The new business proposed by Fang Lang made Joseph Clark's attention instantly diverted, and he didn't care about the threat from other companies just mentioned, he looked at Fang Lang expectantly and asked:

"Boss, I don't know what new business you've discovered, tell me about it."

Joseph Clark is 100% convinced of Fang Lang's business acumen, after all, compared to his achievements in the army, his business achievements can be said to be comparable to legends. From scratch to the current scale, it has only been a few years.

So, when Fang Lang told the other party that he had found a new business opportunity in Japan, he simply put other things aside.

Seeing Joseph Clarke's eager look, Fang Lang smiled.

"Uncle Clark, don't worry, since it's a big business, it must be very difficult to make achievements, which requires us to take out all our hole cards and use the strong connections in the American political and military circles, otherwise, this business may be difficult to do.

But once we do, our Whip of God company has the potential to become a great company that will go down in history. ”

It was good not to say this, but as soon as he said it, Joseph Clark couldn't sit still, and the matches he had just lit stopped in mid-air, and even the action that was about to light the cigar stopped.

"Boss, what kind of business is it, you should say it quickly! You're really in a hurry to talk like that. ”

Joseph Clark was uncomfortable by Fang Lang's betrayal of Guan Zi, which means that the other party is his boss, and if John or his subordinates talk to him like this, he can't help but beat his out.

Seeing that the other party was scratching his ears and cheeks, and he was uncomfortable, Fang Lang couldn't continue to sell it, so he just picked up the cigar he had just lit and took a deep breath, letting the fragrance stay in his mouth for about three seconds before slowly spitting it out.

"I want to take over Japan's military and police business."

Fang Lang, who had just finished spitting out a puff of smoke, directly revealed the answer.

But his answer made Joseph Clark on the other side a little confused, and asked with a puzzled expression:

"What?"

Seeing this, Fang Lang smiled helplessly and continued to speak:

"I said that I was going to let God's Whip Military Contracting Company contract the police and military operations in Japan."

After Joseph Clark heard Fang Lang's whimsical thoughts, he felt that he had heard it wrong, and looked at Fang Lang with a look of disbelief:

"How is this possible?"

Fang Lang was not surprised by Joseph's behavior after hearing this, after all, although business activities in Europe and the United States are open, and many public projects are also operated by private companies, the army and police are violent organs of the state, and I have never heard of any country that will outsource this business.

"Why can't it be? Do you know what is the current situation of the police and army in Japan? ”

Joseph was also stunned when he heard Fang Lang's question, as a veteran who had participated in the Pacific Campaign, he knew that after the defeat of Japan and the occupation of the American army, the violent organs of the entire country were disarmed, and the police were naturally one of them.

But in the past few years, his attention has been on the Americas and Europe, and he doesn't know much about the situation in Asia, so he really doesn't know the answer to Fang Lang's question.

"I really don't know this, I only know that after we occupied Japan, all the military and police were disarmed by us, and all the work was taken care of by our occupation army, but I really don't know if there have been any changes in the past few years."

Hearing this, Fang Lang explained with a smile:

"Indeed, as you said, after the Japanese military and police were disarmed at the beginning, these tasks were entrusted to our occupation forces.

However, with the disarmament of the U.S. military in the past two years, the number of Japanese occupation forces has also been reduced accordingly, coupled with the increasing pressure on Japan's domestic security, the occupation command in 1947 lifted some restrictions on the Japanese police, allowing the recruitment of some Japanese natives to form a police force, but they do not have the right to be equipped with weapons, and can only use a short stick.

As a result, the Japanese police can now only carry out some simple civil dispute mediation and security patrol tasks, and even when they encounter slightly more powerful underworld organizations, they have to avoid their edge. ”

"But even so, they have a police force again! In such a situation, how can we possibly take over their policing business? ”

Joseph Clark can be regarded as relatively calm, and he sees the difficulty of the problem at a glance.

Hearing this, Fang Lang smiled and said:

"Do you think Japan, as a defeated country, is entitled to regain its institutions of violence?"

