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.    Chapter 250 Luzon Resources Investigation Started

    Miao Luo sat at the dining table with her chin in her hands. The food in front of her was already cold. Her long eyelashes were flickering and she looked out the window from time to time. She saw that it was getting dark and she hadn't come back yet. She was even busier on vacation than if she hadn't been on vacation. She was just thinking about it.  When I wasn't calling to ask, the door creaked open.

    "Brother Yang, please go back"

    "GiggleI'm not your Brother Yang."

    Before she finished speaking, Rui Yao, who was dressed smartly, walked in. When she saw the table full of food and her chopsticks were still untouched, she couldn't help frowning: "What? You haven't come back yet? Didn't you say you have to do something the day after tomorrow? Why are you still so busy?"

    "Director Su came to report in the morning and said that the Hubei Company's scientific research and design building was completed and asked Brother Yang to cut the ribbon, so I have been out all morning until now. I guess I was busy and forgot the time." After Miao Luo finished speaking, he took her to sit down and asked  Said: "Senior sister, didn't you go to Luzon? Why so fast?"

    Ruiyao rolled her eyes and smiled and said, "Brother Miao sent me a telegram saying that your wedding date has been decided, so I took a boat to Guangzhou first, then changed horses and rushed back."

    Hearing that she came back from Guangzhou on horseback, Miao Luo was also very moved: "Thank you, senior sister."

    "Damn girl, why are you so polite to me?" Ruiyao smiled slightly. She was probably tired from traveling all night, so she got up and stretched out her hands. Unexpectedly, the door suddenly opened at this time.

    Yang Qiu was thinking about how to contain the Kwantung Army in Shan County and prevent Japan from being so carefree. Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened the door, he saw Miao Luo, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, with his arms spread wide and his chest high. He looked like  When the wife saw her husband coming in and suddenly gave her a big hug, she was stunned for a moment.

    Seeing his eyes resting on her swollen chest, Rui Yao couldn't help but her cheeks turned red and she quickly put away her movements and gouged out her eyes, wondering why he saw every little accident?  I didn't put on my clothes properly last time, but this time I stretched my waist and was treated as if I wanted a hug. What should I do if it caused misunderstanding among my junior sisters?  She quickly looked at Miao Luo secretly, and found that the latter seemed to have not seen him, but his eyes were entirely on Yang Qiu, who looked tired, and there was a trace of sourness in her heart.

    I couldn¡¯t help but snorted coldly in my nose: ¡°People with families don¡¯t know how to send someone to say hello when they come home late.¡±

    Yang Qiu looked at the sky and realized that it was already very late. He quickly spread his hands and apologized to Miao Luo: "It's all my fault. I forget the time when I get busy. I will definitely call back next time."

    "It's okay, let's eat quickly." Although he still went out all day during this period, he came back every night. Miao Luo was used to it, and he quickly asked someone to add more dishes and chopsticks: "Senior sister just returned from Luzon  I haven¡¯t eaten yet when I came back.¡±

    After Yang Qiu took off his coat and hung it up, he sat down and found that there were only three pairs of bowls and chopsticks, and asked, "Where are grandpa and eldest brother?"

    "I went to the second uncle's house in the pharmaceutical factory and said I won't be back for dinner tonight." Miao Luo took a piece of meat and stuffed it for Yang Qiu, and gave Ruiyao a chopstick, and said with a smile: "Senior sister, you should also eat more this time.  I lost a lot of weight when I went out.¡±

    Yang Qiu looked at Ruiyao and found that she had lost a lot of weight this time and her skin was tanned. He quickly put some vegetables in her bowl and asked, "Are you not used to Nanyang cuisine? Chang Si  Didn¡¯t you follow?¡±

    Ruiyao originally wanted to twist the bowl open, but she was afraid that doing so would make Miao Luo suspicious. However, hearing his concerned words, her heart warmed up and she said with a smile: "It's not as delicious as the food cooked by my junior sister. Every day over there  It¡¯s all fish, crabs, etc., I¡¯m almost sick of it.¡±

    Hearing what she said was so scary, Yang Qiu chuckled: "Eat the mountains and the sea. Most of Nanyang are immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong. They eat light food and like fresh seafood. No wonder you can't get used to it."

    "Raw seafood? This word is very appropriate. I have seen a lot of them being eaten raw, especially the Japanese. They buy fish and shrimp and eat them raw without cooking them. It's disgusting." Ruiyao said.  The interesting stories along the way made Miao Luo sometimes be surprised and sometimes cover his mouth. When he heard that there were many Japanese women over there engaged in the skin and flesh trade, he couldn't help but wonder: "Japan? How could it be possible?"

    "There's nothing they can't do." Yang Qiu saw that the two women didn't know the details of Japan and said, "Don't think of Japan so well. They are no better than us. Although our rural areas are still very poor, Japan is also  Not much better, most of their land is in the hands of landlords and plutocrats. When there is a bad harvest or a major disaster, the poor can only sell their daughters to the ronin, and then the ronin sells them to Nanyang to make money, and sends the money  After returning to the country, the ronin takes 30%, 50% goes to the country, and the remaining 20% ??goes to their families, and they have to pay taxes on this part."

