"Sir, do you mean that this is the intention of the National Salvation Army?" The Chief of Staff seemed to understand a little.

The commander nodded: "It must have been intentional!"

"Now, except us, no force can sell food to the National Savior Army. As soon as our people appear, Zhou Cheng will know that we are standing behind this."

"Although they are short of food, we and the National Salvation Army are the greatest enemies of life and death after all, and we will not bow to us immediately if we are in a reasonable and reasonable way."

"And doing so can also rub our spirits and increase their confidence in the next negotiations."

"You wait. Zhou Cheng will meet our people tomorrow at the latest."

"They are now isolated and helpless, and even their only ally, the Eighth Route Army, has turned against each other. It is impossible for food to emerge out of thin air. There is no other channel except to buy it from us."

"Although the last time I failed to cooperate with the National Savior Army to deal with the two independent regiments, the reason was not the case with the National Savior Army, which means that we and the National Savior Army are not without cooperation. As long as I put in a few more tricks and guide them to jump into the pit step by step, the National Savior Army will sooner or later be forced into a dead end by us and finally bow to us!"

At ten o'clock the next morning, a middle-aged man dressed in a gray cloth gown and appeared in front of Zhou Cheng on time.

Tang Yufeng, Zheng Yunshan and Chen Zhengyu stood beside him.

With Zheng Yunshan's efforts, Tang Yufeng was persuaded by him last night to fully accept Zhou Cheng's new plan, and even made two additions to the new plan.

"I heard from the head and deputy leader that you have food to sell to us, and the amount is still quite large?" Zhou Cheng said bluntly to the middle-aged man.

"Hello, sir!" the middle-aged man quickly replied: "There is a batch of grain, and it exists in the Japanese-occupied areas, with a quantity of more than two million kilograms. As long as the national rescue army can afford the price, we can trade it at any time!"

Zhou Cheng did not expose the other party's identity as the Japanese agent, and directly expressed his thoughts: "I want to buy 10 million kilograms of grain at one time, I wonder if you can take it out!"

The middle-aged man was shocked and shouted incrediblely: "So many, didn't your national rescue army rush to plant a large number of potatoes? According to the principle, two or three million kilograms of grain are enough for you to survive until the potato harvest. Why do you need so much?"

Hearing this, Zhou Cheng became more convinced that the other party was the Japanese agent, otherwise he would not have known the National Salvation Army so much, and even knew the specific food shortage of the National Salvation Army.

However, Zhou Cheng still had no intention of exposing the other party's identity.

If the other party's identity is exposed, the transaction between the National Savior Army and the Japanese will become a fact.

This matter is not big or small.

Although it is not related to joining the enemy and selling the country, under the operation of those who are interested, this transaction will still bring a lot of trouble to the national rescue army.

As long as the identity of the other party's Japanese agent is not exposed, even if someone deliberately makes this happen, the National Salvation Army can refute it with the reason that they do not know the other party's identity, minimizing the bad impact that this incident may have on the National Salvation Army.

So Zhou Cheng decided to continue pretending to be confused.

Explained in the shocked eyes of the middle-aged man: "It seems that you know quite well our National Salvation Army!"

"That's right. Our National Salvation Army did plant a batch of potatoes and could harvest them in more than a month. But now there are still several months before the autumn harvest. We can't let the people eat potatoes every day!"

"There is also the National Salvation Army. In order to help the victims, they took out all their food for several months. The National Salvation Army is related to the safety of the entire defense zone, and its combat effectiveness must not be affected, so they cannot eat potatoes every day, they must eat potatoes and grain."

"We roughly calculated that the National Salvation Army and the people in the defense zone need at least 10 million kilograms of food to survive the immediate food shortage crisis."

"Be more refreshed, if you have it, if you have it, if you don't, if you don't have it. For the sake of stability of the defense zone, we can't put all the eggs in your basket. If you can't get so much food, we will find a way to get food from other places immediately."

"Although we had a quarrel with the Eighth Route Army, we were all Chinese after all, and they were particularly lacking in medicines, weapons and ammunition. If it really didn't work, we would be shameless and ask the Eighth Route Army to buy food from the Eighth Route Army with weapons, ammunition and medicine."

"Although we have a great hatred with the Eighth Route Army, they can't resist the temptation of medicines, weapons and ammunition."

The middle-aged man originally wanted to stick to three million kilograms of grain and not let go. It would be better to reduce the amount of grain that the national rescue army wanted to buy to two million kilograms. After all, the food is in his hands and the initiative is in his hands.

When he heard Zhou Cheng's words just now, he began to panic.

As a middle-level intelligence officer lurking in the defense zone of the National Salvation Army, he still has some understanding of some of the Japanese's strategies against the National Salvation Army.

The Japanese spent a huge price to make the National Salvation Army rebel against the Eighth Route Army. It is precisely because of this that the National Salvation Army fell into a crisis of food shortage.

Otherwise, with the relationship between the National Salvation Army and the Eighth Route Army a few months ago, the Eighth Route Army would definitely find ways to help the National Salvation Army resolve the food crisis, and it would not have the chance to stand here and negotiate with the National Salvation Army.

