Chapter 313 War Reparations
"Peace talks? Of course, you can, but you have to make the conditions clear first, it's not me who provokes them, but they came to provoke me first, causing me to lose more than 100 planes, kill more than 70 pilots, and cause mental losses to the people of Pingjin, of course, including mine, and my bombs also cost money, and all kinds of losses are caused by their active provocations, so this compensation must be had. Yang Feng said arrogantly.
Todman shrugged, not to mention him, even the Japanese had already been mentally prepared, and it would definitely not work if they didn't get the money ready to negotiate with Yang Feng, especially in this kind of situation, he also fully understood the issue of war reparations, and to be honest, who could have more reparations than the Germans? Even if the Younger plan was reduced a lot, the Germans would still have to pay 132 billion marks in compensation, which is equivalent to 32 billion US dollars, and compared with this figure, the amount of all China's foreign reparations since the Opium War is probably less than one-third.
Of course, Germany now not only does not have to pay back, but can also take money from the people who should have received it.
Therefore, there is no shame in saying that the war reparations are not ashamed, the key is whether you have the ability to get them back, but I am afraid that the reparations that the Japanese want to pay will not be able to get them back.
"Yang, you can name a number." He said with a smile.
"I'll do the math!" Yang Feng took care of the abacus and tossed for a while, and then said very casually: "Just a hundred tons of gold."
"Yang, I'm afraid this number is too high, it's hard for the Japanese to accept, you have to know that they basically don't have much gold reserves to support the war now." Toddman swallowed.
"Oscar, you don't know that. The gold that these dwarves snatched from the British in Southeast Asia was more than enough to pay this compensation, and maybe they couldn't use even a fraction of it. Yang Feng said that although he did not know how much the Japanese robbed, how much the British lost. Yang Feng has an approximate figure, and this is still a loss report made by the British Parliament itself, so he asked for a hundred tons of gold.
In this case, there is nothing to say about Todman, in fact, he knows very well his position in this negotiation, he must serve Yang Feng, meet all his requirements, and serve this goods well, so that it is possible to get that kind of mysterious bomb from him. Now the Air Force is bombing Britain on a large scale, and the effect of napalm is amazing, and London is burned to the ground, but because of the problem of building materials, it has never been possible to get the effect that Yang Feng has achieved in Japan, but if it is replaced with this kind of bomb, then I am afraid it will not be long before the British will have to kneel.
The Japanese were stunned by Yang Feng's demand for compensation, and this Nima was too shameless. You've lost more than a hundred planes, and we've lost almost a thousand. Now looking at the empty airfields everywhere, the Minister of War still wants to cry without tears, and the Minister of the Navy is even more worried about the scarred aircraft carriers in the dock, your hair is gray, you have killed more than 70 pilots, and we have died more than 100,000!
Of course, this kind of truth can't be talked to Yang Feng, and everyone is an old friend. They all know each other, generally speaking, as long as it is the number that Yang Feng asks, it is difficult for him to change it, but even so, it is impossible to give a hundred tons of gold to this guy. Why give him the gold that the warriors of the imperial army exchanged for blood, you can't be unreasonable!
"Don't give? Then don't blame me for being ruthless, I'll give them three days to think about it again, and if they haven't sent me the gold when it's due, then they'll be ready to lose another city!" After hearing the news that the Japanese rejected him, Yang Feng said with a cruel smile.
In order to put enough pressure on the Japanese, four Liberators took off from Qingdao Airport that night, and then flew to Shikoku, which had not been affected by the war, and dropped 20 tons of napalm in Kochi, and these four bombers entered Shikoku from the east coast of Japan, and the anti-aircraft artillery did not even have time to warn.
The next day, there were four more Liberators, but this time the target was actually changed to Sapporo, taking off from Jinzhou Airport, swaggering over the northeast, and then dropping four cloudburst bombs on the city.
Now the Japanese really can't stand it, Yang Feng is clearly telling them, as long as I want, I can bomb you wherever I want, I can bomb you wherever I want, he can afford to play, the Japanese can't afford to play, they also understand very well, Yang Feng left room for them, in fact, up to now, he has not bombed those industrial areas related to the fate of Japan, although there are many dead, but the strength of Japan's industry is not damaged, if he targets the bombing of those industrial cities, no more, really to erase three or five, Then the Japanese army will have to shrink on all fronts, and if the United States falls into the ground again, it is not impossible to lose the war.
