Chapter 168: Business with Comrade Li
The brutal street fighting in Lahore did not intimidate Nehru, because he knew that he had no choice and that he had to have bargaining chips if he wanted to bargain with the coalition forces.
The coalition forces had taken Calcutta, and he had lost more than 60,000 soldiers in order to retake the city, but no progress had been made, which was a desperate result, which meant that he could not retake the city, and the overwhelming air superiority of the Ming army, and the kind of frenzied firepower that could be described as tasty, combined with the number of Pakistanis, and the special terrain where the armored forces could not be used, convinced Nehru that it would be difficult to retake Calcutta even if he ran out of his army.
Then he would have to take a city of the same rank from Pakistan in exchange.
Lahore is the best exchange.
He was not taking Lahore, but taking back Calcutta.
A full 150,000 Zhu troops were thrown into the city, engaged in bloody and brutal street battles with 100,000 Pakistani defenders, street by block, road by road, and behind them, the new troops hastily recruited by the two countries were also pouring in to act as cheap cannon fodder.
On the Eastern Front, less than 200,000 Tianzhu troops, on the long front from Tezpur in the north to Howrah in the south, desperately blocked the attack of the coalition forces, and used their lives and blood to buy time for the battle on the Western Front.
But alas, here their main opponent was the Ming army.
Armed to the teeth, this mighty army has become a formidable war machine, at least in South and Southeast Asia. The finest equipment. The best commander. The most adequate logistical supply is like sufficient lubrication to keep this machine running at high speed.
There are also soldiers who have been trained by the war, although they don't quite understand why they came to Tianzhu to fight, but the personality cult of Yang Feng has solved the problem of who to fight for, and the invincible record has also given them high morale.
They are like the soldiers of the United States who swept through Babylon decades later. Wearing body armor, wearing a Kevlar helmet, holding an automatic rifle, riding in an infantry fighting vehicle, a Humvee military vehicle, following the traces of tank tracks, under the cover of fighter planes hovering almost all the time overhead, like kicking open a thin door, rushing through the Tianzhu people's defense line. Behind them, the Pakistani Army and the Assam Army followed. Viciously encircled the Tianzhu army, which had been cut into pieces, as every invader likes to do. Leave behind a blazing flame all the way.
However, Nehru didn't care much about the situation on the Eastern Front, because he had enough depth that no matter how many places the coalition occupied on the Eastern Front, even if he occupied the whole of West Bengal, as long as he captured Lahore, then he could exchange it back, and if he couldn't take Lahore, these places would really be lost.
In fact, Yang Feng didn't care much about the front-line war situation, and what he was most concerned about now was how to solve his internal opposition to his reckless military force, at least the Chinese capitalists who donated to him were already dissatisfied with this. After all, up to now, his losses on the battlefield of Tianzhu are not small, the total number of combat aircraft lost by the Air Force has exceeded 100, and the ground troops have died more than 2,000 in battle.
Although he knew that Yang Feng was for the Assam oil field, he was the one who grabbed the oil field, and those capitalists had no share, but they had a share in spending military expenses.
Including Li Guangqian, several heads of Chinese associations have expressed their dissatisfaction to him very tactfully, but we also bear more than one-third of the financial expenditure of the Ming Dynasty a year, you belong to the fake public and private! They still don't quite understand the significance of opening up new economic colonies, after all, they controlled the economy in Java and other places, and it is estimated that they understood it when they went to Pakistan to do business with Assam after the war.
"Don't worry, am I that kind of person?
I can assure you that I don't want any of the money I make in Far Eastern Oil, and I use it to subsidize it, and don't you keep saying that oil prices are too expensive now? Very well, I will give you a subsidy, according to the list and amount of money donated to me, I will give you a fuel subsidy every year, donate more and make up less, and how much I earn in Far East Petroleum every year, all in this way as a subsidy. ”
Yang Feng said to Li Guangqian.
"No, no, that's what I said, how can I ask for this money, we donate to you unconditionally, if you still receive your subsidy, then what's the matter."
Li Guangqian hurriedly said.
"Really?"
"No, none of us still lacks that little bit of gas money."
Huang Qingchang said.
"Well, it can be used as another kind of subsidy to you, anyway, since I said that I don't want the income from oil in the Far East, then I definitely can't take it back, this money can be used as a fund, an aid fund, any Chinese, as long as they have donated to the Ming Empire, when his business is in trouble and on the verge of bankruptcy, he can apply for assistance from this fund. The foundation investigates his situation, and if he qualifies, he will receive the equivalent of an interest-free loan, although he will not be eligible to apply for a second time until the loan is returned. ”
Yang Feng said.
