My client Li Yunlong

Chapter 158 The Gun God takes action!

Jinan region.

In a town in Ze County.

"Gathering food."

"Buy all the food on the market."

"If the price is one or two cents higher than the market price, buy it directly."

In a certain period and gorgeous courtyard, a richly dressed old man held a newspaper and spoke in an excited and cheerful tone.

It can even be said to be exciting.

Eighth Route Army,

No, it should be said to be Tuba Road. It has been more than a year since I came to the southern Hebei region.

For more than a year, these idiots and beggars have killed him.

First, the rent and interest rates were reduced, which reduced his income by about half.

Later, they also asked for anti-Japanese donations.

They said they wanted to provide food to the Eighth Route Army.

Doesn't this cost him his life?

But there was nothing he could do.

His land is all on Tubal Road.

The Japanese, no, it should be said that the Locust Army was unable to enter in a short period of time. In order to preserve the land and food, he even had to sever ties with his son who served as an officer under the Locust Army.

then,

Provide a large amount of food to Tubal Road and fight against the locust army.

Now he finally had a chance to stumble Tubalu. This time, he wanted to let Tubalu know that his food was not so easy to get, and then make a lot of silver dollars.

Nowadays, Tubalu is extremely rich.

Every day, 150,000 silver dollars are put into the market without blinking an eye.

"Sir, will this make the Eighth Route Army unhappy?"

The butler sounded worried.

"Making Tubalu unhappy?"

The old man snorted:

"Sir, I just want to make Tubalu unhappy."

Then he said sadly:

"So what if they are unhappy?"

"Last year I turned in so much food that it emptied my family's fortune!"

"There is no food left."

"In the first half of this year, the Japs' raids caused great damage around Ze County. A lot of crops in my field were eaten by the Japs' mules and horses. It is estimated that this year's grain harvest will be more than halved."

Hearing this, the butler's mouth twitched slightly.

There is an army of locusts ahead!

Are you going to be a devil here?

As for not having any surplus food, it’s even more of a joke.

Can he still know?

There are still more than fifty tons of grain in the secret cellar grain warehouse. Most of it is imported grain sold by the Eighth Route Army and can be stored for a long time.

It was enough to feed the whole family, including the servants, for several years.

"Food prices are skyrocketing in the market today."

The old man continued speaking, his tone full of pride:

"What happened to me buying some grain at a high price?"

"Didn't Tubal Road say that in the future, anti-Japanese donations and other donations can be made in money or in kind?"

"When the time comes, they can just count the silver dollars."

"Let them spend money to buy food!"

"understood."

The butler's tone was calm.

Because he did not believe that the Jinan currency would not depreciate, his master converted all his belongings into silver dollars.

He did it with his own hands.

There are ten thousand pieces.

Now they are all hidden in a secret money cellar, and even he doesn't know where they are. They were hidden by the master himself.

"Master, we don't have enough money to sell grain to the market!"

The butler continued.

"Not enough money?"

The old man suddenly frowned.

Do you want to use the 10,000 yuan at home?

Do not!

It was not easy to collect ten thousand oceans.

Ten thousand!

Such an auspicious number!

“Didn’t Tubal Road open up land loans?”

The old man asked immediately.

"Yes, the interest rate is very low."

"We are anti-Japanese models, and the first three months are interest-free."

The butler's eyes twitched.

What an idea!

Hide the money in the cellar and use the field loan money to sell grain.

"The anti-Japanese model is finally of some use."

The old man snorted.

This fan was something he got in exchange for a lot of money.

"All mortgaged."

The old man waved his hand:

"All the 5,000 acres of land we control are mortgaged, and then we buy grain from the market."

"Also, increase manpower and send people to grab the imported cheap grains that are put into the market every day on Tuba Road."

"Yes."

The butler's mouth twitched again.

"correct."

Finally, the old man specifically warned:

"From today on, the food of the groom and servants in the family will be reduced by one-third."

housekeeper:"!"

···

"The Jia family wants to mortgage their five thousand acres of land?"

Jinan base area.

When the person in charge of the political work heard the news, his eyes widened.

"This old thing..."

Everyone knows who Old Man Jia is, the big landowner in Ze County.

Old miser!

A guy who couldn't wait to be a traitor.

If it weren't for the fact that the five thousand acres of good irrigated land in his family were all near Ze County and within the control of the Eighth Route Army troops, this guy would have fallen into the arms of the Japanese a long time ago.

