Chapter 77 Adding insult to injury
This officer, who looks so young, is very experienced in what he says and does, and he is so angry that it hurts his liver. Thinking of the Japanese's furious look, it really is true that you cannot judge a person by his appearance!
Coming out of the alkali factory, the one who rushed to drive was Zheng Chunhua!
Except for Zhou Xiaoshan, several others who came out together jumped into the carriage, where they could stand high and see far to see the prosperous Western scenery of Tianjin!
Chang Desheng curiously sat in the driver's seat next to Zhou Xiaoshan. Following the direction Zhou Xiaoshan indicated, they wanted to visit the foreign companies established by various countries in the Tianjin Concession to see what they could buy with the money given by the 66th Division!
"Captain Zhou, you and Manager Chen from Yongli seemed to have gotten to know each other today. I saw that he was quite respectful to you when he left! I think I should be able to meet Mr. Fan tomorrow. After listening to Chunhua talk about his deeds, I personally admire Mr. Fan very much!"
Zhou Xiaoshan smiled bitterly and shook his head. If Fan Xudong was so easy to meet, Marshal Liu's men would not have been guarding Tianjin City and would not have been able to meet him.
He must have been told not to see me.
Ever since Xue Yue captured Wang Jialie in Guizhou, Yang Yongtai's strategy of killing three birds with one stone became known to the world.
Everyone is waiting to see who Xue Yue will capture after entering Sichuan.
Before the truth comes to light, there is no need for Fan Xudong to get involved in this mess with the Sichuan Army.
Liu Xiang said that he asked Zhou Xiaoshan to deliver the letter, but deep down he was still trying his best to save the situation. He hoped that Zhou Xiaoshan could use his eloquence to influence Fan Xudong.
If I don't handle this matter well, I might even lose my rank of major when I return!
It was a huge loss of face in the 66th Division.
A soldier who was promoted and then demoted has no future!
"National industrialists like Fan Xudong hope for national unity and national self-strengthening more than anyone else. The poor traffic, declining livelihood and disrupted logistics caused by warlord separatism are what they hate the most. It is said that his sulfuric acid factory has received strong support and many promises from the Nanjing National Government. It is not so easy to meet him! I arrived at the Yongli Factory today and got the information that their Yongli Ning Sulfuric Acid Factory has started to allocate equipment. I am prepared for the possibility of failure!"
Zheng Chunhua, who was still driving, suddenly felt anxious and asked questions involuntarily!
"Commander, do you mean that Mr. Fan and Chiang Kai-shek are involved?"
"What do you mean by mixed together? It should be said that it cannot be avoided. The Nationalist government controls the state machinery. Don't think that heavy chemical industry is too simple!"
Zhou Xiaoshan rolled his eyes at Zheng Chunhua. He had been talking about celebrities from the Republic of China, repeating many of their backgrounds over and over again, and also mixing in a lot of personal stuff about business operations. This guy didn't pay any attention to any of this and still didn't understand!
"I've told you that any factory has to pay attention to the upstream and downstream. In fact, their salt and alkali are very simple. Basically, there is little upstream, but the downstream is troublesome. The sales are all in the areas ruled by the National Government. Chiang Kai-shek can use some means to prohibit his brand from being listed, or forcibly seal up the products of the front-line sales stores. His two factories will be in trouble! As for the sulfuric acid and nitric acid of Yonglinning Factory, they are more concerned with the downstream. Not only are they involved in many textile, printing and dyeing, machinery, chemical and other related industries in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but they may also be sold to Chiang Kai-shek's many arsenals in Shanghai, Jinling and Gongxian!"
Chang Desheng looked at Zhou Xiaoshan and really couldn't understand this boy. How could he know so much and be so knowledgeable?
"Politics, military, economy, industry, agriculture, people's livelihood, and even education, communications, transportation, and public security have never been isolated. Only when they are combined together can we call it comprehensive national strength. Why didn't Chiang Kai-shek dare to confront Japan, which occupied the three northeastern provinces? It was because the comprehensive national strength was too poor. Many people in the Kuomintang government had no confidence in victory. They thought they could not win before the war even started!"
Seeing Zheng Chunhua looking confused, Zhou Xiaoshan wanted to kick him twice!
