Chapter Twenty-Eight: Ease of Response

"Boss, Uncle Andy sent a telegram from the United States, the British are really unreliable, and the penicillin they produce has begun to be sold to the United States, Uncle Andy said that the British are preparing to fight a price war, which may affect the sales of our American pharmaceutical companies." Zhuo Fei, who was busy in the training camp in the dark, was urgently recalled by Angela, although the pharmaceutical factory in the United States is not as fast as counterfeiting counterfeit money, but it is a window of the umbrella company in the United States, and many Ruili urgently needed materials must be purchased and transported in the name of the pharmaceutical factory.

"I should be in a hurry, don't worry, Bayer's laboratory has developed a larger unit of penicillin in accordance with the process I provided, if the British really want to play a price war with us, then we will directly give up the small unit market and specialize in the production of large units of military medicine." Compared with the small unit of 50,000 units of medicine, the newly developed 100,000 units and 200,000 units of new drugs are the real money-making things. ”

What she was worried about was solved by her boss in a few words, and Angela was very unhappy about it, because of this telegram, she hadn't eaten a few meals. The betrayal of the British had long been expected by Zhuo Fei, and when he decided to cooperate with Bayer, Zhuo Fei had already left behind. After Bayer and the British negotiated the cooperation, Zhuo Fei handed over the process of 100,000 units of penicillin to Bayer, and thus obtained an additional profit from Bayer.

"In fact, the peak of penicillin sales has not yet come, Vivian has already reported that the German army's reloading speed has been significantly accelerated, and the reloading of new assault rifles has exceeded 30%, I think the Germans can't bear to do it. You'd better inform Andy now and tell him to stock up on penicillin as much as possible, as soon as the European war breaks out, the peak of penicillin's sales will come. ”

"But the British and the French have their own penicillin factories, and even if the war breaks out in Europe, it is impossible for Uncle Andy's hoarded medicines to be bought in England." Angela did not agree with Zhuo Fei's statement at this time, Bayer had already authorized Britain and France to build their own penicillin plants, and even if war broke out in Europe, Britain and France would not listen to the Germans to close their penicillin plants.

Angela's suspicion finally made Zhuo Fei laugh, "If there is no preparation, how can I persuade Bayer to authorize Britain and France, once the European war breaks out, Britain and France and Germany will be enemies of life and death." The core process of producing penicillin has always been in the hands of Bayer, and once the European war broke out, the Germans would tear up the cooperation agreement, and Hitler would never allow Britain and France to use penicillin to treat their wounded soldiers. ”

"Andy's pharmaceutical factory is in the United States, and no matter how long Hitler's hand is, he can't control Andy's pharmaceutical factory in the United States. Besides, we can smuggle penicillin into Europe, and the channels we have set up in England and France are not for nothing. In the name of transporting Jews, ships from the United States could easily enter the docks of England and France, and I don't believe your Uncle Andy would see the value in that. ”

When Zhuo Fei said this, Angela understood the ins and outs, but all this could only be proved until the outbreak of the European war. As the saying goes, the world is unpredictable, Angela pulled Zhuo Fei to check the progress of the hydropower station project, but she didn't know that the special envoy sent by the Japanese cabinet had secretly rushed to the UK. The resumption of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has aroused the vigilance of the Japanese Cabinet, and the various signs detected by the Special High School have made the Japanese Cabinet full of a sense of crisis and worry about the resumption of cooperation between the Nationalist Government and the Chinese Communists.

After the capture of Guangzhou, the Japanese army now controls almost all of China's seaports and sea outlets, and according to the information discovered by the Special High Division, the Japanese cabinet has determined that the Chinese government has wantonly imported war materials through the port of Yangon in Burma, and this time it sent a special envoy to the British mainland, and the Japanese wanted to persuade the British to close the port of Yangon through diplomatic mediation, so as to completely block the passage for the Chinese government to import war materials.

The successive victories on the battlefield in China have made the arrogance factor in the bones of the Japanese begin to swell, and Japan also has the largest naval power in Asia. At a time when the Japanese thought they were about to own all of Asia, they did not think that the British would dare to reject the Empire's proposal to blockade Burma. After the Japanese envoy arrived in London, he lobbied many members of the British Parliament, and after receiving the benefits from the Japanese, these members immediately put forward the matters proposed by the Japanese cabinet in the Diet.

