[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 672: Foreign Trade Strategic Plan (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

After formulating the relevant plan, Ma Zheng withdrew from the complicated affairs and disappeared from everyone's sight again, this time Ma Zheng did not rush south to Shandong, but went north to the border town of Erenhot. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Erenhot" is a Mongolian language, "Erren" is named after the nearby Erren Lake, which is a false pronunciation of "Erren", which means "colorful", "hot" means "city", and "Erenhot" means colorful city. Ma Zheng came to this colorful border town for a huge plan, which was related to the future development of the Suicha Military Region and, more importantly, to the course of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

This plan is called "foreign trade strategic plan" by Ma Zheng, and you know that it is a plan based on foreign trade, but it is extraordinary to be able to add the word strategy before the plan.

What China lacks most now is not people, but weapons and equipment, especially heavy equipment such as artillery and tanks. However, with the occupation of all China's coastal cities by the Japanese army, China's access to the outside world was almost completely blocked, so it became extremely difficult to import weapons and equipment from outside.

More importantly, the arms business is the most profitable in this era, and in this era of scarcity, the price of arms is also extremely high. A casual heavy machine gun costs several hundred oceans, and as far as the cost of a heavy machine gun is concerned, it is not even 10 oceans, and the two words "several thousand percent profit" and windfall profits are no longer enough to describe the earning power of the arms business.

Moreover, now that the chaos in the world has been revealed, in Europe, Mussolini has been in power in Italy for 17 years, and it can be said that his position has been very secure. Germany's mustache was also inaugurated as German Chancellor last year and six years ago as Germany's head of state.

Under his leadership, Germany's economy began to transform into a wartime economy, and at the same time, the Wehrmacht expanded from 100,000 to 500,000. And in 36 brazenly drove into the Rhine demilitarized zone, and also built fortifications along the Rhine. At this time, the stupid countries of Britain, France, and the United States have restrained the mutual defense articles that they had already signed because of their own quarrels, and all their actions have been only verbal protests.

Even a few months earlier, Germany had launched its most fierce attack on neighboring Poland, and the powerful blitzkrieg had given the countries of the European continent a real glimpse of Germany's strong rise, and the Second World War, which had been brewing for two decades, finally broke out.

What is the most precious thing in wartime is undoubtedly weapons and ammunition, at this time, even if there is a whole vehicle of gold and silver, no one will necessarily sell you advanced weapons and equipment, so it is almost impossible for China to buy advanced weapons and equipment from other countries, unless it is assistance from other countries.

In addition, there is another problem: even if Britain, France, the United States, and other countries are willing to help China and sell advanced weapons and equipment to the Chinese government, it is not easy to get these arms into their hands. Whether it is the United States or the United Kingdom, it is tens of thousands of miles away from Chahar, where Ma Zheng is located, and there are oceans and mountains in between. In addition, now that the Japanese army and navy have blocked all of China's access to the sea, it is not easy to bring back weapons and equipment.

Since it cannot trade with the United States and Britain and other countries, it can only do business with the Soviet Union, which borders China. The Soviet Union was a big country, its industrial production capacity was good, and now that the Soviet-German war had not broken out, the Soviets were happy to do this business.

More importantly, the Soviet Union and China share a border, and with the current location of Ma Zheng's headquarters, it is far easier to get in touch with the Soviet Union than with other countries. Although Outer Mongolia was said to be an independent country at this time, it was actually controlled by the Soviet Union, and a large number of Soviet Red Army troops were stationed in Outer Mongolia, and there was not much difference between entering Outer Mongolia and entering the Soviet Union.

Although the Soviet Union may not be willing to sell weapons and equipment to the Eighth Route Army, after all, they have to take into account the ideas of the Nationalist Government and the Japanese. But Ma Zheng has a trump card, that is, penicillin.

