Beginning the next day, Wang Zhengting led people to visit major banks, hoping to provide low-interest or even interest-free loans to China, because Roosevelt had greeted him in advance, most of the banks were politely received, but when it came to borrowing, most of them were struggling, and at this time, the US economy, which had just slowly moved out of the pain of the Great Depression, fell again, and the economy fell into a deep trough again, and there was a "second recession." During the 1937-1938 recession, unemployment was as high as 19 percent, which is much lower than the previous peak of 25 percent during the "mainshock", but it still looks unimaginable today. The major banks attach great importance to funds, and it is undoubtedly difficult for them to lend to China for no reason, especially when China has no collateral. But for the sake of Roosevelt's face, in the end, he still meant to borrow more or less.

Five days passed quickly, Jiang Cheng saw that Wang Zhengting remembered the number, five days was only 17 million US dollars, you must know that this is to visit all the large banks, you can't help but feel pessimistic about the goal of 30 million you set.

At this time, Wang Zhengting ran over excitedly and said, "Gu Quan, good news, great news, just now the United States Construction Bank sent someone to sue us, willing to add an additional $4 million loan, plus the previous Bank of Communications gave us a loan of 10 million." ”

Jiang Cheng asked in surprise, "What's going on?" Why did you suddenly add a loan? ”

Wang Zhengting said happily: "This is not all the credit of President Roosevelt, it is said that at yesterday's bankers' gathering, President Roosevelt once again said good things for us, and deliberately pulled the president of the China Construction Bank to say that the loan to China will be beneficial to the future of the United States, which made the additional loan." ”

Jiang Cheng exhaled at this time, feeling that his mission in the United States was finally half completed.

During this period, the New York branch of Weihua Company was successfully established, because it was willing to receive US dollars higher than the price of gold like the German branch, so that a large number of ordinary people and hospitals who suffered from no gold reserves came to rush to buy penicillin and sulfonamides, of course, many people came to protest that the price was too high, but under the protection of Roosevelt, there was no danger, and at the same time, Jiang Cheng promised that the US dollars received would not be remitted back to China, but would buy products in the United States, and received the support of the American business community, so that Weihua Company quickly gained a firm foothold in the United States. Jiang Cheng began to discuss with Wang Zhengting and Situ Meitang, who understood the situation in the United States, how to spend the loan. On the other side of China, because of an assassination, the red and white parties almost fought each other again.

April 25, 1937 - Yan'an Zhou Guansheng waved goodbye to Mao Yongzhi and Zhu Daizhen, and sat on a military truck, next to Chen Youcai, with the driver on the left. The rest of the cadres and fighters were all standing in dense proximity to the open carriage behind them. There were more than 60 people in the group.

The original Xiao Zhang became a squad leader after returning to Yan'an, and later was a sharpshooter named Liu Jiuzhou, but unfortunately it was too small, and several leaders were not at ease on the mission to Xi'an, so they temporarily sent Chen Youcai to be Zhou Guansheng's bodyguard. Chen Youcai is the chief of staff of the Yan'an Garrison Headquarters, and his figure, age, and face are very close to Zhou Enlai. On this day, he was dressed the same as Zhou Enlai. Suits and leather shoes, personable, from a distance it seems difficult to tell who is who. And along the way, he and Zhou Enlai were always inseparable.

Zhou Guansheng looked at Chen Youcai and asked with frowns, "Comrade Chen, what's wrong with you?" Uncomfortable? ”

Chen Youcai shook his head and said, "I don't know why, I just feel a little uneasy." ”

Zhou Guansheng patted Chen Youcai with a smile and said, "Don't think about it, we have so many fighters, how can something happen?" ”

Chen Youcai smiled and said, "Thank you, Vice Chairman Zhou, I'm much better." ”

