Chapter 651: Joy and Loss

…… People have not yet become famous!

Yang Qiu's first visit to the United States after taking office as president caused a sensation, especially after the two bombshells that deliberately created suspense and caused an eyeball effect exploded one after another, even ordinary American children knew that a person named "China Yang" was coming to the United States. Because their father counted the calendar every day and circled the day of August 1 with a red pen several times, my mother didn't know where to find a map that she couldn't read, saying that she wanted to find the country called China.

After learning of his departure, Ambassador Jensen, who was the first to return to China, together with US Secretary of State Stimson, delivered a speech at Congress on promoting Sino-US cooperation, elaborating on the diplomatic trend of China and the United States over the past 30 years, holding that there is no conflict of interest between China and the United States, and that the two countries are extremely complementary economically and are the most important cooperative partners in the Pacific region. He Chapter 651 Joy and Frustration also publicly praised Yang Qiu's style of keeping his promises and abiding by the spirit of the contract, and praised him for his outstanding contributions to building the country, implementing compulsory education, improving the welfare of the people, and so on, and even praised him as the Washington of the East.

Whether Yang Qiu is Washington or not has his own opinions, but his toughness in the period of national transition, his ability to grasp the pulse of the country and the direction of the times are obvious to all, and even the most discerning political commentators have to admit that it is not an exaggeration to describe the greatness that brought a semi-colonial country with a population of 470 million (1929 statistics) to the present day in 20 years.

The photo of him holding a scepter and taking an oath to the Constitution has appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the fourth time in history.

Going through history, from China out of the ancient to the modern. No politician has yet reached such heights as him, not even Li Hongzhang, Yan Fu and others, who are very influential in the West. What's even more rare is that he is still very young, proficient in several Chinese, and his thinking and behavior style are more similar to the Western world! Such a person came to visit the United States at its most critical time, even if it did not have the pretense of suspense in the previous two times, it was enough to detonate all the eyeballs.

So when the battleship Beijing crossed the Suez Chapter 651 Joy and Loss Canal, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to New York Harbor. It is no longer even possible to describe the word grandeur, and the sight makes the scalps of the sailors standing on the slope on the deck tingle. Sea! There was a complete sea of people, and as far as the eye could stand, it was crowded. You can even see people on the rooftops of buildings and cranes in the distance, creating a spectacular sea of gray-blue color!

Next to it, the U.S. Navy fired a 21-gun salute. When Miao Luo, dressed in a juanhua-colored cheongsam, appeared at the end of the gangway with Yang Qiu in his arms, overseas Chinese in the United States who came from all over the United States to welcome Yang Qiu broke out into thunderous cheers.

That kind of shouting, that eagerness, made everyone who accompanied the visit numb, and the sailors held their heads high and their fists were wet and hot. 19 years of trekking! 19 years of fighting! 19 years of hard work! 19 years of sweating like rain at the weakest moment in Europe and the United States, they are finally willing to face up to the 5,000-year stretch! Finally, I am willing to send the loudest cheers to our president!

After the beautiful and generous American girl presented flowers, Yang Qiu inspected the U.S. Navy honor guard. also shook hands with Stimson and other officials one by one. Although he came to the United States twice before, there were always some unjustified names at that time, so the U.S. government could only give treatment but not specifications, and now it is completely the highest level of specifications.

Stimson took Yang Qiu to the reporter, originally there was no such project. After all, the scene in front of the Lincoln Memorial last time made too deep an impression on the United States, but after the two "bombs" exploded one after another, American reporters could not bear it for a long time, so the US government could only accept the opinion and promised to let Yang Qiu be interviewed publicly at the dock.

"Mr. President, what do you think of this economic crisis?"

"Are you really bringing in billions of orders?"

"I'm a Time reporter. May I ask why you are recruiting so many engineers from our country, are you taking advantage of the fire...... All kinds of questions came in an instant, even Gu Weijun, who had already discussed how to deal with it, was caught off guard, only Yang Qiu behaved freely, standing in the middle of the circle separated by soldiers, smiling: "I know what everyone wants to ask, but I want everyone to understand that we have entered a difficult era, and it is impossible to recover the economy with just a few orders." ”

As soon as he spoke, the boiling reporters immediately fell silent, looking at each other in secret surprise, what does this mean? No orders, not here to bail out the market?

Facing the gaze that turned into questioning, the corners of Yang Qiu's mouth hooked up a little: "But! We can't give up any chance to save ourselves! It is also important to abandon the self-help behavior of closed markets, because high trade barriers will only make the crisis worse! We should join hands and use the strengths of both sides to complement each other. So I came, brought some orders, but more of a market, a big market! One! It is developing, there are all kinds of problems, all kinds of difficulties, but there is a market of 470 million people. ”

With a population of 470 million, is China ready to fully open its domestic market to the United States? The mind that had just been beaten to the valley rose to the top in an instant after these two sentences. Just kidding, with a population of 470 million, even if one person buys a pair of American leather shoes, it is still 470 million pairs, which can fill the sea ships of the whole United States.