    "How could such a thing happen?" Miao Luo, who grew up in the United States, had seen many dark sides, but this was the first time he heard that the money earned by Japanese women who went to Nanyang to use their bodies had to be handed over to the country, and he put down his bowl and became angry.  Said: ¡°It¡¯s so unreasonable!"

    "Silly girl."

    Yang Qiu explained: "Japan currently still has nearly 1.4 billion yen in debt that has not been repaid. If it is calculated on the common people, it is almost 30 yen per person. It needs to return nearly 80 million yen every year. On the contrary, the Xinchou compensation only needs to return less than 3,000 yen every year."  Thousands, plus other payments amounting to 40 million per year. Our real problem is that tariffs cannot be independent, but the advantages are population, market and resources. As long as the country develops stably, the speed will far exceed them, so the Asian co-prosperity promoted by Japan is actually  It¡¯s just a cover for their exploitation of China. They themselves are exploited by the British and American banking syndicates and need women to sell their bodies to pay off their debts. Why should they help us?¡±

    Rui Yao also nodded: "I didn't know that before, but I realized it after I went back to Nanyang and saw it with my own eyes. The Japanese also didn't live well in Nanyang, and many of them had to work hard. On the contrary, it was us Chinese who opened the business in Luzon and Singapore  There are many small factories, but only the Chinese in Borneo are relatively poor."

    Yang Qiu didn¡¯t want to talk about these things anymore, so he changed the subject and asked: ¡°By the way, how many crew members have been recruited? Have the establishment of branches in Luzon and Singapore been completed?¡±

    Ruiyao went to Nanyang this time to prepare for shipping. Originally, she did not want to develop to Nanyang, but Yang Qiu wanted her and Chang Si to prepare for the Nanyang route immediately in one year, because the current shipping companies are all river crews  , so there is an urgent need for experienced seamen, but there are relatively few seamen in China, so I want to take advantage of the opportunity to set up a branch in Nanyang to set up a recruitment point, and said: "We can recruit some, but if we calculate based on the 10,000-ton ships like foreigners, the most  It can maintain the appearance of five ships.¡±

    Operating the crew of five ocean-going ships?  Yang Qiu frowned. He didn't expect that it would be so difficult to find boatmen, let alone skilled captains and mechanics.  Seeing him frowning, Miao Luo asked: "Senior sister, they have just developed in the Yangtze River and the southeast. Why do they want to go to Nanyang all of a sudden? Why not do the shipping business in four or five years?"

    Yang Qiu didn¡¯t know how to explain it. He couldn¡¯t say that he expected that Europe would go to war in a year¡¯s time and the shipping industry in the Southwest Pacific would be in a tight ship situation, right?  However, he would never waste this opportunity. In the parallel world, Japan's shipping industry took advantage of the opportunity of World War I to develop. Since he could foresee it, he would not be able to give up such a big piece of fat. You must know that shipping is still a very profitable industry now.

    The market in the Far East is so big. If I eat more Japanese food, I will eat less Japanese food. However, I also have many restrictions. Apart from the crew, I don¡¯t know how many ocean-going ships there are. He asked: "How many ships do we have now?"

    "The ore river cruises running along the Yangtze River cannot be counted. In addition, I have seven river cruises here. Four will be delivered to Shanghai early next year. The six ordered from the United States will also be delivered early next year. In addition, my uncle bought two more  A second-hand 7,000-ton Dutch ship, a total of 19 ships." After the Yangtze Gang was reorganized, Ruiyao gradually adapted to her new identity. When she introduced her home, she had the look of a strong woman, but her narrowed smile  Her eyes still betrayed her, like a miser, she raised her slender fingers like cold jade and continued: "The flat-bottomed river ships built in Shanghai are still sailing offshore. The ones made by Germany and the United States can travel across the ocean, but the maximum is only 3,000.  tons, plus two second-hand ships, there are actually only eight ships that can travel to Southeast Asia."

    She pouted, as if she was not satisfied with only eight ships. Yang Qiu was amused when he saw this, and deliberately knocked her bowl with chopsticks and said with a smile: "My big gang leader, you can save eight ships in less than two years."  Is it less? In addition to the insufficient tonnage, in terms of quantity, you are almost as good as the Hong Kong investment boat."

    This natural little movement made Miao Luo seem to have seen something. He pursed his lips and had a hint of surprise in his eyes. Rui Yao was immersed in her own fleet, so she didn't pay attention. Just when she was about to glare at Yang Qiu, a thunderous sound sounded outside the door.  Voice: "Commander-in-Chief, Minister Kuang, Minister Zhang and Commander Xiao are here."

