"Director Xu, do you have something to do with me?"

He Chenghui is a workshop director of Guangxi Fangchenggang Tian Clothing Factory, like all Chinese women in the new era, married and has a son, she is a new generation due to the new education in the southwest in her early years, she is a new young generation, and after graduation, she entered the Tian Clothing Factory, until she served as the technical + management work of the workshop director.

Hearing that the worker said that the factory director was looking for him, he hurriedly found a workshop team leader to take care of the production line, and rushed to the factory director's office.

As the third largest garment factory in Fangchenggang, Tianyi Clothing Factory is mainly divided into four parts, clothing design department, high-end handmade clothing department, public clothing department, and special clothing department. Before the outbreak of World War II, the high-end clothing that mainly focused on luxury was selling well both domestically and exporting, and the high-end handmade cheongsam of the handmade clothing department also sold well, but as soon as World War II broke out, the business of the special clothing department suddenly seemed to be riding on a soaring rocket.

Xu Wansan, the owner of the Tianyi Clothing Factory, was an old southwestern, and was a worker in the garment factory in Dongchuan District, with active thinking, and later with some savings, he recruited a group of tailor workers with his own craftsmanship and began to produce some new clothing. He was familiar with some ordinary new clothing styles, and soon made enough money through this small-scale clothing production.

After purchasing back a batch of new sewing machines from Yunnan, his heavenly clothing factory was finally formally established, in the following ten years, although there are ups and downs, but after all, the development is very fast, relying on the domestic new clothing machines, the production efficiency has been greatly improved, and then by virtue of the new cloth factory in Fangchenggang, the raw materials are cheap.

In addition to some products sold at home and abroad, after the clothing design patents obtained from Shusheng Company and the State Patent Office were authorized, most of the expensive clothing produced by new fabrics were sold abroad.

However, in order to develop in the long term, Xu Wansan still developed his own fashion design department, and recruited several outstanding graduates with great potential from the fashion design majors of several universities such as Southwest University and Guilin University to form his own fashion design team.

"Xiao He, come on, come on, sit down."

In the factory director's office, Xu Wansan looked at the summary of the factory shipping list in his hand, and couldn't help frowning, but when he saw the order on the side, he frowned tightly.

"Factory director, the workshop is inseparable from people, you have something to say quickly." He Chenghui's surname is like this, like most Chinese in the new era, the concept of respect and inferiority is relatively light, and more is the seriousness and pragmatism that was cultivated in school.

"Xiao He, is there any way to speed up the production progress of the workshop now?" Xu Wansan said with some embarrassment, the current situation is equivalent to money everywhere waiting to be grabbed, as long as enough products can be produced, a shipload to Europe can be sold for high profits, "You also know that when Europe fights, soldiers always have to wear clothes, and that is hundreds of thousands, millions of clothing shortages." With the foundation of these old industrial countries, they are not bad for output, they are short of time, and we make military uniforms, and it is this time to rob them. When they get raw materials from the colonies and start factories, our market will be smaller. ”

"Factory director, I don't know about other workshops, the garment workshop I am responsible for has raised the work efficiency to the highest, and with the encouragement of high bonuses, the workers have come up with full enthusiasm to make a piece of clothing and calculate a money, which is the greatest degree of incentive. If you speed it up any further, the quality of the product will be compromised. You know, within the scope of the labor law, we have implemented a three-shift work system. He Chenghui understood what the boss meant, and it would be a fool not to make money if he put it away. At present, the whole country has entered an era of unprecedentedly high foreign trade economy, and the export of everything that is related to military supplies and daily necessities has reached a new height.

Countries declared war on each other, and normal trade relations between many countries collapsed in an instant, and China and the United States were replaced by goods for these countries. And in the whole world, these two powers are the only ones to declare neutrality. And only China and the United States can do business with the Germans, the British, the French, the Italians, the Russians, the Dutch, and the people themselves.

Military uniforms, military medical equipment, water bottles, boots, raincoats, lighters, chewing gum...... Even the foreign trade exports of chocolate and Coca-Cola have increased dramatically. On the basis of the original foreign trade, the number of factories in various industries has increased dramatically, and under the effective guidance of the political axe, they have begun to grab the huge cake brought about by the war.

