Early the next morning, Chief of Staff Ye left with me, and Wang Lung also sent a battalion of soldiers of the special regiment to follow, so as to protect the safety of Chief of Staff Ye at any time, and when Chief of Staff Ye arrived at the headquarters, the soldiers of the special regiment were returning. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When Chief of Staff Ye left, he didn't forget to tell Wang Long to be careful.

To be honest, if you don't move, it's fake, Wang Lung nodded hurriedly and said I know.

After Chief of Staff Ye left, Wang Lung came at leisure.

Most of the things of the legion Wang Lung can't control, only when there is an important battle, Wang Lung will make some speeches, otherwise Wang Lung will train himself, and study the current surrounding situation and the situation of the enemy and the enemy at the headquarters.

After about 10 days, Wang Lung received a letter from the devil stationed in Fengzhen, saying that he wanted to make the first transaction with Wang Lung.

"Commander, I just got the news that the devil has sent someone over, and he will soon come to the place where we connect, what do you see!" Xuan Yi walked up to Wang Lung and whispered to Wang Lung.

"Oh, it's early!" Wang Lung heard it, it's only been a few days, and the devils are looking for themselves, it seems that these devils are very short of money!

"Xuanyi, you say, are these devils crazy because they lack money, ah! That's how much, they're going to trade with us. Wang Lung asked Xuanyi.

"Hehe, Commander of the Corps, don't you know the devils of the Fourth Division? In their eyes, rich is the master! Saying that we are now at war with Japan is causing a huge change in the economies of both countries.

Although the devils now say that they have an advantage on the battlefield, the devils also have their weaknesses, that is, their population, the population of the devils is only how large, and the devils are not enough to swallow elephants, so the devils have to recruit a large number of soldiers in the country, and the soldiers who are levied are all young and middle-aged, which leads to economic recession and rising prices in Japan.

And the soldiers of the Fourth Division are all from Osaka, Japan, and Osaka is a famous commercial center, in Osaka, Japan, almost everyone can do business, which is inseparable from their childhood experience.

It is said that in Japan at that time, businessmen were originally regarded as a lowly profession, so the Japanese emperor and the cabinet added heavy taxes to businessmen, making these people miserable, so in Osaka almost all opposed the cabinet and the upper echelons, not to mention that the emperor was important, to put it mildly, as long as you have a front now, you let them buy the Japanese emperor, they will do it. Xuanyi said slowly.

"yes!" Wang Lung said with a little sigh.

"Commander, the devil is in such a hurry to make a deal with us, which means that the price of the devil has risen again in China, so he is so anxious." Xuanyi analyzed.

"Well, it's possible, let's go, Xuanyi, let's go and see." Wang Lung said to Xuanyi.

The two of them rushed to the place where they traded with the devils.

Although Genichi's analysis is not entirely correct, it is similar, and Japan has been reorganized from a state of semi-war to a state of full-scale war due to the beginning of a full-scale war of aggression against China.

Although it is said that the devils have plundered a large amount of resources from China, due to the gradual reduction of the labor force and the young labor force, Japan has no choice but to let teenagers, women, and the elderly work, which has prompted the rapid production of some war-related items, while the civilian daily necessities have been greatly reduced, and the civilian goods are more expensive than the military goods.

Classified as a capital goods industry in Japan's Ministry of Metal Materials, Optics, Engineering, Shipbuilding, Vehicles, and Chemical Industries, plus some heavy industries (i.e., pig iron and crude steel), the share of the capital goods portion of the entire manufacturing output in 1937 was roughly 51 percent in Germany, 48 percent in the United States, 44 percent in the United Kingdom, 40 percent in Japan, 39 percent in the Soviet Union, and 37 percent in France and Italy.

Beginning in the first half of 1938, the Japanese authorities proposed to "nourish the war with war" in China, that is, to plunder on the spot to solve the problem of military funds, but the frontal battlefield of the first army has been fighting a stalemate, and the rear of the Japanese army has been burning with the flames of guerrilla warfare led by the Chinese Communist Party, its lines of communication have been destroyed everywhere, and most of the plundering plans cannot be realized.

At the beginning of the second half of the year, the Japanese economy began to decline, and plundering could no longer make up for consumption. The war of aggression against China greatly affected Japan's exports, and in 1938 the trade volume fell by a quarter, which naturally dealt a blow to the economy dependent on foreign resources.

According to the calculations of the Japanese economic circles, in 1938 Japan's real output value reached the peak before the Pacific War, and then it declined year by year, and the apparent increase in output value was mainly due to the growth of the military industry, and the civilian industry was already in a state of stagnation and decline.

The all-out war of aggression against China lasted only half a year, and on April 28, 1938, the Japanese government began to implement the rationing of consumer goods by promulgating the "Basic Policy for the General Mobilization of the National Spirit".

Japan was further reducing civilian use and concentrating financial resources on the development of the military industry, emphasizing the "national way of life in extraordinary times" at that time, and also put forward several mandatory requirements for residents: prohibiting people from giving gifts to each other; It is forbidden to hold private banquets; Luxury clothing is prohibited; We prohibit indiscriminate waste and encourage citizens to use their surplus money for savings.

At this time, the Japanese government only provided 330 grams of rice and barley, the staple food of the residents, and ordinary people relied on potatoes and other miscellaneous grains to avoid starvation, and some people began to enter a state of malnutrition.

Japan's economy is declining day by day, and it has further emphasized "frugality and public service" to compress the civilian economy. In the name of saving fuel, the government also forbade bathing at home, but only in large pools in bathhouses.

