Sure enough, as soon as Gao Jianwu said it, Ding Wei understood it and understood the strategic significance of what Gao Jianwu said.

The brigade commander had already told him that coming here to fight was not to fight in vain as someone else's mercenaries, not only to bring back a strong combat force, but also to cooperate with Gao Jianwu to complete the strategic layout of the resource supply here.

It's just that Ding Wei didn't expect it to be so soon, and Gao Jianwu began to prepare to do it.

And some clues to a copper mine have been found, even if it is not clear exactly where it is, but if the copper mine is narrowed down to the vicinity of Monyva, it will not be too long to find it.

Of course, Ding Wei knows how lacking there is a shortage of copper mines in China now, and as for the supply of copper on the Eighth Road, the supply of copper basically depends on the outside, but a large amount of copper is used in weapons and equipment.

And with the advancement of Gao Jianwu's industrial development plan, electricity has begun to increase dramatically. In the power system, copper will be used more widely and in greater demand, so that copper will become a strategic resource.

Ding Wei is not like Zhang Dabiao, who just stares at the war and doesn't think about anything else.

Gao Jianwu could see things, and he slowly followed them, and continued to figure out and learn.

Therefore, among the eight roads, if there is anyone who follows Gao Jianwu's thoughts the most, except for Ding Wei, there is really no second person.

Even Shenquan, who is very close to Gao Jianwu, is still a big step behind, because his vision and pattern are still not as good as Ding Wei.

It seems that Gao Jianwu had already considered these issues when he selected troops to fight in South Asia.

Ding Wei looked at Gao Jianwu, and secretly admired the other party's long-term layout, but he really couldn't see it at that time, especially the Nanyang Working Group, who wanted to send someone here to carry out the work.

Even if you can send people, I'm afraid you don't know what kind of efforts you are working towards, only Gao Jianwu's eyes as if he have seen through history can see the future role of this place in the base area, so he began to lay out in advance.

The key is that Gao Jianwu is so young, why is his head full of so many forward-looking things?

But this may be the luck of the Eighth Road, there are such talents to help the base area become more and more prosperous.

Ding Wei thought about it, and after being interrupted by Gao Jianwu and pulled back to reality, the two continued to discuss some details of implementation, and the two of them decided on this matter.

As soon as Gao Jianwu said it thoroughly, Ding Wei knew that this was a problem they had to solve, no matter how hard it was, this hidden battle must be won, otherwise this battle would be half in vain.

Not only here, but also in the future, they will do the same in other places where they have been defeated.

Therefore, the matter on Monywa's side, the two of them must take out their experience to turn all this into a complete and smooth routine, effectively control the actual control here, take the resources, and then solve these problems more quickly in other places.

We aim to make this place a supplier of raw materials.

Not just copper, but also oil, rubber, iron ore, nickel, aluminum...... The mineral resources here are abundant, and Gao Jianwu has only opened a window now.

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The Nanyang working group received the good news of the victory, they did not expect Gao Jianwu's progress to be so fast, and they had already won the first big victory before their own side was dispatched.

At this rate, it seems that it will not be long before the southern part of the British territory of Burma will be occupied by Gao Jianwu and them.

But this victory gave a huge boost to their work.

Originally, the big Chinese businessmen who were still hesitant about the mineral development plan proposed by the Nanyang Working Group were reluctant to enter into substantive negotiations because it sounded a bit like a fantasy at the beginning.

But now that I heard the good news, I realized that a series of resource development plans began to be put forward here, which was not a fantasy, but a real opportunity to land, which made the businessmen's eyes red.

Even the Nanyang Working Group is still working secretly under the strict control of Xiaori.

These smelling big businessmen all came to the door secretly one by one to negotiate this matter with this side.

You must know that this kind of business is the real profiteering. Ordinary people don't have the opportunity to step in at all, and there is no strong backer behind them, and no one can eat this fat.

Gao Jianwu and they really sent troops here, and they can fight like this, it seems that most of this place will fall into their hands.

Thinking that the other party's layout is still so long-term, these big businessmen know that they will definitely have great gains by following Gao Jianwu.

Even now, it seems that the stakes of the business are still huge.

But when is this lucrative business risk-free?

In order to catch this bus, they all tried their best to come to the activities of the Nanyang Working Group.

According to Gao Jianwu's thoughts, these businessmen have their own ghosts, and they also have their own doorways and energy, so it is best to gather them for my use.

What they want is profits, and what Gao Jianwu wants is a reliable supply of raw materials and primitive accumulation, and both sides take what they need.

So the Nanyang Working Group will form them into a coalition. Together, they formed a new Nanyang Investment Company Limited.

