My client Li Yunlong

Jinan base area,

Ze County.

"You actually killed him again?"

A packhorse merchant looked at the Xinhua Newspaper in his hand and raised his eyebrows.

The packhorse behind him was some industrial raw materials and machine parts that were urgently needed in the southern Hebei base area, and was heading out to buy them.

In order to increase the acquisition of machinery and equipment, an industrial base was established as early as possible, and the base area even began to purchase parts.

"What's done?"

"The Japanese Chief of Staff Watanabe?"

Another fellow businessman next to him asked curiously.

Before the packhorse merchant could answer, he immediately guessed.

Xinhua Newspaper's previous front-page headline stated that the Eighth Route Army claimed to kill the Japanese Chief of Staff Watanabe within a month. This incident caused a stir, and almost everyone in North China knew about it.

"Correct."

The packhorse merchant nodded.

"What's the stakes!"

The second businessman lamented:
“Isn’t this considered shitting on the head of the Japanese?!”

I can understand it for the first time.

It can be said that the Japanese are careless.

But the second time, the Japanese were cautious. It is said that Chief of Staff Watanabe had been hiding in the headquarters and could not get out, so he could still be killed.

I have to say that the Eighth Route Army was powerful.

"Aren't the Japanese coming back with revenge?"

"It seems that I have to avoid it recently."

The second one suddenly became nervous.

Although I don’t know how the Japanese Chief of Staff Watanabe was killed by the Eighth Route Army.

But the Japanese have strong troops and horses. Not to mention large warships, which can't be driven in, but they have all the aircraft and tanks. Once the army attacks, the Eighth Route Army will definitely not be able to stop it.

"It's better to learn some cultural knowledge and read more newspapers."

The first packhorse merchant didn't bother to explain and threw the newspaper directly to the second merchant.

The second businessman took the newspaper and read it, and his eyes suddenly widened.

What caught his eyes was a huge picture.

From an overhead perspective, black smoke billowed in the bustling city, but through the billowing black smoke, a collapsed and broken building and a huge crater could still be clearly seen.

As a businessman, he naturally knows the place in the photo - the Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters.

"A plane used by the Eighth Route Army?"

The second businessman swallowed.

"Correct."

The first businessman raised his head and spoke with pride:

"Ba Ye used a plane to kill the Japanese Chief of Staff on top of the North China Front Army Headquarters."

"Great!"

The second businessman once again said something powerful.

"No wonder, the Eighth Route Army has recently purchased machinery and equipment on a large scale to recruit talents."

It dawned on him.

"How about we join forces and import some machinery and equipment from abroad?"

The first businessman stated his purpose.

Cooperation,

Import equipment from abroad and then transport it to Jinan.

Importing complete machinery and equipment is extremely profitable. Unfortunately, although the import price of complete machinery and equipment is relatively low compared to the purchase price in southern Hebei, transportation is very troublesome.

After all, the areas surrounding the Eighth Route Army base were all Japanese territory.

It is very difficult to transport machinery and equipment in. It is really impossible for him to do it alone.

"Okay."

The second businessman readily agreed.

He was worried all the time.

The Japanese are calling.

There was no expansion of business.

If the goods fall into your hands, you will suffer a big loss. These days, in the Republic of China, no one except the Eighth Route Army buys machinery and equipment.

But now that I saw that the Eighth Route Army also had aircraft, and even bombed the Japanese headquarters in front of the Japanese, I immediately felt relieved.

···
"Is there any more penicillin?"

Ze County.

A base material sales point located near the bank.

American businessman,
He sold the first complete set of ordnance equipment to the base area, and so far, Mr. George Galvin has the largest transaction volume with the base area among a single businessman.

This time, he personally came to the Jinan base area and went to the material procurement office and asked to buy penicillin.

"I want as much as I want."

"We still have a lot, but we need to pay with second-generation Jinan coins, and buy in bulk for 2,500 yuan a bottle."

the staff member answered.

"Second generation Jinan coins?"

George Galvin, who was originally overjoyed, then frowned.

He really doesn't have much of this currency.

I only exchanged a few thousand yuan for daily consumption.

At present, the Eighth Route Army has not officially opened the channel to exchange silver dollars or US dollars for new Hebei Nan coins. On the official market, only second-generation Jinan coins can be exchanged for silver dollars.

"Yes, the second generation Jinan coin."

The staff replied:

"Currently we are open to directly converting U.S. dollars into new Hebei Nan dollars."

“Can dollars be exchanged?”

George Galvin was overjoyed and asked quickly:

"What's the exchange ratio?"

"Three hundred U.S. dollars can be exchanged for two thousand five hundred yuan of second-generation Jinan coins."

The worker replied.

"Good, good, good."

The exchange amount delighted George Galvin.

"I exchanged it for three million dollars and used it all for purchases."

George Galvin went all in.

He earned $1.5 million through transactions with base areas and reselling silver domestically.

In just four months, his assets tripled.

Originally, he thought that the profit was terrible enough, and he planned to continue this business and make it bigger and stronger until he became a master and his assets were not as good as those in American politics.

But I didn't expect that there was a more terrifying business here. That incredible penicillin, according to tests at the Massachusetts General Hospital, can treat almost all infections. It is effective and fast, thousands and tens of thousands of times better than sulfa.

Today in the United States, a bottle of imported penicillin with five million units has been sold for $2,500 a bottle.

If several companies and companies had not developed penicillin, the price would probably be even higher.