Zhou Guansheng and his entourage had two or three big trucks, just as they were heading to Xi'an, a group of black-clothed people appeared in the middle of the Dalao Mountain, the terrain of the Dalao Mountain is steep, the ancient trees are towering, and it is the haunted place of the "green forest heroes", and the past merchants dare not go alone. The leader was a young man, and next to him was a man who looked like a gangster, and there were about 100 people behind him, and the man said, "Mr. Toyama, this is it." ”

The young man was none other than Toushan Geming, he nodded and said, "Is this Dalao Mountain?" It's a great place for ambushes. Black Tiger, let your brothers all lie in ambush and act according to my warrant. ”

The black tiger responded and let the people below start to work in ambush, these people look like they are armed with messy weapons, at first glance, they are from bandits, Toushan Geming looked at the unruly black tiger and others, and thought disdainfully, although there are more than a hundred people, but as long as he gives him a team, he can completely annihilate these people, such bandits can be arrogant for more than ten years, and the people are really vulnerable, but it's okay, using bandits to ambush bandits, it also complements each other.

Zhou Guansheng and others galloped out of the south gate of Yan'an, and when they passed by 30 miles, everyone got out of the car and drank water, relieved their hands, and then boarded the car again. After a while, he climbed up the Dalao Mountain, which towered between Sanlipu and Ganquan County, and Zhou Guansheng looked at the forests on both sides of Dalao Mountain, which were like obstacles, and the light was dim. I couldn't help but sigh, "This place is really a good place for ambushes." ”

On the other side, the head of several military vehicles, Shan Geming, who saw his beloved rifle, aimed at the cab of the first car, snapped, fired the first shot, and everyone heard the gunshot, and they all snapped.

"What sound? Is this the sound of gunfire? As a sharpshooter, Liu Jiuzhou was the first to ask a question vigilantly.

As soon as the words fell, the surrounding gunshots rang out like beans bursting in a hot pot. Bullets hit the car, "clanging" and flying around. Some of the fighters were shot and fell down. More fighters immediately drew their guns and fired back at the ambushers who were lying in ambush in the woods by the roadside.

Zhang Yunyi shouted to the guards: "Get out of the car!" Vice-Chairman of Conservation Week! ”

The fighters jumped out of the carriage and ran towards the wheelhouse.

And Zhou Guansheng, who was sitting in the cab, ordered loudly: "Get in the car and rush over!" ”

The soldiers froze and turned back to the carriage.

At this time, Chen Youcai and the driver were both injured. The driver, hearing the command, swallowed the pain, increased the throttle, and the truck rushed forward like a mad bull.

But he didn't get far before he fell headlong into the ditch cut by the ambushers. Many fighters were thrown out.

Zhou Guansheng is worthy of being one of the true heirs of Xingyi Fist, the moment the truck was planted in the ditch, he quickly pushed open the right door, jumped out of the cab, and immediately turned around and leaned behind the right front tire.

At this point, the driver died. Chen Youcai got out of the cab, immediately wounded the soldiers, and ordered the deputy platoon commander of the guard platoon to lead people to escort Zhou Guansheng, Zhang Yunyi, and Kong Shiquan to quickly leave this dangerous place. The rest of the guards fired at the ambushers who were rushing at the truck. Unfortunately, most of the guards had short guns, short ranges, and low lethality, so it was difficult to repel the ambushers' charges. For a while, the casualties were very great, but the head of the mountain pavilion was half dead in anger, more than 100 to 60, or an ambush, the gunfire was very lively, and now the other party has only killed and injured more than a dozen people, what kind of ghost battle is this.

