An Yi, who has solved many issues and determined the development direction for the next year, does not have much happiness in his heart even though he has a huge amount of money. Many times, he feels like this: he is like a rich man wearing brocade clothes and having millions of dollars.
, but every day he walks in a world full of decay and is among beggars everywhere.
No matter how much money you put in your bag, it will still be meaningless. Therefore, in addition to increasing investment in scientific research institutions and large enterprises under his command, An Yi felt that the poor traffic conditions in the Battle of Western Yunnan had an impact on troop mobilization.
The impact was serious, so he led his generals and government officials to
, on the pretext of inspecting the front line in southern Yunnan and controlling the bad situation on the border, we will focus on the large-scale expansion of the 250-kilometer caravan road from Lincang via Gengma to the important town of Hoban on the China-Myanmar border, connecting Simao in French Annan to Jiangcheng.
One hundred and eight kilometers of new roads were built and detailed field surveys were conducted.
A group of civil and military officials had different opinions on An Yi's plan to spend huge sums of money and mobilize 60,000 soldiers and civilians to build the Lincang-Huoban highway. On the contrary, they did not agree to expand and strengthen the Simao-Jiangcheng highway again and build several more bridges.
What opinion.
As the trade volume with the French has doubled since this year, oil, iron ingots, scrap steel, copper and woolen fabrics and other material resources transported via the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway have continued to flow, and the profitable French colonial government and
Major multinational companies have dismantled old smelting equipment from France and built factories on a large scale, using the rich human resources of the colonies to speed up their plunder.
It took only half a year to double the production capacity of the two original smelting plants, and four newly built smelting plants were put into operation one after another. By the end of April this year, they could be delivered to Anyi Group's South Yunnan Steel Plant every month.
Six thousand tons of pig iron and 2,500 tons of crude steel, plus tens of thousands of tons of scrap steel every month, account for more than one-tenth of the raw materials for the steel plants in southern Sichuan.
Faced with huge profits, the French Annan colonial government was not satisfied and asked whether the South Yunnan Steel Plant, which was under intensive construction and had not yet been completed, could join the procurement ranks to hoard some raw materials for future production? In addition, a large amount of gasoline produced in Nanyang
, diesel and brand-new equipment purchased from Europe, including a complete set of heavy machinery production equipment sold by French Renault Company to Anyi Group, were transported to Hanoi through Haiphong, the largest port in northern Annan, and then transferred to the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway and waterway to southern Yunnan.
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The French colonists, who had made huge gains, felt that the current transportation capacity could not meet the rapidly increasing trade needs. At the same time, transportation through the Red River and Tuojiang River was restricted by the long dry season and dangerous river sections. Only relying on the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway could only transport the most goods per trip.
A small train with seven wagons is completely unable to bear the heavy trade transportation task.
Therefore, after the emergency meeting attended by the French economic and trade mission team, they dug out the long-stalled Annan northwest road construction plan, took the initiative to communicate with the Southern Yunnan Region Government and the Syrian Prefecture, hoping to build a road along the north bank of the Tuojiang River in Annan.
Several sections of highways were originally built to connect Jiangcheng, an important border town in southern Yunnan.
It is very simple for the French to build this road that starts in Hanoi and ends in Jiangcheng. The 240 kilometers of road have been repaired for more than 160 kilometers ten years ago. They only need to build dozens of kilometers of new roads starting from Laizhou in Annan and heading west.
Road, large trucks can drive from Haiphong Port to Jiangcheng in southern Yunnan, integrating with the newly built highway network in southern Yunnan.
With the opening of the Yunnan-Vietnam Trade Road, a large amount of imported oil products, machinery, equipment and raw materials were transported directly to southern Yunnan through French Annan. Silk, cotton yarn, bristle, tung oil, tea, wool, tungsten, antimony, tin and other materials from several southwestern provinces passed through this
A convenient trade road exited through Annan, and An Yi and his officials were laughing from ear to ear.
First of all, the customs set up by the southern Yunnan government strictly follows the national tax rate to collect import and export taxes, but it does not need to hand over this increasingly large amount of tax to the central government. It can be used for infrastructure construction in southern Yunnan and even the entire Yunnan region.
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As a result, the Anyi Group got rid of the constraints and suppression of the Chiang Kai-shek Group, and got rid of the control and difficulties of the Central Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and other traitorous comprador groups, achieved economic and trade independence in one fell swoop, and firmly controlled the destiny of survival and development in its own hands.
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Therefore, vigorously and rapidly developing transportation in southern Yunnan is of extremely important significance. The strategic significance contained in it has not yet been revealed, and most people cannot see it. However, it will never affect the relationship between southern Yunnan and Yunnan because of its vague strategic significance.
Close cooperation with the French colonial authorities.
The French, who have made huge profits, do not care about the attitude of the Nanjing government at all. The decades of occupation of Annan have shown such huge economic benefits for the first time. How can the mineral-rich northern Annan and northwest provinces restrain their profit-seeking behavior?
The colonial plunder?
What Anyi Group urgently needs is to increase its war reserves and accelerate its own economic development. All efforts are to establish a solid rear area to meet the large-scale war between China and Japan that may come at any time. Under this premise, the Nanjing government and
Chiang Kai-shek simply could not dictate to the remote southern Yunnan, let alone
So far, Chiang Kai-shek is busy fighting the civil war, and the high-ranking officials in the central government also look down upon this wild land in southern Yunnan. The huge country is in the midst of frequent disasters and wars, and numerous political crises and
The economic recession and poverty across the country are still torturing the nerves of most people.
In such a chaotic situation, who has the heart to manage an autonomous region far away in southern Xinjiang?
The reason why the generals have different opinions on the construction of the Lincang-Hoban Highway is mainly because the negotiations between the Chinese and British governments have not made much substantive progress. The two major issues of border demarcation and war compensation are tough.
