The ninth and fifty-eighth chapter meet again after hardships
Chapter 958: Meeting again after hardships
For the next three days, An Yi would either meet with folks and wealthy businessmen from the four provinces participating in the exhibition at the expo, or spend the next three days at banquets for major Chinese and foreign chaebols. He would bid farewell to his wife and children at seven o'clock every morning and go out, and would not return home until late at night.
, you have to go back to your own residence after staying in Gong Qian’s small building for half an hour.
, visited Chu'er who was gradually recovering and her face had turned rosy. After speaking, she kissed her little son who had not yet opened his eyes, and then went to Feng Jieyun's bedroom to caress her big belly. However, due to being too tired during this period, as long as
Once he touched the bed, he couldn't get out of bed. In the end, he had to be cared for by Feng Jieyun.
Due to the overall conflict between China and Britain, plutocrats and multinational companies from Germany, the United States, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries have all focused on the Sichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou trunk road and branch railway projects totaling more than 1,400 kilometers. According to the four provinces of Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan and Guizhou
According to the bidding announcement jointly issued by the local governments, in addition to being divided into eight bidding sections, more than 250 bridges along the entire railway need to be completed within the next two years.
.The two large highway bridges and five small and medium-sized hydropower plant projects independently tendered by the Xiangxi Government, and the three highway bridges and two large coal power plant projects independently tendered by the Western Guizhou Government have already created fierce competition among European and American companies, not to mention
It is said that the powerful southern Sichuan government has invested heavily in more than two dozen eye-catching investments in steel, heavy machinery, chemical plants, etc.
On the morning of the fourth day, Yang Bin made a high-profile appearance on behalf of the Southern Yunnan Reclamation Region Government and solemnly announced to multinational companies from 11 countries and Chinese and foreign financial investment institutions gathered in the press hall:
Three hydropower plant projects in southern Yunnan, 2,600 kilometers of power transmission and transformation projects, two large highway bridges, a large steel plant, a lead ore smelting plant, and a tin ore smelting plant are open to Chinese and foreign bids, with a total investment of 6,000
Five million dollars, from the United States of America
The Shanghai Branch of the bank and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China provide financial guarantees. Bidders can freely choose to bid among the three methods of providing complete sets of equipment, overall contracting of construction, and equipment and technology investment in cooperative operations. The deadline for bidding is December 10 this year.
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Once the news was announced, it caused a commotion in the audience.
Although the chaebols all knew that southern Yunnan was now the territory of An Jiajun, they did not expect that An Yi would suddenly make such a huge investment in industry and infrastructure. The chaebols in Europe and the United States immediately thought that this was just the beginning of large-scale construction in southern Yunnan.
There will be more projects launched in the fields of roads, bridges, railways, and industry and commerce.
For a time, the press conference was bustling with people and the atmosphere was warm. Nearly a hundred Chinese and foreign reporters covering the press conference were rushing up and down, taking photos in a hurry. In less than five minutes, one hundred bid documents were collected by major Chinese and foreign institutions and consortiums.
Last night, a delegation composed of the French Consulate in Yunnan, France Railways, Renault Group, Banque Quente and other consortiums had discussed with An Yi, Zhu Peide and others on border security cooperation in southeastern Yunnan, industrial and commercial investment, immigration and tariff reform
plans, technology transfer and other issues, the meeting lasted for three and a half hours.
During the talks at that time, the two sides reached preliminary intentions on a number of issues. However, in last night's talks, An Yi did not disclose that there were such a major series of construction projects in southern Yunnan. The French were the first to realize that southern and southeastern Yunnan had already
Placed in a huge master plan, it will definitely be a key area for close cooperation between southern Sichuan and Yunnan.
The French delegation immediately held intense discussions and finally recommended Guade, the commercial officer of the Consulate in Kunming, to meet with Anyi, striving to launch all-round engineering investment and equipment technology cooperation with Anyi Group.
There is a very attractive tidbit during the expo. From the first day, the organizing committee has conducted a public lottery and awards for visiting tickets. Anyone who purchases a ticket to visit can use the ticket stub to participate in the exhibition, which closes at 5 p.m. every day.
The subsequent public lottery ceremony.
Each day the conference will award one first prize, which is an "Antu brand" two-wheel civilian motorcycle produced by Xufu Power Machinery Factory, worth 1,500 yuan; ten second prizes, the prize is produced by Xufu Radio Factory
The "Jinxing brand" four-speaker cassette recorder is worth 220 yuan; the third prize for 20 people is a "Swan brand" bicycle produced by Luzhou Bicycle Factory, worth 150 yuan.
On the first day of the opening of the museum, most of the prizes, including motorcycles, were collected by the winning people who visited. The host announced through the loudspeaker that the winners who did not collect the prizes in time can check the winning numbers in tomorrow's "Sanjiang Daily".
The winner can come with the stub and collect the prize together with the winner of the lottery drawing again the next day.
As soon as this big news was broadcast on the radio and published in newspapers, and tens of thousands of people spread the vivid news of the lucky winners receiving their prizes, a strong wave of visitors immediately formed. There were queues at the seven ticket offices before dawn the next day.
