Not to mention that the Anti-League people couldn't figure out what Yang Zhen wanted to do with these things, even those Americans who didn't think about anything but making money didn't understand. Because as early as the 1920s, Americans had already understood the entire Northeast.
Exploration was carried out. Their geological and petroleum experts had long concluded that there was no oil in the Northeast. So the Americans also thought that Yang Zhen was fooling around.
Of course, as long as they have money to earn, these Americans can even dig up their ancestors from their graves and sell them if necessary. As long as they have the money, everything will be fine. They will not worry about whether the equipment you bought back is useful or not. What will happen to them?
After buying these equipment and throwing them into the Pacific Ocean, he wouldn't care. As long as they get the money, it's a good thing for them.
If the central government had not handed over all negotiation matters to Yang Zhen and given him full support. But Yang Zhen insisted on his own opinion and would rather get these oil extraction and refining equipment than some other equipment.
Everyone else forced their way through out of respect for this young, but extremely skillful, number one. Otherwise, they wouldn't have known what was going on.
In the words of Xiong Dazhen at the time, that set was completely useless in the base area and even in the entire Northeast. No one knew what the oil refining equipment and the drilling platforms that No. 1 bought were used for. The money was enough to buy another steelmaking equipment.
In addition to the factory, there is a non-ferrous metal smelting plant, or five ammunition factories with a daily output of one million rounds of bullets are being established, plus two large artillery shell factories.
Xiong Dazhen once told Guo Bingxun more than once that the Japs have occupied the Northeast for several years. They have almost searched the entire Northeast, not to mention that they have not found oil fields, and they have not even found oil-bearing strata. With the meticulousness of the Japs, they have not found any oil fields.
, were not able to find it. How could they find it if they changed to the Anti-League, whose technical strength was far inferior to that of the Japanese?
Xiong Dazhen is a top student at Tsinghua University. Although he is not a geologist, Guo Bingxun still trusts his words, abilities, and scientific strength. Guo Bingxun also doesn’t believe that Xiong Dazhen’s rigorous personality will lead to this matter.
Deceiving yourself about things.
But looking at this promising and confident young number one, Guo Bingxun was somewhat confused: "Is he really capable of understanding the world? He can work in the northernmost part of China, which has been publicly declared as an oil-poor country by well-known big oil companies.
In Northeast China, which was almost plundered by the Japanese, a large oil field was created out of thin air?"
It’s not that Guo Bingxun, Xiong Dazhen, or even the entire Northeast Bureau distrust Yang Zhen. In fact, the Chinese in this era, because of their own weak technology, even have some blind trust in the technical capabilities of foreigners. Even Guo Bingxun
Such people also have no doubts about the American report that concluded that China is an oil-poor country.
Almost everyone thinks that not even the Americans, who have strong technical capabilities, and the Japanese, who are always known for their meticulousness and have a so-called Manchurian resource map that marked out almost all the mineral resources in the Northeast, did not find oil fields in the Northeast. So.
For all Chinese, this means that there are really no oil fields in Northeast China.
Although some people did not believe that Yang Zhen could create an oil field out of thin air, Guo Bingxun was very smart and did not continue to ask this question. Because he remembered clearly that Yang Zhen had told him more than once that China is not a foreigner.
What we are talking about is an oil-poor country.
On the contrary, although the oil reserves are not as good as those of the United States and the Soviet Union, they are definitely not less than the oil reserves in Nanyang, which the Japanese army has been spying on for a long time. Even if part of China's underground oil is exploited, or the oil in Northeast China is exploited, it will not be smaller than the world's largest oil reserves.
Oil fields, the production of the Soviet Caucasus oil fields and Baku oil fields is so low.
Yang Zhen has told himself many times that there are oil fields in the entire Northeast, not only in Heilongjiang in northern Manchuria, but also in Jilin in central Manchuria, Liaoning in southern Manchuria, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, and the rear area in the Japanese-occupied areas within the Pass.
There are oil fields in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region where the central government is located, Sichuan where the National Government is located, and Guangxi.
Although the scale of these oil fields, except for the oil reserves in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area and the oil reserves in North Manchuria, cannot be compared with the Soviet Caucasus oil fields and the oil fields in North Manchuria. But even if we only consider the oil fields at the mouth of the Liaohe River in Jilin and Liaoning,
The development of those two relatively small oil fields will be enough to meet Japan's entire strategic needs.
Although Sichuan's oil resources are not as good as those in the eastern region and Xinjiang, its reserves are far from being comparable to those in the eastern region. However, if it is extracted, the annual output of hundreds of thousands of tons plus the output of the Yumen Oilfield will be enough to meet the extremely high degree of mechanization.
The National Government’s needs at the bottom. It’s just that the National Government was too blindly trusting in foreigners and did not organize its own forces to conduct careful exploration. It’s not that Guo Bingxun didn’t believe Yang Zhen’s words were true. It was because Guo Bingxun, who had studied in France, only believed in science. He had not gone through rigorous scientific research.
He would never believe what Yang Zhen said. If rigorous exploration proved that there is indeed oil in the places mentioned by Yang Zhen, he would naturally believe it.
