I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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The second is donations from overseas Chinese in North America, Southeast Asia, Europe and other places, about 3000 to [-] million US dollars per year (in addition to donating banknotes to Jiang Weiguo, overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia also sell or even give Jiang Weiguo a large amount of rubber at a low price);

The third is the black income from drug production and trafficking in the Golden Triangle drug base.

According to Jin Dingguo's report, by the beginning of 1939, they had expanded a total area of ​​about 10 square kilometers at the junction of Thailand, British-occupied Burma, and French-occupied Laos, controlled a population of about 50, and formed about 5 people. The armed forces, the area of ​​drug cultivation has exceeded 50 mu, and the annual output of opium exceeds 800 tons.

The opium in the Golden Triangle has three main uses, one is to sell it directly, the other is to extract stronger drugs such as heroin for sale, and the third is to ship it back to China and process it into medicine.

Jin Dingguo and others did not disappoint Jiang Weiguo, because the Golden Triangle can bring Jiang Weiguo more than 5000 million U.S. dollars in income a year at this time. French Indochina, British Malaya, British Brunei, Dutch Indonesia and other South Asian regions and Southeast Asian regions squeezed it out. Among them, British India can be called the largest "supply market" in the Golden Triangle. Before the profit, a large number of British, French, and Dutch colonial officials were also dragged into the water by the Golden Triangle.

Right now, Jin Dingguo and others, who already have rich experience, are preparing to make persistent efforts to control the "Golden Crescent" at the junction of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran in accordance with Jiang Weiguo's instructions. They are even planning to send people to Latin America to control Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, The "Silver Triangle" at the junction of the four countries in Brazil has turned the world's three major drug bases into Jiang Weiguo's black money, trying to sell drugs to Europe, North America, and South America, especially to the United States. Americans have plenty of money , sell drugs to Americans, one can make a lot of money, and two can corrupt the United States, killing two birds with one stone;

The fourth is that the national government, that is, Chiang Kai-shek’s appropriation to Chiang Wei-guo is basically negligible, only a few million French currency, which is not enough to fill Chiang Wei-guo’s teeth, and sometimes Chiang Kai-shek even asks Chiang Wei-guo for money;

The fifth item is the financial revenue of the six provinces and one city in North China, which is still very little at present, because the construction and development of all aspects have just started, and the finances are completely beyond their means. Not only can they not make money for Jiang Weiguo, but Jiang Weiguo has to keep throwing money into it;

Article 800 is the business profits of large enterprises such as China Energy Corporation, China Metallurgical Corporation, China Jianghe Shipping Corporation, China Ocean Shipping Corporation, and Eastern Airlines, which Jiang Weiguo successively founded. Jiang Weiguo can earn seventy-eight million yuan a year. Dollar;

Article [-] is the "dividend share" that Germany gave him after acquiring the oil fields in the Middle East, which has not yet been fulfilled, because Germany has not yet acquired the oil fields in the Middle East;

The eighth item is the life-saving money of Jews. This item is the second largest source of income for Jiang Weiguo, second only to Hitler’s aid. Just saving 40 Jews in Germany allowed Jiang Weiguo to earn 2 million US dollars. He kept saving people, so he made a lot of money. In 1939 alone, he made a solid four to five billion dollars from the Jews.

Just relying on the above eight sources of income, Jiang Weiguo's pockets were still not enough, so he opened up two new sources of income.

Jiang Weiguo's current territory and population have greatly increased compared with the previous Shandong and Jin provinces, so the number of his armed forces has also increased.

In terms of the regular army, Jiang Weiguo now has about 70 troops, about 60 are the Nanjing Army, about 10 are the former Northeast Army and a small number of other local troops (Note: Nanjing Army and the Northeast Army and other troops in six provinces and one city at this time They are all the "North China Army", but only the Nanjing Army is the "Dragon Soul Army"). At the same time, the number of military police, militia (reserve forces), police, armed police and other armed and quasi-armed personnel has also increased. Under the operation, there are more than 420 counties in six provinces and one city. Militia teams have been established in each county, increasing the number of militiamen to 100 million, military police to 10, policemen to 60, and armed police (armed police) to 10. As a result, the total number of armed and quasi-armed personnel in Jiang Weiguo's hands reached 250 million.

