Collusion with the Red USSR, smuggling weapons across borders? It's really a perfect crime to completely tie Huang Haoran to the thief ship. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Bogomolov and Cherepanov are obviously giving big gifts, but in fact they are playing a set.

If it's not my race, its heart will be different, and Lao Maozi is really nasty enough to be selfish, worthy of being a rogue polar bear.

Huang Haoran pondered for a moment, he had to consider the pros and cons before he spoke. $30 million in aid, a big piece of fat. But if it is not handled well, it can choke people to death.

Swallow must be swallowed, but it must be with some wisdom.

Smuggling certainly won't work. Although Huang Haoran is now on the Yunnan line, he has the convenience of the Yunnan-Burma Highway. However, if the Soviet Union was in the north, if it was transported by sea to Yangon Port and then transported into the country, it would not only take a lot of trouble, but also be easily exposed. There is such a thing as a bottom-the-table transaction, the fewer people who know the insider, the better, and there is no need to register with the British, who have a very poor character.

With the exception of Yangon, China no longer has ports under its control, and the sea routes are cut off. In fact, the only official channels for receiving goods are the road and air transport on the Xinjiang border.

The first step is to discard air freight, which is an expensive mode of transport that can only be used for emergencies or to transport small, high-value goods. What Huang Haoran asked the Soviets for an arsenal and supporting industrial equipment, and a World War II aircraft with propellers to transport lathes, blast furnaces, and production lines? I'm afraid that even the Yankees don't have the capacity to transport it.

The last option can only be the road. From Xinjiang to Sichuan, the distance of thousands of kilometers is long and dangerous. Now Moscow has sold $30 million, which is equivalent to 60% of the first phase of the aid loan between China and the Soviet Union. You don't have to think about it to know that the amount of supplies you need to accept is absolutely terrifying. This means a lot of trucks, drivers, and quite a bit of time. There is no possibility for such a large transportation project to be completely confidential!

Look at the list of the first three batches of Soviet aid, how many aircraft, artillery and combat vehicles there are. The Wuhan government's Ministry of Communications and the army's logistics department have been transporting them for several months, and a large amount of supplies are still piling up at the border.

You must know that the total price of these three batches of materials together is only 50 million US dollars! Huang Haoran estimated that it would take at least three months for the supplies promised to him by the Soviets to be fully delivered.

Well~ a different way of thinking must be done.

It is better to raise a cow than to have milk, and to take as few space-consuming and time-consuming things as possible, such as firearms and ammunition, should be emphasized, and the focus should be on the production line and supporting factories of the arsenal.

"The large integrated military factory is too eye-catching, and I plan to spread out the different production lines, all under the name of the repair shop. The 7.62 mm bullet production line should be built with the highest priority, with an annual output of no less than 20 million rounds, followed by the artillery shell production line, and the minimum output must be able to compensate for the annual consumption of combat troops; Rifle production lines, light and heavy machine gun production lines, and 82-mm mortar production lines should also be built; I don't expect to make field artillery and howitzers myself, but at least I need to be able to repair them, especially the barrels, which require a lot of spare parts; Iron and steel plants and various parts processing plants should also set up projects as soon as possible. All of the above projects will be brought in first, and the training of infrastructure and skilled workers can be postponed, but the date of official production cannot be later than September 1939......"

While Huang Haoran was talking, Bogomolov and Cherepanov took out pens and notepads to record, which at first glance was a good habit developed in the Soviet Union.

But that's not the point, Moscow is more concerned about how Huang Haoran plans to get the aid. At least in Stalin's view, Huang Haoran had no second option other than to betray the Wuhan government and side with Moscow.

Come on, open your mouth, turn to Moscow for help...... Cherepanov roared in his heart, he couldn't wait to subdue China's strongest general.

"$30 million, all invested in the military industry, this time I only need equipment, technology and steel! Similar equipment was included in the subsequent deliveries. You just need to play around with the checklist and you can easily bring in the equipment I need. ”

"Tricks? What kind of tricks? Please forgive me, I don't quite understand what you said......" Cherepanov interrupted Huang Haoran, he wondered if the Chinese army general was thinking things too simply, how could $30 million in military equipment be transported into China without knowing it just by revising the list? It's a fantasy.

"I obviously know more about my country's officials than you do. I admit that the government is now keeping a tight eye on aid because of the number of major corruption cases that have been involved in the past. But the focus of their surveillance is on munitions, and industrial equipment is not among them......"

Huang Haoran's speed of speech was very slow, his words were well thought out, from an unknown colonel-level officer all the way to the position of army general, Huang Haoran has seen all kinds of shortcomings in the officialdom of the Republic of China, and naturally knows how to deal with it.

"For example, a production line for Mosin Nagant rifles, a line for Czech Galev light machine guns, and a line for Maxim heavy machine guns were all dismantled and mixed together. If you don't say it, who knows it's three different lines? In the eyes of government officials, they are nothing more than machines...... So we only need to change the label on the outer packaging, and multiple production lines can be introduced as one, and the total amount spent will not change. ”

This trick is exactly the stealing of the day in the thirty-six schemes, and it is used by Huang Haoran here, it is really a god!

"Your Excellency means that we can label the equipment for the production of 76-mm field artillery shells with the equipment for the production of 7.62-mm rifle cartridges? And even another line of 82mm mortars can be mixed in? ”

Huang Haoran's bold idea stunned Bogomolov and Cherepanov. In their imagination, there has never been such a possibility, it is too unconventional!

"Why not? The task of receiving supplies is so heavy, and the boxes are not filled with ammunition waiting for urgent use, who will have the spare time to open and check them? ”

The corners of Huang's mouth were raised, and he was happy to introduce the rules of the game of Chinese officialdom to the two Soviets opposite.

"But when the equipment will eventually go into production, how do you explain that?"

Bogomolov asked his question, but Huang Haoran had already prepared the answer.

"I will tell the military council that the Soviet friends made a mistake in their busyness and sent us equipment that was not on the list."

"Would anyone believe such a ridiculous reason?"

In an anxious tone, the Soviet ambassador could not hold his breath.

"Does the reason matter? I don't think so! What's more, a large number of equipment that was not on the list appeared in the supplies, but the government did not have to pay a penny. I think they'd like to have more ...... if they made a mistake like this."

After thinking about it for a while, Bogomolov realized that it was really possible for the Wuhan government to do so. Swallowing tens of millions of dollars worth of equipment in vain, why should such a good thing of making a fortune in a muffled voice be publicized?

Cherepanov on the side was in a hurry, Moscow needed Huang Haoran's handle, and Stalin probably would not accept such a result.

"Won't your government take the equipment back when they find out?"

"Retracted? It will take at least a few months to disassemble, transport and reassemble the equipment, still with enough technicians. The Japanese will not stop, and the war between China and Japan will become more and more intense. Stopping the factory that was finally built and put into operation led to a shortage of guns and ammunition for the front-line combat troops, and it was also necessary to offend a second-class army general with more than 100,000 elites in his hands. Such a stupidity, maybe Stalin would have done ... Our commission will never be ......"

"That's... Then you're not afraid, we tear up the agreement? ”

To be able to say such a thing means that Cherepanov has been carried away by blood. No way, his blood pressure is too high at the moment.

"You won't, because the Kwantung Army has not been weakened yet, and Moscow will definitely push it with all its strength in the battle of Tianjiazhen......"

At this point, the initiative of the matter has completely fallen into the hands of Huang Haoran, and Bogomolov and Cherepanov have been completely defeated. (To be continued.) )