Chapter 463 Japanese experts helped a lot

On the outskirts of Yangon, a meteorological observatory.

Yue Weihan is looking at the wind direction anemometer at a high place, don't look at Yue Weihan is very calm on the surface, but in fact, his heart is already extremely anxious, Professor Zhu Kezhen's ten-day time limit has passed eight days, and today is the ninth day, if there is no large-scale heavy rainfall today and tomorrow, the consequences will be unimaginable.

In the sound of heavy footsteps, Professor Zhu Kezhen had already come behind Yue Weihan.

"General Yue, you can relax." Professor Zhu Kezhen said in a low voice of relief, "There will be heavy rainfall today and tomorrow, and it will cover a wide area, and it will rain in the entire southwest, Southeast Asia and the South Asian subcontinent. Speaking of this, Professor Zhu Kezhen added, "It's just that this rain is likely to be the last rain in the first half of this year." ”

"Whew." Yue Weihan let out a long sigh of relief and said, "Professor Zhu, I can't help but be in a hurry. ”

Professor Zhu Kezhen nodded silently, he could understand Yue Weihan's mood at this moment, Yue Weihan's original intention of speculating on the grain market in Myanmar was just to raise enough food to prepare for this year's food shortage, but now, this hype is likely to cause an unprecedented natural disaster**, can he not be in a hurry?

The two were relatively silent, but the anemometer in the high wind direction suddenly began to spin rapidly.

"Teacher, the wind is blowing!" The graduate student who was guarding the side to take notes suddenly shouted excitedly, "It's a southeast wind blowing from the Pacific Ocean, and the time is now 10:50, which is only 10 minutes away from your estimated time, teacher!" In just a moment, the anemometer at the height had already turned extremely fast, and Yue Weihan also felt the obvious wind.

"Hehe, I guess it's coming soon." Professor Chu Kezhen finally had a smile on his face.

Don't look at Professor Zhu Kezhen's extremely calm performance in front of Yue Weihan, and repeatedly swore that there will be a wide range of heavy rainfall in two days, Professor Zhu is actually just as nervous in his heart, there has never been an absolute inference in the meteorological community, and Professor Zhu previously predicted that there will be heavy rainfall within ten days, and there is also a probability.

Since there is a probability, there is a possibility of a xiǎo probability event.

But now, the xiǎo probability event finally won't happen, and the strong air flow from the southwest Pacific has finally arrived!

From this afternoon to tomorrow evening, this strong air flow from Southeast Asia will sweep across Southeast Asia and eventually invade southwest China, and this strong air flow will bring a wide range of heavy rainfall to the whole of Southeast Asia and southwest China, but after this heavy rainfall, the southwest provinces will usher in a prolonged drought.

The wind in the meteorological observation station gradually became stronger, and Yue Weihan felt obvious wind pressure on his face.

"Rain, it's raining!" The graduate student who was taking notes shouted excitedly again, and soon, Yue Weihan and Professor Zhu Kezhen also felt the coolness of the raindrops hitting their faces, and in less than a moment, the entire meteorological observation station was already enveloped in smoke and rain, and looking at Yangon City in the distance, only the slightest rain curtain could be seen.

Yue Weihan took the umbrella handed over by Yù Hu, personally held it up for Professor Zhu Kezhen, and then said excitedly: "Old Zhu, let's go, let's find a place to drink two cups!" ”

"Okay." Professor Zhu Kezhen said happily, "The general is invited, how can you not appreciate the light?" ”

Yue Weihan laughed and said: "Elder Zhu, I heard that a new Sichuan restaurant has opened next to the Sanshan Guild Hall, and the Sichuan cuisine tastes very good, let's go there, in addition, call all the staff of the observation station, everyone has worked hard in the past few days, and it should be regarded as the commander-in-chief to reward everyone, haha." ”

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At the same time, the conference room on the second floor of New Oriental Company was gloomy.

New Oriental Company is a British-funded company, originally engaged in the bristle and leather business, but after seeing the soaring price of grain in the Burmese market, the owner of New Oriental Company, the British Jack, moved to take the opportunity to make a vote, not only took out 100,000 pounds of savings for many years, but also borrowed $800,000 from Nanyang Bank as collateral from the company.

