Chapter 461 Economic War

The next day, a long list was presented to Yue Weihan's desk.

This list is a list of Soviet scientists who will come to China, and most of the scientists on the list are academicians of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and many of them are academic leaders in their respective fields.

Helicopter experts Kamov and Miri are among them, in addition to Mikoyan, the father of jet fighters, Kurchatov, the father of nuclear weapons, Kotin, the father of heavy tanks, and even Valyov, the father of Soviet ballistic missile nuclear submarines, but at this time Valev was only a researcher in his early twenties.

After reading this long list, Yue Weihan was excited and hugged Yuhu is a hot kiss.

"Did you pick up the ingots?" After a long time, Yuhu Mei stared at Yue Weihan with beautiful eyes, and said coquettishly, "Feeling so happy?" ”

"Isn't it just ingots? It's a rarity! Yue Weihan slapped Yuhu's Feng Tun with his hand, and then raised the list in his hand and laughed proudly, "Do you see the name on this?" Any one of them is priceless, and it won't be long before all these scientists will come to Yangon, hahaha. ”

After saying this, Yue Weihan said again: "This time it is really developed, with this group of Soviet scientists, our China's scientific and technological level will not be able to take off, and in another ten or eight years, all missiles, atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, heavy tanks, armed helicopters and ballistic missile nuclear submarines will be available, and satellites will be able to go to the sky!" ”

Yuhu didn't understand this, but Yue Weihan was happy when she was happy, and immediately stepped forward and offered a fragrant kiss.

Yue Weihan hugged Yuhu's thin waist, sighed comfortably, and then said: "However, things are still a little troublesome, I heard that most of the Soviet scientists are reluctant to come to China, Zhukov made a mistake for the sake of these scientists, they all moved roughly, and even shot two researchers, Zhukov is really a loser!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Ma Zhankui, the director of operations, strode into the office.

As Yue Weihan's absolute confidant, Ma Zhankui has the right to enter directly without reporting, only to see Yue Weihan and Yuhu hugging each other when he entered the office, and the hands of the two even stayed in each other's vital positions, but Ma Zhankui didn't seem to see it at all, and stood up and saluted without changing his face: "General seat!" ”

Yue Weihan withdrew the Lushan claws from Yuhu's bulging chest with some stumbling eyes, and then grabbed the list from the desk and handed it to Ma Zhankui, and said solemnly: "Zhankui, have you seen this list?" This is a group of Soviet scientists, and there are several truckloads of drawings and materials, I want you to take them to Yangon, do you dare to go this way? ”

"As long as it's the order of the head seat!" Ma Zhankui stood upright and said solemnly, "It's okay to go up the knife mountain and down the oil pot!" ”

"Well, I appreciate your drive!" Yue Weihan slapped the case heavily and said, "I will do everything possible to satisfy you, and Yan'an will fully cooperate with you, but I have to tell you that this matter is not so simple, those Soviet scientists maybe, you have to ensure that they are brought over unscathed." ”

"No problem." Ma Zhankui said loudly, "One less hair, you will always look for me." ”

"Okay, you pack up and leave right away!" Yue Weihan said, "Also, this matter must be kept secret, and the slightest bit of information must not be revealed, otherwise Dai Li's Military Command Bureau will make trouble for you, and Japan's special high school will not let you go. ”

"You can rest assured." Ma Zhankui said solemnly, "Zhankui will definitely not let you down. ”

After saying that, Ma Zhankui saluted Yue Weihan again, and then turned around and left.

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In a blink of an eye, half a month has passed.

In the past half a month, Rong Lao has eaten nearly 100 million tons of grain, which directly pushed the grain price in Myanmar to the highest point in history, taking the most common rice as an example, more than a month ago, a dollar could buy fifty catties, but now it can only buy one catty, in other words, the price of grain has skyrocketed nearly fifty times, which is definitely an evil xing.

Soon, the consequences of inflation began to be felt.

In just over half a month, grain prices in several southwestern provinces have risen nearly tenfold, and the rise is very fierce, at least in the short term, and it is very difficult to calm down.

This situation has obviously exceeded expectations, and Yue Weihan immediately summoned Mr. Rong to discuss countermeasures.

