Chapter 171: Chen Feng's Arms Plan (2) (Asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! )
Is it enough to have these, of course it is not enough, there are good products do not necessarily mean that this business can do well. There is also a big market for good products, and in addition to these, advertising is also inseparable. Only when all three are in place, then this eleven is likely to succeed.
To be honest, Chen Feng's things are good, one word, good. But it is not easy to sell these good things, first of all, there is no market. Although the global arms market will definitely be booming in supply and demand in a few years, the problem is that it will be several years, and Chen Feng simply can't wait.
In addition, there is another problem, even if someone buys arms with Chen Feng in the future, it is not easy to get these arms into the hands of the buyer. Whether it is an American or a British, it is tens of thousands of miles away from Chahar, where Chen Feng is located, and there are oceans and mountains in between. In addition, now that the Japanese Navy has blocked all of China's access to the sea, it may not be easy to sell weapons and equipment to the United States, Britain, and other countries.
Since it cannot be sold to the United States and Britain and other countries, then it can only be sold to the Nationalist Government and the Soviet Union, which borders China. The Nationalist Government is just that, this must be Chen Feng's big customer of the arms business, and he can't run. Besides, the Soviet Union, although this guy is a big country and its industrial production capacity is not bad, Chen Feng knows that the Soviet Union's current military design capability is very weak, and by the time the Soviet-German war broke out, most of the Soviet Union's troops were still using old weapons that were about to be phased out. Moreover, due to lack of preparation, the vast industrial areas of Eastern Europe were lost in numbers at the beginning of the war, and at the most difficult times of the war, every two Soviet Red Army troops could not get a gun, and it was often a soldier with a gun in front of him. The other soldier followed the soldier with 5 rounds of ammunition, and once the soldier died, the soldier behind quickly picked up his gun and continued the fight. Therefore, the Soviet Union must also be a big customer of Chen Feng's arms business.
More importantly, the Soviet Union and China share a border, and with the current position of Chen Feng's department, it is far easier to get in touch with the Soviet Union than with the Nationalist Government. As long as Guisui and Baotou are defeated, the army can cross Erenhot and enter Outer Mongolia. Although Outer Mongolia is said to be an independent country, it is actually controlled by the Soviet Union, and a large number of Soviet Red Army troops are stationed in Outer Mongolia, and there is not much difference between entering Outer Mongolia and entering the Soviet Union.
Although the Soviet Union certainly doesn't need much weapons and equipment now, Chen Feng still has a trump card. That's penicillin. You don't need weapons. But penicillin, a life-saving medicine, probably no country can resist the temptation. It is important to know that when penicillin was not mass-produced, the mortality rate of tuberculosis and tetanus and other knife and gun injuries was extremely high, especially tuberculosis, which was not much different from AIDS.
The advent of penicillin solves precisely this problem. It's like in the 21st century, someone suddenly has developed a cure for cancer and AIDS. The sensation it caused was terrifying to think about. At a time when the arms business could not be carried out. It's still very good to be in the penicillin business.
And Chen Feng has a reason to do business, Chen Feng is not short of money, there is really no shortage of it. After the capture of Tianjin. Chen Feng ransacked more than a dozen Japanese banks in Tianjin, and at the same time confiscated a large amount of property of Japanese puppet businessmen, according to Chen Feng secretly told Chen Feng that the gold transported back to Xinghe from Tianjin was 15 tons, what kind of concept is this, 15 tons of gold is equivalent to 300,000 taels, even if it is pulled by car, it has to be transported by five or six cars.
In addition, there are 50 or 60 million oceans and hundreds of millions of legal currency, as well as hundreds of millions of counterfeit currency military tickets, and as for antiques and cultural relics, there are even more. If you want to talk about money, I'm afraid Chen Feng is now the richest person in the entire Republic of China.
But Chen Feng still lacks one thing now, and if this thing is not solved, Chen Feng will not be able to sleep well. Oil is so important for war, without oil all machinery has to lie down, whether it is a car or a tank or an airplane, even if you can get the 21 actual American Hornet or F22 is nonsense, without oil is also a pile of penniless broken copper and iron.
Does China have oil, of course, and there is no less. Whether it is the nearby Shenmu or the victory, or the jade gate a little farther away, there is oil. But mining? The answer is no, and once the Japanese know that China, an oil-poor country, can extract oil, the consequences will be catastrophic. It is very likely that the Japanese will abandon their northward or southward headings and concentrate all their efforts on dealing with China, and then the war will have nothing to do with the Americans.
Of course, the Americans are happy to do this, but the Chinese are about to cry, so it is impossible to extract this oil, at least before the outbreak of the Pacific War.
Could it be that if the United States and Japan do not go to war, Chen Feng's subordinates will not use tanks and armored vehicles, and will not use airplanes, of course not. There was no oil to import, and the USSR was not far from China, especially Siberia, the Soviet oil base, which was closer to Suiyuan.