    "Take them to the living room, I'll be right back." Yang Qiu hurriedly finished eating, wiped his mouth and suddenly kissed Miao Luo: "I have something to do late, you go to bed first." Miao Luo was thinking about something and didn't think about his cheeks.  He was attacked by surprise, and when he saw Rui Yao sitting opposite with a rice bowl and suppressing a smile on her lips, she suddenly blushed with embarrassment.

    After he left, Rui Yao giggled and deliberately teased: "This guy is very courageous."

    Rui Yao blushed and lowered her head, not daring to answer. She waited until she finished laughing and then suddenly raised her head. Her beautiful eyes stared at Rui Yao, who was smiling sweetly and brightly, and blurted out: "Senior sisteryou, you  Do you like Brother Yang?"

    "ah?"

    A rice bowl slid directly onto the dining table.

    Yang Qiu didn¡¯t know that there was a fire in the backyard. He walked into the living room and saw Kuang Jingyang, Zhang Wenjing and Xiao Anguo coming, bringing two young people with him. He immediately asked: "Are they the captains of this plan?"

    "Weng Wenhao and Yan Sutong have met the vice president."

    The young man saluted quickly when he saw Yang Qiu. Perhaps it was the first time he saw Commander Yang, who was famous in the Far East. The two of them?Looking very excited.  What made him curious was that the young man named Weng Wenhao actually wore the badge of the Youth Executive Corps on his chest. He asked everyone to sit down and pointed to his chest: "When did you join?"

    ¡°After I returned from studying in Belgium last year, Minister Kuang recommended me to join the Dayu Tungsten Mine Survey and the Shuicheng Coal and Iron Survey Team. When I was in Shuicheng, I joined the National Socialist Youth Affairs Corps.¡±

    Weng Wenhao wears a suit and leather shoes and speaks clearly, which makes a good impression on Yang Qiu.  Kuang Jingyang also introduced: "Weng Wenhao specialized in geology in Belgium and received a doctorate. He discovered multiple tungsten ore veins during the Dayu survey. Shuicheng was also the first time his team successfully located iron ore. Yan Sutong is Kuang  Rongguang was his student when he was in Guangzhou. After Rongguang became a professor of geology at Hubei Institute of Technology, he also joined him as an assistant and participated in the Shuicheng project. Originally, he was planning to lead a team to explore gold mines in the Sanmenxia area. They are all good and trustworthy guys.  "

    Yang Qiu looked at the two of them and asked, "Did Minister Kuang tell me what we sent you to do?"

    "As we have said, we are asked to go to Luzon for resource investigation." Weng Wenhao and Yan Sutong nodded at the same time, but they were a little surprised that Yang Qiu suddenly asked them to go to Luzon, but they did not dare to ask, so their expressions were a little strange.  Seeing their appearance, Yang Qiu smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm not asking you to be spies and collect information."

    "You should know that as the scale of national construction expands, the biggest problem we face is resources. We can be self-sufficient in iron, coal, tungsten, manganese, and magnesium for the time being, but nickel, chromium, copper, and oil are very scarce. It happens that I  I once knew a European geologist. He spent ten years traveling all over Luzon and told me where there are very rich resources of nickel, chromium and copper, especially nickel and chromium. Without them, we can¡¯t even make alloy steel.  It can't be refined." Yang Qiu took out the information he had prepared earlier and made up nonsense: "Unfortunately, when I met the geologist, he was already bedridden. Fortunately, he wrote down some rough place names, among which my brother  Tabato, Toledo in Cebu Province, and Lapu-Lapu Island are the main copper mining areas. High nickel content of bauxite is concentrated in eastern Davao, Palawan Island, and Mindoro, and most of them are in shallow  The soil layer is easy to mine and the cost is low. Chrome ore is particularly important and is concentrated in the north-central Zambales Mountains in Mindanao and Dinagat Island in Surigao. It is said that the reserves in these places are world-class. All you have to do is  Find it as soon as possible."

    Yan Sutong is from Fujian and is very aware of the living conditions of the Chinese in Nanyang. He said in surprise: "Vice President, even if we find out, we may not be able to carry out large-scale mining. It is an American colony now and we will not easily allow us to mine ores."

    "The vice president has already thought of this." Zhang Wenjing said: "So when you go out this time, if there is already someone mining, don't touch it. If there is no one, then we will quietly buy it through the local Chinese. As for how to mine and operate it, you don't have to worry about it.  But there is one thing you must pay attention to: you must not leak information such as geological reserves and specific locations."

    Xiao Anguo is also one of the participants in this plan and said: "Our military will deploy some students and engineers from the Surveying and Mapping Institute to cooperate with you. In addition, I will also send soldiers to protect you secretly. If you are in danger, you can also say that you are from Nanyang Zhi Gong Tang.  Students, but you still have to be careful in everything.¡±

    ¡°Think of ways to position a few more. Whether the country¡¯s steel and metal industry can develop in the future depends entirely on this time.¡± Yang Qiu solemnly handed the information to the two of them.

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