There are no pop-ups, and 10,000 fans are online at the same time on November 2, 1927.

Luo Yaoguo, who had just returned from Beijing, walked into his office in the Ministry of Armaments and was about to bury his head in the mountains of official documents. The secretary, Song Meiling, brought two American guests, one of whom was a blonde man in his thirties, wearing a white striped black suit, with a high forehead and a thin slightly brownish-red face. A pair of rimless glasses rests on the bridge of the high nose, and a pair of light blue eyes behind the glasses are sharp and bright. Song Meiling introduced him to Lester. Truss is the manager of the Chinese branch of the American General Electric Motor Company. The other American was a woman in her twenties, with an oval face, a very dark complexion (not black, but a little darker than a white girl like Natalie), dark brown hair, and a pair of large glasses that looked like a Latino or Jewish. Well, Luo Yaoguo doesn't know the difference between them, but if he were Natalie, he could see it at a glance. The woman's name was Janice. Jestro, is Leicester. Trus's secretary and translator. It was she who translated nrlrsrpr as General Electric Motor Co., Ltd., uh, literally, right.

Reluctantly putting down the documents in his hand, Luo Yaoguo put on a sincere smile and let the guests into his personal small living room. Then he ordered Natalie, who had just been transferred to the Ministry of Armaments to be in charge of coffee, to deliver mellow and rich coffee. The guests and hosts exchanged pleasantries like this, and then the Yankee named Trus said something that made Luo Yaoguo almost stunned.

"Your Excellency, we would like to invite you to attend the inauguration of our company's automobile factory in Jiading County, Jiangsu Province. This is the first automotive factory that our company has invested in China, and its products include cars and trucks. I think your Ministry of Armaments will need some of these products, right? ”

"A car factory? It's all already done? When did it happen? How come I don't know at all? Luo Yaoguo was stunned and stunned. It is a bit ridiculous that an automobile factory was built on Chinese soil without a sound, and that the minister of armaments, who is in charge of the construction of China's heavy industry, knows nothing about it.

Regarding Luo Yaoguo's reaction, Truss felt a little strange. Isn't it just an automobile factory, and isn't it necessary to produce tanks and artillery, and use it to report to the Ministry of Armaments? And the national government doesn't seem to have regulations in this regard, just register with the Jiangsu Provincial Industrial Bureau, and it can be done in an hour. Besides, factories like this abound in southeast and south China right now, and I heard that Henry. Ford is also preparing to open a branch plant in Shanghai

"The Anting plant started construction at the beginning of last year by our Chinese branch, with a total investment of more than two million US dollars, and has a car assembly line and a truck assembly line." Truss took a sip of coffee and replied: "Right now, we are assembling cars in China by importing parts, but engine and transmission factories have already begun to be built, and some companies that supply parts for the company are also planning to open branches in China." ”

Looking at Luo Yaoguo's face again, the surprise on his face had completely disappeared, replaced by a faint smile. By this time he had understood what was going on. China is currently practicing a liberal capitalist system, except for military factories, which cannot be opened casually, and other industrial enterprises can be established only after simple registration, without any difficulty. Therefore, after nearly three years of stable development in most of China, foreign direct investment has also begun to pour in. In fact, there were quite a few foreign-funded factories in Shanghai, the most of which were textile factories, as well as shipbuilding/ship repair Yesson shipyards, and relatively large industrial enterprises such as British Shanghai power plants, gas plants, and water plants. But is this situation good or bad?

From the point of view of supporting the national automobile industry, it is certainly not good for such a behemoth to open factories without restrictions, and if it can come now, then foreign automobile manufacturing companies such as Ford, Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, and Opel (which have not yet been acquired) can certainly come and open factories. In addition, if the automobile company can come to open the factory, can American steel come? Can Alcoa come? Can Caterpillar come? Can Pfizer come? If they all come...... China's own national industry is about to have a headache

However, from the point of view of reserving combat power for World War II, it is not a shortcut to let these foreign multinational companies invest in China, such as this automobile factory, if they do not come to open it, the Ministry of Armaments will probably not be able to come up with the money and technology to do it in another three to five years. Isn't the Yesson shipyard of the British businessmen now also taking orders for aircraft carriers from the Ministry of Armaments? These foreign-invested factories can produce arms for the national army in wartime, and can also create a large amount of tax revenue and employment for the national government in peacetime......

In addition, the current attitude of the European and American powers, especially the United States, to support China's rise, I am afraid that these multinational companies are indispensable to this, right? The United States can be called a "country run by large corporations", and if these large companies and big banks have invested heavily in China, if Japan invades in the future...... The United States will definitely side with China, right?

On the one hand, the immature national industry, and on the other hand, the approaching World War II, which one should be chosen? It's a dilemma.

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The cold wind swept across the Loess Plateau, blowing everything in the world to the ground. This year's winter in northern Shaanxi seems to have come a few days earlier than usual, and it is also exceptionally cold. In winter, the pagoda mountain has also lost its verdant greenery, the bare loess is exposed to the cold wind, like the skin of an old woman, dry and full of wrinkles, and the grass hides in the cracked rock crevices, stubbornly rejecting the cold winter. The meandering Yan River has formed a thin layer of ice floe. Occasionally, you can hear the sound of ice cracking at the bottom of the river, which is a constant thickening of the ice.

