Chapter 128: On Meritorious Deeds
On Radio Rio de Janeiro, General Dutra's cronies sent Fang Lang a recording of General Dutra's speech, and Fang Lang smiled with satisfaction after listening to it.
Immediately after that, the Voice of Rio radio station began to broadcast to all the Brazilian people the vicious events that took place in the presidential palace last night, and repeated the recording of General Dutra's speech.
In his speech, General Dutra announced to the entire nation that the Japanese mob would be held accountable for their heinous act of storming the presidential palace last night. Demands that the governments of the Brazilian states arrest and sentence the Japanese mob on a large scale.
At the same time, due to the fact that the Japanese mob caused a large number of casualties among government officials and parliamentarians in the process of occupying the presidential palace and the Diet, Mr. President was injured and needed to recuperate.
Brazil will temporarily enter a state of military control, and the presidential election will resume in December, when the new president is sworn in.
As soon as the news was announced, various newspapers and radio stations began to reprint it one after another, and public opinion was in an uproar.
For a time, everyone in Brazil shouted and beaten, and the Japanese communities in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo were frantically smashed by the Brazilian people.
In other states, people of Japanese descent were expelled by all Brazilians, and of course, in the process of deportation, Brazilians with very little education often did things to loot the property of Japanese people.
The Brazilian police are even more frequent, and when they see Japanese Americans, they will arrest and interrogate them all, even if the person who receives the report is of Japanese descent, they will arrest the person who made the report first and interrogate them together.
The Japanese Americans living in Brazil began to have no place to stand overnight, and the factories run by the Japanese were also burned down by the Brazilian people.
For a while, social order became chaotic, but fortunately, under the state of military control, the army patrolled the streets in time to suppress this trend.
Unfortunately, the Japanese businessmen who suffered losses and the members of the loser group of the Chando-do League were also implicated, and life in Brazil began to become difficult.
Although the government has not yet declared people of Japanese descent persona non grata, the Brazilian population of Brazilian society as a whole has included people of Japanese descent as persona non grata.
Fortunately, Mr. Hodges, the chief of police in São Paulo, dispatched police to protect the Chinese village and explained to the public the difference between Chinese and Japanese.
The initiator of all this is now in the office of the director of the Voice of Rio, drinking coffee and singing, smoking cigars and shabu-shabu.
Redondo, the manager of the Brazilian branch of Global Trade, who was sitting opposite Fang Lang, was constantly giving a thumbs up to Fang Lang at this time.
He never imagined that the inexplicable news that Fang Lang had him spread would have such a wonderful effect.
"Mr. Fang, you are really amazing!"
"Okay, don't let anyone know about this, understand?"
"Understood, guaranteed to rot in my stomach."
"Come, eat, I'm very happy with your performance! I'll give you another task this time."
"Command!"
"See that TV next to you?" I'm going to build a TV factory and radio station in Brazil. You go through the channels of global trade in Europe and the United States to find the most advanced related technology and equipment to ship back."
"Mr. Fang, please rest assured! I'll arrange it right away."
"From now on, my focus will be on Brazil, so your work will start to get busy.
If the number of people is insufficient, you can entrust Global Trade's branches in Europe and the United States to recruit some outstanding talents.
The next five years will be a time for the rapid rise of the Group in Brazil, and we must seize the opportunity to grow our strength rapidly."
After finishing his conversation with Redondo, Fang Lang received a phone call from General Dutra, asking him to attend a meeting at the Brazilian Ministry of Defense.
The content of the meeting was mainly to arrange the first responsible persons of the various military administrations, and Fang Lang was directly appointed as the head of the provisional military administration of the Rio Gnande Norte state government.
Rio Gnando Norte is the state where the First Fleet is based, and Natal is the capital of the state of Rio Gnandes.
Fang Lang obviously didn't expect himself to be a naval colonel,
will become the head of a state's provisional military administration.
Fang Lang didn't know much about the situation in Rio Grande Norte, but Fang Lang would certainly not refuse the opportunity to become the head of the state government.
After the meeting, Fang Lang was left behind to have dinner with General Dutra.
"Fang, thank you for coming thousands of miles to support. I wonder if you have any thoughts about coming to the Admiralty after the new government is formed!"
As soon as Fang Lang heard General Dutra's words, he didn't understand anything, this was telling Fang Lang whether you were willing to be promoted when you were rewarded for meritorious deeds.
Entering the Admiralty as a civilian executive is obviously not Fang Lang's goal, Fang Lang is very aware of the situation in Brazil in the next few years, and people who do not have military power in their hands will not be able to sit still.
"Your Excellency, I actually prefer to continue in my current position, but after this incident, I have also discovered the shortcomings of my First Fleet."
"Oh! Tell me about it!"
