The two discussed the use and distribution of silver coins and food stamps for a while. Tan Lin suddenly said: "Commissioner, actually I feel that our area still lacks one thing..."
Li Mu said: "What is missing?"
Tan Lin said: "Our place has developed commerce, stable prices, a prosperous population, and a lot of business trips. The daily transactions and capital exchanges amount to millions and millions of dollars, but we lack a financial institution that can coordinate everything at home."
Li Muchao: "You mean, there is a lack of a local pillar bank?"
Tan Lin cupped his hands and said, "Exactly."
Li Mu thought for a while: "We have several small foreign banks here, but they are not large in scale. We really lack a pillar bank that dominates the local financial economy."
Tan Lin said happily: "If there is a bank, it will not only make the entire region use funds more efficiently, but also support the development of some potential enterprises, let a hundred flowers bloom, and more outstanding talents and enterprises emerge."
"Enough companies can absorb enough jobs. We have absorbed too many people recently, and we also try to make a living for everyone."
Li Mu nodded and said: "Okay, I agree with this. It is indeed necessary to establish a financial institution. You can find a few suitable president candidates for me. What are the conditions... After all, the banking industry is more developed in the West. It is best to have a background in studying abroad.
I have worked in some large banks and held senior management positions."
Tan Lin said: "Yes, I will do it soon."
Li Mu said: "Okay, I will allocate 10 million French currency, 5 million silver dollars, three tons of gold, and 1 million U.S. dollars as the bank's start-up capital."
Tan Lin said with great joy: "Thank you, Commissioner, now the bank is ready."
As he spoke, he bent down and cupped his hands and said, "Please ask the commissioner to name the bank."
Li Mu said: "It's called the Renaissance Bank. I hope our land of China will revive soon and return to the top of the world!"
Tan Lin said excitedly: "Flashback Bank, okay, let China return to the top of the world."
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After Tan Lin left, Li Mu calculated his domestic wealth, except for the start-up capital he had just promised and the foreign currency in his hand.
He now has about 12 million silver dollars, about 23 million French currency, and two tons of gold.
It looks like a lot, but it's actually not much.
Regardless of the recent period, he has purchased a lot of food for people's livelihood issues, and some of the military supplies and commodities that make a lot of money have been purchased less.
In fact, when calculated, based on his purchase cost and the selling price, the profit of the grain is really not low, usually more than 150%, which is a huge profit in a sense.
With so much grain sold, a huge amount of money was recovered, although most of it was in legal tender.
During the recent period, Li Mu has used Muwu Commercial Bank and other channels to exchange fiat currency for silver dollars, gold and foreign currencies on a large scale in other places. He has consumed a large part of it, otherwise he would have more fiat currency than he does now.
Food is mainly related to the livelihood of ordinary people. Unlike military supplies, Li Mu can forcefully accept only foreign currency and gold. The real depreciation of legal currency will not begin until next year, and now the market is still accepting it.
The legal currency recovered from buying grain can be exchanged for silver dollars, foreign currency, or gold by going to other places for a little profit.
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In the next two days, a major project will start.
As the population in Nanyang increases and businesses become more and more prosperous, the small Nanyang City becomes more and more crowded and has reached the point where it has to be expanded.
So, a few months ago, Li Mu drew a land of hundreds of square kilometers east of Nanyang City and planned to build a new district.
After completion, it will form the new Nanyang City together with the old city of Nanyang.
In recent months, he has been promoting this matter. Not only did he go to the concession to invite many urban designers, he also invited some well-known domestic design and architectural masters, such as a master named Liang, a master named Yang who was born in Nanyang...
Currently they are all in Nanyang.
Naturally, there are no city walls in the new area. Li Mu built it completely according to the current city, with well-laid out sewers, water supply systems, garbage disposal systems, and power supply systems throughout the city...
The road is also very forward-looking. It is prepared for future sports cars. It has eight lanes in both directions. Of course, this is the width of the main road.
According to the custom of the 21st century, green belts are also designed on both sides of the road. This is rarely found in cities in the Republic of China, even in foreign countries. Due to the early construction of cities, there is too little space left, and there is no place for green belts at all.
On the other hand, in China in the future, no city will be embarrassed if it does not have a green belt.
Now, after several months of preparations, all preliminary work including design has been completed and construction can officially begin.
With Li Mu's order, the construction of the new city officially started.
It just so happened that Nanyang was flooded with too many people, many of whom were refugees. They had no money and needed to work to support their families.
This was good. For the sake of progress and employment arrangements, Li Mu refused to accept anyone who came. Soon, a huge construction site covering an area of hundreds of square kilometers appeared.
Hundreds of thousands of people are busy here together, and the outline of a city gradually begins to take shape under their hands. This is a new city born in the flames of war...
