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"Sir, Leng Guoguang sent a telegram from Xinxiang."

"What's the matter?" Lao Jiang raised his head and asked, there has been a lot of news about Xinxiang in the past few days, in addition to Leng Feng's "New Deal" in northern Henan, what "press spokesperson" system is also very hot.

In particular, after Xue Boling visited Xinxiang, he came back to describe his experience in Xinxiang with him, saying that it is now a hot land full of vitality and firepower.

This also made Lao Jiang have an idea of wanting to go and see, of course, he just thought about it, he didn't have time to visit the scenery now.

"Leng Guoguang used the drawings and technology of captured Japanese planes to reach a preliminary secret agreement with Soviet Russia, and the Soviet and Russian sides assisted us in an aircraft assembly factory, and initially reached an export contract for 500 aircraft, two-thirds of which will be assembled in our country, and they will shoot engineers and skilled workers to guide us, and the contract is worth 15 million US dollars."

"Russia actually agreed to help us build an aircraft assembly plant?"

"Yes, I'm surprised by that too, and I don't know how they would have agreed, and it might involve a secret that we don't know?"

"What secret, if Soviet Russia is really willing to do this, fifteen million dollars, five hundred planes, this price is not high, much lower than the price of the aircraft in the aid contract we signed before, right?"

"Yes sir, five thousand dollars low, not counting the cost of building an aircraft assembly plant."

"Looks like we've earned it?" Lao Jiang said a little excitedly.

"However, Leng Guoguang has conditions."

"On what terms?"

"He demanded a controlling stake in this aircraft assembly plant." Lin Wei said.

"What do you mean, such an aircraft assembly plant is a strategic equipment manufacturing plant belonging to the state, how can he own it privately?" Lao Jiang's face was ugly.

"Sir, most of the aircraft manufacturing factories in Western countries also belong to private groups, and Leng Guoguang only asked for a controlling stake, but did not say that the state capital was not allowed to join."

What Lin Wei didn't say was that even if the government wanted to take control, would it be able to get the money now?

The $15 million in aircraft and assembly plants is an additional aid, especially for aircraft, which is now the most urgently needed by the Nationalist Government.

Of course, the production capacity of Soviet Russia cannot keep up now, and such a large contract will take at least three years or even longer to complete.

It is estimated that it will take more than half a year to build an aircraft assembly plant. (This is not what I said, I checked the information, the situation at that time was like this, half a year to build a factory, it is also considered a warrior speed, if it is the current aircraft factory, I am afraid it will not be built in half a year)

"Does he have that much money?" Lao Jiang now suspects more and more that Leng Feng has made a ruthless profit in Nanjing, and the Japanese army has looted the entire city of Nanjing, how much wealth this will get, even if the Japanese army has transported some of it, how much is left, this number is impossible to estimate.

Even if those artifacts can't be turned into cash, these things can be mortgaged from the bank for a large amount of money.

Leng Feng did hand over a lot of precious cultural relics, which are invaluable, but these things cannot be measured, they are national treasures, and they cannot be turned into money.

As for the gold bars and silver dollars, as well as the foreign currency stored in the banks, although most of them were taken with them during the retreat, many of them still fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

This amount is conservatively estimated to be tens of millions of fiat currency.

But Leng Feng didn't mention this money.

Even if this money was swallowed by Leng Feng, he couldn't find any evidence, the money was taken back by Leng Feng from Ri Feng himself, and when he changed his hand, the nature of this ownership changed.

In this matter, Lao Jiang once specially recruited Dai Yunong to him, and asked him very solemnly how much property Leng Feng had gotten from Nanjing.

Dai Yunong was very embarrassed, and he was stunned for a long time and couldn't answer Lao Jiang's question.

In China, there are very few secrets that Dai Yunong does not know, but in this matter, he really has no way to answer Lao Chiang, and there is really no way to count the property plundered by the Japanese himself in Nanjing, and the Japanese army transported a lot of it to Shanghai, and then transported it back to Japan and the mainland by steamer.

The rest were basically transported out of Nanjing by Leng Feng.

It is said that there are twenty wagons in this batch, but in reality there should not be so many, some things are inconspicuous, but very valuable, and some cultural relics must have a huge space to store, but they are not necessarily valuable.

The ancient books and books of cultural relics are filled with four train wagons.

Leng Feng, a cultural relic worth even the city, did not keep it himself, and handed it over to the national government.