Joseph Clark was stunned by this question, as a defeated country, it is definitely not necessary to regain the existence of a national violent agency, but can the current Japanese police be considered a violent agency? It's hard for him to say. After a little contemplation, Joseph Clarke replied:

"In my opinion, they certainly shouldn't be rearmed. But I'm not sure if the police who use the baton are also violent agencies? ”

"Hey, hey. This issue is left to the Congressional masters and politicians to consider, and what we have to do is to unleash our influence in the US military and political circles to make the Japanese police who use short sticks an illegal and violent organization. ”

When Joseph heard this, he immediately understood what Fang Lang meant, if the current Japanese police are not legal, then the US occupation forces will inevitably have to take on the work of maintaining law and order in Japan again, and with the current strength of the US occupation forces, it is obvious that they cannot bear such a heavy burden, and at this time, the opportunity of God's Whip Military Contracting Company will come.

"I see what you mean, it's not difficult to push this bill through Congress. But the problem now is that Japan is MacArthur's territory, and the Japanese government must have agreed to reorganize the police department.

If we directly launch the relationship to overturn the rules he has made without his consent, it will definitely cause a strong backlash from him. When the time comes, if he raises objections, it may be difficult for the bill to pass. ”

Hearing Joseph Clark's words, Fang Lang smiled confidently:

"Knowing that he might object, find a way to gag him."

"What does the boss mean?"

"As far as I know, MacArthur had only one son, and his name was Arthur MacArthur IV, right?"

"Yes!"

"Then find a way to make this Arthur MacArthur IV one of the shareholders of the Japanese branch of the Whip of God. Of course, it's up to you to arrange for someone to talk to Mr. MacArthur in person. ”

As soon as Joseph Clark heard Fang Lang's words, he understood what Fang Lang meant, and after a little thought, he couldn't help but ask:

"However, although winning the police business in Japan can ensure that our company has a stable income, this profit is not as high as we are now."

"Who said to only take the police business? Don't forget, the army is the real organ of violence, as long as we can take over Japan's military business, we can make a lot of money, and when the time comes, we can take out a fixed amount of military spending from the Japanese government every year, which is the real big head. ”

Fang Lang's words seemed to Joseph Clarke to be a fantasy.

"Boss, Japan is a defeated country and cannot have an army! Their military spending is used to maintain the military spending of the American occupation forces.

If we want to take over Japan's military business, it will be equivalent to replacing the US occupation forces, and the military will absolutely not agree to such a thing. ”

Of course, Fang Lang is very clear about this, but the reason why he whimsically wants to contract Japan's military and police business in the name of the company is, of course, also because of him.

As far as he knew, with the outbreak of the Korean War, the American occupation forces were all transferred to the peninsula, and the island lacked basic defense forces, so Japanese politicians took the opportunity to put forward the idea of forming a police reserve.

At this time, the attention of the US occupation forces was all on the peninsula and they had no time to take care of the situation in Japan, but Japan, as the logistics base of the peninsula war, would certainly not allow chaos to occur.

At this time, the idea put forward by the Japanese could be said to be a timely meeting for the United States, and the United States agreed to it after a little discussion. After all, without having to pay for it themselves, the Japanese created a police reserve to protect their rear bases, and the Americans had no reason to refuse.

However, the Japanese government obviously would not be willing to let itself become a country without armed forces, so soon the Japanese government successively established the Maritime Guard and the Security Agency, which is a paramilitary organization.

It was only because of the Korean Peninsula War that Japan developed rapidly economically and regained sufficient economic strength, and because it vigorously supported the US Government in the Peninsula War and sent people to take up logistics and mine-sweeping tasks in the name of military husbands, the US Government saw the value of the Japanese Government.

At the same time, taking into account Japan's special geographical location, which was naturally the forward position to contain the Soviet Far East and China, it gradually began to relax restrictions on Japan's military strength, and the newly appointed Hatoyama Ichiro government took the opportunity to put forward a plan to rearm Japan.

Subsequently, the Japanese government established the Air Self-Defense Force, and officially renamed the Police Reserve and Maritime Guard as the Japan Self-Defense Force.

And Fang Lang knew the origin of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces that he deliberately put forward such an idea before the outbreak of the war on the peninsula.