You don't need anything else, but penicillin, a life-saving medicine, probably no country can withstand the temptation. You must know that when penicillin was not mass-produced, the mortality rate of tuberculosis and tetanus and other knife wounds was extremely high, especially tuberculosis, which is not much different from AIDS in the 21st century.

The advent of penicillin solves this problem, and it is like the sudden development of a cure for cancer and AIDS in the 21st century, which is terrifying to think about. What's more, penicillin drugs have an extremely obvious therapeutic effect on external wounds, including gunshot wounds, which means that a small vial of penicillin is likely to save one or even several wounded and sick lives in a war, and this drug has become an extremely important strategic material, even more precious than weapons and equipment to a certain extent.

Therefore, Ma Zheng has been thinking that when the arms business cannot be carried out, the use of penicillin to open the way must be unimpeded. And it turns out that Ma Zheng's idea is not whimsical, and now all countries are busy rushing for penicillin, including the Soviet side.

According to the agreement signed between the Soviet Union and the Huaxia Company some time ago, the Huaxia Company provided the Soviet side with $30 million in penicillin drugs every month, and the Soviet Union wanted to exchange the $30 million for various industrial products and deliver them to Ma Zheng's department, claiming that this was a donation from patriotic overseas Chinese who had made meritorious contributions to the Japanese army.

Although this would inevitably cause dissatisfaction on the Japanese side and even affect the secret peace talks that were being held between the two sides, the Soviet side had no choice. On the one hand, they don't have so much money to import penicillin, and on the other hand, Huaxia Company does not agree, and if they want to do business with us, they will exchange weapons and equipment and industrial equipment, otherwise everything will not be discussed.

Some time ago, in order not to irritate the Japanese, the Soviet Union proposed to pay for the goods directly with money, so as not to make any uncontrollable mess again by the crazy Kwantung Army.

But this proposal was rejected by Ma Zheng because he had his own reasons. There is no shortage of money and horses, and there is really no shortage of them. After the troops captured Tianjin, Ma Zheng ransacked more than a dozen banks and money houses of the Japanese army in Tianjin, and at the same time confiscated a large amount of property of the Japanese pseudo-businessmen, according to Wang Hansen, who was in charge of logistics, secretly told Ma Zheng that the gold transported back to Xinghe from Tianjin was 5 tons, what is this concept, 5 tons of gold is equivalent to 100,000 taels, even if it is pulled by car, it will take a whole car.

In addition, there are 50 or 60 million oceans and hundreds of millions of legal currency, as well as hundreds of millions of counterfeit currency military tickets, and as for antiques and cultural relics, there are even more. If you want to talk about money, I'm afraid Ma Zheng at this time is the richest person in the entire Republic of China.

But Ma Zheng still lacks a lot of things, he lacks those industrial equipment, and even more lacks the production line of weapons and equipment, especially the lack of a very important thing, if this thing is not solved, Ma Zheng will not be able to sleep.

What is it that makes Ma Zheng value so much? The answer is oil, oil is too important for war, without oil all machinery has to lie down, whether it is a car or a tank or an airplane, even if you can get the 21 actual American Hornet or F22 is nonsense, without oil is also a pile of penniless broken copper.

Does China have oil, of course, and there is no less. Whether it is the nearby Shenmu or the victory, or the jade gate a little farther away, there is oil. But dare to mine?

The answer is no, once the Japanese army itself knew that China, an oil-poor country, could actually extract oil, the consequences would be catastrophic. It is very likely that the Japanese army itself will give up going north or south and concentrate all its efforts on dealing with China, and then the war will have nothing to do with the Americans.

Of course, the Americans are happy to do this, but the Chinese are about to cry, so it is impossible to extract this oil, at least before the outbreak of the Pacific War.

So the question in front of Ma Zheng now is, if the United States and Japanese do not go to war, will he not use tanks, armored vehicles, and planes?

Of course not, there is no oil to import, and the Soviet Union is not far from China, especially the Soviet oil base Siberia is so close to Suiyuan, it can become an oil supplier to Ma Zheng's department. (To be continued.) )