Yang Rui said that he was ridiculous, but Wang Jitong and Bei Shoutong couldn't laugh at all. The situation that had been predicted was exactly what had happened: Britain, the United States, France, and other countries had reached a consensus that they would put pressure on China and Japan in the hope of suppressing the rising East Asia, especially China's pro-Soviet rather than anti-Soviet.

However, whether he was worried about the alliance between Britain, France and the United States, or worried about World War II, the situation was irreversible in Wang Jitong's view—the heirloom of poetry and books stood in the same position as Yang Rui, and his intuition told him that there was a bloody war waiting for this ancient and young country ahead, and this intuition was not the accumulation of knowledge, let alone the knowledge of logical analysis, this was just an ancient Confucian scholar's understanding of the current situation crawling out of the pile of old papers.

On the other hand, the chief of the General Staff, General Bei Shoutong, although he is also a family scholar, but his knowledge is half new and half old, half Chinese and half Western, and his comprehension of history is completely inferior to Wang Jitong or other scholars who are full of Chinese studies. Because of this, he said after Yang Rui's self-deprecating silence: "Sir, if the canal is not repaired, is it ......?"

Yang Rui was not surprised by Pei Shoutong's thoughts, this student was the best in the special class of Nanyang College, but he had focused on military affairs for too long in the past twenty years; Wang Jitong looked at him and said strangely: "Ji Mei doesn't think that as long as you are not pro-Soviet, Britain and the United States and other countries will not work together to suppress us, right?" ”

"Of course not." Pei Shoutong bowed his head embarrassedly - looking at the looks of the two gentlemen, he felt that he knew that he was all wrong.

"Ji Mei, the whole world system was established by the British. Whether it is based on strength or origin, it is the United States that inherits this set of things. For some white supremacists, it's better to be friends. It is a matter of course that there are no domestic slaves. In their view, although we have declared that we will not expand any more, we and Japan together are already one Europe, and in time this new Europe will surely replace the old Europe and eventually contend with the New World. This trend cannot be stopped by anyone but war.

Fortunately, at this time, a Soviet Union appeared, which, according to the actual statement, was a heresy of Western civilization and the practice of Westerners. Heresies are more odious than heteros, and that's why they are better for us than for Soviet Russia. But this good is also time-limited, once Soviet Russia is destroyed, then it will be an outlier like us that will be dealt with. Now that heretics are mixed together, and heretics are in the northernmost part, they can only subdue the heretics before dealing with them. The canal is not the key to the canal, it is important to dismantle heretics and aliens once dismantled. We can live a good life for decades, but what about after that? ”

Wang Jitong shook his head and sighed helplessly, Yang Rui said that day about the battle of Weishui. I'm afraid it's going to be a few years away. Regardless of whether this battle is won or lost, the little bit of Chinese elite that has just been cultivated will be filled in, and then the political situation of the entire country will also undergo drastic changes. Both of these were things he didn't want to see.

"Let's not talk about that." Yang Rui was mainly thinking about Germany just now, and the National Socialist Party is now taking the road of legal seizure of power. In the elections last May, 31 million votes were cast. They got 810,000 votes, or 12 of the 491 seats in the National Assembly -- the Weimar Constitution is an American-style democracy, and there is no restriction that a party with less than 5 percent of the seats cannot enter the National Assembly, as stipulated in the Chinese Constitution.

The German economy, which is completely dependent on American money, has been hit the hardest after the economic crisis, and economic problems have caused political problems, and just last month, because of partisan fighting, the German parliament was dissolved, and the next election will be held in three months. Whatever one may judge, this election will give the National Socialist people full confidence, because millions of unemployed workers will divide their votes between the National Socialist Party and the Communist Party, and the National Socialist Party will inevitably move from the stage to the center.

After that, with the rigidity and cowardice of the Germans, as long as Goering, Goebbels and others shouted a few words, Hindenburg, the Wehrmacht, the Junker landlords, and the industrial giants would give in completely. It can be said that Germany has absolutely no opponent who can suppress the National Socialist Party, and even the Communist Party will make concessions to it, and they will swallow their anger and disappear from the Reichstag arson.