The queue was one or two kilometers long, and the security headquarters had to send an additional battalion of officers and soldiers to maintain order.
The next night, Jiang Yunshan and Dong Zechuan quietly told An Yi at the banquet: 120,000 tickets were sold today, with an income of 60,000 yuan. Nearly half of the merchandise in the more than 10,000 square meter exhibition hall was sold out. A rough estimate of the transaction volume was about
7.5 million, only the transaction tax levied by the exhibitors was halved, and the Finance Bureau took one day
There is an additional tax of 500,000 yuan. If you include all the shipping companies, trucking companies, restaurants, hotels, shops, shopping malls, etc. in southern Sichuan, the total tax revenue per day will be no less than 2 million. I am afraid that in the future
In the next few days, visitors from surrounding counties and even Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming, Changsha and Guiyang will come in droves.
Dong Zechuan asked An Yi who came up with such a wonderful way to make money. An Yi laughed and said that he heard an American talk about it occasionally many years ago. Someone in Shanghai tried it on a small scale a few years ago, but he couldn't figure out the way and finally failed to succeed.
, in fact, I still have something in my heart
A complete set of "Jianguo Lottery", "Welfare Lottery", "Double Color Ball", "Mark Six Lottery" and other issuance methods are available. Except for the "Mark Six Lottery", the others can be gradually implemented in the future. It is better than letting the people indulge in illegal casinos.
It is much better to go bankrupt.
Dong Zechuan was greatly impressed, and after thinking about it, he asked what "Mark Six Lottery" was? An Yi replied that I would tell you when I drink too much someday, which immediately made Jiang Yunshan laugh out loud, but Dong Zechuan was depressed.
After working for several days, An Yi finally found time to drive to "Huayuan Street", a financial street by the river in the north of the city.
Both sides of this 800-meter-long garden-style street are lined with domestic and foreign banks, multinational companies, provincial commercial liaison offices in southern Sichuan, southern Sichuan Telegraph and Telephone Company, post offices and other powerful institutions, Swiss watch companies, American...
There are all kinds of tobacco pipe lighters, tin snuff bottles and drinking utensils from Yunnan, jades and jade from western Yunnan, and more than ten time-honored brands and shops famous in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.
Restaurants are flooding in, as well as two luxurious Western restaurants opened by the French and Belarusian. The entire street has now become the signature business and financial center of Xufu. The beautiful Chinese and Western buildings are distinctively representative of Europe.
Chu'er's Sichuan Real Estate Company made more than 8 million yuan from this project, the Finance Bureau gained an economic and trade zone with rich tax sources, and Xufu City gained a tourist and leisure attraction.
"Huayuan Street" is the street name given by An Yi. As a result, few people in Xufucheng call this warm and elegant name. When mentioning Huayuan Street, it is replaced by "Fuhao Street". The reason is that no matter where they work, people living on Huayuan Street
Most of the people who came to spend money with a lot of money were rich people. An Yi had no choice but to let it go.
No. 10 Huayuan Street is the southern Sichuan headquarters of Jiangnan Group. An Yi's car is parked at the door of the villa No. 8 next to it. This large villa with a back garden where you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the confluence of the three rivers and the green mountains in the distance is An Yi's famous home.
It was given personally to Shanxi Wang Yan Xishan, whose Shanxi Provincial Government and Taiyuan Chamber of Commerce offices in southern Sichuan are located here.
Yan Xishan is also very interesting. After receiving the large villa presented by An Yi at the end of September, he was very happy and purchased a bullet production line, a set of machine gun production equipment, and two sets of rifle and pistol production equipment from An Yi, with a total amount of one hundred and eighty yuan.
More than 10,000 yuan. An Yi returned the favor again and sent a special plane to Taiyuan to deliver a complete set of drawings and testing molds for the new "32-year-style" grenades, 500 mortars and "Zhongzheng Type-1" submachine guns.
When Yan Xishan received these gifts from An Yi, he was very surprised and moved. The generals of the Shanxi-Sui Army also frequently sighed and admired An Yi. In order to strengthen the relationship with An Yi, Yan Xishan specially sent out the Jin-Sui Army officers who had been promoted to the Jin-Sui Army.
Sun Jiaqi, Major General Commander of the Independent Division of the Army, came to express his gratitude and discuss the continued purchase of 20mm cannon production equipment from the Syrian Arsenal, as well as related technology transfer matters.
Sun Jiaqi heard the urgent report from the attendant and rushed out. An Yi stood by the car door with a smile on his face, stepped forward and hugged Sun Jiaqi tightly, then separated, put his hand on the rear door, and asked Sun Jiaqi mysteriously: "Jiaqi, I'll give you
You brought a friend, do you want to meet him?"
Sun Jiaqi punched An Yi and looked into the car. For a while, he couldn't see clearly the face of the man in the back seat. An Yi opened the door, and the bright street lights illuminated the unshaven man in the car, full of
Sad face.
Sun Jiaqi took a step back in shock, immediately rushed forward, pulled out the depressed man, hugged his thin body, and burst into tears: "Brother Tianyi, you are still alive... Good! Good... I originally thought of my eldest brother's hometown.
