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    Living in a great era, but his health is getting worse and worse, Cai E is sad.  So he insisted on continuing the northwest journey with Yang Qiu, hoping to see more of the country's development.  But Karahan in Nanjing was waiting extremely anxiously. Whether he could transport the food back had become a top priority, so he had to go to the Presidential Palace or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs several times a day to inquire about the situation.

    Fang Rui opened the curtain and watched Karahan anxiously enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He turned around and said with a smile: "The Russians are probably really anxious."

    "I said, this is my office, not a secret whistle you use to monitor foreign affairs work." Behind him, Chen Haohui was checking documents at his desk and complained a few words without raising his head.  He continued: "Why don't you be in a hurry? News has been sent from Moscow that the famine in Russia is very serious. The communist policy implemented during the civil war resulted in the rich peasants being robbed. They were forced to requisition grain and could not get money. Now they would rather waste land than cultivate it.  Food. After the sailors in Kronstadt Fortress launched a riot last month, many soldiers who returned home from the army also picked up their guns again to join the fight against food requisition. Intelligence said that statistics in Moscow were that nearly 20 million people were affected, and chaos  It will last at least three to four years. Based on this ratio" He raised his head, paused, and pushed his newly-fitted glasses with his hand: "It is estimated that the final death toll is likely to be in the millions!"

    "That's right! The U.S. government has appointed a man named Hoover to deal with the Russian famine. He has gone to London to persuade the embargo to be lifted and provide humanitarian aid to Russia." Chen Haohui pressed the bell on the table and took care of it.  After handing the document to Dai Chunfeng, he put down his pen and pushed the wheelchair to the window: "The Vice President asked us to pay attention to this person named Hoover. I am wondering if we should use the inside information in Moscow to find out what the United States is planning.  .¡±

    "Hoover? I made a note of it. But what about the Nanyang issue? And the Soviet grain Do we really want to open up the channel? If the United States comes to provide disaster relief, we will go too and support Kazakhstan in the name of disaster relief."

    Chen Haohui shook his head: "The vice president has called in the morning to open up the food channel, but Kazakhstan can't move now. Once they recover, they will inevitably have a long-term confrontation with us, which is not conducive to the construction of the northwest. So what the vice president means is  Relief points can be set up at the border and at the Karaganda iron mines. But access to other parts of Kazakhstan is not allowed. As for the South Sea side the vice president gave us a holiday."

    "You're kidding!" Fang Rui held the hat in his hand and asked puzzledly: "I sent people to investigate those Marin and Weijingsky. They are very capable people. Now Japan has one foot on the edge of Nanyang."  Go. If the two families join forces to establish a foothold in the Dutch East Indies, there will definitely be a lot of trouble in the future!"

    Chen Haohui rolled his eyes at him: "You also know that the Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito has taken charge. According to the current situation, Japan will need at least four to five years to consolidate its internal affairs. It is a joke in places like German Guinea. The successor of Lenin in the Soviet Union has not yet been decided. Domestically,  If there is such a big famine again, it will take four to five years to gradually restore order. There is no need to stimulate them in the past few years. Besides, there are not enough troubles in Nanyang? The telegram said last night. Kuang Jingyang has sent people to quietly buy up the oil areas in batches.  As for the land, oil exploration will start in October at the latest, and we will know whether it is available by February next year at the earliest. If a big oil field comes out, won't it be enough for you to keep busy? "

    After all, Fang Rui has been in charge of the Security Bureau for many years. How can he not know how many things can happen in the oil field? In the end, it is just for all countries to sit down and talk, so he understands that Chen Haohui is reminding himself not to touch the Nanyang Poor Party for the time being.  In fact, he did not intend to kill them all, and he was still unable to support the development of the poor party in Nanyang.  It is best to start a fight so that we can fish in troubled waters.  What he was afraid of was Japan getting involved, but what Chen Haohui said was right.  Japan will not be able to intervene in Nanyang for four or five years, so there is no need to take action immediately. After all, the water in the south is too muddy.  Now Britain and the United States are staring at this place. The little overlord of the Netherlands can do whatever they want with the support of Britain. They really should let the poor party cause some trouble for them.

