After sending Li Wentian away, Song Zhewu readjusted the garrison area of the troops who remained in the Taiyuan Administration.

Pang Bingxun's 13th Army was stationed in Jingcheng, Mengxian, Yangquan, Jinzhong, Yushe, Liaoxian and other places, and the military headquarters was located in Jinzhong; Zhang Yafei's First Army was stationed on the front line of Shuozhou, Daixian, Yuanping, Xinzhou, and Wutai, and the military headquarters was located in Taiyuan; Li Sichi's Fourth Army was stationed in Wuxiang, Qinxian, Qinyuan, Pingyao, Taigu and other places, and the military headquarters was located in Taigu.

Song Zhewu's purpose in doing this was to separate Pang Bingxun from Song Zheyuan's Northwest Army stationed in Jinnan, and after the troops were reorganized, although Song Zhewu was not afraid that Pang Bingxun would pull away the troops, there were still necessary precautions.

Zhang Tao's Third Army was stationed in Fenyang, Zhongyang, Luliang, Linxian, Fangshan and other places, and the military headquarters was located in Fenyang; The 10th Army of Jingyuexiu was stationed in Baotou, Guyang, Tumut Zuoqi, Qingshuihe, Jungar, Ordos and other places, and the military headquarters was located in Baotou; Ye Changgui's guard division was stationed in Taiyuan and was responsible for the defense of Taiyuan and its surrounding important organs.

After finishing these, Song Zhewu just wanted to take a break and take a breath, Li Rujuan and Wang Dong returned to Taiyuan with a vast number of hired European and American engineers and technicians, as well as a large number of technical equipment purchased from Europe and the United States.

Whether it is Li Rujuan or Wang Dong, or a large number of engineers and technicians from Europe and the United States, or even a large number of modern equipment purchased, or it can also be said to represent the advanced technology level of today's era, each piece is enough to make Song Zhewu's somewhat tired heart speed up again, and beat happily.

Since Li Rujuan returned to Shanghai during the Spring Festival, Song Zhewu has never seen her again. In order to be able to purchase more second-hand but relatively advanced technology and equipment, as well as to recruit the precious talents that Song Zhewu told him to do, she led the engineering and technical personnel sent to him by Song Zhewu, almost all over Europe except the Soviet Union, this time the luggage of Europe Rujuan walked for ten months, so long not seen, Song Zhewu's longing can be imagined.

Wang Dong, an old acquaintance, has not met again since he met Song Zhewu in Tianjin. Moreover, Song Zhewu knew that Wang Dong was solely responsible for purchasing equipment and recruiting talents for Song Zhewu in the United States, and he had exhausted himself for more than two years, and the technicians and equipment he brought back were enough to explain everything.

And the vast majority of these devices they bring back are second-hand equipment, not to mention their value.

Although Europe and the United States are still struggling to get rid of the economic crisis, but if these equipment are all bought new, there will be no six or seven billion yuan, it will definitely not be able to come down, the vast majority of these equipment are from the European and American factories after the closure of the forced auction, and Li Rujuan and Wang Dong bought almost all the complete sets of equipment of the whole factory, as long as it is installed, there will immediately appear in the Taihang Administration A large number of factories and enterprises urgently needed by Song Zhewu in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, especially the national defense and military industry system can begin to take shape. How could this make Song Zhewu's heart still beat steadily?

Song Zhewu was even more happy with the European and American engineering and technical personnel they brought back, most of these people were engineers and technicians from closed factories in Europe and the United States, and they were hired by Li Rujuan and Wang Dong to install the equipment at the same time when they purchased the equipment. Among these people, only a small number of experts and scholars have signed a five-year contract with Li Rujuan for livelihood reasons.

Among them, there are many experts and technicians with overseas Chinese status, which makes Song Zhewu very excited, and Song Zhewu believes that a large part of these overseas Chinese will not choose to leave the motherland in five years.

On the list of these equipment brought back by Li Rujuan and Wang Dong, the complete factories are: two large steel-making plants, and eight additional electric furnaces; two non-ferrous metal smelters; an artillery manufacturing plant; two woolen mills; one automobile and one tractor factory; An electronic equipment factory and an electronic equipment manufacturing plant. In addition, there is a chemical raw material factory, a fertilizer factory, and a pesticide factory.

The equipment of these complete factories is all new second-hand goods of Yishui. Although it is not new, it also makes Song Zhewu very satisfied. If it were new equipment, even if the West was now plagued by the worst economic crisis since industrialization, the cost would be astronomical for Song Zhewu and he could not afford it.

That's it, except for the money in the Northern Investment and Development Bank, he now has no spare money to use, including Song Zhewen in the United States.