Huang Qingchang and Li Guangqian looked at each other, it was obvious that this fund was good, capitalists like them, who have not had a bad year, having such a fund is equivalent to an extra life.
"Okay, in that case, then we will thank the Führer for his kindness."
Lee Kong Chian said cheerfully.
Yang Feng nodded and said, "One more thing, is your father-in-law still in contact with the north?" ”
Li Guangqian nodded, his father-in-law was different from the younger generation of capitalists who were ready to take root in Nanyang, and they still wanted to return to their roots.
"Let him help me ask Comrade Li if he is interested in doing business?"
"What business do you have with them?"
Li Guangqian said unexpectedly that now that the Ming Dynasty and the Soviet Union are incompatible, he went to hook up with other people's younger brothers.
"It's very simple, replace people with medicines, as far as I know, they should be in short supply of all kinds of medicines now, right? For example, penicillin, sulfonamides, trauma medicines, surgical equipment, anesthetic agents and the like. ”
"Yes, it's very lacking, like penicillin, they are not afraid to exchange their lives."
"Yes, let them exchange their lives, of course for their lives, they are fighting local tyrants in the area they control, right? I want those who are ready to be executed by them, I want them to be with their families, and those who have participated in the war of resistance captured by them, if they are willing to come to us, I will too, in short, those who should be killed in their hands can be sent to my people for review first, as long as they meet the conditions, I will do it. They can rest assured, I won't give these people to the bald guys, of course they believe it or not, anyway, it's a living person with a hundred penicillin injections, or whatever other medicine they want, the price can be discussed in detail.
In addition, we can continue to do this business for a long time, and in the future, they just need to exchange arms, as long as the people sent are worth the price of the arms, maybe I will agree, and even some of the technology they need, if the price is enough, they can also negotiate. ”
Yang Feng said.
"Führer, you want to..."
Lee Kong Chian said in horror.
"Save people's lives, win the seventh-level floating slaughter, they are all us Chinese, those they kill are going to be killed anyway, and their wounded soldiers will definitely die without medicine, so that both are alive, what a good thing, you have to understand that we Chinese want to maintain the current situation in Nanyang, the most important thing is not how strong the army we are, but how many people we have, how many Chinese are in the whole Nanyang? How many other nationalities are there? We're still in the minority, that's not going to work, we're going to be the majority! ”
Yang Feng said.
This business must be paved from now on, although this is not the highest chao period, but it has already begun, he must ensure that the business of pulling people from the north will never stop, he is not afraid of pulling hundreds of millions of Chinese over, the population of Indonesia alone in the future will run to 200 million, and now it is only more than 70 million, this land has enough capacity.
As for whether Comrade Li will do this business, this Yang Feng is really not too worried, not to mention anything else, he still knows very well what penicillin means to Comrade Li at this time, in the early fifties, during the Korean War, the use of this thing in domestic hospitals had to be approved by the director.
Comrade Li is not stupid, but those who died without penicillin were his loyal soldiers, which is equivalent to exchanging the lives of loyal fighters for those social scum in his eyes, and he will like this kind of business.
As for the Soviets there ...
Stalin is also a smart person, and the existence of such a trading channel is also a good thing for him, if he wants to obtain something that is impossible to obtain directly, he can completely let Comrade Li do a secret exchange.
Can't enemies do business with each other?
Even enemies can do business when needed.
Not only can you exchange the medicines, but next year you can see that it's almost the same, even the arms can also give them some, as far as Comrade Stalin's progress is concerned, I'm afraid it will be difficult to copy the RPG7 in 50 years, of course, even if it is imitated, he will not necessarily give it to Comrade Li. It doesn't matter, you can pull a boat for him in 49 years and use it first, in 49 the people of the United States are still eyebrows with Comrade Li, in 49 the British are still thinking about selling warships to him, it is not a big deal for Daming to secretly sell some arms, and Yang is not a god, who can know that you will fight together in the blink of an eye?
There is also 107 rocket artillery, this thing is very simple, it is estimated that Comrade Li can almost imitate it, and among the lofty mountains and mountains of North Goryeo, this kind of small rocket artillery will definitely be like a fish in water. (To be continued......)