Among them, the armed police force has been modernized, standardized, and systematically developed. According to Jiang Weiguo's "guidance", the North China Armed Police Force was subdivided into seven systems: internal security, gold, forestry, prospecting, water and electricity, fire protection, and border defense. The armed guards protect important government agencies and important personnel, the gold armed police is responsible for finding and protecting gold mines, the forestry and grassland armed police are responsible for fire prevention and fire fighting in forests and grasslands, the prospecting armed police are responsible for assisting the industrial sector in exploring mineral resources and protecting large mines, and the hydropower armed police are responsible for construction and protection of large-scale hydropower projects. The armed fire police are responsible for fire prevention and fire fighting in civilian residential areas and the rescue of civilians in non-violent accidents.

Among the seven systems of the armed police, the golden armed police is Jiang Weiguo's ninth source of income.

There is nothing more direct than mining gold, but gold mines are not everywhere.

China's gold mine resources are still relatively rich. In later generations, China's gold mines have proven reserves of about 9000 tons. Among them, Shandong is the province with the largest gold reserves (the second is Henan), and most of them are located in Laizhou and Zhaoyuan. The local gold reserves are as high as about 2500 tons, and five of China's top ten gold mines are located in Yantai, Shandong Province.

Shandong is currently in the hands of Jiang Weiguo, and he will definitely want to mine gold, especially in Zhaoyuan. Zhaoyuan has a very long history of gold mining. Gold was produced during the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty. Jiang Weiguo is naturally going to spare no effort to expand the scale of production locally. In addition, there are also large-scale gold mines in the Xiaoqinling area of ​​Shaanxi, and they also have a long history of mining. Although Hu Zongnan is currently in the area, Hu Zongnan, Chiang Kai-shek's proud student, is definitely not the opponent of Chiang Kai-shek's proud son. It is also helpless, not to mention that Jiang Weiguo digs gold not for himself, but for the country.

After convening geological experts and mining experts in this field to discuss and analyze, Jiang Weiguo came to a conclusion that made him very excited: Zhaoyuan Gold Mine and Xiaoqinling Gold Mine alone can produce within one year after regular production More than 50 tons of gold is equivalent to US$8000 million. If other small and medium-sized gold mines are added, Jiang Weiguo can earn more than US$[-] million a year by digging gold.

This major event was handed over to Xiao Shanling by Jiang Weiguo, who had established the Golden Armed Police in his hands.

Jiang Weiguo's tenth way of making money is to dig treasures.

There must be many treasures in the world, such as the top ten treasures in the world, the top ten sunken ships in the world, etc. China also has the so-called "Ten Treasures", among which the most well-known ones are Shi Dakai treasure, Zhang Xianzhong treasure, Li Zicheng treasure, etc. Most of them are based on rumors, rumours, and even street stall literature to deceive people and deceive people. It is basically unbelievable. Although Jiang Weiguo is short of money and can be said to be hungry, he still does not really send people to find these non-existent things. Treasure, the treasure stolen by the Indian branch of the Maritime Statistics Bureau in the underground chamber of the Padmanabaswamy Temple in Kerala, southwest India, was just an accident. The "treasure" dug by Jiang Weiguo is actually another thing .

The regular army of the Nanjing Army has a total of 16 divisions, including 1 biochemical division and 15 field divisions. Soon there will be a 17th division, the division designation is the 40th division, and the division commander is a "man of the hour".

"General Sun, what about you, although outsiders may say that you have mixed reviews, I know you are still very patriotic.

During the Battle of Rehe, the Northeast Army's Wan Fulin and Tang Yulin's troops outnumbered you and were better equipped than you. They were either defeated or invincible. Only you led the troops to fight against the Japanese army in Chifeng bravely and tenaciously. For more than ten days, You killed and wounded hundreds of Japanese soldiers, and you also actively participated in the Pingjin battle in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, so it can be seen that you also have a passion, but you have no chance!" In the office, Jiang Weiguo greeted him with a smile on his face. Sun Dianying, the commander of the 40th Division, "Now, my father, at my request, rebuilds your 40th Division and assigns it to the Nanjing Army. Like other divisions of the Nanjing Army, it has three brigades and nine regiments. You are still the division commander. ,How about it? "

Sun Dianying's eyes were moist in an instant, she was almost grateful, and said in a choked voice: "Second Young Master, I will never forget your great kindness to me! I will definitely repay you with all my heart and soul in the future!"

