"Get rich?!"
Shinozuka Kazuo, who was still lying exhausted on the bed, suddenly became energetic when he heard this.
He actually jumped out of bed.
"You guys go out first."
Shinozuka Kazuo waved his hand.
The two kabuki immediately wrapped up their clothes and left.
"Let's talk about it in detail."
Shinozuka Kazuo made two cups of tea, thought about it, and put a few more wolfberries in his cup.
There is no way, this period of time consumes too much, and if it is not replenished, people will be squeezed dry.
"Commander, please take a look."
Wei Wu handed the telegram to Shinozuka Kazuo.
"hiss--"
Shinozuka Kazuo glanced at the telegram and was stunned.
"The base camp wants us to go north and cross the river? Has the situation become so corrupt?"
He spent most of his time in bed recently.
He didn't care much about current affairs, and Wei Wu was handling the specific deployment.
He was largely ignorant of the situation.
Shinozuka Kazuo did not expect that he had just ignored government affairs for a period of time, and how could he become like this.
If the timing hadn't been right, he would have thought he had traveled through time.
"Yes, Dobashi Ichiro led the Twelve Army to mutiny, led troops south, captured Jinling, cut off the Yangtze River supply line, and then colluded with the Communist army to launch a general offensive."
"Because the navy is all in Southeast Asia and cannot come to support us. Therefore, from the perspective of military strength, we are in a weak position in Jiangnan."
"Coupled with the fact that the 12th Army's movement south has resulted in a lack of troops in North China, the base camp is worried that the 12th Army will cross the river in the opposite direction and capture North China. It wants us to cross the river first and build a defense line to block the 12th Army."
Wei Wu explained.
Hearing what Wei Wu said, Shinozuka Kazuo breathed a sigh of relief.
He thanked Ichiro Dohashi from the bottom of his heart.
If Tuqiao hadn't led his troops south, it would be hard for him to explain where the millions of troops in the southeast theater had gone.
Now it's okay, we can all blame it on Doqiao.
He could order the troops to break out on their own.
Those troops on paper were naturally intercepted by the Communist Army and the 12th Army, and they were shattered on the way to breakout.
The failure to stand out is the responsibility of the division commanders themselves. What does it have to do with Shinozuka Kazuo?
A stone hanging in my heart fell to the ground, and now I can finally fill this account.
But at the same time, he was also upset, that is, the paper troops were gone, and it would be impossible for him to live on empty wages in the future.
This reduced his income by a large amount.
He now urgently needs a new source of income to fill this hole.
"You just talked about the new way to make a fortune. What is it? Tell me what it is."
Shinozuka Kazuo rubbed his hands.
"Commander, the base camp asked us to build the Yangtze River Defense Line. I wonder if you have heard of the Maginot Line?"
"I've heard of it." Shinozuka Yoshio nodded.
"I heard that it is entirely built of reinforced concrete. It has a large number of cannons and machine guns. It is said that there are also fully automatic loading cannons, elevators, and various fortresses that can automatically rise and fall. It is said to be an unbreakable line of defense."
As an Army member, Shinozuka Kazuo is very familiar with this top-level defense.
"Yes, but do you know how much it cost?"
Wei Wu asked with a smile.
"A whole five billion francs!"
Wei Wu stretched out five fingers.
"It's probably equivalent to the cost of twenty Yamato-class ships."
"If we could extract even one percent of it, it would be an astronomical amount of money."
"hiss--"
Shinozuka Kazuo gasped when he heard Wei Wu's analysis.
He may not be sensitive when it comes to numbers, but if you take Yamato as an example, he will understand.
Moreover, how could it be possible for Wei Wu to deduct only 1% with his methods?
At least the cost of building a Yamato can be guaranteed.
Rounding up, it equals that he has made a big sum.
"In principle, I agree. However, we must save the empire as much money as possible while ensuring the project."
Shinozuka Kazuo said and winked at Wei Wu.
"I understand, Commander, please rest assured, I will definitely repair the defense line."
Wei Wu understood what Shinozuka Kazuo meant and felt confident.
Now that Shinozuka Kazuo agreed, he was not polite.
After leaving Shinozuka Kazuo's bedroom, Wei Wu personally wrote the construction plan for the Yangtze River Defense Line.
This construction plan is extremely large. In addition to reinforced concrete trenches, fortresses, fortresses, and tunnels, there are also a large number of barracks, warehouses, inns, roads, tunnels, and transportation networks.
It is a huge and complex project.
It contains a large amount of equipment that is quite advanced from today's perspective.
For example, forts and turrets that can be raised and lowered.
Automatic loading machine.
Autonomous defense anti-aircraft gun.
Soldier life is also taken care of extremely thoughtfully.
Including a large number of izakayas, bathhouses and casinos.
It allows every soldier to have the most comfortable experience after work.
This plan, which directly matched the Maginot Line, was called the "Oriental Maginot Plan".
According to Wei Wu's summary vision, once the defense line is constructed, it will become a line of defense that can never be broken through.
Even if millions of communist troops were deployed, they would not be able to cross the Yangtze River.
Of course, the construction of such a line of defense is naturally expensive.
The quotation given by Wei Wu is 20 billion yen.
When General Wei sent the plan to the base camp, the staff at the base camp were all spartan.
Japan's current annual GDP is only about 70 billion yen.
Not only must we supply the two gold-eating beasts of the army and navy, we must also meet the daily needs of the people in the country.
The stalls were too big and they were asking for money everywhere, so they were stretched thin.
We can only suffer the people again and again.
This is why the front line keeps winning again and again, and continues to gain new territory, but the reason why the soldiers have to sell their sons and daughters in the back.
Now Wei Wu actually wants to take away one-third of the total GDP in one go.
What about other places?
If all the money was really given to Wei Wu, Japan's economy would collapse immediately.
Sugiyama Yuan personally sent a report to Wei Wu, hoping that Wei Wu could reduce the cost.
He also said that the soldiers went to fight, not to go on vacation.
Save a lot of things when you save them.
What Wei Wu was waiting for was Sugiyama Yuan's words.
A plan of 10 billion yen was immediately given.
A series of facilities such as izakayas and bathhouses have been cancelled.
But there is one requirement, which is to monopolize the procurement of raw materials for the Tianjin base.
After all, if the entire Southeast War Zone moves northward, the Magic City Industrial Zone will inevitably be abandoned.
They lost their source of building materials.
There are not enough transport ships in the mainland.
All materials can only be transported from Northeast and Tianjin bases.
The Northeast is too far away, so the only option is the newly built Tianjin base.
It has concentrated almost 70% of the factories and various equipment comparable to the Magic City base.
Sugiyama Yuan readily agreed to Wei Wu's request.
He also stated that the production capacity of the Tianjin base is entirely under the control of Wei Wu.
As long as Wei Wu can build the Yangtze River defense line within one year.
