My client Li Yunlong

"Economic development is the last word!"

Taihang Mountains.

The deputy general staff walked leisurely and looked around at the scenery. Behind him, guards were holding horses.

Towering and Taihang,

These four words describe not only the danger and majesty of the Taihang Mountains, but also the poverty and hardship of the Taihang people.

Living in the dangerous Taihang Mountains, the land is barren, it is difficult to dig out anything for food, and transportation is very inconvenient. People in a village often never think of leaving home in their lifetime.

"really."

The division chief of staff who came with him nodded in agreement.

After the Hundred Regiment Battle,

The base area expanded and the population grew explosively. The Taihang base area alone controlled as many as forty-seven counties, large and small, and the total population reached five million.

With the influx of large numbers of disaster victims, the number is still increasing rapidly.

To this end, the administrative agencies of the base areas have made decisions to accelerate economic development.

After careful consideration, the Deputy General Staff decided to put down part of the army's work and began to focus mainly on the construction of the base area.

After three months of development,

Today, in the Taihang base area, more than 300 kilometers of new roads have been built, with an average of ten kilometers of construction per day, more than 1,000 kilometers of mountain and horse roads have been widened and leveled, and more than 1,000 water conservancy facilities have been built.

Thanks to the smooth transportation, the task of integrating administrative villages was successfully completed, and the government order to the countryside was completed.

So,
The base area is full of vitality.

"According to statistics."

The deputy general staff said:

"Currently, there are a total of 1,073 villages and 47 counties in the Taihang base area."

"The total population is 5.13 million."

"At present, agriculture, breeding, construction, etc. are the main economic structures. In November, the GDP reached 100 million."

"One hundred million!"

The division staff officer sounded emotional.

What is circulating in the Taihang Mountains is the second generation of new Hebei Nan coins.

One yuan can buy one pound of well-packaged imported grain, and about three and a half pounds of high-quality sorghum in bulk.

In other words, last month, the Taihang base area produced the equivalent of 100 million jins of imported grain and 350 million jins of high-quality sorghum.

Ten times that of last year.

Converted to U.S. dollars, this is equivalent to more than twelve million U.S. dollars.

You know, this is one month's worth of data.

The annual output value is US$1.5 billion.

Moreover, this is only the result of the development of the Taihang base area in less than half a year. With the investment of large amounts of funds, the construction of a large number of factories, the construction of farms, the reclamation of wasteland, and the construction of water conservancy facilities,
It is expected that the real estate value will double to $300 million per year.

The output value here still does not include farms directly operated in the base area.

as well as,

It does not include farms within the base area that are directly operated by the base area or the army.

And the effect of all this development is...

"until now."

The division chief of staff said:
"In the Taihang Base Area, there are 800,000 people participating in the militia, and 500,000 of them can maintain more than 80 hours of training per month."

Eighty hours of military training per month.

It is equivalent to eleven days of training in a new military camp, and the training items involve a full set of military subjects, formations, obstacle courses, leap charges, trench construction, and ideological education.

"Half a million!"

The deputy general staff sounded emotional.

Although participating in militia training, there is food subsidy, and it is calculated based on the training time.

But militia training is very difficult, far more difficult than farm work.

Moreover, with the economic development of the base area, the food subsidy is no longer as good as going to the road construction team or the water conservancy construction team, or even raising crops at home.

More than 80 hours of training time are allocated every month. Taking into account the distance, training intervals, formation time, ideological education classes, etc., in fact, the time spent on militia training every month is more than 100 hours. .

In fact, it is equivalent to joining the army.

And no military pay.

This part of the militia force can be used as supplementary troops at any time as long as the army needs it.

In other words, the Taihang base area with a population of just over 5.1 million has more than 20,000 armed brigades in addition to 40 main regiments with a total strength of 100,000 troops, as well as more than 20,000 public security policemen.

There are also 500,000 direct reinforcements.

These ones,

It is the direct effect brought about by the economic development of the base area and the improvement of people's living standards.

The people, support the troops with actions.

"correct."

The deputy general staff suddenly said to the division chief of staff:
"Ask Li Yunlong when the promised 50,000 mules will be delivered."

With the development of Taihang base area,

"it is good!"

The division chief of staff nodded.

····
"How terrible!"

at the same time.

Northern Review.

In a room within the headquarters.

Ishihara smiled and flipped through the information in his hand. This is all he has seen and heard in the three months since he traveled to Taihang, Taiyue, and the southern Hebei base area.

Through these personal experiences and surveyed information, Ishihara Kanji finally came to a conclusion.

Tubalu is a very terrifying force. "horrible?"

On the side, Deputy Ishihara Wanji was puzzled:
"Is Tubal Road scary?"

When Neiji Okamura came to power, Kanji Ishihara was immediately reused and appointed as the head of the Intelligence Section of the North China Front and the deputy chief of staff of the North China Front.