Mao ZD and Zhou Lai, side by side, walked side by side along the hillside path and slowly walked to the top of the mountain, both of them were speechless all the way, but they both frowned. Obviously, the mood is not very good at the moment.

The news from all over the country is very bad, the Kuomintang seems to be going farther and farther on the road of ****, and there are faint signs of embarking on the road of no return to militarism. The information that Sun Yat-sen approved the implementation of the general war system by the Nationalist Government was immediately transmitted to Yan'an through the righteous people in the Kuomintang. The center of Wangjialing suddenly exploded. In particular, Wang Ming, Hu Xun, Xia Xi and a group of Bolsheviks who came back from the Soviet Union were simply jumping on their feet and scolding, eager to all the eighteen generations of Sun Yat-sen's ancestors in Russian. But what's the use? Whether the Kuomintang should fight a general war or a general war, whether it should mobilize the national spirit, or whether it should engage in the mobilization of the national spirit, will not be affected at all.

As for launching a war against the militarist reactionaries, even Comrade Wang Ming did not dare to put forward this proposal at the moment. The current situation is very clear, as long as the great god Sun Yat-sen is still there, the Kuomintang will be as shakable as an iron bucket. Those Kuomintang rightists are afraid that they are very welcome to adopt the means of military confrontation, right? In this way, they will also have a reason to start an anti-** war.

Several guards followed the two leaders from a distance, not daring to disturb them for a walk. During this time, Mao ZD and Zhou Lai often walked along the mountain trails of Pagoda Mountain in this way. By the way, let's discuss the situation at home and abroad, and exchange views on some sensitive issues. It is indeed safer for two people to speak freely in this situation, and nothing will enter the ears of the third person.

Today, the two leaders just hung their heads with their hands behind their backs, and only cared about climbing the mountain, and after a while, they climbed to the top of the mountain and began to overlook the land of northern Shaanxi. Winter in northern Shaanxi is a desolate place, with only boundless mountains and ravines in the distance, all of which are bare and without a trace of greenery. The barren mountains full of eyes seem to tell the bitter ridge of northern Shaanxi, but in fact, not only northern Shaanxi, but also Suiyuan, northwest Shanxi, Longdong and other base areas are all barren land. However, China is now relying on the poor people in these mountainous areas to maintain an army of nearly 200,000 people, and it is obvious that China's development has now encountered a bottleneck. On the one hand, the barren base areas were already unable to support the large number of Red Army, and on the other hand, the powerful military force was useless. Now that China has formed a coalition government, and all factions have stopped all civil wars at the request of Sun Yat-sen, it is afraid that attacking Shanxi in this situation will be a great condemnation of the world, right? But if you want to disarm...... However, the threat of the Kuomintang reactionaries was also real, and it was really impossible to advance or retreat.

"Runzhi, look at this......" Zhou Lai tightly twisted his thick eyebrows and broke the silence first: "The personnel expenses of the 200,000 army will be more than one million per month, but the territory is only so little, and it is not rich, it is really overwhelming."

Mao ZD nodded approvingly, thought for a while, and said: "Now that Sun Yat-sen prohibits all civil wars, we have to abide by it, so that the method of going to the white area to fight local tyrants and raise funds cannot be used." ...... go on like this."

The phrase "going to the white area to fight the local tyrants" in Mao ZD's mouth refers to the method of the Red Army and some of the middle peasants in the base areas who are poor and impoverished, invade the white areas bordering the Soviet area, go there to fight the local tyrants and share the floating wealth, and then withdraw to the base areas before the enemy's counterattack. The main purpose of this kind of campaign was not to expand the base areas, but to raise funds and improve the livelihood of the middle peasants under the impoverished base areas, and to win their support. However, it has also had an extremely serious negative effect in history, that is, "non-class confrontation between the white and the white". This is because in this kind of struggle against the "local tyrants and the floating wealth," the poor middle peasants in the white areas basically have nothing to gain, and even if they have income, they will return it to the landlords and rich peasants after the enemy's counterattack, and sometimes even the middle peasants will be deprived of their property. After this happened frequently, the people of the white areas bordering the Soviet zone were often bewitched by the enemy, sided with the enemy, and even went to the Soviet zone to plunder under the organization of the landlords and rich peasants...... In the end, there was a serious antagonism between the people in the Soviet and white areas, and the Kuomintang reactionaries gained a large number of supporters for no reason.

However, in this time and space, "going to the white area to fight local tyrants" does not refer to the Kuomintang's training and political area, which does not border the Soviet region in China. It refers to going to Shanxi under the rule of Yan Xishan to fight local tyrants, those rich people in Shanxi will live, and they often have a lot of savings, and the skills of the Jin army to fight are not up to par. So the harvest of the past two years has not been bad, but now......

