Section 278 Rice commotion
"I feel like we're going west!"
Yang Chao pretended to hold a telescope. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"10 degrees to the east!"
Gong Mingde said in a deep voice, and his subordinates immediately began to get busy, the motor began to rotate, the tail rudder swayed, and under the thrust of the engine, the airship began to turn.
"I don't need 10 degrees, I think 3 degrees is enough."
Yang Chao corrected.
"3 degrees to the east!"
Gong Mingde didn't argue at all, because in his opinion, this was completely Yang Chao's play, he only wanted one, and that was peace, and this is what he, the commander of the Air Force, is doing now.
The airship continued to recuperate, barely seeing at first, and by the time it saw the Japanese land, it was almost dark, and then flew towards the port in its last view.
If it was in the past, their first wave of bombardment at night was somewhat accurate, because they often set off at dusk and could be assigned to the port after nightfall, in fact, night was the protection of the airship, not an obstacle.
But today there is wind in the sky, and this direction is not easy to grasp.
"See!"
The observers shouted, and they saw the lights on the ground.
Yang Chao also saw it, but he was very puzzled.
The Japanese are brightly lit, and you can vaguely see the outline of the building in the light, and the building is wider and simpler than ordinary houses, and you can see a factory at a glance, and you can even see a chimney.
"This is the arsenal of Nagasaki?"
Yang Chao asked.
It is said that it has long been investigated, this is an industry owned by the Mitsubishi chaebol, which is quite large, with an annual output of 300,000 rifles and nearly 1,000 cannons, and is one of the few large factories in Japan.
In particular, the chimney is used to exhaust the heat treatment boiler and is a very good landmark.
"My lord, I missed it."
Gong Mingde said with great certainty.
"How many times have you bombed?"
"It's been eight times, the effect is not good, and it has never been blown up!"
Gong Mingde was also puzzled, every time they could extinguish the lights of the factory, but when they observed it during the day the next day, they would find that the factory was still intact, so they could only bomb it one at a time, and they bombed it eight times this month, but it was never destroyed.
Yang Chao nodded, already thinking about it in his heart.
"Are the Japanese a little clever!"
The doubts in Yang Chao's heart are not unreasonable, because his navigation shows that the factory is not what he sees, and the result of navigation first makes Yang Chao wonder if the navigation is wrong, but that is impossible, the navigation will not be wrong, it can only be wrong, what you see is not what you think you see.
Yang Chao immediately figured out that the Japanese played a big trick, a simple magic trick, extinguishing the factory lights, and then building a fake factory nearby, just build it with wood or even waste paper, as for the big chimney, get a broken wooden barrel, and paint it in the dark night, the ghost can distinguish clearly.
"My lord, bombing?"
While the two were talking, the crew had already skillfully adjusted the airship, opened the speed brake, pulled the clutch, let the engine spin, and slowly suspended the airship over the target.
"No, no. I think I have to go a little further east? ”
Yang Chao immediately replied that 3 miles to the east is the location of the Japanese factory displayed by the navigation.
Gong Mingde didn't understand: "Why go east? ”
Yang Chao glanced at him: "Today, the east wind hangs, but the bomb will be affected by the wind." No wonder you can't blow up this factory even if you blow it up eight times. They all look illiterate, and they don't know anything about aerodynamics. ”
Yang Chao made an expression of 'I am cultured and I am proud', which made Gong Mingde angry, he graduated from Fuzhou Shipbuilding School, and his skills of reading, drawing, and driving were already at the captain level, and his uncle was going to train him to be a captain, but he was recruited by Yang Chao to the airship, and he did prefer to fly, but he was speechless when he was criticized for his professional skills.
"Still not giving orders?"
Yang Chao snorted coldly.
Gong Mingde was helpless: "Go east." ”
To the east, to the east, to the east.
Yang Chao has always asked to go east, but Gong Mingde has completely ignored it, anyway, this is to play with the leader, and he can't be serious.
"Okay, throw a bomb, and you will definitely be able to hit the Japanese factory!"
"Throw it."
Gong Mingde looked at the excited Yang Chao helplessly.
But in my heart, I slandered, this is all three miles, how much wind can blow a ton of bombs from 300 meters in the air for three miles?
The gasoline incendiary bomb was thrown down, and soon a fire broke out.
Yang Chao was very excited, but Gong Mingde was speechless, what was the big deal about the fire, he glanced at it casually, saw the buildings on the ground burning, and sighed in his heart that it was just shit luck, I was afraid that it would blow up to the houses, there are too many wooden structures in Japanese houses, and when they usually bomb, fires are not uncommon.
The three Japanese factories with brilliant lights did not have anything to do, which made Gong Mingde feel uncomfortable like a cat scratching, and sighed that this trip was in vain.
"Throw, throw it all!"
Yang Chao jumped to his feet and shouted.
