"Anything else?" Zhang Naiqi shook his head, he didn't understand what kind of medicine his brother was selling in the gourd, so he didn't want to donate to GCD, right? If that's the case, wouldn't it be over with a telegram? Why bother to come all the way to raise money on Chinese New Year's Eve?

Zhang Qiuyang smiled, took out a handwritten letter from Zhou Elai from his pocket and handed it to his brother: "Second brother, our party now controls the only oil mine in China - Yan'an Oil Mine. Chinese Internet is now running a navy on Chinese New Year's Eve, presumably to use oil, right? ”

"That's what happened." Zhang Naiqi smiled and nodded: "This thing is easy to do, Zhong G wants to sell oil to the Ministry of Armaments, right?" I will discuss with Mr. Ma Junwu tomorrow, and he is in charge of the chemical industry at the moment. The Yan'an Oil Mine just bought the little oil from the Ministry of Armaments. ”

Zhang Qiuyang waved his hand: "Second brother, our party means to comprehensively explore the oil resources in northern Shaanxi, and then expand the oil mines on a large scale on Chinese New Year's Eve. In addition, it also wants to develop the rich coal mines in northern Shaanxi, and the iron ore in Suiyuan Baiyun Obo. However, this investment had to be made by the Ministry of Armaments of the Nationalist Government, and all the oil produced in return was sold to the Ministry of Armaments. Coal and iron were also partially sold to the Ministry of Armaments on Chinese New Year's Eve, to see if the deal could be completed? ”

"Chinese New Year's Eve scale expansion?"

Zhang Naiqi frowned, looked at his younger brother's expectant face, and didn't know how to speak for a while. The Yan'an oil mine was explored by American oil companies in the years when Yuan Shikai was in power, and the opinion of the Americans at that time was that there was no value in large-scale development on Chinese New Year's Eve, although this was more than ten years ago, and now that oil exploration and development technology has made certain progress, there may be new discoveries. But...... If you want to scale oil projects on Chinese New Year's Eve, you must invest in Chinese New Year's Eve to see results. In addition, China and G also want to develop coal in northern Shaanxi and iron ore in Suiyuan, which are simply resources needed by the Nationalist government, but to develop them also requires investment on a Chinese New Year's Eve scale. But is this Qian Luo Yaoguo willing to come out?

Seeing his brother's face that wanted to speak and stopped, Zhang Qiuyang's face gradually became solemn, and now he has very high expectations for these projects next week. Don't mess it up......

There was silence in the room, and neither brother said a word.

I don't know how long it took before I heard Zhang Naiqi sigh lightly: "Yu'an, the national government simply needs oil." Now they are already exploring the oil mines in Yumen, Gansu Province, preparing to invest there on a Chinese New Year's Eve scale, and will also lay the railway to Yumen. In addition, through cooperation with the Germans, the Kuomintang also found two other ways to obtain oil, one is coal liquefaction technology. This is a technology mastered by the German company Farben to liquefy coal into fuel oil, and the original national government planned to spend a huge amount of money to introduce it. But...... During this time, it seems that German experts have discovered a tool called oil shale in Guangdong, according to which oil can also be refined, and Guangdong's oil shale reserves are still very rich, it is estimated that if the Chinese New Year's Eve scale investment and development, it is no problem to obtain millions of tons of oil every year, although the cost is relatively high, but it is not unbearable. Therefore, the Kuomintang is now ready to invest in the development of oil shale in Maoming, Guangdong."

"There is also this kind of technology" Zhang Qiuyang was stunned and stunned, he never thought that these Germans would have this kind of ability, so wouldn't the task placed by Comrade Zhou Elai be yellow?

