Before Song ML could speak to Wu Manli, Wu Sinan couldn't help but shout: "Aunt Song, my mother said that you gave birth to a younger brother, and I want to see my younger brother!" I brought a gift for my brother. ”

"This kid-" Wu Manli glared at Wu Sinan, Wu Sinan immediately stopped, lowered her head slightly, and couldn't help but look at Song ML hopefully.

The boy had been thinking about his brother all the way, and to him, the younger brother seemed to be a novelty toy.

"Good, good!" Song ML raised his head and looked at Wu Manli, and when he saw the kind expression on her face, he smiled, "But my brother just slept, you have to be quiet, you can't wake him up, you know?" ”

Wu Sinan nodded.

"I haven't congratulated the Song family's sister on her happy son, I'm happy for you in my heart. On this return visit, I specially brought Sinan over to visit him Aunt Song and his younger brother, and the two brothers should also be close to each other. ”

Wu Manli smiled slightly, and ordered the entourage to bring all the gifts, she gave Song ML a string of pearl necklaces, the pearls are black pearls, full of particles, rich in color, Song ML likes it very much.

Wu Manli also gave the baby a pair of long-life locks, the gift was simple and not cumbersome, which released her kindness, which made Song ML feel very good.

"And my pottery doll?" Wu Sinan reminded Wu Manli that she looked a little eager to show off.

Song ML opened the box and looked, sure enough, there was a clumsy and honest little human-shaped ceramic with a large palm, which was not exquisite, a little rough, and at a glance, he knew that the level of the producer was relatively amateurish, and asked Wu Sinan with a smile: "You made the doll?" ”

Wu Sinan nodded, saying that he had been playing with mud for several days before making it.

"Sinan is really good, she can make pottery dolls. Auntie won't either. Song ML touched Wu Sinan's head appreciatively. I nodded secretly in my heart. I like this kid more and more.

The pottery doll may not be valuable, but the thoughts of Wu Sinan and Wu Manli's mother and son are particularly rare, which moved Song ML.

In terms of his son's education, Song ML was also unwilling, and secretly determined that Song Qingfeng could not be worse than Wu Sinan.

"Auntie, thank you Brother Sinan for my brother. Now my younger brother is still young and can't play with pottery dolls, so my aunt helped him put away the gifts first. Now let's go see my brother, shall we? ”

Song ML enthusiastically held Wu Sinan's hand. Went into the baby's room.

The room is very quiet, and the well-fed baby will sleep so soundly, the little fist is slightly clenched, and he doesn't know that Wu Sinan is lying on the side of the crib and staring at himself with wide eyes and curiosity.

Wu Manli looked at the baby, as if she saw Wu Sinan when she was just born, and looked at Song ML with a tender face, and felt a little emotional.

It was the same at the beginning, the child was like the meat that fell from his body, and he was very distressed, and with him there was hope.

"He's so small! Clumsy. I looked at him for so long and didn't open his eyes to me. Wu Sinan whispered. I was a little dissatisfied and wanted to reach out and touch the baby's face. Wake him up and play with him.

"You used to be as stupid as him, you cried a lot, tossed your mother a lot, and you didn't have a good brother?" Wu Manli glanced at Wu Sinan and scolded with a smile.

"Really? How come I don't remember? Wu Sinan touched the back of his head suspiciously, and glanced at Wu Manli innocently.

"Do you know now?" Wu Manli asked.

Wu Sinan nodded.

Song ML and Wu Manli smiled, under their education, Wu Sinan knew that he was as young as his younger brother before, and he grew up slowly, he could run and jump, and he would be as big as his mother in the future.

Song ML prepared a sumptuous dinner and specially sent someone to buy duck neck and other Wuhan special snacks to satisfy Wu Sinan's little gluttony.

At dinner, the people of the Song family came to Meilu, Mrs. Song, the eldest sister, the second sister, and the two younger brothers below, and Wu Manli's mother and son met, and after learning from Song ML's mouth that Wu Sinan made a gift for his younger brother, everyone liked this enthusiastic child and gave him a lot of gifts.

Among the gifts given to Wu Sinan, the eldest sister Song Ailing's attitude was the most warm and generous.

This is not the first time that the couple has sent things to Wu Sinan, and they have visited many times when they were in Nanhua, and it seems that they can get a lot of benefits from Wu Manli every time.

Wu Manli knew that the enthusiasm of the Song family might be polite, and it was worthy of the friendliness of her release after entering the door, wasn't it?