But isn't it completely impossible? Fang Lang doesn't think so, at least at this stage, this plan is very operable.

Therefore, after thinking about it, he decided to make his thoughts clear to General Joseph Clark, so as not to make any mistakes in the specific implementation later.

"If it develops according to normal circumstances, the military really will not agree. But what if exceptional circumstances arise? ”

Fang Lang's words were like a thunderbolt in Joseph Clark's heart, he knew that Fang Lang had huge connections in the American political and business circles, could it be that the other party heard any major news about the Far East.

"Boss, the special situation you mentioned doesn't mean that the United States wants to go to war with the Soviet Union in East Asia, right?"

After all, everyone now knows the hostile relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the Far East of Japan and the Soviet Union are across the sea, and as the United States slowly stabilizes the situation in Europe, it is not uncommon for it to shift its attention to the Far East.

Hearing this, Fang Lang waved his hand.

"It is not possible for the United States to go to war directly with the Soviet Union, after all, it has only been a long time since the end of World War II, and people want peace. However, it is very easy to wage a war on a manageable scale in a localized area. ”

As soon as this remark came out, Joseph Clark's first reaction was that the American upper echelons had already made plans to start a local war in the Far East. So, he asked with some eagerness:

"Boss, did you hear anything definite?"

As a matter of fact, the outbreak of the war on the peninsula was not provoked by the United States on its own initiative, but was caused by the Soviets deliberately hiding their hometown and instigating Jin Sun to launch an action to reunify the peninsula and forcibly change the situation on the peninsula.

During this period, Fang Lang was the only one who knew that the situation on the peninsula was about to usher in major changes, and even the Golden Sun of the Northern Peninsula, who later took the initiative to launch the unification war, did not wait until January 30, 1950, to suddenly receive a message from the Soviet ambassador to the Northern Peninsula, Stivekov, that Iron Father was willing to support him in completing the great cause of reunification of the peninsula.

Interestingly, at this point in time, it was during the period of arduous negotiations in the Soviet Union, and the Soviets were very dissatisfied with the return of the Zhongchang Railway and the port of Ludagang proposed by their hometown, which made the delegation of the new regime in the Soviet Union unprecedentedly neglected.

And Jin Sun, who has always wanted to learn from his hometown and complete his great cause of reunification, directly expanded the army on the North Peninsula to ten divisions after receiving the support of the Soviet side, and asked for the Soviet Union to use a loan of 70 million rubles in advance to arm his troops.

Perhaps it was at this time that the Americans began to look at the peninsula, which had been in conflict since January 1949.

Therefore, it is naturally impossible for Fang Lang to get any news from the top level of the US government, but of course Fang Lang cannot answer directly.

I saw him cough lightly, and the whole person lay back, and after finding a more comfortable sitting position, he picked up his cigar and took a deep breath, and then said a little unfathomable:

"It doesn't matter if I have received any exact news, what matters is what kind of impact it will bring to Japan and what kind of opportunities it will bring to our company if a local war suddenly breaks out in the Far East."

After hearing Fang Lang's words, Joseph Clark pondered for a while before he asked with some hesitation:

"Boss, I wonder where the local war you are talking about will break out? If the U.S. government plans to support Chang Kaishen's counteroffensive, I think this is simply a fool's dream, and the current Chinese people have already abandoned Chang Kaishen.

It's not that we can change that by supporting them or sending troops directly into the war. If you don't do it, you will pull the United States into a huge quagmire. ”

At this time, Fang Lang realized that he had never explained to Joseph Clark where the war would break out. It is normal for the other party to think of Chang Kaishen's head, after all, the biggest force in the Far East now is his hometown.

Even Joseph Clark, a retired rear admiral, can see that Chang Kaishen's counteroffensive is hopeless, let alone other high-ranking Americans? Americans are businessmen, and they certainly won't do this kind of business that obviously loses money.

"No, no. You misunderstood, I'm not talking about Huaguo, but about the peninsula. Don't you notice that since the beginning of this year, skirmishes on the peninsula have not stopped? ”

In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, Fang Lang still directly pointed out the location of the local battlefield he said.

(End of chapter)