"Elder Rong, is it possible to put grain down now?" Yue Weihan said with a solemn expression, "I heard that the grain prices in the rear of the Southwest University have risen nearly ten times, and if we don't try to curb them, the grain prices will be completely out of control, and the compatriots in the rear of the Southwest University will not be able to eat at that time." ”

Rong Lao Shen Yin said after a while: "The first batch of grain prices imported from Siam has been eaten by grain merchants from all over the world, but the grain prices in Myanmar are still rising. ”

Mr. Rong's meaning is obvious, now to cash out the grain is to bear a certain risk, once the early hoarding of grain is not enough to squeeze out the funds prepared by grain merchants in various countries in order to raise food prices, then the situation will be completely out of control, Yue Weihan's original intention is just to prepare grain to survive this year's famine, but the result is likely to cause an unprecedented **!

Coupled with the severe drought that is likely to break out in the first half of this year, the compatriots in the rear of the southwest will not want to live!

Thinking of the serious consequences that might result from the situation getting out of control, Yue Weihan couldn't help but hesitate, such consequences were by no means something he could bear, but what was even more cruel was that if the Chinese expeditionary force did not release grain as soon as possible to stabilize the price of grain, then the compatriots in the southwestern provinces would soon starve because they could not afford to eat.

After a long time, Yue Weihan said, "Elder Rong, how big is the risk?" ”

Mr. Rong said: "If it is only the grain merchants of Southeast Asian countries and countries, the problem should not be big, but once the Japanese government is involved, it is difficult to say the result, once the Japanese government is fully involved, then this speculation is likely to eventually evolve into an economic war between China and Japan!" ”

Yue Weihan frowned and said, "Elder Rong, are you saying that this speculative action may trigger an economic war between China and Japan?" ”

"Well, it's quite possible." Mr. Rong said with a solemn expression, "Although Japan's financial situation is already quite difficult, and the dollar reserves have almost been exhausted, it is not difficult to squeeze out hundreds of tons of gold reserves, and gold can be freely exchanged with the US dollar in the international market, once this batch of gold enters Myanmar, the economic war between China and Japan will be inevitable." ”

After that, Mr. Rong said with some guilt: "General Yue, it is also negligent to say that the old man thought that China and Japan were in a state of war, and there were few US dollar assets left at Japan's disposal, but he did not expect that gold could be freely convertible in the international financial market. ”

Yue Weihan's heart was suddenly covered with a yin cloud, the price of gold at this time was about 35 US dollars per ounce, about more than 1.2 million US dollars per ton, and the Japanese government only needed to take out 100 tons of gold, which was enough to eat all the nearly 300 million tons of grain released by the expeditionary force at a relatively low level, and then pull the grain price back to a high level!

Can the Japanese government come up with 100 tons of gold reserves? The answer is self-evident.

Fighting with Japanese politicians for economic strength? Yue Weihan is not arrogant enough to be so stupid!

However, this economic war between China and Japan is already on the line, and it cannot be missed!

If you don't need to consider the feelings of the United States and Britain and other countries, Yue Weihan could have forcibly purchased all the grain transported into Myanmar by grain merchants from various countries at a low price, but this obviously will not work, because this will touch the bottom line of the politics of the United States and Britain and other countries.

Yue Weihan didn't want to become the enemy of the Western world so early!

If you can't buy it by force, then you can only fight an economic war with businessmen from all over the world!

Yue Weihan, who had settled down, quickly thought of a countermeasure, as the so-called bell solution still needs to be tied to the bell, whether this economic war can be won or not has to fall on Professor Zhu Kezhen!

At that moment, Yue Weihan sent someone to invite Professor Zhu to the headquarters.

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Tokyo, the base camp of the Japanese army.

This morning, a top-secret battle plan was submitted to the desk of the chief of the General Staff, Senior General Hideki Tojo.

The recent Hideki Tojo can be said to be in the limelight, not only has he become the chief of the general staff of the Japanese army as a "non-member of the imperial family" for the first time in history, but has also received the covert support of Emperor Hirohito, and is likely to succeed Fumima Konoe as the next prime minister, and at that time, Hideki Tojo will become a great dictator who combines military and political power!