Also present at the meeting were Lin Yimin and his wife, as well as Lin Yimin's father-in-law Huang Zhonghan.

Everyone is a civil servant, and after a full meal and tea, they can't help but talk about official business.

The living room suddenly smelled of coffee, the charm came from the unique island of Sumatra, and the high-quality and inexpensive Sumatran coffee was invincible in the mainland market, grabbing seventy or eighty percent of the coffee market in Asia.

Meilu is also one of the fans of Sumatran coffee, which is the result of Situ Nan's attraction and the unsparing marketing efforts of the South Chinese ruling class.

Although Sumatran coffee has become the second beverage in China's major cities, it is favored by more and more modern Chinese people, and the trade volume is also very considerable, it is impossible to replace tea in the Chinese people.

Nanhua Grain Bank has purchased countless tea plantations in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and the money earned back from exporting tea to Southeast Asia is far more than buying Sumatran coffee in China.

Huang Zhonghan and Wu Manli represented the South China side, while Lin Yimin and Song Ziwen represented the Chinese side.

"Huang Lao, Manli, we have been quite enthusiastic these days, right?"

Song Ziwen asked with a smile, in a very relaxed tone.

"Welcoming, of course welcoming. Premier He said that Wuhan had a profound impact on him, but he did not expect such great changes in China. ”

Huang Zhonghan said.

"Although I haven't been back to Shanghai for many years, I know that Shanghai is developing faster through what I have seen and heard in Wuhan and Guangzhou. The mainland of the motherland, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has a thicker heritage than our south! ”

Wu Manli nodded.

He also said, "Nowadays, Nanhua has encountered a lot of resistance to the development of the mainland, and the lack of manpower is the biggest problem. After all, the natives are unusable, the foreigners are ill-intentioned, and the Chinese are still reliable. ”

"Sister-in-law, this is a matter that is beneficial to both parties, if you don't say it, we will also help you." Lin Yimin replied, smiled at Wu Manli, and said in a consultative tone. "I know that gold is produced over there in Nanhua. You can't develop the gold mine for a while. It just so happens that we owe you a lot of gold, so why don't we just pay it with our labor services? ”

"Oh?" Huang Zhonghan and Wu Manli glanced at each other, and did not rashly agree, although they are in the same Huaxia lineage, and the Meihua consortium participates in and dominates the gold business on both sides, but after all, they are still separated.

However, neither Huang Zhonghan nor Wu Manli objected to Lin Yimin's proposal, and said that they would discuss it with He Wenxiu and others before giving a reply.

"Since you are willing to come over and help us open the mine, why don't you help us suppress the bandits? We are short on manpower. If Wuhan can send a certain number of officers and soldiers south to help us straighten out law and order, I don't think Premier He and the officers and men of the National Defense Forces will be in a hurry to find Wuhan to get the gold back. ”

Wu Manli suggested. I thought to myself: After the officers and men who went south have obtained land in Nanhua and live and work in peace and contentment, these officers and men will not be able to return to the mainland. In the past two years, the number of troops in the South China Army has been greatly reduced, not only because of the investment of more resources in the navy, but also because a large number of grassroots officers and soldiers have been retired to the newly occupied land to establish grassroots political power.

In order not to compete with industrial construction for labor, it is necessary to bring in a certain number of military and police from the mainland. To put it bluntly, it is a mercenary, and by the way, the mercenary army has been co-opted.

……

In the past few days, Huang Zhonghan and other South China delegations have visited and inspected many places in Wuhan, including the iron and steel industrial zone on the side of the Hanyang Iron Works. The Hanyang Arsenal is also located next to the Iron Works, and the Yangzi Machinery Company, which manufactures locomotives and ship power, is also located in the Hanyang Industrial Zone. Naturally, these units will not go away.

South Chinese people are no strangers to steel complexes and large-scale machinery manufacturing, in general, Wuhan's industrial scale and development level is not much different from New Tangshan, the scale of the Meihua Iron and Steel Plant in New Tangshan has also reached an annual output of one million tons of steel, in terms of machinery manufacturing, the two sides are in the same vein, South China has something, China also has, the difference is that the two focus on the difference.

China's market is larger, the talent pool is more, the wealth of the people is even larger, after the tariff reform, foreign goods can not be dumped in the country (the Southern Customs Union area), a large amount of private capital invested in industry, more and more national capital tasted the sweetness.

