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Luo Yaoguo also nodded and agreed: "General Baichuan is indeed a rare figure in troubled times. Under his rule, Shanxi is like a pure land. It's a pity that although this gentleman is good at civil affairs, he is not good at military affairs. He is not so much a warlord as he is. It is said that he is a businessman with a gun, and he has worked so hard to support a family business. I don’t know who will be cheaper in the end?"

"No matter how good Yan Xishan's people's livelihood in Shanxi is, he is still a warlord. His ideology has no future." Qu Ming took over Luo Yaoguo's topic and said, "Just like the United States, its prosperity and development cannot hide The crisis of the capitalist system has come to an end. The United States is like a 90-year-old old man driving a luxury car. The strong power of the car cannot change the weakness of the old man’s body, while the communist system and the Soviet Union are like young people. The better, and the difficulty is only temporary." Speaking of this, Qu Ming gave Luo Yaoguo a cold look.

Chapter 0062 Going North to Taiyuan ([-])

In the 20s, a tabloid in Shanghai published a cartoon. The picture was like this: Chiang Kai-shek held a gun in one hand and a foreign currency in the other; with the abacus.

Luo Yaoguo knew that this painting hadn't been painted yet, but he could imagine that Boss Yan, who had an abacus, was now repeatedly thinking about this deal with the Kuomintang. This is a big deal worth 500 million US dollars. The boss has a profit of at least 250 million U.S. dollars, which is about 700 million yuan when converted into oceans.

"Cilong, do you think this business will be done or not?" Boss Yan began to hesitate when the Kuomintang delegation arrived in Taiyuan. Chief Counselor Zhao Daiwen made repeated calculations.

Zhao Dai Wen Cilong, is a member of the old alliance, Yan Xishan's chief staff officer, and serves as the chief of staff.I don't know what the chief of staff of the Republic of China is?How could a great Confucian who doesn't know much about military affairs hang up this sign?

Zhao Daiwen replied without hesitation: "Baichuan, this time it was the bearded man who came to greet us with Mr. Zhongshan's personal letter, and he was willing to pay [-]% deposit first. If we don't do this business, our arsenal might as well stop selling it to us." The ammunition is gone."

"But Mr. Zhongshan seems to want to set up a new army in northern Shaanxi, and I'm worried that it might be detrimental to Shanxi." Yan Xishan has been restless over this for the past two days. Fear of finally lifting a rock and shooting yourself in the foot.In fact, Yan Xishan is always so hesitant in doing things, otherwise how could his fighting skills be so trendy?In the art of war, it is said that hesitation is the greatest harm in employing troops, and the calamity of the three armies arises from suspicion.These words are suitable for Yan Xishan.

Zhao Daiwen smiled and said: "Baichuan, Mr. Zhongshan and we are not two-way people. It is too late for us to welcome him to the north. How can we worry that he is not good for Shanxi? Besides, Mr. Zhongshan's main enemy now is Luo Wu. He is in northern Shaanxi. The armed forces developed will either go south to Guanzhong or go east to Suicha, and they will not come to our Shanxi."

"Well, I also know this truth, but I always feel that selling guns to others is not at ease." Yan Xishan shook his head and sighed: "It's just that Shanxi is still too barren, and there are too many places to spend money."

Shanxi is the first province in China to implement compulsory education.In addition to education, Yan Xishan also built many roads and railways in Shanxi, developed agriculture, and maintained good law and order.It is indeed not easy for Yan Laoxi to lead the country in the development of economy and people's living standards in a barren land like Shanxi.Even in this time and space, most of the measures of Mr. Sun Yat-sen's political training in Guangdong were learned from Shanxi.

"Baichuan, Mr. Zhongshan has 3 soldiers in northern Shaanxi, and Wu Yushuai has hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Henan and Zhili. We are afraid of Mr. Zhongshan's [-] soldiers, but we are not afraid of Yushuai's hundreds of thousands of troops?" Zhao Daiwen reminded slightly Look at the current situation in Shanxi: "If Yushuai dominates the Central Plains, I am afraid that our independent kingdom will not be tolerated."

Yan Xishan nodded in agreement, but then shook his head and said, "I'm not worried about Mr. Zhongshan. What I'm worried about is the Communist Party, the Soviet Union! This time they took out 500 million U.S. dollars all at once! The money cannot be from Zhongshan. It was paid by Mr. Zhongshan. I have calculated how much Mr. Zhongshan’s land can be collected in a year. They have only been in peace for a few months, so they can’t afford the money. I guess, it’s from Soviet Russia.”

"Hehe, then there is no need to worry about this matter." Zhao Daiwen sneered: "If the army in northern Shaanxi has a Soviet background, then they must go north to Suiyuan, connect with the Soviet Union, and then definitely go east to Beijing to fight with us. Shanxi has nothing to do with it. How about we find an opportunity to hint at Ma Yunting? Let him be careful?"