Listening to his brother's voice, Zhang Naiqi raised his eyebrows and smiled: "What? Is there such a technical underwhelming? Is it because the oil monopoly of G has been broken? ”

Zhang Qiuyang just sighed: "Second brother, the difficulties in the Soviet region are really too Chinese New Year's Eve now, the Soviet Union has been blamed on the Mongolian issue, foreign aid has been lost, and there are warlords with bad intentions on all sides. If it goes on like this, I'm afraid it's going to ...... At present, it is also counting on the oil mines in northern Shaanxi to sell at a good price. ”

Zhang Naiqi said with a smile instead: "Third brother, rest assured, oil is a strategic resource, and there is not too much of it." The problem is only the price, if the oil in northern Shaanxi is more expensive than the oil shale in Maoming, then people are naturally reluctant to pay. But I can always sell it for a good price, and I'll try to help you get it. In addition, should we go to Mr. Liao Zhongkai and General Deng Zesheng? ”

……

It doesn't have to worry about its practicality, and China G has already placed envoys to contact Liao Zhongkai and Deng Yanda, two "close comrades-in-arms who have always supported China's GCD". The unhappiness they had with the Chinese G was also dissipated by the GCD's stance in the Mongolian incident. At present, the relationship between the left wing of the Kuomintang and the Central G has become like glue again.

Liao Zhongkai's home is now in a mansion on the shore of East Lake, which is a self-reliant building with a Western-style lawn in front of the building. On the first floor, the door of Chinese New Year's Eve was open, and two guards with loaded guns were guarding there, and no one was allowed to enter except Liao Zhongkai's family.

In a living room on the second floor of the Liao Mansion, there are a few teas, wafting with a fragrant aroma. Liao Zhongkai was dressed in a Chinese-style swallow suit, sitting leisurely in a circle chair, looking easy-going. Deng Yanda did not wear the Chinese New Year's Eve general uniform that he hated, but wore a plain cotton Zhongshan suit, and talked and laughed with Liao Zhongkai with Xuanxia's father and Liu Bojian, who had just arrived in Wuhan.

"Duke Liao, General Choice." Seeing that the atmosphere was almost over, Xuanxia's father smiled slightly and began to get straight to the topic: "I came to Wuhan this time to enhance another round of cooperation between the two parties. ”

When Liao Zhongkai heard the cooperation between the two parties, a smile immediately appeared on his face: "Brother Sword Soul, if your party has any good cooperation suggestions, come out quickly, what kind of crown are you selling in front of me and Zesheng?" ”

Deng Yanda sighed: "The cooperation between the two parties is my long-cherished wish of Liao Gong and me, but at the moment the Kuomintang is dominated by rightists, and even the president of Chinese New Year's Eve has no example of them." ”

Xuanxia's father smiled and waved his hand: "The cooperation plan proposed by our party this time is a good thing that even the rightists of your party can't refuse. This time, our party is planning to cooperate with your party to develop oil and coal mines in northern Shaanxi, as well as iron mines in Suiyuan. Now that your party is running heavy industry and revitalizing the navy on Chinese New Year's Eve, I am afraid these tools are indispensable, right? ”

Liao Zhongkai clapped his hands: "That relationship is good, but this kind of bipartisan cooperation is too beneficial to us, that Luo Yaoguo is afraid that he will dream of laughing, right?" As for what your party wants, just mention it, and don't save it for those rightists, but they can be broad at the moment."

Deng Yanda also smiled and bowed his head: "Liao Gong's is that their military budget for next year will be as high as 650 million legal currency, of which the Ministry of Armaments will have almost 300 million. ”

Hearing that the two friends were patting their chests, Xuanxia's father was naturally not polite, he nodded at the two leftists, and said with a smile: "Don't hide it from the two of you, the current situation of our party is more difficult. Northern Shaanxi and Suiyuan are also barren lands, and it is simply overwhelming to raise 200,000 soldiers. The only thing we can count on is that the oil and coal in northern Shaanxi can be sold for some money. It's just that...... These oil and coal mines are still buried deep underground, and the transportation in northern Shaanxi is not convenient, so we hope that through bipartisan cooperation, these underground treasures can be dug up and used for China's national defense cause. But...... I don't know if the two of you can resist the Minister Luo of your party's armaments department to give this money? ”

Liao Zhongkai smiled and waved his hand: "What's the problem then?" If he doesn't pay this money, can oil still fall from the sky? If it's not just to build a railway, this oil mine and coal mine won't cost a lot of money, no problem, it's on me. If he dares not to promise, I will go to his uncle. ”

A hint of surprise flashed across Xuanxia's father's face. Before he came, he had listened to Zhou E explain the current forces in the Kuomintang, and knew that although the left wing of the Kuomintang was excluded, it was still an important party in the party. Especially when the mainstream factions of the Kuomintang presidium were evenly matched on the eve of the two Chinese New Year's Eve, the precious vote of the Kuomintang left faction would definitely have the effect of turning things around, so as long as Liao Zhongkai and Deng Yanda helped, Luo Yaoguo would never refute their face.

