"Oh! Barb! You see, these are the best stockings! "Ella. Taylor pointed to the puppet model's slender thighs in the window with his right hand, and grabbed Barbara with his left hand. In the corner of Roland's dress, the mouth covered with a thick layer of lipstick opened wide, squeezing the exaggerated wrinkled eyes even smaller, but the light from the thin lines of eyes seemed to be a little red and green.

"How I wish someone had given me a pair too! That Lilith is better looking than me, and Charlie would take a fancy to her? Remembering what happened this morning, Ella was angry. In the morning, when Lilith walked through the crowd in black translucent stockings and a short skirt that was just over her knees, the stunned gazes of all the men present simply drove every lady crazy.

"What? Not for sale? No goods, will you have to wait until three days later? Oh, my God! After Ella asked the salesperson in the store, she scratched at Barbara with a frustrated face, "I still have to buy from distant China." However, Huaxia silk is better than this silk! ”

Ella didn't know that this new stocking was not made of silk, but if Meng Xiang heard her last words, he would happily give her a pair, no matter how far away her appearance was from his aesthetics.

In the previous life, the reason for the sneak attack on the United States was a comprehensive surname, but the fact that nylon squeezed out the market of the silk must have made him unhappy.

In addition to making clothes, raw silk can also be used in the military, such as parachutes. At this time, there were not many wars in the United States, and 60% of the raw silk was used to process into stockings.

Women have a natural interest in stockings, so you can imagine how big this cake is. Raw silk is not cotton and linen, and its high price and high profit have always been one of the main sources of foreign exchange in China.

At this time, after the coastal areas of China, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, were occupied, a large part of the raw silk was directly controlled by the person himself, and it was said that at this time it was the country with the most raw silk exports and an absolute advantage in the world, and the United States was the country that imported the most raw silk in the world at that time. China's raw silk exports do not have much autonomy, and many of China's raw silk are sold to Europe and the United States. At the same time, more people are importing large quantities of crude oil, steel, munitions, and other materials from the United States.

As long as we understand the background of the Americans who control steel, oil, munitions, and other materials, we will know why the US political axe is so indulgent in its own aggressive behavior.

A large number of elite troops were deployed in the northeast and Inner Mongolia, which also made Britain and the United States see the hope of dealing with Soviet Russia, and a large number of economic interests were involved, even President Roosevelt did not dare to point out the names of the aggressors in his speech calling for the establishment of an anti-aggressor "epidemic prevention line" in October last year, that is, he did not dare to offend the aggressors and the consortium behind them.

The Americans have been investing heavily in the munitions industry and helping them build a modern military industry. The Ford Corporation of the United States provided modern metallurgical technology, the Rockefeller consortium helped the company establish a new electrical industry, and the Mellon consortium helped to further modernize the aircraft industry. After the fall of Northeast China in 31, DuPont also transferred a formula for ammonia explosives to the company for the cheap production of munitions, which Hoover also privately praised.

In '37, the value of the planes sold by the United States to Yueben was $2.484 million, but 38 years after the Americans shouted the so-called 'moral embargo', the value of the planes sold by the United States to Yueben increased to $17.454 million. It cannot but be said to be a kind of irony.

The important strategic raw materials needed for this cost, such as iron sand, lead, tin, manganese, petroleum, rubber, etc., are almost entirely imported from the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands. This huge cake is obviously bigger than the shy transaction in Huaxia's political axe. China's self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy meant that the amount of products imported from Britain and the United States was relatively small compared to the market. As a result, Britain and the United States, which were valuing practical interests, quickly made a choice after adding the weight of Soviet Russia, and Lao Chiang had no choice but to turn to Soviet Russia.

In 38, Soviet Russia provided China with a loan of $100 million to buy Soviet weapons. In the same year, the United States gave $125 million in loans and credits to the United States to purchase strategic materials such as machine tools from the United States and to strengthen the war machine of the United States in its invasion of China.