    So after thinking about it, I asked: "Does the Vice President have any instructions about the Democratic Party? Hu Hanmin and the rest of the family are developing over there. I heard that Sun Yat-sen went there from Japan to give speeches many times. I'm afraid.  "

    Chen Haohui said solemnly: "The political party's affairs are not our responsibility. As long as you don't go out of your way, you can send more people to keep an eye on it."

    "I'm afraid that Weijingsky and Marin will get together with the Democratic Party, which will make it much more complicated to control Nanyang in the future." Fang Rui's speculation made Chen Haohui secretly scratch his head. After being defeated from the mainland that year.  Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming of the Kuomintang all fled to Nanyang, leaving Zhang Taiyan and Wang Jingwei in the country.  In recent years, it has been very impressive in Nanyang, and its momentum of "striving to be the largest Chinese opposition party and supervise the republic" has even surpassed the national society.

    But he was well aware of Yang Qiu¡¯s temper and would not move the Democratic Party or the Republican Party unless it was absolutely necessary, so he thought about it and said, ¡°We will monitor him. If it¡¯s really what you said, don¡¯t blame us for being rude.¡±

    Fang Rui nodded and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way,??The girl asked me to tell you something. She said she didn't dare to tell you.  "

    Jin Yatou is Jin Bihui. She has been dependent on Chen Haohui for eight years, so Chen Haohui smiled tenderly when he heard her, and said with a smile: "What bad idea does this girl have? And she wants you, the director of the Security Bureau, to take action?"

    Fang Rui scratched his eyebrows before saying, "Jin Yatou applied for the Chengdu Military Academy."

    "What's there to be embarrassed about going to the military academy? She's not the first woman to enter the military academy. There are special medical and communications departments in Chengdu, so it's good to get in." Chen Haohui didn't pay attention, only thinking that Jin Bihui was going to the military academy to study medicine.  Or a communications major.  Seeing that he still didn't understand, Fang Rui simply said: "She chose the Intelligence Department."

    Chen Haohui shook his hand, and the cigarette he just took out slowly fell to the ground.

    Fang Rui was also dumbfounded. He never expected that the introverted little girl would choose to apply for a military academy and study in the intelligence departmentDoes this count as a deep brother-sister relationship?

    The two intelligence officers were stunned by a little girl. Karahan in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs opposite finally got the good news. Lu Zhengxiang officially agreed on behalf of the Chinese government to allow the grain purchased by the Soviet Union to transit the border, but all escort work must be carried out by the National Guard.  Responsible, and a Chinese domestic company must be responsible for transshipment, and the Soviet Union will be responsible for the costs involved.

    After receiving the good news, Karakhan spread the news to Moscow immediately and asked to immediately organize a packhorse grain transport team to wait in Karaganda. He hired seven 10,000-ton ships from the Four Seas Shipping Company to go to Vietnam and purchased them through the French Poor Party.  100,000 tons of grain will be transferred to Shanghai, and then board the train to return home.

    Yang Qiu did not care about opening the channel to Mokos, and he did not want to imitate Hoover and use disaster relief to knock on the door of the Soviet Union.  Now all he can think about is building a good country as soon as possible.  Time is really tight. If you want to get closer to Europe and the United States, you must have a stable period of time to develop.

    It was already past the planting season when he arrived in Andijan, but the green fields still made him feel relieved.  This most important granary and oil base in Central Asia plays a decisive strategic role in the stability of the northwest.  In order to speed up integration despite insufficient domestic production capacity, he also specially purchased thousands of tractors from the United States and transported them here using the narrow gauge at that time. He also misappropriated some equipment from the Yumen Refinery to strengthen the Andiyan (Michion) oil field first.  and refineries.

