Chapter 1676: A Conservative Choice
At present, the distribution of Japan in Alaska, the most important area is in the coastal area, the coastal area has established a series of ports and cities, but Japan is ready to withdraw from the coast anytime, anywhere, into the mountainous area, because here is the easiest to arrange, but also the easiest to defend, Japan has no sea power, although China's navy is very strong, but everything can not be pinned only on China, if the US navy comes, the Chinese warship is dragged somewhere else, or it is too late to arrive, Can we only pray for China's protection, we must rely on Japan's own strength? Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In addition, the various mountainous areas in the central part of the country are where Alaska's wealth lies, in addition to the large iron mines, Japan has also obtained a large number of other minerals in the central region, such as copper, lead, zinc and aluminum, and a large number of gold mines.
From thousands of kilometers away from the Japanese mainland, to Alaska in North America, the investment is extremely huge, that is, with the support of China, it is necessary to complete this unprecedented national change in the history of the world, which is equivalent to a certain sense, Japan from the distant Asia, moved to the Americas in North America, such a miraculous change, for Japan, not only the migration of about half of the population, because the relocation of the capital is huge.
Although this part of the funds exist in the form of Chinese loans, but for Japan, the Americas are a rich land, Alaska is an opportunity for prosperity, but it is not a place where Japan will stay forever, in a sense, Alaska is just a starting point, as long as Japan completes the digestion of Alaska and obtains enough troops, it will definitely attack, the ultimate goal is the whole of North America, but directly challenging the United States, not only far away, but also relatively unwise, only to gradually encroach on Canada, Weakening the United States will ultimately lead to a decisive battle between Japan and the United States in North America.
In this case, in the eyes of the Japanese, Alaska's resources are only temporarily available, and the sooner the loans obtained from China are repaid, the faster Japan will take off, and as for precious metals such as gold and silver, Canada with a total area of nearly 10 million square kilometers and the United States with a total area of more than 9 million square kilometers are too much, and they really occupy there, and these efforts are worth it.
This is the mentality, the Japanese spare no effort to find a variety of resources, among the Japanese in Alaska, the most popular is not soldiers, nor engineers, but prospectors, the Japanese government has come up with the most huge incentive program, the highest even reached a certain total mineral three-thousandths, don't underestimate this three-thousandths, small and medium-sized veins are just that, large mineral deposits, for example, reserves of 50 tons, or even more than 100 tons of gold mines, three-thousandths is 150 to 300 kilograms of gold, After entering modernization, under the premise that the gold standard became the general equivalent, 300 kilograms of gold was a huge amount of money, which could make a person, a family, rich overnight.
For this reason, a large number of geologists are looking for a variety of mineral veins in the whole Alaska, especially with the support of China's reconnaissance aircraft, looking for a variety of possible mineral deposits, the efficiency is not generally high, a large number of mineral deposits are found out, no matter how difficult it is, they have also been developed and utilized, especially the three kinds of gold, silver and copper, which are the most critical precious metals, as long as they are excavated, they can be used directly, and the value is also quite high, some rare, tungsten, molybdenum, lithium metal follows, can not be said to be destructive development, But it is also unsparing and forcibly exploiting.
These valuable metals, including some precious mineral deposits, such as dog's head gold, precious trees, and even some ornamental, can enter the jewelry level of various metals and rocks, were selected and handed over to China, which also greatly facilitated China, originally, at the beginning, China's transport ships, transporting the Japanese to Alaska, was one-way, which was very expensive for ocean transportation, one trip is the cost of two trips, with more and more Japanese in Alaska, At first, it was just a matter of transporting back some low-value things, such as rocks, wood, and some animal skins that could be used on buildings, and many times, the price was not enough to cover the cost of transportation, but for the sake of efficiency and to avoid waste, it was still shipped.
At a time when the mineral development in Alaska has reached a very high level, some precious metals, even metal ores, can not only offset the transportation costs, but also generate a slight surplus, which is a big benefit for the fleet responsible for the mission, although Japan paid in full, but the transportation fee is fixed, because of the Chinese support, this fund is a bank loan, and it will only be paid proportionally. Now, with a large number of valuable metal veins, this freight is paid from the money from the sale of this metal vein, not only in full, but also in additional income.
Interests are the link that leads all parties, completely by Japan's unilateral investment, even if there is a Chinese loan as support, it is not lasting, Japan also thinks so, Alaska is such a place of hope, whether it is resources or geographical location, it is worth Japan's gamble, Japan even gambled on the entire national fortune, they even thought that Japan would pay a huge price for Alaska, a huge amount of money, may not be able to be fully repaid for decades, or even a hundred years, so that Japan will be for a long time, Becoming a vassal of China cannot be shaken off.
