Chapter subtitled: The Sea Supermarket That Makes Sea Knights Very Happy

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Pablo Escobar, who was named one of the 7 richest people in the world by Fortune magazine. Although he is known as a major South American drug lord, it was during World War II that he and his Metroon Group really made their mark. (Author's note: That's right, it's not Medellín but Metro.) ）

In the 40s of the 20 th century, war clouds were gathering over the Pacific Ocean, and Japan and the United States were engaged in the largest naval and air war in human history. Every day, countless ships, supplies and people are swallowed up by this ocean. The soldiers of the two countries participating in the war are under the threat of death at every moment, and they have to carry out all kinds of difficult and arduous combat missions, so one can imagine how great their psychological pressure is.

However, due to the constraints of the times and the lack of in-depth research on the psychology of war, the logistics departments of these two countries have devoted themselves to delivering war materials to the front line, but have completely neglected the spiritual life of the soldiers on the front line.

The Japanese soldiers relied on the "Armored Chicken Anfei Talife" and comfort women, but due to Japan's limited transportation capacity, the supply of these two was not fully guaranteed.

As the United States, which is far more powerful than Japan, their soldiers are better, and in addition to leisure magazines and mahjong cards such as "Window of the World" and "Attic", they can also return home regularly for vacation. However, as the war intensified, the service hours of combat personnel at all levels were greatly extended, and even their leave was forcibly canceled.

That's when METRO Group came into being. In fact, the name "Metro" comes from the name of Pablo's first integrated supply ship.

The 10,000-ton merchant ship was affectionately known as the "Super Market" by U.S. soldiers because of the coveted goods of front-line soldiers and commanders.

All kinds of fresh vegetables, meats and fruits from South America made American GIs who were tired of eating canned food, especially SPAM, pay their salaries without hesitation, knowing that the price of food on the Medron was dozens of times the purchase price.

Psychotropic drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, coca leaf, afrong and even conch have greatly alleviated anxiety among frontliners. As a result, even some of the rank and file commanders welcomed the Metro's arrival, and later PACOM turned a blind eye to it.

There were even more enthusiastic female staff on board, and these really enthusiastic Latinas emptied the last nickel on their bodies, so much so that during the Pacific War, grassroots soldiers in various parts of the U.S. military staged strikes demanding pay increases.

It should be mentioned here that in wartime, the front-line soldiers of the U.S. Army can get four times their usual salary, but even the soldiers who save in peacetime will feel that they may die tomorrow, so why not enjoy it now?

Because of the Metro's popularity, her sister ships "Carrefour", "Agribusiness", "7-11" ...... There was also the "Wal-Mart" that caused the "Wal-Mart Incident" in the future, and soon appeared in the Pacific Ocean.

Money can be channeled, and Pablo Escobar quickly caught up with the Japanese. However, the Metro's deal with the Japanese military is even uglier. They paid for all sorts of "waste money" from American front-line soldiers, and then sold them to their enemies.

As Metro's business grows bigger and bigger, the level of US troops involved is getting higher and higher. There is an account that even the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Theater of Operations, General MacArthur himself, and his ex-wife, Madam Louis Cromwell-MacArthur, were involved. (Author's note: The two did divorce later.) ）

However, due to the implementation of the wartime information secrecy law, none of these scandals have been reported in the press. Most of the secret congressional investigations into them have also come to naught.

It was at this time that the "Wal-Mart incident" exposed the ugly deals in the Pacific to the world.

Here's how it happened, at that time, the 25,000-ton Wal-Mart, the largest integrated supply ship of the Metro Group, was secretly repairing in the waters near Semarang.

After the renovations were completed, the ship was intercepted by the Anglo-Dutch joint patrol fleet, which was required to board the ship for inspection. Later, it was revealed that the British had received a tip that the "Wal-Mart" was on its way to provide logistical support to the German submarine forces in the Indian Ocean.

The "Wal-Mart" not only refused to carry it out, but even explicitly asked for help from the outside world. It did not take long for a detachment of Japanese high-speed destroyers to arrive at the site of the incident and take the lead in firing at the Anglo-Dutch fleet.

Just as the two sides were fighting, an aircraft carrier group from the U.S. Fourth Fleet also arrived. Strangely, instead of firing at the Japanese fleet, they "persuaded" both sides to stop fighting. Their method of persuasion was to send carrier-based aircraft to drop training bombs on the Anglo-Dutch fleet.

The British and Dutch had no choice but to retreat, but on the way to retreat, they were suddenly hit by a torpedo and quickly caught fire and sank, and the entire crew of the fleet died in the sea before they could even abandon ship.

The torpedoes were fired by two German submarines, and the two sea wolves also surfaced in the open air later.

So the most bizarre event in the history of World War II happened, the American aircraft carrier fleet, the Japanese destroyer detachment, and the German submarine force not only did not fire at each other, but happily gathered near the "Wal-Mart". It is said that the senior commanders of the three countries also had a sumptuous dinner on the supply ship.

What they didn't expect was that there happened to be a British submarine in the nearby waters, and the captain of the submarine also brought a portable camera to record the whole incident in its entirety.

And the naval officer, who had a strong sense of justice, in addition to informing his superiors in the Royal Navy, also gave a copy of the film to British journalists. So without waiting for the British government to respond, the "Wal-Mart incident" was published in The Times.

It is conceivable that public opinion around the world is in an uproar, and people from all walks of life have demanded explanations from the governments of these three countries. At this time, however, some peaceful anti-war activists acted as apologists for the incident.

In particular, Mr. Yuan Yanqian, a well-known anti-war person, jumped up and down (crossed out here) and ran around loudly declaring that the "Wal-Mart Incident" showed the noble spirit of the knights of the Three Kingdoms Sea, and that the soldiers who participated in the incident should not be punished, but should also be praised.

Since the "Famine Orphan Girl" incident, the British press has always been quite hostile to Mr. Yuan, and they have come up with information that they don't know where to go, claiming that the Metro Group is actually the white glove of Tianren Shipping under Mr. Yuan's name.

Naturally, Mr. Yuan Yanqian refused to show weakness, and ridiculed the Anglo-Dutch fleet as pirates of the new era who trampled on the status of neutral countries, and they were the inheritors of the spirit of piracy in the Royal Navy.

A war of words across the Atlantic broke out.

Later, all three governments issued official statements, which were similar to each other, saying that their naval forces had rushed to the scene of the incident after receiving a clear telegram from a neutral ship calling for help. They all found out that the Anglo-Dutch fleet was engaged in piracy, so they carried out the expulsion by "peaceful" means. Unexpectedly, the Anglo-Dutch fleet counterattacked brazenly and had to sink them for self-defense.

President Roosevelt also made a public speech on the "Wal-Mart incident" on the radio, saying that the navies of the three countries involved in the incident were all gentlemen with humanitarianism, so this was a beautiful talk, not a scandal.

The sentence in the speech, "We are enemies, we are human beings." "The most popular. It is rumored that his speech was written by Mr. Yuan Yanqi.

In any case, the governments of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands later died down, and the "Wal-Mart incident" caused a stir and then fell silent.

After this incident, the METRO Group carried out their "comprehensive supply" business in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean more openly, and naturally it also made a lot of money, so it became one of the top five shipping giants in the world after the war. ”

—Excerpt from "Pablo and His Medellon Group"

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Murong didn't dare to take credit, this brain hole came from ...... I forgot which patient didn't turn to that post, so come out and claim it yourself.