The spring breeze is warm by the banks of Xizi Lake, and the willow branches are floating in the green teeth. ([] )

During this period, the Republic of China has been full of joy. First, the Ministry of Finance released the latest economic data. As of the end of last year, the national GDP exceeded 120 billion, reaching 121 billion, equivalent to a huge US dollar of 60.5 billion (88 billion in the United States during the same period). It has maintained an annual growth rate of 7% in the case of major natural disasters for three consecutive years. The national total industrial output value has also increased by 15% for three consecutive years, approaching 16 billion yuan, accounting for the proportion of the world's industrial industry.

From 5% in 20 years to 6%. Steel production exceeded 4.5 million tons (self-produced), 700,000 tons of crude oil, 450,000 tons of rubber, 15 million tons of cement, 2 million tons of fertilizer... The fastest growth is coal, which has soared from tens of millions of tons three years ago to 67 million tons now. In addition to power generation, communications, etc., which have a long investment cycle, many projects in the second five-year plan are close to expectations, and it is optimistic that they will be completed half a year ahead of schedule.

The second is the development of manufacturing to private sectors. Last year alone, there were 2 private steel mills and 11 private tractors and automobile factories opened. Light industry broke out again after surviving the post-European downturn. Soap, matches, cotton spinning, ready-to-wear, silk and other industries grew rapidly, among which private capital accounted for more than 70% of the total light industry in the country.

At first, everyone was still worried because industrial development is closely related to purchasing power, and they were afraid that the goods would not be sold if they were manufactured. However, the facts proved that the country is still in the seller's market. The land problem after the Chengcheng Act was alleviated. The land value-added tax caused a large amount of land to be sold and converted into circulating currency. In addition, the ability to abolish gold and silver as currency after the silver crisis has a long-term foreseeable peace period to encourage investors and citizens to dare to consume. The current situation is even a bit like the first few years of reform and opening up in the parallel world. The people's demand for goods is several times greater than that of manufacturing capacity. Taking hand-held tractors as an example, after a year of national demonstrations and promotional activities such as the farmers' association leasing, 350,000 immigrant families in the Northeast alone had the idea of ​​buying hand-held tractors. However, the factory can only manufacture 50,000 yuan a year, and even if the automated cylinder production line starts to be put into production, it is far from keeping up with the demand.

But there are many shortcomings, and the biggest problem is that the proportion of high-value-added industrial products is still very low. It is less than one-fifth of that in Europe and the United States.

Overseas, the Sumatra oil field of Gulf Oil Company has entered the construction track, and the investment boom in Nanyang Chinese purchasing state bonds or returning to China has lasted for a long time. Even Bezuyi has sent back news. In the franc crisis that broke out in February, the China Investment Corporation launched a large-scale short franc for the first time. After making a profit, it took advantage of the opportunity of Morgan and the French government to start negotiations and made a profit of up to 200 million US dollars in just three months! Although this incident caused protests from the Jewish group and expressed dissatisfaction with Yang Qiu's robbery through Jacob, because he planned to follow behind and make some money at the beginning and did not touch the most core monetary rights and interests, the Jewish chaebols had to leave it alone.

It is precisely because the reforms in the past decade have begun to show results and are fully blossoming overseas. In addition to the huge population and market, the visit of US Secretary of Commerce Hoover has become inevitable.

Yang Qiu set up the guest spot at the West Lake Hotel, and outside the window is the beautiful West Lake. Hoover is a businessman who is almost paranoid and enthusiastic about mining. Therefore, in his early years, most of China has been active in Tianjin and Guangzhou. This time, he was attracted to the beautiful scenery of West Lake. He praised: "Thank God. This place is so beautiful. I really hope to live here for the rest of my life."

"Excellent idea, but President Coolidge may have a headache because he can't find the second Secretary of Commerce who is as good and capable as you."

"Ha ha......."

The funny words made the meeting full of laughter from the beginning. Hoover also took the opportunity to explain his purpose, hoping that Yang Qiu would help him go to Kazakhstan and other Central Asian regions to check the Soviet famine. At the same time, he also hoped to further deepen the trade cooperation between the two countries, and hoped to open certain investment projects in the northwest to the United States to promote trade exchanges between the two countries.

Both China and the United States were in a beautiful post-war era, and both countries were growing rapidly. The situation in China was that the market was large and the output was small, and there was enough room for development. The United States had a large manufacturing industry but a small market. When participating in the war, it was hoped that the European and British and French colonial markets could not get a share, so it had to raise the opportunity for Soviet and German reconstruction. Japan was also a traditional dumping place for American manufacturing. On the contrary, China, because of its rapid growth and tariffs, imported goods no longer had a price advantage, which brought some difficulties to the entry of American goods.