Because of Asian interests and China's pro-Soviet stance, the British were afraid that suppressing the National Socialist Party would bring Germany under the control of the Communist Party under Moscow's orders, so they subconsciously believed that the proposal of the Chinese Intelligence Bureau had other intentions, so they completely allowed the expansion of the National Socialist Party. As for the other way, the German Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party controlled by Moscow will fight the National Socialist Party, and if it is really not possible, a civil war will be waged, but at this time the Iron Comrade who has not completed the two five-year plans is also cowardly, and after the civil war is fought, it may turn into a foreign war, and the Soviet Union is not ready at this time;

At the same time, if Nazi Germany did not endanger the Soviet Union, then Yang Rui would have to put a question mark over the security of western China. In case the Soviet Union was moved by the United States - Yang Rui remembers very much that during World War II and after the Iron Curtain was lowered, the United States and the Soviet Union tacitly used democracy, freedom and Bolshevism to dismember the colonies of Britain and France, so at this level, American-style democracy and Soviet-style Marxism-Leninism have played a role in stifling the original civilizations and forces of all countries in the world, and their ultimate goal is to make the world better accept the mainstream international ideas after the Cold War and pave the way for the establishment of world empires.

The political geography of the whole world is a table of mahjong, the north and the south are the United States and the Soviet Union, and the east and west are Central Europe, according to which everyone's opportunities are equal, but the Eurasian continent is long and narrow, and the United States is more dominant in the south, so the power of the north and the south is greater than the east and west, and under the pull of Roosevelt, the friendship between China and the Soviet Union is really not worth a few dollars. Fortunately, the Soviet Union has always attached importance to Europe, and at the same time, although Stalin was realistic but extremely conservative, even if China and the United States went to war, he might not act rashly, but if the American bombers began to carpet bomb China's heavy industrial cities, the North Garden, Mongolia, and Northeast China under the Soviet Union's blade would be in danger.

Whether the whole of Eurasia will be a pot of porridge, as was the case in the original World War II, or just a Pacific War, is a question worth pondering. In Yang Rui's view, if the atomic bomb is not fired, China will not be able to defeat the United States even if it runs collective farms and implements four or five five-year plans like the Soviet Union - of course, the brain-dead people do not think so, they think that they can resist US imperialism if they have a five-year plan. It's ridiculous. In the end, war is a game of hard work, without trade restrictions and without a large technological generational gap. Whoever has more money wins.

In the face of a demon of this level of US imperialism, instead of pulling into the belt of his pants, he has several five-year plans to expand the scale of industry. In the war, it is better to invest the limited money in the upgrading of the industrial system than to fight the sea of aircraft and aircraft carriers, and finally end the war with the atomic bomb. Of course, such a war is very ugly and not bloody, but what is the point of blood?

After Wang Jitong taught Bei Shoutong step by step, Yang Rui let go of these thoughts, he looked at Wang Jitong and said, "How is it going over there?" ”

"Good!" Wang Jitong nodded solemnly, because of Bei Shoutong's level. Although he opened his mouth, he didn't say anything, but said: "The third stage has ended ahead of schedule, and the smelting problem has been completely solved, and now it is about to enter the fourth stage......

"The fourth stage ......," Yang Rui recalled the last meeting, "this is 500 million......

"Yes." Wang Jitong nodded, and he said with a wry smile: "You are now building a 450 million Eurasian Canal, as well as the 'Sea of Three Rivers' in the Northeast, and you also have to purchase patents and heavy equipment on a large scale." It all came together......"

"Now the price of equipment in Europe and the United States has plummeted, and some equipment that was unwilling to sell before is now willing to sell, and we must seize the opportunity. The 10,000-ton hydraulic press will have to get two or three more units back, and the first machine tool factory in Shenyang in Northeast China will put one and one in Taiyuan. The last one, let's see if it's on the Sichuan side or in Wuhan......"