Although the National Salvation Army has turned against the Eighth Route Army now, Zhou Cheng said something very right just now.

No matter how much hatred they have, it cannot change the identity of both sides as Chinese, and medicines, weapons and ammunition have too much temptation to the Eighth Route Army.

If the National Salvation Army really plans to do this, even if this transaction cannot ease the increasingly bad relationship between them, it will definitely be fine if it is replaced by food.

For the Japanese, no matter whether the National Rescue Army buys food from the Eighth Route Army or the National Rescue Army wants to ease their relationship with the Eighth Route Army, they cannot accept it, and they also have to find a way to dispel the idea of ​​the National Rescue Army.

The middle-aged man felt that his initiative was gone all of a sudden and quickly replied: "We have food, but the boss behind me has the final say in how much we can sell it to Guijun. I have no say."

"I hope Captain Zhou can give me some time! Two days, at most two days will definitely give you a clear answer."

Zhou Cheng continued to pretend to be confused, without asking who the boss behind the middle-aged man was, and directly ordered: "Then I will give you two days."

"If there is no reply in two days, in order to stabilize the defense zone and to ensure that the combat effectiveness of the National Salvation Army is not affected, I can only ask the Eighth Route Army to buy food with shamelessness."

"Last time we attacked Shouyang and Yangquan, the war zone supported us with a large amount of medicines. I believe the Eighth Route Army would have ideas about them!"

"Deputy Commander Zheng, please see off the guests. By the way, notify the guards of the regiment headquarters. If Mr. Li comes to the command center again within two days, he must report to me as soon as possible and must not delay major events."

"To be honest, I would rather trade with Mr. Li than trade with the Eighth Route Army."

"We just turned against each other. The last dispute has not been resolved yet. I immediately bowed my head to buy food to them. I feel so frustrated."

"So I hope Mr. Li won't let us down!"

Zheng Yunshan couldn't help asking as soon as he came back after sending the Japanese agent, "Captain, aren't we short of food anymore? Why did you start to say ten million kilograms of food? I was shocked!"

Tang Yufeng was also stunned and confused when he analyzed: "Ten million kilograms of grain is indeed a bit too much."

"Even if our national rescue army has 25,000 troops and local cadres who eat public food, 10 million kilograms of food is enough for us to eat for a year. Wouldn't it be too much?"

"And now we have not only mobilized the people to reclaim a large amount of wasteland in the defense zone, but also reclaimed a large amount of fertile land. Although it has not reached the level of self-sufficiency, it is definitely no problem to harvest four or five million kilograms of grain in a few months."

"As long as nothing unexpected happens, the annual grain output of the defense zone can not only meet all the people and our needs, but also have a lot of surplus. As soon as you open your mouth, you have to buy 10 million kilograms of grain. What if there is a large amount of grain in the defense zone?"

"Instead of doing this, it's better to spend money on buying food to do other things."

"According to market prices, 10 million kilograms of grain requires at least 60,000 oceans."

"The people who buy food are now Japanese. Although they have the intention to win us over, one code will be converted into one code. They will definitely not miss this opportunity to weaken our economic strength."

"This ten million kilograms of grain will likely cost us 100,000 oceans."

"The ocean and gold reserves of our National Salvation Army do not have a total of 100,000 oceans. If the regiment commander really wants to buy so much food, we can't afford so much money?"

After listening to the analysis of Zheng Yunshan and Tang Yufeng, Zhou Cheng shook his head very seriously.

Although they can't tell them the fact that a severe drought will occur in North China next year, Zhou Cheng had enough reason to convince them.

He asked in response to their eyes: "Old Tang, Lao Zheng, what do you think is a real hard currency during the war!"

"Of course it's the ocean and gold!" Zheng Yunshan blurted out.

"Although Chongqing has issued a large number of fiat currencies, it has no comparison in the face of oceans and gold because it often depreciates."

"When trading in many places, they only recognize oceans and gold, and they do not recognize fiat currencies at all."

“As long as there is ocean and gold, we can buy whatever we want!”

Zhou Cheng shook his head, looked at Tang Yufeng and asked, "What do you think, Lao Tang?"

Tang Yufeng originally wanted to talk about oceans and gold, but when he saw Zhou Cheng shook his head, he immediately swallowed the sentence back, and then frowned and fell into deep thought.

Half a minute later, he suddenly spoke: "Weapons and Ammunition."

"There are wars everywhere now. If you don't have weapons and ammunition, you can't form troops. No matter how much oceans and gold you have, you will be snatched away by others. Maybe you can't even save your own life."

Seeing Zhou Cheng still shaking his head, Tang Yufeng couldn't help asking: "Captain, the hard currency you mentioned is not food!"

"How is this possible!"

Zhou Cheng replied very affirmatively: "Don't believe it. Hard currency for a long time in the future is food. I'll explain it to you!"

"We don't know anything else, let's talk about ourselves first."

"The equipment and ammunition of our National Salvation Army should be considered very powerful. Although there are not much oceans and gold in our hands, there are also a lot of them."

"But if we don't have food in our hands and didn't rush to grow potatoes more than two months ago, do you think our National Salvation Army can survive the current crisis!"
Chapter completed!