Jiang Weiguo laughed: "It's serious! It's serious!"

Sun Dianying's gratitude to Jiang Weiguo is indeed not pretending, it is sincere.

Sun Dianying was born in an out-of-the-box army. After the Northern Expedition, he was incorporated by Chiang Kai-shek and became the commander of the 12th Army of the Unknown Army. However, the problem of "bad background" naturally made him unable to get along with the national army. During the Central Plains War He stood in the wrong team and followed Feng Yuxiang to fight against Chiang Kai-shek. After the war, his troops were reorganized into the 40th Division by Zhang Xueliang, and changed from army commander to division commander. After the September 41th Incident, because of the tense situation in North China, his troops were expanded. Being expanded into the 181st Army, he became the commander again. During the Rehe Defense War, he participated in the battle, and he was the best performing Chinese army that participated in the war. He was then ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to be transferred to the northwest to "reclamation". In fact, it was used by Chiang Kai-shek as a gunman to deal with the Majia army in the Northwest, which led to the outbreak of the "Four Horses Rejecting Sun" campaign. Sun Dianying suffered a disastrous defeat. Because Shi Yousan was eliminated by Jiang Weiguo, Shi Yousan's troops were handed over to him, and they were combined with his original remnants into the [-]st Division, which participated in the Battle of Pingjin and suffered a devastating blow.

In the past two years, Sun Dianying has been doing nothing. He originally held the empty title of "Commander of the 181st Division". The Dianying Department must be the target of "priority rectification". The 181st Division was abolished, the designation was taken back by the Central Army, and Sun Dianying had nothing left.

At this moment, Sun Dianying suddenly received an invitation from Jiang Weiguo, claiming to help him rebuild the 40th Division of his old army, and still let him be the division commander, and also included him and his troops in the Nanjing Army sequence.

Sun Dianying, who heard the news, couldn't believe it at all, because it was called "extremely good news." Who is Jiang Weiguo?Chiang Kai-shek's second son, and "favored" far more than his elder brother Chiang Ching-kuo, is also well-known both at home and abroad as a "military genius", "war hero", and "military and civilian idol". At present, he is still the majestic "North China King". The future is not a problem at all, it is simply a one-step climb to the sky, and his Nanjing Army is the "direct line of the direct line" of the Central Army. The significance of joining the Nanjing Army does not need to be said at all.

Sun Dianying was extremely pleasantly surprised at first, and then he was also puzzled. He didn't know why Jiang Weiguo took a fancy to him, a miscellaneous general who had completely lost his power.

There is naturally a reason why Jiang Weiguo took a fancy to Sun Dianying.

On the one hand, Sun Dianying has some military talents. During the Central Plains War, Sun Dianying defended Bozhou to the death, and was besieged by 9 troops from Chiang Kai-shek’s Central Army. Sun Dianying persisted for three months until reinforcements arrived and won the Bozhou battle. During the Battle of Rehe, Wan Fulin, Tang Yulin and others were afraid of the enemy and fled without fighting. Only Sun Dianying led his motley army to resist for ten days, killing and wounding 500 Japanese soldiers. He also vowed to live and die with Chifeng and made some contributions to the War of Resistance.

Of course, the most important thing that Jiang Weiguo took a fancy to Sun Dianying was the fact that Sun Dianying was "famous all over the country": Dongling Stealing Treasures.

"Follow me, and work hard in the future!" Jiang Weiguo patted Sun Dianying's shoulder affectionately, "Your 40th Division is mainly responsible for a very important and important matter, I believe you are familiar with it! "

Sun Dianying suddenly realized, he understood and nodded again and again: "Don't worry, Second Young Master! I will do well!"

Jiang Weiguo is so short of money that he is going crazy. He can do drug production and drug trafficking, so what is grave robbery?In fact, it was not Jiang Weiguo’s original idea to rob tombs for the purpose of earning money. Sun Dianying was his “predecessor”. However, this was not an original creation of Sun Dianying. "Lieutenant Mojin" and "General Faqiu Zhonglang" are the official positions of the tomb robbery unit established by Cao Cao (so Cao Cao was afraid that he would be robbed after his death, so he came up with "72 Suspected Tombs"). Local warlords during the Republic of China often Robbing tombs to raise money, Sun Dianying, general Jin Yune, a direct warlord general, and Dang Yukun, a general of the Shaanxi Jingguo Army, are known as the "Three Great Tomb Robbers of the Republic of China". The imperial mausoleums of Liao Shengzong, Liao Guangzong and Liao Daozong in the territory.

