Akakawa also said on the side: "Not only those politicians, but also many former soldiers have begun to loot military warehouses and various reserve warehouses. After the news of the defeat spread, many soldiers stationed in the country fled from the enemy, many of whom looted a large amount of military supplies and planned to take them home, while the police did not dare to care even if they saw it, and some even participated in the looting. It is said that even the survivors of the former kamikaze have joined in the frenzied looting, and now among the people, the kamikaze has been renamed the Fallen Secret Service. In short, many people in Japan have gone crazy now, and I have despaired of this country. ”

Downing was aware of what Higashino and Akakawa had said, and when the U.S. Army took over the Japanese garrison, it was found that the munitions depots had been badly plundered, not strategically transferred. What is even more exaggerated is that at the beginning of 1946, the U.S. military once handed over a batch of well-preserved military supplies to the Japanese government, instructed to use them for public welfare and economic reconstruction, after all, the United States did not want to occupy a poor and dying Japan, which was not in line with the strategic intentions of the United States, but to everyone's surprise, after the Ministry of Internal Affairs entrusted these building materials and machinery and equipment to a committee composed of representatives of the five major consortia for disposal, these materials quickly disappeared without a trace, As a result, senior US military officials, including General MacArthur, were so angry that they no longer wanted to directly provide supplies to the Japanese government.

At the same time, according to the investigation of the US military after the incident, during the two weeks of turmoil after the Japanese emperor announced his surrender, a large number of powerful people in Japan spent most of their sober time looting munitions warehouses, making hasty payments from the military budget or the Bank of Japan to contractors and cronies and destroying evidence. According to post-mortem estimates, about 70 percent of the Imperial Army and Navy stocks held by Japan were looted, and these were the supply and demand reserves of Japan's five million troops at home and three million troops overseas.

At one of the most critical moments in Japan's history, there was not a single man, hero, or commendable politician among the elites of the past, when there were few civilians, military generals, or high-level executives who were sincerely and visionarily committed to the cause of the welfare of the common people.

Therefore, it is normal for intellectuals like Higashino and low-level officers like Shimada Akakawa to have this kind of pessimism, despair and even betrayal, but Tang Ning will not completely believe them because of this, they are just a group of dogs who do things for themselves, they will throw a few bones if they are obedient, and if they are disobedient, they will be killed directly, anyway, with the current chaos in Japan, it is not difficult to recruit people before the outbreak of the Korean War.

After chatting for a while, Tang Ning accepted the surrender of Dongye and the others, and gave them an order: "In the past few days, you can take good care of your injuries, and when you have nothing to do, contact some high-level intellectuals and low-level officers who are now living in hardship but have good conduct, and you can give them a little financial assistance temporarily, and after my factory opens in a few days, I need them to take up their posts immediately."

At the same time, I will ask Mitsuhiko to buy a small amount of high-end cigarettes, red wine, and nylon stockings at the supply center tomorrow, and you can sell them in the Yoban area of Shimbashi Market, and pay as much protection money as you want, and don't make trouble, but if the Matsuda gumi dare to trouble you, don't give in, you can fight back, or you can move out of my name, I want to see if the Matsuda gumi have the guts. ”

Akakawa asked excitedly, "My lord, are you trying to find fault and eradicate the Matsuda group?" ”

Tang Ning smiled coldly: "Hmph, how can I have the leisure to mess around with these little thugs, it's just that the places where I use money will start to increase immediately, so I should always make more preparations." And although the ordinary people in Japan are living in a very difficult situation now, in fact, there are still a lot of rich people in the secret, and the high-end goods in these supply houses are not available to ordinary people, even the American soldiers also have a purchase limit, so it is said that it is very tight in the market, Akakawa-kun and Shimada-kun take turns to sell, on the one hand, it is to subsidize the family, on the other hand, it is to show your new identity, if someone really comes to cause trouble, it is also an unexpected joy, and it can be used to Liwei. ”

Higashino and the others were recruited by Tang Ning and accepted a new mission, and they all excitedly led away loudly.

Tang Ning began to send telegrams to the family elders in the United States, asking the family to help him build a Coca-Cola factory in Japan, and proposed a new cooperation model, the initial investment by himself to Coca-Cola loans, after the Coca-Cola headquarters only need to regularly sell Coca-Cola juice to the Japanese branch and provide certain technical support, the Japanese branch will pay a franchise fee to the head office every five years, and other plants, equipment, employees, raw materials, means of transportation, and sales are completed independently by the Japanese branch.

Downing's telegram soon caused a strong response in Coca-Cola's headquarters, and the then chairman of the board of directors, Woodruff, was returning home because of the end of World War II, a large number of American troops who had fought overseas, and Coca-Cola lost such a large number of "volunteer salesmen", which caused the overseas market to shrink sharply.

At this time, an underappreciated boy from the Downing family actually put forward an extremely genius creative suggestion, that is, to develop a new cooperation model, with the Coca-Cola head office responsible for technical support and juice wholesale, and distributors around the country using local manpower and material resources to develop Coca-Cola's overseas market. Although his idea was still largely limited to the supply of munitions to the U.S. forces stationed in Japan, this idea inspired Woodruff greatly, so Woodruff agreed to Downing's request with a stroke of his pen.

In fact, Downing himself is not valued within the family, otherwise he would not have been far away from the family's power center and sent to remote Japan, but his identity is still recognized by the family, otherwise he would not have served as a captain and staff officer of the US Army at the age of only 26, which would not have been possible without the help of the family.

And this time Downing's application telegram, although there are many places that need the support of the family, but after discussion, the family elders feel that there is no possibility of losing this business, after all, the number of US troops stationed in Japan and the reputation of Coca-Cola are there, as long as there is no one in the US military to make up the competition, then only relying on the consumption power of the US military stationed in Japan is enough to recover all the investment, and it can also open the Coca-Cola market in Southeast Asia, so the family decided to fully support this poor little guy who is far away in Japan.