Chapter 125 Soybeans in the Northeast
Two more days later, Han Jiang and Han Shaoqi set out with five or six people.
After they arrived in Hancheng, they enclosed land to build a granary while contacted the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas, asked the other party to send a few guerrillas, and also hired 80 poor peasants in northern Shaanxi to start building a granary security team.
As for weapons and equipment, they will be sent with the grain ship.
Qin Di wiped off the robbery sign and put it in a large wooden box, and handed it over to Sun Sheng for processing.
He doesn't need to pay much attention to it himself, it's just a small matter for him.
Although one million tons of grain was already a lot, he planned to import 10 million tons of grain in 1931!
Not all of this food is imported from the United States. At this time, the world's four major granaries were Canada, the United States, Argentina and Australia.
Due to the economic crisis, the price of grain has dropped to a very low level. A bushel's wheat price is $0.33, while a bushel is equal to 0.027 tons. That is to say, a ton of wheat costs $120 million, and buying ten million tons requires $120 million.
Although Qin Di's property has exceeded 500 million US dollars, the stolen money has not been whitewashed and gold and jewelry will not be sold. A large amount of funds are deposited in the company. If he suddenly takes out 120 million US dollars in cash, he will also feel quite difficult.
Fortunately, there is a big gap in food prices between China and the United States. As long as he sells half of the imported food, he can recover his principal and continue to import it, and the remaining food can be stored.
In other words, his funds are equivalent to registered capital, and can leverage large-scale grain transactions through continuous rolling, combined with bank lending and delayed payments, and are not limited to 10 million tons.
However, due to limited capacity of ships and tight inland shipping, unlimited imports cannot be imported.
In fact, 10 million tons is already a very amazing number! Because later generations of China only imported 100 million tons of grain in 2018. Of course, of that 100 million tons, 80% were soybeans. Qin Di mainly imported wheat and corn.
The same acre of land can produce 2,000 kilograms of corn, but can only produce 300 kilograms of soybeans? Why?
Because soybeans have high protein content and high calories, the same sunshine, photosynthesis, and energy conservation.
Because of this, the average price of soybeans is 1.7 times that of wheat and 3 times that of corn.
This is also the reason why soybeans were mainly imported in later generations, because China lacked enough land to grow soybeans.
The reasons for the Japanese invasion of the Northeast were analyzed before, but as an external factor, there was actually one very important one, that is, it was related to soybeans.
In 1930, Japan experienced an economic crisis, with a very shortage of food, and the people were famined, while the Northeast was a jealous granary!
Since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan has continuously imported soybeans from the Northeast.
In the early 20th century, Northeast soybeans were also popular internationally.
In 1905, Japan occupied Dalian and positioned it as the "Manchurian Trade Center". Soybeans, soybean oil and bean cakes were continuously transported to Japan.
In 1906, the Manchuria Railway was established, and Japan seized the power of garrison 1,100 kilometers of railways, thus controlling the situation in the Northeast and intensifying the plunder of Northeast resources.
In 1909, Northeast China exported 800,000 tons of soybeans.
Later, Zhang Zuolin became the king of Northeast China and wanted to regain some of the interests, which angered the Japanese military, resulting in his severe injury in the Huanggutun incident on June 4, 1928, and his death after returning to Fengtian.
Therefore, once a person is extremely hungry, he can fight for his life to eat in one bite; as a country, he can also fight for his national destiny!
Therefore, later generations of China maintained grain reserves all year round and never disclosed the specific amount. If there was no sufficient grain reserves, European and American countries would try their best to raise grain prices, causing Chinese society to turmoil and collapse quickly.
Disputes in great powers and the laws of the jungle have always been cruel, and warmth is just an appearance.
Qin Di stayed at home for more than 20 days, and couldn't help but get angry when he thought of the guns and cannons in the Chenyang Arsenal!
It was early September and something happened in another 10 days!
He felt very heavy in his heart, and anger could not be suppressed!
So, without notifying Yan Xue, he emptied his storage belt and took advantage of the darkness of the night and rushed north!
He is a foundation-building monk, and he jumps three miles away. He actually arrived overnight from the Demon City to Shenyang 1,720 kilometers!
During the day, Qin Di found a hotel in Shenyang to rest.
When the second half of the night was in a state of terror, he once again visited the arsenal, avoiding the guardian army, and put 100 cannons, more than 20,000 rifles, and more than 1,000 boxes of ammunition into storage belts!
Then, he pulled two grenades, scared away the workers on duty, and then detonated the remaining ammunition!
That night, the arsenal was shining into the sky and the explosion was deafening!
By the next morning, the explosion gradually subsided, and thousands of troops and 30,000 workers gathered from all sides. Seeing the arsenal being razed to the ground and thousands of machines turned into scrap iron, I was stunned and sad!
"Which bastard is doing such a bad thing!"
"Oh my God! The factory is destroyed, and from now on, everyone will be unemployed! My wife and children are about to drink the northwest wind!"
"In order to build a factory and debug machinery, how many technicians have spent countless efforts..."
"How could this happen? Didn't the general send troops to protect him? Near the arsenal, there was a brigade of Northeast Army stationed near the arsenal..."
On that day, Zhang Xueshan hurried over from Changchun and saw a ruin. He felt aching in his heart and pale. He immediately took it out and snatched it, trying to kill someone!
"Bad, all the damn waste! What's the use of keeping you! Come, all the soldiers, each with ten whips! All officers, 50 military sticks..."
"Prepare for war, prepare for war! All armies prepare for war!"
Qin Di hid in the distance and watched quietly, thinking: "If the Northeast Army can prepare for war in full, it will be a good thing!"
The next night, he visited the Marshal's Mansion again.
Last time he came in a hurry and only stole gold and US dollar cash. In fact, the Marshal's Mansion not only had gold, but also other good things.
Qin Di took advantage of Zhang Xueshan to take away a large number of guards and searched carefully in the Marshal's Mansion for a whole night. He found two secret rooms and found 40 boxes of silver dollars, 30 boxes of antique calligraphy and paintings, three boxes of jewelry, as well as many rare treasures such as jade, ceramics, enamel, lacquerware, gold and silverware, bamboo, wood, teeth, and horns. The value is unknown.
So, how much property did the Zhang family robbed by the Japanese in history?
In 1990, Japan's nhk TV interviewed Zhang Xueshan: "The commander of the Kwantung Army, Honjo Shizuka, sent your property to Peking and returned it to you. Is it true?"
Zhang Xueshan replied: "Not all the property, only two trains are sent!"
This shows how rich the Zhang family is and how much wealth and money the people are greedy for!
Chapter completed!