The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

"This is the greatest disgrace in the history of the empire. The incompetent Admiralty, from top to bottom, should commit suicide and apologize"

"The moth that wastes the wealth of the country, the chief culprit of incompetent cowards who smear the glory of the empire time and time again"

... The special fleet's attack failed, and a dozen large and small warships were sunk. More than 300 officers and soldiers were killed and injured, and more than [-] aircraft were damaged in battle, but they did not achieve any results. Can't hide it from the Japanese people, especially the Kanto Kansai Consortium, the Army and the Navy, who have been paying attention to the progress of the war.

After the news of countries' forcible intervention in mediating the war came, the Japanese headquarters knew that they had lost so badly this time. All four "Kaohsiung-class" heavy cruisers were sunk in battle. None of them could bear such a failure and loss.

At the five-phase meeting held urgently, Hayashi Mijuro, who replaced Sadao Araki, unceremoniously satirized the Admiralty as a bunch of moneybags, holding the highest appropriation from the empire, enjoying the highest treatment, but not a single meritorious service. , and returned to bubble *book* after repeated fiascos (I used to say that I was not prepared, so what about this time? But a large number of intelligence agencies in the empire were mobilized, and they prepared for three full months. It turned out to be like this, and there is no shame say what

Seeing that the slogan of "Heavenly Punishment of the Thieves of the Country" was shouted out, the exhausted Prime Minister Minoru Saito took all the responsibility on himself and resigned.

The old guys in the Senate are still very clear-headed, and they firmly disagree with guys from the army on the throne of prime minister. These guys will most likely not wait for the empire to fully prepare and the key immigration plan to enter smoothly. When China launches a war, it will inevitably be a mess

"Empire, we don't have so much money to start a war, now we have to see how to deal with the sanctions and criticisms of the big powers." The Minister of Finance, Takahashi Shikiyoshi, expressed his difficulties frankly.

Hayashi Mijuro and the disheartened Hirota Kouchi pondered over it, or let the navy clean up the mess by itself. Then, the Navy Minister Keisuke Okada took office, and most of the original team remained in office. They quickly concentrated their efforts on solving the pressure from various countries, and simply used this As an excuse, first suppress the group of junior officers who don't care about the sky falling, don't care about landslides and tsunamis, and just want to fight for their future on the battlefield

People these days are simple-minded and easy to deceive. They only say that because of the intervention and obstruction of the great powers, the navy's attack plan was not only unsuccessful but also suffered great losses. I believe that when the country's economy recovers in the future, it will rise with all its strength

"One day, the evil British and American ghosts and the hateful Western powers will trample on their heads with the iron hooves of the Great Japanese Empire to repay my shame today"

The transfer target was very successful. Not many people in Japan knew what China was shouting about. The news blockade and brainwashing were still very powerful. But looking back, Prime Minister Okada held a meeting and asked with a sad face: "Is there any good solution? ? Repeated failures have reached the limit of the endurance of the navy and the people”

Admiral Dajiao Censheng explained helplessly: "There is no good way to do this. Now is not an era when only cannons can win the battle. The threat of the air force is getting bigger and bigger. The root cause of our failure to win many times is that the fighter planes are not as good as the Chinese. Advanced and fast, this has led to a series of passive, this aspect must find a way to solve”

Keisuke Okada frowned and nodded cautiously: "Well, this is troublesome. So, is there any gratifying progress in the fighter plane we researched? It can't be more than a year, and there is no good news at all."

"There is no bubble *book* yet (" Dajiao Censheng shook his head melancholy, "Mitsubishi and Nakajima have been doing their best research, but our foundation is too weak, the previous reserves are not sufficient, and the progress is not optimistic. If we can get a Just set up a sample of the Chinaman fighter plane."

That's impossible. The two sides have fought so many times, and they have never gotten the wreckage of the advanced fighter jets of the Chinese Air Force, Boeing 218 and Hawker 3. They themselves are not uncommon. In fact, they are embarrassed to say a word. Did they figure it out by themselves?

"Then, what about introducing advanced fighter jets to Americans or Germans? It should be possible." Okada asked with staring eyes. For a long time, Japanese industry and military equipment have followed this path, and a small amount in the name of introduction Buy, then analyze and imitate, the greatest possible improvement, although most of them can't change any tricks

"The Americans refuse to sell it, saying that they have an agreement with the Chinese, and they cannot sell advanced weapons to the enemy."

