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Text Chapter 18 Yang Zhen¡¯s plan

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    Not to mention that the Anti-League people couldn't figure out what Yang Zhen wanted to do with these things, even those Americans who didn't think about anything except making money didn't understand either.  Because as early as the 1920s, Americans had already explored the entire Northeast.  Their geological and petroleum experts have long concluded that there is no oil in the Northeast.  So those Americans also thought that Yang Zhen was fooling around.

    Of course, as long as they have money to earn, these Americans can even dig up their ancestors from their graves and sell them if necessary. As long as the money is available, everything will be fine for these Americans.  They won't care whether the equipment you bought back is useful or not. Even if you buy the equipment and throw it into the Pacific Ocean, they won't care.  As long as they get the money, that's good for them.

    "If the central government hadn't handed over all negotiation matters to Yang Zhen and fully supported him.  But Yang Zhen insisted on his own opinion, and would rather get rid of some other equipment and get these oil extraction and refining equipment.  Everyone else forced their way through out of awe of this young, but extremely skillful, number one.  Otherwise, we wouldn¡¯t have known what was going on at the beginning.

    In Xiong Dazhen's words at the time, that set was completely useless in the base area and even in the entire Northeast. No one knew what the oil refining equipment and the drilling platforms that No. 1 bought were used for. The money was enough to buy another steelmaking equipment.  In addition to the factory, there is a non-ferrous metal smelting plant, or five ammunition factories with a daily output of one million rounds of bullets are being established, plus two large artillery shell factories.

    Xiong Dazhen once told Guo Bingxun more than once that the Japs have been occupying the Northeast for several years, and they have almost searched the entire Northeast, not to mention that they have not found oil fields, and they have not even found oil-bearing strata.  Even with the little devil's sophistication, he couldn't find it.  Can you find it if you change to the Anti-League whose technical strength is far inferior to that of the Japanese?

    Xiong Dazhen is a top student at Tsinghua University. Although he did not major in geology, Guo Bingxun still trusted his words, abilities, and scientific strength.  Guo Bingxun also didn't believe that Xiong Dazhen, as a rigorous person, would deceive himself on this matter.

    But looking at this promising and confident young number one, Guo Bingxun was somewhat confused: "Is he really capable of understanding the world? He can work in the northernmost part of China, which has been publicly declared as an oil-poor country by well-known big oil companies.  A large oil field was created out of thin air in Northeast China, which was almost plundered by the Japanese? "

    It¡¯s not that Guo Bingxun, Xiong Dazhen, or even the entire Northeast Bureau distrust Yang Zhen.  In fact, the Chinese in this era even have some blind trust in the technical capabilities of foreigners because of their weak technology.  Even people like Guo Bingxun have no doubts about the original American report that concluded that China is an oil-poor country.

    Almost everyone believes that even the Americans, who have strong technical capabilities, and the Japanese, who are always known for their meticulousness. A so-called Manchurian resource map marked almost all the mineral resources in the Northeast, but they did not find oil fields in the Northeast.  So for all Chinese people, it means that they all believe that there are really no oil fields in Northeast China.

    Although some people did not believe that Yang Zhen could conjure an oil field out of thin air, Guo Bingxun was very smart and did not continue to ask this question.  Because he remembered clearly that Yang Zhen had told him more than once that China was not an oil-poor country as foreigners said.

    On the contrary, although the oil reserves are not as good as those of the United States and the Soviet Union, they are definitely not less than the oil reserves in Nanyang, which the Japanese army has been spying on for a long time.  Even if some of the underground oil in China is extracted, or the oil in the Northeast is extracted.  It will not be much lower than the output of the world's largest oil fields, the Soviet Caucasus Oil Field and the Baku Oil Field.

    Yang Zhen has told himself many times that there are oil fields in the entire Northeast, not only in Heilongjiang in northern Manchuria, but also in Jilin in central Manchuria and Liaoning in southern Manchuria, as well as in the Japanese-occupied areas of Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, and the rear area.  There are oil fields in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region where the central government is located, Sichuan where the National Government is located, and Guangxi.

    Although the scale of these oil fields, except for the oil reserves in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and the oil reserves in Northern Manchuria, they cannot be compared with the Soviet Caucasus oil fields and the oil fields in Northern Manchuria.  But even if only the two relatively small oil fields at the mouth of the Liaohe River in Jilin and Liaoning are developed, it will be enough to meet Japan's entire strategic needs.

    Although Sichuan¡¯s oil resources are not as good as those in the eastern region and Xinjiang, its reserves are far from being comparable to those in the eastern region.  However, if it is mined, the annual output of hundreds of thousands of tons plus the output of the Yumen Oilfield will be enough to meet the needs of the National Government, which has an extremely low degree of mechanization.  It¡¯s just that the Nationalist government was too blindly trusting in foreigners and did not organize its own forces to conduct careful exploration. It¡¯s not that Guo Bingxun didn¡¯t believe Yang Zhen¡¯s words were true, it was because Guo Bingxun, who had studied in France, only believed in science.  He would never believe anything without rigorous scientific proof.  If the places mentioned by Yang Zhen are proven to contain oil through rigorous exploration, heNaturally you will believe it.

