Schacht sighed, "The only way to solve this problem is to start a war, or to stop the tanks completely. There is hope without the burden of military spending. But this is impossible, and I have no illusions about it anymore."
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Jiang Cheng was not here to talk about this with Schacht. He whispered, "You said that since the empire is in trouble, can you sell us some warships and the like?"
Schacht was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Jiang, I'm not attacking you. It's useless for China to want warships now. Even if you secretly train some naval forces here, for Japan... ugh."
Of course Jiang Cheng understood, he said, "I know, what I want is not on the water, I just want it, and you have to have a lot of them. I want submarines, a lot of submarines!"
Hearing the submarine, Schacht nodded and said, "Submarines are suitable for you and can be used for sneak attacks, but we don't have many submarines. You should know that Dönitz wanted to expand the submarine fleet, but our funds
It’s not enough anymore.”
Jiang Cheng rubbed his fingers and smiled and said, "You don't have enough. I have it. I can invest money. Don't raise the price too high. Build me one. The profit will allow you to build one yourself. How about that?"
Schacht smiled and said, "You'd rather give it up. Is it pounds? U.S. dollars? Or gold?"
Jiang Cheng rolled his eyes and asked, "What do you want? Do you accept the yen?"
Schacht said in embarrassment, "You can accept it, but the exchange rate must be lowered. You also know that the Japanese yen has been falling continuously. It has almost fallen by half since 30 years. And what can I buy with the Japanese yen? Japan itself.
We don’t have much resources, should we buy real silk or their women?”
Jiang Cheng touched his chin and said, "Do you still want dollars, pounds, etc.?"
Shaht nodded and said, "If there are francs and precious metals, I can accept them. If they are resources, even better. You also know that the economic rules I have set are actually more about barter, and only the products are real."
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Jiang Cheng stood up and said, "If I have it, can the empire meet my request? Are you sure you can convince the head of state?"
Schacht smiled and said, "Don't worry, as long as you have money, the head of state will definitely be willing to do it, and there are also factory owners and people from the submarine faction like Dönitz who support you."
Jiang Cheng patted Schacht on the shoulder and said, "Okay, I'll be here in a while."
After seeing off Schacht, Chen Nan came over and said, "Boss, this is our report during this period. The arsenal is already producing weapons and equipment at full capacity, but although there is an order from the Goering Air Force, our sales market is still too narrow."
Jiang Cheng looked at it for a few times, nodded and said, "Don't worry, at this time next year, you will only have a headache about how to make more weapons, not sales. Don't be afraid of spending money. Besides, we can also buy these things."
Are you going back to China? All the things I brought this time will be handed over to the arsenal. These can increase the price of our rifles tenfold!"
——Beiping
Prince Higashikata Minuhiko stood at the window, looking at the moon in the sky, looking a little hesitant. Finally he sighed, walked to his seat, picked up a pen and wrote a few words on the paper and said, "Come here,
Send it out immediately!"
Yamashita Tomofumi looked at the secretary who was leaving, walked into the office and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, I just received the news that the empire has reached peace talks with the Soviet Union. They should return to the border line before the war. This is a war of no value.
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Prince Higashikanomiya Minuhiko nodded and said, "Yes, the Kwantung Army is still too anxious, and I also heard that Germany is in talks with the Soviet Union. I don't know if it is true or not."
Yamashita Fengfumi obviously didn't know about this. He couldn't help but said, "If this is really the case, the empire's interests in Manchuria will be too dangerous."
King Higashikata Miyazaki waved his hand and said, "The empire has too many enemies and too few friends. To realize the dream of liberation in East Asia, we must defeat the Soviet Union! And the Red Party in the Shina Pass is the Chinese branch of the Soviet Union. We must destroy them first!"
Yamashita Fengwen stood at attention, bowed and shouted "Hi!"
——Taihang Mountain
Several Japanese planes suddenly appeared in the Taihang Mountains. These Japanese planes flew very fast. They dropped bombs high in the sky over several towns and then fled. They did not give the Eighth Route Army fighter planes that took off to pursue them a chance.
The air force pilot cursed endlessly and could only leave angrily.
On the ground, from the exploding bomb, a tentacle slowly stretched out, and then, a black shadow suddenly jumped out. It jumped extremely high. It stood on the shrapnel, looked around, and chose a
It flew towards the direction, and behind it, countless companions were scattered in all directions. These black shadows have a scientific name - fleas.
"It's strange. The little devil's planes have been coming recently. They don't wait long after they arrive. They drop a few bombs when they find a place with people and run away. What does this mean?" Liu Bocheng looked at the map and scratched his head, not understanding.
said.