Mao ZD took out a cigarette from his pocket at this time, put it in his mouth, wiped a match, lit a cigarette, and then took a sharp puff: "Come, our Red Army is a heroic team that cannot be defeated by any difficulty, and even the Kuomintang reactionaries have nothing to do with us, how can a small financial difficulty bind us?" ”

Zhou Lai nodded slightly, but his expression was still grim, and his thick eyebrows were still tightly locked. Naturally, it is impossible for the Red Army to be defeated by financial difficulties, but where will the money come from, and is it still unsettled?

Mao ZD took a few more puffs of cigarette, and then smiled deeply: "The Kuomintang reactionaries want to use the financial difficulties to stump us, and we just have to rise to the occasion, we have to do it ourselves, and we have enough food and clothing. We can take advantage of this short period of peace to lead the Red Army and the cadres and masses in the base areas to open up wasteland for production, build water conservancy, divert canals to irrigate fields, and strive to increase grain production. Moreover, it is not only necessary to develop agriculture, but also to develop industry and mining, and we must develop our northern Shaanxi with oil and coal, and Suiyuan also has iron ore, so why can't we take advantage of such good conditions? As long as the industry and agriculture in the Soviet areas have developed, do we still need to be afraid of the 21 divisions of the Kuomintang army? ”

"It would be a good idea to let the Red Army go to the tuntian, at least to increase some grain production and alleviate our financial difficulties to a certain extent. Zhou Lai still shook his head:

"But to develop the industry is probably not so easy, we now have no funds, no talents, no technology and equipment. How can you do it if you don't have anything like this? ”

"Is it possible for us to ask the Soviet Union to help build it?" Mao ZD further put forward his own idea: "Just like when they helped build the Shaoguan Iron and Steel Plant and the Shijing Arsenal. ”

"Ask the Soviet Union to help build it?" Zhou Lai frowned and thought for a while, but still smiled bitterly: "Runzhi, we have offended Stalin on the Mongolian issue, and now he refuses to give weapons and ammunition, how can he still help build our heavy industry?" Unless the two of us take the blame and resign......"

Stalin, who had been on cold relations with China since the events in Mongolia and had realized the existence of serious "social-patriotic tendencies" in China, decisively suspended all aid to China. This is also the main reason for the present predicament, and if this cold relationship continues, I am afraid that the weapons and ammunition of the Red Army will also be in short supply. If it really comes to that time, I'm afraid that the positions of Mao ZD and Zhou Lai will also be shaken, right? This is probably Stalin's wishful thinking.

"The Soviet Union refused to help build ......" Mao ZD took a few more puffs of cigarette, then dropped the remaining cigarette butt, and paced on the top of Pagoda Mountain with his hands behind his back, and his brows gradually twisted. If you don't rely on the Soviet Union, it seems that you have to think of a way only in China, but who can you turn to for help? Al-Shabaab? Hehe, they are now vassals of the Kuomintang. Bong ...... A large number of sites in the Northeast can't be developed, where can we have the energy to help the developing sites? Do you still want to go to the Kuomintang?

"Runzhi, why don't we try to cooperate with the Kuomintang? Aren't they going to run the Navy in a big way now? This navy ...... However, there is basically no oil industry in China at present, and the only oil field is our Yan'an oil mine. This is the trump card in our hands, and we should play the oil card well. At this time, Zhou Lai seems to have thought of a way.

"Then should we raise it with the central government?" Mao ZD's voice was a little hesitant. If the matter of cooperation with the Kuomintang is brought to the Politburo for discussion, I am afraid that it will cause an uproar again......

"If they want to develop their navy, they have to use oil, and oil is only available to us." Zhou Lai did not answer Mao ZD's question, but continued along his own line of thought: "Therefore, this cooperation should not be proposed by us, but by the Kuomintang side, so that they can ask us for oil, so that we can take the opportunity to propose some more favorable cooperation conditions for us, and the central government will easily approve it." But what cards will Luo Yaoguo play? What a headache. ”

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Mao ZD: "This Luo Yaoguo is not easy to fool, we are bargaining with him if we want to play the oil card." ”

Mao ZD smiled bitterly, why did he go around this person in a big circle and go around this person's head? To tell the truth, everyone else in the Kuomintang is relatively easy to fool, but this person is the only one who does not enter oil and salt, and is very shrewd, and seems to have a little ability to predict the future

"Why don't we find a way to bypass the Kuomintang Armaments Department? Try to cooperate with the Ministry of Industry of the central government? Mao ZD tried to make a suggestion, and then shook his head: "This will not work, the central government is an empty shell at the moment, and there is not much money." ”

Zhou Lai also shook his head: "Since we can't get around, we have to find a way to defeat him, I don't believe it, can their Kuomintang navy do without oil?" As long as they want oil, they have to come to us and ...... Our party also has many friends within the Kuomintang, and even in the Ministry of Armaments, there are people who sympathize with us, as long as we raise it through them, Luo Yaoguo can't see that our party is behind the promotion, right? ”

"What?" Mao ZD suddenly felt that his eyes lit up: "Come, you mean, there are comrades of our party who hold important positions in the Kuomintang Armaments Department?" ”。