The British government took the lead in adjourning the Kunming negotiations, leaving only higher-level negotiators from the two governments in Nanjing to continue the talks.
As a result, it was difficult for the Yunnan Provincial Government and the Allied Forces in the Southwest to accept that they all understood that the British were trying to exert pressure on the local government by oppressing the central government in Nanjing. The victor had to be fooled by the defeated party even to this point. This tone made Yunnan
How do the military and political dignitaries and soldiers of the three armed forces endure it?
At the end of April, the Yunnan Military and Political Commission made a decisive decision: first, to completely close the China-Myanmar border; second, to take the remaining 6,275 Burmese prisoners of war to western Yunnan to build roads, and the other 537 British soldiers to
The prisoners were escorted to the Syrian government in the interior and guarded by the Anjia Army, an important part of the campaign in western Yunnan; third, all officials from the British consulates in Yunnan were expelled.
The Yunnan military government's tough counterattack made the British very angry and once again issued a cry for war. The Southwest Alliance launched Zhan Huanqi, a young general who has become a national hero. On behalf of the tens of millions of soldiers and civilians in the four southwest provinces, he responded in a high-profile manner: If you have the ability, come as much as you want.
How many annihilated!
As a result, the British wanted to fight but had no strength to fight, but did not want to damage the face of the British Empire and admit their mistakes and make compensation. The active mediation of the United States did not bring much change to the two sides who insisted on each other.
On May 2, 503 British prisoners were escorted to Xufu, and then they were transferred to the closed military horse farm in Jiangbei of Xufu together with the original 34 people. The Anjia Army Gendarmerie Headquarters mobilized a battalion of military police.
Undertake care and management tasks.
From then on, the British prisoners, who had a strong sense of superiority, could no longer participate in football matches. Even two meals a day had to be exchanged for labor. The military horse farm that had expanded exponentially needed to dig drainage ditches and plant new high-nutrient grass species.
, the prisoners’ barracks need to be built by themselves, etc. After completing these necessary tasks, I am afraid that a year will pass.
On the other hand, the families of the captured officers and soldiers have traveled across the ocean from all over the UK. Every family member of the prisoner of war who comes to visit their relatives is warmly received by the officials of the Xufu Church and the external liaison department of the Xufu camp. Except for those who arrive for the first time,
In addition to spending a day with your relatives, if you want to visit your relatives, you can only wait for the visiting time twice a month, and you have to queue up and take turns.
The reception to the family members can be warm, the family members can be concerned about their lives in the Xufu, and the family members from poor families can even receive rewards through their own labor, but the military's strict regulations do not have any mercy.
The humanitarian spirit and strict military discipline displayed by the Anjia Army impressed European and American missionaries and the British. None of the thousands of captive family members made a fuss, and no one dared to ask the local government and officials as subjects of the British Empire.
The military went beyond regulations
To put it bluntly, the prisoners of war were all criminals who barbarically invaded China and massacred Chinese soldiers and civilians. It was already rare to receive such treatment as they do today, so all the pressure was quickly transferred to the British Embassy in China.
Embassies and Consulates and the British Government.
The difficult thing is that the Syrian government does not allow any country to set up embassies, consulates or government agencies. Originally, the British had a semi-official economic and trade liaison office, but it was withdrawn in the early stages of the Sino-British conflict. It is located on Huayuan Street in the financial and commercial center.
The villa they owned was repossessed by the Xu government at a price twice as high as the original purchase price. Now if they want to buy it again, they can't buy it for three times the price. The family members who urgently need to negotiate with the British embassy and consulate officials can only sit down and sit down.
Go to Chongqing by boat or long-distance bus.
Only the top representatives of both parties were held in Nanjing for the central negotiations. The closed China-Myanmar border had little impact on the entire Yunnan due to the increasingly prosperous Annan trade route. During the three long months when the Kunming negotiations were suspended, An Yi took the initiative to negotiate with the Yunnan Provincial Government.
A meeting was held on import and export taxes and 50% of the tariff rights were generously allocated to Yunnan Province, which only required the Yunnan Provincial Department of Finance to dispatch several inspectors at the two customs ports.
An Yi's move made Yunnan very grateful. People of all ethnic groups along the way from Yuxi to Yuanjiang, the northernmost county in southern Yunnan, were inspired by An Jiajun to organize spontaneously. Officials from the Construction Department of the Yunnan Provincial Government and more than a hundred engineers
Under the command of
In the massive road-building movement, from Anning, Yuxi to Yuanjiang, 70,000 people from more than 100 towns and villages in seven counties along the way brought their own food and cooking utensils and devoted themselves to the construction and expansion of the standard highway from Kunming to Yuanjiang. The progress of the project was astonishing.
The speed is intense.
In this regard, An Yi and Anjiajun military and political officials were deeply moved and once again made an important decision to invest 5 million yuan in stages within six months to provide infrastructure for seven counties and 11 counties along the Kunming-Yuanjiang Highway.
Hospitals and schools have been established in large towns. Xufu Medical College has favored candidates from Yunnan Province in summer enrollment, enrolling an additional 600 freshmen from Yunnan to study at the country's most famous medical university, and covering all students' expenses while in school.
This move immediately caused a sensation across the country after numerous news reports. Wu Zhihui, dean of the Central Government Examinations, Yu Youren, a party and state veteran, and others quickly formed an inspection team and began a month-long special investigation of Syria and Yunnan. An Yi and An Jiajun
As a result, its reputation has skyrocketed.
However, just as An Yi was committed to the construction of the southwest, the Communist Red Army began its arduous and wasted years. The fierce civil war seemed to have reached its final moment. News and rumors of fierce fighting were prevalent, shocking and panicking the entire Chinese people.