"It seems that the only way to expand the factory is to expand it." Xu Wansan thought about it, and analyzed from the news he saw in the newspaper, the scale of this war may be larger than the First World War, and the protracted war, in addition to the weapons and ammunition that he cannot produce, consumes the most, it is these basic military materials, and he is not ready to produce any military kettles, lighters, and even more chocolates and military drinks for export, but he can do his old job.

He calculated that if these countries were armed with tens of millions of troops like World War I, then even if only one-tenth of the amount was purchased by China, it would be enough for the existing national special garment industry to produce in three shifts for two years.

"Boss, are you really ready to scale? This is the third time we've been hiring. He Chenghui said with some worry, she didn't understand the current situation, but she was still a little worried about such a crazy expansion speed.

"Don't worry, look at what the newspapers say, this war will last for a long time, and the interrupted trade between countries must find new trading countries to replenish the share, China and the United States are the best choices, and our costs and raw materials, clothing production technology, are not comparable to the Americans. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Xu Wansan said ruthlessly. I have decided, Xiao He, as the most important workshop director of the factory, you have to take on more important responsibilities. ”

He has already made up his mind to apply for a loan from the bank with the factory as collateral, double the size of the factory, win the bet, and he will not worry about spending the rest of his life.

And at the Fangchenggang No. 1 pier, which is more than five kilometers away from the Tianyi Clothing Factory, the scene is even more hot.

As the main foreign trade port, Fangchenggang is backed by the booming industrial advantages of the entire southwest, and has always been very effective in export trade. The development from a small Fangchenggang to a large city in the country today is due to the huge impact of comprehensive overseas trade that began in the southwest period.

From a small city, to a medium-sized city, and now a large city of two million people, Fangchenggang City belongs to the representative of the emerging cities of the Republic, and the new capital of the Republic of China, Hanjing City, the southernmost territory of the Republic of China, Hanzhong Special Zone, the southwestern town of Yibin and other four cities are known as the four major new cities of the Republic.

From a small shallow water wharf to today's No. 1 wharf, No. 2 wharf, and No. 3 wharf, it has undertaken most of the export tasks produced by the southwest. Pier 1 faces abroad, Pier 2 faces domestic, and Pier 3 serves as a berthing for oversized vessels.

And now, after World War II, all kinds of export goods have increased dramatically, although China's political axe has long been prepared, and the commercial and foreign trade departments have long been coordinated, but they are still stunned by the huge appearance and scale that appeared in an instant.

The entire No. 1 wharf is not only full of cargo ships from all over the world, but also a fleet of ships waiting for pilot ships to lead them into the port, including those from France, Germany, Britain, and Ben...... In addition to the goods originally purchased from China from the opening countries, other in-demand goods included a huge amount of military supplies purchased for the imminent outbreak of the Great War, huge amounts of new medicines including penicillin, medical equipment, and radio stations...... Although the British, who had expanded from less than 300,000 army troops at the beginning of the year to more than 500,000 troops, the strong expansion of the Germans still made Britain and France nervous, and with the launch of three new German aircraft carriers that abandoned the battleships, the British political axe began to realize that a pure navy and air force could only protect themselves, and the army was still the only way to solve the ground battle.

Due to the many butterfly effects brought by Zhang Shusheng, although the British were already in a period of decline, they still held back their strength and began to expand their armaments at full speed.

In addition to the lack of all kinds of combat readiness resources and military supplies, even the stocks of rifles, bullets, artillery, and artillery shells are insufficient. Compared with the well-prepared German and Chinese countries, the stock of the Soviet Union was enough to arm 1 million people, while the Germans were more than enough to arm 3 or 4 million people, and the Soviets relied on the strong centralized production capacity of socialism and were able to quickly arm a large number of troops.

Therefore, after the official outbreak of World War II, orders from Europe flew to China like snowflakes. In addition to finding trade substitutes and replacing the countries that originally declared war, it was to purchase large quantities of war-related materials.

In China's southwest and southeast industrial areas, the materials pulled to the port by rail and highway every day are piled up as high as mountains in the port storage area, and the British can't even wait for the domestic machine to produce their specialty Enfield rifles, because they find that the Chinese take the initiative to sell the trial Enfield rifles that come to their doors, which are actually comparable to the British-made Enfield surnames, but the price after adding freight is actually much cheaper than domestic production.