Meng Xiang could also only watch the Central Army deliver the order to Soviet Russia and even the Germans. This trick provides loans, and he can't learn the method of credit. The Central Army also bought more than 10 million arms from him, but it was still much worse than what it bought from foreigners. He needed cash, but the Central Army didn't have that much cash.

Last time, Meng Xiang inadvertently learned about the raw silk situation through the pilot's use of a parachute, so he couldn't help but think of the stockings turmoil that would occur in the United States in the future.

After DuPont expanded the production scale of nylon, it launched nylon stockings, which are more elastic than raw silk, easier to shape, light and smooth, and transparent. It ignited the woman's madness at once, and more than 70,000 pairs on the first day were swept away. Although it was initially priced at only $2, as the war began, nylon was included in the list of military strategic goods. As a result, a pair of nylon stockings on the black market was even sold for $3,000 to $4,000. You know, at this time, the price of an ordinary family car is only about two or three hundred dollars, and a rifle can be bought for more than ten dollars.

Such a windfall profit is unforgettable. So as soon as Meng Xiang heard raw silk and American stockings, he thought of it.

Although nylon has now been invented, it has not yet been disclosed in the laboratory, and the process for mass production has not been found. At least until 1940, nylon stockings will not appear, which means that I have to hold on to the raw silk resources of China to make money for another two years.

This is very unpleasant. Meng Xiang couldn't help but think of the nylon parachute produced by the base.

As the training of pilots increased, the frequency of use of parachutes also increased, and silk weaving was used at first, and with the upgrading of the base, cheap nylon parachutes could be made.

The material of the nylon parachute is naturally nylon, which is still rare now, and after being processed, a nylon parachute becomes hundreds or even more pairs of nylon stockings.

It's just that the process and technology needed in the middle are a little troublesome, and the pioneer army invited Zhuang Changgong, who is more famous for engaging in organic chemistry, stayed in Shanghai, Qiu Zongyue, who came from Tianjin, and Zhang Hongyuan, who studied chemical engineering, and finally completed the whole process after three months of hard work with several textile experts.

Taking advantage of the large number of female workers in the base area, Meng Xiang built a well-guarded silk stocking factory and began to disassemble and weave nylon stockings by parachutes in large quantities.

This piece of fat can be swallowed by yourself. So with the help of the trade of the shadow company, the nylon silk dressed in the coat of Chinese divine silk officially landed in the United States and Europe at the same time in May, when the weather was getting hotter and hotter. In order to be an instant hit, according to the revelations in later action education films, styles such as suspenders, hollows, and fishing nets were also produced. Red, black, flesh-colored, and white styles have been researched and colored. A group of slender female models who were invited at a high price were dressed in short skirts and stockings that were not very short, and the temptation was exerted to the point where they could directly detonate **.

As a result, a lot of money began to pour into a very cheesy company called Caiyun Clothing.

Monopoly is the need for windfall profits to consolidate its position.

The high price of $20 for ordinary nylon stockings did not stop the enthusiasm of women to be coquettish to men. When 100,000 pairs of stockings were out of stock a week, Meng Xiang was a little surprised by the purchasing power of this era. You know, one dollar at this time is more durable than ten dollars in the future.

But even so, nylon stockings are still far from in short supply, and the black market has been hyped up to $50 a pair. And the high-end erotic nylon stockings with a direct price of $100 are even more difficult to find, and some people on the black market sell for $500. This surprised Meng Xiang even more, but the production capacity of the base is all that, and it is impossible to increase it a lot at once. All of the empty finger centers have already used their free time to produce parachutes, but it will take a while to convert them into stockings.

Windfall profits are not endless, though. When DuPont came to the door a little annoyed, Meng Xiang accepted it when he saw it.

DuPont already held the patent of nylon in his hand at this time, and compared it with Caiyun Company's stockings, he came directly to the door. They spent more than 25 million US dollars and spent more than ten years to develop nylon, and when they were industrializing nylon, a nylon seller suddenly appeared, which was undoubtedly very fatal.