If he was an ordinary soldier, he wouldn't have told him these!
Even the company commander Chen Hu was so stupid that he secretly came to me the night before and said that being a secret service company commander was too tiring and that the soldiers under him were too talented and each of them had special skills. He hoped to go back and ask Zhou Xiaoshan for help and transfer him to the newly formed engineering company in Yongzhou.
He loves working the most, including paving roads, building bridges and laying mines!
It's okay to command people to do work, but when a special forces battalion fights, it not only requires victory in every battle, but also zero casualties.
During the bandit suppression in Shaanxi and the conflict at the Taiyuan city gate, his deputy company commanders and platoon leaders were more capable of commanding than him, and the pressure was too great!
What could Zhou Xiaoshan say? Everyone has their own aspirations, and even ten fingers are not the same length. You can't look down on people for having no future. He could only say that he could convey his wishes to the division commander, and when he returned this time, he would be sent to a general company or a newly formed engineering company!
Everything went wrong for Zhou Xiaoshan in Pingjin!
With hundreds of thousands of dollars in his pocket, he was despised by a bunch of large and small foreign companies from Britain, the United States, and Germany.
They introduced themselves as the 66th Sichuan Army Division, but no one had ever heard of it. No foreigner would show up, and they were received by only bastards who were out to cheat their compatriots.
A ragtag division under a warlord wants to make its own guns and bullets. Do you have the financial resources?
Do you think a factory can produce everything? What good things are you dreaming of?
It took Zhang Zuolin more than ten years, and he built it up by buying a lot of second-hand goods from Europe, just in time for the sanctions against Germany after the end of World War I.
Steelmaking furnaces, steel rolling equipment, bullet machines, rifle production equipment, chemical production equipment, gunpowder production equipment, you name it, a very small-scale subsystem starts at more than one million dollars!
As for you, a country bumpkin from the mountains, if you still want to ship the equipment to Yongzhou to settle the final payment and order equipment, you must pay a deposit of more than two-thirds of the equipment price.
The three hundred thousand yuan that Commander Feng had deposited from his family was not even enough to buy a piece of equipment.
Not only Chang Desheng and Zheng Chunhua were dumbfounded, even Zhou Xiaoshan, who was usually calm and composed, had a gloomy face!
He even suspected that Yan Xishan was incompatible with the Sichuan Army and was a disaster star!
Everything was going smoothly.
Since he was kidnapped, the truck broke down twice on the road. As soon as Feng Mingliang arrived in Tianjin, he bought truck parts from Cai Sheng and went back to replace the truck that broke down on the road. Chu Tianshu was even more miserable because the only truck broke down and it has not yet left Hebei Province. He is also waiting for Feng Mingliang and Cai Sheng's team to rescue him.
Every time he received a telegram from the 66th Division, Commander Feng would always remind them in the telegram that they should telegraph for instructions in advance if anything happened, and that the incident in Taiyuan City must not happen again.
I feel depressed just looking at the telegram!
Zhou Xiaoshan has been collecting newspapers these days!
Unexpectedly, the solemn statement in Ta Kung Pao made him spit out blood!
The storm is coming.
Fan Haer published a statement in many newspapers and listed the two ditties and their tunes, saying that they were composed by Feng Tiankui himself and had nothing to do with me.
This is 100% the work of He Guoguang and Kang Ze!
Jealous of the benefits obtained by , the 66th Division was able to achieve the first achievement in recovering the Soviet area of the Fourth Front Army!
There was even an article published after the statement, which specifically introduced the ridiculous deeds of Feng Tiankui of the 66th Division of the Sichuan Army!
Published Mrs. Chiang's reply to the complaint letter from concubine Feng Tiankui!
Even Chu Tianshu and the Guard Battalion were written about, specifically talking about how they studied Zhang Zongchang's poetry collection at night, slandered celebrities of the Republic of China, and used Zhou Xiaoshan's famous quotes out of context!
These bastards are so cruel. The Sichuan Army already had a bad reputation at that time. Isn't this adding insult to injury when attracting investment in Pingjin?
People are always forgetful. When we were in Yongzhou, no matter how you guys slandered me, it would be blown away by the wind. Now at this critical moment, it's too terrible!
