Chapter 1029: Between Gains and Losses

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Decide a lot of things. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAn Yi, who has determined the direction of the exhibition in the coming year, although he is slack, there is not much happiness in his heart, and many times, he has this feeling in his heart: he is like a rich man in brocade clothes and with thousands of dollars in his pocket, but he walks in a withering world and beggars everywhere every day.

No matter how much money is put in the bag and not moved, it is still meaningless, so in addition to increasing investment in scientific research institutions and large enterprises under his command, An Yi felt that the bad traffic conditions in the battle of western Yunnan had a serious impact on the mobilization of troops, so he led his generals and government officials to focus on the large-scale expansion of the 250-kilometer Mabang Road from Lincang to the important Sino-Burmese border town of Huoban via Gengma and the 108-kilometer new road connecting Simao to Jiangcheng in French Annam on the grounds of inspecting the southern Yunnan front line and controlling the bad situation on the border. Conduct a detailed site survey.

A group of civil and military officials had different opinions on An Yi's plan to spend a huge amount of money and use 60,000 soldiers and civilians to invest in the construction of the Lincang-Huoban highway, but they had no opinions on the construction of the Simao-Jiangcheng highway and the construction of several bridges.

Since the beginning of this year, the volume of trade with the French has doubled, and the supply of oil, iron, scrap steel, copper and woolen fabrics through the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway has been continuous. Profitable French colonial government and major multinational corporations. It took only half a year to double the production capacity of the two original refineries, and the four newly built smelters were put into operation one after another, until the end of April this year, 6,000 tons of pig iron and 2,500 tons of crude steel were delivered to the Yunnan Iron and Steel Plant of the Anyi Group every month, plus tens of thousands of tons of scrap steel every month, and the supply accounted for more than one-tenth of the raw materials of the steel plants in southern Sichuan.

In the face of huge profits, the colonial government of Annam was not satisfied, and asked if the Yunnan Iron and Steel Plant, which was under construction and had not yet been completed, could join the procurement ranks and stock up some raw materials for future production. In addition, a large amount of gasoline and diesel produced in Nanyang and brand new equipment purchased from Europe, including a complete set of heavy machinery production equipment sold by the French company Renault to Anyi Group, were transported to Hanoi through Haiphong, the largest port in the north of Annam, and then transferred to the Yunnan-Vietnam railway and waterway to southern Yunnan.

The French colonizers, who had made huge gains, felt that the current transportation capacity could not meet the rapidly increasing trade needs, and that the transportation through the Red River and the Tuojiang River was limited by the long dry period and the dangerous section of the river, and that they could only pull a small train of up to seven wagons per trip on the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, which was completely unable to undertake the heavy trade and transportation tasks. It is hoped that along the north bank of the Tuojiang River in Annam, several sections of the highway will be built to connect with Jiangcheng, an important border town in southern Yunnan.

The construction of this highway in Hanoi and the end point of the river city by the French is very simple, the 240-kilometer road has been repaired more than 160 kilometers 10 years ago, and it is only necessary to build dozens of kilometers of new roads from Laizhou in Annam, and large trucks can drive from Haiphong Port all the way to Jiangcheng in southern Yunnan, which is connected with the new highway network in southern Yunnan.

With the opening of the Yunnan-Vietnam Trade Road, a large number of imported oil products, machinery and equipment and raw materials were directly transported to southern Yunnan through French Annam, and silk and cotton yarn, pig bristles, tung oil, tea, wool, tungsten, antimony, tin and other materials from several southwestern provinces were exported through Annam through this convenient trade route.

First of all, the customs set up by the government of southern Yunnan to collect import and export taxes in strict accordance with the national tax rate, but there is no need to hand over this increasingly large amount of taxes to the central government, which can be used for infrastructure construction in southern Yunnan and even the entire region of Yunnan. Second, the An Yi clique was thus freed from the constraints and suppression of the Chiang Kai-shek clique, and from the control and difficulties of the traitorous comprador cliques such as the Central Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry. In one fell swoop, he realized economic and trade independence, and firmly controlled the fate of survival and development in his own hands.

Therefore, it is of great significance to vigorously and quickly develop the transportation of southern Yunnan, and the strategic significance contained in it has not yet been revealed, and the vast majority of people cannot see it, but it will never affect the close cooperation between southern Yunnan and the French colonial authorities because of the ambiguity of its strategic significance.

The lucrative French would not have cared about the attitude of the Nanking government at all, and for the first time that decades of occupation of Annam had shown such huge economic benefits, how could the northern and northwestern provinces of Annam, which were rich in minerals, still be able to restrain the frenzied plundering of the mercenary colonizers?

What the Anyi Group urgently needs is to increase its war reserves and increase its own economic development, and all efforts are made to establish a solid rear to meet the large-scale war between China and Japan that may come at any time. Under such a premise, the Nanjing government and Chiang Kai-shek could not point fingers at southern Yunnan in a remote place, not to mention that so far, the old Chiang was busy fighting a civil war, and the senior officials of the central government who were high up in the corpse did not look down on the wild land of southern Yunnan, and the huge country was in the midst of frequent disasters and wars, and countless political crises and economic recession and poverty throughout the country were still tormenting the nerves of the vast majority of people. In such a chaotic situation, who would have 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-Khoban highway is mainly because there has not been much substantive progress in the negotiations between the Chinese and British governments. The British government, which had a hard-line attitude, led the negotiations to adjourn the talks, leaving only the higher-level negotiators of the two governments in Nanking to continue the talks.