For the sake of money, Jiang Weiguo has now embarked on this "evil road" without hesitation, and Jiang Weiguo thinks very philosophically. He believes that those imperial tombs are full of countless rare treasures, which were searched by the feudal rulers from the common people. No matter how you look at it, it is a waste to take out the people’s fat and people’s anointing, and let those treasures be buried with the dead and sleep in the dark underground. If you take some out properly, it is also taken from the people and used for the people!The Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty that Sun Dianying once stole is located in Zunhua County, Hebei Province, which is the site of Jiang Weiguo. This royal tomb complex covers an area of ​​more than 80 square kilometers. There are 150 emperor, 130 empresses, [-] [-] concubines, [-] elder brothers, and [-] princesses.

Objectively speaking, although Sun Dianying’s tomb robbery made a lot of noise at the beginning, in fact, the scale of Sun Dianying’s theft was not very large. Only two tombs were dug, and more than nine tenths of the rare treasures are still buried in the ground. (Sun Dianying dug two mausoleums, and the remaining 150 mausoleums were all dug up after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. The banner played by those who did it was "Down with the feudal emperor"). Now, Jiang Weiguo has stretched out his "devil claws".

"First, it is absolutely confidential! Second, no damage is allowed!" Jiang Weiguo told Sun Dianying, "Do you understand? Do not use explosives, large-scale machinery and other brute force methods. You must carefully protect them, dig in quietly, and take them quietly. things, quietly and then leave.

I will hire a group of civil engineering experts, engineering experts, construction experts, archaeological experts, and historians to help you, we are only seeking money, not for destruction, and we are not allowed to insult the corpses inside!"

Sun Dianying nodded again and again: "Second Young Master, don't worry! I understand, I understand!"

The 40th Division of the Nanjing Army became Jiang Weiguo's exclusive "grave robbery unit" for a long time in the later period, specializing in excavating ancient tombs, stealing rare treasures in the tombs, and then being sold by Jiang Weiguo into money for the construction of six provinces and one city And development.

It should be noted that Jiang Weiguo paid great attention to protection during this process. His behavior can be said to be "archaeological", careful and gentle, but his purpose is not to study history, but to make money.

In addition, Jiang Weiguo basically does not move those cultural relics, antiques and funerary objects with high artistic quality and great historical value. The national treasure cultural relics are protected by him, and the defective products are sold by him for money.

Appreciated and reused by Jiang Weiguo, Sun Dianying worked very hard and dug out tens of millions of dollars for Jiang Weiguo from the ground within a year.

To forge iron requires one's own hard work. After all, all kinds of "devious ways" such as tomb robbery, drug production and drug trafficking, and relying on people for help are not long-term solutions. Jiang Weiguo's real source of income should be the fiscal revenue of six provinces and one city.

For this reason, Jiang Weiguo specially invited Liu Dajun, He Lian, Fang Xianting, Chen Daisun and a group of China's most outstanding economists at this time to help him formulate economic countermeasures.

All the experts pooled their brains and brainstormed ideas for Jiang Weiguo. First of all, it is definitely not advisable to increase taxes or increase tax items. The six provinces and one city are waiting to be rebuilt. Most of the people are living in poverty. National debt, otherwise it will be sheep shearing.

The experts spoke enthusiastically and put forward many good suggestions, such as attracting investment, attracting foreign capital and foreign talents, especially overseas Chinese, and allowing them to transfer assets and personnel to the country step by step, which can not only stimulate domestic economic development, It can also prevent them from suffering losses or even disasters in the next world war; seize and expand several major tax sources, such as tobacco, salt industry, ironware, alcohol, sugar, etc.; Beiping is the core of six provinces and one city at this time. Establish a stock exchange in Beiping, issue stocks to raise funds, and vigorously develop the financial industry and various financial-related exchanges to form a capital gathering place; create labor-intensive and resource-exporting foreign trade companies, especially when the world is basically monopolized by China The tungsten sand, bristle, tung oil, export superior products to earn foreign exchange; issue treasury bonds, frankly confess the difficulties of the country and the government at this time to all walks of life, and ask all walks of life in the country to "pay money if they have money". Of course, the government does not take it for nothing. It is borrowed, and will be repaid with interest, and there are many ways to repay, such as company shares or land.

