Chapter 192: Spheres of Influence
Seed control is Yang Feng's conspiracy for a long time, at this time China is still an agricultural society in the final analysis, and the social foundation is still a huge peasant army, so he does not believe that the temptation of doubling the yield per mu is not as good as those illusory slogans.
In the final analysis, China's chaos is all about hunger, and no one is interested in doing the work of their heads and belts when they have enough to eat, except for those who are too well fed.
Liu Xiang didn't know that Lu Dao's plan was actually very big, but he also knew very well that once Yang Feng's seeds were fully promoted in Sichuan, then this province would actually stretch his neck into his hands, and he could pinch it whenever he wanted.
But the temptation of at least doubling the yield per mu is too great, and he will never forget the blood on the foreheads of the old farmers who are lying on the ground and kowtowing to the corn harvested in the field, and Yang Feng also told him very clearly.
"What's this production? If there is no chemical fertilizer or pesticide, if you match the whole set, it is easy to double it again. Yang Feng said with a look of disdain.
You take the pioneer seeds that Lao Tzu bought from the United States and grow less than 700 catties per mu, and it is still in the country of abundance, which is known for its fertile soil.
"Brother Yang, you also know that no one regards corn as a staple food at this time, and the yield in the past is too low, so they are all planted in those thin lands, and the people don't know the benefits of your kind of seeds, and they are still planted in thin land, and they will not be planted again next year, according to estimates, at least 1,000 catties." Liu Xiang said with some embarrassment.
Don't count on chemical fertilizers and pesticides for the time being, none of these don't cost money, and it's not realistic to expect farmers whose income may not be able to fill their stomachs to have spare money, and it doesn't cost money to talk about soil and fertilizer, and it's good for people to catch insects quickly, but Liu Xiang is still quite emotional. The creature sighed and said, "Brother Yang, how did you say that you guys came up with this, why are you so godly." ”
"It's called science, and you don't understand it, didn't you run a university? Spend more money and hire more engineers. Scientists or something, don't keep staring at those sour literati, you are not a talent, no matter how well you write your articles, can you make money or can you make arms? Such a person almost raises a few people and just smears you with some brilliance in the newspaper on weekdays! Yang Feng said with a look of disdain.
His inspection stopped at the Qijiang Railway, and the mine was not interested, so he returned to Chongqing, where he met with several important persons in charge of the Chongqing Iron and Steel Group, and then planned tanks and cars with Zhang Xinwu. The construction of the three aircraft factories does not need to be too big for the time being, anyway, it is a small-scale assembly work, but the factory must reserve a large enough area.
While Yang Feng was busy planning his munitions base in Chongqing, over Qinhuangdao, two Nakajima Type 91 destroyers of the Japanese Army Aviation were roaming here like two hyenas patrolling the territory, as usual.
But unlike usual, now they are below the Chinese soil. There is an additional anti-aircraft cannon with a door pointing at the sky.
"Kimura-kun, you said if we swooped down. Will those people be in a mess! ”
"Ono-kun, don't take any risks, this is Yang Feng's people, maybe they will really shoot."
"It's so infuriating, what do these bastards think of Qinhuangdao as a place, their own home? He actually aimed heavy artillery at Shanhaiguan. It's outrageous! The two pilots were chatting to each other over the radio while looking below, not noticing that the security division soldiers below had dialed the phone number at Nanyuan Airport.
Ten minutes later, the two Nakajima planes had already flown over Lulong.
"Ono-kun, isn't it time to go back, it's not very good to look at the sky. I don't want to wait for the rain to get wet. Second Lieutenant Kimura said with a smile, if the cockpit is open, it will be a big trouble if it rains during the flight.
"Ono-kun, Ono-kun!" Seeing that Ono didn't answer, Kimura hurriedly continued to shout, and at the same time turned his head to look at the wingman next to him, and then saw Ono looking up at the sky above him as if he had seen a ghost.
"Ono-kun!" Second Lieutenant Kimura shouted in dissatisfaction, and before he could hear Ono's answer, he heard the sound of dense machine-gun fire in his ears, and then he saw Ono's head explode with a bang, and almost at the same time one of the wings of his landline flew out.
