The new business proposed by Fang Lang instantly diverted Joseph Clark's attention. He ignored the threats from other companies just mentioned and looked at Fang Lang expectantly and asked:
"Boss, I don't know what new business you have discovered. Please tell me about it."
Joseph Clark had 100% faith in Fang Lang's business acumen. After all, compared to his achievements in the military, his achievements in business could be said to be legendary. It only took a few years to develop from scratch to its current scale.
Therefore, when Fang Lang told the other party that he had discovered new business opportunities in Japan, he directly put other things aside.
Seeing Joseph Clark's eager look, Fang Lang smiled.
"Uncle Clark, don't worry. Since it is a big business, it will definitely not be easy to achieve success. This requires us to use all our trump cards and use our strong connections in the American political and military circles. Otherwise, this business may be difficult. Made.
But once we do that, we at God's Scourge have the potential to go down in history as a great company. "
It was okay not to say this, but as soon as he said it, Joseph Clark couldn't sit still even more. The match he had just lit stopped in mid-air, and even the movement to light the cigar stopped.
"Boss, please tell me what kind of business this is! You are really anxious to talk like this."
Joseph Clark felt uncomfortable because of Fang Lang's betrayal. This meant that the other party was his boss. If John or his subordinates talked to him like this, he would not help but beat the shit out of him.
Seeing the other person scratching his head and scratching his head and feeling uncomfortable all over, Fang Lang didn't want to keep showing off. He just picked up the cigar he had just lit and took a deep breath, letting the fragrance stay in his mouth for about three seconds before slowly exhaling. Got out.
"I want to win Japan's military and police business."
Fang Lang, who had just finished blowing out a puff of smoke, revealed the answer directly.
But his answer made Joseph Clark on the opposite side a little confused, and he asked with a puzzled face:
"What?"
Seeing this, Fang Lang smiled helplessly and continued:
"I said that I was going to let God's Whip Military Contracting Company contract the police and military services in Japan."
After hearing Fang Lang's whimsical thoughts, Joseph Clark felt that he had heard wrongly. He looked at Fang Lang in disbelief and said:
"How can this be?"
Fang Lang was not surprised by Joseph's behavior after hearing about this incident. After all, although commercial activities in Europe and the United States are open and many public projects are operated by private companies, the military and police are violent organs of the state and have never been I have heard of any country that outsources this aspect of business.
"Why is it impossible? Do you know what the current situation of Japan's police and military is like?"
Joseph was stunned when he heard Fang Lang's question. As a veteran who had participated in the Pacific War, he knew that after Japan was defeated and occupied by the US military, the entire country's violent institutions were disarmed, and the police were naturally one of them. member.
But in the past few years, his attention has been on America and Europe, and he doesn't know much about the situation in Asia, so he really doesn't know the answer to Fang Lang's question.
"I really don't know about this. I only know that after we occupied Japan, all the military and police were disarmed by us, and our occupying forces were responsible for all the work. But I really don't know if there have been any changes in the past few years. learn."
Hearing this, Fang Lang smiled and explained:
“It’s true as you said, after the Japanese military and police were initially disarmed, these tasks were all handed over to our occupying forces.
However, with the disarmament of the US military in the past two years, the number of Japanese occupation forces was also reduced accordingly. In addition, the pressure on domestic security in Japan increased. In 1947, the occupation forces headquarters relaxed some restrictions on the Japanese police and allowed the recruitment of some police officers. The Japanese locals set up a police force, but they did not have the right to be equipped with weapons and could only use a short stick.
As a result, the Japanese police can now only perform some simple civil dispute mediation and security patrol tasks. Even when encountering slightly more powerful underworld organizations, they have to avoid their edges. "
"But even so, they have regained their police force! Under such circumstances, how can we take over their police services?"
Joseph Clark was relatively calm and saw the difficulty of the problem at a glance.
Hearing this, Fang Lang smiled and said:
"Then do you think Japan, as a defeated country, is qualified to regain violent institutions?"
