Chapter 417 How to end the War of Resistance early?
For the next period of time, the situation was still grim and he could not go out, so Li Mu calmed down and read books, binge-watched TV series and exercise at home every day.
On this day, Suman called to report the situation.
Li Muchao: "Is the production going smoothly at the factory?"
Su Mandao: "From the Chinese New Year to now, we have been working two shifts every day without stopping. In the past few days, the provincial and municipal levels have sent personnel to the factory to cooperate with us and coordinate various raw materials."
"There is only one purpose, to ensure quality and quantity, and to produce with all our strength."
Li Mu nodded: "That's good. You should also do a good job in the logistics work of the factory. In addition, during this special period, in order to boost everyone's enthusiasm, you can make a subsidy plan for workers and send it to me soon."
Su Man said: "Okay!"
After saying that, he hesitated and said: "Boss?"
Li Mu said: "What's the matter?"
Su Man said: "It's from other subsidiaries. Aren't I also the vice president of the parent company Muwu Culture? With the recent situation, cafes, bars, sports clubs, these places cannot open in a short period of time."
"Everyone is stuck in the dormitory or at home and cannot work. They are all concerned about wages. Will wages be paid if you don't work?"
Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, everyone, wages will be paid on time in accordance with past standards. However, for some positions in bars and sports clubs, which mainly rely on commission, the income will definitely drop significantly."
Suman breathed a sigh of relief and said: "This is what it should be. Even if the performance of these positions is less in normal times, the income will definitely be less."
"In this way, it will be great if wages can be paid on time. I would like to thank the boss for everyone."
Li Mu smiled and said: "No, it should be."
After saying that, he thought about it and said: "In addition, if employees encounter difficulties during this period, the company can also take care of them as appropriate."
Suman said: "Well, I know, I will pay attention to it."
After hanging up the phone, after thinking for a while, Li Mu called Xu Ming, the head of Zhongyou Technology.
"Hey, Lao Xu, how's it going at the company?"
Xu Mingdao: "Boss, I just want to report to you that during the Chinese New Year, most of the employees went home, leaving only a small number."
"But with the current situation, everyone may not be able to come back in a short time. We are currently trying to work online, and the results are pretty good. I am just going to find a time to report to you!"
Li Mu was surprised and said: "Online office is good, it's a good idea. I'll have to work hard for you next."
Xu Mingdao: "It's all my job."
After hanging up the phone, Li Mu performed a set of punches in the living room. The phone rang again, Suman's.
Li Mu was a little curious as to why he had just called again.
"Hey, Sister Man, what's going on?"
Suman's voice was full of surprise: "Boss, the relevant departments of the province have just contacted us and asked us to submit materials. Next, you are very likely to be selected as one of the top ten outstanding young people in the province."
Li Mu was slightly surprised. He really didn't expect that he would be named one of the top ten outstanding young people in the province.
But think about it, at such a young age, you already have a big career, not to mention the donation of a large number of masks a few days ago, which has attracted quite a lot of attention in the province. It seems reasonable to be named one of the top ten outstanding young people in the province.
"Okay, I understand. I'll trouble you about the materials. I'll send you a big red envelope when the review comes in."
Suman smiled and said: "Okay, I remember the big red envelope you mentioned."
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Time passed slowly, and Li Mu gradually got used to living at home. Before he knew it, the task came again.
However, this mission surprised Li Mu. It did not allow him to simply travel through a certain TV series. According to the system description, the world he was about to travel to was actually the Republic of China period. The background was the Anti-Japanese War, and it was a fusion of many TV series, such as Bright Sword.
Especially when the Anti-Japanese War was ended early, why did Xiao Benzi surrender in 4 or 5 years? It was because the external environment had changed and the Allies had attacked his home, so he had to surrender.
Otherwise, if we continue to fight on the domestic battlefield, our small book can last for a few more years.
But the mission turned out to be to end the War of Resistance ahead of schedule. If the external conditions remained unchanged, it meant that the war could only end if the small book was defeated directly at home.
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Isn't this difficulty a bit too high?
Even though Li Mu is very confident now, he doesn't think he has this ability.
Perhaps, if we give it more time, give it ten or twenty years to develop, and cultivate domestic industrial strength, it is still possible.
However, according to the information from the system, the start of this time was probably in 1937, the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.
