Chapter 127: Prelude to the Sneak Attack
Yu Sheng smiled in his heart after listening to the investment needs of the white fat George. In his later life, he also wanted to learn from others to start a business and become a successful person who "became a CEO and married Bai Fumei". So, read the set of Harvard MBA textbooks on the Internet! Looking at it, I still think those cases are very interesting and similar to online novels, so I just changed it to reading online novels......
The performance of Westinghouse's radar when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor is truly impressive. Investing in such a company a month or two before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor could no longer be described as making money - it was a money grab!
However, this American white fat man's money is not robbed for nothing. After the rest of his life expressed his intention to invest. George, the fat white man, is more anxious than the rest of his life. Although far away in Hawaii. However, it only took three days to prepare all the documents and materials. After reading it carefully, Yu Sheng signed his name and wrote the check. And that's it!
For the rest of his life, he invested 80 percent of his working capital in Westinghouse. Although only five percent of its shares. However, Yu Sheng is very sure that in a few months, the money he invested will be rewarded more than ten times or even dozens of times!
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While the rich man Yu was calculating how many times the return on his investment would be, the Japanese fleet, under the command of Yamamoto Isoroku, was already heading towards Pearl Harbor with great dignity.
The Japanese live in a small island country, and their own resources are extremely scarce, and they are simply unable to support their own development and large-scale wars. Therefore, if the Japanese want to achieve their own development, they must plunder resources from the outside. After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese learned from the West step by step. After gaining advanced knowledge of the West, the first gamble began.
That is, to fight against China. In the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, the Japanese poured all their strength into a life-and-death competition with the Beiyang Naval Division. If the Beiyang Naval Division does not follow the traditional system, but fights back. The advanced warships it has purchased can be defeated, even if they cannot be defeated. If both sides lose, the Japanese will even fight for the last of their families. If you want to have another plot, I don't know how many teenagers you need. And even if China fights with Japan and loses both, and saves the money for the birthday of the Queen Mother Lafayette, uh, no, as long as half of it is saved, it can build a fleet that is more advanced than the Beiyang Naval Division! The weight of Chinese in the eyes of European and American countries will also increase.
The Eight-Nation Coalition may not appear, the Japanese will not invade China unscrupulously, and even the Manchu Dynasty can occupy Japan, centralize power on a large scale, establish a new type of army, and become one of the new powers! With China's thousands of years of accumulation, it is enough to seize a historical opportunity to change the world pattern.
However, the ruthlessness of history lies in the fact that it cannot be assumed. After the Japanese won the First Sino-Japanese War, the reparations they received became a resource to support their development. The huge reparations made the development of the Japanese very fast. At the same time, the Japanese came to two conclusions. One is to grab without resources, and the other is that in this era, the easiest to start is the neighboring Chinese.
Therefore, the Japanese will, as always, try to exploit the various resources of the Chinese.
However, in 1937, after the Japanese officially invaded China on a large scale, they discovered that although China's national strength was weak, the backbone of the Chinese was still there. The destruction of China in three months is nothing more than a joke. Once the Japanese army lost its spirit, the two countries became a stalemate. Based on the population comparison between China and Japan, after the Japanese put the vast majority of their army and part of the navy and air force into the Chinese battlefield, the remaining Japanese army was only enough to bully the small countries in Southeast Asia. But the small countries in Southeast Asia are also covered by big countries such as Europe and the United States, and it is not something that he can bully if he wants to.
China, on the other hand, has a much larger population base than Japan, and a large number of new recruits are replenished every year. Even if the battle loss rate is higher than that of Japan. But, based on numbers alone, the balance of war will be on the side of the Chinese in a few years. At that time, Japan will be defeated.
Therefore, the Japanese had to look for ways to break the deadlock. Occupy new lands and get more resources. And with the resources obtained, they overwhelm the various potential advantages of the Chinese. Complete annexation of China.
In 1939, the Japanese began to discuss two operational directions. One is to go south, and the other is to go north. If you go south, you can occupy Southeast Asia while the European countries are at war with Germany. The only opponent is the Americans. To the north, that is, to invade the Soviet Union, to occupy resource-rich Siberia.
The Japanese have been the younger brothers of the Americans since the "American-Japanese Treaty of Amity." Even the boss is not easy to mess with, so the first option is to attack the USSR.
From May to September 1939, the Japanese launched a large-scale exploratory strategic offensive against the Soviet-Mongolian forces in the Normenhan area, 200 kilometers south of Hailar. The two sides mobilized hundreds of thousands of elite troops and modern equipment to fight for four months. As a result, the Japanese suffered a crushing defeat.
The Japanese, who had been beaten, did not dare to do anything to the Soviet Union, and they had to guard against the fact that the Soviet Union would one day be unhappy and go south to eat Japan's troops in China. Therefore, you can only choose the strategy of going south and occupy Southeast Asia! And to occupy Southeast Asia, the Japanese must counterattack the American boss!
At first, the Japanese were hesitant. However, Hitler's Sea Lion operation required the Japanese to cooperate with Germany and expel all the British in China. And the British, in turn, are inextricably linked to the Americans. After the Japanese expelled the British, the Americans froze trade with Japan. And an oil embargo.
This time, the Japanese were anxious. Without oil, the war would not be fought, and the dreams of the Great Japanese Empire would be shattered. The Japanese army in China will also fall into the sea of Chinese. The Japanese, who had been cornered, finally made up their minds and prepared to counterattack.
In early 1941, Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of Japan's Combined Fleet, began to consider a plan for a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. In the summer of 1941, while filming "Shanghai Tang" on Hong Kong Island, the plan for a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was officially approved at an imperial meeting attended by the Japanese emperor himself. In October 1941, Isoroku Yamamoto chose Kagoshima to conduct simulated training for the Japanese Combined Fleet before a sneak attack.
At the same time, the Japanese continued to treat the Americans with kindness and conciliation. An attempt was made to paralyze the vigilance of the Americans. In early December 1941, Jiang Yiying, a confidant of Dai Li, a radio operator of the Xiamen Radio Station of the Military Command and a codebreaker of the monitoring station, deciphered the military intelligence of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and reported it to Dai Li. Subsequently, this information, approved by Chiang Kai-shek, was sent to the US Navy command.
Americans do not pay attention to it and will be skeptical. The Great War is imminent!
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