Chapter 34: Interests determine stance. The locust army doesn’t want to sweep away!
"Not enough wood?"
"Have all 50,000 square meters been used up?"
"It's all used up."
"According to the evacuation facilities in the mountainous areas, the fortifications in Liao County and Yu County, and the support frames of the bridges to widen the Shanma Road, wood is needed."
Yangcun,
Li Yunlong received unexpected news.
Fifty thousand square meters of wood, all used up.
But when he thought about it carefully, he understood the reason.
Fifty thousand square meters of wood is a lot of wood. Calculating the thick pine wood that can be used as the main beam of the house, it is almost 50,000.
However, in the face of the construction of fortifications in the two counties, the construction of bridges and repairs on the mountain horse roads in the Pan-Taiyue Mountains, and the construction of cave dwellings for people to take refuge in the mountainous areas, it is really not enough.
"Okay, I'll figure it out."
After letting the clerk from the Logistics and Supply Department leave first, Li Yunlong turned on the communicator on his wrist.
What should I do if I don’t have enough supplies?
Of course I’m looking for Brother Lu!
Although there is still a large amount of wood in the Taiyue Mountains, people can be sent to cut it down, but it will consume manpower, and the quality is poor, far inferior to the wood provided by Brother Lu. Secondly, it will also damage the water and soil environment?
Li Yunlong thought of the way he usually chatted with Brother Lu.
Cutting down trees destroys the environment.
"The Japanese 27th Division's attack on the base area requires a large amount of wood to build fortifications and build bridges and roads. In order to avoid excessive deforestation and damage to the water and soil environment, we apply for 150,000 square meters of wood per month."
After thinking for a while, Li Yunlong wrote down this application list.
Reinforced concrete is included in the list of special supplies.
Then he pressed the button of the wrist communicator, but his fingers finally stopped.
Brother Lu will definitely approve the 150,000 square meters of wood per month. The wood is not even considered an ordinary material. He has very reasonable reasons and has no reason not to approve it.
So,
Can I continue to apply for some food?
After thinking about it for a while, Li Yunlong finally added an application for 50,000 tons of grain per month to the application form to stabilize prices and prevent merchants from hoarding goods.
According to the plan, after repelling the attack of the 27th Division, the Taiyue base area needs to open up transportation channels to the Shaanxi-Gansu border area, transport food to the border area, and allow institutions such as the Anti-Japanese University in the rear to fully absorb and train talents.
It is estimated that 15,000 tons of grain need to be transported to the Shaanxi-Gansu border region every month to meet demand.
We also need to deliver food to the Wutai Mountain base area.
Coupled with the food needs of the southern Hebei base area,
In this case, 50,000 tons per month will not be enough.
Therefore, taking this opportunity, Li Yunlong planned to give it a try and see if he could apply for more food.
The more food, the better.
If not, there are too many applications, and being rejected will affect the monthly evaluation, resulting in no quota for a new material every month, and he wants to fill in 100,000.
But if you think about it carefully, the total population of the Taiyue base area is only more than one million, and the total population is less than two million. One hundred thousand tons per month is really too much.
It will definitely not pass.
Fifty thousand tons per month is a very suitable figure.
···
Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Concession.
"idiot!"
"waste!"
Looking at the latest Xinhua Newspaper on the table, including the photo of Li Yunlong stepping on the coalition flag, and the photo of two coalition flags placed together, Yingzuo Zhenzhao finally frowned.
The alliance flag was seized by Tubal Road twice in a row.
Although it was a garrison division and a C division, the regiment flag was captured twice in a row, and one regiment was completely wiped out.
How could the Imperial Locust Army have such waste?
"It's all rubbish!"
After a long time, Yingzuo Zhenzhao still couldn't suppress the anger in his heart.
Ying Zuozhenzhao belongs to the intelligence agency and has no direct relationship or conflict with the military. Logically speaking, the failure of the military has nothing to do with him.
He just has to do his job.
However, because of this newspaper, Yingzuo Zhenzhao's recent work has been quite hindered.
Since the establishment of the Wang government, Yingzuo Zhenzhao, who has made great contributions to the cause, has been highly valued by his superiors and is responsible for continuing to promote the rebellion plan and weakening the resistance of Guo Preserved in a bloodless manner.
The results are also very significant.
General Guofuo continued to bring his troops to the Wang government established by his organization.
However, the sudden appearance of this newspaper has caused many Republic of China military officers to hesitate recently, weakening his efforts to win over. Even some people who originally joined Wang's government also hesitated because of this newspaper.
Several people have already defected.
"Order."
"Strengthen the monitoring of newspapers and destroy them immediately once discovered."
