Chapter 186 Tungsten Ores Trading

The financial crisis in the United States made Zhang Xuewu feel that the import deficit was absolutely terrifying. If this was in later generations, he might be called a traitor and a traitor. If a country or economy often had a trade deficit, in order to pay for imported debts, he had to sell his local currency in the market to purchase other countries' currencies to pay the debts of the exporting country. In this way, national income will flow abroad and weaken the national economic performance. If the government wants to improve this situation, it must devalue the country's currency, because the currency value drops, that is, lowering the price of export commodities in disguise, which can improve the competitiveness of export products. Therefore, when the country's foreign trade deficit expands, it will weaken the country's currency and cause the country's currency to fall. On the contrary, when there is a foreign trade surplus, it will be beneficial to the currency.

But the most important thing is that China's so-called national currency, that is, the fiat currency that is prepared to be issued, is China's unilateral gold standard currency, which is forcibly linked to the US dollar and the British pound. Because the silver policy implemented by the United States' own financial crisis has caused a large outflow of silver in China, this is the most direct motivation for currency reform.

The world economic crisis that began in 1929 was the most profound and lasting crisis in the entire history of capitalism. This crisis not only involved industry, agriculture, and international trade, but also expanded to the monetary credit field, causing a crisis that endangers the entire capitalist credit system.

Against this background, Western countries have abandoned the gold standard and implemented currency depreciation policies to improve the competitiveness of their own products in the international market, thereby achieving the purpose of dumping surplus domestic products and passing the crisis. As for the United States, implementing the silver policy is a means to pass on the credit crisis. The so-called silver policy refers to a general term for a series of measures taken by the United States on precious metal silver, including raising the silver price, acquiring silver, banning the export of silver, issuing silver vouchers, and nationalization of silver.

As a result, Zhang Xuewu purchased all the weapons, machinery and equipment in the United States, Germany and even Europe, and paid for all the silver dollars. The outflow of a large amount of silver dollars undoubtedly brought worse consequences to the poor and weak Chinese economy. Behind the great development of Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan, a large amount of silver dollars were used by Zhang Xuewu to purchase the weapons, materials and equipment needed, which was also a helplessness.

However, this poison to the country's overall economic system is a kind of happiness for Zhang Xuewu, because it is already an unimaginable thing to buy things with money. If history really happened to the war between China and Japan in 1937, then even if Zhang Xuewu took the silver dollar, he would not be able to buy anything he needed from the United States, because Americans had to take into account the feelings of the Japanese, their largest exporter.

Moreover, now the Japanese issued a large number of so-called pseudo-Manchukuo coins in the three northeastern provinces, plundering a large amount of silver dollars to Shanghai to obtain China's foreign exchange reserves. After Zhang Xuewu sent Yao Le to stop the robbery several times, the Japanese learned very quickly. All the silver dollars were shipped to Japan by North Korea and transferred to Shanghai, thus avoiding Zhang Xuewu's plunder.

Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan have made Zhang Xuewu a small independent economic entity and kingdom, but everything in this Xiaowang is regularly reported to the Nanjing central government. Zhang Xuewu's so-called investment promotion policy and huge investment in Baotou industrial base have attracted attention from the whole country, especially Germany's investment in Baotou has increased. The Germans value Baotou's mining industry chain, and Zhang Xuewu still has the ability to buy tungsten ore from Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places.

Although the King of Southern Heaven Chen Jitang resisted the Nanjing Central Government from economic to military, it did not affect his selling a large amount of tungsten ore to Zhang Xuewu. Due to the interference of the Nanjing government, Chen Jitang's tungsten ore could not be sold. However, the Nanjing Central Government wanted to sell tungsten ore but had to pass through the port in Guangdong, which led to the fact that neither Nanjing nor Guangdong could easily make money from tungsten ore.

Among them, Zhang Xuewu, the main person who is not offensive on both sides and has a way of doing things. The domestic tungsten ore is generally distributed in the eastern coastal areas of Guangdong on both sides of the Nanling Mountains, especially in southern Jiangxi, with reserves accounting for about half of the world. In addition, tungsten ore are also produced in Dayu, Jiangxi, Rucheng, Zixing, Tuling and other places in Hunan, as well as Guangxi and Yunnan provinces, but most of the tungsten ore developed are controlled by the Southern Heaven King Chen Jitang, and the most critical port sea transportation route is also controlled in his hands.

Chen Jitang also wanted to get a piece of the pie through Zhang Xuewu's military purchases. Chen Jitang and the representatives sent by Zhang Xuewu almost hit it off, but Zhang Xuewu did not have the courage to blatantly bring this profitable transaction to the table. You should know that among the people whom Nanjing hated the most, Chen Jitang is among the top!