At the meeting, an economist named Ji Chaoding proposed to Jiang Weiguo that the six provinces and one city in North China independently issue banknotes to avoid the economic system of the six provinces and one city from being negatively affected by the south of the Kuomintang-controlled area, so that the thriving and thriving North China economy can be restored. Achieve "independence".

After consulting the opinions of many experts, Jiang Weiguo did not adopt this proposal, because the legal currency at this time was still very strong (during the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese planned to counterfeit legal currency to disrupt the Chinese economy, but the printing technology of legal currency was very advanced, and the Japanese did not The forgery was successful. Later, after seizing China’s legal currency printing machine and a batch of semi-finished legal currency, he mastered the forgery technology of legal currency. Naturally, he did not do this at the moment.) Not only that, Jiang Weiguo’s additional currency is very serious in terms of political nature thing.

In general, relying on a series of formal or irregular, legitimate or improper means, Jiang Weiguo barely solved the problem of funding shortage in six provinces and one city. Although it is still seriously insufficient, at least [-]% of the projects All unfolded.

Of course, this process is very complicated, arduous and long-term. Economic development is not something that can be accomplished overnight. In any case, a good start is always the most important thing.

Chapter 407 In full swing (4)

After the China-Japan peace talks and armistice and the establishment of the Germany-China-Japan-Italy Quadruple Alliance, China gained a period of real "peaceful development and peaceful construction". 1927) is more peaceful, because during the golden decade, Japan has been threatening China from the outside, but at the moment, Japan, the "China's biggest foreign trouble", has temporarily disappeared, so that China can be greatly relieved and put Most of the energy is used for domestic development and construction.

At the same time, the situation in East Asia has become more complicated.

China and Japan negotiated a peace and armistice, which is obvious and an open matter, but the four-nation alliance between Germany, China, Japan and Italy is secret. The United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and other countries naturally know that China and Japan are no longer fighting. Negotiating a peace and armistice, because "the two countries were dragged down by the huge consumption of the war, so they stopped fighting temporarily, and secretly seized the time to accumulate strength and prepare for the next all-out war between China and Japan." The appearance of Germany in the big event made this event interesting. The United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union all had their own intelligence agencies, which more or less spied on a little bit of the inside story. "Sino-Japanese collusion" was put on the hook.

The top leaders of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union had to attach great importance to it, and the Soviet Union paid the most attention to it, because the "Germany, China and Japan collusion" can be called the Soviet Union's nightmare. Japan has always had territorial ambitions for the Soviet Union, and Germany has been sharpening its sword against the Soviet Union. , China also has a deep hatred with the Soviet Union. If these three countries join forces, the security situation of the Soviet Union will be extremely bad.

In Moscow, Stalin held an emergency meeting with the top Soviet military and political leaders, repeatedly discussed countermeasures, and finally came up with two strategies:

First, stand still and encourage China and Japan to continue the war, so that China and Japan will continue to fight together and exhaust each other's national strength and military strength;

Second, make a decisive move to obtain a large strategic buffer zone, thereby strengthening the security of the Soviet Far East. This "strategic buffer zone" can be obtained from two places, one is China's territory, and the other is Japan's occupied area in China .