Subsequently, the British ordered several ships of munitions from China in one go, including Enfield-style rifles and a large number of bullets, directly emptying one of the twenty 'foreign trade warehouses' that the Republic had stockpiled in advance for the war.

"Coming, coming......"

Container area of Pier 1, when a freighter full of empty containers arrives at the port, the businessmen who have been waiting for a long time are sensational, and now the most lacking in the major ports is the container, the political axe department and Shusheng Company organize a large number of containers every day to rush to the major ports, these businessmen, waiting for container loading.

The same is true of the major ports in southern China.

Especially in the southwest and southeast coasts, the density of large, medium and small factories can make Americans feel the industrial potential of the Chinese, and the Chinese machinery factories even work in three shifts to provide machinery for the factories that continue to emerge across the country, and after obtaining effective mortgages, banks actively lend to these small and medium-sized enterprises.

"Chairman, the current economic situation is very good, and in terms of foreign trade, we have almost shared with the Americans the huge growth in trade brought about by the war. Compared to the Americans, we have more excellent medicines, high-quality uniforms, and lower prices.

The major ports were overcrowded, and we, together with the Americans, snatched the first gains from the beginning of the war.

Now the volume of foreign trade exports for the whole of September has increased by 30%, which is a very remarkable figure. ”

Liu Dengke, Minister of Commerce, reported to Zhang Shusheng in Zhang Shusheng's office.

Zhang Shusheng nodded, he was very satisfied with this result, more than 20 'foreign trade reserve warehouses', although all belong to the Republic of China and Shusheng Company, but the overall foreign trade growth brought about by the outbreak of World War II also benefited the growing number of small and medium-sized enterprises in southwest and southeast China.

And this is only the beginning, the war has just begun, and it is only normal trade and arms trade that will be affected, and only when the time comes to really open warehouses and sell arms will it be a huge profit that has never been seen before. Of course, there are also huge war materials, as long as the price is sufficient, they can be sold, but these materials do not have to be pulled from China, but from all over the world, the resources secretly controlled by Shusheng Company.

In order to support the countries to fight the war more intensely, the sale of supplies and military supplies is only the beginning, and the next step will be that the war machine of the republic will also be fully activated.

However, a large number of low- and medium-sized guns and ammunition produced by China, even airplanes, artillery, tanks, and even warships, will not be equipped by themselves, and these weapons and equipment will be sold to a certain party in need in large quantities together with the Americans.

"Our secret negotiations with the Americans have also been successful, and the American government has promised to maintain absolute neutrality with us, and to adopt a common strategy of advance and retreat in trade with the belligerents, so as to ensure that trade can be carried out."

It was Zhou Guolai who spoke, because Foreign Minister Li Zongren was about to be promoted to the post of secretary general of the Supreme Power Committee of the Chinese Nation, and the post of foreign minister would be held by Zhou Guolai.

After more than six years of accumulation and growth, Zhou Guolai is enough to take over Sun Changqing's class, and the republic's political affairs and diplomatic work will enter a new period.

The Americans will play a very important role in the next war trade, and Zhang Shusheng hopes that the two countries can form a trade alliance to ensure that trade with the belligerents can be normalized at least in the early part of the war.

Otherwise, China and the United States will passively side the other side. This is a matter that is good for both China and the United States. The Americans' military strength is insufficient, and the international influence of the Chinese is not as good as that of the United States, and the trade alliance formed by the combination of the two is quite influential, and Britain, France, Germany and Italy can also obtain international trade to strengthen their war strength, which can also make both sides maintain acquiescence to this practice of taking advantage of the fire and robbery between China and the United States.

"Chairman. Northwest Secret Electricity! ”

"Huh? Let me see. ”

Zhang Shusheng suddenly became interested, and explained a few words to Liu Dengke and Zhou Guolai, so that they could start to seize the fruits of trade brought by the war step by step, and then looked at the northwest secret telegram in their hands.

"Okay, very good, although I often pay attention, but I didn't expect that in a blink of an eye, the sun plan has come to this point, time is really fast, I can go to Lop Nur next month to see, I hope everything goes well."

Zhang Shusheng was overjoyed, and this news surprised him more than the news of the sharp rise in foreign trade.

(To be continued)