Lao Jiang also knew that this question was really difficult to answer, and he did not continue to ask it, but this matter must be explained to the outside world, and many people are worried about it.

Leng Feng's sudden involvement in the aviation field and the construction of an aircraft assembly plant in a joint venture with Soviet Russia was a good thing, but it also aroused Lao Chiang's idea of how much wealth he had snatched back from the Japanese himself when he was in Nanjing.

The national government is poor!

This is a way that when a cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold.

This war is all about money and food, weapons and ammunition, and food, and without money, you can't buy weapons, ammunition, food, or all the materials that can be used in war.

If it weren't for Leng Feng's mastery of an elite army, I am afraid that even if he used force, he would have to get back the wealth he brought out of Nanjing.

With this money, at least the life of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government will be better, it will be able to buy more arms, recruit more soldiers, and no longer have to worry about the word "money" all day long.

Does Leng Feng have money in his hands?

To say that there is money, Leng Feng does have a sum of money in his hand, which is about 30 million legal currency (converted into calculation), which is calculated by converting all the cash and gold and silver brought out of Nanjing.

Of these, 10 million has already been used to buy arms with Yan Laoxi'er.

Five million yuan was used to resettle the refugees who escaped from Nanjing, and this money was earmarked for special use and was not allowed to be misappropriated elsewhere at any time.

The remaining fifteen million, five million are used as military expenses for the new First Army.

The last 10 million is the capital of the Invalids.

Of course, the New First Army received a lot of donations, money, goods, and seized assets, as well as rewards from the national government and military salaries, etc., which can be regarded as an income.

Relatively speaking, the New First Army is relatively wealthy among the domestic troops, but it is not as good as outsiders imagine.

In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the new First Army, the investment is also huge, such as the joint venture with the Russians to set up an aircraft assembly plant, and also to squeeze out 3 million of the 10 million legal currency capital of the Invalides Company to build factories, roads, airports, and related supporting facilities.

According to Leng Feng's design, the Rongjun Company provided a sum of funds for civil engineering and engineering construction, the Nationalist Government found land, and provided talents and related policy resources, while the Soviet and Russian sides provided relevant equipment and technical guidance, which were distributed according to 40 percent, 30 percent, and 30 percent of the equity.

The Soviet and Russian sides only hold half of the 30 shares, which can be regarded as a technical shareholding.

Naturally, the government is mainly invested in the aviation committee, and the land, supporting facilities, and personnel are also regarded as 30 percent.

The Invalids Company is invested in 40 percent of the shares. (The Invalids is also responsible for security.) ）

"Sir, this is a simple equity distribution plan sent by Leng Guoguang, take a look." Lin Wei handed Lao Jiang a document.

"The Invalids?"

"Yes, Leng Guoguang established a company in Wuyi Town, the purpose of its establishment, first, to assist in the resettlement of refugees who escaped from Nanjing, to ensure their basic livelihood, until they can support themselves, and second, to provide a living guarantee for the disabled officers and soldiers of the Honorary First Division, once the soldiers are disabled, it is difficult to find a job after retirement, and now relying on the state's pension, it is far from being able to solve their lives and their families, didn't Mr. also promise Leng Guoguang to give them a piece of land to open an invalids farm? Third, the establishment of some industries, but also to solve the employment of demobilized soldiers, on the other hand, there is also the meaning of industry to save the country, at present is mainly involved in the transportation industry, the Invalids Company has an Oriental shipping company in Hankou, that is, in Wuyi Town decided to follow the honorary first division of the Nie family brothers and sisters in the management. Lin Wei explained.

"No wonder the new army is so capable of fighting, he established such a invalids company, which is equivalent to saying that the hearts of the whole army have been collected, this should be what we should do, but let him do it alone!" Lao Jiang exclaimed.

"Yes, sir, Leng Guoguang has already thought of this when he broke out of Nanjing, and his long-term vision and ambition are really shocking."

"You think he's ambitious, too?"

Lin Wei nodded.

"It's not terrible for a person to be ambitious, ambition is sometimes aggressive, but if a person's ambition is not restrained, it is terrible." Old Jiang Dao.

Lin Wei was silent, it turned out that this was the real reason for Leng Feng in Lao Jiang's heart.

"I can't do this alone, I want to consult my wife's opinion, as well as the opinions of all the members of the aviation committee, I think, I have to hold a special meeting to study it." Old Jiang Dao.