At that time, the domestic industry had already started to work, and there was no time to develop at all. Even in 1938, all the domestic port cities were occupied, the sea was blocked, and even the channels for doing business with foreign countries and importing machinery were gone. There was no money for many things.
Can't buy it.
Even if you want to be obscene and develop, I won't give you a chance.
After struggling for a long time, I thought of the reward I received last time, the space limited card, which allows you to designate a film and television world. After using it, the system space in this world will be expanded ten thousand times.
For example, his current system space is six cubic meters. After using the limited space card, the system space will reach 60,000 cubic meters.
A space of 60,000 cubic meters, placed in a place with underdeveloped transportation in ancient times, would definitely be a big killer. It could transport grain and grass and resell it easily. Even in today's world, as long as you are brave, you can become a rich man.
The next world is the Republic of China, a war-torn era. The sea is blocked, transportation lifelines are blocked, supplies are scarce, and natural and man-made disasters are constant. At this time, the system space may play an unexpected role.
Li Mu checked the information on the Internet and found that a cubic meter of space containing wheat or rice would weigh about 800 kilograms.
Sixty thousand cubic meters can hold 48 million kilograms of grain at one time. If the unit is converted into kilograms and rounded off, it is equivalent to 100 million kilograms of grain.
Loading 100 million kilograms of grain at one time is definitely a lot.
If you change it to other things, it can also hold a lot.
For example, after being blocked, domestic military supplies and medicines were extremely scarce.
From this point of view, if you have system space, smuggling is also a way to smuggle scarce domestic resources back.
However, the prerequisite for all this is to have a channel that can smoothly enter and leave the country. Otherwise, where can you get access to these materials if you can't even get out of the country?
Li Mu thought for a while, it seemed that there were already civil aviation aircraft during the Republic of China.
Thinking of this, I immediately checked online and found that there are quite a few.
For example, China Airlines, China's first airline, was established in Nanjing on April 5, 1929.
AVIC invested in the construction of Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and Nanjing Ming Palace Airport. Xu Zhimo was killed in a plane crash on this airline.
Before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, AVIC’s routes were mainly concentrated in the sphere of influence along the Yangtze River, such as Shanghai-Jiujiang-Anqing-Nanjing-Hankou-Yichang-Wanxian-Chongqing-Chengdu-Guiyang, and Hangzhou-Qingdao-Beijing.
After the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, China Airlines retreated to the southwest region.
China's first international route seems to have been opened by AVIC, from Kunming to Hanoi, Vietnam. At that time, Wang passed from Chongqing to Kunming, flew to Hanoi, then went to Japan, and finally returned to Jinling to establish the puppet government.
During the Republic of China, another famous airline was Eurasia Airlines, which was China's first international airline.
The original intention of Eurasia Airlines was to launch airmail services from Europe to China. The airmail received in Berlin, Germany, would be transported to China through Greece, Egypt, Yinlak, and finally shipped to Shanghai.
Before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the routes opened by Eurasian Airlines included Shanghai-Zhengzhou-Xi'an-Lanzhou, Guangzhou-Hankou-Zhengzhou-Taiyuan-Beijing, Beijing-Suiyuan-Ningxia-Lanzhou, Kunming-Chengdu-Hanzhong-Luoyang-Xi'an.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the headquarters moved to Xi'an.
In addition, there are many small and medium-sized airlines, and there are dozens of domestic cities with civil aviation airports.
During the Republic of China, this number was a bit surprising.
However, after checking the information for a long time, it seems that the only passenger flight route with foreign countries at that time was from Kunming to Hanoi, Vietnam.
In other words, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, if you wanted to fly abroad, you could only start from Kunming, fly to Hanoi, then fly from Hanoi to Bangkok, and then transfer to Singapore.
As the entrance and exit of the Strait of Malacca, Singapore, a port city, is also one of the most important Western strongholds and commercial centers in Southeast Asia.
There must be no shortage of various supplies and goods.
I also checked the information at that time, especially in terms of currency. If you want to speculate in the early stage and quickly accumulate strength, you need to focus on finance and currency.
Suddenly, I discovered that the main currency during the Anti-Japanese War was not the silver dollar as everyone thought, but French currency.
Legal tender was only issued in 1935.
The main reason is that in 1931, affected by the economic crisis in the United States, the United Kingdom abolished the gold standard and actively devalued the pound. In response to this situation, various countries also competed to devalue their own currencies. As a result, a worldwide currency war was triggered.