Then he urgently purchased more than two million tons of rice from India, ready to make a lot of money.

As a result, without waiting for the arrival of the rice ordered by Jack, the price of grain in Myanmar began to fall sharply, if it were not for the strong intervention of unknown capital later, and ate the 300 million tons of grain thrown by the Chinese Expeditionary Force in one go, I am afraid that the grain market in Myanmar would have collapsed long ago, and Jack would really have to commit suicide by jumping off the building at that time.

Thankfully, food prices in Myanmar are now finally back at $1.2.

After all these efforts, Jack finally formed an alliance of interests with dozens of British grain merchants, and then formed a broader alliance of interests with American grain merchants and Siamese grain merchants, and Jack already knew that Siamese grain merchants had a Japanese background, but whether it was Japanese or Siamese, the urgent task now was to work together and make money together.

Whose money is it earning? Of course, it is to make Chinese money, of course, it is to make Chinese national trouble!

I won't talk about the ups and downs since then, but the news that Professor Zhu Kezhen released nine days ago that "there will be a wide range of heavy rainfall within ten days" really dealt a heavy blow to the interest alliance of grain merchants in various countries, and made this originally not very stable interest alliance almost fall apart.

Early this morning, Jack invited more than a dozen representatives of grain merchants to his company.

As the ten-day deadline approached, not only Yue Weihan and Professor Zhu Kezhen were nervous, but also speculative businessmen from various countries were also nervous, but the mentality of the two sides was completely different.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today is the ninth day!" Jack looked around at everyone and said in a deep voice, "If it doesn't rain again today and tomorrow, it means that Professor Zhu is lying, and the rumors he came forward later to avoid are just words against his will under the pressure of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and everyone can relax and wait for a major drought to break out in China." ”

As soon as the words fell, Jack's Burmese secretary suddenly hurried into the conference room.

"Who let you in?" Seeing this, Jack was furious and roared loudly at the NV secretary, "Get out, get out!" ”

The secretary of Myanmar did not flinch, but said with a pale face: "Boss, the wind is blowing and it is raining heavily!" ”

"What did you say?" Jack's face suddenly changed greatly, he hurriedly got up and rushed to the window and lifted the corner of the curtain, and the representatives of grain merchants from all over the world, who were sitting at the long conference table, also got up, rushed to the window as fast as possible, lifted the curtain, and looked out through the window, only to see that the entire Yangon City had been completely enveloped in the vast rain.

As soon as they saw this situation, the representatives of grain merchants from various countries immediately became anxious and were about to turn around and leave.

"Everyone, please wait!" Jack was in a hurry, and quickly got up and closed the conference room.

Jack knew very well that at this time, if the representatives of the grain merchants of various countries were allowed to leave, the situation would be completely out of control, these dozen or so representatives not only represented the various interests of the collective, but also the big grain merchants, once they were allowed to leave, there would soon be panic selling in the Myanmar market, and the complete collapse of the grain market would be inevitable.

"Jack, what do you want to do? You don't want to imprison us, do you? Get out of the way! ”

"Damn the British, don't think about throwing food and running away alone, if it's over, everyone will be finished together!"

"If you don't get out of the way, if you don't get out of the way, I'll shoot a warning, this is Myanmar, not India!"

Seeing that the grain merchants of various countries were angry, and they were about to do something if they disagreed, Jack was suddenly anxious, and immediately pulled out his revolver against his jaw, everyone was stunned when they saw this, and Jack hurriedly said: "Everyone must listen to me, otherwise I would rather die in front of everyone." ”

These grain merchants were originally all human beings, and soon learned Jack's intentions, and immediately returned to their seats.

The situation is clear, if everyone goes back to sell the food they have hoarded, the final result can only be collective suicide, and in the end, no one wants to retreat, gritting their teeth and persevering, maybe there is a glimmer of life, it is raining today, yes, but who knows if this will be the last rain in the first half of this year?

Yue Weihan still coveted the psychological tolerance of these speculative businessmen.

Although the ten-day time limit for life and death dealt them a heavy blow, it was still not enough to break their psychological defenses.

These speculative businessmen are like gamblers who have lost their eyes, at this time, as long as there is a slight chance to turn over, they will not hesitate to bet on all their net worth!

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Yangon, the official residence of Yue Wei Han.

