"What's wrong, Secretary Zhu? Xu Chang and I were waiting for dinner. Hu Rui suddenly told me that you had something urgent to see me after he went back and asked me to hurry back on horseback. Commander Zhao, Director Guo, Governor Li, you're here too.”
Li Yan, who had rushed back, was a little anxious. After all, he and Xu Chang had just confirmed the location of the cement factory today. It was in the north of the Northern Peach Garden Village, not far from the Five Colored Mountain. He and Xu Chang were planning to wait for Hu Rui to come back and rush to Maying Village together to eat. After all, it was not too late. They could go to Maying Village first to eat.
This way, it would be faster when they chose the site for the thermal power plant tomorrow. However, he didn't expect Hu Rui to tell him that Secretary Zhu was looking for him urgently after he went back and asked him to hurry back on horseback.
"Commissioner Li, don't be anxious. I have something to ask you. By the way, how was work these two days?”
Although Hu Rui would briefly report to Commander Zhao about Li Yan and Xu Chang's main work content every day, considering that Hu Rui couldn't understand many of the things they said, Secretary Zhu still wanted to ask Li Yan personally. After all, it was related to the construction of the industrial zone, so it couldn't be too careful.
"It's pretty good. Now that the locations of the steel plant and cement plant have been confirmed, I planned to visit the thermal power plant tomorrow and then the chemical plant. The location of the chemical plant may be a bit difficult. After all, we have to consider the large-scale production of fertilizers and the dangers of the chemical industry.”
Speaking of which, Li Yan was quite satisfied with his work efficiency. Although it was only a few very small factories, unlike the Ford branch factory in the United States, he had to consider so much. However, it was a very proud thing to be able to complete the general site selection of two small factories in two days. Although he had the help of Xu Chang, who was considered one of the top talents in the geological field of China, his name was signed in front of Xu Chang on the site selection document. Anyone would know that he was the main credit for this document.
"That's good, that's good." After Li Yan confirmed what he had heard from Hu Rui these two days, Secretary Zhu was also very excited. After all, in their opinion, the site of a steel factory would take about one to two months to complete, but now, only a few days had passed, and a steel factory was waving to them.
Secretary Zhu and the others looked at each other. They were even more certain that Shandong could do without him, Chief of Staff He, and any member of the committee. However, Xu Chang was someone that the entire Shandong, or even the entire Celestial Empire, could not afford to lose.
"By the way, Commissioner Li, we have already handed the report to the American Embassy in China yesterday. Our people did not see the envoy himself, but only his secretary. He handed the documents to the envoy, and he gave our people two boxes of 48 bottles of Jack Daniels. I left the wine in your office. As for the other document to be handed over to the US Navy Intelligence Office, our people met with the new US military attaché in China, Kenis. Major Tanner, after reading the document, the major told him that this batch of supplies would be delivered to us on March 13th, which is Thursday. He also gave our people a piece of paper to pass to you. This piece of paper was written in front of our people.”
As he spoke, Secretary Zhu took out a piece of paper. This piece of paper was obviously torn from an ordinary newspaper. There were three numbers written on it: 10, 25.3, 22.6. The 25.3 in the middle was simply crossed out. If he didn't know that this piece of paper was an important document handed over to Li Yan by the US Navy Intelligence Bureau, even Governor Li, who was in charge of the intelligence system, would only treat it as a piece of waste paper. After all, there were more than three numbers in the code, and one number was crossed out. In the end, the result of their discussion was that a person with the code name 10 might have planned to come to China or Shandong on March 25th, but now he changed his schedule and came on June 22nd.
"Well, it's very simple. Our report worked. Previously, in October, the U.S. Navy planned to operate a total of 28 million US dollars in aid to China. It could be a loan or a stabilization fund, and the allocation of this batch of funds was 25 million US dollars for Chongqing and 3 million US dollars for us. However, after the military officer saw the report and combined it with his experience in China, he felt that this distribution was unreasonable, so he reported to his superior and changed the distribution of the funds to 22 million US dollars for Chongqing and 6 million US dollars for us. How is it? Simple, right?"