Mr. Zhong's delegation arrived in Taiyuan and stayed in a shabby but clean provincial government guest house for three days.

"Fuwen, don't worry. General Baichuan has this personality. He always hesitates when things come to an end. I have made an agreement with Cilong, and things will not change." Yu Youren practiced in the study every day. The place where he lives can be simple, but there is absolutely no study room.Seeing Luo Yaoguo walk into his study, Yu Youren didn't stop writing, but said while writing: "Fuwen, how about you write a few strokes too?"

"Then ask the bearded man to give you some advice." Luo Yaoguo walked to the desk, picked up a brush and began to concentrate on writing.Luo Yaoguo had a certain level of calligraphy skills in his previous life, and the memory he inherited in this life also contains content about calligraphy. It just so happened that both lives were actually written in Liu style.

"Well, I didn't expect that you can write a good handwriting at such a young age." Yu Youren stroked his beard and nodded with a smile: "The willow style lies in concentration, and the heart is regular and the pen is straight. Not bad, not bad, Yan Baichuan Liang We haven't disturbed your heart for three days."

"I just don't care about things." Luo Yaoguo wrote "don't care about things" in big characters, smiled and put down his pen.

Yu Youren took over the pen and began to practice again. Where did the four great calligraphers of the Republic of China not rely on hard practice?Yu Youren wrote "Sincerity and Unity". After finishing writing, he said to Luo Yaoguo: "I will give you this calligraphy. The cooperation with the Communist Party this time requires unity, and only unity can get things done." Then the great calligrapher I also wrote the word "sincerity" in a big word, and the cursive script is very beautiful: "We are powerful, and others are small. If we want to cooperate, we should show sincerity, otherwise people will worry about us annexing, don't you think?"

Luo Yaoguo nodded and replied: "Yes, one is unity and the other is honesty. When we Chinese can have these two virtues, who else in the world would dare to bully us?"

"The Chinese are not united and dishonest. That's because everyone is unwilling to start with themselves. They all want others to unite themselves and let others be honest, while they are treacherous. This is also the case." Yu Youren It seems to mean something.

"I understand, thank you for the reminder." Luo Yaoguo solemnly saluted Yu Youren, then turned and left the study.

"Brother Fuwen, the Superintendent's Office has sent someone to send us invitations. Dujun Yan will entertain our delegation tonight." As soon as he left Yu Youren's calligraphy, Luo Yaoguo ran into Qu Ying who came to report the letter.After three days of repeated thinking, Yan Xishan finally decided to meet Mr. Zhongshan's delegation.

Yan Xishan's banquet was held in the self-examination hall in the supervisor's office, and Yan's banquet also adhered to his principle of careful planning, with only one table.Official members of the delegation were all invited, except for the two beauties brought by Luo Yaoguo, and only Yan Xishan, Zhao Daiwen, and Li Mengshu, the director of the Taiyuan Arsenal, were present from Shanxi.

"Welcome, welcome, how is the bearded man?" A middle-aged soldier with a Shanxi accent shook hands with Yu Youren enthusiastically and respectfully called him "bearded man".This man with a short stature and a friendly face, with a mustache that was common among soldiers of the Republic of China, was General Yan Xishan, the native emperor of Shanxi.

"Mr. Yan, don't you come here?" Yu Youren also shook hands with Yan Xishan very politely, and then introduced Luo Yaoguo and others to Yan Xishan one by one. When it came to Qu Ming and Qu Ying brothers and sisters, Yu Youren You Ren glanced at Luo Yaoguo quietly, saw him nod his head slightly, and introduced him, "Brother Baichuan, let me introduce you. These two are Qu Ming and Qu Ying from the Communist Party. It is a joint stock with the Communist Party, and the new army in northern Shaanxi is also jointly led by our two parties.”

After listening to Yu Youren's introduction, the faces of Qu Ming and Qu Ying's brothers and sisters turned pale, and they looked at Yu Youren and Luo Yaoguo nervously, as if they had been betrayed by traitors.On the other hand, Yan Xishan remained calm and said with a slight smile: "Okay, okay, I didn't expect to meet a brilliant Communist Party here. It's a pleasure to meet you."

"We are the same, very happy to see Dujun Yan." Qu Ming managed to regain his composure, and seeing that Yan Laoxi did not turn his back on him, he forced himself to shake Yan's hand calmly.

On the contrary, Qu Ying seemed calmer. She stuck out her tongue slightly, showing a cute and playful look: "I think Dujun Yan already knew our identities, right?"