It’s not that I haven’t tried it. The problem is, except for Curtiss, the fighter jets currently produced by other companies have not improved much in all aspects. Boeing’s broken 281 fighter jet was eliminated two years ago. Now major companies are busy with civil aviation, cargo and other military aircraft, and there are very few serious fighter jets. After all, this thing can’t come out just by blowing a breath. Materials, engines, aerodynamic layout, everything has to go through countless verifications

"The Germans seem to have some hope, but they didn't get much fighter jet technology from the Chinese. To be honest, they are also a proud nation like us. How can they accept technical support from the Chinese?"

"That's right"

A group of ri people don’t think this kind of self-promotion is disgusting at all. They subconsciously pull themselves on the same level as the Germans. After all, they are all representatives of the civilized world after leaving Asia and entering Europe. This is normal

Keisuke Okada sighed quietly: "That's it, that guy Yamamoto 56 has been talking about the expansion of the naval air force, and he will be in charge this time. He is very unhappy."

Of course, Yamamoto 56 is not happy. Since he became the commander of the First Air Fleet last year, he has not waited for any meritorious service, but he has suffered an unprecedented defeat. Can he look good?And what he, a staunch fleet faction, despises the most is this kind of failure, which is simply intolerable.

It's a pity that Japan's economy and military are not strong enough, and now it has caught up with the crisis of the whole nation and has to emigrate with all its strength. better than

The Ministry of Finance is not particularly poor. In fact, there are still some gold mines dug out of Mount Fuji worth 200 million yuan a year. This is dry hard currency, and the Germans seem to be secretly seeking It is a rare element unique to the four northern islands of Japan, but it is very difficult to collect. It needs to be explored from the crater at a temperature of more than [-] degrees and extracted with steam. It is not an easy job.

Also, they are busy with a very important job of smuggling silver from China to the US to make money

The disheartened Japanese army did not go into a rage and sent out their own battleships to crush them. This made Lao Jiang very puzzled. This is not in line with the Japanese personality. I'm being reasonable with you, but I don't understand how Zhu Bin won this bad battle, and why the countries are helping him in this way. Is the university town and research institute really that important?

Lao Jiang, who started from gangsters, only believed in the all-in-one rogue political methods, and he didn't even think about decency. Not to mention this kind of big-power game, it was not his strong point. He was so uncomfortable that he was ordering a group of confidantes to think about taking away Zhu Bin's military power and completely destroying him. Song Ziwen rushed to stop it at this time and couldn't offend Zhu Bin.

Old Jiang Yin of the Nanchang camp stared at his brother-in-law fiercely like a knife with a sullen face, and asked in displeasure: "Why can't he get his military job? Just because he provoked Japan without authorization, the Japanese fleet Blatantly attacking our country's territory, provoking wars, causing international disputes, acting so recklessly, disobeying the orders of the central yang, all kinds of crimes are enough to chop off his head, you have too many benefits from him, so you have to distinguish between public and private Is it?"

Song Ziwen basically doesn't like him, he doesn't agree with his practice of playing tricks at every turn, but he doesn't agree with the "benefits" behind him. In the final analysis, the ten commercial and industrial entities are not for the stability of Jiang's country?

After complaining in his heart, Song Ziwen explained: "It's not for political and military reasons. Right now, because of the introduction of the U.S. Silver Purchase Act, all parties are frantically absorbing smuggled and exported silver, which has caused a serious shortage of circulation. If this continues, In less than a year, the great situation we achieved by abolishing the two and changing the yuan will be ruined."

"Are you serious?" Lao Jiang was taken aback. He is not a master who doesn't understand economics. He also helped Sun Dapao to set up a securities company at the beginning, but he paid several million and was almost forced to death. But Jia pays attention to financial issues, knowing that without money, he is no shit as the chairman of the committee, and a large group of people under him will have to disband

"Has it reached such a serious point?"

Song Ziwen nodded cautiously: "It's more serious than expected. This time the Americans bought silver with a huge intensity, at least hundreds of millions of yuan, while their domestic production is only tens of millions, and most of them have to be taken away from our country. , now Ri himself has secretly absorbed and stored silver and shipped it abroad, causing immeasurable losses"

"Hiss, then the customs will conduct strict inspections." He didn't really believe what he said, the customs?In name, you have the final say, but in reality, Japanese warships come and go at will, and he pulls Baiyin away, can you stop him? "Are our silver reserves not enough? From last year to now, it seems to have increased a lot"

Song Ziwen shook his head with a wry smile: "A drop in the bucket last year, the Bank of China had only 2000 million silver deposits, which is not enough for us, and it has already been exhausted now."