Yingzuo Zhenzhao gritted his teeth.
In fact, this incident had little impact. It was just a few officers who hesitated, a few small-scale attacks, and a few people defected.
But it's quite disgusting.
He was trying his best to deal with the Preserved Fruit, and the Eleventh Army was also very cooperative. Although he failed to complete the strategic mission of the base camp, he also suffered heavy losses to the Preserved Fruit troops on the front line and suppressed the morale of the Preserved Fruit.
Many officers began to waver, creating many opportunities for him.
But something like this suddenly popped up in North China.
And judging from the current situation, there may be a lot of trouble in North China in the future.
He still had to expend energy to block these messages.
···
A few days later.
Ze County.
At noon.
"Today's silver coins have been exchanged. Please come back tomorrow."
The staff at the counter said to the people outside.
"Why··"
The people in line sighed and then dispersed with regret.
But the other queue, that is, the window for exchanging counterfeit currency, miscellaneous currency, legal currency, etc. for the new Hebei Nan currency, is still full of long queues.
But this team was quickly redeemed.
There was only ten minutes between the two.
"The effect is good!"
This scene made the person in charge of economic warfare in the southern Hebei base area who was inspecting the situation in Ze County sound pleased.
Facts have proved that the decision to take strong medicine was the right one.
One hundred and fifty thousand silver dollars are put into the market every day,
At the beginning, on the first day, 10,000 silver dollars were still exchanged within half an hour, even in the first three days. But on the fourth day, people's enthusiasm for exchanging silver dollars began to diminish.
Today is the sixth day.
It was already noon when the ten thousand silver dollars were exchanged. In other words, it took almost three and a half hours for the ten thousand silver dollars to be exchanged.
And there were not many people queuing up to redeem later.
“What are the prices on the black market?”
The person in charge asked a clerk on the side.
"The price is the same as ours, one silver dollar is equal to ten new Hebei Nan coins."
The clerk replied.
"good!"
The person in charge sounded increasingly pleased.
The exchange price on the black market is the same as the bank exchange price, which means that the market has completely accepted the new Hebei Nan currency.
"Continue to maintain the investment quota of 10,000 per day, and the distribution of Jinan coins will also start to double as planned, to 300,000 new Jinan coins every day."
The person in charge warned.
Next, just continue to consolidate.
Of course, we need to increase the amount of Jinan coins invested in the market to meet market demand.
According to calculations, in the future, only the Jinan base area will need 10 million Jinan coins to circulate. Therefore, according to the plan, after the currency in circulation reaches 10 million, 10,000 silver dollars and 150,000 Jinan coins will be put into the market every day.
"Does anyone buy those medicines?"
the person in charge asked.
The day before yesterday, the headquarters sent a company of soldiers from the security battalion directly under the headquarters to bring some medicines to sell in various banks. The price was 15,000 Hebei South dollars per bottle, which is equivalent to 1,500 oceans per bottle.
Such a price is astronomical.
You know, at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, it only cost 1,500 oceans to buy the latest American Ford car in Shanghai.
That is to say,
The headquarters believes that a single bottle of new medicine is worth more than a new American Ford car.
It was hard for the person in charge to think about it.
But this was an order from the headquarters, and a security force directly under the headquarters was assigned to take charge. It was not easy for him to interfere, so he could only arrange the sale.
"No."
The clerk replied.
"knew!"
The person in charge didn’t find it strange either.
Although the headquarters said that this drug was very valuable and once it became famous, people would come to buy it. It could recover a large amount of currency and stabilize the currency. He once suspected that his superiors were trying to satisfy their hunger.
But this is the responsibility of the headquarters and he does not need to think about it.
"What are the food prices in various places in southern Hebei today?"
The head of economic warfare continued to ask.
The core of this silver dollar war, the real key issue, is not to stabilize the exchange of one silver dollar for every ten Hebei Nan coins, but to stabilize the price of goods in the base area.
No matter how much money you have, it is meaningless. Price is the key.
Otherwise, no matter how much silver dollars you have, you won’t be able to buy anything on the market, and the silver dollars will be worse than waste paper.
"It's pretty stable right now."
"We are also putting a small amount of high-quality grain into the market. You can buy a pound of high-quality grain for one Hebei Nan dollar."
The clerk replied.
"good!"
The person in charge nodded.
"but."
The officer's subsequent words made the person in charge a little nervous:
"In the first half of this year, there was a small-scale drought in Henan. Coupled with the impact of dyke bursting, I'm afraid... in the second half of the year, food prices will soar."
"I see."
The person in charge frowned.