    The 18th Infantry Division is responsible for the security of Andiyan and Tajikistan. Due to the difficulties in constructing the Tianshan Mountains, in order to save time in digging tunnels, the Northwest Ring Railway turned eastward to Kashgar after arriving here.  Then enter Tajikistan from Kashgar.

    Sun Chuanfang lost a lot of weight after coming to the northwest. Since the northwest is still under military control, he, as a division commander, must not only be responsible for local security, but also supervise the construction of fortresses, and also solve problems in local economic development.  Fortunately, with the construction of the Northwest Central Railway, the number of immigrants has begun to increase dramatically. Last month alone, the number of immigrants increased by more than 30,000, many of whom are educated people.  Able to undertake some government work.  At the same time, Murong Han also transferred hundreds of officials and backbones of the national society to enrich the local government team, finally giving him time to concentrate on military affairs.

    "There are more than 550,000 Han people in total, and resettlement houses and fields have been allocated to them. All house and land deeds have been given directly. Schools are also ready. Whether it is Han people or other ethnic groups, it is compulsory to study as in China. All  Use our Chinese language to teach! Commander Shi also opened thousands of Chinese training classes for our troops, published Chinese manuals, and taught the local people to speak our language."

    "You see there is the refinery, and next to it is the new expanded factory. The masters are all sent from the Hanjiang Oil Field, and now they mainly produce kerosene and gasoline for lighting." The busy farming season has passed, so Sun Chuanfang simply transferred hundreds of tractors to use  He was building a fortress and an oil refinery. He pointed at the convoys running around on the plains and couldn't help but said proudly: "At the end of last year, the oil exploration team also discovered two more oil fields in the northwest and southwest. According to them, in two years, the annual output here will be 20  Ten thousand tons is not a problem, it is just enough for the refinery.¡±

    In the Andiyan Oil Refinery, Yang Qiu was secretly surprised while listening to the introduction.  Although he decided to capture Andiyan that year because of the food and oil here, and he also knew that the oil reserves in this place were said to be "small but fat", he was still a little surprised when he heard the figure of 200,000 tons.  And the size of the refinery also surprised him. He thought that the annual processing capacity here was only 20,000 to 30,000 tons at most.  But in fact, even without the expansion part, the refinery has an annual crude oil processing capacity of 100,000 tons.

    This is very important!  This means that before the construction of Beihai (Irkutsk) and Karamay, the development of oil in the six northwest provinces does not need to rely on the inland.

    In his view, the most important aspects for the development of northwest China are six.  Population, transportation, oil, energy, food and raw materials.  The population is being settled, and by 1930, the number of immigrants in the eight northwestern provinces, including Xinjiang, Ulyasutai and Kashgar, will reach at least 30 million.  Raw materials are the least available in the northwestYes, the Urumqi steel plant is already under construction. After acquiring Karaganda's 500 million tons of manganese ore, the National Development and Reform Commission has decided to build another steel plant in Almaty. Andijan and Tajikistan also have their own plans for small steel plants.  There is no shortage of cement, copper, etc. All we need to do is transport the machinery and start work.

    Transportation The Northwest Railway will be completed in 25 years. In addition, the Longhai Line, which will be opened at about the same time, will also be extended to Zhaisangbo and Kashgar, so the transportation problem is no longer big.  There is no need to worry about food after the labor force arrives. Andijan, Almaty and Krasnoyarsk are all famous grain-producing areas in Siberia and Central Asia.  The energy aspect has now been solved. Andijan has an annual output of 200,000 tons of oil, and the large open-pit coal mines and large coal fields on the Yenisei River can also be used. As for the lack of hydropower, it is due to technology. In fact, the northwest has more hydropower resources than the Central Plains.  Finally, there is communication The radio communication conditions in places such as Andijan and Tajikistan, surrounded by mountains, are extremely poor. There are often poor connections for days and nights, so laying telephone cables has become a top priority.