Old Jiang's expression changed a few times, and he finally figured it out: "Are you asking Zhu Bin to borrow money?"

Zhu Bin has money in his hand, how much money is there?Anyway, more than the four major banks. Now, with its gd venture capital and Citibank Shanghai branch, together with the alliance of major consortiums and business gangs' own banks and banks, they have formed a huge financial system that can compete with the four major banks. It is a huge sum of money to save and manage the wages of tens of millions of employees in hundreds of thousands of companies

As for the workers and engineers from the United States and Germany brought in by Zhu Bin, because they have to pay half of their wages in China, their salaries are as much as 300 to 1000 million U.S. dollars every week, which is equivalent to 4000 million silver dollars. It takes 10,000 million a month. Turnover, and those [-]+ foreign devils are very family-friendly. If the money is saved, it will add up to hundreds of millions a year. How much money does Zhu Bin have?

Not to mention, the Germans leaked the word that Zhu Bin has more cash in his hands than he imagined.

Speaking of it, it was Hitler with the mustache who felt that the cheap silver that was useless to him was not worthwhile. In September last year, he returned the amount of 5000 million yuan to Zhu Bin. At the beginning of this year, more than 1 million yuan was shipped in. The U.S. Silver Act was introduced, and the price of silver suddenly skyrocketed. He regretted it.

But the silver is in Zhu Bin's hands, do you still expect to get it back?Not reconciled, so I played tricks and let Song Ziwen know by beating around the bush

Lao Jiang is so depressed that he almost picked up his teacup and dropped it on the spot. Thinking that I, the leader of a country, actually wanted to borrow money from a private boss to get through the difficulties. It is cost-effective to sell it directly to the Americans. Why do you give it to you?And the additional conditions of the loan are very cheating, don't dare to play

Lao Jiang ran around the room anxiously like a mouse stuck in a bellows, pacing for a long time with his hands behind his back and his head drooping "peddling", Yin asked with a sullen face, "Is there no other way?"

Song Ziwen shook his head: "This is the best way, at least Zhu Hanchen will not make too outrageous demands, and this matter must be done quickly. If this hole cannot be plugged, all our hard work will be ruined. Once the issuance of legal currency next year will be very difficult. "

Lao Jiang was having a headache again. Issuing legal currency is of course a great thing. From real gold and silver to banknotes, at least ten times more banknotes can be issued, which is of great benefit to the economic stability and political situation. When weapons are used to suppress all forces, this link is linked together. The issuance of legal currency requires hard currency as the foundation. China does not have much gold, so it still needs to rely on silver.

"Then what conditions does Zhu Hanchen have? He won't lend hundreds of millions of taels of silver for no reason?"

Song Ziwen nodded calmly: "There are conditions. He can help us overcome this difficulty, and promises to provide no less than one billion basic funds for the issuance of legal currency next year, but requires his gd bank to obtain the right to issue legal currency."

"How is this possible? Private banks print legal currency, how can it be called legal currency? Isn't the country's economy going to mess up?" Lao Jiang hurriedly waved his hands and shook his head, it was just a joke

Song Ziwen added: "He can open the shares of gd bank to zhong yang bank, and all the currency printing and distribution are under our supervision, and there will be no amount of bad printing. In addition, we also need his technology to ensure that the legal currency will not been copied"

Lao Jiang's eyes straightened immediately, this temptation is too great, who doesn't know how much financial resources are controlled by the venture capital and banks under the gd group?How lucrative are the future rewards?That's a deal that can break the bank if one share is released! The whole world will be jealous, willing to give it to their own bank... and the one behind

Lao Jiang understands that Song Ziwen has nothing to say. That guy can provide the technology and equipment for printing legal currency, so it can be forged naturally. No one knows where the gd laboratory lair is. If you are in a hurry, that guy can figure it out by himself.

In addition, Lao Jiang is also thinking about another question. Once the four major banks controlled by his brother-in-law and a bunch of other relatives start issuing fiat currency, they don’t know if they can be stabilized. The possibility of spam is very high. If Zhu Bin intervenes, it will be the worst The finance and industry of his system will be stable, and the country's finances will not be ruined

"Oh, promise him"

Lao Jiang sighed helplessly, waved his hand and agreed, it's over, sanctions and suppression, let's talk (to be continued)

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