The black tiger next to him smiled embarrassedly, "Most of my rabbit cubs haven't fired a few shots, and they can't compare to the might of the imperial army, so it's already good." ”

Toushan Geming sighed, "Fortunately, it was an ambush, so it shouldn't be a big problem." Okay, get ready to go down and charge, you must wipe out all these people. ”

As soon as he heard hand-to-hand combat, this was a good show for bandits, and the black tiger smiled and agreed and rushed down the mountain with people. Zhou Guansheng saw the enemy rushing down, knowing that this was the enemy who wanted to entangle his side so that he could annihilate his own side, and saw that most of his side were short guns, and he couldn't win the fight, so he hurriedly fought and retreated with the soldiers, Chen Youcai didn't want Zhou Guansheng to expose himself, and hurriedly commanded loudly, fortunately, these enemies did not have a strong sense of fighting, and when they saw the Red Army dying and the grenades were thrown around, they were so frightened that they avoided it one after another, and the angry Toushan Pavilion jumped like thunder, and finally although more than 30 corpses were left, they were still rushed out by Zhou Guansheng and others. Several Japanese spies brought by Toushan Geming saw that the Red Army was about to break through, and hurriedly concentrated their firepower to attack Chen Youcai, who was in command, and Toushan Geming was worthy of being a top student of the Japanese military academy, and raised his hand and shot Chen Youcai in the abdomen, and finally Chen Youcai was shot six times in the abdomen and fell to the ground and died. Toushan Geming saw that the commander was dead, so he no longer pursued. Just when you've done the job.

Toushan Geming looked through these corpses one by one, they were all wearing patched tattered military uniforms, but he knew that there were senior cadres of the Red Party in this car, why didn't there leave a few of them? This is the first time he has come out to complete the task independently, and it is all to blame these damn people for becoming like this, they are all these wastes, if I had a squad of imperial troops, it would definitely not end like this. But fortunately, the one who took the lead was killed by himself, and he can be regarded as completing the basic task.

The black tiger said with a smile, "Mr. Toushan, we fought well, you see so many deaths, that, the matter of money?" ”

Toushan grinned and said, "Yo Xi, our Great Japanese Empire will not owe you money, you just want to take your family to Japan in the future, you can rest assured about money, let's evacuate this place first." ”

After Zhang Yunyi saw that he was out of danger, he immediately sent two guards to the headquarters of the Red Army Division in Sanlipu to report the news. Then he, Zhou Guansheng and Kong Shiquan, under the escort of more than a dozen soldiers, went all the way through the forest and climbed the cliffs, until late at night, and then returned to Thirty Miles.

And when Yan'an knew the news, when he heard the report, Mao Yongzhi, who had always been calm in the face of great danger, also pulled his shoes in a panic, rushed out of the cave, and issued an order to Huang Lin, the head of the Central Guard Regiment, in a stern tone: "Huang Lin, don't care about anything, go and get Vice Chairman Zhou back for me immediately!" I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death! ”

Huang Lin immediately ordered the soldiers of the guard regiment to be fully armed and ready to set off, there were not enough horses, and Mao Yongzhi, Zhu Daizhen, Zhang Wentian, Bogu and other leaders all took out their mounts and the guards. After a while, Huang Lin led this temporarily formed cavalry unit and ran all the way out of the south gate of Yan'an.

The central leaders gathered in Mao Yongzhi's cave, not only worried about Zhou Guansheng's safety, but also nervously analyzed, who planned and carried out this serious murder against Zhou Guansheng? Is it an enemy from the outside, a spy of the White Party, or is it from within? If it is the latter, then this incident will be even more severe, and it will even cause violent turmoil in the situation in Yan'an.

Fortunately, the news came quickly, and Zhou Guansheng and the others were fine, but the accompanying soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Mao Yongzhi smoked a cigarette and said, "We must investigate what is going on, this is a very strict leak incident, let Comrade Kenong investigate, no matter who is found, it will not be tolerated." At the same time, just in case, send someone to protect Chairman Zhang. ”

At dawn the next day, the accurate news came, and Zhou Guansheng, who retreated to Thirty Miles that night, ordered the garrison to go to Dalao Mountain overnight, and at the same time, Gu Zhu and others in Xi'an also knew the news and sent troops to cooperate with the Red Army overnight to wrap dumplings for the Black Tiger and others, and after a scuffle, the Black Tiger did not know who killed him, and several mysterious people said by the bandits also disappeared, and the red and white sides immediately knew that there must be someone who did not want to see the Red and White sides unite, which greatly promoted the realization of the Red and White joint anti-Japanese resistance.

