June 7, 1939.
Longwangshan Airport in Jingxing County welcomed a group of blond foreigners.
It is said that when Liu Yu sent people to deliver penicillin, the Japanese also knew about it and arranged a lot of troops in the Japanese-occupied area halfway to intercept it.
But no one expected that Liu Yu actually had an airplane in his hand, especially the Type 97 heavy bomber, which was recently successfully developed by the Japanese.
When they came back, even if the kid knew their route, he didn't dare to intercept it, because there was a DC-3 passenger plane next to the bomber, which was full of famous foreign doctors and people from the embassies of the great powers.
If something happens to these people on the little devil's territory, it will be a lot of fun.
After the people arrived, Liu Yu warmly entertained the group of foreigners. He was not good at Japanese, but his English had passed CET-8 in his previous life.
At the dinner table, watching Liu Yu chatting and laughing with these crooked nuts in bird language, Lao Song and others looked like they believed him.
After the meal, the old medical scientists all went to rest, while the people from the legation stayed to continue negotiating with Liu Yu about the purchase of penicillin.
"General Liu, we are very interested in penicillin, but we have different opinions on the payment method, because we don't have even a penny reserve of border tickets. Can we pay in pounds?" After some polite exchanges, , the British envoy said straight to the point.
Liu Yu was noncommittal on the surface, but rolled his eyes on the inside.
Mustache is about to take action. Once a war breaks out, the currencies of various countries will be decoupled from gold. By then, pounds and francs will be just pieces of paper.
Otherwise, during World War II in the previous life, the British would not have used large amounts of gold to buy American supplies, because even the Americans did not recognize their pounds.
U.S. dollars are fine, but several other envoys are watching. Do you accept U.S. dollars but not their currencies?
What? Who do you look down on?
"In addition to border tickets, the most I can accept is gold or silver of equal value." Liu Yu said without hesitation, "You also know that I must protect our own currency market."
The American envoy shook his head repeatedly and said: "NONONO, your border ticket, also known as Guanghua Voucher, I learned about it. It uses that weird grain standard. Now the price of food in your country fluctuates so much that it is really difficult to calculate. Exact ratio of border ticket and gold exchange.”
Liu Yu smiled and said: "The essence of the border ticket is the government's credit currency, which is only temporarily linked to food. This is also a good way to avoid inflation in a short period of time, isn't it?"
Hearing that Liu Yu also knew the word "inflation", all the foreign envoys present gave him a high look.
They knew that the young man in front of them was more than just a simple soldier.
But they still scoffed at what Liu Yu said.
The border area tickets are only issued in a limited manner within the scope controlled by your party, and their credibility is not very high. How can there be such a thing as inflation?
Of course, it is impossible to say this clearly. They are all human beings with extremely high quotient and will not offend others easily.
Seeing the contempt in their eyes, Liu Yu roughly guessed what they were thinking. After pondering for a while, he smiled and said: "Let's use the current North China grain price as the benchmark to set the exchange rate between us. Now the ratio of the purchasing power of rice to the dollar should be 2 to 1, so each box of penicillin sells for $500!"
"You can open an account at Jingxing Bank. From now on, our trade payments will be settled through Jingxing Bank with border tickets. You need the penicillin in my hand, and I need your industrial equipment. In my opinion, we There is great potential for trade between them!”
When the foreigners heard this, their eyes suddenly lit up, there was such a good thing!
What I thought was just a unilateral purchase has now turned into a bilateral trade!
Yes, even if their equipment is about to be eliminated, it is still very advanced when brought to China!
In the past, some of their machinery companies also wanted to open up the Chinese market, but the Nationalist Government was not interested in those industrial equipment at all. It only wanted to buy or even rent finished industrial products.
How do you say something?
It is better to buy than to build, and it is better to rent than to buy!
The eyes of the foreigners present all glowed with green light, as if they saw many "reckless men" waving to them. If you help those machinery companies open up the market, how much benefits can you receive!
They can even participate in one share, reselling equipment here and penicillin there!
They don't care about China's domestic politics. They only care about how much money they can have in their wallets!
After being stunned for a while, several foreigners stood up in unison, all rushed towards Liu Yu, and kept introducing how advanced their equipment was.
Liu Yu was startled at first, and then was made dizzy by the noise.
I was about to say buy from this company, but that company was unhappy again and kept introducing the advantages of their own equipment and the shortcomings of other companies.
In the end, I had no choice but to buy it from every house.
After the meeting, Liu Yu and the four countries signed a trade memorandum. The reason why it is a memorandum is that both parties need to report to the superior before making a decision.
Among them are a large number of machine tools, lathes, milling machines, drilling machines and other mechanical processing equipment from Germany, with a total value of approximately 14 million yuan.
There is one large thermal power plant in the UK, three complete sets of large-scale mining and refining equipment, and four chemical plants, with a total investment of approximately 12 million.
The United States has a large steelmaking plant (annual output of 500,000 tons), a refined aluminum plant, a coking plant, and an electronics plant. It is also responsible for intermediary 3,000 engineers and experts of various types, with a total of approximately 15 million border tickets. .
France has two car production lines of Renault, but it requires the purchase of 500 additional trucks, totaling about 8 million border tickets.
The main reason is that there is really nothing to buy in France. Liu Yu originally wanted to buy an arms factory. After all, Miss France 75 is still very charming, but when it came to arms, the foreigners declined.
Still don’t want to offend the Japanese too much.
After the memorandum was signed, Liu Yu also sent the original copy to Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army headquarters in the form of a telegram, and suggested changing the name of the border ticket, such as a name coin...
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Yan'an responded quickly. While praising Liu Yu, it also agreed to the bilateral trade plan proposed here.
The next day, June 8, Liu Yu, on behalf of our party and our army, formally signed a two-year bilateral trade agreement with the United States, Britain, France and Germany.
Within two years, Liu Yu will provide them with a total of 49,000 boxes of penicillin, and Shikoku will deliver the large amount of industrial equipment Liu Yu needs in batches.
Well, 49,000 boxes, one box contains 50 boxes, which is less than 1,000 boxes, and Liu Yu now has more than 20,000 boxes in his hands...
Of course, there is a condition here, that is, the Eighth Route Army must first clear out the Japanese troops in southern Jin Province. Otherwise, even if the industrial equipment is transported to Chongqing, it will not be able to get through. It can only reach Shaanxi via the Shu Road and cannot reach Xiyang. If air transportation is used and the aircraft capacity is limited, they will not be able to complete the contents of the agreement within two years, and the losses incurred by then will be borne by the Eighth Route Army.
It's okay to send it to Yan'an, but from Yan'an to Liu Yu's side, you still have to pass through Japanese territory.
After Liu Yu thought about this question for a while, he agreed.
Then, Liu Yu signed a trade contract with them on behalf of our party and the Eighth Route Army.