Deng Xianxian shook his head and said, "As the ancients said, there must be monsters when things go wrong! The little devils dare not attack our guerrilla areas, but they are making small troubles like this. It is not in line with their habits. They must be planning something. We
There is absolutely no information about this in the secret report, which shows that the kid’s confidentiality level is very high."
Liu Bocheng snorted, "Whatever it is, the war is fought with real swords and real guns. Mr. He is going to Suiyuan this time. Our Taihang Mountain Theater Assistance, I wonder if we should engage in some medium-sized battles in the plain areas to prevent Peking."
Japanese troops to rescue Suiyuan?"
Deng Xianxian nodded and said, "I think it's okay, especially those traitor troops. We suffered a lot from the last sneak attack on us. I think we'll attack them specifically this time!"
——Yan'an
"Look, this Type 92 infantry gun is extremely light. It weighs about 400 kilograms and can be taken apart by a few people. Most of our transportation in China is relatively backward. This kind of infantry gun is more suitable for fast movement. I
Let’s talk about a few of his special tactics. One is when fighting in the street, you can move upstairs and shoot at the opposite building at close range. This was used during the Battle of Songhu when fighting the Sixing Warehouse, but be careful that the opponent has a heavy weapon.
Machine gun..." Mashiro Sven's face was full of seriousness, and he said quickly while fiddling with the infantry cannon next to him.
"Hello, Chief!" A shout interrupted Mashiro's lecture. Mashiro looked at it and saw that it was Jiang Cheng and Li Qian. Jiang Cheng smiled and nodded at the Eighth Route Army commanders and soldiers around him and said, "Excuse me, Mashiro, come out."
one time."
Zhenbai Siwen knew that the purpose of calling him to Yan'an was about to be revealed, so he said to the commanders and soldiers below, "Let's get here first, get out of class is over."
Jiang Cheng and Mashiro Sven came to the conference room and sat down. Li Qian came and stood behind Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket, threw it to Mashiko Sven and said, "Take a look."
Mashiro Siwen took the banknotes, and when he saw them, they were all one hundred yen each, and they were not consecutive numbers. He nodded repeatedly and said, "Thank you, chief!"
Jiang Cheng was stunned and said angrily, "Who wants you to take it? I'll let you see it. This is the purpose of asking you to come."
Mashiro looked at it several times and found nothing wrong. He raised his head and asked, "Isn't this just some Japanese yen? There is no difference."
Jiang Cheng smiled and answered the question, "I want to ask, what do you think of Japan's economy?"
Mashiro Siwen touched his nose and said, "Japan? The entire economy has been deformed. Most of the financial resources have been placed on military development. Heavy industry has developed rapidly, but light industry related to people's lives has developed slowly, especially agriculture.
Japan's economy is naturally much better than China's. The income of Japanese workers is three times higher than that of Chinese workers, but it is only one-eighth of that of the United States. In fact, just think about Shanghai and other places back then. To put it bluntly, aren't those Japanese ronin in Japan?
Can’t you survive?”
Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Japan's national income this year is about 30 billion, and its military expenditure is about 6.5 billion yen. It is really militaristic, so I feel sorry for the Japanese people and am ready to send them some assistance."
Zhenbai Sven swallowed his saliva. He had heard this mysterious 203 legend all the time. He secretly put the money into his pocket and asked, "What kind of assistance?"
Jiang Cheng continued to ask, "What will you do if I let you and your people go back?"
Mashiro said politely, "Do you really want to let us go back? Then I probably..."
"Wow!" Li Qian's sword suddenly came out of its sheath.
"Of course I will do my last bit to end the war. Even though I am in Japan, my heart is still in Yan'an." Mashiro Siwen immediately said with dignity, staring at Jiang Cheng with both eyes, looking very upright.
Jiang Cheng waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I just hope you can buy something for us."
Mashiro Sven asked "What to buy?"
Jiang Cheng's lips curled up slightly and he said, "I'll give you 1.3 billion yen first. Buy everything you can. I don't want any real estate or industrial products. What I want is resources! Whether it's food, ore, or wood.
, I want precious metals, and of course, foreign exchange!”
Mashiro Sven suddenly threw the 10,000 yen in his arms on the table and said, "Chief, you should let others do this. You are going to destroy Japan's economy. If you are caught, you will die!"
Jiang Cheng patted Mashiro Siwen comfortingly and said, "Why destroy the Japanese economy? Will the Japanese economy be so fragile? It's only 1.3 billion yen. Look, you're scared."
