Chapter 31 Development Plan for Northern Myanmar
Roosevelt was in various considerations, and promised to speed up military aid and try to help China build a basic military industry, which made the veteran taste the benefits of being cheeky, and if he had been thinking about it before, he would never have had such a rich return, and he had to admire Wang Hanzhang again.
And the British are a little overwhelmed, India is the lifeblood of Britain, without India there would be no British Empire, can it rely on barren Africa!
Britain has not had time to pursue Wang's actions in northern Burma, and if it is just a one-sided statement from the Chinese side, he can choose to ignore it, but including Stilwell and the US government, as well as the Chinese government, are stockpiling supplies and appear to be preparing for the situation to deteriorate. Britain also had to believe.
However, the squadron only sent an ambiguous piece of information, India is so big, how can I defend it! The British were depressed, and now the main forces were all in Europe to defend against Germany or to fight the Germans in North Africa.
And Wang Hanzhang is also this purpose, if the British feel a strong crisis, then there is no way to pose a threat to him in Burma, as long as Wang Hanzhang is given a period of time to fully take over Burma, then there will be no fear of the British in the future, Wang Hanzhang will completely eliminate those pro-British forces during this time.
And now Wang Hanzhang has accepted Chinese refugees to come to Burma to open up the wasteland to survive, a lot of big things happened in 1942, but for ordinary people, they are most concerned about survival, and this year Henan happened.
Wang Hanzhang didn't know much about this period of history and didn't know what to do, but he had a bit of territory now and felt that something should be done.
Henan *** occurred from the summer of 1942 to the spring of 1943, Henan suffered a major drought, and most of the summer and autumn crops failed. After the great drought, there was another plague of locusts. The famine spread to 110 counties in the province. It is estimated that 3 million people in Henan Province, with 10 million people, starved to death, and another 3 million people left Tongguan to become displaced people.
Since 1941, Henan, which is located in the Central Plains, has experienced drought, and the harvest has been greatly reduced, and in some places it has even been "cut out", and farmers have begun to eat grass roots and tree bark. By 1942, the year-long drought worsened, when the grass roots were almost dug up, the bark of the trees was almost stripped naked, and the victims began to die in large numbers.
Now that it is August, the famine has begun, which is why Wang Hanzhang hopes to control Myanmar as soon as possible, because the economy of the northern region here has not been damaged, and the rice cities of Myanmar are harvested three times a year, and Wang Hanzhang can collect a lot of grain to save more victims.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the people who did not want to be slaves fled to the national control area, and there were many in Yunnan.
In addition, he discussed with Chiang Kai-shek to slowly relocate the victims to Burma for resettlement, and Wang Hanzhang would pay all the expenses, of course, Wang Hanzhang did not have the money to pay, Wang Hanzhang just tried his best to ensure that these victims could arrive in Myanmar before starving to death.
It is a huge project to relocate the victims thousands of kilometers to Myanmar, especially now that the transportation is not convenient, coupled with the lack of money, and there is also the need to guard against devils and traitors, which makes it even more difficult to immigrate.
Wang Hanzhang first exchanged views with Chiang Kai-shek, and Wang Hanzhang did not say much, but just asked Chiang Kai-shek to help and try not to let his compatriots starve to death. Wang Hanzhang knows that it is useless to accuse, China's officials from ancient times to the present are all high-minded, they are willing to help you, help you, if you don't want to, you can't do anything to him, if you fall out with them, they will definitely not care about the life and death of the people, and even if you want to do something, they will stop you, Wang Hanzhang can't guarantee how much role Chiang Kai-shek can play at this time.
Wang Hanzhang believes that if it doesn't work to talk well, then what he can do is also done, and he is starving millions of people to death, and he can't do anything about it.
But fortunately, Chiang Kai-shek expressed his willingness to move the displaced people to Burma, perhaps because he did not have to pay money and food, or maybe it was because so many displaced people were begging for food that affected him...... In any case, at least Chiang Kai-shek was willing to help.
Of course, Wang Hanzhang also made a little bit and said that he had transported 30 tons of grain to Chongqing, which was also the most, and now Wang Hanzhang did not control many places, which still received the materials that the British did not have time to transport, otherwise there would not be so much, after all, it had just taken over, and it was too late to collect taxes.
In addition, Wang Hanzhang now provides a small part of food to the expeditionary force, although it is not much, but it also allows the expeditionary force to see Wang Hanzhang's ability to do things, and everyone is trying their best to cooperate with Wang Hanzhang's policy, Wang Hanzhang provides additional food, that is, breakfast used to be a bowl of porridge and two steamed buns, so now after Wang Hanzhang provides dozens of tons, you can eat two bowls of porridge and one steamed bun, and it is strange that they do not support it.