After reading the battle plan, Hideki Tojo immediately fell into a long period of contemplation.

The battle plan was jointly submitted by Okamura Ninji, commander of the Central China Front, and Toshiichi Terauchi, commander of the Southern Army, and the entire battle plan was actually divided into two relatively independent sub-plans, the first half being an economic battle plan against Burma, and the second half being a military battle plan against China's great southwest.

For the second half of the military battle plan, Hideki Tojo was not interested.

In Tojo's view, Japan has just annexed the Soviet Union's Far East, and it is a critical period to digest and consolidate the occupied areas. Besides, it is true that Japan cannot afford large-scale war expenses now, and the China incident has dragged on for five years, so it is not in a hurry for this year and a half, right?

However, for the first half of the economic battle plan, Hideki Tojo was very interested.

If the national economy of the Chinese government could be destroyed through an economic war, and the whole of China could be plunged into a state of severe inflation, Hideki Tojo would still be glad to do so, even if he did not hesitate to spend precious gold reserves for this purpose, and the most obvious fact was that the more people starved to death in China, the more pressure the Japanese army would face.

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Yangon, Expeditionary Force Headquarters.

Mr. Rong was briefing Professor Zhu on the situation: "The current situation is that if we continue to hoard grain, the price of grain will definitely continue to rise, and we will definitely be able to make a lot of money, but at the cost of large-scale economic looting of the entire national control area, and tens of millions of compatriots will lose their precious lives due to hunger." ”

"If the grain is transported back to China to curb the rise in grain prices, the capital in the Myanmar market will definitely be eaten with all its might, and Japanese businessmen will also take the opportunity to intervene, only with the nearly 300 million tons of grain we purchased in the early stage, deducting the consumption of nearly two or two compatriots in the southwestern provinces, it is not enough to break the capital chain of Japanese businessmen and grain merchants from various countries, and eventually there will still be a retaliatory rebound in grain prices."

Professor Zhu frowned and said, "In other words, we are already in a dilemma? ”

Yue Weihan nodded and said in a deep voice, "Professor Zhu, now I just want to know, when will the drought start?" ”

"I'm afraid it's hard to know for sure." Professor Zhu pondered for a long time, and finally shook his head and said, "According to my years of meteorological observation experience, it is certain that there will be a severe drought in the southwestern provinces in the first half of this year, but it is difficult to determine when the drought will break out. ”

Yue Weihan still didn't give up and said, "Professor Zhu, what do you estimate?" ”

"I guess ......," Professor Zhu said after a moment's silence, "the drought will start between March and May, and the probability of rain interruption is highest from April." ”

"April?" Yue Weihan looked at the calendar and said in a deep voice, "Maybe we still have a chance!" ”

Now the time is the end of the first month, there are still more than two months before April, as long as the southwestern provinces can rain a few times in these two months, and then Professor Zhu will issue another condemnation announcement, then everything still has room for redemption, Yue Weihan can even direct and act out a "drought scandal" that seems to be real and real, and play businessmen from all over the world in the palm of his hand.

The specific CAO work is also very simple, first cash out the grain to push the grain price in Myanmar back to a low level, and then Professor Zhu broke the news to the Associated Press or Reuters in a private place, claiming that the so-called "southwest drought" is a complete scam, and director Yue Weihan's scam is to collect huge amounts of money by illegal means!

After the news was revealed, of course, grain merchants from various countries would not believe it easily, and would definitely hoard Juqi, wait and see.

At this time, God needs God's help, as long as God can rain a few times in time before the drought begins in April, Professor Zhu's fake revelations will become real revelations, and Yue Weihan's fake wealth will become real money, plus grain merchants from various countries have borrowed huge sums of money from Nanyang Bank to pay for freight and warehouse storage fees in order to make huge profits.

At this time, Yue Weihan was able to eat a large amount of surplus grain in the Burmese market at a very low price, and the grain merchants of various countries had to be grateful to Yue Weihan after being slaughtered, because Yue Weihan helped them when they were about to lose their money, and helped them recover the last bit of loss.