Chapter 517: 1940 - The Year of the Harvest (Asking for Subscriptions, Monthly Tickets, Asking for Various !! )
At the same time as negotiating with the United States, Chen Feng also sent people to actively communicate with the German side, and relatively speaking, the negotiations with Germany were also very smooth, and Germany was now eager to get a large amount of penicillin drugs in order to get rid of its dependence on the Soviet Union, especially on the Siberian artery, and to start a war against the Soviet Union as soon as possible.
Because of this, the Germans took the negotiations very seriously, and when Hitler learned that the Chen family was willing to sell the penicillin drug to Germany, it was a great joy. As a result, a delegation headed by Air Force Commander-in-Chief Goering, supplemented by Delisi, secretly arrived in Guisui and made every effort to facilitate the matter.
Chen Feng extended a warm welcome to the arrival of the German delegation, and at the same time handed over the affairs in his hands to Li Wensheng, Yang Yi and others, while he personally negotiated with Goering and others.
The Germans have three requests, the first is that the Chen family can provide Germany with $10 billion worth of penicillin drugs within three months; The second request was that the Chen family could sell penicillin production technology and equipment to Germany; The third request was for the Chen family to provide Germany with drawings for the new tanks and fighters, and to authorize Germany to produce the new tanks and fighters.
As for Germany's first condition, Chen Feng readily agreed, although penicillin drugs are a very important war resource, but at least so far, except for Saibei Province, no country has explicitly stipulated that penicillin is a strategic resource that is prohibited from export.
Moreover, Chen Feng also knew what the Germans planned to do next after getting penicillin, so they didn't have to think about it. The next target for Hitler the mustache would definitely be the bearded Stalin, as well as the USSR behind Stalin. Although Germany fought the Soviet Union, it was aggression and an unjust war.
But for Chen Feng, whether the war is a battle or not means nothing to him at all. He only knew that the Soviet Union was a potential threat to the province and the Chen family. However, Germany did not have any conflict with them, but had a very good relationship with each other, as can be seen from the fact that Hitler with a mustache actually gave him the most precious work of art in Europe, the Mona Lisa, as a gift.
The enemy of the enemy is the friend, and the German attack on the Soviet Union was a good thing for the Chen family and for China as a whole. If Chen Feng's subordinates had given the Soviet Union a hard blow at the most critical time of the Soviet-German war, or had come forward to beat the Soviets, I am afraid that his task would have been completed. Therefore, this 10 billion dollar penicillin drug must be provided for the mustache.
The second request, Chen Feng gave some consideration and agreed. Although the equipment for the production of penicillin drugs is important, it is still for that reason, even if he does not sell it to Germany, it will not be long before the Germans will get it from other sources. Not to mention the loss of the opportunity to circle money. What's more, I missed out on selling Germany a favor.
The higher the status of the person. The more unwilling you are to owe others a favor, because every time you owe a favor, the price you pay when you repay it is extremely high. The same is true between countries. Sometimes he even got involved in a war in order to repay a favor, and Chen Feng believed that once the Germans owed him a favor from Chen, the Germans would definitely help him in the future.
The third request Chen Feng was very entangled, Germany was already very strong, the invincible France was wiped out in just one month, the rampant British Empire almost razed it to the ground, and even the huge Soviet Union was trembling in front of it. If the Germans are allowed to receive new tanks and new fighters, I am afraid that Germany's strength will be further expanded, and even Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union combined will not be able to contain Germany.
It's a good thing that a potential ally is strong, but if the other party is too strong, it's not necessarily a good thing, and you may become his prey one day. This happened in Chinese history, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the Great Liao State established by the Khitans was the biggest opponent of the Song Dynasty, and the two sides fought endlessly because of the sixteen states of Yanyun.
However, due to the poverty and weakness of the Song Dynasty, the national strength declined rapidly after the middle period, and the most Lu had to form a "brotherly alliance" with the Liao State, with the Khitan as the brother and the Great Song Dynasty as the younger brother, and the Great Song Dynasty provided a large amount of money and goods to the Liao State every year, which was called the New Year's coin.
In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the Liao State was a rapidly emerging minority led by the Jurchen leader Wanyan Aguta, who subsequently formed the Dajin Kingdom. At the beginning, the relationship between Song, Liao, and Jin was that Song and Liao confronted each other, and Jin and Liao were constantly at war, so the Song Dynasty decided to unite with Dajin to destroy Liao.
Everyone knows the result of the most Lu Dao, the Liao State for more than 100 years, the internal has been rotten, how can it withstand the attack of the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin State, the most helpless was destroyed, only the remnants of the power fled to the frontier and the wilderness to establish the Western Liao, and the Great Song Dynasty also got the land of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures as he wished.
