Chapter 456 is a little bit close

In Meng Xiang's impression, diplomacy is always endless, and an elastic band can be pulled into a ruler to measure the circumference of the earth.

Naturally, these diplomats of the vanguard army and Soviet Russia came to grind their teeth, and these did not prevent the vanguard army from continuing to advance. Those places where there are Soviet troops can be bypassed for the time being.

With the previous experience of the vanguard army in annihilating the Soviet Russian army, others will not think that the vanguard army is admitting cowardice. On the contrary, after seeing Soviet Russia and the vanguard army sitting at the negotiating table, those who still had scruples in their hearts began to flatter the vanguard army. All of a sudden, there was an endless stream of those who connected to the power and surrender. Hundreds of kilometers away, the city gates were opened to welcome the arrival of the vanguard army.

Meng Xiang counted his pockets, gritted his teeth and divided the New Eighth Army to start capturing southern Xinjiang. The places that were attacked and laid need to be fed by the vanguard army's subsistence allowance, and that is tens of millions of mouths out of thin air.

"However, it doesn't seem like it's going to be a loss." Meng Xiang had already begun to calculate the use of resources at this time.

Shihezi, Karamay, Tarim and other places are rich in oil, and Altay's gold and copper mines, if used, can easily solve financial problems. It's just that the sub-base is full, and you can only count on the changes after the upgrade.

"Lay, how far is it from being promoted to the third level?" Meng Xiang's heart was also full of expectations, as he attacked the city everywhere and plundered the land, desperately accumulating, the upgrade of the base was already close at hand.

There is not much difficulty left to fight, with Sheng Shicai's escape, the effects of various places, all that remains is to receive. Meng Xiang waited for the merit value to arrive.

As the Russians slowly rolled into a diplomatic stumbling incident, it seemed that the crisis was slowly dissipating.

But Meng Xiang knew that the Russians would never give up, although he had not yet heard the news of Sheng Shicai, but some vague clues had already pointed to Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia grabbed the line of Sheng Shicai to plan for a future turnaround. However, the Russians also apparently underestimated the low security weapon of the vanguard army. After the implementation of the subsistence allowance in the territory occupied by the pioneer army, the popularity of the vanguard army increased sharply. As long as the vanguard army has a firm foothold, Meng Xiang is not afraid of what they are doing in it.

There doesn't seem to be anything going on internationally, the Germans don't stir, and the European front is still stuck in sit-down battles. The British and French squatted in the bunkers, looking at the Germans from a distance, and no matter how they looked at it, they didn't want to look like they had already declared war. This is also something that Soviet Russia has always feared. But by this time they were already in the swamp of Finland.

In order to drag the Russians for a longer time, Meng Xiang continued to trade weapons with the Finns. The anxious Finns were also willing to exchange real money for weapons. Sales of Suomi submachine guns, Rainstorm machine guns, and Elephant anti-tank guns are constantly increasing. Even if the Soviet planes and tanks were superior, they were just as helpless in the face of the Finnish forests. On the contrary, it is not as flexible as the weapons of the Finns.

In this way, the Russians were ridiculed by the whole world with greater casualties than in the original history. Their energies had already been focused on the west, and this was the indulgence of the vanguard army.

The Russians trekked through the forests of Finland and did not know if they would be able to meet Santa Claus.

Before you know it, Christmas is coming in the Western world. Unlike in turbulent Europe, life in the United States is much easier and more comfortable. The United States, which has come out of the whirlpool of economic crisis, has returned to the good days of singing and dancing.

Hollywood is the best place to reflect these changes. It's been a good year for Hollywood, with money in their pockets and Hollywood offering classic blockbusters.

"Gone with the Wind," which has been sent for more than three years this year, has finally been released, and the final box office of this film, which invested nearly four million, is nearly $200 million. Compared to the era when the B-29 aircraft was only more than 600,000 US dollars, this is definitely a huge amount of money. Meng Xiang was tired of selling arms, but he only sold a few hundred million. In the past 37 years, China's total industrial production has only exceeded $1.3 billion.