Kimura subconsciously turned around and flew to the side, and out of the corner of his eye, a black demon-like evil figure swept overhead.
"Enemy planes, there are enemy planes!" Kimura yelled hoarsely at the point, a machine-gun bullet whizzing past his ears.
"What kind of plane!" Inquiries from the base were heard over the radio.
"I didn't see it, it was right behind me!" Kimura was about to turn his head as he spoke, when suddenly a barrage of bullets swept overhead, slamming into the nose with a heart-rending crash, and then flames erupted from the nose, and the propeller struggled a few times to stop spinning.
"I've been shot!" Kimura screamed and tried to maneuver the plane in an attempt to make a forced landing, but after only a few seconds, he heard a thud and a huge ball of fire exploded in front of him, scorching flames slamming down on his face.
Kimura screamed and crashed at high speed along with the wreckage of his plane, and just then, Kimura finally saw his enemy, and an evil black twin-engine large fighter flew overhead, then drew an elegant arc and turned southwest.
A few minutes later, Yang Feng, who was in Chongqing, already knew the news that two Japanese fighters that had entered the airspace of eastern Hebei had been shot down by a twin demon carrying out the mission of the no-fly zone, and the two Japanese pilots were all killed.
"Well done, pass me on the order to reward the pilot with a thousand dollars, and if there is such a situation in the future, he will still do this, mah, how do you talk to Lao Tzu as a fart!" Yang Feng looked at the telegram and said to Xiaohui.
As long as he found that a Japanese plane had crossed the Great Wall, he would shoot it down directly, and there was no need to talk to them about anything else.
But then he will have to go back to Beiping, and you can imagine how angry the Japanese will be, because the wounds they have suffered not long ago have not been healed, and this has stabbed them again, and it is indeed difficult to guarantee that there will be no irrational behavior.
As soon as the goods returned to Beiping, Tada Jun came to the door.
"According to the Tanggu Agreement, we have the right to conduct reconnaissance flights over the Hebei East African Armed Zone." Tada Jun violently threw the text of the Tanggu Agreement in front of Yang Feng.
"Commander Tada, is it useful to say this? We're all adults. Don't engage in these childish things, I, Yang Feng, am not a protest officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so let's sit down and talk about something open and honest today. Yang Feng stood up and walked over to a large map, and then drew a line with a pencil south of the two cities of Tianjin, which is roughly equivalent to modern Beiping and Tianjin.
"South of the Great Wall, north of this line, don't make trouble for me anymore. Here, even if I have one acre and three points of land in Yang Feng, I can be regarded as the number one person, and it is impossible to even have a range of potential.
On my one-third of an acre of land, I will beat anyone who is disobedient, including you Japanese, to be honest, I can tolerate your Haiguang Temple garrison is already very face-saving, don't keep thinking about getting an inch.
Don't mention this treaty or that treaty to me, the Qing Dynasty has been gone for more than 20 years, and the Xinchou Treaty should have gone to the garbage heap a long time ago. Not to mention the 21 articles, the Beiyang government has collapsed for almost ten years, who is still necessary to take care of what they signed? Don't mention any Tanggu agreement to me, that thing Nanjing government agreed to me, Yang Feng didn't agree! Yang Feng almost pointed at Tada Jun's nose and said proudly.
"Are you provoking?" Tada Jun shouted.
"If that's what you understand, then forget it!" Yang Feng said indifferently.
"Commander Tada, my words have been made very clear, and you don't have the right to reply to me in the future, so go back and send a telegram to the country! If you agree, then we will be reconciled in the future. If you don't agree, then we don't have much to say. I've thrown 200,000 rifles to the Northeast now, believe it or not I'm going to throw another 200,000? And ask Kenkichi Ueda for me, how effective is the black powder grenade? I've built a factory like this, and I'm going to keep producing it in the future.
Tang Juwu is being raised by me, and Li Du also went to the Northeast with his men and horses, do you believe it or not, I will arm another one? Yang Feng said triumphantly.