On the other side, the teeth of Toushan Pavilion Mingqi, who fought all the way, jumped out, fortunately, he took advantage of the chaos to shoot the black tiger, there should be no clues left, and said to the subordinates around him, "Go back to Shanghai!" ”

-- Due to the new round of economic crisis in the United States, the purchasing power of the US dollar is extremely strong, Jiang Cheng decided to buy some weapons and equipment first, after all, the war is about to begin, and strengthening armaments is the most important thing, so he asked Wang Zhengting to negotiate with US arms dealers to buy the Browning M2 heavy machine gun, the caliber of this machine gun is 12.7MM, which is very suitable for fighting Japanese armored vehicles and low-altitude aircraft, and then purchase the Thomson submachine gun of the US army, mainly because the Republic of China at this time has begun to imitate a large number of Thomson submachine guns.

From 1923 to 1924, the Guangdong Arsenal copied 39 M1921s. In 1926, the Shanxi Military Craft Training Factory also began to imitate, and in 1927, after being renamed the Taiyuan Arsenal, a submachine gun factory was specially established, with a monthly output of 900 in 1928. After the takeover by the Nationalist Government, production was suspended for a time, and production resumed between 1932 and 1934, with a maximum monthly output of 250 pieces. Another major manufacturer of the domestic "Tom type" was the Chongqing Weapons Repair Institute, which produced a total of 4,700 pieces of two models between 1928 and 1935, both with a caliber of 7.63 mm, in order to be compatible with shell gun cartridges, one of which was imitated from the M1923 model, equipped with a bipod, which could double as a light machine gun. In addition, Huayin, Chishui and other arsenals have also imitated this gun. The wide range of equipment of these domestically produced Thomson imitations far exceeded the imagination of today's people, and were used by various warlords in the Central Plains War, and before the Anti-Japanese War, even the armed forces of ethnic minorities in the Ganliang area had a small number of Thomson submachine guns.

This makes it possible for China to write a Thomson submachine gun production line on the order if there are many workers and technicians with experience in manufacturing Thomson submachine guns at this time, and specially ask to reduce the caliber to 7.63, so that the ammunition can be universal, and what the workers of the Republic of China can do is not difficult for American technicians.

Jiang Cheng asked Gallagher, "Gallagher, do you think that the most important thing is that I should buy machinery now?" ”

Gallagher closed his eyes and said, "Heavy industry is actually basic industry, and your current level of development is metallurgy, petroleum, coal, electric power, chemistry, machinery industry, etc. These basic industries require more equipment, have a long production and construction cycle, consume a lot of capital, and provide services for the manufacturing industry and the production and consumption materials departments. So the question is, what industry is the foundation of the foundation? I've heard that the first industrial revolution on your planet was in the UK, and the UK relied on coal and iron, and coal was actually energy. No industry can do without both, so the most important ones are steel mills and power plants. In fact, steel has existed since ancient times, but the scale and metallurgical methods of modern and ancient times are different, but power generation is still a new thing in your time. ”

Jiang Cheng nodded with a wry smile, in fact, the real county electrification was not successfully completed until 2005. At this time, there were 461 power plants in China, and there were more than 660 city-level cities in later generations, which means that each city could not share one power station. The total installed power generation capacity is 630MW, and the annual power generation capacity is only 1.7 billion kWh, although the power distribution system of large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, and Nantong has been initially formed. But not to mention Japan's power generation of more than 30 billion kilowatt-hours, that is, the puppet Manchukuo in the northeast generated 1.63 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 1938, as for the iron and steel industry, before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Japan produced 5.8 million tons of steel and 2.39 million tons of pig iron in 1937, while the corresponding Chinese steel output was only more than 40,000 tons, a difference of 100 times, as for the output of the United States at this time, it was 60 million tons, a difference of 1,500 times with China. It is no wonder that there are people like Wang Jingwei who are afraid of Japan like a tiger and are not optimistic about the outcome of the war.