As the war spread ahead, or the roads were blocked, or the people who should move westward had already moved, the number of people flocking to Nanyang finally decreased, only a few thousand every day.
This made Li Mu breathe a sigh of relief. Nanyang's current population is just right.
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After dealing with this, Li Mu turned his attention to the front line. These days, he often flew planes to investigate the situation. Combined with the intelligence from the Military Intelligence Department, he also had a general understanding of the battle situation on the front line.
Among them, Commander Chen of the Ninth War Zone commanded twenty-seven corps to be responsible for the operations on the south bank of the Yangtze River. The First Corps was responsible for defending the Nanxun line and deploying troops along Poyang Lake, using Nanchang as a base to defeat the Japanese troops advancing westward from outside.
Prevent the Japanese army from attacking Nanchang and bypassing Changsha; the Second Corps is responsible for ensuring the front of the line from Jiujiang to Ruichang and forming a formation zone along the river to prevent the Japanese army from advancing westward from Ruichang and going straight to Yueyang, Puqi, and Xianning; Tang En's Corps controls important areas
between strongholds to coordinate frontline operations at any time.
In today's South Bank battlefield, Xiao Benzi has captured Jiujiang and divided his troops into two groups, one to attack De'an along Nanxun Road and the other to continue along Jiangxi to attack the next key point, Ruichang.
Now, the two sides are fighting fiercely in De'an and Ruichang.
In the Jiangbei area, Chief Li of the Fifth War Zone commanded the 23rd Army to take charge of the Jiangbei operation. Li Pinxian of the Fourth Corps was the right-wing corps, using the favorable terrain of hills and lakes at the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains on the north bank of the Yangtze River to contain the enemy and take a shortcut to attack Wuhan;
The 21st Group Army's Liao Lei headquarters is the Central Corps, which is located in Taihu Lake and in the northwest mountains of Qianshan. The camera moves southward to flank the enemies advancing westward.
The Third Corps, led by Sun Lianzhong, is a left-wing corps, controlled between the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains and the Huaihe River. It uses ground barriers to prevent the enemy from detouring to the north of Wuhan; the 24th Group Army, led by Han Qin, is responsible for guerrilla action behind enemy lines; the 29th
Group Army Wang Zuan's Department is the second line corps, supporting the front line operations.
At the end of last month, Xiao Benzi successively captured Taihu Lake and Susong. After fierce offensive and defensive battles, he also captured Huangmei, the gateway to Guangji.
A few days ago, Li Pinxian's regiment sent out surprise troops to regain Taihu Lake and Qianshan, and also cut off the Japanese Sixth Division's land supply line and land retreat, putting the Xiaobenzi Sixth Division in a difficult situation.
Bai Zongxi seized the opportunity and commanded the confronting 28th Army, 84th Army and other troops to seize the opportunity to attack with the intention of annihilating the Sixth Division, which had committed numerous crimes in Jinling.
Unfortunately, he underestimated Xiao Benzi's combat effectiveness. The Sixth Division held on to the danger and at the same time used a large amount of poisonous gas to survive the difficulty.
In addition, the commander on the other side, Okamura, also immediately dispatched the navy to open a supply channel in Xiaochi opposite Jiujiang to provide ammunition and additional troops for the Sixth Division.
After the Sixth Division was replenished, it actually started to counterattack. Although Bai Zongxi went to the front line to supervise the battle, it had little effect. Under the fierce attack of Xiao Benzi, the 28th Army, the 68th Army and the 84th Army suffered heavy casualties, but they were still unable to
Stop the Japanese offensive.
Maybe in a day or two, they will be completely unable to hold on and retreat to Guangji. Let this army that committed numerous crimes in Jinling continue to roam our country with impunity.
When Li Mu read this page of information, his eyes flashed brightly, today's target is the Sixth Division.
If you dare to commit such a crime in Jinling, you must be prepared to leave everything behind to feed the dogs.
After studying the map for a long time, Li Mu found further frontline information, especially the besieged 6th Division and the 28th Army, 68th Army, and 84th Army fighting with it.
Case.
Their respective troop deployments, artillery positions, armored positions, and infantry positions are located.
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The next day, at around three o'clock in the morning, Li Mu woke up on time. After getting up and washing up, he arrived at the military airport. The ground staff had already made all the preparations.
This time, Li Mu flew an improved version of the Yin-16 fighter jet with a top speed of 580 kilometers per hour and a combat radius of more than 700 kilometers.
Putting on the flight helmet, closing the hatch, the plane started and gradually began to glide. After more than ten seconds, it quickly shot up into the night sky.
This time the distance was much closer than Xuzhou, and the plane was faster. In less than an hour, it was over the battlefield.
Li Mu slowly circled at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters. He opened the hatch and took out his telescope. While circling the battlefield, he observed the situation below and compared it with the information in the intelligence to avoid bombing the wrong target.
