In late April of the first year of the Republic of China (1942), the convoy of transport ships that set sail from the east coast of the United States and circled the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa arrived at Yangon Port one after another.

For a time, the whole of Myanmar became a lively construction site.

At the same time, the production and construction corps of the Chinese expeditionary force has also been formally organized, and more than 800,000 strong men and more than 500,000 refugees who have arrived in Myanmar have been organized into the 13th Production and Construction Corps.

I don't care about this Yue Weihan, because there is almost no real barren land in Myanmar.

Barren land like the Hukang River Valley is actually very fertile, but it has not been cultivated for a long time.

In fact, the population of Myanmar at this time was less than 10 million, except for major cities and a few narrow areas on both sides of large rivers, the rest of the place was very desolate, and the land allocated by the Burmese federal government to the production and construction corps of the "China" Expeditionary Force was mostly uninhabited barren land, so there was not much conflict with the local Burmese natives.

In the beginning, the industrial construction went well.

The construction of Mandalay Steel City, Ringanqiang Petroleum City and Yangon Integrated Industrial City has already begun, with the arrival of large-scale construction equipment aided by the United States, site leveling, road construction, bridge erection, water and electricity supply and so on are all in progress, and the factory areas of major factories have also been drawn on the drawings.

But in late May, unexpected problems suddenly appeared.

The first batch of building materials aided by the U.S. government was quickly used up, and the U.S. side suggested that the British steel company and the cement company in India should provide the building materials needed for the follow-up, but Mr. Tan Kah Kee raised a different opinion, believing that the factories that had moved to the rear of the southwest of the Nationalist Government at this time needed these orders even more, so he insisted on handing over the orders to the Nationalist Government.

Mr. Tan Kah Kee's righteous act did save the cement factory and steel plant in the rear of the southwest university on the verge of bankruptcy, but "it also brought great trouble to the Nanyang Industrial Company", which was wholly owned by overseas Chinese in Nanyang.

Speaking of Kong Xiangxi, we can't help but mention the four prominent families of the National Government!

The so-called four major families refer to Jiang, Song, Kong, and Chen, among which the Jiang family holds the state weapon" is the undisputed first family of the Nationalist Government, although the Jiang family does not have much assets in the sī account, but this does not mean anything, because the whole country belongs to the Jiang family, and they do not need to deposit money in the sī account.

The Chen family, which is at the bottom of the ranking, is a bit out of character!

Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu brothers have devoted their lives to the education of the national government, but in their later years, the brothers have no money to spare, "Chen Guofu can't even afford to pay for treatment, and in the decades when the brothers have served as ministers of education, the national government has run a decent education career with not generous finances."

The Chen brothers' education is truly a century-old plan.

A large number of great educators such as Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi, Ma Yinchu, and Tao Xingzhi emerged during the years when the brothers served as ministers of education.

Therefore, listing the Chen family as the last of the four major families is more like making up the numbers.

Among the four major families, there are actually only two families of Song and Kong who really buy and sell, manipulate finance, and enrich their pockets!

Among them, especially the Confucian family, the head of the Confucian family, Kong Xiangxi, ancestors from Shanxi Taigu, ancestors once did the ticket number, Kong Xiangxi inherited the advantages of Shanxi people who are good at management, and has a unique vision "has successively funded the exile of the [Japan] and through the nameless Chairman Jiang, so the official luck enjoys the pass, and finally completely controls the economic and financial power of the national government.

During Kong Xiangxi's tenure as Minister of Finance and President of the Central Bank of China, he amassed a large amount of family assets through financial manipulation and foreign currency speculation.

Although Chairman Chiang was dissatisfied with the Kong family's wanton accumulation of wealth, "he could only let it go."

On the one hand, Chairman Jiang also needs Kong Xiangxi to be his financial steward to raise military expenses for him, and on the other hand, Kong Xiangxi is also Chairman Jiang and the brother-in-law of the Father of the Nation** "Because Kong Xiangxi's wife Song Liling is the eldest sister of the Mother of the Nation ** and Mrs. Jiang, there is this relationship, and Chairman Jiang really has to think twice before moving the Kong family."

Historically, "Jiang Dagongzi once went to Shanghai to severely crack down on comprador capital speculation, but when it was finally found out that the head of Kong Lingkan's Yangzi Company, the eldest son of the Confucian family," Jiang Dagongzi immediately died down, and Madame Jiang recalled Jiang Dagongzi back to Nanjing with a phone call, and a vigorous financial rectification ended without a hitch.

