The bureau leader didn't know where Tang Cheng got such confidence, but seeing that Tang Cheng was not in a hurry, the bureau leader also calmed down. The two of them had nothing to do, drinking juice and chatting in low voices until Hans appeared. Hans came to Tangcheng not for matters in India, but for a project. Although the British troops stationed in Myanmar have left, the cannery Tangcheng cooperated with them continues to produce. It is said that the canned fruits produced in Myanmar are very popular among Africans, especially in North Africa.
Myanmar and Thailand are places rich in fruits. Hans came to Tangcheng this time to expand the cannery. "I invited a lot of technical staff from Europe this time. I thought that although our canned fruits are selling well, the current output of the canning factory cannot consume so much fruit. Tang, I think it's time , Expand the scale of the cannery! As the factory expands production, it can also recruit more workers, which I believe will be of great help to your plan." Hans always likes to be straightforward when speaking.
After hearing this, Tang Cheng only pondered for a moment before giving his opinion. "The cannery can be expanded, but we can't just produce canned fruits. I think we can start a juice concentrate plant now!" Tang Cheng's words made Hans look at the glass of juice in his hand. The juice squeezed from Burmese fruits is indeed delicious, but what does the juice concentration plant that Tangcheng mentioned just now mean? In fact, Hans didn't know that the juice he drank when he went to the United States last time was made from juice concentrate and water.
Tang Cheng could only patiently explain to Hans, "Myanmar and Thailand are rich in fruits. We can't waste such good resources and conditions in vain! Compared with canned fruits, juice concentrates are more cost-effective and are produced The process is not cumbersome! Moreover, we can also use the residue after squeezing the juice from the fruit to make feed for livestock breeding. No matter how we plan, we will not suffer any loss inside or outside here!"
Tang Cheng has been thinking about the juice factory for more than a day or two. Although he has set Myanmar and Thailand as semi-agricultural countries in the future, this does not prevent him from building some light industries. Compared with textile factories in southern Thailand, fruit deep processing is more self-sufficient in raw materials, and whether it is canned fruit or juice, these are daily consumables and face a huge market. It is impossible for Tangcheng to clean up all the local indigenous people, so he still needs these factories to help him dismantle the local resistance forces.
After discussing with Tangcheng, Hans, who had a large amount of funds and technical personnel in his hands, began to select a location to build a juice factory with great fanfare. Hans's actions also succeeded in confusing the British to a certain extent. Their spies in Burma and Thailand didn't notice anything unusual happening in Tangcheng. Instead, it was the juice factory that Hans was going to build that caused a lot of commotion during this period. Senior officials in the British government originally thought that Tang Cheng had given up on its plan to cooperate with Mountbatten because of its long wait.
But they didn't know that just when they thought they were righteous, northern Myanmar had sent out a number of cleaning teams and began to follow the marks left by the scouts to open up a route suitable for large troops to pass along the border. The heavy-armed troops commanded by Fang Shengli, after undergoing a period of combined drills, also transitioned to a state of hiding day and night, and began to secretly move towards the border area. Just when everyone thought Tangcheng had given up on that plan, a large amount of oil and supplies had been reduced to pieces, and all were quietly transferred to the border areas by military personnel from Yan'an.
Tangcheng is already ready to attack at any time, and now it is waiting for the results from Mountbatten's side. The more leisurely Tangcheng behaves, the more prepared the troops hidden on the border will be. A month later, Fang Shengli and the others had moved to the front line of the border. The route opened by the cleaning team had been taken more than once by Fang Shengli himself. All the hidden dangers along the way had been eliminated one by one by them. Now it can be said that everything is ready and waiting for the east wind, but there is still no result from Mountbatten's side.
Tang Cheng didn't care much about this. He just received various intelligence and news from India every day, but no longer mentioned his previous plan. Fortunately, with the completion of the textile factory and the start of the juice factory, Tangcheng became busy again. Thomas, who had been staying in London, also rushed from London to southern Thailand to attend the opening ceremony of the textile factory. "Boss, most of these textile workers come from Shanghai and Suzhou. The domestic situation is chaotic, and many businesses in Shanghai have closed their factories. They either went to Nanyang or went south to northern Myanmar."
"We hired these textile workers directly from Shanghai at high wages through the domestic Paoge channel. We signed a six-month contract with them in the first instance. After the six-month contract expires, if they think this place is good, we will sign a new employment contract with them. Five kilometers west of the factory is our planned living area, which is close to the railway and has more convenient living facilities." Tangcheng stayed in southern Thailand, and the person in charge of the textile factory was a German woman from Hamburg, this woman named Pola , once worked as a German translator in Peiping for several years, so he can speak fluent Mandarin.