As far as he knew, the penicillin produced by these companies and enterprises was burnt yellow due to process problems and had many side effects. It was completely unable to compete with imported products.

That's far away.

To this end, he not only used all his working capital of 1.5 million, but also mortgaged 1.5 million to purchase penicillin.

"Ok."

The staff smiled and nodded.

"How much penicillin do you have?"

Contrary to George Galvin's expectation, he thought that with three million dollars, he could purchase all the penicillin from one sales point, and he would need to transport goods from other places.

Currently, there are three places selling penicillin in southern Hebei.

But he didn't expect that within a few minutes, he would be able to get the goods together.

"Currently, the base supplies 100,000 bottles to the outside world every month."

Workers explained.

Although the independent group currently obtains the amount of penicillin, it can easily ship five million bottles a month.

But things are still expensive!

According to speculations by medical experts, taking into account the war factors, the demand in foreign high-end markets is about 150,000 bottles per month.

One hundred thousand bottles per month is perfect.

"One hundred thousand bottles."

George Galvin frowned.

At present, he is the only one selling penicillin abroad, and no one knows where he bought it.

In the southern Hebei region, this kind of penicillin is priced at US$450 a bottle. Even if purchased on a large scale, it will cost US$300 a bottle. No one cares about it at all.

But it can be expected that he won't be able to keep it secret for long, and a large number of businessmen will definitely come to buy it next.

Unfortunately, he only has $3 million in capital.

···
at the same time.

"What is the exchange rate for silver dollars today?"

Shimen.

Suzuki Hoji was in a irritable mood.

Things were somewhat beyond his expectations.

Even though the empire was fully prepared, Chief of Staff Watanabe still died in the end, at the hands of Tubalu.

And he died at the headquarters, killed by Tubalu.

The six-story staff building, which was made entirely of reinforced concrete, collapsed completely. Even the chief of staff, who was still in the basement at the time, could not save his life.

When did Tubalu become so powerful?

Suzuki Fanji is really hard to accept.

But the reality is this, and Suzuki Fanji has to accept it, so he is very upset.

"One to eight."

The subordinate replied.

Since the southern Hebei region began to depreciate the silver dollar many times, Suzuki Fanji asked several times a day for the latest exchange rate of new southern Hebei coins for silver dollars.

After all, his promotion to major general was all due to the tens of millions of dollars he earned for the imperial military through economic means and silver dollar transactions.

Although he didn't understand why Tubalu would depreciate the silver dollar.

"It's lowered."

After hearing the data, Suzuki Fanji frowned.

A few days ago it was still 1 to 8.5, but now it has dropped again.

why?
What is the purpose?
Although it is advantageous, it is still difficult for Suzuki Fanji to understand, just like the outdated machinery and equipment that Tubal Road continues to import, it is still difficult for him to understand.

"It's a good thing anyway."

Suzuki Fanji couldn't understand, so he stopped thinking about it.

Anyway, it's a good thing for him and the empire.

The more Tubalu's silver dollar depreciates, the higher his profit will be, and the more the empire will profit.

"Increase the acquisition of silver dollars."

He gave the order.

···
"One to eight?"

the other side.

Ishihara Wan'er, who was also in Shimen, also received news that the silver dollar had depreciated again.

"What is their purpose?"

Ishiwara Kanji does not think that the reason is simply economic.

Tubalu is a powerful force;

After Watanabe was killed and killed in front of the Locust Army, Ishihara Wanji made this judgment.

The economic means of a powerful force must have other purposes.

He began to analyze in detail:
"Originally, the silver coins in southern Hebei, or in other words, the silver coins in the entire Tubal Road base, are about half lower than those in the international market."

"One hundred silver dollars in southern Hebei can only be exchanged for thirty U.S. dollars, but in the international market, one hundred silver dollars can be exchanged for fifty. The empire went directly to the U.S. Treasury Department and paid some other prices, and even one hundred silver dollars could be exchanged for sixty U.S. dollars. price for sale.”

“If the silver dollar continues to depreciate, wouldn’t the empire gain more profits?”

"And it reaches nearly ten million US dollars every month. For this amount of funds, even the Navy..."

"navy!"

Ishihara Wanji suddenly thought of the reason.
Although the Army gained profits, this amount of funds was actually obtained from transactions between the Imperial Headquarters and the American Treasury.
Due to national policy,

Even if the top brass of the Army objected, most of the funds were actually invested in the Navy.

More than 70%.

The navy comes first,

This is the national policy of the Japanese Empire.

For a country with a narrow territory and facing the sea, it is an inevitable national policy.

In order to avoid irritating the United States, even if it could not invest in the production of new ships, due to the stimulation of various advanced weapons of the Eighth Route Army, the Navy began to vigorously research new technologies - new artillery, new aircraft, new engines, and increase aircraft production capacity.

Due to a large amount of capital investment, the Zero's production capacity is higher than expected, and the next generation model is also invested in research and development.

as well as,

Mass training of new pilots!

Although it was kept strictly confidential, he knew that the Navy's new batch of new pilots would number up to 2,000 people, and it was expected that the Navy would prepare to train 15,000 pilots.

Could it be that after the navy becomes stronger, it will come to North China and attack Tubal Road?

Although the empire focuses on the mainland,

But we will never and cannot give up the interests of Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

This is something that even the current Prime Minister, General Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, who is known as the lackey of Britain and the United States, firmly knows.

and so!
Be a well-fed Imperial Navy.

What will happen when Millijan, who holds the reins of the empire's resources, becomes increasingly tight?
During this process,
What role will the North China group play? (End of chapter)