Before Yang Rui finished speaking, Wang Jitong smiled. "Yes, you ....... How can I say hello, even the United States has only three units. Can we afford to buy so much? Even if there is an economic crisis now, it will cost 15 million Chinese yuan a piece. ”

"Of course." Yang Rui insisted that based on the information he was not completely sure of the authenticity, there were seven hydraulic presses of more than 10,000 tons in the United States, four in the Soviet Union, three in Japan, two in Germany, one in Italy, and countless other hydraulic presses of about six or seven thousand tons in World War II. Why do Americans have a sea of planes and aircraft carriers? That's because people have a sea of hydraulic presses. China will build four Taiwan, which is at the level of the Soviet Union, and build some of them by itself of six or seven thousand tons, and it will be able to fight a dozen in the early stage.

"Fifteen million is not expensive, to place an order for Krupp in Germany, the tonnage should be at least 15,000 tons, and the number of units is three, let him give him a discount." Yang Rui's words amused Wang Jitong and Bei Shoutong, but he said that he hadn't finished speaking, "This is just a hydraulic press, and there are also cold and hot rolling mills for rolling aluminum plates, I remember that the width was only one hundred and twenty before, which is not wide enough, I heard that the Americans have a wider one, but the price is expensive, 1680 cold and hot rolling mills, with equipment and technology, at least six million Chinese dollars; According to the imperial size, this is 66 inches, and it is said that the width is 112 inches, if you really have this size, then you can roll out 2,000 inches, that is, more than 50 meters of thin aluminum plate, even if this set of hot and cold rolling mills is expensive, you have to buy a few more sets back.

In addition, 20,000 tons or more tonnage of forging die hydraulic press, 12,000 tons of non-ferrous metal horizontal extrusion hydraulic press; Continuous rolling mill with wide width thin steel plate of 200 mm or more; 10 mm to 80 mm or finer diameter steel pipe cold rolling mills; 80 mm to 150 mm diameter steel tube cold rolling mill; A cold-rolled alloy sheet rolling mill with a width of 1,500 millimeters or more ......" Yang Rui said these equipment, and then turned out a sorted list on the desk and handed it to Wang Jitong: "It's all here, and the hydraulic press is the most expensive, and it is estimated that it will cost 100 million yuan to buy five units." Although the rolling mill is cheap, you can't just sell one set, two or three sets of each, and it's about 100 million yuan. ”

"Two hundred million?!" Wang Jitong was speechless, his face sank a little more, plus the 500 million Chinese yuan required for the mixed yuan pile project, this is 700 million Chinese yuan, if you add the Eurasian Canal, it is 1.15 billion yuan.

"Xiao Xu, don't be too expensive, this is all core equipment, and there will be no such store in this village after that." Yang Rui said seriously, "machine tools or something, although we don't have much, but we can make our own, tungsten alloy tools are produced by us and Germany all over the world, and they buy our patents, so we are not bad at general metal processing capabilities." 20,000 tons of forging die hydraulic press, 12,000 tons of non-ferrous metal horizontal extrusion hydraulic press, as well as aluminum plate cold and hot rolling mills, these four are used to build aircraft, without these things, we can hardly build 10,000 aircraft a year.

Later, wide belt steel plate rolling mills, large and small steel pipe rolling mills, alloy plate cold rolling mills, these are related to aircraft, combat vehicles, and even rockets; As for what the 10,000-ton hydraulic press can do, don't let me say......"

"But ......" Wang Jitong understood what Yang Rui meant. He was worried that the Inspectorate would not be able to pass, he said. "You're buying in the name of the government, so who is selling it back? Now the factories are all divided. Isn't this just the government selling to private individuals? ”

"These equipment are ordered in the name of the major aircraft factories -- that is, the Shanxi Aluminum Plant, the Northeast Aluminum Plant, and the iron and steel companies, and they can pay as much as they want, and if it is not enough, the General Staff and the General Staff will come forward to help ask the Inspectorate for money, and they will make trouble if they don't agree." Yang Rui smiled, "Since the General Staff has come forward to ask for something, those people in the Inspectorate won't refuse to give it, do you want me to come out?" ”

"So how do you keep it a secret? As in the case of the Mixed Element Project, only one representative per province knows? Wang Jitong asked.