At this time, the Nationalist Government had lost most of its sources of taxes, and domestic inflation had reached an unbelievable level.

After the U.S. government slashed financial aid to the Nationalist government, Kong Xiangxi immediately became an ant on a hot pot.

More than 80 million refugees who have fled to the interior need to be resettled and relieved, the huge bureaucracy of the national government needs to be fed, and Chairman Chiang's 4 million army is a gold-swallowing monster, however, the source of taxes is only a few southwestern provinces, and now that the Americans are not borrowing money, can Kong Xiangxi still sit still?

Therefore, when Mr. Tan Kah Kee extended a helping hand to the Nationalist Government, Kong Xiangxi immediately grabbed a life-saving straw like a drowning man, and refused to withdraw his hand.

As a descendant of Shanxi businessmen, Kong Xiangxi has an unimaginable keen sense of business opportunities!

Myanmar's industrial construction has been fully rolled out, which obviously contains huge business opportunities, whether it is the construction of bridges and paving roads, or the supply of building materials, or the operation of the entire industrial machinery after completion, any link in the middle of the huge commercial profits, if you can get a piece of the pie, the national government's financial difficulties can be easily solved.

Therefore, Minister Kong Da directly asked Mr. Tan Kah Kee to take a controlling stake in Nanyang Industrial Company!

There was not much money in the state government's account, but Minister Kong's appetite was not small, and he asked for a controlling stake in Nanyang Industrial Company.

The so-called Nanyang Industrial Company is actually an investment company founded by overseas Chinese in Nanyang, such as Tan Kah Kee, Zhuang Xiyan, and Li Qingquan, which are responsible for injecting funds into the infrastructure of Myanmar's industrial base "and undertaking various subsequent additional investments, and investing in a certain proportion of major enterprises in Yangon, Mandalay, and Ringanqiang."

Therefore, Nanyang Industrial Company is actually a minority shareholder of Myanmar Gongya Base, as for the majority shareholder. Of course, the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

Kong Xiangxi wants to control Nanyang Industrial Company, but he has no money, what should he do?

Minister Kong was shameless enough to offer to use cheap building materials such as steel and cement, as well as the export of labor services converted according to the number of refugees.

To put it simply, in the future, all the building materials needed for the construction of the industrial base in Myanmar will be provided by the national government at a low price, and the refugees who go to Myanmar from China, regardless of men and women, old and young, will be converted into the investment of the Central Bank of China in Myanmar according to the capita, and after the completion of the industrial base, the Central Bank will become the controlling shareholder of Nanyang Industrial Company.

What's even more infuriating is that the permanent representative has not been sent yet.

This permanent representative is none other than Kong Xiangxi's eldest son, Kong Lingkan, who was the executive director of the Central Trust Bureau of the State Government at the time, this Kong Dagongzi is a wonderful person, not only arrogant and domineering, but also good, especially like his older wife" Recently, he was fighting with "Bai Lan Huā", who was more than ten years older than him.

However, there is one thing that Kong Lingkan has inherited from Kong Xiangxi's advantages, that is, he is very business-minded.

In essence, Kong Lingkan is a second ancestor through and through, but this second ancestor is still very capable.

For such a hot hand, Mr. Tan Kah Kee is really helpless, "Accept it, it's definitely not good, isn't the Central Bank an empty glove white wolf?" In the past, when the controlling company annexed the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications, Kong Xiangxi did just that, Mr. Chen Jiageng didn't want to suffer such a dumb loss, but he couldn't drive Kong Lingkan back, right?

"There is no way" Mr. Chen Jiageng can only go to Yue Weihan and ask Yue Weihan to give him a trick.

Yangon, Headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

Pi Xiaocheng walked into Yue Weihan's office with some nervousness, and said in a low voice: "Headquarters, the US military has replied" It was said that Qian Xuesen was presiding over the solution of the windshear plan for the take-off and landing of fighters on the aircraft carrier, and he could not come back now, and the Americans also said that they could only wait until the end of this project if they wanted to come back. ”

"Wind shear scheme?" Yue Weihan frowned and said, "What kind of birds?" ”

"Oh, it's an atmospheric phenomenon." Pi Xiaocheng hurriedly explained, "It is the sudden change of wind speed in the horizontal and vertical directions, wind shear, especially low-altitude wind shear, which is the great enemy of aircraft take-off and landing. ”

"So, you really can't come back?" Yue Weihan's eyebrows suddenly twisted into pimples.

