The night of December 8, 1940, Qijiang County, Security Headquarters
After the military meeting, there was originally a reception, but Li Yunlong was very repelled by this kind of reception. After quietly giving the gift from the Air Force Marshal to the highest authority, he easily got away. This was the first time in the world. There is no comparison between the personal gifts of the leader and deputy leader of a powerful country and those so-called national gifts. This is a symbol of personal friendship.
Seeing that Li Yunlong was extremely satisfied, the highest authorities immediately asked him, the protagonist of the reception, to slack off. They called him considerate of his subordinates, but in fact they didn't want him to be too pushy. Didn't he also have Xie Jinyuan, who accompanied "The Eight Hundred" With the popularity of the film, this man has become a man of influence second only to Li Yunlong both at home and abroad.
The first time he returned to Qijiang County, Li Yunlong did not go to see Zhao Xiuqin. Instead, he immediately held a military meeting to deal with various official affairs that had been accumulated during his visit. The temporary 68th Division was already on the road to regularization. After walking for many days, Li Yunlong had to make a decision on many matters. Even those things confirmed by phone had to be reviewed again and signed.
Just talking about today's military meeting, many people showed puzzled looks.
"Old Li, this is not right. How could an enlarged meeting of the Military and Political Department be held to deploy a military meeting of this scale?" The speaker was Ding Wei. Although Zhao Gang was the nominal chief of staff, he still did the work of a political commissar, and the deputy chief of staff Chief Xie Jinyuan is also a man who doesn't like to take care of things, so Ding Wei does a lot of the chief of staff's work.
"Old Ding, this is going to be a big war, isn't it normal to hold a high-level military meeting? A battle involving two million people, darling, the highest authorities are really generous." Kong Jie lamented that the big officials of the mountain city government Action, after 1938, the national army had lost all its elite troops, and it had been a long time since it had carried out such a big action. When I heard such news, I felt only excitement in my heart.
"Old Kong, are you stupid? Considering the national army's ability to keep secrets, I am afraid that this battle plan will be sent to the devils as soon as the meeting is over. There is no way it can be said to be confidential, okay? If this continues, it will really On the day of the fight, there won't be any suddenness, okay?" Ding Wei couldn't help but complain.
"Old Ding, this is a battle-level operation. It's impossible to maintain absolute confidentiality, okay?" Kong Jie put down his pipe and argued, not to mention the Japanese, even the Eighth Route Army. The larger the scale of combat operations, the more difficult it is to maintain absolute confidentiality.
"Old Li, did you only tell half of what you said?" Zhao Gang understood when he saw Li Yunlong's expression of watching a show.
"Let's talk first. I also heard what Comrade Hu Bicheng said. It has no direct relationship with military operations." Li Yunlong smiled and said in a mysterious manner.
"Old Li, don't hold back and say it quickly!" Zhao Gang glanced at Li Yunlong dissatisfied.
"Last month, Britain signed a 50 million pound tungsten sand contract with the government, and the price was very good. Britain used warships to transport 50 million pounds of tungsten sand directly from Fujian Province, and then simply You've paid, buy it at the market price." Li Yunlong explained leisurely. The key to this sentence is at the end. The most expensive tungsten ore now can be sold for 16,000 pounds per ton, and one pound is worth ten yuan at this time. In the ocean, one ton of tungsten sand is worth 160,000 oceans. But in fact, if one ton of tungsten sand from the Shancheng Government can be sold for several thousand oceans, it is good. This sale is worth hundreds of thousands of oceans per ton, which is definitely abnormal.
And don't look at Britain's desperate purchase of tungsten sand. In fact, they are not short of tungsten sand. The reason for their desperate purchase is to prevent Hans from obtaining tungsten sand. They don't even take a look at the tungsten sand in the hands of the mountain city government. Neither of them are willing, since Hans and the others can't be shipped back to Europe anyway, this deal should be a deal to a large extent.
"So, this major counterattack has a British influence?" Ding Wei interjected, with a serious expression on his face. It is not a good thing for one country's military and political affairs to be affected by another country.
"Japan has been advocating recently that 'Asia is for Asians', and they are clamoring to expel the colonists and build a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The British people are scared." Zhao Gang nodded at the side, accompanied by the war in Europe With the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Resistance Against Japan has gradually become interconnected with the European War. I just don’t know if this is a good thing. After all, the current situation of the British people is really not optimistic.
"Fifty million pounds, five hundred million oceans, I'm sorry, why do you have so much money!" Kong Jie on the other side took a long time to sigh. The Eighth Route Army is not what it used to be. , but so much money is beyond the imagination of the Eighth Route Army.
"What's the use of more money? Comrade Hu Bicheng said that the government has paid off 10 million pounds of national debt in recent days, and these are bonds from the Beiyang government period." Li Yunlong curled his lips, saying that the air marshal is also a real giant. Greedy, but others also want to have face, and will never affect the country's finances because of their greed. But on my side, whether to pay national debt during the Anti-Japanese War or to pay worthless junk bonds in the bond market, this is really what I want to do. To the extreme shamelessness.
"How dare they!" Zhao Gang said bitterly, clenching his fists so hard that it was obvious that the usually elegant political commissar Zhao was furious.
"Old Li, Old Zhao, why didn't I understand? Isn't it the state that should pay for these national debts?" Kong Jie said dissatisfiedly.
"Lao Kong, the national debts during the Beiyang government period are junk bonds in the market, and their value is less than 1% of their original value. Ordinarily, even if the government redeems national debts, it will use legal currency to pay in proportion, and directly use foreign exchange to pay in full. It must be that someone purchased a large amount of this national debt in advance, then artificially raised the price, and used a pile of waste paper to get real money into their own pockets." Zhao Gang explained for Li Yunlong, saying that this is really not unusual. Things, those people have been doing this kind of thing since the day they took power. They always distort the government's policies. Even the highest authorities are miserable. This is the case for my brother-in-law and the same for my brother-in-law. No one can worry about it. Unfortunately, he is also a master who is afraid of his wife, and he is eaten to death by this family.
"His grandma is a jerk. She's so shameless." Kong Jie now wants to take people to the Ministry of Finance to kill that fat man. He finally got tens of millions of pounds. He may have to fight for this batch later. Money sacrificed countless soldiers, but they dared to put even this money into their pockets.