Seeing the leader's excited look, Gong Mingde could only order to continue bombing, is it necessary to be so excited about this private house, those broken wooden houses of the Japanese can't even recover the cost of the bomb.
"What, a pound of rice! You are going to drink the blood of the people! ”
Keiko was suffering, and suddenly heard a parent crying in front of her, Keiko was in front of the line, there were only five people before her, and that parent was the third to receive rice, but I didn't expect that because the money was not enough, and the price of rice had risen again, I couldn't buy food for a meal and quarreled with the person who sent rice.
Keiko's heart also tightened, and touched the money bag hidden in her chest, which contained copper coins and silver coins, she knew that she couldn't buy much rice, she thought she could buy 3 taels, but now it seems that she can only buy 2 taels, and the child can't eat at all.
"No, I want rice, I want rice. My child has been hungry for a day, so I'm waiting for you to sell rice. Give me three taels, I want three taels! ”
The parent wailed and suddenly pounced on the rice bag, and the police immediately grabbed him, and the rice merchant who risked the rice to transport it was to protect the rice bag.
At this moment, suddenly everyone heard a loud noise,
Keiko was looking at the arsenal with frightened eyes, she couldn't imagine that the Chinese had found the location of the arsenal, the arsenal was on fire, and even if it was a factory, even if it was an arsenal, there were a lot of wooden buildings, such as dormitories for employees.
"Always-kun!"
Keiko shouted her husband's name in her heart, but she was selling rice in front of her, but she didn't dare to go to the factory to find her husband immediately.
On the one hand, she was on her husband in the factory, and on the other hand, she was on the children who were waiting to be fed at home, and Keiko dared to suffer at both ends.
The dock suddenly fell silent, everyone was attracted by the explosion, the woman suddenly woke up, pounced on the rice bag and forcibly dug up a bag of rice with her own small bag, and turned around and ran away while everyone else didn't notice.
The rice merchant reacted and shouted loudly, and the police immediately chased after him.
In the panic, the rice was scattered all over the ground, and the hungry yellow-skinned people behind them could not stand this temptation, and several people immediately threw themselves on the ground, desperately pulling the rice sprinkled on the ground into their own pockets, regardless of the mud and dirt stained by the rice.
Keiko was stunned for a moment when she saw this, and then she also pounced on the rice bag, she wanted to get the rice immediately, and then go to the factory to find her husband who was working overtime.
The rice merchants shouted loudly, and the policemen kept beating the old people and women in line with wooden sticks, but at this time they could not stop them at all, and those people would rather be beaten than grab rice, whether rich or not, because others began to rob, and even if they had money, they could starve.
"I'm not going to be transporting a grain of rice, not anymore!"
A Japanese man in a kimono and dressed in high-end clothes shouted as he was next to a Japanese police chief, and in front of him was a mess with only broken pockets and grains of rice that had been trampled into the dirt.
He was a successful businessman, a businessman who made a fortune in the war, and the Japanese became a golden, meaning nouveau riche.
When Nobuya Uchida started the European War, he still had only one broken ship, less than 20,000 yen in capital.
His scale cannot compete with Mitsubishi's huge chaebol that can still get government contracts and subsidies, so it has always been a small business.
After the outbreak of the war, the freight rate rose sharply, and Uchida seized the opportunity to take the risk of accepting orders from the British to help the British ship supplies from the British colonies in Southeast Asia to Britain at a time when the giants were afraid to sell to Europe.
Within a year of the war, the price of ships was pushed up tenfold in the past, and the price of each ton of cargo rose from 3 yen to more than 30 yuan.
Nobuya Uchida was extremely profitable, and he himself knew how to run a business, and he was an employee of Mitsui & Co., and he also had connections, so he began to expand, using the method of issuing shares, and within a year he gave his shareholders a 60% dividend, and the size of the fleet was expanded to 10 ships, and the capital reached 50 million yen.
However, the blockade of China made him lose his business with the British, but he had a good brain, and he saw that after the blockade, the price of Japanese rice rose vigorously, and the spirit of adventure came again, so that his fleet broke into Korea at night and transported the local rice to Japan, even with the control of the government, the price of rice still skyrocketed, once the rice skyrocketed from 20 yuan before the war to 100 yuan now.
This kind of windfall profit allowed Uchida Shinya's business not only not to suffer losses due to the blockade, but to open up more profits. Five times the profit, and in an extremely short period of time, although the risk is also great, 4 of the 10 ships of the Uchida family have been sunk by airship bombing, but he has earned enough money to buy 20 large ships.
But he didn't expect that those poor ghosts would dare to rob him of rice.
Naturally, he wanted to be furious, and the police chief could only endure it, because he had received too many benefits from Uchida, and there were people above Uchida, and he couldn't afford to offend.
Uchida really closed the rice barn in Nagasaki, but what he didn't know was that the crazy poor ghosts learned to rob, and when the night came again, they not only robbed him of rice, but also set fire to his rice barn, and a rice riot began. (To be continued.) )