The Black Powder Grenade is amazingly effective. During this time, the number of Japanese who died in various bombings alone has exceeded 100, and the most ruthless one was made by a little beggar, this twelve-year-old little beggar, who did not see the object clearly when begging for food, was severely beaten by a group of Japanese ronin. As a result, the bear boy went back and carried two black powder grenades from nowhere, and threw them through the window into their dwellings.
It just so happened that these guys were drinking with a few Japanese soldiers from their fellow villagers, and two black powder grenades killed seven and wounded six.
Tada Jun left with a blushing face, looking at his lonely back, Yang Feng was also very emotional, an old guy in his fifties was bullied like this by himself, and he could still swallow his anger, which was commendable.
Speaking of which, the clashes with the Japanese have been a bit too frequent recently, so it is easy for them to lose their minds, and it is also very inconvenient for themselves, until now the Marauder is still blocked by them in Shanghai, and the Japanese Navy drove the Akagi aircraft carrier, which was originally going to be refitted, to the East China Sea, shouting that the Marauder would be blown up and sunk as soon as it came out, so Yang Feng had to let Li Guotang and them continue to caten in Shanghai.
So Yang Feng doesn't mind everyone sitting down and opening up now, otherwise it would be bad to guess and have a misunderstanding, so first divide the scope of the situation, stabilize them, at least drive the Marauder out first, and Yangma Island will also complete the construction immediately, and try to let them not make trouble for themselves before their submarines are completed.
When their batteries are built, torpedo boats, submarines are all in force, and shore defense anti-ship missiles are deployed, then their ambitions will definitely grow vigorously like spring grass, and then it is normal not to be satisfied with this range of potential.
The Japanese government attaches great importance to Tadajun's report, Yang Feng is the first time to put forward such a constructive proposal, they have been very annoying recently, and it is not beneficial for both parties to fight with Yang Feng, in the final analysis, as he himself evaluates himself, he can't even rank in the top five among Japan's enemies, and the bald guys are ranked higher than him.
Japan's biggest enemy is the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, these are all tigers and wolves, Yang Feng is at most a mad dog, it is a hero who fights tigers and wolves, which hero do you see fighting a mad dog? Besides, Yang Feng played semi-independence in North China, which was not out of Japan's strategic scope, after all, their biggest enemy in China was the bald guys, and a unified China was absolutely unacceptable, but a warlord who was unfriendly to Japan was barely acceptable.
Soon the Japanese government secretly sent negotiators, and in order to show goodwill to Yang Feng, the Okada cabinet sent Yoshida Shigeru, who had always been not so notorious in relations with China, and Umezu Yoshijiro, who was more familiar with Yang Feng.
"Mr. Yoshida. Come and see the good stuff I brought from Sichuan! In the conservatory in the compound of Jinyuan Company, Yang Feng enthusiastically introduced the five giant pandas he had just shipped back to Shigeru Yoshida.
"Mr. Yang, this cute animal should be a cat bear, right?" Shigeru Yoshida looked at these cute guys and couldn't help but smile and said.
"Don't be fooled by the appearance of this thing, it's a carnivore by zoological classification. That said, it's not fundamentally different from the bears we fear most in the boreal forest, and I've seen them show their claws many times to catch bamboo rats. Yang Feng said with a smile.
Under the speculation of Jin Yuan, the giant panda has swept the world, under the instruction of Yang Feng, Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui, in the name of the chairman of Sichuan and Xikang provinces, have ordered that unless there is an official document from the provincial government, no one is allowed to capture and hunt giant pandas. And Yang Feng's two pairs of giant pandas to the headquarters of Jinyuan in the United States and Europe have also been sent.
Yoshida Shigeru naturally understood the intention of this product, and said with a smile: "Then I underestimated this thing, but no matter how you say it, it is difficult to have much attack power without fangs, at most it is to capture small animals, and it will be dangerous to encounter tigers and wolves." ”
"That's enough, you don't know when an animal protects territory. That's brutal. Yang Feng said with a smile.
