Strictly speaking, China is not without a region that is more suitable for rapid industrialization than Xinjiang, that is, Taiwan Province with an average literacy rate that is not inferior to that of Western industrialized countries, but the problem is that Taiwan is an island, and China's naval strength is still relatively weak, so for the time being, the central government can only mothball Taiwan's industrial construction plan, and wait until the end of World War II or after the Chinese navy becomes stronger, and then concentrate on Liliang to develop this treasure island

Although Taizu attaches great importance to fairness, in the situation of World War II in full swing, the unprecedented sense of crisis still made him accept Hu Weidong's strategy of taking the lead in industrialization, but he also raised two unavoidable questions, one is to engage in industrial construction in Xinjiang, if the Soviet Union really goes crazy and takes advantage of the situation to launch an attack, will the losses be too great? Second, if you want to carry out large-scale industrial construction in Xinjiang, what should you do if you have to keep it strictly secret and need to carry out the 911 project?

Hu Weidong was already aware of this, and immediately explained to the leader that due to the unique topography of Xinjiang, even if the Soviet Union wanted to invade, it could only attack northern Xinjiang first, and because northern Xinjiang had a considerable industrial foundation and national defense and security considerations, his industrialization roadmap focused on southern Xinjiang. This would reassure the Soviet Union without taking too much risk.

Of course, the temporary loss of the Karamay oil field will be a big loss, but because the annual output of this oil field exceeded 1 million tons, the central government did not invest in it out of scruples about the Soviet Union, so far the production capacity has only increased to about 1.5 million tons, the domestic refined oil reserves have reached 2 million tons, and the annual output of the Shengli oil field has increased rapidly, and at the same time, the Indonesian oil fields occupied by Japan have also begun to supply oil to China. The loss of 1.5 million tons of annual crude oil production should still be bearable

As for the 911 Project, if southern Xinjiang is industrialized, there will still be no people living in the Taklamakan Desert, so there is no need to worry about finding a suitable Shiyan field for nuclear Shiyan in the future. As for the secrecy work, the research institutes of the 911 Project are basically in Qinghai (although Qinghai is very high, there are still many areas below 2,500 meters, and ordinary people will not have obvious discomfort living in it, but the secrecy is undoubtedly much stronger than that in the mainland). ), not in Xinjiang, so there is no need to worry too much about it.

Only then did the great man completely put his mind at ease. The Soviet government was indeed confused by Hu Weidong's strategy. In the eyes of the Soviets, if the Chinese were hostile, they categorically did not dare to build a new core industrial area near the border between the two countries, so even Stalin. I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief for a while.

And when Hu Weidong made this suggestion. Some people in the central government have also questioned this. But at that time, Hu Weidong replied confidently, "If it is for defense considerations, the more developed the industry and economy of the frontier are." The more dangerous, but in the event of an attack, the industrially developed frontier can provide strong logistical support nearby."

When Hu Weidong said this, he was ridiculed for being too arrogant, indeed, China and the Soviet Union at that time were too far behind, if it was only defense, it could still rely on the vast sea of the people's war, and after paying a huge price, it would be a defeat for both sides, but if it took the initiative to attack the Soviet Union, how could it be possible to defeat China's field army, which only had more than 3,000 combat aircraft and more than 2,000 tanks/armored vehicles/self-propelled guns, equipped with nearly 20,000 aircraft and the same number of tanks. And even the Soviet Red Army, which was no less powerful than China? What's more, even if we do not take into account the huge gap in the number of jishu weapons between the two sides, how many troops can China's underdeveloped industry and the transportation situation that still needs to be improved support to go out to fight?

These sharp questions were reasonable, but they were suppressed by the great man with the hat of "weaponism", and Hu Weidong's proposal was finally passed with difficulty. Taizu should have guessed Hu Weidong's thoughts, but even he didn't expect that not long after the Soviet-German war began, the seemingly powerful Soviet army had already collapsed, and in less than 3 months, it surpassed China, which had a total of about 5 million dead and missing during the Anti-Japanese War, and became the country with the greatest loss of personnel in World War II. Of course, strictly speaking, more than 3 million Soviet prisoners of war are not dead yet, but everyone knows that the vast majority of them will not be able to leave the Nazi concentration camps alive. In addition to the permanent attrition of 5 million Soviet troops, hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilians died in the war in the past three months

But to the surprise of many people, although the seemingly absurd prediction at the beginning miraculously came true, Hu Weidong proposed to continue to show goodwill to the Soviet Union. At Hu Weidong's suggestion, the Chinese government acted as an intermediary to broker the Soviet-Japanese Non-Aggression Pact, which would allow the Soviet Union to defend itself against the Germans and the Japanese to continue to engage the U.S. Navy in the Pacific. Of course, the mustache and the leaders of the United States and Britain were half angry

But how Roosevelt and Churchill reacted, the governments of the three countries concerned did not care. As for the Soviet government, after the US Congress vetoed the US government's aid to the Soviet Union on the grounds of "avoiding aid from falling into the hands of the Germans," that is, fulfilled the promise it had originally promised, Stalin had completely lost trust in these imperialists

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that even if there is no Chinese government to make a bridge, the Soviet Union and Japan are unwilling to become enemies of each other, but if China had not helped facilitate the signing of this agreement, the Soviet government would definitely have to leave at least hundreds of thousands of people just in case. At this time, even Stalin couldn't help but be a little moved, but because he was worried that after the Chinese took back Outer Mongolia, they would make territorial claims to the "Republic of Tangnutuwa" (that is, Tangnu Ulianghai), which was also part of Outer Mongolia but is now occupied by the Soviet Union, he still did not let go. At the same time, because the economy was hit hard after the fall of a large area of the Soviet Union, but it had to invest a lot of manpower and resources in the military, and the aid promised by the Americans was postponed indefinitely, which made the Soviet government's finances unprecedentedly difficult, so the Soviet government had no choice but to ask China to repay the original loan to China in advance

At this time, even Hu Weidong was a little unbearable, and immediately pointed out that since the contract stated that there was no need to repay in the event of a breach of contract, there was no need for China to ignore the rude demands of the Soviet government. But Taizu said with a cold face, "It's okay to pay off this favor debt, and then it's not good to say that we are ungrateful" (to be continued......)