(Thanks to the book friend Tian Cangye and highschool for their tips ^_^)

"With talents alone, without machinery and equipment, industry cannot develop. Now the road to the Soviet Union has not yet been opened, and even if it does, people may not be willing to support us, after all, the Soviet Union is also building on a large scale, so we plan to buy it from Western countries. However, we lack a detailed understanding of the current Western countries, and if we rashly take the foreign exchange that everyone has saved by tightening their belts to go abroad, but because we are not familiar with the place and do not buy the equipment we want, then we will not be able to atone for our sins. Mr. Snow, you journalists have traveled extensively, and if you can, can you provide us with some relevant information? For example, what are the large companies that invested in the Soviet Union or exported jishu equipment to it, and what are the companies that are now bankrupt in the West and waiting to be acquired or on the verge of bankruptcy? Hu Weidong said earnestly.

After hearing this, Snow bluntly put forward his opinion, "During the Great Depression, most of the really powerful large companies were not greatly impacted, and even often because of this, they were able to merge small and medium-sized companies at low prices and further increase their market share. And with all due respect, with China's current level of economic development, it should not be too ambitious, even if a medium-sized company in the United States comes to China, it can be regarded as a large enterprise, and there is no need to cooperate with large companies. ”

"You're right, but our base is still surrounded on all sides, and only with the help of the tiger skin of a large Shijie-level company can we transport the purchased machinery and equipment to our base through thousands of miles of white areas." , Hu Weidong spread his hands and smiled bitterly.

"Indeed, it seems that I was thinking too simply." Snow pondered for a while, and finally replied helplessly, "No way, after all, I haven't done a special investigation in this area, and the only big company I remember investing in the Soviet Union is Ford Company (in fact, it's more than that, but Ford has invested the most.)" And then there's Ammon Hammer, who made a fortune in the Soviet Union."

"Yamon Hammer is a recognized red capitalist, and it may be easier to do business with him, but Lao Chiang may not dare to attack him, after all, the image of this leftist is well known, and he is not very shili in the West at present, but he is simply rich. Let's try Ford's line first, in fact, I also want to meet the real great man of old Ford", Hu Weidong secretly had a plan in his heart.

Although he only occasionally returns to China, he is a well-known reporter after all, and he graduated from a prestigious school, and there are still many friends, teachers and classmates with a certain amount of energy. In addition, Mao Zemin, who remained in Luoyang during this period, once again showed his diplomatic talents and reached a secret agreement with Shang Zhen, chairman of the Kuomintang Henan Province, Shang Zhen agreed to allow the Red Party to move freely in Henan Province without revealing their true identities, and at the same time secretly resumed the railway traffic between Zhengzhou and Luoyang (only at night), and the Red Party guaranteed that as long as Shang Zhen was still the chairman of Henan Province, the Red Army would not take the initiative to launch an attack on Zhengzhou Kaifeng and other places under its jurisdiction, The import and export of materials in the Soviet area will also bring certain taxes to Shang Zhen's Henan provincial government. With the vigorous development of Luoyang Industrial Zone, Zhengzhou, which is already the most important transportation hub in the Central Plains, has become almost the only transit point for raw materials and commodities, and has prospered rapidly, developing from a county town to a large city with a population of more than 300,000 in just a few years, although it is not enough to completely change the entire Henan with a population of more than 30 million and frequent disasters, but it is not a bad thing for the provincial government to have money in its hands, even if the central government continues to eat vegetarian meals. The provincial government can also contribute to the responsibility of disaster relief and relief to some extent...,

After the capture of Tianjin, Hu Weidong once made the worst plan, that is, the national army and the Japanese army came together, but after waiting for a few days, the national army and the Japanese army did not move

It turned out that Zhang Zizhong of Chahar had received an order from Song Zheyuan and was about to go south to recapture Tianjin from the Japanese army, but he soon learned that the Eighth Army of the Red Army with "Yellow Bird behind" had taken advantage of the situation to seize Tianjin, and immediately ordered his subordinates to stop advancing, and no matter how hard Lao Chiang tried to cover up the brilliant achievements of the Red Eighth Army in the previous year, at least within the Kuomintang could not hide it at all, after all, the deaths of so many "famous generals" were placed there, Zhang Zizhong, as the chief general under Song Zheyuan, naturally knew something about the Red Eighth Army, knew that even all the men and horses of the 29th Army were not the opponents of the Red Eighth Army, let alone just more than 30,000 people in his 38th Division?

After all, the Red Army is not a foreign enemy like the Japanese army, and the Red Eighth Army seized Tianjin, although it was a peach pick, but immediately after entering the city, it took back the Japanese concession and confiscated the Japanese fake assets, and did what Zhang Zizhong wanted to do but could not put into practice because of his identity. Therefore, he was also emotionally reluctant to fight the Red Eighth Army. In addition, his boss Song Zheyuan is not a reckless man, and after hearing that the Red Eighth Army had entered Tianjin, he immediately ordered Zhang Zizhong to return to Chahar, and Zhang Zizhong was happy to obey

On the Japanese side, Hu Weidong thought that they would soon attack on a large scale, but in fact, it was the puppet army that attacked first. On the one hand, this was due to the fact that the Japanese military headquarters was not prepared for the sudden attack of the Red Army into North China, and it was difficult to draw out enough army units to destroy the Red 15th Army in a short period of time. On the other hand, it is because of the deep inferiority complex of the Japanese under the cover of the mask of arrogance, they are often bold before they suffer losses, and it is a typical example in history that a brigade dares to fight against a division of the national army, and once they suffer losses, they will often go to the other extreme all at once, that is, they will subconsciously overestimate the strength of the other side, and they will not dare to act rashly until the intelligence department finds out the truth and the truth. It's just that the Red Army's ability to oppose special forces is much stronger than that of the national army, even a big spy like Kenji Dohihara is difficult to infiltrate Tianjin City in a short period of time and obtain accurate information on the combat strength of the Red Eighth Army, in order to prevent the emperor's anger from falling on his head, the helpless Kenji Dohihara had to hit the tens of thousands of puppet troops on the periphery of Pingjin, hoping to use them as cannon fodder to test the true strength of the Red Eighth Army