"Yeah, it's scary."

Ishihara smiled and sighed.

"General, why?"

The deputy was confused.

Although Tubalu is very powerful and has advanced weapons and equipment, not only are they small in number, but they are weapons and equipment from others after all, and their own strength is actually very poor.

"You graduated from Imperial University in Economics, right?"

Ishihara smiled and glanced at his deputy.

Thanks to Gangcun's attention, he was given real power and his deputy also became a popular one. Finally, the youngest son of an imperial lieutenant general was selected.

"Correct."

The deputy nodded.

"Then you should know that economy is one of the foundations of war."

Ishihara smiled and asked.

"You are right, economy is one of the foundations of war."

The deputy said:

"The reason why the Empire was able to conquer most of the territory of the Republic of China with overwhelming force in the early stages of the war was that the empire's economic strength was far superior to that of the Republic of China."

"It can mobilize more troops, develop and fully equip more advanced equipment systems, produce enough weapons, ammunition and supplies, and organize better logistics."

"In the final analysis, the core competition in the war is the economic capabilities of both sides."

"The Republic of China had more than six times the human resources of the Empire, but its own economic capabilities were unable to utilize this huge human resources that the world feared."

"And the reason why the empire is in the quagmire it is today is also because of insufficient economic capabilities."

"Although the empire has a mobilizable population of more than seven million and more than three million soldiers who can directly serve, its economic capacity is insufficient to produce enough materials and equipment to provide logistics supplies for so many troops."

"As a result, in reality, only more than one million troops could be mobilized to fight in the Republic of China itself, resulting in a serious shortage of troops."

"It was impossible to force Guozhou to surrender, unable to eliminate Tubal Road, and unable to completely occupy the Republic of China."

"If the empire had used all its strength from the beginning, mobilized more than three million troops, and put two million troops on the battlefield of the Republic of China, the war would have been over long ago."

"really."

Ishihara smiled and nodded and said:
"This is one of the reasons why I say the Eighth Route Army is scary."

"do you know?"

"Today's Eighth Route Army Taihang Base Area has a total population of about five million."

"They recruited workers to build roads in the rugged Taihang Mountains, connecting almost every mountain village."

"They have extensively promoted planting and breeding in rural mountain villages, raising cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and other livestock. At the same time, they have organized large-scale land reclamation, promoted the reform of agricultural production technology, and provided large quantities of agricultural products."

"In the county seat, open a furniture factory and a clothing and quilt factory."

"Chickens, ducks and other commodities produced in rural areas are sold to the Eighth Route Army troops and then to cities."

"In addition to meeting urban needs, goods and clothing produced in cities are also sold to rural mountain villages, thus forming an economic cycle."

"Economic Cycle."

The deputy's tone suddenly became serious.

Once the economic cycle is established, it means that this region is developing rapidly and accumulating capital rapidly.

In other words, today's Tubal Road base area is rapidly accumulating capital.

Agricultural production efficiency is also improving.

In this way, mobilization capabilities can be greatly improved.

He has studied that, in fact, based on the productivity within the control area of ​​Tubal Road, out of a hundred people, only two people can be mobilized to join the army. If there are more, there will be serious consequences.

but now··

This number has probably been increased to the point where only ten people can mobilize one person.

"Although today's Eighth Route Army can suppress the empire and expand a territory that is completely isolated from the empire's influence within the empire's control area, it has almost endless funds to spend because of external assistance."

"But they are quickly turning external assistance into their own strength."

Ishihara smiled solemnly.

"But General, I'm a little confused."

The deputy asked:

"According to information from the southern Hebei region, what they import are scattered, outdated machinery and equipment, and they are not even systematic."

"With these equipment, we can only build some light factories to produce soap, clothing and other light industries."

"Although according to intelligence, we know that the Tubalu have the idea of ​​building an industrial zone and a large arsenal, and they also plan to produce hundreds of thousands of tons of steel annually, and even have a detailed plan."

"But where did they get the machinery and equipment?"

"Only relying on garbage imported at ten times the price?"

“Where did the machinery and equipment come from?”

Ishihara smiled and snorted coldly:
"I don't know why they import these junk machines and equipment."

"but I know."

"The forces that assisted the Eighth Route Army gave the Eighth Route Army advanced empire decades of aircraft, radio stations, super large trucks, a large amount of weapons and equipment, and top foreign talent assistance."

"Is it difficult to provide a set of industrial machinery and equipment?"

"It's not difficult!"

the deputy replied.

This is also the reason why the Imperial Headquarters, at the expense of mobilizing the main divisions from the Eleventh Army, also promotes a large-scale sweep of North China.

Once the Tubal Road Arsenal is successfully constructed,
Then, the empire's plan for the Republic of China is over!
It is even possible that even Manchuria cannot be saved. (End of chapter)