In September 1942, Wang Hanzhang moved his headquarters to Myitkyina, Wang Hanzhang thought about it, China and Japan still have at least one big battle to fight in Burma, the situation is not optimistic, although the defeat of the Japanese is a foregone conclusion, but the grasshoppers after the autumn are not easy to provoke, when the time comes, Mandalay, Lashio and other places will definitely be bombed, and the local economy is afraid that the damage will be more serious.
Therefore, Wang Hanzhang planned to give priority to the development of Myitkyina and other places, and increase immigration here, and the whole of Myanmar would have a population of 60 million in later generations. Before the war, Myanmar had a population of 16 million. In later generations, due to the blockade of Burma, in fact, the economy was not necessarily much better, that is to say, everyone was good and the agriculture was the mainstay, and the area controlled by the expeditionary force should be fed by how to move 10 million people, so Wang Hanzhang dared to do it.
As for whether the migrated people would be killed by the Japanese in case the expeditionary force failed, that was no longer something that Wang Hanzhang was considering.
What Wang Hanzhang thinks is that these people have no financial resources, the government is powerless to help them, they rely on begging, and starving to death is a matter of a few days. If the expeditionary force really failed, then they would have lived at least a few more days, had eaten a few days of hot food, and died without regrets.
If he had to die sooner or later, Wang Hanzhang felt that everyone would choose to die in such a happy way. And Wang Hanzhang considered that the current situation is unclear, the expeditionary force is not a foregone conclusion, and the probability of whether it will fail and whether it will succeed in resisting the next wave of attacks by the devils is five to five.
Wang Hanzhang is thinking about the fact that after success, he is now immigrating these dying people, not only to them, but also to control Myanmar, this is what Wang Hanzhang considers, this belongs to the strategic level, for the sake of future generations, Myanmar must be controlled by the Chinese nation.
Immigration needs a lot of money, a lot of money, and Wang Hanzhang racked his brains to think of some way to make money. Myanmar has superior natural conditions and abundant resources, but despite this, in today's world war, especially today, Myanmar is also suffering from war. Wang Hanzhang really hasn't come up with any way to make money quickly.
Thinking about it, in addition to economic reform, Wang Hanzhang also released records, made a movie or something, and saw if it worked.
Wang Hanzhang didn't know any technology that could make money, otherwise he could go to the United States to get a patent and collect money, but unfortunately no, the only thing Wang Hanzhang could use to make money was the countless movies he had seen and the countless songs he had heard in later generations.
Especially movies, not to mention Hollywood in later generations, let's just say that the domestic box office is over 100 million at every turn, Wang Hanzhang doesn't need him to exceed 100 million, as long as he can earn tens of millions, he will be very satisfied.
As for the script, it is still difficult for Wang Hanzhang, how to say that he is also a person who has been working hard for a few years in 17k, and the number of words in the novel he writes is also millions of words, it is not difficult to write a script, just copy it.
While Wang Hanzhang was nervously trying to find a way to immigrate to make money, Japan after three months of nervous heartbeat, also built the island chain in the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese military finally breathed a sigh of relief, during this time they fought with the United States in the north of Australia, successfully diverted the attention of the United States, and bought precious time for building the defense of the Pacific islands, and at the same time, the aircraft carrier injured in the Battle of the Coral Sea has also been repaired, and it is not so easy for the United States to attack now.
And China did not take the opportunity to launch any decent offensive during this time, after learning a few tricks from Wang Hanzhang, Lao Jiang became a ghost, he knew that Japan must now give priority to defending the United States, so he will definitely transfer the elite divisions in China to defend the Pacific Ocean, so he will not touch that mold, if you want to fight, you have to wait for Japan to send the elite to the Pacific Ocean, and during this time China does need to accumulate materials. For many reasons, there was a rare calm in the Chinese battlefield after the Battle of Mandalay and the Battle of Midway, and the two sides seemed to have made an agreement.
The Japanese changed from attacking to shrinking the defense, and ** took the opportunity to repair the damaged fortifications, or change the fortifications from the new.
** This period of time also expanded the territory a lot, originally this year was the most difficult year for them to face the sweep, but due to the double defeat of Japan in Burma and the Pacific, the Japanese army had to give up the long-established sweep plan, hastily wrapping up the matter, the communist army also took the opportunity to recover the base area occupied by the Japanese army before, and some troops accidentally hit the Japanese army with a big blow.
Who told the Japanese to be busy and make mistakes in the chaos, but it is a great thing for China, which means that the strength of the Japanese army has weakened, and the strength of China has strengthened, regardless of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, as long as it can defeat Japan's military strength, it is good.