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Against the backdrop of a neat army phalanx and a torrent of steel, 38-year-old Yang Qiu was sworn in as the second official president of the Republic of China in the Capitol.

The next few weeks were busy, with the new prime minister, the final draft of the cabinet list, the review by the National Assembly, etc., and even the traffic pressure in Beijing increased several times. A few days later, Yang Qiu officially appointed Wang Zhengting as his first premier, Hu Weide as the speaker of the National Assembly, Wang Zhaoming as the vice speaker, and Huang Yuansheng as an independent official.

Immediately afterwards, the new prime minister, Wang Zhengting, also submitted the final cabinet list to the presidential palace and the National Assembly.

Foreign Minister Gu Weijun (Vice Foreign Minister Shi Zhaoji), Minister of Defense Song Ziqing, Chief of General Staff Yue Peng, Minister of Justice Murong Han, Minister of Education Cai Yuanpei, Minister of Civil Affairs Zhang Wenjing, Minister of Finance Xu Xiujun, Chapter 648 Sweeping Goods Beginning Central Bank Governor Bei Zuyi, Minister of Industry and Commerce Yan Xishan, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Yang Du, Minister of Communications Cai Gongshi, Minister of Agriculture Dong Yongwei, Minister of Water Resources Liao Zhongkai, Minister of Health Zheng Yuxiu.

Judging from the list, there are still many old faces, which shows that Yang Qiu doesn't want to make a big move as soon as he comes to power. The most surprising thing besides the KMT is that Zhang Wenjing, who had already submitted his resignation, was eventually retained as the minister of civil affairs. The Ministry of Finance was succeeded by Xu Xiujun, and Bei Zuyi, who had made great contributions, took over as the governor of the central bank. The biggest highlight is the emergence of the first female minister in the history of the Republic of China, Minister of Health Zheng Yuxiu.

Zheng Yuxiu can be described as a legendary woman, Sun Yat-sen, who once followed, and was once the number one female assassin within the KMT. However, Yang Qiu and the rise of the National Society in the southwest, engaged in industry and technology, defeated Japan in just a few years, participated in the European war and defeated Germany, and established the national status in one fell swoop at the Paris Peace Conference. made her understand that enthusiasm to save the country and the people is not enough, so after returning from studying abroad, she resolutely published a newspaper to publicly withdraw from the Democratic Party and join the National Society. Later, she joined Mrs. Peide's women's rights center, and used what she learned to help many sisters win lawsuits. In the end, she met Miao Luo, who was also invited by Mrs. Peide to participate in women's rights activities, and finally slowly entered the core of the national society.

Chapter 648 Sweeping Goods Begins In addition to the ministers, Yang Qiu also made adjustments to the army and some important departments.

Xiao Anguo resigned from all positions due to the promotion of general, and Lieutenant General An Guoliang, the cavalry leader of the Wehrmacht who became famous in the First World War of Kokurayama and the former commander of the 121st Mixed Division, took over as the commander of the National Guard. The commander of the army was also succeeded by Qin Zhangshu. Chief of Staff Zhang Xiaozhun, deputy chief of staff, and theater commander were Zhang Tingfu, Shi Xiaolou, Jiang Zuobin, Wu Peifu, Xu Shuzheng, Yin Changheng, Li Liejun, and Zhang Zuolin, a total of eight people. Air Force Commander Xue Muhua, Chief of Staff Yu Lei. The Navy has changed greatly. Cheng Biguang was promoted to admiral and became minister of the navy, the commander of the First Fleet (Beiyang Fleet) was succeeded by Chen Shaokuan, one of the five tigers of the navy, and Wang Guangxiung was also promoted to admiral and vice minister of the navy. Zhang Cai, former chief of staff of the Nanyang Fleet, was appointed commander of the Second Fleet (Nanyang Fleet), and Bingwen was appointed deputy commander and chief of staff.

Chen Haohui, director of the Strategic Intelligence Bureau, Wu Rui, director of the National Security Bureau, Dai Yunong, deputy director of the National Security Bureau, Xiao Jinyun, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and Fang Rui, former director of the National Security Bureau, were reappointed as directors of the Northwest Military Management Bureau.

After several old members of the Executive Committee of the Kuomintang retired, Xu Xiujun, Cai Gongshi, Zheng Yuxiu and others were elected by the National Party Congress, and Pei Zuyi was qualified as a substitute, and Chen Guofu became the new secretary of the National Socialist Party and secretary general of the Office of the Presidential Office, and Yang Qiu continued to serve as the chairman of the party.

The new government still needs time to run in, and Yang Qiu did not immediately start sorting out the domestic economic problems. He was waiting for the relocation of the people and the end of the merger of private capital, so he took advantage of this time to meet with Motolov and Yegorov, who had come to attend the ceremony, and held secret consultations on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union for the first time.