    But Yang Zhen had never been to many places, so he just said that there was oil in those places. How could he convince Guo Bingxun, who is rigorous by nature and advocates science?  Isn't this the same as talking with your eyes open?  Foreigners with strong technical support have not discovered where there is oil, so how does he know?

    Seeing that Guo Bingxun didn¡¯t seem to believe his words, Yang Zhen didn¡¯t care.  All doubts will naturally be clear once the Daqing Oilfield is put into production.  As for now, there is no need to explain it too clearly.  Otherwise, if others ask you how you knew there was an oil field there, you will be the unlucky one.

    But when he thinks about explaining such things, Yang Zhen sometimes gets a headache just thinking about it.  The oil field is not a weapon. You can just make up any excuse to get by.  This kind of thing needs rigorous scientific verification.  Without a proper reason, there is no way to get away with it.  You can't pretend to be a magician and claim that your eyes can see all over space and underground, right?

    Although he was very reluctant, the following situation forced him to complete the Daqing Oilfield decades ahead of schedule.  Otherwise, without oil, our planes and tanks would be like scrap metal.  The Soviets are now too busy to take care of themselves. No matter how high the price they pay, they may not continue to sell oil to themselves.

    Indeed, after the Pacific War broke out, the Americans were constrained by the war situation and had to provide assistance to themselves no matter how reluctant they were.  Even if they cannot achieve the same level of support as they provided to the British and Soviets, aircraft, tanks, and heavy artillery must be indispensable.

    Americans will not be so stingy about military raw materials, such as steel for armor, copper for gun shells, and smokeless gunpowder.  Compared with the precious blood of Americans, although these equipment also require some economic costs, Americans still think it is a good deal.  As one of the most important military supplies, Americans are naturally not stingy with all kinds of oil.

    Moreover, as the largest oil producer and oil refining country today, the Americans even provided more than half of the military fuel, especially high-quality aviation gasoline, to the Soviet Union, the second largest oil producer, during World War II. Naturally, they would not care about providing it to the Soviet Union.  For them, the Anti-League is only a small amount of gasoline produced in a month.

    But all the blood transfusions are in the hands of others, which makes Yang Zhen always feel uncomfortable.  As a Chinese person of later generations, very few people have a good impression of Americans.  Oil is the blood of the modern army. Without oil, aircraft and tanks will become a pile of scrap metal.

    Yang Zhen is still a little worried about relying entirely on the Americans for such important supplies.  Once there is any accident during the transportation process, or the supply is not timely, unless you return to the past state of millets and rifles, your troops will be completely paralyzed.

    As a latecomer, Yang Zhen is still very clear about the heavy losses of the U.S. World War II aid supplies to the Soviet Union and the transportation fleet of aid supplies to China.  In particular, the Americans' foreign aid channels must pass through the Soviet Union.  Although safety does not need to be considered much, smoothness must be carefully considered.

    Yang Zhen believed that if the Soviets, who lacked high-quality gasoline and whose oil production capacity was greatly reduced during the war, needed it, they would definitely use the high-quality gasoline shipped by Americans in their territory for their own use.  As for whether the Anti-Japanese Alliance also needs this gasoline, it is not their consideration.  Whether the Soviets would use the materials given to the Anti-Japanese Alliance for their own use was what Yang Zhen was most worried about.

    ¡°And Yang Zhen doesn¡¯t plan to get any ready-made equipment from the Americans except airplanes.  His thoughts were more on how to make full use of the magnificent stage of World War II and build up China's own heavy industry as much as possible within the limited time.  For example, the aviation industry, steel industry, and various advanced machinery and equipment required by the equipment manufacturing industry.

    As for the equipment currently in service by Americans, apart from aircraft, naval ships, and various automobiles, he really doesn¡¯t like much.  M4 Sherman tank, although its performance is good.  However, compared with the German No. 4 and Panther, both armor and artillery performance are far behind.  Compared with the Soviet T-34 tank, there is also a big gap in performance.  Compared with Soviet-made and German-made artillery, the performance of American-made artillery is not far ahead.  Even in terms of power, it is still quite lagging behind.

    As the world's first large-scale semi-automatic rifle, the M-1 rifle and carbine, as well as the Thompson submachine gun, have excellent performance.  But compared with the fully automatic rifle equipped with intermediate bullets, there is a whole generation gap.

    With the exception of the M2 large-caliber machine gun, the other light and heavy machine guns are not as good as the general-purpose machine guns equipped by our own troops.  Moreover, it is produced by itself and has been equipped with troops on a large scale. It serves as an integral part of battalion-level support firepower and anti-aircraft firepower.??Anti-aircraft machine guns are no worse than those of the Americans.  In terms of weight, it is far lower than the American gun that has been produced for nearly a hundred years.

    Although he is somewhat disdainful of the current American army equipment, Yang Zhen covets American raw materials, production technology, and machinery and equipment.  He has made up his mind that if the Americans really assist him next year, in addition to aircraft and cars, they will all need machinery, equipment, production technology, and raw materials for military production
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