In 1933, in order to pass on the economic crisis, the Roosevelt administration of the United States announced that it would abandon the "gold standard" and restore the "gold and silver bimetallic system". It also passed a silver hoarding law and aggressively purchased silver around the world.
At that time, the main currency in circulation in China was silver.
Since the international silver price is much higher than the domestic silver price, foreign banks in China have purchased Chinese silver one after another, shipped it to New York and London for sale, and made huge profits from it.
In this way, China's silver began to flow out in large quantities, and there was a large-scale run, withdrawal, panic buying, and speculation on silver in the society. This situation further led to a sharp decrease in domestic silver reserves and an extremely tight market. Moreover, due to the appreciation of the silver dollar,
The setback in exports has led to the collapse of industrial and commercial enterprises.
In order to stop the outflow of huge amounts of silver, the government ordered high tariffs on silver exports in October 1934. Although this move temporarily reduced silver exports, it intensified silver smuggling. In the face of the crisis, with the support of Britain and the United States, the
Under the rule of law, currency reform was implemented in 1935 to stabilize the country's finances.
Banknotes are issued centrally by the Central Bank of China, the Bank of China, and the Bank of Communications and are designated as legal tender. The use of various silver coins originally in circulation is prohibited, silver is no longer in circulation, and all cash must be converted into legal tender. At the same time, banks have no restrictions on buying and selling foreign exchange.
Judging from various sources, the legal currency reform was of great benefit to the country at that time. After the legal currency reform, several major national banks had the exclusive right to issue currency, and the issuance profits originally shared by local commercial banks all belonged to the government.
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Since the reserves of silver are sufficient, the government can issue 10 yuan of legal currency after recovering 6 yuan of silver coins. In this way, the government can issue 1 billion legal currency after recovering 600 million yuan of silver coins, which invisibly increases the government's revenue by 400 million yuan.
The circulation of legal currency made the market gradually more stable and prosperous, and was of great benefit to the entire country at that time. When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, it could mobilize funds to the greatest extent and fastest speed, and concentrate silver and other precious metals as purchases in the international market.
Funding for arms supplies.
However, good policies are good. In the first two years after the issuance of legal tender, the value of the currency was still stable. One yuan of legal tender was equivalent to one silver dollar.
However, starting from the second half of 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, banknotes began to be issued indiscriminately, prices skyrocketed, triggering hyperinflation, and the legal currency depreciated rapidly.
In 1937, 1.4 billion legal tender was issued, but in 1945, 556.9 billion was issued, an increase of 360 times.
By August 1948, gold dollar certificates were used to replace legal tender, and the circulation of legal tender reached 663 trillion, equal to 470,000 times that before the Anti-Japanese War. Prices increased 34.92 million times compared with before the war.
Li Mu also found an article on the Internet that ridiculed the inflation of the time. It was a newspaper called Dazhong Evening News at that time. It calculated how much 100 yuan of French currency could buy in different eras.
The 100 French currency in 1937 was the most valuable and could buy two big bulls;
By 1938, you could buy a big cow and a calf.
By 1939, only one big cow could be purchased;
In 1940 only one calf could be purchased;
In 1941, 100 French coins could no longer buy a cow, but only a pig;
By 1942, pigs could no longer be bought, so all they could buy was a ham;
In 1943, you could only buy one hen, and in 1944, you could only buy half a hen;
In 1945, only one fish could be purchased, and a year later, in 1946, only one egg could be purchased;
It was the most exaggerated in the last few years of the Republic of China!
100 French currency in 1947 could only buy one briquette or one-third of a fried dough stick;
In 1948, 100 French currency could only buy four grains of rice!
As for 1949, let’s not talk about it.
The rate of depreciation is staggering, comparable to that of Zimbabwe.
However, in 1937, 1938, and 1939, the legal currency was actually quite good. It only doubled in value in three years. You can consider using legal currency in the early stages of time travel, and later exchange it for silver dollars, gold and silver, or foreign currencies that are more valuable.
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The system gave one day of preparation time. On the next day, Li Mu stayed at home and began to collect and review various information at that time. He did not want to write down everything, but he always wanted to understand the general development process.
Soon the time was up, Li Mu's heart moved, a white light flashed before his eyes, and the person had disappeared.