Taihang base.

Xinhua.

Inside the telegraph room.

"Killed?"

Xinhua News Agency editor, Xu Lin's tone was anxious.

In order to avoid the leakage of operational information in advance, the transport plane was ambushed by devils.

After all, although the Yun-6 is fast and has strong capacity, it is really far inferior to the devil's fighter jet.

Xu Lin did not know the details of the operation before, and his superiors only asked him to report in time after he was successful. Not long ago, I learned that the superiors were preparing to send planes to bomb them.

So!

Will it work?

After learning that the plane had taken off, he kept thinking about it.

Xu Lin had never seen the army's new Y-6 transport plane, and thought that the headquarters was letting the twin-engine transport planes carry out the mission.

Xu Lin has seen Yun Wu.

I know in my heart that although Yunwu has strong take-off and landing capabilities, excellent transportation ability, and a maximum load of 1.5 tons, which is comparable to a devil's military truck, its mobility is very poor.

Once bitten by a devil plane,

Even the Ninety-Seven Type, which the devil has begun to retire, can shoot down.

"No news yet."

The telegraph operator replied patiently.

"Notify me as soon as there is news."

Xu Lin took a deep breath and suppressed the anxiety in his heart.

He can't be blamed either.

Mainly, Xinhua News Agency has recently updated its radio equipment, and the new radio station, which is said to use integrated circuit technology, no longer has the previous tick-tock sound.

In the past, he thought that the radio was ticking was quite annoying.

But now it seems that

It's not a good thing to lose this voice.

"Headquarters news."

As soon as he thought of this, the telegraph operator shouted,

"What?"

Xu Lin hurriedly looked over.

"The bombing was successful, and the mission was successfully completed."

The telegraph operator shouted in surprise.

Although Yunliu has not yet returned, the aerial photos have not yet landed. But the intelligence agent lurking in the Northern Review has obtained the news that the old devil Watanabe has been killed through various channels.

So I reported the news to the headquarters as soon as possible.

"Good!"

Xu Lin was overjoyed.

"I'll prepare the manuscript right away."

He already had a draft in his heart.

It's even changed several times.

···

Headquarters.

"Haha."

"It worked!"

The Deputy General Staff and the division commander high-fived in celebration.

Although the intelligence came from other parties, and the weapons and equipment were also given by others, the impact of killing the old devil Watanabe was a real benefit to the Eighth Route Army.

It can well be imagined

When the news of the old devil Watanabe being killed by the Eighth Route Army in front of the devil spreads, how many anti-war soldiers will come to join the Eighth Route Army.

Today's base area is the time for great development, and there is a real shortage of talents.

Very scarce.

In order to ride this wave of east wind, the completion of the envisaged industrial base and arsenal, which is comparable to one-third of the production capacity of the devil's army industry, and even the development of the troops, have been suppressed.

Transfer the talent of the troops to industry.

Not to mention the division elders, even the most ordinary staff officers know it.

Only when this industrial zone and industrial base is established can the Eighth Route Army be truly strong, and the base area will truly begin to become rich.

Although it is also strong now, the weapons and equipment and ammunition that come out of the independent regiment every month are enough for thirty main regiments to consume if you count the heavy artillery weapons, but they are not their own after all.

"Say yes."

The division commander couldn't help but ask again:

"If the plan is successful, we will be able to produce the Yun-6 by ourselves this time?"

According to information learned from the staff of the Separate Regiment.

If the plan is successful, then the industrial zone established by Taiyue Taihang will have the capacity to produce Yunliu completely independently.

Although Li Yunlong said it himself, the division commander still felt unrealistic.

He rode the Fortune Six.

Know, how advanced this transport aircraft is.

Not to mention anything else, the engine with a dry weight of 750 kilograms and a maximum horsepower of 2,600 horsepower can even be increased to 2,800 horsepower if you add a water refueling device.

It's more advanced than the devil's I don't know.

He couldn't feel the communication equipment.

But the aircraft engine, the division commander has too deep understanding.

"Yes."

The Deputy General Staff replied:

"However, in order to achieve this goal, we also need a lot of machine tools and machinery and equipment, and we need to build a prototype of the production line first, including raw material preparation and production."

"So..."

The division commander looked over.

"Right now, we have a budget of up to 70 million silver dollars a month."

"It's time to let go and pick up the pace."

The Deputy General Staff replied.

"Seventy million silver dollars!"

The division commander couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

What is the concept of 70 million silver dollars per month?

That's 1,800 tons of silver flowing out of the base every month, and global silver production has more than doubled.

This amount of silver gushing out will inevitably cause the price of silver in the world to drop, which is not a good thing for the base areas.

They are also counting on silver to support the financial support of the base!

"In the international market, can the price of silver still hold up?"

The division commander continued to ask.

"It depends on the attitude of the Americans."

The Deputy General Staff spoke in a relaxed tone.

"There won't be a price drop in silver anytime soon?"

From the tone of the chief of staff, the division commander guessed the answer, but the division commander was a little curious.

He doesn't have a crush on Americans.