This money really made Meng Xiang's eyes hot, but Gone with the Wind had already started filming and fundraising, and it was difficult to mix it in, and there may be some other unspoken rules at the box office at that time, which were not something that Meng Xiang could operate. However, Meng Xiang's shadow company still threw out $1 million to invest in it and obtained the right to 15% of the box office dividends.

With the premiere on the 15th, a lot of money is rolling in. Although it is impossible to reach a high point all at once, it is still possible for Meng Xiang to count on this income to come in 10 million US dollars.

It has also become a classic for 39 years, and the children's drama "The Wizard of Oz", like "Gone with the Wind", was produced by director Victor. Fleming's Hand. Dorothy, the timid lion, the scarecrow who wants to find a brain, and the tin man who wants to find a heart are all classics that children are familiar with. This "The Wizard of Oz", which was called two classics in the original 39 years, is now challenged by an animated film from China.

It took more than a year and the hard work of thousands of people, and finally "Havoc in Heaven" was released in October.

However, this cartoon from China has encountered indifference in promotion, and the country of China is weak, so that those Europeans and Americans are not even interested in appreciating it. Meng Xiang had no choice but to dispatch the shadow company and played a boo to challenge "The Wizard of Oz". The civilizations of the East and the West collided with the competition between Havoc and The Wizard of Oz.

One of the two is a children's drama and the other is a cartoon, and there is no place for fierce conflict at all, but the groups for both are children, and they are hung up with the brands of Eastern mythology and Western fairy tales, so under the provocation of third-rate tabloids, there is this showdown.

This is undoubtedly beneficial to "Havoc in Heaven", originally many foreigners were not interested in it, but after having a comparison, after watching one part, I always want to watch another one to have a comparison. Meng Xiang believes that as long as they watch "Havoc in Heaven", they will inevitably be attracted by this film. This kind of film is a pleasure even for adults to watch.

"I want to see monkeys! I want to see monkey monkeys! "A little boy of three or four years old kept crying.

"Tom, what's wrong? Why don't you just take your son in and see it? A dollar ticket isn't expensive! I accompanied my son to see it, it was very good, the monkey was great. A stout man next to him led his six-year-old son and couldn't help but smile at Tom, who was unable to do anything with the child, and his son was still imitating Sun Wukong's movements and grimacing at the little boy.

"It's not that we don't watch it, we've watched it three times, but he still wants to see the monkey." Tom said helplessly.

"Oh, yes, there's a puppet selling that monkey at the counter over there, and a monkey mask, go buy one for him to play with, and he might not cry." The stout man gestured into the distance.

A lot of people crowded there to buy one, and Tom spent half a day buying a puppet.

In a corner of the hall, a stout man was scrambling to help watch the little boy.

"What about Doris? Does she have no time to watch the children at work? The stout man asked as he returned the little bean to Tom and wiped the sweat from his head.

"She and my daughter went to see The Wizard of Oz!" Tom said helplessly.

The same situation plays out everywhere, girls like to watch "The Wizard of Oz", and boys like to watch "Havoc".

And Meng Xiang prefers to listen to the sound of dollars falling into his pocket.

"We're expected to make $20 million." Zhou Bai next to him was dancing a little. Who would have thought that an animated film could sell tens of millions of dollars at the box office.

Meng Xiang knows that this is the most conservative estimate, because with the hot sales of "Havoc in Heaven", if you add the box office in Europe, you will earn even more.

However, thinking of the more perverted "Gone with the Wind", Meng Xiang has already come up with the idea of continuing to make movies, even if he doesn't know much about it, but after watching so many films, he has depicted some bridges and techniques to be handled by professionals, which is likely to be a classic. Meng Xiang doesn't ask for more, a film of more than 10 million dollars a year is enough. He has all kinds of themes in his mind, and when he thinks of the blockbusters with grand scenes in later generations, Meng Xiang can't help but think of the "Shu Mountain" that is being filmed.