After inspecting the textile factory, Tang Cheng was very satisfied with Pola's ability. After praising him a few times, Tang Cheng went to see Thomas. Thomas, who was sophisticated in the world, did not express any objection to Tang Cheng handing over the management of the textile factory to a woman. Anyway, he had already sent financial personnel to move in, and he was not afraid of Tang Cheng playing tricks behind his back. After the two met, they only chatted a little about textile factories, and then the topic naturally shifted to Indian independence.
"There has been no movement from Mountbatten. I guess he is waiting for problems to arise within the Indians. It is said that the Indians are not very united. At least the local kings still hope to maintain relations with the United Kingdom." Thomas said The tentative Tang Cheng just expressed his thoughts, but Thomas seemed to agree with his guess. But he didn't expect that Tang Cheng could see from his reaction that Thomas did not go to meet Mountbatten, but came directly to him.
It stands to reason that Thomas, who maintained a close relationship with the royal family, should have gone to India to meet Mountbatten on the way from Europe to Thailand. Tang Cheng, who was full of doubts, thought to himself, could it be said that the British government has now shown its impatience with the royal family? When Britain was still an empire on which the sun never set, the power of the royal family was boundless. After World War I, due to the sacrifices of a large number of noble children, the power of the royal family was gradually weakened. The royal family was once unable to support the cost of repairing Buckingham Palace.
After World War II, Britain has transformed from the empire on which the sun never sets to the largest creditor nation of the United States. And because of the emergence of Tangcheng, the British royal family and the domestic aristocracy have all made a lot of money. How can the top British government officials who are struggling with the reconstruction work not secretly care about the royal family and the resurgent aristocracy. After understanding this, Tang Cheng finally understood why Thomas came directly to him instead of meeting Mountbatten halfway.
Tang Cheng, who had some guesses in his mind, did not ask Thomas directly. If he guessed wrong, Tang Cheng felt that he would be very embarrassed. As expected, Thomas did not mention Mountbatten again, but only chatted with Tang Cheng about the textile factory and the Germans in the textile factory. But the less Thomas wanted to mention Mountbatten, the more Tangcheng wanted to learn about Mountbatten-related things from Thomas. The two of them chatted with each other for a long time, and Thomas finally relaxed after giving Tang Cheng a sideways look.
Thomas was an old fox, and he couldn't tell what Tang Cheng was thinking. However, the situation in India was very complicated, and Thomas really didn't know what to say to Tang Cheng. "The latest news is that Mountbatten is being bitten hard by the Indians. Once he lets go, the situation in India will immediately become uncontrollable. London's intention is to ask Mountbatten to delay as much time as possible. See Let’s see if we can disintegrate the Indian alliance from within. But now it seems that the situation is not ideal because the Indians’ attitude is very tough.”
When the word tough appeared at the end of Thomas's words, Tang Cheng immediately became energetic and he spoke hurriedly. "I heard that Mountbatten was not easy to talk to. If the Indians push too hard, can they really start fighting? When my army passed by, it looked like they had even brought heavy artillery." Tang What Cheng has to do now is to put eye drops on Thomas, hoping that Thomas will get out of his own way and say what he is interested in.
But old fox Thomas is not that easy to be fooled, not to mention that there are several British warships parked in the Indian port. As long as the Indians are not stupid, they will never dare to fight Mountbatten. Unfortunately, things are unpredictable. On the second day after meeting Thomas in Tangcheng, news came from India that when Mountbatten was traveling, his convoy was attacked. The bomb that attacked Mountbatten's car was a homemade bomb. It may have been a coincidence, but Mountbatten strangely changed his car that day.
Mountbatten changed his car and was naturally unharmed, but the guards who were ordered to protect him shot and killed the attacker immediately. Although it was later discovered that the attacker was indeed an Indian, after the case was reported to the public, the Indians were not happy. Some actually accused Mountbatten's guards of not shooting the attacker at that time.
It's telling that someone used a bomb to destroy a car but couldn't fight back. Mountbatten himself did not seem to have expected that the Indians would react like this. The Indians who directly argued with him also changed their previous attitude and gradually became tougher. Tang Cheng, who had been waiting for the opportunity, felt that the time he had been waiting for had come, so he immediately went to find Thomas.