"Madame is still in the United States, now should be a break, do you want to send a telegram to Madame later?" Lin Wei asked.

"Yes, Madame has been working very hard to raise donations from overseas Chinese in the United States recently, don't disturb her rest at this time." Lao Jiang nodded.

"Then how does Leng Guoguang reply, the Soviet and Russian sides have never let go of their cooperation with us to build an aircraft factory, if it weren't for Leng Guoguang's ...... this time"

"You first draw up a telegram and build an aircraft factory, this matter must be led by the government, even if private capital is introduced, it must be approved by the government, as for the holding, this is absolutely impossible." Lao Jiang said with a tough attitude.

"Yes."

Xinxiang, Lao Jiang's return call Leng Feng was quickly received.

For the joint venture factory, Lao Jiang absolutely could not refuse, after all, among the tasks of the teacher in Soviet Russia, he was to seek a joint venture with Soviet Russia to build an aircraft factory.

However, the Soviet and Russian sides have always been not interested in cooperation in this area, they just want to provide the export of complete aircraft, at most help the Chinese side to build one or two repair factories, which can repair damaged aircraft, and if it is a complete aircraft manufacturing, then there will be more engineering and technology involved.

Of course, the aviation technology of Soviet Russia was not too advanced in this era, and it was even relatively backward, but they had established a relatively complete industrial system.

Just give him time to develop, and technology will soon be able to catch up.

Unlike Soviet Russia, China is still a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country, and it is also a predominantly agricultural country, without a complete industrial system.

The Western world prohibits the export of too advanced technology to China, so even if it wants to obtain advanced aircraft manufacturing technology, China will not be able to digest it now.

Soviet technology is of great relevance to a country that has not yet completed industrialization.

The government of the Republic of China, the United States Tiess-Wright Aircraft Company, Douglas Aircraft Company, jointly established the Central Aircraft Factory Hangzhou Company, that is, the "Zhonghang Factory".

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the "Zhonghang Factory" moved west to Hankou, and the factory was temporarily rented in the Daxing warehouse at the riverside wharf in the Japanese Concession to overhaul and assemble the aircraft, and the conditions were very difficult.

"Zhonghang Factory" later moved south to Yunnan, and the name "Zhonghang Factory" is still used

In addition, there was also the Sino-Italian Aircraft Manufacturing Company in Nanchang, which also moved west to Chongqing, which was later the Second Aircraft Factory of the Republic of China.

The first manufacturing plant was the "Sino-German Aircraft Factory" in Shaoguan, Guangdong, which was moved west to Kunming, Yunnan, and later partially moved to Guiyang.

Leng Feng didn't want to touch the cheese of these two aircraft factories, not to mention that the First Aircraft Factory was cooperated by an American and had an American-funded background.

Although the Second Aircraft Factory was built in cooperation between China and Italy, in terms of scale, it was the first of the three major aircraft factories in the Republic of China at that time.

(The first is the Shanghai Hongqiao Aviation Plant.) ）

After Italy became a member of the alliance with Japan and Italy, Italy withdrew its technical researchers, and then the factory was bombed and suffered heavy losses, forcing it to move west to Chongqing.

The Navy's Aircraft Manufacturing Division, which was originally located in Shanghai, and some other repair units were merged and moved to Chengdu as the "Third Aircraft Factory."

In addition to the "Zhonghang Plant", the other three of these four aircraft factories are on the way to migrate and have not yet settled down, that is to say, the first to third aircraft factories in the plan have not yet found a place to settle, and their personnel and equipment are in a disorder.

Leng Feng knows that in the construction of an aircraft factory, talent is the most important, equipment and everything, it is all man-made, the key is people, if he is asked to find a group of people to build aircraft, the rules will not be able to build within three or five years.

Because he doesn't have the resources, nor does he have the ability, but the government has it, and the government has worked hard for so many years, and although the aviation industry is inferior to others, it has at least trained a group of talents and skilled workers.

The Aviation Committee headed by "Madame Chiang" has indeed made contributions to China's aviation industry, and without Madame Chiang, it is estimated that the air force of the Republic of China would not have the strength to struggle with the Japanese army at all.

Leng Feng just wants to borrow chickens to lay eggs.

But how to borrow this "chicken" is a difficult problem, and Lao Chiang's side will definitely have to pass a pass, and there is also Madame Chiang's side, if you don't get her consent, the aviation committee can't do it.