"This doesn't need to be kept secret. It's just industrial equipment, what's the big deal with us upgrading equipment. "Yang Rui doesn't care." As for other large machine tools, patented technology or something. You can also add some to it, make up a general order of 300 million Chinese yuan and let the Inspectorate approve it, and the money will be counted as the loan of these factories to the government, and it will be returned to the government after 10 or 20 years. There was a bill before the money in the mixed yuan pile, and as soon as the National Defense Committee approved it, it was just a matter of asking for money; The money for the Eurasian Canal and the sea of the three rivers can be solved by relying on the Shanghai securities market and the issuance of bonds. ”

"I see." Wang Jitong nodded and took the list worth 300 million, and his brows were locked this time. The money was said to be borrowed, but the planes, cannons, and warships were finally sold to the government, and it seemed that they were repaid, but in fact the wool came from the sheep. Ultimately. Or the military industrial base is too weak, although before the European war, Yang Rui was careful and preferred that Europe was underequipped, but also to deliver goods to South America and other countries first. But when the British and American aircraft industries came to their senses after the war, these markets were pried away by them one by one. It's not that China's equipment is not cheap, durable, or powerful. It's that Americans are too rich and have millions of loans at every turn. This kind of business that is almost free of charge cannot be fought by China at all.

The U.S. Department of Commerce borrowed from foreign countries, and the U.S. aircraft factories benefited, which eventually drove Alcoa to upgrade its technology and develop a larger width aluminum alloy cold and hot rolling mill. This model is such a poor and broken settlement in China can not afford to play, so it coincides with the world economic crisis, when people are willing to sell and the price is low, it is right to quickly sell a few sets of technology with equipment, and this is likely to be the last time that the domestic industry relies on the large-scale introduction of equipment for technological upgrading, and then only behind closed doors.

Seeing that Wang Jitong took the order, Yang Rui asked again: "How about the electroslag remelting over there in metallurgy, or can't solve the problem of continuous casting?" ”

"There's hope." Hearing Yang Rui ask about electroslag remelting, Wang Jitong's brows relaxed slightly, "After Pearson proposed the concept of mold vibration eight years ago, we have been studying the vibration crystallizer continuous casting machine, and we are cooperating with Mr. Junkers in Germany and have roughly studied a practical continuous casting machine. Once the problem of continuous casting is solved, electroslag remelting can be put into practical use, and the torsion bars, bearings, rotors, and artillery of the combat vehicle can be upgraded to a higher level. ”

"Hmm." Yang Rui sighed heavily when he heard this, electroslag remelting has been studied for 20 years, but the continuous caster has not been solved, and it cannot be put into practical use at all, which is like blowing oxygen to make steel, low-temperature oxygen production technology is not progressing, and blowing oxygen to make steel is fishing for the moon in water. He turned to look at Bei Shoutong and said, "In this way, the American Christie can be suspended." ”

"That's right, sir." Because Bei Shoutong had been in charge of the general before before, of course he knew the significance of electroslag remelting, and the chariot suspension was one of them.

In a situation where the tank is bound to become heavier and heavier, suspension is a big problem. With the existing technology, either the Christie suspension purchased in the United States or the torsion bars are used, but the number of torsion bars is increased. Either way is inappropriate, Christie's suspension will increase the height of the vehicle - according to the experience of vehicle design, the ratio of length, width and height to the total weight of the vehicle is 1:3:7, the higher the vehicle, the heavier the weight, so wide rather than high, longer than wide; If the torsion bar is suspension, because the steel is unqualified, it can only be solved by increasing the torsion bar, and the result is that the staggered wheel that makes the logistics maintenance extremely difficult.

"What about the Enigma machine? How's the research going? Yang Rui asked. This is a patent that he personally ordered to buy back after the European War, and he thought it would be difficult, because he didn't want this thing to be wanted. So the 'blind-eyed' Chinese businessman bought out the patent before the inventor Shelbius transferred the patent to others, and then began to develop it on his own. However, for the sake of secrecy. This machine would not have been used before the war, so it was saved from the emergence of a few talented Polish mathematicians to decipher it.

"Just the current experiment. There's no way to hack it yet. Bei Shoutong said with a smile.

