Five hundred and sixtieth chapters Pearson's vision
w Compared with Yang Zhen's small order, the British and the improvised French ordered hundreds of millions of dollars of machinery and equipment in one go. The machinery and equipment sold to Yang Zhen were all French goods that the US government would withhold.
The equipment that was ordered and paid for. Except for those selected by the British, all were sold to Pfizer at a 10% discount.
And at a rare speed, extraordinary procedures were carried out, and all procedures were completed within three days. Just as the Battle of the Two Cities was coming to an end, these machines and equipment had begun to be shipped one after another. By the time Du Kaishan was reached, Dongning was completely captured.
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This action of the Americans can be described as almost as fast as it was. They even started taking action regardless of the fact that the contract was only initialed. Anyway, these machines and equipment were stored in the New York port. Some of them were even detained on the ship without even being loaded on the ship.
It just turns the fleet around and sails in another direction.
After learning that the Americans had frozen a large amount of military equipment ordered by the French, in order to improve the already tense relations between the United States and Japan, and also to prevent this batch of military equipment from falling into the hands of the Chinese, the Japanese once proposed that Japan and Japan
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However, the U.S. government did not allow any possibility of this batch of machinery and equipment falling into the hands of the Germans, and it did not want this batch of machinery and equipment to fall into the hands of the Japanese. In order to ensure that these machinery and equipment did not fall into the hands of the Soviets, the Americans not only
An agreement was reached with the Soviet Union on preferential sales of rubber to ensure that this batch of machinery and equipment would not be overused or even occupied by the Soviet Union.
A large number of secret intelligence personnel were also dispatched to escort these machines and equipment to ensure that these machines and equipment arrived safely in Yang Zhen's control area. Another task of these escorting intelligence personnel was to absolutely ensure that these machines and equipment would not be resold after they arrived in Northern Manchuria.
Soviet people.
The U.S. government will never allow these equipment that can develop military industry to fall into the hands of any of its current or potential opponents. This is consistent with the fact that decades later, in order to prevent China from obtaining advanced technology, the Americans strictly prohibited any
A kind of high-tech equipment enters China. Even if the Chinese spend a lot of money, they will never sell it, which is somewhat similar.
This is true for the Soviets, who are currently preparing for the European battlefield and pose no threat to themselves. How can the Americans, who are so sophisticated, export a large amount of advanced equipment that can be used in military industry to Japan at this juncture? The Japanese army has now competed with them in this battle.
China has been fighting a war for three years, which is enough for the Americans to make a lot of money out of the Japanese who lack resources.
What's more, in July this year, the Americans announced a ban on the export of all strategic materials to Japan, including all weapons and ammunition, aircraft parts, metal cutting machine tools, and optical instruments. If they succumb to pressure from the domestic economic community and agree to sell,
For Americans, this is tantamount to a slap in the face.
Originally, the U.S. government wanted to use this batch of machinery and equipment as a loan to the Nationalist government. But now it has lost all the rich places in the southeast before the war, and most of the areas with financial and tax sources have fallen. Now it has lost most of its tax sources, and it relies entirely on printing money.
Barely filling the fiscal deficit, the small amount of fiscal revenue a year is basically eaten up by the huge military expenditure. The economy is on the verge of collapse, and the National Government is already thirsty for money. So, does it have the intention to acquire this batch of military equipment?
At present, obtaining foreign loans can help the domestic finance, which is already on the verge of collapse, to breathe a sigh of relief and curb the increasingly fierce inflation rate. What the National Government wants to do most at present. Stabilizing finances is the current top priority of the National Government. As for military production
, even in wartime, it can only be placed in second place.
For any army, it is impossible to feed the troops without money. This is an iron rule. Even the Red Army, which was proud of its hard work at that time, did not have enough tax revenue like the National Government, but the land was divided among local tyrants.
, but it solved a lot of financial problems.
For a sizable army, the daily cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation alone is an astronomical sum. What's more, in order to make up for the lack of quality, the Nationalist Government also expanded the size of the army after the July 7th Incident. If it cannot support the army, even if it has a huge military industry
What’s the use of production capacity?
Moreover, even if these machines and equipment are shipped to the country, according to the current domestic production capacity of military raw materials, these machines and equipment will not be able to play more roles. What's more, in the eyes of some people, as long as they can be bought, it is better not to make them yourself.
.You can’t buy arms now, but you can still buy military raw materials as long as you have money.
The National Government's thirst for money, as long as the money does not require equipment, has frustrated Americans' hopes of spending the money in the United States. Although in order to avoid the complete collapse of China's economy, the United States finally decided to provide this loan a few days ago
.But leaving these machines and equipment idle in the country is not in line with the consistent interests of Americans.
At this time, Yang Zhen proposed that among the exchange conditions, there was a considerable sum of money to order military equipment and various machinery. The US government, which was eager to deal with this batch of machinery, received a report from the US Embassy.
