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is in a big era, but his health is getting worse and worse, Cai Ye is sad. So he insisted on continuing his trip to the northwest with Yang Qiu, hoping to see more about the country's development. However, Garrahan in Nanjing was waiting anxiously, and whether he could transport the grain back had become a top priority, so he had to go to the presidential palace or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs several times a day to inquire about the situation.

Fang Rui lifted the curtain and watched Garrahan anxiously walk into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, turning his head and smiling: "I'm afraid the Russians are really anxious." ”

"I said, this is my office, not a secret post that you use to spy on foreign affairs." Chen Haohui, who was behind him, was checking the documents at his desk, and he complained without raising his head. continued: "Can you not be in a hurry. News has already been sent from Moscow that the famine in Russia is very serious, and the communist policy implemented during the civil war has led to the robbery of the rich peasants, and they have been forced to collect grain and cannot get money, and now they would rather waste land than grow grain. After the riots of the Kronstadt Fortress sailors last month, many soldiers who had returned home from the army also took up their guns again to join the fight against the food requisition. Intelligence says that Moscow's statistics are that nearly 20 million people were affected, and the chaos will last for at least three to four years. According to this ratio. He raised his head and paused, then pushed down the glasses he had just fitted with his hand: "It is estimated that the final death toll is likely to be in the millions!" ”

"That's right! The U.S. government has appointed a man named Hoover to deal with the Russian famine, and he has traveled to London to persuade the embargo to be lifted to provide humanitarian aid to Russia. Chen Haohui pressed the electric bell on the table, handed the processed documents to Dai Chunfeng, put down the pen, and pushed the wheelchair to the window: "Vice President, let's pay attention to this person named Hoover, I wonder if we should move Moscow's internal line to find out what the United States has in mind." ”

"Hoover? I made a note of it. But what about Nanyang? And Soviet grain really wants to open the channel? If the United States comes forward for disaster relief, we will also go and support Kazakhstan in the name of disaster relief. ”

Chen Haohui shook his head: "The vice president has already called in the morning to open the grain channel, but the Kazakh side can't move now, and once they are relieved, they will inevitably have a long-term confrontation with us, which is not conducive to the construction of the northwest." So what the vice president means is that relief points can be set up at the border and in the Karaganda iron mines. However, they are not allowed to enter other parts of Kazakhstan. As for the vice president over there in Nanyang, we were given a holiday. ”

"Just kidding!" Fang Rui pinched his hat in his hand and asked puzzledly: "I sent someone to investigate that Marin and Vychensky, they are very capable people, and now Japan has one foot on the edge of the South Sea." If the two join forces to gain a foothold in the Dutch East Indies, there will be a lot of trouble in the future! ”

Chen Haohui glanced at him: "You also know that the Japanese crown prince Hirohito has been in power, and according to the current situation, Japan will have to consolidate its internal affairs for at least four to five years, and joke about these places in German Guinea." On the Soviet side, Lenin's successor has not yet been decided, and there is such a great famine in the country, and it will take four or five years to gradually restore order. There is no need to stimulate them in the past few years. What's more, there is less trouble in Nanyang? Last night the telegram said. Kwong Jingyang has already sent people to quietly buy the land in the oil area in batches, and the construction will start in October at the latest, and if it is soon, we will find out whether there is one in February next year. If there is really a big oil field coming out, it is not enough for you to be busy? ”

After all, Fang Rui has been in charge of the Security Bureau for many years, how can he not know how many things can be done in the oil field, and in the end, it is nothing more than countries sitting down to talk, so he understands that Chen Haohui is reminding himself not to touch the Nanyang Poor Party for the time being. In fact, he didn't plan to kill it cleanly, and he couldn't support the development of the poor party in Nanyang. It's better to fight, so that you can fish in troubled waters. What he was afraid of was that Japan would intervene, but Chen Haohui was right. Japan will not be able to meddle in the South Seas for four or five years, so there is no need to do it immediately, after all, the water in the south is too muddy. Now that Britain and the United States are staring at this place, the little overlord of the Netherlands can do whatever he wants with the support of Britain, and he should really let the poor party make some trouble for them.

So after thinking about it, he asked, "Is there any instruction from the vice president on the matter of the Democratic Party?" Hu Hanmin and his legacies are all developing over there, and I heard that Sun Yat-sen has also gone there from Japan many times to give speeches, so I'm afraid. ”

Chen Haohui said solemnly: "The affairs of the political party are not in our hands, as long as you don't go out of line, you can send more people to keep an eye on it." ”

"I'm afraid that Vychensky and Marin will get mixed up with the Kuomintang, so that it will be much more complicated to control Nanyang in the future." Fang Rui's speculation made Chen Haohui also scratch his head secretly, after being defeated from the mainland. Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming of the Kuomintang all fled to Nanyang, leaving Zhang Taiyan and Wang Jingwei in China. In recent years, it has also been impressive in Nanyang, and the momentum of "striving to be the largest opposition party of the Chinese and supervising the republic" has also faintly overwhelmed the national community.

