Chapter 48 Confiscation of Japanese capital
Thanks to the book friend "The Hatred of the Fifth Ji" (the arrow can't be typed ==) for his generous reward ^_^
Moreover, there was also a Japanese concession in Hangzhou, and there were quite a few overseas Japanese in the city, adding up to several thousand, and these accomplices of the Japanese army invading China in the future would naturally not let go, and soon the special mission of the Red 15 th Army quickly marched into the Japanese concession, easily wiped out several hundred Japanese troops in the concession and some armed Japanese overseas Chinese who had been temporarily organized, and then took control of the entire Japanese concession. No matter how well-trained the Japanese army were, it was really difficult for them to fight against the Red 15th Army Special Service Regiment, which was equipped with a large number of automatic weapons and was now the first in street fighting
Then, Hu Weidong immediately ordered the screening of Japanese overseas Chinese in the city, and all those who were reported guilty by Hangzhou citizens (including anonymous reports) were executed, and those who were not reported were also confiscated all their property, leaving only one month's rations for each family as a sign of humanity. The most desperate thing is that Hu Weidong actually "sold" back to the owner of the real estate that the Red Army could not take away (he wanted to dump it on the spot, but the citizens of Hangzhou were afraid of offending the Japanese, and no one dared to buy it no matter how low the price was). He also forced each of them to write down an IOU. In this regard, the Japanese were angry and secretly laughed at the greed and stupidity of the Chinese, "These bandits are really crazy about money, do they think we will fulfill these bills in the future?" Or will they come to Japan to collect our debts? ”。 But they never imagined that a few years later, Hu Weidong would really take his troops to the Japanese island to force debts
As for the scientific and technological talents among the Japanese overseas Chinese, Hu Weidong continued the practice of packing them all up, packing them all away, but for those guys who tried to resist or non-violent non-cooperation, Hu Weidong was not as polite as his compatriots, and only executed more than 20 on the first day, and in order to "save bullets", all of them adopted the most feared way of beheading by the Japanese, and then the Japanese overseas Chinese were all immediately suppressed, after all, although most of them were also poisoned by militaristic ideas, but after all, they were just civilians, With no chance of victory, they did not have the courage to confront Hu Weidong's 100,000-strong army.
During this period, there was also a small tidbit, the Japanese consul in Hangzhou actually found Hu Weidong's command headquarters and condemned the Red Army for undeclared war and violation of public international law.
The Japanese consul was stunned for a moment, judging from Hu Weidong's expression, it didn't look like he was deceiving him, so everyone didn't know that this matter was obviously blocked by the Nanjing government. However, although the Japanese consul scolded Lao Chiang many times in his heart, he could not think of any way to safeguard Japan's interests in Hangzhou for a while
It stands to reason that the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs should protest to the Chinese government and demand compensation, but this time the other party is an opponent of the Nanjing government, and if Japan really does this, it will more or less hit the prestige of the Nanjing government, and that will not help the Red Army?
"Maybe the Japanese said after the defeat that the assets they left in China were worth $20 billion (meaning that these assets were enough to pay war reparations, but this is obviously unreasonable, how can reparations be confused with stolen money?). It's not all exaggeration," Hu Weidong looked at the list of money and materials obtained from the confiscation of Japanese capital, and muttered to himself, the total value of hard currency and those easily realized properties exceeded 5 million oceans, and the antique calligraphy and paintings were even more numerous, and Hu Weidong also had huge IOUs representing the value of those real estates, with a total value of no less than 30 million oceans
Originally, Hu Weidong also hoped to dig out some traitors through the confessions of the Japanese and increase the results of confiscation, but there are not many traitors in Hangzhou (even if you want to hug foreign thighs, Jiangnan will generally hug Britain and the United States, and the small Japanese shili in this area is limited.) In addition, most of them have been inadvertently removed when Hu Weidong purged the chaebol, so the harvest of confiscating the traitor's private property is relatively limited, and it all adds up to hundreds of thousands of oceans, and now Hu Weidong's appetite has also grown, and he can no longer look down on this little money...,
In addition to the Japanese, there are some other foreigners in Hangzhou, especially those financial institutions are still very oily, and their attitude towards the Red Army is generally quite bad, Hu Weidong, who is already a bit addicted to robbery, unconsciously gave birth to the idea of "killing them in a pot", but considering that the War of Resistance is imminent, we must not make too many enemies, and what the Red Army really lacks is not money, but industrial production capacity, if the Western powers are offended now, it will be even more difficult to get machinery and equipment in the future. In the end, Hu Weidong still endured this bad breath, but those who dared to use force and "harbor fugitives", he would not be polite, but all of a sudden those Westerners who were holding their heads high like a proud rooster were suppressed, Hu Weidong couldn't help but think of the shelling of the "Purple Quartz" in the later stage of the Liberation War, and sighed, "These foreigners are really bullying the soft and afraid of the hard!" ”
Although the harvest is very expensive, but a large part of it is the Red 15th Army can not take away, real estate such as homesteads are not counted, a large number of confiscated antique cultural relics for the Red 15th Army that has to march for a long time at every turn is like chicken ribs, if you take it on the road, not only is it useless, but also a large part of it will be destroyed in the war, at that time Hu Weidong must not be scolded by the domestic cultural circles? Therefore, Hu Weidong had to choose to sell it as much as possible, fortunately, these things are not like real estate, they can be bought and hidden anonymously, so there are still many businessmen who are willing to buy, just because the number of one-time shipments is too large, Hu Weidong only needs hard currency such as gold and silver, and foreign exchange only accepts pounds and dollars with strong purchasing power, so the price is simply miserable, and in the end, together with other goods sold by the Red Fifteenth Army, as well as the hard currency directly seized, the total value of about 30 million oceans. During this period, Hu Weidong suddenly remembered the "silver crisis" in history, and realized that this year was a peak of Shijie silver prices for a long time, and silver was relatively heavy, so Hu Weidong basically exchanged it for gold and pounds and dollars through those Western banks in Hangzhou, although he had to give up a little difference to those greedy foreigners, but after all, the Red Army was still in the city, and those vampires did not dare to be too dark, coupled with the rapid depreciation of silver prices at the end of 35, Hu Weidong was equal to a net profit of nearly twice the silver dollar, It's a pity that he saved this money to prepare to go abroad to purchase equipment, so the only role is only to avoid losses