsed long ago.

Due to Song Zhewu's reminder, Song Zhewen also secretly launched his own investigation in the United States, and after his investigation, he found that Song Zhewu's prediction that a major economic crisis would occur in the fourth quarter is very likely to come true. Now that timber trading in the futures market has begun to fall, the investment in the United States this year has dropped significantly compared with last year, and enterprises are generally under-employed, estimated to be only 80 percent of last year. All this shows that the demand is insufficient, but this demand is not a real shortage, but because of the progress of technology and the continuous improvement of productivity, that is to say, there has been a serious overproduction of sales, and demand has not been able to keep up with the pace of expansion of production capacity, which is indeed a precursor to the economic crisis.

Song Zhewen also thinks that he should sell the stocks in his hand, but Song Zhewen also disagrees with investing all the funds in futures. Although if there is a real economic crisis, now is the right time to short sell, due to the leverage effect of futures, it is not a problem to make a profit of five to ten times. But if the crisis is delayed, the billion dollars will be lost.

For the sake of insurance and for the financial support of his brother's big business in China, Song Zhewen decided to invest in gold. Now that the U.S. investment financial market is hot and the price of gold is relatively low, it is a good time to buy gold. In the event of an economic crisis, the price of gold will skyrocket. That is to say, even if an economic crisis occurs as scheduled, he will still make money when everyone else is losing money, and it will make a lot of money.

Song Zhewen also told Song Zhewu in the letter that although he had invested his share of property in futures trading according to Song Zhewu's requirements, he asked Song Zhewu to rest assured, even if they were all matched, don't worry, because in this world, the two brothers are the closest people, and his Song Zhewen's property is also Song Zhewu's.

(To be continued)