"Hehe, almost?" Yan Xishan had ruled Shanxi for 12 years, so he was naturally not so confused. He was also known for being shrewd, careful and suspicious.If the delegation conceals the identities of the Qu Ming brothers and sisters and the true nature of the Northern Shaanxi New Army, it may be difficult to succeed in this arms procurement.Yan Xishan smiled slightly and said: "Our Taiyuan Armory opened its doors to do business. In principle, I, Yan Xishan, should not only make business, but also make friends. However, as the governor of Shanxi, I also want to contribute to Shanxi's hometown. I am responsible for my safety and peace, I wonder if the two parties can give me this guarantee?"

"Our Kuomintang can absolutely guarantee that the new army in northern Shaanxi will not invade the ground in Shanxi. Of course, we also believe that Yan Gong's army will not stop us from marching to Beijing, right?" Luo Yaoguo immediately patted Yan Xishan's chest, but he could only Represent the Kuomintang, not the Communist Party.

"What do you mean by your party?" Yan Xishan turned to ask Qu Ming's opinion.

"It's the same with our party. Our party will not take the initiative to attack Shanxi, but we also hope that Yan Du will keep the matter of the new army in northern Shaanxi secret." Qu Ming's answer also reassured Yan Xishan.

Chapter 0063 Going North to Taiyuan ([-])

It turned out that Yan Xishan, who was calculating, was not only in comics, Luo Yaoguo took Wu Ziliang and Qu Ming to Yan Xishan's supervisory office every day for the past few days to discuss business with this businessman with a gun.

"Pa-ta, pa-ta..." Yan Xishan fiddled with the abacus beads quickly with his fingers: "Forget it, 800 6.5-style rifles, 180 million rounds of [-]mm bullets, a total of [-] including freight... ..."

"What do Mr. Qu think?" Luo Yaoguo naturally knew that it was expensive after hearing the quotation, but well, we still need to see Qu Ming's opinion.

Where does Qu Ming know the market?Looking at Yan Laoxi's pained face, he thought that the bargain just now was too hard, and he was a little sorry for the working people in Shanxi.So he quickly expressed his agreement: "Okay, okay, this price is very fair, and our party has no objection."

Luo Yaoguo opened the second page of the purchase list in his hand and said, "Mr. Yan, let's continue. The water machine guns and flower machine guns to be purchased next, we want to hear the quotations from the Taiyuan factory first."

"Okay, okay, the quotation from our Taiyuan factory couldn't be more reasonable. The water machine gun only costs 5000 yuan, and the flower machine gun costs 800 yuan." Yan Xishan quoted a price that was obviously a rip-off with the sincerity unique to Shanxi businessmen.

"Is that so?" Luo Yaoguo frowned and shook his head lightly.Uh, at the end of the banquet the night before yesterday, Luo Yaoguo found that at some point there was an extra check for 50 yuan in his pocket.Thinking of the check, Luo Yaoguo quietly leaned into Qu Ming's ear and whispered, "It's more expensive, but the quality of the Taiyuan factory's products is better than our Shijing factory's. I think 4500 is about the same."

"The water machine gun is 4000 yuan, and the flower machine gun is 800 yuan. Mr. Yan, this is our quotation." Qu Ming lowered the price of the water-cooled heavy machine gun by another 500. The flower machine gun is also a submachine gun. Comrade Qu feels that it is heavier than the water-cooled machine gun. Machine guns are cheap, so I accepted Yan Xishan's offer.

"Well, er, well, let's suffer some losses for the sake of our friendship with your party." Yan Laoxi is really a good actor, especially when he is doing business.

Now Luo Yaoguo finally knows where Big Beard's theory is wrong. Now he and Qu Ming are public ownership, er, it is said that it can greatly liberate the productive forces.Yan Laoxi here refers to the evil private ownership, the kind of system that greatly restricts the development of productive forces.However, this knowledgeable "public ownership" has already received 50 oceans in bribes. Looking at the silent fat man next to him, he must have been settled by Yan Laoxi.Qu Ming, a revolutionary, would definitely not accept money. However, this is a layman who doesn't understand anything. The layman leads the expert, and the expert is bribed by others... Hehe, it turns out that this is probably how the Soviet Union was overthrown by the United States, right?

No, our Shaoguan factory cannot do this. It seems that we need to introduce commercial management and establish a joint-stock system.A certain big butterfly who thinks he has found a loophole in Marxism is absent-mindedly negotiating a deal with Yan Laoxi, but in his heart he is thinking about adding more private elements to the Kuomintang's heavy industry construction, wondering if it is necessary to introduce some private capital And professional managers or something.

"This cannon, uh, we can't deliver the cannon until later." Yan Laoxi's business has already talked about the cannon's transaction.The cannon transaction is the focus of the entire arms transaction. It is no problem to quote 75 U.S. dollars for a [-]mm mountain cannon, and a [-]kg shell can cost hundreds of oceans!Hehe, in the troubled times of the Republic of China, cannons were in great demand.

Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Arsenal began to imitate the Japanese 75mm mountain gun in 1923, and the object of the imitation was the Meiji 41 type mountain gun.This is a very good artillery. Its advantages are light weight, the total weight is only 540 kg, simple structure, easy assembly and operation, and it has the title of "Extremely Easy Artillery".As for the shortcomings, there is nothing, but it is a mountain cannon, not a heavy cannon, so the range is relatively short.At that time, the Chinese Hanyang Factory, Taiyuan Factory and Fengtian Factory all had imitations, but the gun tube steels all relied on imports. Only the Fengtian Factory successfully produced gun steel on the eve of September 9.18, and Yan Xishan also spent 30 million yuan in the 800s. The iron and steel plant, with a designed daily production capacity of 150 tons, was completed in October 1937.And it was captured by the Japanese army that year!snort!Look at the pace of Japanese aggression seems to be in sync with China's heavy industry construction!I don't know if there was any premeditation?I hope it doesn't happen again in this time and space.

"Xin, our information shows that the Taiyuan factory's cannon has just been imitated." Luo Yaoguo whispered to Qu Ming again: "We will let him start exchanging next year, and deliver 3 guns a month, so that we can get together by September next year." It's a bunch."

After listening to Luo Yaoguo's suggestion, Qu Ming felt that it made sense, as long as the troops could be equipped with cannons, it would be useless to deliver them earlier?So Qu Ming smiled slightly and said: "We only need to get 10 24mm imitation Japanese Meiji 75 mountain guns and 41 rounds of shells before October next year."

Is there a mistake?Didn't Qu Ming tell Yan Laoxi the date of action of the new army in northern Shaanxi by saying this?Alas, it seems that the Communist Party of this era has not gone through big waves, and many comrades who are not very suitable for revolution are still in leadership positions.

In this way, within a few days, Comrade Qu Ming, who was devoted to the lofty ideal of the revolution, quickly spent all the procurement funds of 500 million U.S. dollars. All the weapons and equipment have been collected.It seems that Yan Laoxi still knows how to measure people when he slaughters people, and then he signs the contract and pays the deposit. Luo Yaoguo and Qu Ming signed the contract, and Qu Ming carried the check for 3 million US dollars. Handed over to Yan Xishan.At this point, the arms purchase negotiations were basically over. According to the agreement reached by the two parties, Qu Minghui, on behalf of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, stayed in Taiyuan and Yan Xishan to coordinate the time and place of delivery, and at the same time pay the remaining payment.

"Yan Gong, you can develop so many railways, highways and industries with the power of a province in such a troubled world. The younger generation admires you very much, even Mr. Zhongshan admires you very much. The purpose of discussing military purchases is to cooperate with Mr. Yan in military construction." This idea has been brewing in Luo Yaoguo's mind for a long time, and this time he just had the opportunity to raise it.

"Oh, Mr. Zhongshan also has this intention?" Now Yan Xishan is not very interested in wars, but in construction, especially in military construction.

"Yes." Luo Yaoguo smiled and said, "Now, Mr. Zhongshan has borrowed millions of gold rubles from Soviet Russia to build a 15-ton steel plant in Shaoguan, from mining and iron making to extrusion and forging machines. After four years of construction, we will be able to produce our own gun steel. Under the leadership of Yan Gong, Shanxi is rich in coal and iron resources, and it is also a good place to build a steel factory. I wonder if Yan Gong is interested?"

This meeting was a separate meeting between Yan Xishan and Luo Yaoguo, while Qu Ming and Zhao Daiwen went to handle the check transfer.So we can talk about some sensitive issues.

"Well, well, good, very good, but I don't know how we can cooperate?" Yan Laoxi thought about it in his mind, and then he felt that this matter was feasible, and this time he made a lot of money by selling arms at a high price , just spent on it.

Luo Yaoguo nodded, and took out a draft cooperation plan from his pocket and handed it to Yan Xishan: "Mr. Yan, this is the cooperation draft I drew up, please have a look."

According to Luo Yaoguo's draft, the cooperation between the two parties is mainly in terms of technology and joint procurement of equipment. The Shaoguan factory will transfer the technical secrets provided by the Soviet Union to Yan Xishan, and Yan Xishan only needs to transfer the technical information of the Meiji 41 mountain cannon to Guangdong. That's it.In addition, the Communist International mobilized a group of skilled workers from Germany to aid in the construction, including helping to train a group of Chinese skilled workers. Shanxi can also send people to participate. Shanxi can send engineers to participate in the entire construction process of the Shaoguan factory. learning experience.In addition, Guangdong and Krupp plan to build a joint venture on Hainan Island that mainly produces steel for civilian use, and Shanxi can also send people to participate.What attracts Yan Xishan the most is that Guangdong and Shanxi can jointly purchase German machinery and equipment to reduce costs.