The most important thing is that China and the Soviet Union have a foundation for cooperation, and many people know that the Americans assisted China with a large amount of weapons and equipment during the Anti-Japanese War, and even formed the Flying Tigers to deal with the Japanese air force. However, how many people know that after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Soviet Union was the first Western country to support China, and by 1938 it had become China's only foreign aid country.
Stalin was not a stupid man, but was smart. The alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan was not Britain and France, but the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union straddled Eurasia, with Germany to the west, Japan to the east, and Italy to attack the Soviet Union from the south through Hungary. In addition, at this time, Britain, France, and other countries implemented a policy of appeasement, in an attempt to divert trouble the east, so that Hitler, a hungry wolf who could not eat enough, and the polar bear of the Soviet Union could grab food, and Japan at this time not only wanted to dominate East Asia, but also coveted Siberia of the Soviet Union. Under these circumstances, it was a wiser choice for the Soviet Union to actively assist China in resisting Japan in order to contain Japan and prepare for an all-out war of aggression against the Soviet Union, which might be launched by Germany, which was even more dangerous.
Under these circumstances, on December 12, 1932, China and the Soviet Union announced the resumption of diplomatic relations, which had been interrupted since the end of the 20s, and had frequent contacts on the issue of bilateral military cooperation with Japan. In March 1934, the Chinese government sent a military delegation to visit the Soviet Union.
In April 1937, the Soviet ambassador to China, Bogomolov, informed the Chinese government that if China was willing to sign a Sino-Soviet non-aggression pact, it could sell planes and tanks to China and provide a loan of 100 million legal currency. But there was no response from the Chinese side.
After the "77 Incident", Chiang Kai-shek felt that the situation was grim. Finally, on August 14, 1937, under the authority of Lao Chiang, Zhang Chong, a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Government, submitted to Bogomolov in his name a draft of the arms supply agreement, according to which the Soviet Union would provide China with 350 aircraft, 200 tanks and 236 artillery pieces, and that the said arms should be provided within one month from the date of the agreement, and that Soviet pilots, aviation technicians, artillerymen and tankers would also be sent to China to train Chinese military personnel. On August 21, 1937, China and the Soviet Union formally signed the Non-Aggression Pact, after which the Soviet Union decided to start providing economic loans and military assistance to China, and sent military experts and volunteer air forces to participate in China's War of Resistance against Japan.
Stalin even sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek to explicitly assure: "With regard to the section on Soviet assistance, there is no doubt that the Soviet Union should do everything possible to assist the great Chinese people in their heroic liberation struggle against the invaders." ”
On March 1, 1938, the Chinese and Soviet governments agreed in Moscow on the "Agreement on the Use of Loans of 50 Million US Dollars," which stipulated that the Soviet Government agreed to give the Chinese Government a total loan of 50 million US dollars for the purchase of industrial products and equipment from the Soviet Union at an annual interest rate of 3%, and the Chinese Government would repay it in the form of tea, leather, animal hair, tin, zinc, tungsten, cotton, tung oil, medicinal herbs, and red copper.
On July 1, 1938, the Chinese and Soviet representatives agreed on a second loan of $50 million at an annual interest rate of 3%, to be repaid in five years. On June 13, 1939, the Chinese and Soviet representatives again agreed to repay the third loan of $150 million, which had the same annual interest rate as the previous two times, to be repaid in 10 years.
In 1940, the Soviet Union provided two more loans to China totaling $200 million. In addition to aiding the Nationalist Government in the form of loans, the Soviet Union also provided China with a large number of military supplies. According to the statistics of the Nationalist Government, during the five years of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression from 1937 to 1941, China purchased 904 aircraft of various types from the Soviet Union, including 318 light and heavy bombers, 82 tanks, 1,526 automobiles, 24 tractors, 1,190 cannons of various types, 9,720 light and heavy machine guns, 50,000 rifles, more than 167,000,000 rifle bullets, more than 17,000,000 machine gun bullets, 31,100 bombs, more than 1,870,000 artillery shells, as well as aircraft engines and a full set of spare parts, gasoline and other munitions materials.
In addition to aiding China with military supplies, the Soviet Union also sent a group of military advisers and military experts to help the training of the Chinese army, and directly sent air force volunteers to fight alongside the Chinese Air Force. More than 2,000 Soviet Air Force volunteers came to China to participate in the war, and they took part in air battles to defend Nanjing, Wuhan, Nanchang, Chongqing, Chengdu, Lanzhou, and other cities.
According to statistics, the Soviet volunteers participated in more than 20 major battles during their stay in China, and in 1938 alone, they shot down more than 100 Japanese planes and sank more than 70 Japanese ships. During the operation, more than 200 members of the Soviet Air Force volunteers died in China.
It can be said that there is both a basis and a condition for cooperation between Chen Feng and the Soviet Union, Chen Feng has the penicillin that the Soviets need, and the Soviets have the oil that Chen Feng needs. (To be continued......)
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