Although the new weapons taken out at the parade were limited, the neat phalanx of the Wehrmacht still left a deep impression on the appearance of various countries, so when Yang Qiu officially proposed the possibility of establishing diplomatic relations. Moscow began to seriously consider establishing diplomatic relations with China.

After doing these things, Yang Qiu went to Henan to inspect the disaster. It should be said that 1930 was not a good year, after the Yellow River burst its banks in early May, causing nearly 3 million people to be affected, and in early June, floods broke out in the Huai River, damaging the crops of hundreds of thousands of peasant households in the two Huai rivers. Just when the National Emergency Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture were actively allocating food for disaster relief, there was another major drought in the northeast. In the Liaohe area, where there has been no rain for several months, and the river has dried up, even the military has been ordered to dispatch pumping machines and generators to dig deep wells to join the intense anti-drought operation.

Yang Qiu did not expect the disaster to be so serious, so he had to postpone his visit to the United States, and asked Yan Xishan to lead a team to organize a domestic business delegation to visit the United States first.

In this regard, Hoover, who was eager to use the visit to reopen Sino-US trade and save the economy, was also helpless and had no choice but to temporarily put exports to the Soviet Union in the first place, hoping to take advantage of the previous relations to actively expand exports to the Soviet Union in order to save the momentum of the continued economic decline.

It's summer, the smell of rancid air over the United States, and the hudson River's sight of rotting pigs and cattle is a reminder that the country is suffering from an unprecedented Great Depression. The impact on agriculture is beyond words, and when farmers find that their hard-earned output is not recouping, they simply slaughter their pigs and cattle and throw them into the river, the milk is dumped, and the wheat and corn rot in the ground and are not harvested, because people cannot afford gasoline to start the combine.

Agriculture is abandoned, companies are bankrupt, machinery is at a standstill, and shipping is at a standstill. The East Coast was full of machinery waiting to be sold, shipowners were holding every buyer, and many of the boats on the slipway that were supposed to be delivered were forced to stop work. With the adoption of trade protection policies by major importing countries such as Britain, the United States, and France, the United States, like a giant with deep feet in the mud, can only watch its huge body fall into the quagmire and watch the plague continue to expand. More and more businesses are going bankrupt, workers are losing their livelihoods, almshouses are being crowded every day, and even the most ordinary jobs are being looted by hundreds, if not thousands, of people, and even ridiculous things like arson to become firefighters.

As more and more companies go bankrupt and survive has become the only option, banks are putting cheap mortgages on large mortgages to recover loans, but who wants to buy the machine? Even Ford is underworking.

"Look. It's a masterpiece! 15,000 tons, bulk trucks can be crammed into it, and even trains can transport 6,000 tons of cargo at a time. It's only been in the water for 3 years, and it only takes $2 million. ”

"Look at me, 20,000 tons, 2 years in the water, 2.5 million you can drive away immediately."

"900,000! 10,000 tons. ”

"Buy mine. My sailors can sail the ship to St. Petersburg for free. ”

In the Port of Newport in the Chesapeake Bay, hundreds of seagoing hedgehogs form a swarm. The maritime industry has been one of the hardest hit by this economic crisis. There is no sea freight without exports, and the embarrassment that the UK can't even recover the fuel money once it runs, makes the shipowners hate to scuttle the fleet! For the early sale of these vessels. Shipping owners and brokers all flocked to the city with the most developed shipbuilding industry, and gradually formed the largest second-hand ship market in North America.

The arrival of the Soviet procurement personnel was immediately greeted with the strongest welcome as they watched the ships rust, and as soon as they got out of the car, they were surrounded by brokers and private shipowners.

The civil war severely damaged the shipping industry left over from the tsarist era, and the vast majority of shipowners emigrated with their own ships before the founding of the Soviet Union, resulting in the country not even a few decent 10,000-ton ships, and shipping was almost monopolized by shipping companies from other countries. This was intolerable to Stalin, but the domestic shipbuilding industry was slow to recover and could not build its own large ships, so it was ready to buy shipyards and second-hand freighters.

Originally, Kuibyshev wanted to negotiate the overall packaging of the fleets of large shipping companies such as Shiraise. But behind these fleets are super conglomerates, and it is impossible for them to dismantle and sell, so in the end, they can only let Konitsev, the minister of maritime transport in the delegation, come here, and prepare to pick some better ones to buy back for emergencies.

The huge fleet of ships for sale made Konitsev and several officials almost lose their eyes, and they couldn't wait to pack them all and take them back. But it's impossible to buy them all. Because the Soviets lacked sufficient hard currency and foreign exchange, and their gold reserves were extremely limited, they had to prioritize other important industries, so they had to pick a few ships that were in better condition.