But he knew Yang Qiu's temper very well, and he would not move the Kuomintang and the Republican Party unless he had to, so he thought about it and said, "Watch." If it's like you say, then don't blame us for being polite. ”

Fang Rui nodded, and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something, and said, "By the way, the golden girl asked me to tell you something, and she said that she didn't dare to tell you." ”

The golden girl is Jin Bihui, and she has been dependent on Chen Haohui for eight years, so when she heard her, Chen Haohui also showed a gentle smile and said with a smile: "What bad idea does this girl have?" Do you still want you, the head of the Security Bureau, to come out? ”

Fang Rui scratched his eyebrows before saying, "The golden girl applied for the Chengdu Military Academy. ”

"What's so embarrassing to go to a military school, she's not the first woman to go to a military academy. There is a special medical and communication department in Chengdu, and it is good to be able to get in. Chen Haohui didn't pay attention, only thought that Jin Bihui was going to go to the military academy to study medical or communications. Seeing that he didn't understand, Fang Rui simply said, "She chose the Intelligence Section." ”

Chen Haohui's hand shook, and the cigarette he had just taken out slowly slipped to the ground.

Fang Rui couldn't laugh or cry, he never thought that the introverted little girl would choose to apply for the military academy and study in the intelligence department, is this a brother and sister relationship?

The two intelligence officers were stunned by a little girl, and Garrahan in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the other side finally got the good news, Lu Zhengxiang officially promised to allow the grain purchased by the Soviet Union to cross the border on behalf of the Chinese government, but all the escort work must be carried out by the National Guard, and a Chinese domestic company must come forward to be responsible for the transshipment, and the Soviet Union is responsible for the costs involved.

Garahan, who received the good news, kept sending the news to Moscow, demanding that a pack horse grain convoy be organized to wait in Karaganda immediately, while he hired seven 10,000-ton ships of the Four Seas Shipping Company to go to Vietnam to buy 100,000 tons of grain through the French poor party and transfer it to Shanghai, from where he would board a train and return home.

Yang Qiu didn't care about opening the passage to Mokos, and he didn't want to learn from Hoover to knock on the door of the Soviet Union with disaster relief. Now his mind is full of wanting to build the country as soon as possible. Time is too tight, and if you want to get closer to Europe and the United States, you must have a period of stable time to develop.

It was already past the planting season when he arrived in Andijan, but he was relieved by the lushy fields. This most important granary and oil base in Central Asia plays a pivotal strategic role in the stability of the Northwest. In order to speed up the integration of the situation of insufficient domestic production capacity, he also specially approved the purchase of thousands of tractors from the United States, which were transported here by narrow gauge at that time, and also appropriated part of the equipment of the Yumen refinery to strengthen the Andijan (Mitchion) oil field and refinery first.

The 18th Infantry Division was responsible for the security of Andijan and Tajikistan, and due to the difficulty in the construction of the Tianshan Mountains, in order to save time in digging tunnels, the Northwest Railway turned around and headed east to Kashgar after arriving here. Then from Kashgar to Tajikistan.

Sun Chuanfang lost a lot of weight after coming to the northwest, and since the northwest was still under military control, he, the division commander, had to be responsible for local public security, supervise the construction of fortresses, and solve the problems of local economic development. Fortunately, with the laying of the Northwest Railway, the number of immigrants began to skyrocket, adding more than 30,000 people in the last month alone, many of whom were educated. Able to undertake part of government work. At the same time, Murong Han also transferred hundreds of officials and backbone members of the state community to enrich the local government team, so that he finally had time to concentrate on military affairs.

"The total number of Han people is more than 550,000, and the resettlement houses and fields have been distributed to them. All title deeds are given directly. The schools are also ready-made, and both Han and other ethnic groups are forced to study as in China, and all of them are taught in our Chinese! Commander Shi also set up several thousand Chinese training courses in our troops, published Chinese manuals, and taught the locals to speak our language. ”

"You see there's the refinery, and next to it, there's the new plant that's expanded. The masters were all sent from the Hangang oil field, and now they mainly produce kerosene and gasoline for lighting lamps. Sun Chuanfang simply transferred hundreds of tractors for the construction of fortresses and refineries, pointed to the convoy scurrying on the plain, and couldn't help but say proudly: "At the end of last year, the oil exploration team also discovered two more oil fields in the northwest and southwest. According to them, two years later, there will be no problem with an annual output of 200,000 tons, just enough for the refinery. ”

In the Andijan refinery, Yang Qiu was secretly surprised while listening to the introduction. Although he decided to take Andijan for the grain and oil here, and also knew that the oil reserves in this place were "small and fat", he was still a little surprised when he heard about the figure of 200,000 tons. And the size of the refinery also surprised him, he thought that the annual processing capacity here was only 20,000 or 30,000 tons at most. But the fact is that even if you don't count the expansion, the refinery has a capacity of 100,000 tons of crude oil per year.

This is very important! This means that before Beihai (Irkutsk) and Karamay are built, the six northwestern provinces will not need to rely on the mainland for oil for development.

