As the largest shareholder of Zhongfu shares, Ford company has naturally obtained huge benefits from the rapid development of Zhongfu shares, coupled with Ford itself has also quickly turned losses into profits by improving management methods and developing new models such as Jeep, and also with the help of capital operation means in steel and other automobile related industries to expand rapidly, today's Ford company has not only become a giant in the automobile industry, but also has become the largest and most efficient industrial group on Shijie, there is no one, There are even many people who think that the old Ford has now surpassed Rockefeller and become the new richest man, not to mention anything else, how much is it worth just 40% of the equity of the Minas oil field!

However, the rapid development has also brought trouble to Ford, although in order to circumvent the "antitrust law", Ford has not pursued a high market share for those traditional industrial sectors with a large market, including the main automobile industry, but when it has completed a series of acquisitions and cooperation, and has been involved in more than a dozen important industrial sectors such as mining, steel, oil extraction, oil refining, rubber, shipbuilding, shipping, and railways, forming an entire industrial chain that can be almost completely self-sufficient. Inevitably, it caused panic among the American financial oligarchs, represented by the Jewish consortium, because if the industrial capitalists did what Ford did, would there still be a chance for them to jump up and down for profit? As a result, some members of Congress in the United States, at the behest of their masters, soon proposed a new antitrust law to crack down on the behavior of "controlling the industrial chain to evade market competition", which was directly aimed at Ford.

Because the elder Ford has always hated politicians, although Ford has a great influence among the American people. But there has been no agent in Congress, and in order to avoid the company being hit hard, the elder Ford has to increase its overseas investment, partly to directly avoid risks, and on the other hand, to put pressure on those politicians, after all, Ford and its allies provide more than a million jobs in the United States, if they are forced out of the United States. It will definitely hit the US economy, which has finally improved a little, and no one can afford this responsibility, and this is also the original intention of the old Ford to go abroad this time. The reason why China and the border areas under the control of the Red Party were chosen was because old Ford was a little curious about it, and because it was a place that those financiers could not influence at all

Of course. Germany and the Soviet Union are also eligible, so the old Ford also invested in some projects when passing through the two countries, among which he didn't even have to pay for the German project, after selling the German-Austrian oil field to the German government, he directly took the money and then invested it back in Germany, so that the old Ford saved work, and the Germans saved valuable foreign exchange. However, this is only limited to Ford's share, and Mao Zemin, who knows that the European war is imminent, is unwilling to take risks with the old Ford, and those starters have their own choices

After hearing this, Hu Weidong was pleased with Mao Zemin's business performance, but at the same time he was somewhat disappointed, and at first he thought that the elder Ford's investment in China showed that the United States had changed its China policy. It seems that the great man is still right, we cannot expect too much help from foreigners, and the difficulties faced by China mainly have to be solved by the Chinese themselves. The next day, however, he heard the news that the Soviet side had decided to send another 150 planes and corresponding personnel to the Soviet-supported air force under the North China Air Corps. But something is better than nothing

At first, Hu Weidong thought that the Soviet Union suddenly sent additional planes to compensate for its previous refusal to help the Red Party form a navy, but he soon learned that the Soviet aid air force had also been expanded, and the scale was much larger than that of the Red Party, Hu Weidong couldn't help but shake his head again and again, "Sure enough, I still can't think too well of Maozi

The central government suddenly called Hu Weidong to Lanzhou not only to let him accompany the old Ford to catch up with the old days, but also to let him, an industrial expert, try to strive for greater investment, but because the industrial base of the Northwest Border Region is too weak, and the border district government only welcomes investment in heavy industry, so the old Ford negotiated the three projects and there was no investment, until Hu Weidong brought him to his base camp Central Plains Border Area, and after seeing the industrial zone in western Henan that has now taken shape, the old Ford suddenly became interested

After friendly negotiations between the two sides, the elder Ford decided to inject a huge amount of money into the Luoyang Automobile Plant, so that its production capacity will increase to an annual output of 50,000 2.5-ton light trucks, 20,000 4-ton medium trucks, 20,000 jeeps and cars, and 10,000 heavy vehicles within five years. Luoyang Tractor Factory (with an annual output of 100,000 tractors of various types, but small and medium-sized tractors such as walk-behind tractors account for ninety percent, and the potential to switch to tanks is far less than that in the northwest. ), Luoyang Bicycle Factory (annual output will exceed 2 million vehicles), Nanyang Oil Refinery (annual refining capacity of 3 million tons, and because of the use of advanced catalytic cracking jishu, the yield of light oil such as gasoline is very high, but the speed of construction is quite fast. ), and Luoyang Iron and Steel Plant (after the expansion is completed, the plant has an annual output of 3.2 million tons of steel, which is higher than the second iron and steel plant in Lanzhou, and the output of various types of alloy steel exceeds 1 million tons, and the categories are also extremely complete. and more than a dozen large heavy industry enterprises.

The substantial increase in the production capacity of these heavy industry leaders has stimulated the rapid development of the mining industry in the Central Plains border area, and the discovery of Wuyang iron ore with reserves of hundreds of millions of tons has directly eliminated the hidden danger of insufficient iron ore reserves in the Central Plains border area, although the average grade of Wuyang iron ore is really poor, and Xin'an iron ore is not comparable at all.

Relatively speaking, the production of crude oil is a bit troublesome, although the production of Nanyang Oilfield continues to increase, but its recoverable reserves will never exceed 100 million tons even if the factor of Jishu innovation is taken into account, and the oil deposits are scattered, and there are few high-yield oil wells, which seriously limits the increase in the total crude oil production of the oilfield, and Hu Weidong knows that there is a larger reserve of "Zhongyuan Oilfield" in the eastern part of Henan, but because it is located in the national control area, and the land is close to the front line and cannot be developed and utilized. However, it is precisely because of this that China's shale oil jishu has been given the opportunity to make rapid progress, and of course, these are all for later

After all, the elder Ford did not want to really move the focus of Ford's business out of the United States, so the total investment amount of more than 300 million US dollars is already the limit, and it must be known that this investment has greatly exceeded the total investment amount of the old Ford in Germany and the Soviet Union during this trip. Obviously, Ford's investment will be of great help to the economic development of the border areas and the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, but what is even more rare is that the elder Ford did not pursue a controlling stake in those companies, and because he habitually overestimated China's labor costs, his stake was far less than Hu Weidong expected. (You are welcome, your support is my biggest motivation.) )

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