After the suicide of Carothers, the inventor of nylon, all the patents for nylon were already DuPont's. The background of the big arms supplier behind DuPont forced Meng Xiang to consider the cooperation between the two sides.

After some verbal negotiations, it was finally determined that Huaxia's Caiyun Company could always have the right to use nylon freely in Huaxia and the right to sell products, but the export was limited to the sale of stockings, and the period was three years.

In return, DuPont helped Caiyun's subsidiary, Qinghuo, build an organic chemical processing plant in Huaxia for the production of chemicals. The equipment and technology were purchased cheaply by Qinghuo through DuPont, and the company was located in Dongying, at the mouth of the Yellow River.

Dongying, there is not much shadow of the city now, it is just a small village. Although it is located at the mouth of the Yellow River in the Yellow River Delta, there is no high-quality port because of the Yellow River. The sediment has buried everything. Although there are no large ports, they have been built in later generations with a capacity of 10,000 tons.

With the help of the base, a shipyard with its own dock can be built directly in the Bohai Sea in the future, and it can be connected to the land by pipelines and bridges, roads and railways, and ships of 10,000 tons can be docked directly. In the case of the first-level base, the shipbuilding center can be built in the seawater at a depth of 5 meters, and in the area directly under the jurisdiction of the second-level base, the shipbuilding center can be built in the seawater at a depth of 10 meters.

A channel with a water depth of 10 meters is enough for merchant ships of 10,000 tons.

Meng Xiang also chose this place because of the oil resources here.

As the location of Shengli Oilfield, the second largest oil field in China in another time and space, Dongying might have become the chemical city of China if it were not for the lack of strategic depth and high-quality ports.

Even when it is not suitable to develop oil fields, it will not affect the current scale of chemical production, and only a small amount of oil imported from abroad can be supported. Through this incident, the Vanguard Army got on the line with several oil giants in the United States. The Americans came directly to deliver the oil, and he said that he did not dare to stop it. As long as Americans want to, performances under any pretext can win an Oscar.

Most of the oil used on the ground is self-produced, but in order to hide people's eyes, oil is also being imported. Even if there is a blockade, it will not be able to stop the merchant ships of Britain and the United States. As long as there is the light of money, hell will also become a paradise for capital to chase. The strength of oil companies such as Britain and the United States made him not dare to be too embarrassed. It's just that both sides have agreed not to send sensitive materials such as arms.

In the past, Meng Xiang didn't have much money in his hands, so he didn't dare to buy a large amount of oil. The cost of directly using coal to turn oil into oil, the source of coal does not need to spend money, so the cost is extremely low. If this is not the case, just by virtue of the difference between the base and the price of oil, Meng Xiang can also buy oil to make a lot of profits. But all the money in Meng Xiang's hands has been used in reality to maintain the normal operation of the economic system of the special economic zone in reality.

Only when he invested money in the base, Meng Xiang bought oil from outside and put it into the base to earn more of the difference. But now with the vigorous exploitation of the Middle East sub-base, Meng Xiang no longer invests money in the base, and the base is completely self-sufficient. If it weren't for the fact that the money in the base couldn't be withdrawn, Meng Xiang could directly use the money to solve some economic problems in the base. However, the arms produced through the base can be recouped as well as the sale of medicines.

DuPont also gained valuable time. Fortunately, the conditions demanded by the Huaxia people are not high, and their production capacity is not very high, so after negotiating the conditions, DuPont was given a chance to buffer. Otherwise, they have to take a tougher approach, and when they used to attack their opponents, they used more than the trick of negotiation, and for those Chinese, the means could be a little more intense, without worrying about someone holding up a sign outside the window to protest.

In the process of intensified research and development, it may be that by the end of this year or the beginning of next year, the industrial production of nylon can begin. This is also the reason why DuPont generously gave Caiyun Company the exclusive right to produce and sell stockings for one year. When the time comes, with DuPont's production capacity, you can directly grab this piece of fat.