    When Murong Han heard the inquiry, he quickly summoned several technicians from the Northwest Company of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications who had returned from studying abroad.  These young people who came from all over the country for the development of northwest China were particularly excited to see Yang Qiu. They got a truck and quickly arrived at the cable laying site, introducing him eloquently.

    "Vice President, you see, what is being excavated now is the northwest communication cable laying trench. To facilitate maintenance and prevent damage, the trenches are laid along the railway lines, with an average depth of 2 meters, and then 30 cm thick waterproof cement pipes are laid, and the communication cables  It passes through the middle of the cement pipe. There are two main lines currently under construction, namely the western line from Nanjing-Xinjiang-Kashgar to Tajikistan and the east line from Beijing-Changchun-Krasnoyarsk. The average length of each cable is  It is about 4,500 kilometers, only a little less than the submarine cable from New York to London. The cables laid this time adopt the latest American technology, and the communication capacity is twice that of the previous one. It can transmit 1,200 words in one minute, and the two-way rate is 600 per minute.  words, which would allow the installation of larger telephone exchanges.

    It¡¯s just that the cost is a bit expensive.  The cost of a single wire is about 9 million yuan, and each wire needs to be wound with 115,000 kilometers of steel wire and iron wire, which is equivalent to circling the earth three times.  1,700 tons of copper, 800 tons of Eucommia gum, and 3,600 tons of synthetic rubber will also be used.

    This is still the main line. In the future, more than 20,000 kilometers of branch lines will be laid in a total of 8 provinces in the northwest. It is expected that direct telephone contact between counties in the northwest border areas and the customs will be achieved by 1930 at the latest!  In addition, we are also preparing to build broadcast relay towers in places such as Xinjiang and Kashgar. Radio broadcasters can already be produced in China. Once they are repaired here, you can hear the sound of Central Radio.  "

    Cai E was also excited, his cheeks turned red, he coughed a few times and asked, "Can we make the cable ourselves?"

    "With the technology introduced from the United States, the four cable factories in Qingdao, Guangzhou, Jiujiang and Hefei have been able to achieve self-production. Wuchang University of Technology and Nanjing Central University have also jointly developed single-core paper insulated cables made of aluminum. This kind of cable  It can transmit ultra-high voltage power transmission. The American Bell Company has implemented short-distance applications, but it seems to have encountered difficulties in long-distance. We are one year behind them in development, and theoretically at most three years behind the United States. If we can successfully develop it, we will  The water and coal resources here can be utilized to provide power to Xinjiang, Kashgar and even Gansu and other provinces! The telephone exchanges jointly produced by Shanghai and Siemens of Germany are also self-produced. Our Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications plans to use 20 years to provide power to all major counties across the country.  The city has a telephone connection and all power plants across the country are connected to the grid to transmit electricity.¡±

    The strong wind blew the faces of these young men who dedicated their youth to the country black and red, but their enthusiastic and sincere eyes told the world that China is catching up and super projects have begun to sprout in this country.  In the future, as more and more young people receive higher education, there will be more and more projects like this.

    The trip to the northwest allowed Yang Qiu to understand the development progress of the country's border areas. He was not worried about the inland. The northeast had already laid a good foundation under Cai Jimin's eight consecutive years of military control. It was the northwest that worried him the most.  However, judging from the situation along the way, people like Murong Han, Shi Xiaolou and Wu Peifu did a pretty good job. At the very least, they all knew the importance of maintaining stability and focusing on development.

    The inspection that was originally scheduled to end at the end of July did not end until August when he returned to Nanjing. The good news about the Sumatra oil field had not yet arrived, but Cai E fell ill due to the fatigue of the journey. But no one expected that this world-renowned pillar of the National Defense Forces who became famous in the Qingdao Campaign  After falling ill, he never stood up again

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