Pei Shoutong is optimistic, but Yang Rui doesn't think so. He looked at Wang Jitong, "Can the computer lab be broken?" ”

"I can't." Wang Jitong shook his head, "Unless you get the cipher machine and understand its principle, you can't decipher it." ”

"Then send one to the deciphering team." Yang Rui said with a smile, he looked at Bei Shoutong, who had changed color, and said: "It is normal to seize the enemy's code book and cipher machine on the battlefield. If there is a real war, almost all mathematicians in the world will be concentrated by Britain and the United States to decipher our codes, and the cipher machines on various battlefields and consulates everywhere may be obtained by Britain and the United States. Maybe our code will be deciphered by Britain and the United States halfway through. The General Staff Department must be prepared for this kind at all times, always be vigilant, and all the more accustomed to fighting a war under the condition of one-way transparency on the battlefield. In the future actual combat exercises, you remember to make up for this lesson for those military leaders. ”

"Yes, sir!" Pei Shoutong didn't want Yang Rui to say that the matter was so serious, so he shouted yes as if he was an order.

"Okay, don't be so nervous." Yang Rui waved him to sit down, and then said, "Didn't you say that the President of the United States will visit China?" Where have they been? Still not coming? ”

"Oh. It's already in the Pacific, but because of the economic crisis, President Dawes can't sit down because he has to deal with heavy business, and Vice President Curtis comes. and Secretary of Commerce Hoover, as well as ......"

Wang Jitong was interrupted by Yang Rui before he finished speaking, and he smiled: "Hoover or Minister of Commerce?" ”

"Yes. Dawes still appoints him as commerce minister, and he has spent many days in China. So ......"

"This fraudster!" Because of Kaiping Coal Mine, Yang Rui was very disdainful of Hoover. "They came this time to let us sell more American goods. Is there any other purpose? ”

"There are quite a few industrial capitalists, and it is said that Henry . . . Ford is among them. Wang Ji said.

"That old guy from Ford is here too?" Yang Rui is very vigilant, these people may not be here to sell things, this is very likely to be to inspect China's industry.

"Yes, it is said that he has not been able to figure out why we produce so few cars and so many models and they are cheap, whether it is because our workers are paid less or because of some other ......, and he wants to come and see it anyway; General Motors also seems to have a manager, as well as a few management scientists. Wang Jitong introduced. Actually, if they ask to visit the car factory, then we ......"

"Don't worry about that." Yang Rui said, "Americans do not use the lifelong employment system, the management system can not be built, but the Japanese that Toyoda Kiichiro learned quickly, but he was unlucky, just expanded production capacity and encountered an economic crisis, can only count on the Japanese government to save his life."

I think that with the temper of an American, after visiting the car factory, we will think that we are fake. Collectivism is the embodiment of evil in their eyes as opposed to individualism......"

Yang Rui is speculating about the Yankey, although it is speculation, but at this time at the banquet of the American delegation in the Pacific on a cruise ship, Henry in a tuxedo. Ford is making his point to the rest of his peers, as well as Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, management scientist Taylor, Harvard psychologist Mayo, and others: "Gentlemen, I imagine that the Chinese car factories are just some kind of copy of General Motors — they make the parts that can be used exactly, and then they open several production lines with government funding, yes, and most importantly, use their cheap yellow workers who are only one-thirtieth of the wages of American workers, and finally buy cars in the United States."

Plagiarism, government funding and low wages are the foundation of Chinese automobiles, and they are also the basis of all Chinese goods, and American cars are not competing with Dalian Automobile, we are competing with the Chinese government......"

Henry. Ford is a complete old stubborn, not to mention Chinese cars, even General Motors, he has great contempt. It was only when the world set off a wave similar to learning American scientific management more than ten years ago because of Chinese goods, that he wanted to come to China's auto factories to have a look, and then expose the conspiracy of the Chinese and prove to the world the advanced nature of American production.

When his arbitrary speech ended, everyone in the room laughed and applauded, except for a few management scientists. Hoover, however, was not so optimistic when he applauded, and said, "Mr. Ford, I think you will be surprised when you arrive in China, Chinese are Chinese, not Americans." (To be continued.) )