When he first met the owner of Huanzhu Mansion, he had the idea of shooting a blockbuster with Chinese characteristics. If it is filmed in 40 years, at least it can be raked in the United States.

"It's all money!" Meng Xiang couldn't help but think of the scene of golden coins falling from the sky in the future. Films like "Shu Mountain", which can not only promote Chinese culture, the arrogant temperament of the sword fairy, but also weaken the image of braids, are still worth excavating, at least to enhance the overall image of China.

Otherwise, the vanguard army invited people to go to China in Europe, but they were always refused. One of the reasons is that the backward and ignorant image of Chinese people dragging pigtails has become a fixed pattern among Europeans and Americans. Even Tesla is no exception to this, and he has always expressed doubts about whether he can do a good experiment in Huaxia.

"Huaxia, I know. But I'm not a biologist and don't study the relationship between braids and tails. Tesla's mouth is also mean at times, "As for the state-of-the-art test equipment you are talking about, it can't be something from a Chinatown restaurant, right?" ”

Tanya blinked, she had lost faith in persuading Tesla. She reminded him to go into Tesla's lab, and the Tesla who had been interrupted jumped to his feet in a rage. Although he lost his personal freedom at this time, he was still able to do his beloved experiments. He didn't want to go out into the world and face the faces of hypocrisy. As for the distant China, he didn't want to go even more. It was too backward there, and getting there was simply a delay in his time.

"It's time to take one last resort." Tanya whispered to herself, "There has never been such a thing as a failure in my actions. ”

"I'm sorry, Mr. Tesla." Tanya didn't give Tesla more opportunities to protest, and after the persuasion failed, Tesla was directly fascinated and was recited by Tanya.

For this operation, the two spies did a lot of sabotage, the power outage and the fire attracted the attention of the Tesla defense personnel, and with the cooperation of five team members, they successfully boarded the small submarine lurking nearby in the dark night. Behind them are the constant sound of alarms, Morgan will not give up this cash cow, and the US government absolutely does not want some of Tesla's achievements to fall into someone else's pocket.

However, none of them stopped the submarine that escaped from the bottom of the water. When Tanya and the others helped Tesla, who was still a little dizzy, to board an ocean-going cargo submarine, all the vigilance of the United States was left behind. However, if they want to return to China, they need to go around half the world.

This has already made Meng Xiang ecstatic, although it was forcibly kidnapped, but if Tesla comes, there is always a way to keep him. Although upgrading the third-level base, Meng Xiang estimated that Huaxia's scientists would be enough. But if there is one more god, there are more possibilities to understand the base.

At this time, Meng Xiang's heart had been speculating about the appearance of the third-level base. But it seems that the reality is a little colder. Seeing that almost the whole has fallen into the hands of the vanguard army. But his merit value is still a little bit worse.

"Why is it that the area I occupy is only a small merit?" Meng Xiang had to ask Xiaohuadao.

Xiaohua still answered in the standard style of a little more modal words, which made Meng Xiang quickly understand why he had occupied so much land recently, but he had not improved his merits a lot.

Although nominally belonging to the Vanguard Army, the Vanguard Army has not yet arrived and is not yet under control in some places. In addition, the other places are all underdeveloped areas, and the population and accumulated social wealth are relatively small, so simply the territory is large, which can only be one aspect. Coupled with some elements of civil war, it is easy to extract, so the merit value given by the base is not very high. That is, the area is large, so we can see a significant increase.

"It's just a little bit close!" Meng Xiang said with pity, but he also knew that even if it was so little, the three Yamato produced would not necessarily make up for it.