But the problem is, even if we know, there is nothing we can do.

This old man is very shrewd.

Although the eldest son in the family is the captain of the police force in Liao County.

But as soon as the troops came, they took the initiative to cut off relations with the eldest son, and provided a large amount of food to the troops, and pretended that they had pulled out all the bosses in the family.

Everyone knows that this old man will definitely hide a lot of food.

But no way.

In the entire Ze County, he indeed handed over the most grain, and he even handed it in on his own initiative. He could only hold his nose and give him a model quota.

And this old man is really awesome.

The troops were forced to find no evidence of cooperation with the Japanese.

"Haha. Has the trick finally been revealed?"

Afterwards, the political cadres became overjoyed.

With Mr. Jia's character, he must have a lot of silver coins at home.

But now that the five thousand acres of good irrigated land at home are being loaned out, he must be planning to buy a large amount of grain, hoard it, and then sell it to make money when the price of grain rises.

As for the tax on the five thousand acres of land, it must be paid in New Hebei Nan currency.

This was just what he wanted.

"Give him a loan."

"Use new Jinan coins."

"Give him a special case, no interest required for one year."

"No interest required for one year?"

"You want to eat him up and wipe him clean!"

Another political worker comrade also laughed out loud.

No interest required for one year.

It is estimated, no, it is certain that after old man Jia took out a loan of 5,000 acres of land to buy grain, the extra Jinan coins would even be converted into silver dollars and stored in the cellar.

But...

"Humph!"

The first political cadre snorted coldly:

"Who allowed him to be greedy!"

Five thousand acres of land.

Today, the low price is between thirty to forty silver dollars, and Old Man Jia's land is all of the best irrigated land, and the grain yield is 30% more than other land, so the price is a full sixty oceans per acre. You can borrow up to NT$3 million.

This is equivalent to three million kilograms of imported white flour.

That is 1,500 tons of imported white flour.

This batch of grain is enough to affect grain prices in the markets of Ze County and even several surrounding counties!

But.

Although they didn't know where the headquarters got the silver coins from, they still knew that the troops had an extremely sufficient supply of silver coins.

Very sufficient.

Even if a large amount of it flows abroad.

But let alone one year, by the beginning of next year, it is estimated that the price of silver dollars will plummet.

According to the economic combat plan, in order to promote the outflow of silver dollars, it is planned to increase the ratio of new Hebei Nan coins to silver dollars from ten to one to seven to one by next year.

If silver dollars are abundant,

Then simply increase it to five to one.

The price of the silver dollar in Old Man Jia's hand dropped by half.

Let all the landlords and wealthy people who hoard silver dollars go bankrupt.

Even, according to the economic combat plan, in the future, the new Hebei Nan currency, as well as the currencies issued by other base areas, or the unified currency of the base areas in the future, will be one to one with the silver dollar.

He wanted to see how Old Man Jia was going to redeem the five thousand acres of good irrigated land.

"Hahaha··"

Everyone in the conference room was filled with laughter.

With the improvement of the army's economic strength.

They have been able to calmly take advantage of the greed of these wealthy landlords to collect the land in their hands, and then distribute it to the people in need through economic means.

Not only can it solve the problem of uneven land distribution, but it can also revitalize the economy of the base area.

As for ordinary people who are short of money and unable to purchase land and production materials, they can also learn from foreign financial systems and implement low-interest or even interest-free loans to purchase in installments.

First, give it to the ordinary people who sincerely support the troops.

People who are serious about farming will definitely not convert their money into silver dollars after taking out a loan, and then be hurt by the sharp depreciation of the silver dollar.

Procurement by the military can also provide a market for the food and vegetables grown by ordinary people.

Especially vegetables.

Although the Taiyue base area can provide food and canned meat, there is really no vegetables, so they can only grow them themselves.

“But what about the food?”

In the conference room, someone brought the topic back on track:

"Under the circumstances where the devils are destroying and profiteers are hoarding."

"A rough estimate is that if grain prices in the base area need to be stabilized, the southern Hebei base area will need to provide 15,000 tons of grain to the market every month."

"Although the Taiyue base area has enough food, we are allocated 30,000 tons of food every month."

"But from the Taiyue base area to our place, the straight-line distance is 230 kilometers. The actual transportation distance is 320 kilometers, and all of this is highway."