So as long as tungsten ore is exported through Guangdong and Guangxi under the banner of Zhang Xuewu, there is absolutely no problem. While earning money from tungsten ore, Zhang Xuewu was hoarding a large amount of ore. How could Zhang Xuewu, who loved armor-piercing bullets, not use that!

Zhang Xuewu, who has tungsten mine, is thinking about the production of a full set of refining equipment and multi-caliber shells and the production of fuses. In fact, Zhang Xuewu is very eager to develop the production of tail-stabilized shell-piercing armor-piercing shells, but the tail-stabilized shell-piercing shells evolved step by step from the original ordinary armor-piercing shells. In theory, it is a lightweight support to clamp the armor-piercing shell body in the middle. The caliber of the support is the same as the caliber of the gun. The armor-piercing shell is made into a slender rod shape. After the support is out of the bore, the support will automatically fall off due to the resistance, and the projectile will point along the barrel and continue to fly.

In order to ensure the stability and accuracy of the slender bullet body during flight, when manufacturing armor-piercing shells, four tail wings are installed at the tail, arranged in a cross shape, so they are called tail wing stability. However, one thing is very important, that is, the tail wing stable shell-piercing shell must be fired with smoothbore guns. Although the smoothbore gun has no rifle and its structure is simple, its bore pressure is very high, and the shell outlet velocity is extremely high.

Zhang Xuewu deliberately asked the German engineers. Zhang Xuewu always thought that the smoothbore guns had a simple process and low cost and easier to develop, because early guns and cannons were basically smoothbore guns. After all, adding rifled inside the barrel was a relatively difficult production process. In the early 18th century, with the continuous improvement of metal metallurgy manufacturing technology, rifled guns began to develop. Due to the significant increase in hit rate, they gradually replaced the application status of smoothbore guns.

German professional metallurgical engineers and artillery design engineers told Zhang Xuewu that the main difference between smoothbore guns and rifled guns lies in rifling, and the main function of rifling is to give the warhead the ability to rotate, so that after the warhead is out of the bore, due to the centripetal force, it can still maintain a certain direction to improve the hit rate.

However, the current metallurgy technology is far from meeting the requirements, which means that before there is no corresponding technical reserve and mature metallurgical alloy technology, smoothbore guns that fire sub-caliber ammunition cannot be manufactured? Now Zhang Xuewu has completely given up. Since the tail stable shell-out armor-piercing bomb cannot be manufactured, then let's take a look! We will develop tungsten carbide bullet core armor-piercing bombs accordingly to improve the power of armor-piercing.

Through the matter of armor-piercing bombs, Zhang Xuewu also seemed to have developed himself a little too ambitious. Down-to-earth development is the real hard truth. However, Zhang Xuewu's xenophobia and great development have also attracted more attention from the outside world. The Executive Yuan and the Supervisory Yuan have the greatest voice, because under Zhang Xuewu's deliberate management, they have no way to intervene in a large number of projects and transactions.

There are two ways in China that cannot be blocked, one is the official way, and the other is the financial way. Zhang Xuewu is blocking the financial way of the Executive Yuan and the Supervisory Office at this moment. Zhang Xuewu, who is still short of money all day long, naturally cannot give gifts to the corrupt officials above, so he summoned all kinds of rumors. The Supervisory Office itself is a place to catch up with rumors. Many things say that you are fine, and that you are fine.

However, if Chiang did not speak, no one could touch Zhang Xuewu's hair. However, Zhang Xuewu's military and military force also made Nanjing a little worried. He had just solved Zhang Xueliang, the largest vassal state in China, and another Zhang Xuewu emerged? Fortunately, under the system of the Central Military Army, Zhang Xuewu obeyed the dispatch and orders of the Supreme Military Commission. The Rehe Legion is a direct unit of the Supreme Military Commission.

Compared with the three imperial guards and teaching teams of 87, 88, and 36, the equipment of the Rehe Legion is the best in the country. Moreover, Zhang Xuewu has also formed a reserve personnel training and competition. Young people of appropriate age must receive at least three months of militarized training every year, and factory workers must also conduct quasi-militarized organization and training. It can be said that the Japanese's significant increase in troops in the Northeast also made Zhang Xuewu feel deeply uneasy.

In addition to increasing troops at the speed of one division per month, the Japanese also formed four tank brigades, and the Kwantung Army's aviation team was also changed to a flight division. It can be said that Rehe's defeat gave birth to the huge monster of the Kwantung Army in advance. The Kwantung Army headquarters has been upgraded to the General Command, and the Kwantung Army has also formed the Front Army headquarters accordingly, with two front troops under it. The First Front Army headquarters is located in Fengtian, targeting Rehe North China, and the Second Front Army headquarters is located in Qiqihar, targeting the Soviet Union.
Chapter completed!