Chapter 533: Puffer Fish Project (Part II)
After a large number of Jewish immigrants arrived in China, the construction of industrial and mining industries in Northeast China was able to advance rapidly with the help of Jewish capital. Historically, these Jews who came to China were first "unloaded and killed donkeys" by the Japanese, and then after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, those assets were plundered or destroyed by the Soviet troops entering Northeast China.
However, in this time and space, before the Japanese had time to "eat black and eat black", the Chinese army had already fought back to Northeast China, because these Jews had a deep connection with Japan, and some of them also took advantage of the protection of the Japanese army to "fake the tiger" and bullied the Chinese people in Northeast China, so Hu Weidong did not hesitate to order the confiscation of all the assets of the Jews in Northeast China, and arrested all those who committed crimes against China, the total number of which was as many as tens of thousands
Since China had relatively close relations with the United States at that time, the American Jewish Shili entrusted Hammer, a Jewish red capitalist of Jewish descent who had invested a lot in China, to come to China and demand that China release all the imprisoned Jews and return the confiscated assets, and also demand that the Chinese government compensate the Jews for their losses.
Hu Weidong's answer to this was, "We in China will not treat law-abiding Jews in China unfairly because of their ethnic group, but we will not treat those Jews who harm China's national interests and harm the Chinese people because of their nationality."
"We can't handle the Soviets, we can't do the Germans, can't we even do the Chinese?" Determined to give the new Chinese regime a little color, the embarrassed and angry American Jews supported US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in taking some restrictive measures against China in retaliation.
However, Hu Weidong and even the majority of the leading cadres of the Red Party have the character of eating soft rather than hard, and the more severely the enemy oppresses them, the harder their bones will be, not to mention the fact that the current domestic economy is booming and the international environment is becoming more and more favorable has greatly increased their confidence. As a result, not only did the U.S. economic sanctions fail to bring the new Chinese regime to its knees, but Jews in China have become even more targeted, and as Chinese's national pride has been stimulated, "leftist" tendencies inevitably appear in their work, resulting in many unjust cases, and the number of Jews imprisoned at the peak even exceeded 30,000
However, Hu Weidong, who is in charge of this matter, is not an angry young man after all. The Jews' money bags are still very hot. Soon after, hundreds of millions of dollars were collected from the underground assets of the American Jewish consortium and even those arrested Jews through "bail", and the total value of the previously confiscated assets was no less than $1.5 billion. If we add in the huge debts that Zhongfu International has relied on, the always shrewd American Jewish plutocracy and the US government, which is deeply affected by it, will be solidly and miserably destroyed this time
But China's economic and jishu blockade by the United States cannot be said to have no impact at all. And under the covert instigation of the American Jewish consortium. Anti-China sentiment in the United States has once again risen. According to rough statistics, in 1941 alone, the economic losses suffered by overseas Chinese in the United States as a result of such incidents as smashing and looting amounted to more than $100 million. More than 500 people were killed or wounded, and even more so when you include indirect losses such as lost business opportunities due to anti-Chinese sentiment.
For a time, rich Chinese Americans fled one after another, and most of them went to South America under the persuasion of the Zhi Gong Court, because Hu Weidong once said that once World War II started, South America would be the safest place in the future, even surpassing the United States, and for most Chinese, they were still afraid of war
At the same time, he noticed that the US Government had only banned trade but had not blocked sea traffic, and immediately sent a telegram to the central authorities, requesting that ships be sent to the United States immediately to bring back those overseas Chinese who were willing to return to China. Although only tens of thousands of overseas Chinese are willing to return to their homeland (because of the rapid changes in the international situation, the anti-China wave in the United States did not last long. But this approach of the new regime has won widespread praise from overseas Chinese
Except for the three countries of the United States, Britain and France and their vassals that China has merged with Indochina and its vassals, most other countries have taken a neutral attitude towards this, such as Japan, Italy, Spain and some small European countries
In fact, the Soviet Union, like the United States, did not want to see China become stronger, in a sense they were even more worried than the United States, but China's occupation of the Indochina Peninsula brought huge practical benefits to the Soviet Union, between the long-term threat and the practical interests, it is obvious that Stalin chose the latter, because although the current Soviet Union is already quite strong, but because the enemy is the entire West, it needs to become stronger as quickly as possible, so that the Soviets can have enough security.
Since the West (at first the British, later the United States and France also joined in, the Germans also participated for a time, until the Soviet-German secret treaty was signed. The Soviet Union not only suffered many obstacles to the introduction of jishu equipment, but even the supply of strategic resources was also short. Although the Soviet Union has a large land and abundant resources, there is still a big gap between the comprehensiveness of resources and the United States, among which the self-sufficiency rate of natural rubber in the Soviet Union is almost 0 due to the geographical location in the north. Although the Soviet Union made efforts to develop the synthetic rubber industry after introducing the German jishu, the performance of synthetic rubber at this time was much worse than that of natural rubber
In addition, the Soviet Union's tin ore reserves were also seriously insufficient (in fact, the Soviet Union's tin ore reserves were not quite large, mainly in the Far East, but the Soviet Union at that time had not yet discovered those large tin mines). In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Soviets had purchased tin ingots from China at a purchase price three times the market price, but in recent years, with the rapid development of China's industrialization, China's domestic demand for tin has been rising, and tin ore is not the focus of the construction of the "First Five-Year Plan" Jihua (anyway, we have enough for ourselves), so the output increase is slower, and the proportion that can be used for export is getting smaller and smaller, which makes the Soviets very headache, Stalin even approved interest-free loans to support China to renovate and expand the tin mine in Yunnan to increase production capacity as soon as possible.
After China occupied Indochina, these two problems were immediately solved, and Malaya was the first in tin ore production and second in natural rubber production, after which China had the full spare capacity to export a large number of ...... to the Soviet Union