In his view, the most important aspects of the development of the Northwest are six. Population, transport, oil, energy, food and raw materials. The population was being resolved, and by 1930 the number of immigrants in the eight northwestern provinces, including Xinjiang, Uriya, Sutai and Kashgar, would reach at least 30 million. Raw materials are the most scarce here in the northwest, the Urumqi steel plant is already under construction, after getting 500 million tons of manganese iron ore from Karaganda, the National Development and Reform Commission has decided to build another steel plant in Almaty, and Andijan and Tajikistan also have their own plans for small steel plants. There is no shortage of cement, copper, etc., as long as the machine is transported over and started.

Transportation: The Northwest Railway will be completed in 25 years, and the Longhai Line, which will be opened to traffic at about the same time, will also extend to Jaisangbo and Kashgar, so the traffic problem is not big. Grain is not to be worried about when the labor force arrives, and Andijan, Almaty and Krasnoyarsk are all well-known grain-producing regions in Siberia and Central Asia. In terms of energy, it has now been solved, Andijan produces 200,000 tons of oil per year, and the large open-pit coal mine on the edge of the Yenisei River can also be used. Finally, the radio communication conditions in Andijan and Tajikistan, which are surrounded by communication mountains, are extremely poor, and there are often poor communication for several days and nights, so laying telephone cables has become a top priority.

When Murong Han heard the inquiry, he hurriedly asked someone to call several technicians from the Northwest Company of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications who had returned from studying abroad. These young people who came from all over the country for the development of the northwest were particularly excited to see Yang Qiu, and they got a truck and soon arrived at the cable laying site, and talked about it.

"Look, vice president, what is being dug now is the northwest communication cable laying canal. To facilitate repairs and prevent damage, the ditches are laid along the railway line with an average depth of 2 meters, and then covered with 30 centimeters thick waterproof cement pipes, through which communication cables pass. Now the construction is on two main lines, namely the western route from Nanjing-Xinjiang-Kashgar to Tajikistan and the eastern route from Beijing-Changchun-Krasnoyarsk. The average length of each cable is around 4,500 kilometers, which is only a little less than the submarine cable from New York to London. The cables laid this time are all using the latest technology from the United States, and the communication capacity is twice that of the previous one, which can transmit 1,200 words in one minute, and 600 words per minute in both directions, which can install a larger telephone exchange.

It's just that the cost is a little more expensive. The cost of a single line is about 9 million yuan, and each one needs to be wound with 115,000 kilometers of steel wire and iron wire, which is equivalent to three times around the earth. It also uses 1,700 tons of copper, 800 tons of eucommia gum, and 3,600 tons of synthetic rubber.

This is still the main line, in the future, a total of 8 provinces in the northwest will lay more than 20,000 kilometers of branch lines, it is expected that by 1930 at the latest, the counties in the northwest frontier region and the customs can be directly contacted! In addition, we are also preparing to build radio transponder towers in Xinjiang and Kashgar, and the country can already produce radio broadcasters, and when the repair is completed, the voice of the central radio station can be heard. ”

Cai Ye was also excited, his cheeks were red, and he coughed a few times and asked, "Can we make the cable ourselves?" ”

"The technology imported from the United States, Qingdao, Guangzhou, Jiujiang and Hefei four cable factories have been able to achieve self-production. Wuchang University of Science and Technology has also worked with Nanjing Central University to develop a single-core paper insulated cable made of aluminum. This cable can carry ultra-high voltage power transmission, and the American Bell Company has achieved short-distance applications, but long-distance seems to be difficult. We developed it a year behind theirs, and theoretically three years behind the United States at most. If it can be successfully developed, it can make use of the hydropower and coal resources here to supply power to Xinjiang, Kashgar and even Gansu provinces! The telephone exchange cooperated by Shanghai and Siemens of Germany has also been able to produce itself, and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is ready to use 20 years to realize the telephone connection of all major counties and cities in the country, and realize the grid-connected transmission of power from power plants across the country. ”

The strong wind blew the faces of these young men who dedicated their youth to the country black and red, but their warm and sincere eyes told the world that China is catching up, and super projects have sprouted in this country. In the future, as more and more young people receive higher education, there will be more and more such projects.

The trip to the northwest allowed Yang Qiu to understand the development progress of the country's border areas, he was not worried about the inland, and the northeast had already laid a good foundation under Cai Jimin's military management for eight consecutive years, and the northwest was the most worrying to him. However, judging from the situation along the way, Murong Han, Shi Xiaolou and Wu Peifu have done a good job, at least they all know the importance of maintaining stability and burying their heads in development.

The inspection, which was originally scheduled to end at the end of July, did not return to Nanjing until August, and the good news about the Sumatra oil fields had not yet arrived, but Cai Ye fell ill due to the fatigue of the journey, but no one expected that this pillar of the Wehrmach, who became famous in the Qingdao Battle and was famous for his reputation in the National Defense Force, would never get up again after falling ill...... (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. )