Joseph Clark was stunned by this question. As a defeated country, it certainly should not have a state violence agency again, but can the current Japanese police be considered a violent agency? It's really hard for him to say. After thinking for a while, Joseph Clark replied:
"In my opinion, they certainly shouldn't be rearmed. But I'm not so sure that police using short sticks are considered violent institutions?"
"Hehe. This issue is left to the men in Congress and those politicians to consider. What we have to do is to use our influence in the US military and political circles to turn Japan's police using short sticks into an illegal and violent institution."
When Joseph heard this, he immediately understood what Fang Lang meant. If the current Japanese police are illegal, then the American occupying forces will inevitably have to take on the task of maintaining security in Japan again. The current strength of the American occupying forces is obviously unable to bear such a heavy burden. Yes, at this time the opportunity for God's Whip Military Contracting Company came.
"I understand what you mean. It is not difficult to promote this bill in Congress. But the problem now is that Japan is MacArthur's territory, and the Japanese government must have obtained his consent to reorganize the police department.
If we directly initiate relations to overturn the rules he established without his consent, it will definitely cause a strong backlash from him. By then, if he objects, it may be difficult for the bill to be passed. "
After hearing Joseph Clark's words, Fang Lang smiled confidently and said:
"Knowing that he may object, then you have to find a way to shut his mouth."
"What do you mean, boss?"
"As far as I know, MacArthur only had one son, named Arthur MacArthur IV, right?"
"Yes!"
"Then find a way to make this Arthur MacArthur IV one of the shareholders of the Japanese branch of God's Whip. Of course, it is up to you to arrange for someone to talk to Mr. MacArthur in person about this matter."
As soon as Joseph Clark heard what Fang Lang said, he understood what Fang Lang meant. After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't help but ask:
"However, although taking over Japan's police business will ensure a stable income for our company, the profit will not be as high as what we have now."
"Who said we can only take over the police business? Don't forget, the military is the real violent agency. As long as we can take over Japan's military business, we can make a lot of money. By then, we can get a fixed military expenditure from the Japanese government every year , is the real big head.”
Fang Lang's words seemed like fantasy to Joseph Clark.
"Boss, Japan is a defeated country and cannot have an army! Their military expenditures are used to maintain the military expenditures of the US occupying forces.
If we want to take over Japan's military business, it will be equivalent to replacing the US occupation forces. The military will never agree to this kind of thing. "
Of course, Fang Lang knew this very well, but the reason why he wanted to contract Japan's military and police business in the name of his company was of course supported by him.
As far as he knew, with the outbreak of the Korean War, the US occupation forces were transferred to the peninsula. The island lacked basic defense forces, and Japanese politicians took the opportunity to propose the idea of establishing a police reserve force.
At this time, the U.S. occupying forces were focused on the peninsula and had no time to take into account the situation in Japan. However, as Japan was the logistics base for the Peninsula War, the U.S. military would certainly not allow chaos.
The idea proposed by the Japanese at this time can be said to be just in time for the United States, and the United States agreed after a short discussion. After all, the Japanese did not have to pay their own money to set up a police reserve to protect their rear bases, and the Americans had no reason to refuse.
But the Japanese government obviously would not be willing to let itself become a country without armed forces. Therefore, the Japanese government soon established the Coast Guard and the Security Agency, which are paramilitary organizations.
When Japan's economy developed rapidly due to the Peninsula War, it regained sufficient economic strength, and because of its strong support to the U.S. government in the Peninsula War, it sent people to perform logistics and mine clearance tasks in the name of military husbands, and a series of other performances. , allowing the U.S. government to see the value of the Japanese government.
At the same time, taking into account Japan's special geographical location, it is naturally the front line to contain the Soviet Union's Far East and China. Therefore, it gradually began to relax restrictions on Japan's military power. The newly appointed Ichiro Hatoyama government took the opportunity to propose rearmament of Japan. plan of.
Next, the Japanese government established the Air Self-Defense Force, and officially renamed the Police Reserve and Coast Guard to the Japan Self-Defense Force.
It was precisely because Fang Lang knew the origin of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces that he deliberately proposed such an idea before the outbreak of the Peninsula War. Speaking of it, this idea was indeed a bit whimsical.
But isn’t it completely impossible? Fang Lang doesn't think so. At least at this stage, this plan is very feasible.