When Zhuo Fei learned the news, it was already the fourth day of the Japanese envoy's arrival in London, and Chiang Kai-shek even summoned Zhuo Fei back to Chongqing for this reason. "Chairman, we don't have to worry at all, the Japanese lobbied the British to close the Yangon port and Burma roads, just to control our material import routes. But they forgot that the Umbrella Company had to use the port of Yangon to transport Jewish refugees, and even the British could not ignore the act of helping the refugees, otherwise the Jewish families in Europe would take advantage of it. Zhuo Fei, who rushed back to Chongqing, went to see Chiang Kai-shek as soon as possible, and he had to let Chiang Kai-shek settle down first.

"The British agreed to close the Burma roads, so let them go, and as long as the Umbrella Company can still transport Jews into the country by rail, the supplies we have ordered will be brought into the country, but not as easily as they were before." Zhuo Fei's explanation made Chiang Kai-shek feel at ease a little, as long as the materials from outside could still enter the country, otherwise the situation that he had just made up with the CCP would be ruined.

"Chairman, this is actually a good thing, and if the British are really going to close the Burma roads, we can make a diplomatic note to the British government as is customary. It was a foregone conclusion that the Japanese would swallow South Asia, and the British would not have imagined that the Japanese were also eyeing Burma, and I think they would definitely ask us for help if the Japanese attacked Burma and the British were defeated. When the time comes, we can push 625, otherwise, these damn British guys still think that it is the Manchu Qing Dynasty and they can do whatever they want with China. ”

Zhuo Fei's words made Chiang Kai-shek laugh heartily, and even Mao Zedong, who had just arrived here, also laughed, and the careful negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek in the past few days made Mao Zedong's attitude towards the Kuomintang also change. This will suddenly hear Zhuo Fei's words about to calculate the British, Mao Zedong laughed, "Xiao Zhuo, you may have to underestimate the British, although Britain is no longer the number one power in Europe, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse after all, the British have calculated that we can't start a war on two fronts, what can you do with others?" ”

"Don't forget, Sir, there is still a Germany in Europe, and once the Germans go to war, the British will be under much more pressure than we are." While Zhuo Fei refuted Mao Zedong, he habitually found a map to open. "According to the current quality of the German army's weapons and equipment, the French will definitely not be their opponents, and Britain and France will definitely not be in a position to be captured by the Germans."

"In World War I, Britain and France were the winners, and after World War I, Britain and France were also trying their best to suppress Germany, and the relationship between the Germans and them was like a mad cow seeing a red cloth, which can be regarded as endless. The Germans' latest tanks were among the best in the world today, and it was impossible for the Anglo-French forces to stop their attacks, and if the Anglo-French forces suffered heavy casualties and were desperately short of troops, they could only draw troops from the colonies to help the mainland. ”

Zhuo Fei's fingers swept across Africa and South Asia at one time, "These places are bound to be empty because of the transfer of troops back to the mainland, Africa, the Japanese can't go, but South Asia is different." Imagine if the British army in Burma was empty, would the Japanese take the opportunity to attack Burma? If it were me, I would definitely attack Burma at this time, and use Burma as a starting point to sweep away the countries of South Asia. ”

Listening to Zhuo Fei say that at this time, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong also reacted, and Mao Zedong continued Zhuo Fei's analysis and said, "The British lost Burma, but they can't draw up extra troops to fight back, they will definitely come to us for help." We need weapons and all kinds of supplies for war, and the British will use these as conditions for lobbying us, and when the time comes, we can open our mouths without fear that the British will not agree to our conditions. ”

Following Zhuo Fei's train of thought, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong seemed to have turned into black-hearted businessmen, hoping that the Japanese army would attack Burma immediately, while the British came to the Chinese government for help with a sad face. "The first army of the Wehrmacht has been integrated, and the recruits of the second army are on their way to Ruili, and according to our current progress, we will be able to complete the training of 120,000 recruits by August this year. At the moment, the British are preparing to block the roads in Burma, which has some impact on us, but in general, the problem is not too big. ”

"I think it's time to start a guerrilla war program behind enemy lines, and our umbrella company will set aside 10 million dollars as a guerrilla fund and issue a bounty order for enemy-occupied areas." Zhuo Fei's generosity had long been familiar to Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, and the guerrilla fund of 10 million US dollars was not a small amount of money, calculated according to the scale of 5,000 guerrilla soldiers, and divided equally among each guerrilla fighter, that was the share of 2,000 US dollars per person.

"This money is not for them, as long as the Chinese in the enemy-occupied area kill a Japanese soldier, the guerrilla fund will pay them 5 oceans, what do you think?" Will anyone go to the Japanese soldiers for a bounty? Zhuo Fei's whimsy made Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong look at each other, and said that this kind of game can only be played by the rich.