, immediately ordered that all the remaining machinery and equipment selected by the British, regardless of whether they were useful or not, be sold to Pfizer at a 10% discount. At the same time, they used means to let Pfizer sell this batch at a price that did not exceed 30% of the actual selling price.
Machinery and equipment.
Even before the details of the contract were worked out clearly, those pharmaceutical manufacturers had not yet received approval from the company. The US government had already shipped these machines and equipment regardless. Anyway, the money was still in the hands of the Americans, no matter you
Whether you admit it or not, I will deduct it according to the price I proposed.
Although this batch of machinery and equipment and various machine tools are all leftover after selection by the British, their types greatly exceed what Yang Zhen originally requested. You must know that the British, who have a huge industry themselves, only selected some of the aircraft manufacturing
equipment, as for other equipment, none of them are required.
Among this batch of machinery and equipment with an actual value of up to 370 million U.S. dollars, there are not only military equipment ordered by France, but also some other equipment ordered by French private companies that have been seized by the US government. Not only do they include several French
The automobile production equipment ordered by major automobile companies and the number of metal cutting machine tools alone were enough for Yang Zhen to establish a machine factory.
This batch of machinery and equipment worth up to 370 million U.S. dollars was selected by the British. The remaining complete equipment of nearly 300 million U.S. dollars was sold to Yang Zhen by the U.S. government for a price of 30 million U.S. dollars. Yang Zhen
Thirty million US dollars is almost a great value for money.
Although after the arrival of this batch of supplies, Yang Zhen looked at the hundreds of cotton spinning machines and felt dumbfounded. But he had to admit that the Americans were indeed quite generous. Among this batch of machinery and equipment, only stamping machine tools
, there are fifteen units. According to the quantity of this batch of equipment sold by the Americans, the military equipment alone is enough for Yang Zhen to open a military production line.
Of course, this is a matter for the future. Now Yang Zhen is not interested in the trick that Major Pearson is selling. What he is worried about now is that the Americans have just returned and have not arrived in the country.
Having transported so much supplies in one go, I have already been teased by the Soviets, so don’t let the Americans fool me. Is it becoming a garbage disposal station again?
Yang Zhen has made up his mind that no matter how much the machinery and equipment shipped by the Americans is, as long as it does not meet the quality stipulated in his contract, he will never accept it. If he gets a bunch of junk like Jiangbei did, then for
For himself, what he lost was not only money, but also precious time. In fact, Yang Zhen did not know that the reason why this batch of military raw materials and machinery could be shipped so quickly was that in addition to the huge pressure faced by Japan in Asia,
The United States is under pressure. In order to counter the aggressive offensive of Japan, whose tentacles have been extended to Southeast Asia and its ambitions have been expanded to the extreme, the United States is eager to support a force in Asia that can confront the Japanese.
After the negotiations, Pearson drafted the more than 3,000-word secret report forwarded to the country by the U.S. Ambassador to China, and the list of supplies requested by Yang Zhen also played a great role. Especially Pearson's
That secret report can be said to have played a decisive role.
In his secret report, Pearson described in detail his experiences in the Anti-Japanese War, and clearly told the White House that the relationship between this team and Jiangbei was not as close as Americans imagined. The Soviet Union was indeed developing under them.
provided considerable assistance in the early days. However, the commander of this team was more interested in utilizing rather than cooperating with the Soviet Union.
In the military, they never publicized their relationship with their neighbors who share the same beliefs, and they never publicized the assistance this powerful neighbor gave them. The current relationship with the Soviet Union, judging from the latest agreement, is full of
They have become wary. In other words, they are taking advantage of the Soviet Union's eagerness to stabilize its eastern border and have been using this mentality of the Soviet Union to develop and strengthen themselves.
Although on the surface, they appear to be very close because their external channels and connections with mainland China are controlled by the Soviet Union. But in fact, they are still quite wary of the Soviets. Except for a few military industry experts
In addition, they would rather choose military instructors from opponents who have become prisoners of war than use Soviet advisers.
According to their relationship with the Soviet Union, which at least apparently maintains the same so-called beliefs, pro-Soviet education should be carried out in the troops. However, during my visits over the past few days, I have never seen them carry out any such education.
There are even people who were born as laborers in the mainland and don’t even know where the Soviet Union is.
Except in political education and propaganda, the Soviet aid to them was never mentioned. On the contrary, while they were conducting strict internal investigations on Japanese spies, they had also been secretly hunting down Soviet agents who had penetrated deeply into Manchuria. Since then,
Judging from these circumstances, they were very wary of the Soviet Union.
At the end of this telegram about the relationship between Yang Zhen's command and the Soviet Union, Pearson added a special sentence: "This army may be propagandized by political workers unique to the army, or by a certain group of senior commanders.
The nationalist sentiment is very strong in my mind.”m