"On the highway, you are easily attacked by Japanese soldiers."

"Transportation is a problem!"

Yes.

Supplies are not an issue.

At the Material Logistics Center of Taiyue Base, the Independent Regiment can supply 160,000 tons of grain per month, including the increased quota of 150,000 tons per month and the independent Regiment's 10,000 tons per month.

But transportation is a problem.

Thirty thousand tons of grain per month, using horse-drawn carts.

Even the new mules and horses from the Independent Regiment, which can pull half a ton at a time on the highway, still require 60,000 trips to transport.

Sixty thousand trips!

A distance of three hundred and twenty kilometers.

Exhausting the transportation capabilities of the Jinan base area and Taihang base area can only go so far. Although people can be mobilized, it will require a lot of manpower and inefficiency.

"still have a question."

Someone once again broke the bad news:

"With the retreat of the 27th Japanese Division, the Japanese troops in southern Hebei have recovered. According to intelligence, the Japanese are concentrating their forces and planning to launch an attack on our transportation lines."

"Ask for help from headquarters."

"Let's see if there is anything the headquarters can do."

At the end of the meeting, the Jinan base area had no solution on its own and could only ask for support from its superiors.

You can't really plan for 60,000 carriages and horses to be transported.

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"Fifty heavy guns!"

"Over 30,000 rounds of artillery shells!"

Jinan region.

After hearing the news from his peers, Colonel Heze wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

In order to avoid causing panic, the Japs covered up the fiasco in the Taiyue area. Unless they experienced it personally, even many Japs captains did not know about the fiasco that the 27th Division of the Locust Army suffered in the Taiyue Mountains.

During the retreat, even Liao County was not saved and was surrendered.

They only occupied one Yu County, and stationed a full regiment of troops. They frantically built fortifications every day, and even used scarce steel and concrete to build fortifications.

Colonel Heze also found out about it from other Colonel students.

"No wonder!"

This also explains the new order of the North China Front.

Let him mobilize troops to destroy the Tubal Road transportation route from the Taihang Mountains to the southern Hebei region.

···

"Transportation issue?"

Headquarters.

We were in a meeting when we received news of the Jinan base area asking for help.

"Yes, according to the plan, in order to stabilize the grain price in the economic development center of the southern Hebei base area, we need to transport 30,000 tons of grain to the southern Hebei base area every month."

"Food is available."

"But we don't have the capacity."

The deputy general staff couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The abundance of supplies exposed a new problem for the Eighth Route Army.

Or perhaps, this problem has always existed, but it was just that we were too poor to express it before.

Lack of transportation capacity.

"If horse-drawn carriages are used for transportation, the distance of 320 kilometers will require 60,000 trips per month."

"Sixty thousand trains!"

The boss and teachers couldn't help but click their tongues.

The total transportation power of the Jinan base area and Taihang base area cannot reach this scale. It is estimated that it is only two-thirds.

This is the reason why a large number of military mules have recently been obtained from the independent regiment.

"Ask Li Yunlong."

"Let's see if he can do anything."

The teacher said directly.

Since Li Yunlong took out five biplanes and solved the problem of transporting funds to Beiping, and could transport personnel back directly from Beiping, the division commander concluded a truth.

If you are in doubt, look for Li Yunlong!

"good idea!"

The boss and deputy general staff nodded.

This is indeed a good idea.

Of course, if the independent regiment cannot solve the problem, it is very simple to mobilize the militia troops in the base area to organize transportation.

The only problem is that this will consume a lot of manpower and materials, and coupled with the destruction of the Japanese, it is estimated that to transport one ton of grain from the Jinan base area, two people will be required to participate in the transportation.

Too uneconomical.

"Then let's continue discussing the previous issue."

The Deputy General Staff brought the topic back to normal:

"According to Yangquan intelligence, the new Chief of Staff of the Japanese First Army will come to Yangquan again this time, and this time the Japanese have strengthened security, with a full brigade of security forces."

"Shall we take action?"

"Of course we do it!"

"One and a half million!"

The boss spoke without hesitation.

Although the base area now has a monthly income of 10.5 million silver dollars, who would dislike having more money?

"How to do it?"

the chief of staff asked.

This is obviously fishing.

"Dispatch the heavy artillery battalion."

"Let the artillery director of the 129th Division personally take action."

The boss' tone was murderous.

"Battle Commander Zhao?"

The deputy general staff touched his chin.