Chapter 329: Preparing for the Post-War
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In particular, those base areas in central and eastern China that are still behind enemy lines also need a certain amount of funds for their own survival and development. Even in a few base areas in North China with better conditions, the central government is about to hollow out the financial foundation. Therefore, Yang Zhen, who does not advocate the export of grain, which involves the national economy and people's livelihood resources, insists on developing this Liaohe oil field.
It was to be able to lose all foreign aid after the war. Through normal means of trade, in exchange for the most urgently needed foreign exchange. The method adopted by the Americans now to keep accounts and deliver goods first and then collect money is a special method adopted during the war in order to lighten their own burdens. This kind of good thing waits until the end of the war, and the Americans will not pay a penny again.
Even because of China's own special circumstances, it is unwilling to disrupt the situation in some aspects. It is unlikely that by the beginning of four or five years, the Americans will end the Lend-Lease Act imposed by the United Nations. Not to mention that the Americans will not provide him with a penny of aid after the war, that is, now the Americans are very dead on the spare parts of the weapons and equipment that are aided to the Anti-Japanese Federation.
It is also strictly forbidden for the Anti-Japanese Federation to provide US-aided weapons and equipment with one bullet and one gun to the troops in the Guannai. The Americans have also repeatedly stressed that if they find any American-made tank, an American-made artillery, or even a rifle in the hands of the Guannai troops, they will completely terminate the aid provided by the United Nations.
Although the Americans are purely covering their ears and stealing the bell, these regulations made in order to strike a balance have indeed caused the Anti-Japanese Federation to encounter many problems when providing weapons and equipment to the troops in the Guannai. However, the Americans did not make these demands when it came to providing the anti-Japanese federation with their captured German goods.
Second, there are no similar requirements for the use of U.S. aid materials and equipment manufactured by the Anti-Japanese Federation, and this requirement is only limited to the weapons and equipment provided by the Americans. There were a large number of captured Japanese-made weapons in the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and at the same time, they were exchanged from the Soviets, and a large number of German-made weapons were obtained from the Americans.
And apart from tens of thousands of carbines, the Americans did not provide any light weapons to the Anti-United Nations. In addition to airplanes and tanks, there are not many heavy weapons, and even artillery is not numerous. What really worked was that there were some restrictions on the transfer of heavy weapons to the Kannai troops, but this problem was not unsolvable.
First of all, there is a large number of captured Japanese-made artillery in the Anti-Japanese Alliance, plus German goods exchanged from the Soviets, as well as the artillery produced by the Anti-Japanese Federation, which is enough to meet the needs of the Kannai troops in heavy weapons. As for tanks, American-made tanks are not good. There is absolutely no problem with the Soviet-style T-34 tanks produced by the Anti-Japanese Federation itself, or the German-made tanks transferred by the Soviets.
Although these tanks are made of American-aided armor steel and engine aluminum, they are not American-aided weapons, so the Americans have basically no effect on this aspect. In fact, during the entire process of the Anti-Japanese War, more than half of the T34 tanks produced by the Anti-Japanese Federation were transferred to the troops in Guannai.
The most fundamental thing is that in terms of military raw materials, the Americans did not make restrictions. The Anti-Japanese Federation can openly use the military raw materials provided by the Americans to ensure the supply of ammunition to the internal units of the customs. At the same time, a large number of US-aided automobiles and transport planes were transferred to the troops in the Guannai area, as well as some machinery and equipment were transferred to North China.
However, although the restrictions of the Americans did not play any role. But the restrictions imposed by the Americans in this regard also made Yang Zhen a little vigilant. In this regard, he saw the shadow of Chongqing behind him, and also saw Chongqing's ability to operate in Washington. But this is also normal, is it orthodox at the moment? There are formal diplomatic relations with the Americans, and at least on the surface, the Americans still have to side with others.
The Americans have calculated very clearly that the provision of these equipment to the Anti-United Nations is slightly beyond the satisfaction of a single anti-United Nations war against Japan, but there is a big gap in other aspects. Therefore, he even believes that the "Lend-Lease Act" implemented by the Americans against the United Nations may even be completely frozen in four or five years.
However, the industrial construction that is currently underway in the entire liberated area is in urgent need of advanced technology and industrial equipment from abroad, although there are not many countries that can provide these things in the Eurasian continent, which has now become a united continent. But the war is now coming to an end, and a shattered Europe needs money to rebuild. As long as you have money, you can still buy much-needed materials and technology.
It was precisely with this vigilance that he insisted on developing the oil resources of the Liaohe Delta now, so as to prepare for foreign trade after the war in advance and raise much-needed foreign exchange after the war. If it weren't for the fact that there were still a large number of Japanese troops on the Tianjin-Pudong Railway in Shandong, he would even want to develop the Yellow River Delta and the Haihe River Delta, which are also the Dagang and Shengli oilfields in later generations.
Of course, Yang Zhen knew that these things were just thinking about it now. In the future, several oil fields in North China are still a little close to the Japanese-occupied areas, and the drilling depth has exceeded the actual technical capacity of the current Northeast China. The most important thing is that if you show that you know too much, it will also arouse the suspicion of others.