In this way, it was difficult for the Yunnan Provincial Government and the allied forces in the southwest to accept that the British were trying to exert pressure on the local government by oppressing the central government in Nanjing, and that the victorious side would have to be fooled by the defeated side at this point.

At the end of April, the Yunnan Military and Political Commission decisively decided: 1. Completely close the Sino-Burmese border; 2. The remaining 6,275 Burmese prisoners of war were taken to western Yunnan to build roads, and the other 537 British prisoners were escorted to Syria in the interior, where they were guarded by the Anjia Army, an important part of the campaign in western Yunnan; 3. Expelling all British consular officials in Yunnan.

The Yunnan junta's tough counterattack made the British very angry, and once again there was a clamor for war, and the Southwest Alliance launched Zhan Huanqi, a young general who has become a national hero, and responded in a high-profile manner on behalf of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians in the four southwestern provinces: If you have the ability, you will come, and you will annihilate as much as you want!

As a result, the British did not have the strength to fight and did not want to damage the face of the British Empire and admit their mistakes and pay compensation, and the active mediation of the United States did not make much difference between the two sides that insisted on each other.

On 2 May, 503 British prisoners were escorted to Syria, and then transferred to a closed military horse farm in the north of the Syrian province along with the original 34 prisoners, and the military police headquarters of the Anjia Army mobilized a battalion of military police to take on the task of guarding and managing.

From then on, the British prisoners, who had a great sense of superiority, had to participate in football games, and even two meals a day had to be exchanged for labor, and the military horse farm, which had been exponentially expanded, had to dig drainage ditches and plant new high-nutrient grass seeds, and the prisoners' barracks had to be built by themselves.

On the contrary, the families of the captured officers and soldiers had already crossed the ocean from all over Britain, and every family member of the prisoners of war who came to visit their relatives was warmly received by the officials of the Syrian Church and the external liaison department of the Syrian camp.

The reception of family members can be warm. They can care about the lives of their families in Syria, and the poor families can even get paid for their own labor, but the strict regulations of the army have nothing to say about it.

The humanitarian spirit and strict military discipline displayed by the An Jiajun made the European and American missionaries and the British people full of emotion, and none of the thousands of captives' families made a noise, and they no longer dared to ask the local government and army to give preferential treatment beyond the regulations in the posture of subjects of the British Empire. It was already rare to have such treatment today, so all the pressure was quickly transferred to the British Embassy and Consulates in China and the British government. What is difficult is that the Syrian government does not allow any country to set up embassies, consulates and government offices. Originally, the British had a semi-official economic and trade liaison office. However, it has been withdrawn in the early stage of Sino-British relations. The villa on Huayuan Street, the financial and commercial center, was repossessed by the Syrian government camp at twice the original purchase price, and now it is impossible to buy it for three times the price, and the family members who urgently need to negotiate with the British embassy and consulate officials can only take a boat or a long-distance bus to Chongqing.

Only the top representatives of the two sides were left in Nanjing. During the long three-month recess of the Kunming talks, An Yi took the initiative to hold a meeting with the Yunnan provincial government on import and export taxes, and generously distributed 50 percent of the tariff rights to Yunnan Province, requiring only a few inspectors from the Yunnan Provincial Department of Finance to dispatch a few inspectors at the two customs ports.

An Yi's move made Yunnan very grateful, from Yuxi to Yuanjiang, the northernmost county town in southern Yunnan, along the way people of all ethnic groups, under the inspiration of An Jiajun, organized themselves, under the command of officials of the Yunnan Provincial Government's Construction Department and more than 100 engineers, launched a huge road construction campaign, from Anning, Yuxi to Yuanjiang, along the way seven counties and more than 100 towns and towns 70,000 people brought their own food and cooking utensils, devoted themselves to it, and made every effort to build and expand the standard highway from Kunming to Yuanjiang, and the progress of the project was carried out with an astonishing degree of tension.

In this regard, An Yi and An Jiajun, who were deeply moved, once again made an important decision to set aside 5 million yuan in the form of step-by-step investment within half a year to build hospitals and schools for seven county towns and 11 large towns along the Kunming-Yuanjiang highway. and cover the full cost of all students while in school.

The move has been the subject of numerous news reports. It was an instant sensation across the country. Wu Zhihui, dean of the central government examination, Yu Youren, a veteran of the party-state, and others quickly formed an inspection group and began a month-long special investigation of Syria and Yunnan, and the reputation of An Yi and An Jiajun rose sharply.

However, just when An Yi was committed to the construction of the southwest, the Red Army began a difficult and arduous years, and the fierce civil war seemed to be at the last moment, and all kinds of news and rumors of fierce fighting prevailed together, which shocked the people of the whole China. ,