However, what gave him a bit of a headache was that although the location where the Sixth Division's Japs were besieged was determined, this area was dozens of kilometers wide, and the Japs were distributed throughout it. They had obviously made camouflage and air defense preparations, and could not find anyone to attack at the moment.
place.
Li Mu also thought of the reason. This battle was different from the Battle of Xuzhou. This time the principal served as the commander-in-chief himself, and some of his family resources were used. For example, many of the planes that were rare in the Battle of Xuzhou were sent out this time. Some time ago, and Xiao
The Japanese fought fiercely in the air, especially over Wuhan. Although they bombed many places by mistake, they won a few small victories and shot down many small planes.
However, Xiaobenzi's fighter planes had an absolute advantage in terms of number. Although some were defeated, they were quickly replenished and gained the upper hand. During this period, Guofu's fighter planes were besieged by a large number of fighter planes every time they were dispatched, making it increasingly difficult.
In the past, you could sneak out to bomb an artillery position at night, but now you rarely see it on the front line.
The Japanese, on the other hand, were bombed by Guofu's fighter planes several times, and gradually learned to disguise themselves and began to guard against aerial attacks.
Just like now, Li Mu flew his fighter plane around a few times and found many places that were suspected of being Japanese camps. However, after careful observation with a telescope, they didn't look like it.
After all, it was night, and although the moonlight was good, the field of vision was still quite limited.
After circling for another half circle, risking being discovered, Li Mu began to lower the altitude, three thousand meters...two thousand meters...all the way down to a height of more than a thousand meters. Li Mu finally found several suspected artillery positions with his binoculars.
Real artillery position.
As soon as they flew over the artillery position, the soldiers below discovered it. Soon, anti-aircraft machine guns and machine guns started firing into the sky, and at the same time, the sound of anti-aircraft artillery was heard.
As long as he found the position, it would be easy. Li Mu crossed the position without hesitation and flew into the distance, flying higher and higher, and soon reached an altitude of five thousand meters.
After hovering around for about five minutes, the gunfire and artillery fire over the artillery position finally stopped.
Li Mu circled and flew back over the artillery position. The visibility was not high at night. An altitude of five thousand meters was equivalent to five kilometers away. Such a long distance at night was the greatest protective color.
The next moment, Li Mu stretched his hand out the window, and an iron lump weighing one ton fell straight down...and then the second, and the third...
After flying out of the artillery position, Li Mu circled for half a circle and passed by the heavy artillery position again, and three more one-ton aerial bombs fell.
At this time, the first batch of three aerial bombs fell. Needless to say, the power of the one-ton aerial bomb was heard. After an earth-shattering explosion, pieces of fist-sized explosion fragments mixed with strong shock waves flew across the artillery position.
Flying past, more than a dozen artillery pieces flew directly into the sky, and seven or eight of them were scrapped on the spot.
There were three one-ton aerial bombs in total, which destroyed twenty artillery pieces on the spot.
As the second and third batches of aerial bombs fell, the artillery position seemed to have been plowed, and was bombed beyond recognition.
After five rounds, fifteen one-ton aerial bombs were dropped, and the artillery position was completely destroyed.
Although there are still some artillery pieces buried in the blown earth, which were relatively lightly damaged and can still be used, but there are not many anymore.
Naturally, the Japanese in other positions also heard such a loud noise and ran out to be on guard.
This gave Li Mu an opportunity to take out his binoculars and continue to search for targets. He found a few military camps in the infantry position, but the Japs had clearly dispersed, so bombing would only be a waste of ammunition.
After observing for a while, his good eyesight finally came into play, and he seemed to have discovered the Japanese armored vehicle position.
Li Mu immediately flew over, regardless of whether it was right or not, and bombed first.
As a one-ton aerial bomb fell, Li Mu immediately took out his telescope and started observing. After an earth-shattering explosion, strong airflow and shrapnel swept past. More than a dozen armored vehicles were immediately overturned, and half of them were scrapped on the spot.
Now that it's stable, this is the armored position.
In the next few minutes, Li Mu poured another dozen tons of bombs downwards, and the armored positions were also reduced to scorched earth.
Li Mu was then contented to look for other targets. Unfortunately, the little devil became more and more vigilant and could not find other big targets for a while, so he could only vent his anger on the infantry.
Fifty-kilogram aerial bombs began to rain down on what he thought were infantry targets. Some were indeed disguised, and some actually had small notebooks.
More than one hundred 50-kilogram-class aerial bombs were dropped, destroying more than forty real targets, and causing about three to four hundred Japanese casualties.
At this time, the sound of an airplane engine sounded in the distance, and Li Mu knew that Xiao Benzi's plane was coming. He did not intend to meet the other party, closed the hatch, directly increased the speed to the highest level, and soon disappeared into the night.