Qian Xuesen is the leader of the future scientific research institution in Yue Weihan's mind, if even he can't come back, then what kind of climate can this scientific research institution become?

"Most of them won't come back." Pi Xiaocheng said cautiously, "There are also Qian Weichang and Guo Yonghuai, because they have not completed their studies, they can't come back for the time being, but several universities such as Tsinghua University and Fudan have already expressed their willingness to move to Yangon, but the premise is that the name of the school cannot be canceled, and at most it will be Nanyang United University." ”

"That's fine." Yue Weihan said, "The United Nations General Assembly will be the United Nations General Assembly." ”

Although the establishment of a comprehensive university will increase the financial expenditure of running a school a lot, it can be regarded as making some contributions to the education of China, as the so-called ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, a country, a nation want to be strong, the most important thing is to do a good job in education, this point of understanding Yue Weihan is naturally there.

"Alright, I'll reply to them." Pi Xiaocheng said and left in a hurry.

As soon as Pi Xiaocheng walked on the front foot, Mr. Tan Kah Kee, who was described as thin, arrived on the back foot.

Seeing Mr. Chen Jiageng's sad face, Yue Weihan couldn't help but ask with concern: "Old Chen, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Alas, the old decay is in trouble." Mr. Chen Jiageng sighed and said with a wry smile, "Loyalty, the old man knows that you are busy with military affairs, so he will never come to disturb you unless he has to, but this matter is really not trivial, the old man really can't bear it alone, there is no way, I can only come to you." ”

"So serious?" Yue Weihan got up and invited Mr. Chen Jiageng to take a seat, and poured tea for Mr. Chen himself, and then asked, "What is the matter?" ”

Mr. Tan Kah Kee immediately told the ins and outs of the matter.

"Hey, I'm going to be something." Yue Weihan heard this, but said lightly, "That's it?" I'll have someone send a telegram to Minister Kong and ask him to bring the person back!" The Central Bank wants to invest in Nanyang Industrial Company, which we welcome, but you have to take real umbrella silver to invest in the shares, how much can this building material be worth? It was only because he could figure out that the refugees were deducted from the shares according to their heads, isn't this a white wolf with empty gloves? There are no doors! ”

Yue Weihan really didn't take this matter to heart, he even dared to refute Chairman Jiang's face, and he still cared about Kong Xiangxi?

Although Kong Xiangxi is in charge of the money bag of the national government and is the food and clothing parent of the 4 million national army in the rear of the southwest, Yue Weihan's "China" Expeditionary Force is only a nominal national army.

After sending Mr. Tan Kah Kee away, Yue Weihan asked Huang Jie to send a telegram to Minister Kong, and then put the matter down.

But at about three o'clock in the afternoon, there was a sudden quarrel outside the gate of the headquarters, and then there were two crisp gunshots, which alarmed the guards of the headquarters.

Everyone rushed to the gate, only to know that it was Kong Lingkan, the second ancestor, who came with someone to make trouble.

Kong Lingkan, the second ancestor, is used to being arrogant in the country, and he still has the same temper when he arrives in Myanmar, he heard that Yue Weihan does not buy the face of the Kong family, and he was immediately angry, and he wanted to break into the headquarters to find Yue Weihan to ask for an explanation, but after being stopped, he dared to use a gun, and the two entourages were killed on the spot, and Kong Lingkan was also pressed to the ground and controlled.

When Yue Weihan approached, Kong Lingkan was still struggling violently, shouting arrogantly while struggling: "My father is Kong Xiangxi, and my brother-in-law is Jiang Wenzheng, you dare to do it to me, you don't want to live!?" ”

Yue Weihan was immediately angry and happy when he heard this, and dared to quietly "My dad is Li Gang" has a historical source.

"What's that? It's not like words! General Wei Lihuang obviously also knew Kong Lingkan, the second ancestor, and immediately ordered the guards very unceremoniously, "Drag it down, beat thirty military sticks, and then send it back to China overnight!" After that, General Wei Lihuang said to Kong Ling coldly, "Boy, next time you dare to come to the headquarters of the expeditionary force to make trouble, you will be killed!" ”！。