A hundred tons is a hundred tons, and it should all be spent to buy peace, anyway, I have made a lot of money in Southeast Asia, and the money can still be afforded, so before it gets dark on the third day, under the supervision of Todman, a Japanese merchant ship full of gold set sail from Tokyo.
At this time, on the battlefield in Burma, the Japanese army, which had already begun a small-scale offensive, had to retreat under strict orders, and watched the Milei Highway extend forward little by little.
One hundred tons of gold was quickly transported to Beiping, and the disposal of this huge amount of money or the distribution of spoils needed to be studied, and finally Yang Feng made a decision, after compensating for the losses of the air force and the pensions of the dead pilots, as well as the rewards for the pilots who participated in the war, the rest was divided into three parts, one was given to the Pingjin and provincial finances, one was given to the Academy of Sciences as research funds, and the rest of the army was divided into bonuses according to their positions from top to bottom.
However, the bombing of Sendai also caused a very unfortunate incident, the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Bombay and the 42nd Division stationed in Calcutta, after learning the news that their hometown had been reduced to ashes and their relatives had died tragically, because they were full of grief and indignation, they had nowhere to vent their anger and anger, and more than 10,000 British prisoners of war used as slaves were killed by angry Japanese soldiers, causing an international uproar.
Of course, there was an uproar, no one could do anything about the behavior of the Japanese, and now Britain itself could not protect itself, how could there be any time to care about the prisoners of war, the German bombers were dumping high-explosive bombs and napalm into major British cities day and night, and originally hoped to rely on radar and excellent fighter pilots to give the Germans a fatal blow in the strait, who knew that the Germans had already prepared, and the radar jamming technology was quite mature, and as a result, the secret weapon that Britain was proud of basically did not play much role.
The huge Luftwaffe aircraft fleet roared in the skies over Britain, cities were reduced to ruins, and now more than 500,000 Britons have died in bombing, city dwellers have fled to the countryside in droves, countless factories are in a state of shutdown or semi-shutdown, the lack of industrial capacity has exacerbated the tension of material supply, sea transportation lines have become the lifeblood of Britain, and merchant ships loaded with weapons, ammunition, oil and grain have crossed the ocean from the distant American continent. And then bring the wealth that the British have looted for centuries back into the pockets of the Americans.
But the sea is not safe, the German underwater wolves peep in groups on the Atlantic route, keeping an eye on any merchant ship with a non-American flag, of course, sometimes they will accidentally attack an American merchant ship, but there is a kind of merchant ship that is strictly forbidden to attack, that is, a merchant ship with a huge stuffed panda next to the American flag, which means that the ship is loaded with JY company's goods, even if such a ship is loaded with munitions, then the German submarine force is ordered to strictly prohibit attack.
In this way, JY company has naturally become the priority procurement target of the British, and even some other companies that have a good relationship with JY are willing to pay for the right to use this logo, of course, there are also private uses, but it is generally difficult to escape the law, JY can not care about this kind of trivial matter, but those businessmen who have paid for this kind of thing are very sensitive, hang the panda German submarine will never attack, do not hang the panda may be attacked, then the business of hanging the panda must be good, but if they are all hanged, There's a fart advantage to that.
The first batch of twenty turboprop engines and five sets of airborne radars have been shipped to Germany, and the cooperative research on missiles is underway through the neutral Persian transfer airlift, but this obvious progress is relatively slow, although it is only a portable air defense missile, but the technical span on it is too large, and many top scientists in the two countries have never heard of it, and Yang Jing, who ran to participate in the research curiously, asked Yang Feng seriously on the bed that he must explain the secret technology of Yanhuang's laboratory clearly, otherwise he refused to share a bed with him again.
"This is no problem, but these technologies can not be disclosed by anyone except for the Chinese scientists you trust the most, especially those foreigners, the technological advantage of this thing, must be firmly in your own hands, you can go back to our Chinese scientists, pick a group of trustworthy people, and then I will provide you with some information, in addition to the relatively backward alternatives to these technologies, you can launch these alternative technologies at the appropriate time, but the real good things must not let them know." Yang Feng said.
Yang Jing is not a fool, the Western powers have been showing off their power in China for a century, in the final analysis, it is not a technological advantage, as for those systems that they want the Chinese to work hard are purely a joke, of course she understands, so she immediately excitedly agreed. (To be continued......)
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