Therefore, he thought about it and decided to make his thoughts clear to General Joseph Clark to avoid any mistakes in the specific implementation later.
"If the situation develops according to normal conditions, the military will indeed not agree. But what if a special situation occurs?"
Fang Lang's words were like a thunder exploding in Joseph Clark's heart. He knew that Fang Lang had huge connections in the American political and business circles. Could it be that the other party had heard some major news about the Far East.
"Boss, the special situation you are talking about doesn't mean that the United States wants to go to war with the Soviet Union in East Asia, right?"
It didn't surprise Fang Lang that he asked this. After all, everyone now knows the hostile relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, and Japan and the Far East of the Soviet Union are across the sea. As the United States slowly stabilizes the situation in Europe, it will focus on It is not unusual to move to the Far East.
Hearing this, Fang Lang waved his hand.
"It is unlikely that the United States will go to war with the Soviet Union directly. After all, World War II just ended, and people all hope for peace. However, it is still very easy to launch a war of controllable scale in local areas."
As soon as this statement came out, Joseph Clark's first reaction was that the top leaders of the United States had already made plans to launch a local war in the Far East. Therefore, he asked somewhat eagerly:
"Boss, did you hear any definite news?"
In fact, the outbreak of the Peninsula War was not initiated by the United States, but was caused by the Soviets deliberately hiding the truth from their hometown and encouraging the Golden Sun to launch an action to unify the peninsula and forcibly change the situation on the peninsula.
During this period, Fang Lang was the only one who knew that the situation on the peninsula was about to undergo major changes. Even the Golden Sun of the Northern Peninsula, who later took the initiative to launch a unification war, had to wait until January 30, 1950, to suddenly receive the news from the Soviet Ambassador to the Northern Peninsula, Mr. According to the news of Dickov, the loving father of steel is willing to support him in completing the great cause of reunification of the peninsula.
What’s interesting is that at this time, it was during the period when the hometown delegation was engaged in arduous negotiations in the Soviet Union. The Soviets were very dissatisfied with their hometown’s proposal to return the Zhongchang Railway and Ludag Port, which caused the delegation of the new regime to receive an unprecedented snub in the Soviet Union.
And Jin Taiyang, who had always wanted to learn from his hometown and complete his great cause of reunification, directly expanded the army in the northern peninsula to ten divisions after receiving support from the Soviet Union, and requested the advance use of a Soviet loan of 70 million rubles to deal with Arm your own troops.
Perhaps it was only at this time that Americans began to turn their attention to this peninsula, which had been experiencing constant conflicts since January 1949.
Therefore, it is naturally impossible for Fang Lang to get any information from high-level officials of the US government, but of course Fang Lang cannot answer directly like this.
He coughed slightly, lay back, found a more comfortable sitting position, picked up the cigar, took a deep breath, and then said a little enigmatically:
"It doesn't matter whether I have received any exact news. What is important is that once a local war suddenly breaks out in the Far East, what impact will it have on Japan and what opportunities will it bring to our company."
After hearing Fang Lang's words, Joseph Clark thought for a while and then asked hesitantly:
"Boss, I wonder where the local war you mentioned will break out? If the U.S. government plans to support Chang Kaishen's counterattack, I think this is simply nonsense. The Chinese people have already abandoned Chang Kaishen.
It is not that we can change this situation by giving them support or directly sending troops to fight. It might drag the United States into a huge quagmire. "
At this time, Fang Lang realized that he seemed to have never explained to Joseph Clark where the war would break out. It is normal for the other party to think of Chang Kaishen. After all, the biggest power in the Far East is his hometown.
Even Joseph Clark, a retired rear admiral, could see that Chang Kaishen's counterattack was hopeless, let alone other senior officials in the United States? Americans are businessmen, and they will definitely not do this kind of business that is obviously going to be a loss-making business.
"No, no. You misunderstood. I was not talking about China, but the Peninsula. Haven't you noticed that small-scale conflicts on the Peninsula have not stopped since the beginning of this year?"
In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, Fang Lang directly pointed out the local battlefield location he mentioned.
(End of chapter)