"The market is big but it's also very narrow, because half of the people in my country are still struggling to make ends meet. They can't afford high-priced goods, they need medicine, education, electric lights, roads, railways and so on. In addition to these, there are some unreasonable laws that affect the normal exchanges between our two countries, we have made promises to the world, and we hope to get the world's commitments, and we hope to cancel those discriminatory laws that should not exist! So I'm here to hear more voices, to hear more experts and engineers to help us solve the problems we have encountered in construction, and to meet with President Hoover as soon as possible to solve the problems encountered by each other, and I believe that in a few days, the answers you want to know will appear! I am more convinced that there are no contradictions, no conflicts, only friendship between China and the United States. Only cooperation! ”

The short speech of selling enough Guan Zi was like stuffing a kitten into the hearts of reporters, scratching up and down, and I couldn't wait to hold Yang Qiu and ask clearly, how many orders were brought and how much market was ready to be opened. However, in any case, the concepts of "developing countries", "bringing some orders", "470 million large market" and "unreasonable discrimination laws" in the speech still made the United States slowly realize the implications. It's obvious. The new president, who is hailed as one of the world's leaders, must have sky-high orders and is ready to use the Chinese Exclusion Act, which affects Sino-US exchanges.

This speech made the whole United States both expectant and dissatisfied, looking forward to the market and orders. It is China and the United States that complement each other, and it is the first time that China has criticized American law. Of course, only those politicians are dissatisfied with these last words. As for the common people, they still want to exchange the cancellation bill for orders, so even the stock market, which has been tired for a long time, rose by 5 points in an instant, which seems to indicate something.

Some people are happy, and some people are unhappy.

When Yang Qiu arrived in New York with a mysterious order, the Soviet delegation led by Kuibyshev suddenly fell from the clouds. In order to be able to pick up more bargains, Kuibyshev and Soviet experts spent more than a year watching the crisis, drawing up a list, and waiting until it was determined that the crisis could not be recovered from anytime soon.

Sure enough, they were received by the U.S. government at the highest level, with gold in their left hand and foreign exchange in their right hand. From the introduction of talents to the purchase of machines, it is almost invincible.

In this good time, the steel plant, which originally cost 30 million US dollars, can be bought in a package for only 10 million, and the price of machinery and equipment that was previously coveted by the Soviet Union has been doubled! Many former Russians who fled to the United States during the Civil War began to return because of the crisis, and many Americans even immigrated to the Soviet Union with their families.

It's a good day for the Soviets! It was the most important turning point for the country. It is a great opportunity to quickly complete industrialization and shorten the gap with the world's mainstream industrial countries! Originally, everyone thought that this kind of good life would go on forever, because the economic crisis would have forced British and American imperialism to bow their heads and look up to the Soviet Union, but they did not expect that suddenly everything would change!

$41.3 million swept the second-hand ship market, with an annual salary of up to $100 million a year, which made American experts who were originally preparing to go to the Soviet Union hesitate, as well as large orders that had been rumored for a long time and remained mysterious. Directly let the price of the goods you want to buy skyrocket by more than 30%!

Isn't this a joke? What should I do if I am only halfway through the well-prepared big purchase plan, but the price of things has increased a lot compared to before? Looking at the photo of Yang Qiu being interviewed in New York in the newspaper, Kuibyshev felt irritated in his heart: "Is there a call back?" What are the instructions of the General Secretary? ”

"The General Secretary asked us to continue to purchase as much machinery and equipment as possible at all costs, and to complete all purchases before China and the United States join forces, so as to realize the modernization of the country's industry." Konitsev, who had nothing to do in Newport, stood up. If you want to say who hates Yang Qiu the most in the Soviet delegation, then he must be the only one. So he immediately picked up the telegram from Moscow and said excitedly: "Comrade Minister, I also feel that I should not stop, and I should complete the purchase at any price." Otherwise, if China and the United States reach some agreement, or if there is a real large order to save the US economy, the industrial plan planned by the General Secretary will be affected. ”

Kuibyshev was not afraid to sabotage Stalin's industrial plans, but the problem was that at current prices, the scale of purchases would be much smaller than previously anticipated. The Soviet Union is no longer the Russia it used to be, it exhausted its national strength during the European War, and after several years of civil war, the most damning thing is that it was robbed and looted by Yang Qiu to loot billions of wealth! As a result, the country's foreign exchange and gold reserves are seriously insufficient, and the industry is seriously withered! If the number of purchases is reduced too much, it will definitely affect the completion of the five-year plan.

As for the possibility of bailing out the market? He shook his head: "It's impossible to save the city!" $200 billion of America's wealth has been wiped out in more than a year, and no power can save them. ”

"But what if? What if Yang Qiuzhen comes up with tens of billions of industrial orders? If he opened up more markets, the 470 million people would need a lot of things. Konitsev argued.

But Kuibyshev still doesn't believe it, with a loss of 200 billion US dollars, who can plug this hole? So after thinking about it, I put the telegram aside: "Wait a little longer." ”

He didn't know that this was actually his own death sentence...... To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )rq!!!