In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hu Weidong and the leaders of the Red Party adopted the advice of his international friend Snow that "it is not advisable to create a strong enemy for the time being when the situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is still very severe." Therefore, they temporarily withheld various privileges such as concessions from Western powers. But now that the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is in sight, the armed Liliang of the Red Party is even more than what it used to be, in terms of the army alone, more than 3 million, and the huge force that is still rapidly expanding is enough to compare with the first-class powers, at this time if you still swallow the anger of the Western powers, it will not be the Red Party and Hu Weidong, the Shanghai Public Concession was officially taken back the day after Hu Weidong came to Shanghai, and the various privileges of Westerners in China were abolished at the same time

Since the crucial package of trade with the United States has not yet been completed, Hu Weidong's attitude toward the Americans is relatively relaxed, and he adopts the method of ransom for their various industries in Shanghai, and he also tolerates all kinds of previous acts of the Americans as much as possible, except for major crimes that cannot be forgiven (mainly killing people and insulting women), and it is not until a few months later that most of the warships, planes, food, and equipment and personnel purchased by Zhongfu International in the United States are implemented, and Hu Weidong has the confidence to be tough on the United States. There is no way, for the sake of China's future, sometimes you have to endure it!

As for other Western countries, especially the British, Hu Weidong unceremoniously confiscated almost all their industries in Shanghai, especially industrial enterprises (a small number of large enterprises or large consortia that had dealings with Zhongfu International were spared), because they were all tools used by imperialism to exploit the Chinese people, and for those who were guilty of the Chinese people, they could not escape the people's judgment (mass trial), and their property would naturally have to be collected and used for China's economic construction, atoning for the Chinese people

As a result, in less than a month, the government of the Central Plains Liberated District took over all industrial enterprises and material warehouses in Shanghai. In addition, a large amount of illegal gains of foreign capitalists and domestic compradors have been confiscated (such as the income from investments that are not beneficial to China, such as casinos and brothels), of which the total amount of gold, silver and foreign exchange alone is as high as more than 100 million US dollars, and there are countless jewels, antiques, real estate, and other things that are difficult to realize, and it is worthy of being the largest metropolis in the East. On the one hand, the Japanese authorities, who learned of this, regretted that they did not start earlier but cheapened the Chinese. On the other hand, it hopes that the West, especially the United States, will retaliate by sanctioning the Red Party, and it would be even better if it increased its support for Japan

However, it is not the Americans who suffer. Why should the U.S. government stand up for them? What's more, the Americans know very well what these adventurers who came to China are, and they may be wronged if they are all arrested. More importantly, there are also considerable contradictions between the United States and Western European countries, especially Britain, which is still nominally the boss of Shijie, so Americans are actually secretly happy about the Chinese's practice of cleaning up the British

In addition, there is another reason that cannot be ignored, Japan is vulnerable in front of the Soviet army. The Germans were very dissatisfied with the fact that the Germans were only taking money and doing nothing, so Roosevelt did not want to see China turn to the Soviet Union under any circumstances, so the US government first actively mediated between the two parties in China and tried to bring about the formation of a coalition government. After the defeat, he turned to the Red Party, which was obviously going to unify China, so as not to unite China firmly on the side of the Soviet Union because of the first place in population and already having a strong leadership core, and Roosevelt, who was a China expert, saw very clearly that the stronger the Liliang of the Chinese Red Party, the more difficult it would be to reconcile the contradictions with the Soviet Union, and the greater the possibility of turning against each other in the future. Therefore, even if the Americans stand on the side of the entire Western camp, they will not easily offend the Chinese Red Party.

For the same reason, the Americans even sent a fleet to escort the fleet of Zhongfu International despite the strong opposition of the Japanese government, and Hu Weidong finally completely relieved himself. Most of the equipment and talents introduced by Zhongfu International were put into the core area of Qingdao and the Central Plains Liberated Area - Luoyang Industrial Zone in accordance with the original plan, but some of them were transported to Shanghai because of Hu Weidong's temporary change of order, such as two sets of thermal power generating units with an installed capacity of 300,000 kilowatts, and the production line of DC-3 large passenger aircraft was also determined to be placed in Shanghai, because Shanghai already had a certain aircraft manufacturing capacity, although there were only five aircraft assembled with imported parts. But it is much stronger than those places that have no foundation at all, as for the foundation more haode Luoyang Aircraft Factory, so far whether it is under development or has been produced (all are training aircraft), all are wooden aircraft, and after the J-1 and H-1 are finalized and produced, there will definitely not be any excess production capacity, it is better to open another aircraft factory in Shanghai to develop and produce all kinds of all-metal aircraft

For the introduction of all-round jishu, equipment and talents with a total amount of no less than 2 billion US dollars, Hu Weidong originally thought that it would take three or five years to basically digest it, but only a year later, some projects have begun to form production capacity, and more than half of the projects have been completed two years later, and the reason why it can be so efficient is of course due to the unprecedented construction enthusiasm of the masses in the liberated areas and Hu Weidong's scientific and reasonable overall planning, but also because in 1938 the Central Plains border area continued to make great progress in industrial construction. The foundation has been further consolidated

1938 in the history of China's industrialization can be called a year of succession, taking the vital iron and steel industry as an example, in the case of the introduction of equipment has not yet formed a production capacity, the workers and masters in the border areas gave full play to their subjective initiative, through the details and overtime to fully improve the utilization rate of equipment, in 1938 incredibly produced 300,000 tons of qualified steel, an increase of 200% compared with 1937, of course, there are factors such as the expansion of the territory and the relatively fast construction of the converter. This growth rate is also impressive.

The development of the electric power industry is even more rapid, in 1938 the annual power generation of more than 5 billion kWh, more than 15 times more than the previous year, this is of course because Hu Weidong chose the program provided by Tesla, so that Luoyang Electric Machinery Factory can manufacture a large number of permanent magnet generators with higher power generation costs and lower single power, but can be produced quickly, coupled with the "discovery" of rare earth permanent magnet materials, so that it has received twice the result with half the effort, but it is still a miracle. (To be continued.) )