The Silver Act has done great harm to the Republic of China and has done so much damage to the sovereignty of the Republic of China that it can be said to be second only to the Japanese.

But the United States is not a good gentleman, and with the recent increase in the amount of silver flowing out of the bases, the Americans will inevitably start and use financial means to reap the benefits.

In the final analysis, financial rules are actually in the hands of others.

You can change it casually!

"Recently, the United States is in the midst of an election."

"Franklin is under a lot of pressure to seek a third term, and at this time, he can't risk offending the silver group and lower the price of silver."

"So, within three months, we don't need to worry about the price reduction of silver."

Deputy General Staff said.

"Three months?"

The division commander was somewhat dissatisfied.

In three months, the base may not be able to get enough machinery and equipment.

"It's a pity."

The division commander sighed.

Although the base area is gradually reducing the price of silver dollars, in today's southern Hebei region, the exchange of southern Hebei coins for silver has dropped to 100 new southern Hebei coins, which can be exchanged for 75 silver dollars.

Exchange coins 1 to 7.5.

The ultimate goal is to reduce silver to a one-to-five exchange rate within this year.

However, the purpose of devaluing the silver dollar was to promote the export of silver and attract machinery and equipment to the base areas.

If the price of silver in the market is reduced, although the base area can still promote exports and attract imports by lowering the price of silver dollars, the efficiency will be reduced.

And

Once the Americans intervened and began to suppress the price of silver in the market, there would not be much profit left for the base areas.

He asked an expert in economics.

Although the silver dollar has almost zero cost to the base.

However, if the United States, which is the most economically powerful country in the world, starts to suppress the silver dollar, it will reduce the actual income of the silver dollar in the current base areas from 500 percent to 200 percent.

Eventually, it may even be reduced to one hundred percent.

Other words

Under the condition that the price remains unchanged, once the Americans go all out, when the silver dollar will be reduced to a ratio of one to one with the new Hebei currency, it will be able to form a high water mark for the international market and stabilize the value of the southern Hebei currency.

"It's not a big problem."

"It is expected that the one-to-five exchange ratio can be supported until the second half of next year."

However, the tone of the deputy general staff was very confident.

"What can you do?"

The division commander was a little curious.

Although silver is also a precious metal, it is not as good as gold, and silver today is actually a commodity.

Priced by the market.

The base area is backed by silver as a currency, simply because the price of silver in the base area is much lower than that of the international market, and it can continue to guarantee the supply of silver to the market.

It was only a matter of time before the world price of silver plummeted.

"Judging by the reaction of the American businessman."

"Americans have realized the benefits of penicillin."

The deputy general counsellor said with a smile:

"And the news from the independent regiment is that in addition to a ton of high-grade penicillin every month, there are other antibiotic drugs."

"Including several cardiovascular and cerebrovascular drugs, high blood pressure drugs, as well as insulin."

"Synthetically manufactured, high-purity insulin."

"After satisfying the demand of the base area, the amount that can be exported every month is as high as 30 tons."

"Thirty tons!"

The division commander's eyes lit up.

The medicine that came out of the friend behind Li Yunlong was so high-tech that the division commander had no doubts.

Penicillin alone, Dean Liu told him,

Although foreign countries have the ability to make their own penicillin, due to process problems, not only the amount of penicillin per unit weight is far less than their own, but even the efficacy is far worse.

Especially the side effects.

If penicillin can still be manufactured abroad.

But other drugs.

No side effects, high-purity artificial insulin.

and high blood pressure medications.

Drugs that fight tuberculosis.

This is the only one, and there is no semicolon.

Thirty tons of drugs per month, the drugs here, not including packaging, if the operation is good, it is estimated that it can slaughter the Americans.

A thousand dollars for a bottle of medicine.

Thirty tons, estimated, can be 100 million dollars a month.

"Believe."

The Deputy General Staff continued:

"The Americans have noticed the large amount of silver dollars flowing from our side."

"Therefore, after we open up the pharmaceutical business, we will appropriately open up the exchange of foreign currencies such as US dollars to create the illusion that we are short of silver dollars."

"When the time comes, America's rich people will certainly not be happy to be harvested by our high-priced drugs."

"There will inevitably be ways to suppress our currency and force us to devalue it."

"The southern Hebei currency is anchored by the silver dollar."

"In the case of being limited by domestic political influences and not being able to reduce the price of the silver dollar, there is only ...

Hearing this, the division commander couldn't hold back any longer, and took over the words excitedly:

"Raise the price of silver!"

"Yes, raise the price of silver."

The deputy general staff also said with a smile.

"Hahaha..."

The division commander immediately laughed happily.

As soon as the price of silver increases, the attractiveness of the base area in southern Hebei to international businessmen will increase greatly. A steady stream of machines and equipment will come in.

It can even exceed the expected scale.

Perhaps, the arsenal, which is expected to arrive next year and be put into production in the second half of the year after that, may produce more than 500 million rounds of ammunition and 5 million shells per year!

even

The production capacity of aircraft will also increase. (End of chapter)