Although their technology is not high, the domestic products they produce began to replace foreign goods, expelling foreign goods from the domestic market, especially the suppression of the same low-end Japanese products, and failed to make a lot of profits in the Chinese market, and the process of heavy industrialization in Japan is much slower than in the original history.

Compared to the more conservative domestic market, South China's economy is much more open, and the export-oriented economy is more distinct.

The plantation economy itself is aimed at the international market, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large number of bulk commodities such as spices, coffee, rubber, palm oil were exported to Europe and the United States, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the scale of the plantation economy was further expanded, and a large number of agricultural machinery was introduced to replace labor and improve production efficiency.

Coffee alone, the scale of Sumatran coffee exported to the United States has reached 1 million bags, the total output is second only to Brazil and Colombia, and 10 million US dollars of foreign exchange has been exchanged for South China, and the bulk coffee trading in the New Tangshan Futures Exchange has become increasingly active.

New Tangshan has overtaken Singapore as the financial center and distribution center of Southeast Asia, much larger than the coffee trade, and more influential is the oil and rubber trade, both of which are the mainstays of New Tangshan's futures trading, with an annual turnover of more than US$1 billion.

The Meihua Consortium has given full play to its own advantages to vigorously develop the petrochemical industry and the rubber industry, and high value-added commodity oils, chemicals, and rubber products have replaced crude oil and rubber to become the main export force of South China.

The same is true of trade with Japan, although the volume of trade is not as large as that with the United States, the Japanese are envious, jealous and hateful when they think that their precious foreign exchange reserves are used to import oil, rubber, coal, tin, and other materials from South China.

It also made Song Ziwen and others envious, and with oil exports alone, Nanhua is qualified to be a rich man.

In order to balance South China's trade and pay off the arrears of crude oil and petrochemicals imported from South China, the Wuhan government had to export all kinds of agricultural and mineral products to South China in large quantities and cheaply.

And, of course, labor services.

According to the agreement reached with Nanhua, the Zhi Gong Dang government will send tens of thousands of construction corps to Nanhua every year to undertake infrastructure construction, and send a certain number of officers and soldiers to support Nanhua to suppress bandits.

In addition, it is also necessary to organize refugees, give them certain training, and send them to South China, so as to enrich the population of South China and increase the proportion of the Chinese population.

Sending the surplus population to South China, the Wuhan government is in favor of it with both hands, but to organize emigration. It takes a lot of manpower and material resources. The cost is also astronomical. It is also a big burden for the Wuhan government.

However, they are happy to do so, firstly, because of the need to rule, (the riots in the land of China are not class exploitation at all, but the population is too large to carry the carrying capacity of the land.) The second is to repay debts to South China.

Nanhua has just supported Wuhan's gold, and by "giving away people's heads", the Wuhan government can pay off part of its debts, which kills two birds with one stone. There is no better deal in the world.

"I thought that Nanhua was developing fast enough, we established a steel complex in New Tangshan, built a machinery industrial zone, an electrical industrial zone, a shipbuilding industry and a large-scale shipbuilding industry, built the Sumatra Railway, the Island Ring Railway, which has been called an industrial miracle. Unexpectedly, on the mainland's side, the momentum of development and achievements are not inferior to ours at all. ”

Huang Zhonghan smiled heartily, "The Yangtze River Bridge is particularly spectacular. Standing on the bridge overlooking the three places of Wuhan, I deeply realized the majesty of my Chinese colleagues. Ambition is amazing! ”

I couldn't help but praise Song Ziwen and Lin Yimin and others and give them a thumbs up!

"If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. The rapid development of the domestic transportation industry, and Nanhua is indispensable for our generosity, sending a lot of engineering and technical personnel and railway management personnel to participate in the domestic construction, for which we are grateful, especially the Ministry of Communications, where Huang Lao is located, has contributed a lot! ”

Song Ziwen said modestly and expressed his gratitude to Huang Zhonghan.

After the Wuhan government implemented the strategy of building the southern railway network, Nanhua drew a lot of forces from its own unfinished railway projects to support domestic construction, which made Song Ziwen remember deeply.

Of course, Situ Nan's attitude behind this has a decisive role, and everyone knows it, so there is no need to say it.

"Fortunately, you still know how to say thank you, otherwise I would really want to nag you up, in recent years, many of our Nanhua enterprises have run back to invest in China, some of them are developing very well, but they are not interested in our Nanhua industry.