Gallagher continued, "So electricity and steel are the key, you have a lot of coal resources in China, you have a lot of people, dig it, don't worry, but how to increase the output of electricity and steel is the problem, and you are about to have a war, what you need most is cannon steel that can be used for guns, which is not something you can make pig iron and crude steel that can be compared to now." ”

Although Jiang Cheng has long known that China's heavy industry was very weak during the Republic of China, he still has a sense of powerlessness when he thinks of this steel gap, although he can travel through time and space, but he is not a dragon Aotian, he can build an aircraft carrier with two drawings, and he can build an AK47 with a machine tool. This steel mill and power station cannot be moved from modern times.

Probably sensing Jiang Cheng's mental fluctuations, Gallagher cheered up and said, "You're not alone, what are you afraid of?" I have said before that the most precious thing is not weapons, not materials, but knowledge and culture, you just wanted to make money at the beginning, and I won't say anything, but now that you have the intention of saving your country in this time and space, then the most important thing you should transport is not materials, but knowledge and technology, and it is useless to rely on you alone to move your Baosteel in Shanghai as a whole, because this era will not maintain and use the things of your era at all. ”

Jiang Cheng asked: "Do you mean that I should save the country with science and technology and industry?" ”

Gallagher agreed, "That's right, if you really want to meddle in this plane, the most suitable thing is to engage in industry and technology, but not for you to do it, but for others to do it for you, you can still ship some small machine tools, as for the power station and steel plant, let the people of this time and space figure it out, but before doing this, you should find your base." ”

Jiang Cheng agreed: "That's right, this trip abroad has shown me the power of other countries' industries, China under the rule of the White Party is really bad in heavy industry, I just don't know if Chairman Jiang will support me to do heavy industry." ”

After all, heavy industry is not light industry, and it is not comparable to light industry in terms of investment and rate of return. Just in case, Jiang Cheng sent a telegram to Yu Qiaqing in Shanghai, wanting him to help check the pulse, if he was really ready to persuade the Nationalist Government to engage in heavy industry, should he do so, and where should the factory be located?

Soon Yu Qiaqing's call back came, Jiang Cheng took it over and looked at it in a hurry, and immediately felt that he was being treated with cold water from the beginning to the end, Yu Qiaqing did not come to encourage him, but to warn him, don't be impulsive, heavy industry is not so easy to do. At the same time, the reasons were analyzed for him.

First, most of the iron ore in the country is not under our own control, not to mention the power of other countries. The resources controlled by Japanese capital alone exceed 29% of Kannai's coal production and 90% of iron ore sand, and without raw materials, the steel industry would not have been able to be built.

Second, all other national heavy industries in China are under the control of the Resources Committee, and if Jiang Cheng wants to run heavy industries, then the first thing to ask is to hand over the enterprises to the Resources Committee to be responsible.

Third, the domestic banking sector is not supportive of heavy industry, and it is difficult to obtain loans, making it difficult for heavy industry factories to obtain financing.

Fourth, there are a large number of foreign railways and pseudo national railways in China, and the prices are low, and it is difficult to run factories in such an environment. There is no money to be made at all, and now domestic steel mills are all refining one furnace and losing one furnace.

Looking at the telegram, Gallagher sneered, "How did your country do it?" Heavy industry is basically in the hands of the enemy, and I really admire you if you win the battle in the end. ”

Jiang Cheng angrily tore the telegram to shreds, this is not good, that is not good, is it possible to use flour and cloth to fight against the enemy in a war?

Gallagher persuaded, "You don't have a political force that supports you, you don't have a stable territory, it's impossible to engage in industry, you better think of a way in this regard first." ”

Jiang Cheng really felt that there was no one to support him, it was impossible to start some industry, and the strongest force in this era was of course Jiang Zhong, and it seemed that he had to be persuaded first. But will Jiang really support Jiang Cheng to invest his precious loan in heavy industry?

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