After careful study, Stalin and other high-level leaders tended to the second option, because the disadvantages of the Soviet Union sending troops to China were too great. First, China was a sovereign and independent country and did not do anything to "offend" the Soviet Union, so the Soviet Union sent troops without a name. The Soviet Union, just like Japan, is an aggressor who invaded China. It will inevitably make the Soviet Union suffer international infamy and cause the Soviet Union's international reputation to plummet. Being eccentric or becoming a street mouse in China will affect the development of the Bolshevik cause in China. At the same time, the Soviet Union sent troops to China, which may also put the cart before the horse, leading to China's complete partnership with Germany and Japan. Signed the "Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty", the Soviet Union's sending troops to China is a blatant breach of the treaty, breaking the promise, and completely destroying the Soviet Union's international reputation. Moreover, the Soviet Union did not need to send troops to China, because China's Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia are already under the infiltration and semi-control of the Soviet Union. Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia are the buffer zone between the Soviet Union and China (although these two places are Chinese territory, it is certainly impossible for the Soviet Union to take out its own territory As a buffer zone between China and the Soviet Union); therefore, the Soviet Union should send troops to the Japanese-occupied areas in China. First, when Japan invades China, the Soviet Union can use the high-sounding banner of "helping China drive away the Japanese invaders" and thus become famous , to win international acclaim, but also to provide moral advantages for pro-Soviet and pro-communist forces, organizations, and personnel in China, to win the hearts of the people, and to help them obtain the political conditions for survival and development; secondly, this move by the Soviet Union can also win over China , destroy the "Germany, China and Japan Triple Alliance", and the Soviet Union will deliberately return a part of the Japanese-occupied area to the Chinese government. The Chinese government is hard to be tempted, and secondly, it cannot refuse. The logic is ready-made: Japan invaded China, and the Soviet Union generously helped China to catch up How could the Chinese government not want the Japanese invaders to recover part of the occupied areas of China?If the Chinese government doesn't want it, isn't it betraying the country and seeking glory?Once the Chinese government accepts the "gift" from the Soviet Union, there will be internal splits in the German-Chinese-Japanese alliance. Germany and Japan will suspect that China is secretly colluding with the Soviet Union and betraying Germany and Japan behind their backs. It is conceivable that Japan does not trust China very much. If the Soviet Union helps China fight Japan, the Japanese high-level officials will definitely be completely annoyed, turn their faces against China, and even break out the next all-out war between China and Japan, and the Soviet Union will achieve its goal. area), allowing the pro-Soviet forces in China to gain living space; four years ago, in the Battle of Zhanggufeng not long ago, the Soviet and Japanese armies formally fought against each other. There is a large area near Zhanggufeng, so the high-level Soviet army believed that the Japanese army's combat effectiveness was "no more than that", so they were confident in defeating the Japanese army (in fact, in the Zhanggufeng battle, the Japanese army was afraid of being pinched by the Chinese and Soviet troops, so they avoided the battle. countermeasures).

Stalin, who made up his mind, summoned Marshal Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher, commander of the Soviet Far East Front, and gave him two orders:

First, strengthen the control over Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia, so that these two places are "completely controlled by the Soviet Union", but in order not to overly stimulate China and take into account the influence of international public opinion, suspend the independence of Outer Mongolia and reject the Xinjiang Emperor Sheng Shicai made many requests that "the Soviet Union help the people of Xinjiang to establish a Soviet Republic in Xinjiang, and Xinjiang separates from China and joins the Soviet Union". The Soviet government still recognizes that Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia are Chinese territories, but secretly wants to control Xinjiang substantially. and Outer Mongolia;

Second, prepare to launch a "large-scale and high-intensity local war" against the Japanese army in China, with the goal of capturing Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, making these two provinces a land strategy between the Soviet Union and Japan in the Far East buffer.

"Yes! Comrade Stalin!" Marshal Blyuchel took the order in awe Affected by the "butterfly effect", fortunately, he did not catch the last train of death in the big purge, and escaped a catastrophe.

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The situation in East Asia is becoming more and more treacherous and turbulent.

The world war is getting closer and closer, Germany is racing against time to develop its national and military power, and Japan is also desperately developing its national and military power (according to the requirements of Germany and China, the Japanese Army will disarm and keep the status quo unchanged, and the Japanese military will spend most of its funds resources are used for the expansion of the Japanese navy), and China is also desperately developing its national and military power. At this time, China’s territorial situation is like this: Japan occupies four provinces and two cities (Liaoji, Heitai, Tianjin and Shanghai), and is occupied by Japan. The Soviet Union controlled Outer Mongolia and Xinjiang, the three northwestern provinces (Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai) were controlled by Ma’s army, Tibet was in a semi-independent state with the support of the United Kingdom, Xikang Province was Liu Wenhui’s territory, Yunnan Province was Longyun’s territory, Guangxi Province It was Li Zongren's territory. Sichuan Province fell into fragments after Liu Xiang's death. Although Chiang Kai-shek had the conditions to fully control Sichuan Province, many powerful factions within the Sichuan Army still resisted. 18 cities in 3 provinces (Peking, Chongqing, Nanjing.