But Yang Zhen himself has never been to many places, so how can he let Guo Bingxun, who is rigorous by nature and advocates science, believe that there is oil in those places? Isn’t this the same as talking with his eyes open? Foreigners with strong technical support have not investigated.
How does he know where there is oil?
Seeing that Guo Bingxun didn't seem to believe what he said, Yang Zhen didn't care. All the doubts will naturally be clear after the Daqing Oilfield is put into production. As for now, there is no need to explain it too clearly. Otherwise, once others ask questions
How did you know there was an oil field there? You would be the unlucky one.
But when he thinks of explaining this kind of thing, sometimes Yang Zhen gets a headache. The oil field is not a weapon. You can just make up a reason to get past it. This kind of thing needs to be rigorously scientifically verified. There is no suitable one.
There is no way to fool around with the reason. You can’t pretend to be a magician and claim that your eyes can see all over space and underground, right?
Although he was very reluctant, the following situation forced him to build the Daqing Oilfield decades ahead of schedule. Otherwise, without oil, his planes and tanks would be like scrap metal. Now the Soviets have too much to take care of themselves.
, no matter how high the price you pay, I’m afraid I won’t continue to sell oil to you.
Indeed, after the Pacific War broke out, the Americans were constrained by the war situation and had to provide assistance to themselves no matter how reluctant they were. Even if they could not achieve the same level of support as they provided to the British and Soviets, aircraft, tanks, and heavy artillery were certainly indispensable.
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Military raw materials, such as steel for armor, copper for gun shells, smokeless gunpowder, etc., Americans are not so stingy. Compared with the precious blood of Americans, although these equipment also have to pay some economic price
, but Americans still think it is a good deal. As one of the most important military supplies, Americans will naturally not be stingy with various oils.
Moreover, as the largest oil producer and oil refining country today, the Americans even provided more than half of the military fuel, especially high-quality aviation gasoline, to the Soviet Union, the second largest oil producer, during World War II. Naturally, they would not care about providing it to the Soviet Union.
For them, the Anti-League is only a small amount of gasoline produced in a month.
But all the blood transfusions are in the hands of others, which makes Yang Zhen always feel uncomfortable. As a middle-aged man of later generations, very few people have a good impression of Americans. Oil is the blood of the modern army, and there is no oil.
Planes and tanks will become a pile of scrap metal.
Yang Zhen is still a little worried about relying entirely on Americans to provide such important supplies. If there is any accident during the transportation process, or the supply is not timely, unless he returns to the past state of millet plus rifles, his troops will be
Complete paralysis.
As a latecomer, Yang Zhen was still very aware of the heavy losses in the U.S. aid supplies to the Soviet Union and the aid transport fleet to aid China in World War II. In particular, the Americans’ foreign aid channels had to go through the Soviet Union. Although the safety was
There is no need to think too much, but smoothness must be carefully considered.
Yang Zhen believed that if the Soviets, who themselves lacked high-quality gasoline and whose oil production capacity was greatly reduced during the war, needed it, they would definitely use the high-quality gasoline delivered by Americans in their territory. As for the
Whether the Anti-Japanese Alliance also needs this gasoline is not their concern. Whether the Soviets will use the materials provided to the Anti-Japanese Alliance for their own use is what Yang Zhen is most worried about.
Moreover, Yang Zhen did not intend to obtain any ready-made equipment from the Americans except for airplanes. His thoughts were more on how to make the most of the magnificent stage of World War II and how to use it as much as possible within a limited time.
It is possible to establish China's own heavy industries, such as the aviation industry, steel industry, and various advanced machinery and equipment required for equipment manufacturing.
As for the equipment currently in service by the Americans, apart from aircraft, naval ships, and various automobiles, he really doesn’t have much that he likes. The performance of the M4 Sherman tank is good. But it is not as good as the German No. 4 and Panther tanks.
Compared with the previous tanks, both armor and artillery performance are far behind. Compared with the Soviet T-34 tanks, there is also a big gap in performance. Compared with Soviet-made and German-made artillery, the performance of American-made artillery is far behind.
It's not that far ahead. Even in terms of power, it's still quite behind.
As the world's first large-scale semi-automatic rifles, the M-1 rifles and carbines, and the Thompson submachine gun also have excellent performance. However, compared with their own fully automatic rifles equipped with intermediate bullets, there is a whole generation gap.
Except for the M2 large-caliber machine gun, the other light and heavy machine guns are not as good as the general-purpose machine guns equipped by our own troops. Moreover, we produce them ourselves and have equipped them on a large scale. They serve as battalion-level support firepower and anti-aircraft firepower.
mm anti-aircraft machine guns are no worse than those of the Americans. In terms of weight, they are far lower than the American guns that have been produced for nearly a century.
Although he has some disdain for the current American army equipment, Yang Zhen covets American raw materials, production technology, and machinery and equipment. He has already made up his mind to wait until next year if the Americans really provide assistance.
In my own case, in addition to aircraft and automobiles, all of them require machinery, equipment, production technology, and raw materials for military production.