"Then I don't know, when will the two of you be able to get along with ......" Xuanxia's father wandered slightly, and said: "When can you be with Minister Luo?" "Listening to this tone, I actually faintly feel a little anxious, presumably the current difficulties in the Central G Soviet District are also a little bit more Chinese New Year's Eve, right?

The two Chinese New Year's Eve leftists were stunned, then smiled, and Liao Zhongkai opened his mouth to explain: "Luo Fuwen left Wuhan for Shanghai by plane this afternoon. There was a car factory of the American company General Motors, which had just been inaugurated and put into operation, and he, the minister of armaments, was invited to cut the ribbon. Hehe, these Yankees are afraid that they want to sell us cars, right? Uh, do you want g in them? This GM's car seems to be pretty good. ”

……

On the morning of November 18, the 16th year of the Republic of China, Shanghai.

When Luo Yaoguo drove through Shanghai, just as he had seen last time in Guangzhou, the economic prosperity of South China's economy had arrived. The city is now full of construction sites, and it seems that every Hengyu on both sides of the road has been demolished and rebuilt.

What shocked him even more was that Shanghai's "Pudong development" was also brought forward to the twenties. Chuansha and Nanhui counties on the other side of the Huangpu River have also been included in Shanghai, a road and railway bridge has been erected upstream of the Huangpu River, and the railway has been laid along the Huangpu River to Gaoqiao Town, where a Chinese New Year's Eve pier is being built

On the east bank of the Huangpu River, there are factories that have been built or are under construction, and on the periphery of these factories are Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve slums, low, shabby, and dilapidated Hengyu without any sanitation facilities, and the dynamism and brutality of the capitalist system are on full display in this new industrial city.

At this time, the bustling pedestrians on the streets of Shanghai seem to be alive and well, and even the "gravediggers" who live in the slums are now cheerfully welcoming their future. As a result, the brutal capitalist system paid them far more than they earned from farming in their hometowns. At present, the average female textile worker, working twelve hours a day, six days a week, usually earns a monthly salary of 30 yuan. In addition, you can get a red envelope at the end of the year, and your annual income is about 400 yuan in fiat currency. This income is much higher than that of the middle field owners in the village, and there is no risk.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that there is basically not a single foreign ship in the Huangpu River now, unless it is a friendly greeting to China. This is not because the Nationalist Government is so tough, but because of the two huge Chinese New Year's Eve coastal defense fortresses on Wusongkou Artillery Taiwan and Chongming Island, where twenty giant cannons of 12-inch and 14-inch calibers have now been installed. Any unfriendly warship could be smashed by them in less than a minute.

Zhang Jingjiang, the mayor of Shanghai and a saint who was disabled, wore a tweed top hat and a well-made robe and horse coat, and sat beside Luo Yaoguo with some satisfaction. Pointing to the buildings and construction sites outside the car window, he constantly talks about various aspects of the city, like a parent introducing his high-achieving child to others.

"Supplementary text, Shanghai is now the first industrial and commercial city in Chinese New Year's Eve Far East, and it is also the shipping center and financial center of the Far East. In particular, this financial center is worth mentioning, since the Nationalist government successfully implemented fiat currency in the Republic of China 14 years, those Chinese New Year's Eve banks in Shanghai have been successfully transformed. It has changed from its original business of issuing notes and money to a modern bank with savings and credit exchange and securities trading as its main business. In particular, securities trading has grown the most rapidly, and the Shanghai Stock Exchange has been established, with dozens of bonds and hundreds of company stocks, as well as oil, coal, cotton, flour, rubber and other Chinese New Year's Eve commodities traded here, and the daily trading volume is tens of millions of yuan. The government's stamp duty alone is tens of thousands of yuan a day, and tens of millions of dollars a year, and the growth of Shanghai's cultural property is also very amazing, and now there are dozens of film companies, hundreds of newspapers and magazines, ......