The 15,000-ton ship, which had only been in the water for three years, was selected, but Konitsev was a shrewd fellow. Pretending not to care, he stammered and raised his finger in sandwiched English: "1.5 million." ”

"No, no, it's a good ship, it has to be 2 million."

"1.5 million is the highest price, otherwise I can buy the others." Konitsev cunningly flipped through the roster of ships, deliberately pointing at several other ships with several officials. This made the American shipowner very anxious, and hurriedly looked at the accompanying American officials with his eyes.

U.S. officials were also helpless, the Soviets were not as stupid as everyone thought, most of the purchases were important steel and other industries, and most of them invited American consortia to invest in the Soviet Union, and the prices of such ordinary purchases were very low. So they had no choice but to shrug their shoulders to express their helplessness.

Seeing this, the shipowner knew that he could not raise the price, but he was reluctant to sell it at such a low price. You know, the ship cost $3.2 million when it was bought. Just as everyone was at a stalemate over the price, another line of people slowly walked into the trading floor.

"1.8 million, if I can check it, I will ask for it."

Konitsev was about to put more pressure on the 10,000-ton ship when a voice suddenly came from behind. Everyone immediately turned their heads to look, only to see several Americans walking into the hall of the ship market with a large group of Chinese merchants. Konitsev's face was not good, and he wondered where the Holy Spirit was actually snatching his prey, but the other party didn't look at him, and continued to check the ship profile on the wall and look through the roster.

"1.3 million? 4 years old, good, if the inspection is okay I will ask for it...... 1,000 tons of two-year age, 1.1 million is a bit high, 700,000. ”

"These 3 cruise ships are too old."

"I want this and this and this and this and this one."

In the midst of everyone's stunned eyes, these Chinese businessmen looked through the roster of ships for sale, and at the same time muttered to a few people who looked like their subordinates, and in less than two hours, they had all the 57 10,000-ton ships in the best condition on the roster! It's unimaginable! The eyes of American brokers and shipowners turned green in an instant.

Big High Roller!

Only Konitsev was already so angry that his forehead was bruised, and these were all the ships he fancied. Hurriedly protested to US officials: "I want to protest, these ships are the first thing I fancied." ”

The accompanying US official was also curious about where these people came from, and after chatting with the accompanying Chinese businessmen for a few words, it suddenly dawned on him that these people were all representatives of the Chinese shipping company, and the one who took the lead was the general manager of the famous Wuzhou Shipping Company!

Wuzhou Shipping Company is not a small reputation, a few years ago opened the Central Europe, Central American routes, but also opened South America and Africa routes, it is said that their major shareholder is the Chinese president who has just come to power! Does this mean that the long-awaited Chinese have finally arrived?!

The news spread throughout the market in an instant, and even many unrelated people came to see the excitement. In the face of the belated big high-roller, the accompanying American officials straightforwardly hung Konitsev and others on the side, and enthusiastically introduced the remaining ships. Konitsev, who had been in a position to buy almost anything he wanted, trembled all over, pointed at the Chinese businessman at the head and shouted: "This is impossible, this is a fraud!" 57 ships cost $41.3 million! There is no way to close the deal. ”

"Can't make a deal? Hum! The Chinese merchant in the leader glared at Konitsev with disdain, and several of his men immediately stepped forward with large black suitcases. The moment the box was opened, everyone gasped!

Money! It's all money! Colorful and neat bundles of dollars are stacked neatly! "This is a deposit, we will pay half of the payment after the inspection, and the remaining half needs to be driven to Shanghai to get the ship."

A kraken-like voice echoed through the market, and everyone seemed to see a monster, and they couldn't even believe it. "God! Jack, pinch me hard, is that true? ”

"Ah, damn it, who told you to push so hard."

"Is this true? I can't believe they spent $41.3 million in a matter of hours...... Ten thousand dollars! Quick, send the message back, the Chinese have begun to make big purchases! ”

"The super order has finally appeared!"

"Mine, buy mine, I've got the best boat here."

"And mine, I'm a representative of the Newport shipyard. Right on the dock, it only takes 3 weeks to launch and deliver 4 new sea vessels...... Konitsev and the Soviet representatives were instantly forgotten by everyone, and every broker and shipowner rushed over, and a moment later the shipyard was surrounded by journalists from all over the city.

Soon, several huge headlines that made the whole of America boil appeared in all the newspapers!

"The Chinese are coming! 》。

First Order, $41.3 Million...... Sorry, there was a little accident.

Yesterday morning, I accompanied my daughter to the exam, and there was an accident when preparing the code word in the afternoon, and a glass of water was turned over the keyboard of this book and the other was taken away by my wife, so I could only smell the mushy smell and be stupid.

In the afternoon, the newly bought book can be delivered, and finally you can code words at home again...... rs！！！