Qijiang County was really underdeveloped in 1940, with almost no modern infrastructure, and it was also mountainous and watery, with poor transportation. Not to mention roads, there were not many small roads for wheelbarrows to travel, and bandits were rampant here. , people's livelihood is difficult, although they are in the capital, it is also a first-class miserable place.
Otherwise, the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs would not be so kind as to allocate this place to the temporary 68th Division for garrison, and even later left the entire county to the Eighth Route Army without caring. It is really that nothing can be done from this place. Even if all the fiscal revenue here were subsidized to the Eighth Route Army, it would not be able to support a division, not to mention that the city's tax revenue is still in the hands of its own people.
But Wang Yue is different. This guy is a serious person. In order to prosper the economy of Qijiang County, he threw out 500,000 tons of raw barley at one time. The fresh raw barley is full and full of wheat. Xiang, this thing is rare. After being sold at a low price, it greatly impacted the grain market in the rear area, reducing the price of grain in Sichuan Province by 20%. Countless speculators suffered heavy losses.
Due to the need for grain transportation, Qijiang's transportation volume increased tenfold. It is said that the tax pressure was so great that even the tax police of Qijiang County Government were exhausted and had to rent a gunboat from the Marine Police to help collect taxes.
As for whether large-scale sales of grain will cause heavy losses to farmers, it can only be said that you are overthinking. Since when did the price of grain have anything to do with farmers? Even in 2023, you can't sell it at a high price if you want. Falling food prices can reduce the pressure on the government, stabilize the economy, strengthen the value of the currency, and reduce the burden on citizens. The benefits are not too great. The only drawback is that some of it may flow into occupied areas, but it is not necessarily a bad thing. If you can't buy it, the Japanese will still have to rob it. Common people?
In addition to food, Wang Yue also sold old bedding and clothes in Qijiang County. The quality was good, the quantity was large, the price was low, and there was no limit. Although they were old, they could be washed a little and were no different from new ones, and there were many The fabrics of the clothes are all made of nylon thread, which is tensile and wear-resistant. They are of better quality than imported cotton. They don’t sell well. I don’t know about other places. The beddings recently allocated by the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Military Affairs are all of this stuff. .
Even so, Zhao Gang, who was responsible for helping Wang Yue sell supplies, felt bitter. Wang Yue got 10 million sets of old bedding, 30 million sets of old work clothes, and 18 million sets of old cotton clothes at one time, but he has never sold them until now. One million sets of old bedding, 2 million sets of old work clothes, and 500,000 sets of old cotton clothes were sold. It’s not that Zhao Gang doesn’t want to sell, it’s because the capacity of the Qijiang Terminal has reached its limit. Before the highway to the Yangtze River in the north is completed, this situation will It's hard to change.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of people working to build roads in Qijiang County. Not counting the 100,000 migrant workers who are building small steel plants, there are also more than 100,000 civilians responsible for infrastructure construction in other areas. A young and strong man in Yishui, and There are more than 50,000 casual workers serving caravan workshops and the like. This is only the number of male workers. If the young and middle-aged women are counted, the number of working people is probably more than 500,000. As for the number of people in Qijiang County The population has long exceeded one million people. A remote small county has a population of one million. Even in 2023, Qijiang County will not have one million people. 33
According to Wang Yue's request to Li Yunlong, a solid base area should be built south of the mountain city and at the core of the Kuomintang-controlled area. No matter what happens in the future, there is nothing wrong with building the place first. If we don't take advantage of the opportunity to develop now, what will happen to us? With the development of time, I am afraid those guys in the mountain city government will have to wait until the 21st century.
What Wang Yue wants to do is to use one county to drive a province, and one province to drive several provinces, comprehensively revitalize the economy in the rear area, and set an example for the whole country. I am building under your nose. As long as the highest authorities want to have some face, they must keep up with their own pace, develop the economy and improve people's livelihood. Whether it is true or false, it can still make the people live better, just like the New Life Movement. Still, it always has a positive meaning.
Wang Yue has asked Chen Xi to organize personnel in the country to design a series of factories such as small fertilizer factories, small machinery factories, small textile factories, small cement factories, and small brick factories that meet the technical level of the 1940s. They are all being designed and completed. After these thousand small steel plants, more small industrial enterprises will continue to flourish in Qijiang County and the Eighth Route Army base areas, and the country's industrialization will be initially realized with a large number of small industrial enterprises.
When the war is over, it will be time for a global wave of independence. At that time, these small factories can be spread around the world. Although they are all factories with the technical level of the 1940s, if we can really bring the 1940s to the The ultimate technology can also ensure that these factories can last for half a century or even longer. If nothing else, the small oil refining equipment Wang Yue built will be sold out in 2023, Africa, the Middle East , drug traffickers in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and even a certain country in North America have switched to oil refining, which is a vicious outbreak.
Next year, the Pacific War will break out. If we can get these things started before the war breaks out, China will have more bargaining chips in the war and will be more confident in speaking. This is a feast to carve up the world again. , in another time and space, China's ancestors established China's status as a great power at the cost of tens of millions of lives. But if it were possible, who would be willing to pay such a heavy price?
Damn Bald Eagle Aid, we all worked hard, but you still came up with a fucking Lend-Lease Act, and you have to give back what you worked hard for, and you have to pay for it, and you still lick your face and call it aid, Bullshit aid, the cost of 70,000 bald eagle soldiers in China is equivalent to the cost of the 6 million national army. Why do we have to pay? Isn’t it true that the country is too poor and weak to be strong-willed?
Why did the so-called expeditionary force fail when it entered Myanmar for the first time? It’s not that guy Stilwell who is giving blind orders, or that a certain general named Sun ignored the retreat of the expeditionary army in order to curry favor with Stilwell, he is completely exchanging the lives of the Chinese army for his own interests. This is this kind of person. After the war, he can still be boasted as a famous anti-Japanese general. What a bullshit anti-Japanese general, and a lackey who helped Bald Eagle fight the war?
In order to prevent these histories from repeating themselves in this time and space, and to prevent this suffering nation from shedding more blood and losing more vitality, Wang Yue felt that he must do better and do his best within his capabilities. Well, the bald eagle can rise through a war, why can’t we in China?
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