Zhang Jingjiang was excitedly introducing his city, but Luo Yaoguo was listening absentmindedly. By this time, his mind had already flown to the car factory he had just visited. The Yankees were still very shrewd in business, and as early as the end of 1924, when the Nationalist Government unified South China and announced the withdrawal of tariff autonomy, they realized that South China would become one of the fastest growing regions in the world, so they quickly made investment plans.

They are now able to assemble two trucks and one sedan in China, and in particular, the one-ton Chevrolet-T truck that costs 4,500 yuan and carries a ton is definitely the most suitable product for the Chinese market right now. With this truck, the National Army should be able to try to motorize the infantry division. Of course, it is not time to place an order right away, and perhaps the Germans will have a better product, so it is better to wait until they return from Europe and the United States.

In addition to the landing of trucks, there has also been a breakthrough in oil. German experts have just discovered oil shale in Maoming, Guangdong province, which is a Chinese New Year's Eve, because extracting oil from oil shale is far less technically difficult than liquefiing coal. In fact, the use of industrial means to exploit oil shale predates the use of oil by a few years. As early as 1838, the shale oil industry in France began to start, but because the exploitation of oil shale is very troublesome, the cost is relatively high, so the development and utilization of oil shale in the world is relatively slow. However, the oil shale found in Maoming, Guangdong Province has a very high utilization value, according to recoverable reserves of billions of tons of oil content in 6, Chinese New Year's Eve scale development, can obtain millions of tons of shale oil (oil extracted from oil shale) every year.

With such shale oil production, China should be able to maintain a fairly strong Chinese New Year's Eve mechanized army and naval fleet in the next world Chinese New Year's Eve war, right? The only problem is that Maoming is also on the coast, and if the Japanese knew that there was the oil they coveted, they would go to great lengths to grab it, right? It looks like the Navy's investment is still going to be Chinese New Year's Eve...... It's really impossible to have a sea without defense.

"Brother Fuwen, are all the iron mines in the jurisdiction of our national government under the management of the Ministry of Armaments right now?" Zhang Jingjiang suddenly raised his voice and dragged Luo Yaoguo out of his thoughts.

Luo Yaoguo nodded with a smile: "Does Jing Gong want to set up a steel factory?" Fancy that iron mine? Despite the words, we are all our own people, where can we stop Jing Gong from making a fortune? ”

In fact, it is not only iron ore now, but also important strategic resources such as coal mines, copper mines, bauxite ore, tungsten ore, etc., which are controlled by the Ministry of Armaments. Well, the army was also sent to guard it, and it was strictly forbidden to dig and mine indiscriminately. Those tools are all treasures to be used in the future world Chinese New Year's Eve war, and if they are not monopolized, what if some criminal police businessmen dig them up and sell them to Japan?

Zhang Jingjiang smiled faintly and shook his hand: "It's not me, how can I open a steel factory with this little value?" It's an American friend, the Bethlehem Steel Company. I studied in the United States, so I've heard of it, right? They are now building a shipyard in Pudong, and they also want to open a steel plant in Nanjing to produce steel plates for shipbuilding, and see if they can transfer the two iron ore mines in Nanjing to the Americans? ”

Luo Yaoguo took a deep breath and said in his heart: "Bethlehem Steel Company seems to be the second Chinese New Year's Eve steel company in the United States in this era, right?" This year's steel production seems to be more than 10 million tons, and this company seems to be making steel plates well, and it also has more than a dozen shipyards, and built more than 1,000 Chinese New Year's Eve ships in World War II...... Will it be of my own use in the future? ”

"Okay." Luo Yaoguo nodded heavily: "I agree to this matter in principle, but the specific contract will be negotiated with their senior management when I go to Europe and the United States."