"Don't worry, Qinghai hasn't been fully occupied yet. After occupying Qinghai, isn't there still Tibet? "Meng Xiang calculated, compared with the production and killing of the enemy's military merits, the speed of increasing the merit value of the land occupied is still not slow, although the score of occupying Qinghai and other places is low, but it can't stop these large areas of territory, and it is easy to capture. A team runs for a day, and no one cares about the occupied territory.

Lao Chiang didn't say much about the actions of the vanguard army, and compared with Sheng Shicai, who took refuge in Soviet Russia, Lao Chiang hoped that the vanguard army could gain control and drive Soviet Russia out.

Although the Soviet Union and Russia provided more than 200 million US dollars in aid to the central government, these were not taken for nothing, and they needed to be returned with interest, and rare ores and crops could be used when they were returned. However, there are still many hungry people in China, and future generations still need to import a large number of rare minerals from abroad.

At this time, the Russians had already begun to explore and exploit the Hoh West Sea deposit in Fuyun County.

This cocoa West Sea deposit was later repaid with rare ores to pay off 40 percent of the foreign debt owed to Soviet Russia, and the abundance of minerals was called a holy pit. The recovery price of rare ores is very high, far exceeding the actual price at this time, and Meng Xiang himself is reluctant to use base vehicles to mine, let alone cheap Soviet Russia. At this time, although they were still fighting with Soviet Russia, things could not be shipped out at all.

But that's all there is to it, and the vanguard army can't force Soviet Russia too much. After all, the vanguard army is still a little weaker. In the coming year, Soviet Russia will be cleaned up weaker, and the vanguard army will develop stronger, and when the time comes, Meng Xiang will be able to directly point at Stalin's nose and say no.

"To be strong, you still need to use the base." Although Meng Xiang has begun to develop his own military industry, he also knows that without the help of the base, it will take at least another fifty years for Huaxia to rise to the same level as Soviet Russia. And with the help of the base, it may take another year or two to hope that it will become a world-class military power. If the base is upgraded again, this hope will be more certain.

"Level up!" At this time, Meng Xiang only had one thought in his heart.

"Ge Laozi, I'm out of breath." Deng Shaohu thinks that he has climbed a lot of mountains and mountains since he was a child, but he is out of breath when he climbs these small hills that don't look very high, and after only walking a few roads, he feels as tired as climbing a few mountains, and even his beloved Suomi feels that he can't carry it.

A well-prepared regiment of the mountain troops sent by Meng Xiang had already crossed the Kunlun Pass and marched towards Tanggula Mountain. Deng Shaohu personally led the team, and it was difficult for cars to travel in many places, and sometimes it was not as convenient as mules and horses. If it weren't for the fact that planes often dropped supplies to them at high altitudes, I am afraid that they would be even more difficult.

"Commander, come and breathe. This qi cultivation is to cultivate people, and it is comfortable when you inhale it. No wonder it's called nourishing qi! Tian Erwa, the guard next to her, rushed up from behind and handed over a leather tube, but the other end was carried in the back basket of a yak.

Pang Xingmou, the regimental staff officer at the back, walked a few steps over, grinning far-fetchedly, but didn't say anything. Instead, Deng Shaohu looked at the row of yaks following behind him, and said with a long breath: "This thing is better than our car." There are more than a dozen cars lying on their stomachs, and this cow is fine. Thanks to buying these yaks halfway through. ”

Pang Xingmou, who came up with this idea, smiled again, looked at the team behind him, and couldn't help but say, "Division Commander, it's time to rest." ”

"Okay, order to go down and rest for half an hour." After Deng Shaohu gasped for a few breaths, he still felt stuffy in his chest, holding his breath, and after a short rest, he couldn't help but say again: "Ask, that guide Luosang, see when we can get to Tibet?" ”

"I know that." Pang Xingmou, who was standing there gasping for a few big breaths, raised his slightly trembling right index finger and pointed forward: "After the Tanggula Mountain in front, we are officially standing on the land of Tibet." ”RO！ ~！