Japan is good at relying on the strong, in the past time and space, has clearly shown, from the United Kingdom before World War I, the United States before and after World War II, until the moment of war, will show his fangs, for this, Yang Yuanzhao is very clear, and does not intend to control Japan forever, the rise of China, not relying on subsidiary forces, but the rise of its own strength, all this is not transferred by anything, and it is only for Japan to use, even if Japan is at war with the United States, If China turns its other face with China, China will definitely send a huge bomber group to completely wipe out the Japanese archipelago, and at that time, Japan, which remains in the Americas, no matter how strong it is, will not be able to threaten China on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, but will only lose a little money.
To help Japan land on the American continent, China did not pay much, sending tens of millions of people to Alaska, not only the freight was very expensive, but also a lot of precious metals and some Japanese laborers as collateral, as long as these laborers can continue to work for more than 3 years, they can basically offset the cost, in this case, there is no need to worry about the relationship between the Japanese and the breach of the contract.
But now, the Japanese are willing to pay back in advance, which is of course good, this is a win-win result, China is equivalent to not spending too much effort, it has obtained a large number of minerals, and the Japanese have also found that their investment in Alaska has not cost Japan a penny, not to mention, close to 1 million captives, can earn 50 million US dollars a year, which is enough to support some simple maintenance costs in Alaska, not to mention all kinds of minerals, world-class mineral deposits, plus the excavation of hard-working and non-stop Japanese people, In the eyes of the Japanese, manpower is not a cost, anyway, these low-level Japanese nationals also consume a lot of materials, and there is not much output before, so it is better to work so hard.
In a sense, China let Japan go to Alaska, so to speak, to give Japan a large amount of land, but the output of the land, in addition to maintaining Japan's survival, the rest, is basically injected into China, those more valuable, even China is more lacking, all come to China, and in the form of raw materials, a small number of primary processing products.
However, what China injected into Japan was a large number of industrial products, and the difference between them was equal to the vast majority of the Japanese resources, labor, and other profits, which were earned by China, and the most important thing for China was raw materials.
Raw materials, for a large industrial body, is always the most important, no raw materials, there will not be enough products, it will not be able to support the entire industrial system, and it will not be able to generate profits, although China has not consciously followed the methods of developed countries in later generations, to capacity, only to grasp the upstream, with developed technology and standards to exploit underdeveloped countries, hundreds of leather shirts in exchange for an airplane, has not been used, but there are already signs of this.
A radio, in terms of raw materials, is just some plastics, semiconductors plus a small number of metal wires, the cost of raw materials themselves can be how much, but in the world it is sold for 100-150 US dollars, this is only part of China's high-priced products, drugs, antibiotics, this is the big head, after properly solving the technology of producing penicillin and sulfonamides, the cost of penicillin per unit in China has been declining, but according to the lowest unit, 1000 units of penicillin, The price in the U.S. market is as high as 45 US dollars, according to the standard of penicillin, 1 mg of penicillin is about 1670 units, that is to say, less than one milligram of penicillin can be exchanged for more than 2 ounces of gold, this value ratio is absolutely considerable, such penicillin, the cost of large-scale production in China, 300,000 units is only 5 yuan of Chinese dollars, and I don't know how much more of this intermediate benefit.
In the future, China will gradually strengthen this point, and use industrial products to obtain a large amount of raw materials, which will actually generate huge value to support the development of the whole of China, so in a sense, it is more hidden than directly occupying the mineral deposits of its opponents, or even enslaving countries, and even in a sense, the plundered countries are very welcome.
For the time being, the Japanese not only did not see it, but they really welcomed it, and even in times of war, some high-priced Chinese products began to enrich the lives of the Japanese, especially the high-ranking and aristocracy.
However, for the time being, the most important thing is Alaska, the Japanese have been seeking for so many years, so that they have obtained a continent that is enough to support his foundation, although this continent has such and such problems, as long as Japan develops well on this continent, it will be able to obtain unimaginable improvements, especially one by one new cities, in many aspects such as industrial layout, Japan is much stronger under the premise that Japan has begun to plan, on the basis of half of the original immigration, Bringing at least 15 million people here.