, give me some sticks of incense for you, brother..."
"Jia Qi..."
Zhang Tianyi cried so hard that he couldn't speak. After a while, he hurriedly wiped away his tears, pushed Sun Jiaqi away, and looked up and down at the brothers from the Huangpu period:
"Incredible, the rank of major general... I see you all succeeding one by one, I am so proud of you!"
Sun Jiaqi wiped away his tears and held Zhang Tianyi's hand tightly: "Brother, why are you like this? What's wrong with your legs...?"
"It's okay. I'm lame, but I can still walk, but I can't run fast." Zhang Tianyi said with a bitter smile.
Sun Jiaqi turned to An Yi: "Boss, how did you find Brother Tianyi?"
An Yi suppressed the sadness in his heart: "It's a long story. After Zhang Shihou's army was wiped out at the end of 1930, there were rumors that Lao Zhang also died in the battle. Although I didn't believe it, I didn't have the time or conditions to investigate carefully at the time. A few months later,
I quietly ordered several old brothers who were visiting relatives in my hometown to help search for her, but they never found her.
"Two years ago, I once again entrusted General Zhang Hongluan of Western Hunan to search for me. When I arrived at Lao Zhang's hometown, I found out that his family had long since disappeared, and only a five-year-old son was left, living with a distant relative in the village. But people asked him
The strange thing is that this distant relative of his refused to give up the child to General Zhang Hongluan's people and brought him to me to raise."
"So that's it..." Sun Jiaqi nodded thoughtfully.
An Yi smiled helplessly: "Also, I returned to Xu Mansion at the end of April this year. I had extra time. The more I thought about it, the more puzzled I became, so I quietly sent someone to threaten the adopted child in the village again.
They said that if they didn't tell us the whereabouts of Zhang Tianyi, we would have to take the child away by force.
"A few days later, our people finally saw a woman coming back with a child in her arms and fleeing the village. The intelligence officer analyzed that the woman was probably the mother of the child, so they followed the mother and daughter to Yueyang. It turned out that I didn't
The intelligence agent I used turned a few corners and was dumped by my sister-in-law.
"Lao Zhang didn't know whose men and horses belonged to him, so he felt scared, so he quietly ran to Changsha and hid, and set up a small cigarette stall at the grocery pier. My sister-in-law made a living by twisting hemp rope for people, supporting a dilapidated home. The day before yesterday
Let my people find them again, and without any explanation, they kidnapped their family here... No, they just arrived in Xufu a few hours ago, and my sister-in-law and child are now at my house.
"Let's go, Jiaqi, let us brothers go home and have a drink. You can also tell me about Lao Zhang, a dignified major general of the national army and a regular graduate of the Frunze Military Academy. After a single defeat, he became like this...
I don’t know what to be afraid of,
Isn't it just that he has a lame leg? Xia Jian, my subordinate, has lost most of his hand, but he still leads the troops to fight majestically. Look at this grandson's appearance. I really don't know how he studied in the military academy for so many years.
Let’s go!”
Sun Jiaqi responded and pushed the frustrated Zhang Tianyi into the car. As soon as the car started, he couldn't wait to question Zhang Tianyi:
"After all these years, why don't you give our brothers a letter? You fucking look down on me, you? When your 18th Division was completely wiped out, legend has it that it was you, Zhang Tianyi, who made the mistake, and that Lu Diping's Military Justice Department
The responsibility for the defeat was all placed on you, the deputy division commander and chief of staff. I didn't believe it at the time. I have seen stupid people in so many years, but I have never seen anyone as stupid as the 18th Division. With your level, Zhang Tianyi
, it is impossible to make such a low-level mistake...
"Originally I thought you were dead, and I had no intention of pursuing this matter. After all, from the Northern Expedition to now, there are not many brothers who have survived in our engineering team, and most of them have been lost. But even if you Zhang Tianyi doesn't know where I, Sun Jiaqi, am
, don’t you still know where An Yi is? With the boss’s ability, who would dare to do anything to you if you surrendered to him? Why don’t you continue to lead the troops and continue to be your general? Why do you have to hide like this?
Doing harm to yourself?"
An Yi patted Sun Jiaqi on the arm: "Jiaqi, stop talking. This grandson has been competing with me since school. He always thinks that he is more capable than me, and he is always so confident.
Damn it, actually this guy has a very low self-esteem, defeated
Zhan thought he had no face to see others, so he shouldered all the responsibilities that did not belong to him. He was a complete fool! He was just as petty as the aunts and uncles selling vegetables in the villages and towns. He wanted to save face so much that it was fine for him to suffer and let his wife and children suffer with him.
Tired..."
"Stop talking——"
Zhang Tianyi's face was full of tears and he was in great pain. He held An Yi in one hand and Sun Jiaqi in the other, and begged sadly:
"Xiaoyi, Jiaqi... stop talking, okay? Stop talking, I, Zhang Tianyi, am useless, I, Zhang Tianyi, am not a human being. I'm sorry for my wife and children, I'm sorry for my brothers, but who knows the pain in my heart... ugh