During the period of the Republic of China, there were "special cities", which were equivalent to municipalities directly under the central government in later generations. Beiping, Nanjing, Chongqing, Tianjin, and Shanghai were all "special cities" at this time). Jiang Weiguo currently manages Lu, Jin, Hebei, Sui, Cha, Re, and Ping 6 provinces and 1 city, Chiang Kai-shek currently controls 12 provinces and 2 cities in the south (Su, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Chongqing, and Ningxia). two.

Chiang Kai-shek developed in the north, and Chiang Kai-shek also developed in the south, but Chiang Kai-shek's development is obviously not as good as Jiang Weiguo's, because the interior of the southern territory is too complicated, there are too many opposing forces, and various factions are intertwined. As "happy" as Jiang Weiguo, there are almost no opposition groups in Jiang Weiguo's six provinces and cities in North China (all of them were wiped out in the war, and even if there are any leftovers, they are not Jiang Weiguo's opponents). For the development of agriculture, commerce, and light industry, Jiang Weiguo's North China has all kinds of industries, and more than [-]% of the heavy industry in the Kuomintang-controlled area is in North China.

With abundant natural resources, the huge amount of money that Jiang Weiguo obtained by all means, and the help of Germans, Jews, overseas Chinese and other forces, coupled with Jiang Weiguo's "special ability", Jiang Weiguo's success in North China was even more prosperous than that of Chiang Kai-shek in the South. fire.

Jiang Weiguo used all means to make money, not for "richness", but for development and industrial construction.

The government must have money in its pockets, and the common people must also have money in their pockets. At the same time, it is not enough to have money alone. There must be industries. Otherwise, it will be like the end of the Qing Dynasty. The gdp is the first in the world, but it is all brought about by agriculture and a small number of businesses. Industry without industry, flashy.

When making money, Jiang Weiguo also thought of some alternative ways, such as opening casinos, selling lottery tickets, forging foreign currency and counterfeit banknotes, paying taxes with concubines, etc., and even thought of a "shortcut" for future generations to get rich quickly: speculation house.

But all these "bad ideas" were rejected by Jiang Weiguo, because he couldn't scrape the ground, he couldn't create a bubble economy, and what he needed was a real real economy.

Shen Ke's economic disadvantages of the national government are too complicated and serious, so Jiang Weiguo not only wants to be "independent" in the military, but also "independent" in the economy.

Guns, money, nothing is more important than these two things in this troubled world.

Jiang Weiguo called many economists and carefully analyzed that the original "Golden Decade" of the Nationalist Government had indeed achieved great results and achievements. The achievements and progress in many aspects, such as the expansion of agricultural and industrial production, and education promotion, are worthy of recognition, but there are also many disadvantages. For example, the development of heavy industry, the pillar of the country, is very limited, and the iron and steel industry has even regressed. The Hanyang Steel Plant built in the late Qing Dynasty During the rule of the Beiyang warlords, 1944 tons of steel were produced per year, but during the rule of the Nationalist government, production ceased and closed down. In the past, it was not until after the war broke out that the coastal industries suffered heavy losses, and the national government hurriedly moved westward to make up for it. The losses were countless, and they suffered heavy losses again during the westward movement. This is not a big loss), originally, war could greatly stimulate and promote the development of industry and commerce, but in the original history, because of the repeated defeats of the national army, the chaos of the national government, weak control and a large number of high-ranking government officials Disregarding national interests, taking advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune, and doing everything possible to squeeze the country's national assets and industries, China's industry and commerce were stifled during the Anti-Japanese War, "getting worse and worse". According to historical data, in 1943, more than half of Sichuan's industry The production capacity was idle. On the one hand, the front-line army was short of guns and guns. On the other hand, the rear industries were neither short of raw materials nor manpower, but they were closed down and paralyzed in large numbers. In 18, 14 of the 4 iron factories in Chongqing closed down, and 1 One steel factory closed down, and the operating rate of the machine factory was less than 10%, showing a sharp decline. Why is this happening?Firstly, China has been at war with Japan for seven or eight consecutive years. It was really poor, and the government’s finances were exhausted, so it had to increase corporate taxation. In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, corporate taxation was dozens or even a hundred times that of the early period of the Anti-Japanese War. The opening of factories not only If they don’t make money, and even lose money, then why do entrepreneurs open factories?Second, a large number of high-ranking officials in the government cleverly used various methods of extortion to squeeze these industrial and commercial enterprises, making their situation worse.