Because Song Zhewen had bought the stocks of major US arms companies at a low price in accordance with Song Zhewu's instructions, except for gold. The stocks of these arms companies must not be sold, and during World War II, these arms companies would make a windfall, and Song Zhewu's post-war development funds still had to rely on it.

Even if it is now the annual dividends, Song Zhewu will not use it, he asked Song Zhewen to prepare the money to buy silver futures, two years later the United States will begin to brew the introduction of the "white and silver bill", this bill has brought huge disasters to China and other countries on the silver standard, and therefore prompted China to abandon the silver standard, and the United States has also gained huge benefits from it. Song Zhewu vowed to snatch some back from the American political axe.

All of Song Zhewu's conceptions of the economic crisis in the West come from his memories of his past life and scattered news in domestic newspapers today, and he has no deep practical sense of the seriousness of the crisis, because after all, the crisis has not affected China's economy, or its impact is extremely small. Even from some perspectives, the economic crisis that has swept Europe and the United States is still very powerful for China, the most obvious example being the abundance of food. Domestic flour prices, for example, are now slowly falling. In Song Zhewu's memory, this trend continued until the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War.

However, after listening to Li Rujuan and Wang Dong's reports on the crisis in Europe and the United States, he was still deeply surprised by the difficulties that the crisis had caused to the economies of Europe, the United States and other Western countries.

In this severe economic crisis, the banking system was most affected by the economic crisis, and the banking system was disrupted, because the money operation system was disrupted, and the banks were unable to cope with the run.

Taking Europe and the United States as an example, in the United States, thousands of large and small banks have failed all over the country in the past year, and in Europe, more than 8,000 banks have failed in the four old powers, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, and if we count those second-rate powers, there are more than 10,000 banks that have failed.

Enterprises that take out loans, because their products cannot be sold and are not profitable, will not be able to repay the loans, and it is inevitable that they will go bankrupt. Even those enterprises with sufficient funds are still difficult to maintain because they are not profitable, and they still have to maintain equipment and facilities, pay workers' wages and pay various other expenses, and it is only a matter of time before they go out of business. At this time, only large and insignificant enterprises with access to negligible orders can survive. As a result, the number of factories and enterprises that have failed is several times greater than the number of banks that have failed.

At this time, in Europe and the United States, because they could not repay bank loans, bankrupt enterprises were forced to auction equipment and facilities every day, and because the whole West was plunged into the Great Depression, almost no enterprises would expand production at this time, let alone build new or take over these enterprises, and no one would invest in this bottomless pit of eating money except for madmen. As a result, the price of second-hand equipment is unbelievably low, only one-fifth to one-tenth of the original value, or even lower, depending on the new and old equipment, but even so, few people are interested.

According to Li Rujuan, if it weren't for the fact that the Soviets also had several political axe purchasing groups operating around Europe and purchasing industrial equipment in large quantities like crazy, the price of the equipment she purchased would have been lower.

Song Zhewu was very sorry that he had no money to spare, otherwise he would buy back more equipment and establish more enterprises, which would make his industrial system more comprehensive and more perfect.

He was very envious of Stalin, who had the backing of the entire Soviet political axe, and could devote all his limited resources to the purchase of European and American equipment by taking advantage of the crisis, and it was from this that the Soviet Union, with the extremely reluctant passive help of the West, quickly established a perfect, and even very powerful industrial system. This is also a very important reason why the Soviet Union can finally win in World War II.

Whether he is frustrated or envious, he is not Stalin after all, he is Song Zhewu, and he still has to face up to reality and make good use of these hard-won equipment.

In addition to those few complete factories, Wang Dong also bought back a lot of single or complete sets of equipment needed by various industries, as long as these equipment are slightly combined, or added to other factories, the production lines of these factories are transformed, and new factories or those old factories will soon be rejuvenated.

This is because Wang Dong has the strong support of Song Zhewen in the United States, with the assistance of many engineers and technicians he recruited, and the technical force is sufficient. As a result, they hardly ever bought equipment in sets. Therefore, although the amount of equipment purchased by Wang Dong is very large, the amount of money spent is not much more than that of Li Rujuan, but the results are greater.

This includes equipment from almost all walks of life, such as weapons, aviation, automobiles, railways, electronics, and chemicals, as well as a new set of money-printing equipment. These equipment will be invested in Song Zhewu's existing and upcoming factories, which can greatly expand the production capacity of these factories.

This set of money-printing equipment was specially asked by Song Zhewu to arrange for Wang Dong to buy it according to Jia Jiying's suggestion.

The reason is that Jia Jiying because since Song Zhewu has essentially replaced Yan Xishan's position in Shanxi, it is a little inappropriate to use the old version of the Jin banknote, especially according to Jia Jiying's plan, he wants to turn the Jin banknote into the most important currency in the north of the Republic of China......

(To be continued)