Didn't the five-bucket tractor factory that I passed through during the past two days develop in Nanhua from the beginning? ”

Huang Zhonghan complained with a smile.

Song Ziwen smiled when he heard this, turned his head and asked Lin Yimin: "What do you think?" Did Huang Lao ask us for sin? ”

"The initiator is not here, even if you block my house, this is the case." Lin Yimin said with a smile.

"It seems that I still can't settle accounts with Liu Wudou's girl, but the next time I go to the United States to meet He Yongyuan's kid, I have to settle accounts with him. Without his support, can Liu Yatou's heart be so wild? ”

Huang Zhonghan was unwilling.

He Yongyuan is Situ Nan's secretary, and Miss Liu Wudou, who studies tractors, has fallen in love, but after a few years, the two have not come together, and now they are separated.

Huang Zhonghan is also joking, the Germans in South China are more than 100,000, the funds of the United States and China, the regime of the Zhi Gong Party and the technology of the Germans, the three support the foundation of the industrialization of South China, in recent years, the Germans founded hundreds of machinery companies, large and small, almost covering the upstream and downstream departments of the machinery industry, with the support of the Bank of the United States, several have developed, and the asset scale has reached 10 million yuan.

Following the Germans are the local industrial capitalists in South China, who want to catch up with the Germans in terms of technical level to start machinery companies, and they will have to wait for several years for the technical talents trained by Nanhua to grow, and the number of Chinese technical talents will replace the Germans (even if more than half of the Germans later settle in South China, they cannot make up for the population advantage of the Chinese) and become the mainstream of engineering and technical talents in South China.

"To say, it is still the Germans who are real, willing to work, good in technology, and willing to teach Chinese apprentices." If you change to the British and the Americans, the shelves will be high, and it will be difficult to serve. As for the Japanese, their technology is not good in the first place, and they love to calculate, and only stupid people will ask the Japanese for technical equipment.

In South China, we have not been able to sell Japanese things, but we have sold oil and gas and taken a lot of gold from them. ”

Wu Manli smiled, a little disdainful, "In order to reverse the trade overtake with South China, the Japanese have come to annoy us a lot and want us to open up Japanese immigration and investment restrictions." On the surface, if we refuse, they organize smuggling or disguise themselves as Chinese, and there are not a few Japanese who have poured into South China in recent years.

What is hateful is that these bastards have bad intentions, spy on our intelligence, and repeatedly steal the secrets of the Meihua laboratory, which is impossible to guard.

This is the case for South China, and it is even more unscrupulous in the mainland, right? ”

Wu Manli reminded Song Ziwen and Lin Yimin.

"Our intelligence department is also paying attention to this matter, but there is not much to deal with. In the south, the infiltration of the people is not serious, and it is difficult to say in the north, Zhang Zuolin broke into the north, and he was also afraid of the Japanese. He still has some bottom line, and as for other warlords, it's even harder to say. ”

Song Ziwen commented. Although his expression was a little serious, he was not too worried.

"I see, none of the Beiyang remnants in the north can be trusted, whether it is Zhang Zuolin, Yan Xishan, or Feng Yuxiang, we are now boiling frogs in warm water, so that they will be proud for a few years, and when we are strong, we will clean them up one by one. If the devil intervenes, he will also clean it up! ”

Lin Yimin said that his attitude was more resolute than Song Ziwen. Under the inspiration of Wu Manli, in the future, these disabled remnants of Beiyang may also be exiled to Nanhua.

"The two are of the same Chinese lineage, and the two parties are brotherly parties, and the two countries have extensive interests, and South China unconditionally supports the mainland in resisting foreign enemies and recovering lost territory. I believe that Premier Ho has the same attitude. ”

Huang Zhonghan promised.

Wu Manli also nodded.

Although Prime Minister He Wenxiu is not there, Huang Zhonghan and Wu Manli have expressed their positions, and I believe that He Wenxiu will not object, and Song Ziwen and Lin Yimin have confidence in their hearts. Once war breaks out, South China's forces will go north to support, that's for sure.

"Okay, let's not talk about fighting, killing, killing. Let's talk about the cooperation between the two sides, what cooperation projects have been reached? I was locked up at home, and the news was blocked. ”

Song ML changed the subject.

"Economic mutual benefit, technical cooperation, organization of migration, and joint development of the South China Sea and the development of shipping routes. That's all you want to hear, which one do you want to hear? (To be continued.) )