Sweat dripped from Zhenbai Sven's head. He swallowed his saliva and said, "Do I have any other choice?"
Jiang Cheng shrugged and said, "I will arrange a new identity for you. In addition, you can also escape or defect in Japan, if you are confident that you can escape my pursuit."
Zhenbai Siwen quickly said, "How could it be possible? It's just...it's really hard to spend this money, and if I guessed it right..."
"Yes, they are all counterfeit coins. They are well made, right?" Jiang Cheng said with a smile.
Zhenbai nodded and said, "It's really good, okay, I understand, spend money! 1.3 billion! I'll spend it!"
Jiang Cheng hummed and said, "No matter how much you spend, I will give you three ten thousandths of the rebate, and you will distribute one ten thousandth of it to the people below. What I give you is real money."
When Zhenbai Siwen heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "Commander, you told me earlier, isn't it just money? Leave it all to me, it's a bargain!"
Jiang Cheng said reassuringly, "That's good. If you take 1.3 billion first, I will try to get you 20 billion within three months. You must spend it all."
"Pfft!!" Zhenbai Siwen felt a pain in his heart. This was the first time he thought he had too much money!
After Zhenbai Siwen left, Jiang Cheng returned home, and Yu Yishan was writing. Jiang Cheng hugged Yu Yishan from behind and said, "What are you busy with?"
Yu Yishan did not struggle, put down her pen and said, "Look, this is the test paper I wrote. Haha, I really didn't expect that one day I would write the test paper."
Jiang Cheng looked at it and saw several test papers, some from medicine, some from mathematics, and some from foreign languages. Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Not bad, who are they written for?"
Yu Yishan smiled and said, "This is written for the Anti-Japanese Nursing School, so it has a medical title."
Jiang Cheng pulled Yu Yishan and said, "Stop writing, come on, I'm here to bring you a gift this time. Oh~~ Qianqian, why are you eating secretly?"
Li Qian in the living room was holding a piece of chocolate and looking at it. When she heard the shout, she quickly threw it back. She waved her hand and said, "No, no, I'll just take a look." As she said that, her face turned a little red.
Yu Yishan looked at the chocolate and couldn't help but remember that when she first met Jiang Cheng, she looked at Li Qian, peeled off a chocolate and stuffed it into Li Qian's mouth and said, "Don't be scared by him, this guy knows how to scare us Qian."
Qian, come and have one, is it delicious?"
Li Qian glanced at Jiang Cheng, nodded and smiled.
The eldest lady Yu Yishan suddenly lost her temper. She pointed at Jiang Cheng and said, "Okay, sir, we are hungry. Is it time for someone to cook?"
Jiang Cheng clapped his hands and said, "Okay, okay, today I will show you my craftsmanship. I really brought some delicious food. Qianqian used to live in Tianjin, so she should eat seafood often. I brought some frozen seafood.
Let’s eat seafood today!”
Li Qian raised her hand with gleaming eyes and said, "I want to eat stir-fried shrimps, squid carp, scalloped shrimps, and grilled fish sticks." She looked at Jiang Cheng with some embarrassment and said, "If you don't have any, forget it."
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Jiang Cheng scratched his head and said, "You can't live without a man, just wait."
Yu Yishan blinked at Li Qian and said, "Then let's wait. Let's go, you can teach me a new posture. Can that really help me lose weight?"
Li Qian nodded and said, "Really, it is said to be from Tianzhu. At least it will make the body more flexible."
——Datong
He Long stood in Datong City smoking a pipe. He pointed at the flow of people coming and going and said, "General Fu, what I like to do most is to watch the people walking around our city with smiles on their faces. This makes me happy."
I have a feeling of energy all over my body.”
Fu Zuoyi and He Long had been in contact as early as the end of 1937. At that time, their defense areas were separated by a river. They kept writing letters, and some people even went to Chongqing to tell Jiang's intermediary that Fu Zuoyi was already in the seventh and a half.
Fu Zuoyi looked at the people outside and said, "Your Red Party is still governing well. It's embarrassing to say that from 1931 when I took office in Suiyuan to now, we have fought a lot of wars, but when it comes to governing the people, we are really not good at it."
He Long laughed loudly and said, "This is not possible. I have heard that Chairman Mao and Chairman Yan both intend to let you continue to be the chairman of Suiyuan Province. You must hurry up and learn."
Fu Zuoyi couldn't help being a little surprised, but also moved and said, "This... is really flattering, and Fu Gui doesn't dare to live up to it."
He Long waved his hand and said, "If you win, you can take it. Let's go to the headquarters. It's time for everyone to arrive."