The Nanyang Working Group, on behalf of Ping An Base, occupies a 51% controlling stake.

The remaining shares are distributed internally by themselves. Although it seems that the Nanyang working group occupies the majority of the money invested in it, which makes the big businessmen who pay it seem to suffer a little, but what the Ping'an base area invests is the resources of the occupied area, and for these big businessmen in Nanyang, this is the biggest investment.

These big businessmen themselves are a deep-rooted force in Nanyang, and some families have even operated for dozens or hundreds of years, and have great influence in the local area.

So this time Gao Jianwu united them, and he may use them to play a huge role in the future.

These people are engaged in different industries and different energies, and they form a subtle check and balance between them, so that in the future, the various industries that Nanyang Gao Jianwu needs to carry out will be watched, so that there will not be a dominant situation, so that Gao Jianwu can control these businesses in distant places.

Don't look at the Nanyang working group now, all of them are rooted, but they can't keep it for a long time, if they face a large number of interests, they will have some thoughts, Gao Jianwu has begun to think about the long-term governance work in the future when he is doing this.

They are doing business in almost all walks of life, not only the prospecting and mining that Gao Jianwu needs, these people will still be useful to Gao Jianwu in the future, after all, after beating the little devil away, what is left is a devastated land of Shenzhou, and he needs more capable people to build him together.

After the matter was settled, the distribution of benefits was negotiated, and some people directly organized mining and prospecting teams and began to enter the Burmese and British territories one after another.

Whenever there is a huge profit, then someone will take a huge risk to do it.

Even if it's still a place of war.

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However, Gao Jianwu will not participate in the work of the Nanyang Working Group, he has a lot of things now, and some things will be handed over to others to handle, and he will not do it himself, otherwise he will not be able to finish it even if he is divided into eight parts.

Now, he has to start making a plan to attack Mandalay.

Because the bridge in Monywa was blown up by the little devils, the tank units of the expeditionary force could not cross the river for a while.

However, the 22nd Division, the little devil that Gao Jianwu is encountering now, is also a garrison division, and they also have no armored troops, and they have also lost an artillery wing and the strongest 105mm howitzer.

So the arrival of the tank units of the expeditionary force cluster is just the icing on the cake, there is no and it is not terrible, and he is not in a hurry.

On Monywa's side, Ding Wei stayed for the time being, and began to look for agents while clearing the remnants of the surrounding little devils and some uncooperative local forces.

Although there are not many local Chinese at this time, there are some, so after finding a few Chinese, the problem of language communication with the locals has been quickly solved.

With the help of Smith's activities, Ding Wei was also allowed to use the name of the Allies to recruit local laborers to repair bridges and roads.

Ding Wei took the lead in recruiting more than 100 Chinese young adults, and after training and screening, he left more than 50 Chinese young adults who were inclined to expeditionary force clusters as the backbone, and began to recruit more than 2,000 people to build bridges and improve the road from Monywa to Mandalay.

However, after consulting Gao Jianwu's opinion, for the main body of the Chan tribe or a tribal nation, although the face is the same as ours, but the cultural origin is actually not deep in the mainland, Gao Jianwu knew that those Tusi later also had their own thoughts, so he couldn't trust them at first.

Through more than 50 Chinese young adults, this group of Zen people who originally lived at the bottom were organized and formed more than 50 workshops to manage, and Ding Wei's people mixed in and began secret operations to influence them.

Gao Jianwu's clean annihilation of the 15th Division of the Little Devil also improved the status of the local Chinese with the same skin a lot, and now no one dares to bully easily.

Therefore, although the expeditionary force cluster had nothing to do with them before, the real status improvement made them understand that helping the expeditionary force cluster was to help themselves, and these Chinese began to accept Ding Wei's manager's idea to manage different work classes under them.

In the name of facilitating the command of the project, Ding Wei's people began to teach these illiterate people to learn Chinese characters and Chinese.

Thanks to the logistical supply of the Allied forces, Ding Wei provided this group of people with sufficient food in life, which was much stronger than their previous three days of starvation, so that they did not have so much resistance to working and studying under the command of the expeditionary force.

Ding Wei was not in a hurry, this matter was not in a hurry, he swept away all kinds of miscellaneous armed forces around him to stabilize the local situation.

On the one hand, through construction projects, they provide jobs for local shabby hooligans, and then educate them through work classes.

At the same time, Ding Wei is also trying to get familiar with the local situation from the mouth of the local Chinese, and when Ding Wei understands Gao Jianwu's goal, he very consciously makes up for Gao Jianwu's shortcomings.

As a commander with a big pattern, Ding Wei has positioned his battlefield to a new challenge!