The North China Oilfield is not like the Liaohe Oilfield, which has certain evidence in its own hands. Even if it is just a deer as a horse, you can forcibly get this Liaohe oil field out. If you want to develop several oil fields in North China, you can't do it without large-scale exploration capabilities. And this ability is precisely what the whole country does not have at the moment. After painstaking investigation and a huge cost of test drilling, the Japanese have discovered industrial oil seedlings in the Liaohe oil field, and there is no problem at all.
At the beginning, the news of the development of the Daqing Oilfield in the Anti-Japanese Union, after a lot of hard work and finally obtained the corresponding information, was stimulated and criticized by domestic public opinion, and the Kwantung Army, which could not sit still, was really a little unable to sit still with the support of the Japanese Army. Almost all local technicians were dispatched to carry out many oil surveys on the entire South Manchurian basis on the original basis.
Of course, the reason for such a hemorrhage in the Japanese Army is still related to Japan's own oil demand, which is about to go crazy with an oil shortage. At that time, although the southward campaign achieved great results, the entire oil fields of Southeast Asia, whether Burma or the Dutch East Indies, were extremely badly damaged.
At that time, the oil fields in Burma had been completely blown up, and they could not be repaired with Japanese technology. Most of the oil fields in the Dutch East Indies were also bombed into ruins. For these oil fields, the Japanese themselves do not know whether they can be repaired. Although the Japanese later did their best to restore most of the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies.
And through hard work, Indonesia's oil field production was finally restored to 70% of the pre-war level. But at the time of the first occupation, the extent of the damage to the oil fields made the Japanese themselves very suspicious. After scrapping all the strength, only a piece of ruins was obtained, and the frustration in the hearts of the Japanese can be imagined.
The Japanese took their anger out on the Dutch soldiers captured in the Dutch East Indies for the destruction of the oil fields. Less than a tenth of the captured Dutch in the entire Dutch East Indies survived the war. The captured Dutch women, young and old, were all used as comfort women.
This is also the reason why the Dutch were the most energetic in tracking down Japanese war criminals after the war. Although they did nothing better to the natives of the Dutch East Indies than the Japanese did to them. But they are white and destined to be a head above the natives. It's cool to put these things on others, but being put on yourself by others is unacceptable to them.
In fact, the Japanese were also a little mistaken, and it was not the Dutch army that blew up these oil fields, but several American task forces and army aviation units that were sent to fight in the Dutch East Indies. Not only the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies, but also the aluminum, nickel and copper mines, which were also urgently needed by the local Japanese, were also bombed by the Americans.
The Americans, who know what the Japanese need, and even more so what it means to blow up what makes the Japanese feel distressed, have done it so thoroughly. Not only were ground crews dispatched, tons of explosives were used, and the entire oil field was blown up completely. When the US planes stationed in the Dutch East Indies withdrew, they also dropped all the stockpile bombs on these oil fields.
The extent of the destruction of these fields made the Japanese almost lose confidence in repairing them. The exploitation of oil itself was a weakness of the Japanese, lacking the corresponding equipment, and the Japanese, who relied entirely on European and American technology before the war, had a considerable head on repairing these destroyed oil fields.
The Americans, who would rather blow it up than let the Japanese get it, even the small number of rubber trees in the Dutch East Indies were blown into two pieces with explosives, and they lost the ability to produce rubber. After doing this, the Americans slipped away before the Japanese army closed in.
The hapless Dutch eventually became the scapegoats, and the Japanese were in tears, and they almost lost their determination to sustain the war. When he took over, the Dutch East Indies oil fields were full of desolation, and the ruined Burmese oil fields. The base camp of the Japanese army made up its mind to dig 3,000 meters of ground in South Manchuria, and also to find a large oil field like North Manchuria.
Whether it is the Kwantung Army or the Japanese army base camp, they stubbornly believe that what the despicable Chinese can do, the empire should be able to do. Compared with the previous surveys, both the survey area and the degree of detail are much higher than the previous surveys. In addition, at the last moment before the war, the Japanese introduced the drilling technology of more than 1,000 meters from the United States, and the results were much better than those of previous surveys.
The Japanese have perseverance, and even if you are an opponent, you have to admit it. After the Anti-Japanese Federation developed the Daqing oil field in North Manchuria, a large part of the Japanese people insisted on it. Since they are all in Manchuria, then North Manchuria has developed large oil fields, and South Manchuria will also have oil fields. The structure of the entire Songliao zone is similar, and since there is oil in the north, it should be similar in the south.
Taking into account the situation of the Daqing oil field leaked by limited intelligence, as well as the structure and location of the Romanian oil field and part of the oil field in the South Caucasus of the Soviet Union. After nearly two years of reconnaissance, and with the support of certain intelligence officers, the Kwantung Army finally determined that there were very likely oil fields in the Liaohe Delta.
At a time when the war is dwindling, the transportation from China to the oil producing areas of Southeast Asia is becoming more and more dangerous. If it weren't for this battle, the Kwantung Army would have even drilled along the line of the Liaohe Delta and found industrial oil seedlings. The only thing that cannot be uncertain is the size of this oil field.
In order to support the Kwantung Army, the Japanese army base camp even transported part of the mining equipment stored in the mainland to the Panshan area. And the entire Jinzhou, Huludao petroleum smelters, large-scale expansion and upgrading. It's just that the equipment has arrived, and the upgrading of the smelter has also come to an end.