Coupled with the previous immigration, the whole of Alaska will have between 45 million and 50 million, which is a very large number, when the time comes, the three islands of the main island of Japan, the remaining population may only be between 12 million and 15 million, this is not the final number, in the eyes of the Japanese, the Japanese three islands are quite narrow, in the future, when Alaska is built to a certain extent, the population of the three islands of Japan will be reduced to about 8 million, more than 400,000 square kilometers of land, 8 million is already good, relatively rare.
In the future, the entire Mishima of Japan will be used as an ancestral land, a fief for the aristocratic royal family and high-ranking military officers, and the vast majority of the population, almost close to 50 million, will be placed in Alaska, laying a good foundation for further progress in the future and occupying a larger land in Canada.
In their opinion, Japan is vulnerable, as long as their army arrives, they can defeat the Japanese army, but after the baptism of war in Europe, they know that underestimating the enemy will suffer a big loss, fortunately, it is Canada that is more anxious than them, they have successfully taken advantage of Canada's mentality, through various methods, carefully use Canada, and use the Canadian army as the vanguard to attack first.
The northern part of the land, after the winter of the alpine zone, has been rejuvenated, and Alaska has a higher dimension, most of the area is permafrost, and this part of the land is facing the spring flowers, forming a muddy area, and it is not very smooth to walk. And in order to defeat the Japanese in one fell swoop, they did not choose to come lightly, they were fully armed, and even more than 150 mm artillery was prepared, and these artillery, if they were moved within the United States, it was not very difficult, whether it was a railroad or a road, these troops could be smoothly mobilized, but after passing through Vancouver, especially in this area of northern Vancouver, it was much slower, 15 kilometers a day, or even less, abounding, a distance of more than 400 kilometers, They walked for a month and a half, no, the first three divisions set out around February, and in almost April, they arrived in front of the Japanese defense line.
Japan's defense line, done quite camouflaged, frontal, put on a division, looks simple, only ordinary trench defense line, in the eyes of the US military, seems to be weak, just from Europe back almost 300,000 US troops, in the past seven months, they have become instructors of the new US troops, the main thing is to teach trench warfare and anti-trench warfare combat methods, this method set up in advance, actually has little effect, these weak trenches, may be a skirmisher impact, can be broken.
The U.S. military doesn't know that all their movements have been detected by the plane in the sky, which looks very simple, and the plane has continuously transmitted a large amount of information and the posture of the U.S. and Canadian troops to the Japanese command, in fact, in the eyes of the Chinese Army, in the U.S. army, there are at least 12 opportunities to use the method of sneak attack on the U.S. army, not to mention the total annihilation of the U.S. army's line head troops, at least more than 300,000 line head troops, a full 25 divisions, but 10 of them were severely damaged. Even compared to the annihilation of 5 of them, there is no problem at all.
It is a pity that the conservative Japanese did not dare to attack, although the Chinese staff officers have made it clear that the fault line in the US army is very obvious, as long as they make a decisive attack, their sortie troops will have at least 18 to 20 hours of time, as long as they are dispatched well-trained troops and carry enough artillery, they can solve the battle in 12 hours at most, and at the worst, they can also seriously damage the opponent and withdraw from the battle.
No matter how well the staff officers portray the vision, for the Japanese, this is a risk, annihilating these divisions of the US army, is to take the US army as a stick, can also be a large blow to the morale of the US army, but if it fails, according to the requirements of the staff officers, the army of 5 divisions and regiments is the most elite in Japan at present, Japan, as a general reserve, is ready to be placed in the most dangerous place, and even some of them are scattered into different divisions and regiments, as the backbone of these divisions and regiments, once the elite of the 5 divisions and regiments is lost, Even if Japan has a figure of more than 2.5 million, the total number of elite troops in it will not exceed 200,000, which is the worst thing for Japan.
The Juno Line has been formed, and the U.S. military is also rushing to the Juno Line, and the defense line they have built themselves is well aware of the defensive strength of these lines, and in this case, it is safer to honestly fight a fixed defensive war than to risk a negligible result.
For the insistence of the Japanese, the staff committee did not forcibly change their approach, in a sense, the war has begun, the contradictions between Japan and the United States, is already irreconcilable, Japan's 30 million people and 3 million troops, enough to make the United States suffer unimaginable pain, one or two wars and battles, for China, are harmless, China has grasped the initiative, the next is to continue to push, to strengthen this initiative even more, as for the future, The hegemony of the Americas is in the hands of the Japanese, the Americans, and even the Mexicans, and for China, it has little impact. (To be continued.) )