In order to collect metal, most of the iron street lampholders on the streets of Japan were removed and replaced with wooden poles, and the police also searched every house for iron doorknobs and other items, and even allowed only one pot and one iron bucket in each house.

As the war intensified, the daily ration of the Japanese population dropped to 300 grams, another 20 percent, miscellaneous grains were hard to come by, and the prices of food on the black market were extremely high, so that ordinary Japanese people tasted hunger. The Japanese authorities tightened the belts of the common people by fascist means, and the people's complaints overwhelmed the cheers.

Although the Japanese military and civilians only heard about the "outstanding military exploits" on the radio, what they saw was the "notice of war death" and the increasing number of wounded soldiers who had returned, and their lives were becoming more and more miserable.

The supply of the Japanese army was also getting worse and worse, and most of the overseas troops were ordered to "live on their own", that is, to solve their own provisions. After the war, according to the Japanese veterans' recollections of the situation in the later stage of the Chinese battlefield: Most of the troops fighting outside the country were able to eat enough because they were able to loot the people on the spot, and the rear hospitals could only drink gruel and not much medicine, and most of the wounded and sick soldiers went in waiting for death.

According to many people, the number of deaths in the Japanese army's hospitals has exceeded the number of battlefield deaths, resulting in most of the lightly wounded soldiers and sick people in the troops not wanting to be hospitalized and insisting on following the action, so that they can still have something to eat if they are taken care of by their comrades.

According to the memories of Chinese veterans of the Anti-Japanese War, in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese corpses on the battlefield still had cowhide shoes on their feet, and there were also candy, canned meat, dried salted fish, compressed biscuits and "combat power bread" that were rare in Chinese soldiers.

At the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the corpses of the devils on the battlefield wore broken rubber shoes on their feet, and only dry food was snatched on the spot in their backpacks. As Japan waged a protracted war of aggression against China, it had to expand its armed forces again and again, and the loss of manpower became increasingly serious.

During the war, Japan's agricultural production was mainly based on manual labor, and the level of industrial automation was also low, requiring a large number of people to produce the same amount of industrial products and food. Although Japan's human resources were not small, after the war began, it felt that there was a shortage of troops, mainly because it could not requisition technical personnel for key positions, and the losses on the battlefield were also increasing.

All this illustrates the current situation in Japan, and 39 years later, Japan is even worse and miserable.

As the war progressed, the total number of Japanese troops increased to 3.8 million, and because skilled workers could not be recruited, they began to forcibly recruit 17-year-old junior high school students this year. Japan carried out a general mobilization for the "decisive battle on the homeland", and the conscription period was further relaxed to 16 to 45 years old, and the height requirement was reduced to 1.46 meters.

By the end of the war, the Japanese military had not only carried out thorough mobilization, but also had incorporated 28 million people, including men between the ages of 15 and 60 and women between the ages of 17 and 45, into the "National Volunteer Combat Corps." The Japanese military department openly put forward the slogan of "100 million total jade pieces," saying that if the "decisive battle" fails, the 70 million Japanese on the mainland, 30 million Koreans under colonial rule, and Taiwanese, China, will die together.

Seeing this frenzied and stupid slogan, even Major General Takayoshi Tanaka, who was known as the "conspiracy general" and was notorious, ridiculed the head of the military department, saying that in the history of the world, there has never been a nation that fought to the last man.

The enormous elimination of material and human resources made Japan reach the point of national bankruptcy in the later stages of the war. In 1944, Japan's military spending reached 98.5% of the national income, which is equivalent to using the country's income to fight the war.

In 1945, the Japanese government's military expenditure budget exceeded 80 billion yen, which was more than twice the national product. In fact, it is impossible for any government to pay such a large proportion of military spending, because after all, the country still has to maintain a military industry and a minimum of subsistence, and the only solution is to borrow or issue money indiscriminately.

After 1944, no one bought the public bonds issued by the Japanese government, because the people's remaining savings were used to purchase scarce goods on the black market.

As a result, in addition to wantonly plundering in the occupied areas, the Japanese authorities also resorted to inflation to settle their fiscal expenditures, for example, in 1944, the domestic inflation rate had reached more than 125 percent, and in the occupied areas, they even issued "military bills" without credit.

During the war, wages were frozen again, and the purchasing power of 1944 was only 40% of that of three years earlier. In 1945, Japan's inflation rate increased even more sharply, and the more serious problem was that the people could not buy anything with money, and the ration of daily necessities was seriously insufficient.

After Japan's surrender, the exchange rate set by the US occupation forces was 300 yen to 1 dollar, which depreciated to 1/100 of the pre-war value, but the government only repaid the public debt according to the original currency value, and most Japanese people almost became abject poverty for a time, and deeply tasted the bitter fruits of the war of aggression.

On the eve of Japan's defeat, most of its domestic factories were shut down due to the interruption of raw material supply, and production did not reach 40% of normal demand. If another winter continues, the finance official said, "there will be only two kinds of people left in the country — the dead and the dying." '100 million total jade pieces' is really going to come true! The Emperor was well aware of this situation, and later openly admitted in his "Edict of the End of the War" that "if the war continues, it will inevitably lead to the destruction of our nation." "The eventual defeat of Japan, which started by war and plunder, was the result of the joint efforts of the international anti-fascist coalition, but the point of its decline began precisely with the quagmire of protracted war on the Chinese battlefield.

History has proved that it is a clever strategy for a weak country like China to confront a strong enemy, to hold back the opponent by persisting in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and to drag the enemy to the end of the lamp. China's protracted war of resistance and the international anti-fascist allies coordinated with each other, so that the invincible Japanese aggressors were finally unable to fight any longer and could only accept surrender.