As soon as Yue Weihan returned to the official residence after drinking the celebration wine, he was poured cold water on his face.

After listening to Mr. Rong's report, Yue Weihan's face immediately sank and said, "What? These grain merchants are really calm, they are all like this, and they are still unwilling to sell the food they have hoarded? ”

"Well, it's not hard to understand." Mr. Rong sighed and said, "For this speculation, many grain merchants have taken advantage of their savings for many years, and many have also borrowed huge amounts of usury. ”

"Damn, I'm in trouble." Yue Weihan vigorously ripped open the placket of his clothes, and suddenly felt a burst of heat for no reason.

Mr. Rong Desheng is also helpless, the 300 million catties of grain hoarded in the early stage have already been sold out, and the 100 million catties of grain urgently transferred into Myanmar through various channels have also been eaten by all capitals.

"Ugh." Old Mr. Rong let out a long sigh and said gloomily, "General Yue, it seems that an unprecedented natural disaster is already unavoidable, and when it comes to this, it is better to hurry up and pay tribute to Chongqing, forcibly cancel the grain Jiāo Yi, and then implement the food rationing in the entire national control area, so that the famine can also be controlled to the most xiǎo degree." ”

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Saigon, the headquarters of the Japanese Southern Army.

After Professor Zhu Kezhen's 10-day time limit came out, not only Yue Weihan and grain merchants from various countries were anxious, but in fact the Japanese army base camp and the old devils in the temple were also very anxious; no, as early as a week ago, more than a dozen meteorological experts made a special trip from Japan to Saigon, and two meteorological experts had even infiltrated the territory of Yunnan, China, disguised as merchants and accompanied by agents.

The reason why Japanese meteorologists are so enthusiastic is to verify Professor Zhu's research results.

After nearly a week of observation and verification, Japanese meteorological experts finally came to a conclusion and rushed to the headquarters of the old devil in the temple to report as soon as possible.

After listening to the report of the meteorological expert, the old devil in the temple was shocked: "What? There will be no major drought in southwest China at all? ”

"Hello!" The devil meteorologist named Tian Shangshu at the head suddenly bowed his head and said, "Your Excellency Commander, according to our observations and research, it is unlikely that there will be a drought in Southeast Asia and the southwestern provinces of China throughout this year, but a large-scale drought is likely to break out in North and East China of China. ”

"Yagayalu." The old devil in the temple said in a cruel voice, "So, we are all fooled? ”

Tian Shangshu and a few other meteorologists didn't say anything, but Anda Twenty-three next to him hung his head, he was the one who strongly advocated the continuation of this economic war, but now, domestic meteorologists ruthlessly pointed out that this was a complete scam, and the Japanese army base camp had fallen on Yue Weihan's evil deeds!

"Anda-kun, if the Siamese grain merchants controlled by our side start selling now, how much money can we get back?" At this point, the old devil in the temple can't take care of being angry for the time being, and the most important thing now is to recover the losses as much as possible and get back the hundred tons of gold that the base camp transferred from a very difficult situation.

"This ......," Anda Twenty-Three also lacked research on market speculation, and said in an uncertain tone at the moment, "I heard that the grain merchants of various countries in Myanmar have reached an alliance of interests, and they have all said that they will not sell grain in the near future, so if we act with heart and control the scale of the sale, it should not be a problem to return half of the funds." ”

"Only half?" The old devil in the temple was furious, but he said politely, "Anda-kun, you are solely responsible for this matter, and you must do your best to reduce the loss of the empire!" ”

"Hello." Anda Twenty-Three suddenly bowed his head and immediately took the order.

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Yangon, the official residence of Yue Wei Han.

Yue Weihan was hesitating to call Chongqing and suggest that the Nationalist Government implement a grain rationing system, because once this telegram was sent, it would mean that the Chinese expeditionary force would completely admit defeat, and the grain merchants of various countries would be relieved, and even if it rained for ten days in a row, they would not easily sell the grain in their hands.

Just when Yue Weihan was hesitating, Yùhu suddenly walked in excitedly.

"Haha, the Japanese are going to throw away grain?" After reading the urgent telegram sent by Nanzao Yunzi, Yue Weihan was overjoyed, "The Japanese meteorological experts have helped us a lot