"My biggest impression in the Pacific Theater this time is that the Air Force is the future. The navy without aircraft carriers is a target, and it can only be beaten passively!
And this operation in support of Your Excellency has once again allowed me to experience the role of the Air Force in force projection. That's why I'm determined to build our own aircraft carrier fleet in Brazil.
Now that there are no aircraft carriers, I will also focus on building our naval aviation."
Fang Lang's words made General Dutra fall into deep thought, after all, General Dutra was born in the army and was not familiar with the navy and air force.
However, General Dutra, who had participated in the European War as a member of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, was well aware of the shock of the bombing of the planes on the European battlefield.
There are also those paratrooper tactics that can appear anywhere at any time and place, which also shocked General Dutra.
"What you say is very reasonable, I have also seen the power of the American naval aviation, but aviation alone is not enough, your Marine Corps is too small.
So be it! When I get back to Natal, I will first expand your Marine Corps into a regiment, and the matter of naval aviation, when the new government is formed, I will take it out and discuss how to deal with it at a meeting of the Ministry of Defense.
Strive for our Brazilian Navy to have its own powerful naval aviation as well."
This statement of General Dutra is simply tailor-made for Fang Lang, what is there to be dissatisfied with!
hurriedly said:
"Rest assured, Your Excellency, the First Fleet will be the sharpest knife in your hands."
Hearing Fang Lang's words, General Dutra smiled with great satisfaction, everyone can be regarded as taking what they need.
"By the way, I heard that you flew non-stop from Natal this time using our own transport plane, but I have the impression that we don't have a transport plane! What's going on?"
Fang Lang, who didn't know how to reimburse the cost of the purchase, was overjoyed when he heard this, didn't someone send a pillow just when he wanted to fall asleep?
"This is actually an emergency purchase from a U.S. *** fire dealer and cost me $300,000! They are all C46 transport aircraft in active service with the U.S. military."
"Oh! Do you still have such a channel for arms procurement? The price of 100,000 C46s for 300,000 dollars is very good!"
"Hey! What a deal! It's second-hand."
"Can I buy anything other than airplanes?"
"As long as you have money, it is estimated that you can buy all kinds of killers like fat boys!"
"Are you serious?"
"Will you be able to use this channel of yours to purchase some equipment for the military in the future?"
Originally, Fang Lang, who just wanted to reimburse the cost of buying an airplane, did not expect to have the opportunity to be a middleman to make the difference.
"Of course, no problem, but I think it's better for us to have our own military industry, otherwise we won't be able to buy it by buying it alone."
"What you say is very reasonable, but unfortunately our country has always been very poor, and it is difficult to develop rapidly by relying on agriculture. Industrialization is the future of a country!"
"Yes, Your Excellency, Your Excellency, your wise vision, will surely lead us to great Brazil. Said the army
Industry, I have a thing that I need to report to you."
"Oh! Speak!"
"When I was stationed in Japan this time, a friend of mine in the U.S. military revealed to me that there was a complete artillery production line.
Ask me if I am interested in purchasing. At that time, I was hot-headed and purchased this production line directly through Fangyuan Group.
However, I'm not sure if the government will be willing to take it over, and if not, we'll have to resell the equipment separately."
Fang Lang's news directly blew General Dutra up from his seat.
"Are you telling the truth? Where is the equipment now?"
"According to the itinerary, it should be shipped to São Paulo in a week."
General Dutra was obviously interested in being able to produce his own artillery, and after pacing back and forth indoors twice, he sat down opposite Fang Lang again.
"Fang, you really gave me a big surprise. As far as I know, Fangyuan Group is your family business, right?"
"Yes, Your Excellency."
"If the government can't afford to buy this production line, I wonder if your group is willing to set up an artillery factory?"
Fang Lang did not expect that General Dutra would want to hand over to a private company to manufacture arms.
Fang Lang actually thought about setting up an artillery factory, otherwise he would not have taken over this production line in the first place.
However, considering that if an artillery factory were to be set up directly, the size of the Brazilian Army would not be enough for the factory to survive.
This made Fang Lang very entangled.
If artillery is exported, Fang Lang is worried that with the technology of Japanese artillery, it may not be able to get orders in front of the superior equipment of European and American powers.
"Your Excellency, in fact, the group has no plans to enter the military industry. It is also difficult to support a large-scale military-industrial enterprise with the size of the Brazilian army.
The reason why Fangyuan Group purchased a production line is actually because it has a lot of advanced industrial machine tools and equipment."
"Fang, you just said it yourself, we in Brazil need to have our own military manufacturing capacity. Now that you have ready-made equipment, why don't you want to try to convince the family?
Rest assured, as long as this factory can be built, I will fully support your family's business.
If the artillery factory is not profitable, we can guarantee it through tax deductions for the Orient Circle Group.
I believe that this proposal will be fully supported by the military."
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