Yan Xishan was shocked when he heard the news, and urgently transferred three divisions to the south to rescue, but was successively defeated by the elite of the Red 15th Army, with more than 15,000 soldiers, while the Red Army was less than 1,000 people.

This move really caused a lot of trouble to the Red 15th Army, although regardless of casualties and ammunition consumption, it was possible to bite through the defense line of the Jin Sui Army and finally open the road to Taiyuan, but the cost of doing so was too great, Hu Weidong would not do this kind of thankless thing, anyway, he had already completed the task assigned by the central government by attracting the main force of the Jin Sui Army to Jinnan. When the Jin Sui army saw that the Red Army had stopped attacking, it naturally did not take the initiative to brush the Red Army's tiger whiskers, so after the fierce battle at the beginning, the two sides entered a strange state of "no war on the front line". Yang Aiyuan, the commander-in-chief of the Jinnan defense line, did not dare to be careless, but there were no reports of enemy movements in various passes for a month, and he gradually relaxed his heart

It is worth mentioning that long before Hu Weidong led the army and the main force of the Jin Sui army to form a confrontation at Zhongtiao Mountain, Su Yu had been ordered to lead more than 30,000 independent divisions to part ways with the brigade and move east to capture Jiaozuo City, which was not far away. Although Jiaozuo is not a big city, the industrial and mining industry with coal mining as the core is relatively developed, and there are tens of thousands of industrial workers, and there is also a top domestic mining institution in the city - Jiaozuo Institute of Technology, although there are no first-class outstanding talents in Shijie, but there are many practical geological talents who are good at prospecting and mining. In particular, the Jihua of coal and iron resources will undoubtedly be of great help. However, it is precisely because there is no talent worthy of special attention among them, he just explained the basic principles, and entrusted Su Yu with carte blanche to deal with it, as a result, almost the entire Jiaozuo Institute of Technology was moved to Luoyang, although Hu Weidong felt that it was a little too much, but he didn't say much, anyway, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he still had to move, and it was better to move two or three years earlier

Hu Weidong is also very greedy for the tens of thousands of workers and machinery and equipment in Jiaozuo, but most of them belong to the Zhongfu Group, a large "Sino-foreign joint venture", and if it is not handled well, it will affect the party's image. In this regard, Hu Weidong, in accordance with the principle that has always been there, directly confiscated the bureaucratic capital of the Nanjing government, which accounted for the largest proportion of the share capital of the Zhongfu Company, and adopted the method of "redemption" for the local Chinese shareholders in Henan. After receiving the supplies at the crossing of the Yellow River, they had a way to sell them safely and make a small profit. What's more, the situation is stronger than people, even if they suffer losses, how dare they say half a "no"?

It is worth mentioning that Hu Weidong actually allowed them to keep their shares, hoping to accumulate a little experience for the public-private partnership in the future, but no one was willing to take the risk of doing so, after all, although the Red Army is not weak now, it is still far from seizing national power!

As for the shares of the British side, Hu Weidong wanted to confiscate the matter directly, but before giving the order, he suddenly moved in his heart and thought of a more howard idea. After being "invited" to witness the miracle of penicillin in the newly established Luoyang People's Hospital, Bell, the general representative of Yingfu Company, immediately lit up and realized the hidden earth-shattering profits...,

In this era, almost all foreigners who dared to come to China were bold, and Bell was no exception, and he did not hesitate to accept on behalf of Yingfu Company the Red Army's proposal of 100,000 penicillin in exchange for all the shares of Zhongfu Company held by Yingfu Company, regardless of his authority. However, out of the pride of the British for hundreds of years, those executives of the head office who looked down on the Chinese did not believe the report written by Bell at all, and immediately fired the squid, and naturally they had no interest in the 100,000 penicillins, and finally Bell bought them all for less than a thousand pounds. Then Bell found a friend in the hospital and paid an even bigger price (to raise the money, Bell even mortgaged his property to borrow money from the bank). Let him use penicillin on those critically ill patients, and as a result, he successfully cured more than half of the patients with malignant infectious diseases who were already certain to die, which quickly caused a sensation in Britain and even the whole of Europe, and the penicillin in Bell's hands was quickly sold out, selling an average of more than 10 pounds each, and Bell, who was once on the verge of bankruptcy, became rich overnight, which made the executives of Yingfu head office regret their bowels

If it were not for foreigners, it would be very difficult for penicillin to be exported beyond the blockade of the national army, and after the reputation of penicillin was established in the West, there was no need to develop the market, and Hu Weidong could take advantage of the dominant position of the supplier in the seller's market to seek the greatest benefits for the Soviet area. And Bell, because of this successful speculation, has become one of the important foreign partners of the Western Henan Soviet District

During the period of the Republic of China, almost all Sino-foreign joint ventures were decided by foreigners, but Zhongfu Company was an exception. Although Lao Jiang had no love for heavy industry, he attached great importance to the resources and minerals that could be exported to earn foreign exchange, and after many negotiations, he finally obtained the controlling and operating rights of Zhongfu Company through capital injection, and the "sorting commissioner" sent by the state government to Zhongfu Company also became its de facto general manager. When the Red Army captured Jiaozuo, the current sorting commissioner of Zhongfu Company, who was a major general of the national army, suddenly became a prisoner, and because he tried to command the workers in the factory to resist stubbornly (because of the obstruction of dozens of underground party members in the company), he suffered a little after being arrested. As a result, as soon as Hu Weidong saw this person's name, "Sun Yueqi," he was stunned, and hurriedly asked a few words about the specific situation of this person, and soon determined the identity of this person, and immediately rushed to the prisoner of war camp to make amends to the "Commissioner Sun."