The southern Hebei base area is directly connected to Henan. Once a famine occurs in Henan Province and food prices rise, it will inevitably affect the southern Hebei base area.
Although the headquarters will support the Jinan base area with 5,000 tons of grain every month, due to the inconvenience of transportation, it costs a lot to transport this grain, which is actually equivalent to 3,500 tons.
If food prices soar, it will inevitably cause food prices to skyrocket in the southern Hebei base area. This amount of food cannot suppress food prices.
This is not a good thing.
The headquarters' plan is to build the Jinan base area into a prosperous base area.
Other commodities, even some machinery and equipment, can take advantage of the Japanese demand for silver coins. Although Japanese merchants bring them in, the Japanese also need food urgently, and it is impossible to transport it into the base area.
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the next day.
"Yoshi."
stone gate.
Suzuki Hoji looked excitedly at the statistical data sent by his subordinates.
In just seven days, the economic team he sent collected 350,000 silver dollars.
With the empire's capabilities and means, these silver dollars can be sold to the United States or the London futures market for the equivalent of 150,000 U.S. dollars, or 750,000 yen.
The price is just some almost free coins and counterfeit coins.
At this rate, wouldn't he be able to get 600,000 US dollars, equivalent to 3 million yen, in one month?
The annual funding for his mechanical department is only two million yen.
In one month, he earned a year and a half of activity funds, but his superiors did not reward him.
Even if Tubal Road stops the exchange of miscellaneous coins and joint coins in the future, he will still have enough means to obtain silver coins - the Locust Army controls the external channels. As long as the goods are transported into the Tubal Road base area, isn't there a lot of silver coins?
and,
With the increase in organizational power in his hands, he is confident that next week, he will be able to collect 40% of the silver dollars that Tubalu puts on the market.
"It's strange that there are so many silver coins on Tubal Road."
The only thing that puzzled Suzuki Fan Erbai was.
Tuba Road in southern Hebei Province actually invested 150,000 silver dollars into the market every day for seven consecutive days without any reduction at all.
"It seems that the people behind Tubalu are very powerful!"
Suzuki Fanji narrowed his eyes.
Although he didn't understand it, because of his interests at this time, Suzuki Fanji naturally hoped that Tubalu would continue to invest 150,000 yuan into the market every day without reducing it.
In this way, he can continuously make money from the southern Hebei region.
"Your Majesty Colonel."
At this time, an officer came in and reported to Suzuki Fanerhui:
"The Heze Alliance is preparing to send a brigade, combined with two brigade of the Imperial Association Army, with a total strength of 2,300 troops, to launch a routine attack on Ze County in southern Hebei."
The Japanese also knew that raids were ineffective in the base areas and could not wipe out the Tubal Army, but they also knew that raids could weaken the Eighth Route Army to the greatest extent and prevent it from growing stronger.
So raids are launched regularly.
Especially in plain areas like southern Hebei.
"attack?"
Suzuki Fanji frowned.
Ze County is the core area of the so-called Jinan base area on Tuba Road.
It is also a key hinterland.
Once the locust army attacks, Tubal Road will inevitably suspend the exchange of silver dollars. So, won't his daily minimum of 45,000 silver dollars and the maximum of 60,000 silver dollars be gone?
A sweep lasts at least half a month.
How much of a loss is this?
Interests determine positions.
At this time, Suzuki Fanji was completely unaware that he had been forced to become a community of interests in the southern Hebei base area.
Suzuki Fanji thought for a moment, then dialed Colonel Heze's phone number and said in a serious voice:
"Colonel Heze, I suggest that this raid be postponed."
"A week ago, the Third Battalion launched an attack on Tubal Road in southern Hebei. During the battle, the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei showed very powerful firepower. They had a large number of medium-sized mortars, causing the Third Battalion to suffer heavy losses."
"According to intelligence, this is an artillery battalion from the Tubal Road headquarters."
"I'm afraid it will be difficult to capture a large group of troops, and it may even result in serious losses."
"It is better to wait until the 27th Division's mopping-up is completed and there are sufficient troops before launching a mopping-up."
"That makes sense."
Colonel Heze immediately nodded in agreement.
He didn't want to raid.
Recently, the strength of Tubal Road in southern Hebei has skyrocketed. The strength of Tubal Road is there. However, because the 27th Division was transferred away, the strength of the Locust Army in southern Hebei is seriously insufficient.
If it weren't for the prescriptive orders from his superiors, he wouldn't want to raid.
"However, regular sweeps are an order from the command."
Colonel Heze sounded worried.
"We jointly made recommendations to the command."
Suzuki Fanji immediately suggested.
"Thank you very much."
Colonel Heze was also overjoyed.
(End of chapter)