Entering Central Asia is a sensitive topic. The Soviet Union has strict restrictions on the Karaganda iron ore, not to mention protecting the US government minister into the region. But thinking that Hoover will become the president of the United States in a few years, and if he wants to make a big vote in the US economic crisis, it is necessary to rely on his help. So Yang Qiu thought of it and agreed and said, "Mr. Hoover, I can order the army to protect you to Karaganda. In addition, I would like to thank you for your concern for the northwest region of our country. I am very willing to open up the northwest for your country's investment, but this matter requires the approval of Congress and the Presidential Palace. Of course, our country also hopes to make more rubber and mining investments in the Luzon region."

Yang Qiu promised to protect his trip to Karaganda to make Hoover happy, which means that the core areas of Asia inland will be opened to the United States, but he was not very satisfied with the exchange of Luzon for the Northwest. As China's influence becomes increasingly greater and the status of Chinese in Southeast Asia is increasing, opening up more Luzon to China will inevitably affect the local political landscape, so this matter needs to be very cautious. However, Hoover himself is still very willing to promote the idea of ​​changing northwest for Luzon, because he feels that the United States' status in Luzon is unshakable, and unless China sends troops, it is impossible to break the long-term situation of the United States controlling Luzon.

Yang Qiu would not miss this opportunity in vain. On the grounds that construction is insufficient, the United States requires the export of 200 tons of scrap steel to 3 million tons per year, increase the proportion of high-melting point steel, and purchase two sets of electrolytic aluminum equipment with an annual output of 50,000 tons, and focus on introducing electronic product manufacturing technology.

Hoover frowned inadvertently.

Increasing the purchase of scrap steel shows that Yang Qiu's intention to continue to suppress Japan, but he was very confused about electrolytic aluminum. Because electrolytic aluminum is not a new technology, large-scale industrial aluminum smelting equipment is far less complicated than steel plants. From the technical perspective, the Republic of China has already been able to manufacture a complete set of aluminum smelting equipment. It should be that the industrial manufacturing speed is even less than demand, so it has to purchase it from the United States.

The question is, what does Yang Qiu want so much soft aluminum? 100,000 tons per year, which is a huge output! You should know that the world's largest electrolytic aluminum production is in the United States. The annual output of the US aluminum industry controlled by Mellon Consortium is only about 80,000 tons. The UK only has 20,000 tons. Germany is about 30,000 tons, and France is less than 5,000 tons. A country with severe electricity shortage actually wants to increase the annual electrolytic aluminum production to 100,000 tons. Isn't this a joke?

But in Yang Qiu's opinion, this number is inconspicuous. Not to mention the astronomical output of later generations. Once the aircraft engines are broken through, the amount of aluminum used in aviation will increase exponentially. At present, the annual output of electrolytic aluminum in China is less than 3,000 tons, which is seriously lagging behind actual demand. Moreover, China is a "iron-poor" country. Aluminum is very important as an irreplaceable supplementary metal. As for electricity, he is not even worried about electricity, because he has decided to build two large hydropower products and a thermal power plant in Beihai Province, which is rich in bauxite, coal and hydropower resources. It can not only support the electricity consumption of several northwest provinces, but also use it for an annual output of hundreds of thousands of tons. Another electrolytic aluminum base in Guangxi is not too troublesome because it is rich in water.

As for civilian electricity... it is not unacceptable to popularize it a few years later.

Before West Lake was finished, the two quickly reached an agreement. Yang Qiu promised to open more opportunities to the United States and escort Hoover to Karaganda to check the Soviet disaster relief situation. Hoover promised to sell two sets of 50,000 tons of electrolytic aluminum equipment to China and also obtained a large-scale turbine contract for three hydropower plants. At the same time, he promised to increase the amount of waste steel exported to China, but did not immediately reply to the final plan to exchange the Luzon market for the Northwest because this matter was too important. He needed to report to President Coolidge.

In general, China and the United States, which are in the honeymoon period, have strong complementary capabilities, so everyone had a very happy chat in the trade negotiations. After returning to the hotel, the exquisite Suzhou and Hangzhou cuisine made Hoover feel unhappy. Looking at him, Yang Qiu slowly put down his chopsticks and raised his eyebrows indifferently: "Mr. Hoover, I heard that you have rich experience in mining. I wonder if you personally consider investing?"