The two of them were dumbfounded for a while, and then they got to the point. The demands of the Japanese were simple, Yang Feng stopped harassing the Northeast, including stopping support for Tang Juwu and Li Du, and forbidding the loss of weapons in the Northeast.
Anyway, Yang Feng used this word, Jin Yuan's plane was in a training flight. If it is accidentally lost, as for why it will be trained in the northeast, and why it will lose hundreds of thousands of rifles and tens of thousands of grenades, there is no need to delve into this.
And the commitment of the Japanese side is: The resumption of normal relations between the two sides, that is, the lifting of the blockade of Dagukou, which has actually been lifted long ago, after all, it is useless to cheapen the British in vain, and the other is to lift the blockade of the Marauder.
"Mr. Yoshida, don't you think that's too unreasonable? We are all smart people, so we don't talk about the mess, you don't have to pay to solve the biggest trouble, this is too whimsical, Dagukou you blockade or not has no impact on me, as for the Marauder, in fact, the US government has promised me that if the Marauder is going to the United States in the future, the US Pacific Fleet will send warships to escort the whole process, if you have the courage to attack the Marauder under the protection of the US warship, I can only say you bull B! Yang Feng said with a look of disdain.
"So what does Mr. Yang mean?" Yoshida Shigeru said with a smile, of course he knew that Yang Feng would not agree, and the negotiation did not leave enough room for bargaining.
"It's very simple, you withdraw all the garrisons in North China, including those in eastern Hebei and Tianjin, and I will stop aiding Tang Juwu." Yang Feng said.
"It can't be!" Yoshida Shigeru hurriedly said that if he agreed to such conditions, he would not be hacked to death by those radical officers when he returned.
"Mr. Yoshida, let's be honest, just this point of your garrison in Pingjin, when do I think you will be killed, it is a matter of one sentence, you have a total of 4,000 people in Tianjin, I have a brigade and a division of Yu Xuezhong to surround them, at least a total of more than a hundred 150 mortars are aimed at Haiguang Temple, I only need to give an order that it will be razed to the ground in less than a minute, is it meaningful for a garrison like yours?" Yang Feng said.
"Mr. Yang, I noticed that Li Du is not included in your conditions, and if you continue to support Li Du, then there is no point in us talking about anything else." Instead of answering his question, Shigeru Yoshida asked him a question.
"General Li Du is not supporting me, but the Chinese National Armed Self-Defense Committee to which he belongs is supporting, I am only executing a commercial contract, they give me money, buy things from me, and then I am responsible for the delivery, and I have collected a lot of money, so I have to fulfill the contract.
I'm a businessman, I can do nothing but maintain my business reputation. Yang Feng said lightly.
Tang Juwu said that the weapons and ammunition were directly thrown at them and asked them to contact the Soviets to buy them, and Comrade Joseph's people would be happy to do this business, as for the food and medicines, which were bought from modern times and sent by shuttle, the Japanese could not check if they wanted to, but Li Du and Yang Feng must continue to support them, because it is related to their own reputation.
Yoshida Shigeru understood that Yang Feng's bottom line was to stop supporting Tang Juwu, and not to throw things in the northeast, in exchange for Japan's withdrawal from Pingjin, of course, the lifting of the blockade was for sure.
In the final analysis, the purpose of this goods is to defend and run their nest more strictly, and in the opinion of Yoshida Shigeru himself, this condition is completely acceptable, and the garrison in Tianjin is indeed meaningless, and if it really fights, this multi-wing team will be wiped out in the shortest possible time, which even Umezu Mijiro admits.
As for the garrison in eastern Hebei, in fact, it is equally dangerous, Yang Feng's heavy artillery can already hit Shanhaiguan, the kind of chariot that can float is right under their noses, and if it really fights, the heavy artillery here will block the reinforcements, and the chariot will raid there, and the result will not be any different from the Tianjin garrison.
But the point is that the military will agree? They have suffered heavy losses during this time, from the army to the navy, they all gritted their teeth at Yang Feng, and if the government compromised with Yang Feng, then they would definitely not accept it. (To be continued......)
PS: I'll add more tomorrow