But after the destruction of the Liao State, the Song Dynasty did not enjoy real peace. After the Jin State gained a firm foothold, it quickly turned its face with the Northern Song Dynasty, and a larger-scale war broke out between the two sides, and the Northern Song Dynasty was not destroyed by the Liao State that had been confronted for more than 100 years, but was destroyed by the Jin State that was established less than 20 years ago, and the emperors, queens, princesses and noble princes of the Northern Song Dynasty were all plundered by the Jin State to the Jin State.
Now the relationship between China, Germany and the Soviet Union is similar to that of Song Liaojin, and Chen Feng does not dare to guarantee whether Germany will attack him after destroying the Soviet Union. The most important thing is that although Chen Feng is confident in defeating the Soviet Union and defeating Japan, Chen Feng really does not have the confidence to defeat Germany, which country is too crazy and terrible. After thinking about it, Chen Feng still decided to refuse the request of the Germans, he didn't want to be a farmer and a farmer among snakes, let alone Mr. Dongguo.
Although Chen Feng only agreed to two of the three conditions proposed by the Germans, it was already a big surprise for Goering and others, so the two sides signed an agreement in Guisui on December 15, according to which the Chen family will sell $10 billion worth of penicillin drugs to Germany at 50% of the original price within three months.
Second, Germany will receive a complete set of penicillin production technology and equipment for $2 billion plus a commitment to support China in recovering the territories it has seized over the past 100 years.
The Sino-US negotiations and the Sino-Chinese negotiations were the biggest adjustments Chen Feng made in foreign relations, and after this adjustment, Chen Feng formally established the foreign policy of resisting Japan and resisting the Soviet Union, and the United States and Germany. For Japan, Chen Feng is wiped out quickly. As for the Soviet Union, Chen Feng's main goal was to recover the lost territory. If the Soviets cooperated, then the two sides would still get along very well. On the contrary, Chen Feng did not mind taking out it with the Germans.
Regarding the attitude of the Americans, Chen Feng is best not to offend, to make friends as much as possible, and to have a harmonious relationship with each other as much as possible. For Germany, Chen Feng tried not to offend, but in view of Germany's worst ending, Chen Feng thought that he should try not to get too close to Germany.
With the tripartite trade in full swing, the Eighth Theater has also entered a period of rapid development. After more than a year of accumulation and development, Saibei Province now has 1.41 million people with various armed forces, and 170,000 people with various armed forces in Nanyang Territory.
Although it is still not a star and a half compared with Japan's expansion of the army of 3 million, compared with the previous weak Xinghe County Security Regiment, the Eighth War Zone at this time is an out-and-out giant. With nearly 1.6 million armed forces, even compared with the Nationalist Government, Chen Feng is now fully confident in facing any provocation by any country. Whether it is Japan, the Soviet Union, or other countries, Chen Feng can no longer be easily submitted.
In terms of industrial and agricultural production, apart from the newly acquired Dongfang City, Ulaanbaatar City, and Zonmod City, other vast areas in Saibei Province have preliminarily completed industrialization construction, especially several major heavy industrial zones and light industrial zones, and now there are more than 28,000 factories and mining enterprises of various kinds in Saibei Province, of which 7,694 are funded and built by the provincial government and are directly managed, 3,672 are directly managed by the logistics department of the theater, and the rest are private enterprises.
With so many factories and enterprises, they basically met the daily supply of goods for the people and troops in the province, and even the economy of Saibei Province has undergone earth-shaking changes. The most direct feeling is that this year, the income of the people in Saibei Province has increased, the living standard has also improved a lot, and their spending power has changed greatly compared with a year ago.
According to the data compiled by the provincial government on December 18, in the past year, the total industrial and agricultural production of Saibei Province and the government's fiscal revenue have increased significantly, and in 1939, the provincial government of Saibei Province received a total of 42.09 million oceans in taxes and donations. However, this year, the tax revenue alone has reached 162 million oceans, which is about four times that of last year. Although it is still beyond its means, and the fiscal deficit remains high, compared with the previous situation where even the salaries of military and political officials had to be paid by the Chen family themselves, the situation this year has been much better, at least the salaries of military and political officials do not have to be paid by Chen Feng himself.
In addition, this year's bumper agricultural harvest in Saibei Province has also been well resolved, and the grain problem that has plagued the Eighth War Zone for many years has also been well resolved, and at least the Eighth War Zone will no longer need to import grain from outside the country this year and next. Although this year's harvest is dominated by coarse grains such as corn and potatoes, and only a small part of fine grains such as wheat and wheat, it is still difficult for those who do not even have enough to eat. The difference between coarse grains and fine grains is not very big, and one pound of fine grains is far less affordable than ten catties of coarse grains.
What's more, Chen Feng became a father this year, and he got two cubs within a year, and the Chen family has a successor. Especially these two little cubs have been extremely smart since they were children, so that Chen Feng fully experienced the joy of being a father! Throughout 1940, it was a well-deserved harvest year for Saibei Province and the Chen family! (To be continued......)