Hoover does have an unusual enthusiasm for the mining industry, because he made a fortune in his early years by the mineral mining industry. However, he is now a special status. As the Secretary of the United States Government, he has brought many disadvantages in his career, and said regretfully: "Yes, I am very interested, but as a US government worker, I think..."

Hearing that Hoover wanted to refuse, Yang Qiu immediately interrupted: "It's a big business with a total value of more than $700 million!"

"Ahem..." Hoover, who had just stuffed a shrimp ball into his mouth, almost choked, staring at Yang Qiu's $700 million contract with wide eyes and incredibly? God, has China discovered the second Sumatra oil field? If it was so big, all adventures would be worth it.

"It's not oil, it's manganese ore. A world-scale manganese ore is because of its special location, so I need a partner." Yang Qiu downplayed and deliberately did not say the location.

Thinking of Yang Qiu's desire to exchange Northwest for Luzon just now, now he needs a "partner", Hoover couldn't help scratching his head secretly. It wouldn't be Luzon? It would be difficult to deal with Luzon. After all, manganese ore is a high-value mineral, and world-class manganese ore is enough to trigger a war. Moreover, after the Sumatra oil field, all countries have strict local controls, and the United States will not allow such a large manganese ore to be controlled by China. So he asked: "Your Excellency Vice President, if it is Luzon or Southeast Asia, please forgive me for my powerlessness."

"Of course it's not Luzon. It was discovered by a company under my personal name, in Australia."

Hoover moved his mouth and finally knew why Yang Qiu wanted to be a "partner". Although Australia is already in danger, it is actually still controlled by the UK. If you want to mine such valuable minerals there, you will never avoid the British government. However, if you join forces with him, facing the background of the Chinese and American governments, Downing Street may have to turn a blind eye.

Seeing Hoover's bright eyes, Yang Qiu knew that he was moved and smiled and said, "You don't need to come forward in person. As long as you help me obtain a mining license and reduce interference, I can give you 30% of the shares. Of course, if you need to use money in the future, you can also sell the shares to me for cash... What do you think?"

As long as you speak, you can get $200 million in shares. Especially the latter one, if you need it, you can sell the shares to Yang Qiu in exchange for cash and it is even more heartwarming! You should know that Hoover doesn’t want to be Secretary of Commerce for the rest of his life. He will definitely need a lot of funds when he runs for president in the future. Having these equity means that one foot has already stepped into the White House!

Yang Qiu was also very happy.

Australia's Groot Island has rich manganese ore resources, and the survey team has already located two mineral sources. If you go to mine alone, it should be fine to convince the Australian government. If you really can't do it, you can do it by spending some money and bribery, but the UK can't get around this. But it's different to pull Hoover. Even the British Empire can only recognize the vague background of the Chinese and American governments. Even the British Empire can only pinch its nose and recognize it. As for the 200 million shares, it is a blessing in Australia. Moreover, if you can pull Hoover on the ship, there will be a lot of opportunities in the financial crisis a few years later.

The two quickly reached an agreement. Yang Qiu and Hoover registered a mineral company in their respective countries, and then formed the North Australian Manganese Mining Company in accordance with the Sumatra oil field model to work together. Yang Qiu was responsible for all the investment, while Hoover was responsible for handling the Australian government, and when necessary, in the name of the US Department of Commerce, to "unfriendly countries" stating that the North Australian Manganese Mining Company is an overseas asset of American citizens.

After the agreement was signed, Yang Qiu generously transferred a company from the 103rd Division to protect Hoover to Central Asia, and returned to Nanjing to discuss the establishment of a manganese ore company with Lu Bicheng. Lu Bilian was very interested in this big business and immediately took on all the follow-up work. However, she did not come forward in person, but instead invested in the form of a new company from Huachen Petroleum Company and Zhigongtang Haihua Trading Company in June 4th, and then cooperated with Hoover's company to establish the North Australian Manganese ore Company. There are two benefits to this. First, Zhigongtang has a deep foundation in Australia, and second, Yang Qiu's current identity is no longer suitable to come forward directly.

Yang Qiu continued to be a hand-off manager, handed over the work of the North Australian Manganese Mine Company to Lu Bicheng and then went to find Jacob, because the Ministry of Finance needed to borrow the Jewish bank network to get back the $200 million that Bezoi earned. After paying the "benefit fee" of 10 million, Jacob agreed to help Guotou Company transfer the money. However, the money did not return to China but was transferred to the United States. Bezoi began to buy a large number of high-quality stocks as planned, quietly waiting for the "turning day" that Yang Qiu mentioned.

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