In addition, there are many reasons, such as not paying attention to talents, not having a complete system, etc.

Jiang Weiguo really has no choice. It is impossible for him to conduct a "big cleansing" of the entire country, the entire national government, and the entire Kuomintang right now, so he can only start from scratch and rebuild a healthy and vibrant Chinese industrial and commercial economy that belongs to him. The six provinces and one city in North China are naturally the "base camp" of Jiang Weiguo's economic system.

To this end, Jiang Weiguo took a five-pronged approach. On the one hand, he cooperated with the Germans and opened a series of large-scale Sino-German cooperative enterprises in North China (most of these Sino-German cooperative enterprises were jointly established by the North China Political Affairs Committee and the German government. China provides venues, personnel, raw materials, and funds, while Germany supplies equipment, technology, and experts, and a small number of them are established by German businessmen); Large cooperative enterprises (these Sino-Jewish cooperative enterprises are basically not run by Jews alone, and Jiang Weiguo is also very worried that allowing Jews to develop freely in China will lead to Jews controlling China’s economic lifeline, so Sino-Jewish cooperative enterprises are likely to be The North China Political Affairs Committee and the Jewish Business Organization jointly established according to the joint-stock system); on the one hand, attracting investment, mainly overseas Chinese, inviting them to come to the country to develop industrial and commercial enterprises, and providing them with preferential rights in policies; on the one hand, starting their own industrial and commercial enterprises, For example, his companies; on the one hand, invited the industrial and commercial enterprises in the south of the Kuomintang-controlled area to North China, starting from the original "westward migration" and then the current "northward migration".

Jiang Wei will give the country's entrepreneurs and industrialists the best conditions for development, and will not allow them to stay in the south and suffer from all aspects of oppression and restriction.

With the sincerity of visiting thatched cottages and respecting corporals, Jiang Weiguo invited more than four-fifths of China's famous entrepreneurs and industrialists to North China. Jiang Weiguo backed them up, no matter how high-ranking officials in the government dared to think about them, and then started business across the country.

The first famous entrepreneur Jiang Weiguo invited to North China from the south was Gu Gengyu, known as the "Bristle King".

Gu Gengyu is only 35 years old this year, but he is proficient in business studies and full of patriotism. At this time, he has monopolized the bristle export industry in Sichuan Province. The "Tiger Brand" bristle bristle he founded is well-known in the European and American markets. The acquisition, export and other businesses of the company are all managed by the government-run Sichuan Livestock Company, but the international market only recognizes Gu Gengyu's tiger bristles.

Although bristles may seem ordinary, they should not be underestimated. They are very important industrial raw materials and traditional export materials in China. China’s bristle output and export volume both rank first in the world, accounting for about 95%, almost monopolizing The international market, and the demand in the international market is huge, and all major countries are extremely dependent on Chinese bristles. In the past, 56% of China's bristles were exported to the United States, 23% to the Soviet Union, and 21% to the United Kingdom. It is one of the three most important economic sources for China to persist in the War of Resistance (the other two are tungsten sand and tung oil. China's tungsten sand and tung oil are as dominant in the world as bristles) .

On the other hand, bristle is an important industrial raw material and strategic export material, so the profit is extremely high, and the export price is more than 10 times the domestic purchase price.

In the past, more than half of the benefits brought by Chinese bristles were obtained by the national government, and the rest was privately appropriated by the state bureaucracy. Almost no share was used to further invest in the Chinese bristle industry, allowing the Chinese bristle industry to continue to prosper.

Jiang Weiguo invited Gu Gengyu to North China to cooperate with him. There are three purposes. One is to occupy the huge profits brought by the Chinese bristle industry, and the other is to protect the Chinese bristle industry from being squeezed by the state bureaucracy. It is impossible for Jiang Weiguo to do such stupid things. The third is to try his best to support the expansion of China's bristle industry, forming a virtuous circle of "better and better, stronger and stronger", and promote the economic development of North China and the whole country.