Of course, it might not only be the effect of his report. Of course, it might be a little bit, but definitely not that big. It seemed that the military attaché had a great opinion about Chongqing during the past few days. Additionally, General Electric might have made great efforts behind the scenes. The development of the matter might be that the money that was to be handed over to Chongqing in April had been found out by General Electric. Additionally, this money would never be used for industrial development as General Electric hoped. After all, if Chongqing decided to use it to develop its industry, then the money given to him in October would definitely decrease instead of increasing so much.
"No, this is the aid that the United States is going to give to China in October?”Secretary Zhu really didn't expect the meaning of this piece of paper to be like this. Not to mention himself and the few people in the committee, even if everyone in the Chinese intelligence agency, including the Central Commander and the Military Commander, couldn't guess it. How could such a large sum of money be decided by a commissioner and a major? It was 28 million USD. Shouldn't such a large sum of money be decided by at least three to five professional accounting officers? It was too easy to decide.
"Yeah, can the two of you decide such a big matter?”This was what Governor Li asked. After all, they really couldn't imagine that just two people could decide the use of such a large sum of money.
" What else? In fact, these US dollars are just a secondary measure to deal with Japan's threat in Southeast Asia. The total amount of US dollars in April and October is 50 million US dollars, and this is this year's. It is conceivable that there may be more next year, but it is not worth mentioning compared to the main means. The four South Dakotas-class ships and the supporting ships will probably cost more than 400 million US dollars, plus the next-level battleships that need to be rushed. Merika would probably need to spend more than a billion dollars on the main means. A small amount of 50 million dollars was a little small. Moreover, neither I nor the newly sent major would directly touch that money. All they had was the right to check the balance. The money was always in the bank of the United States, and the equipment they wanted to buy was also the equipment of the United States company. In other words, the money was always in the hands of the United States. They only sent their own industrial equipment over. So, wasn't this normal?”
Li Yan didn't care much about it. He didn't think that this was something worth making a fuss about. Moreover, if he, a senior engineer and the only military attaché of the US Navy in China, couldn't even decide on tens of millions of dollars in aid, then the US government and the US Navy were too poor.
"Alright, you guys are amazing. That's right, that means we have eight million dollars now, right?”After Secretary Zhu temporarily shook off the shock that two low-level officials could decide the ownership of tens of millions of dollars, he suddenly realized that if Li Yan was right, Shandong's construction funds would be 8 million dollars.
This was 8 million USD. The previous 2 million USD had shocked them so much that they didn't know what to do. They even had to send a letter to Yan 'an before they dared to accept this money. But now, there was another 6 million in front of them. Commander Zhao and the others also realized this problem. This was 8 million USD. How should Shandong use it?
"Not really. There should still be only 2 million in my account now. The 6 million will probably only be transferred to my account in August. Did Major Tanner tell your people the cost of the equipment I asked for?”Li Yan looked at the paper repeatedly but could not find the specific price. He asked Secretary Zhu. After all, according to the previous plan, after he handed over the required equipment to the military officer, the military officer should have told him the cost.
"No, but I asked someone about the cost. It's about 350,000 USD.”This was what Governor Li said. After all, the people sent were from the intelligence system. After discussing with Secretary Zhu, he specially sent people to Shanghai to ask trusted people. The most expensive ones were trucks. Each truck cost about 20,000 US dollars. Ten trucks would cost 200,000 US dollars.
In fact, Governor Li felt that there was no need to spend this money at all. After all, trucks needed to burn oil. Shandong was rich in human resources. 20,000 US dollars was enough to transport tens of thousands of tons of goods by manpower. This price was especially high. People would definitely fight for it. However, Li Yan was the one who brought the funds over. Even if he felt that it was a pity that he needed it, there was no need to refute him.
"Impossible, I want the old stock. The 350,000 USD you mentioned is the latest price. It can't be so high. 200,000 USD is the highest.”General Electric was begging him to buy it now. How could they offer such a price? If that was the case, he would have gone to France to buy it.
"Commissioner Li, at this time, it's already good enough that you have something to buy. Who cares if it's a new model?”Secretary Zhu also felt that Li Yan was a little naive. They were at war now. Power generation equipment and trucks were priceless. The person who asked this question was someone Secretary Zhu had helped to find.
Secretary Zhu was his classmate at Guangzhou University. He was now a manager in a German firm and was trustworthy. Secretary Zhu also believed that the 350,000 yuan was due to his reputation. If it was someone else, it might be 450,000 US dollars.
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