southern Hebei base area,

Ze County.

"Actually killed again?"

A packhorse merchant looked at the Xinhua newspaper in his hand and raised an eyebrow.

The pack horse behind him is some industrial raw materials and machine parts urgently needed by the base area in southern Hebei, and they are leaving for acquisition at this time.

In order to increase the amount of machinery and equipment acquired, the industrial base was built as soon as possible, and the base area even began to purchase parts.

"What did you do?"

"That Watanabe Chief of Staff of the Japanese?"

Another fellow merchant next to him asked curiously.

Without waiting for the pack horse merchant to answer, he suddenly guessed.

The front page headline before Xinhua News said that the Eighth Route Army claimed to kill the devil Watanabe Chief of Staff within a month, and this matter caused a lot of uproar, and almost everyone in North China knew about it.

"Yes."

The packhorse merchant nodded.

"What's at stake!"

The second businessman sighed:

"That's on the Japanese head, right?!"

I can understand it for the first time.

It can be said that the Japanese are careless.

But the second time, the Japanese were cautious, and it is said that the chief of staff of Watanabe, who had been hiding in the headquarters and could not come out, could still be killed in this way.

I have to say that the Eighth Route Army is powerful.

"The Japanese don't come back with a vengeance?"

"Looks like we're going to avoid it lately."

The second one suddenly became nervous.

Although it is not known how the Japanese Watanabe Chief of Staff was killed by Yachiro.

But the Japanese are strong and strong, not to mention the big warships, this thing can't be driven in, but the planes and tanks are everything, once the army pounces, the Eighth Route Army will definitely not be able to stop it.

"Let's learn more about culture and read more newspapers."

The first packhorse merchant didn't bother to explain and simply threw the newspaper to the second merchant.

The second businessman took the newspaper and read it, his eyes widened.

What caught his eyes was a huge picture.

From a bird's-eye view, black smoke billowed from the bustling city, but through the billowing black smoke, you can still clearly see a collapsed and broken building and a huge bomb crater.

As a businessman, he naturally knew the place in the photo - the headquarters of the North China Front of the devil.

"Eighth Route military aircraft?"

The second merchant swallowed.

"Yes."

The first merchant raised his head and said in a smug tone:

"The eighth master used an airplane to kill the Japanese chief of staff at the head of the North China Front Command."

"Awesome!"

The second merchant spat out again.

"No wonder, the Eighth Route Army has recently purchased machinery and equipment on a large scale to collect talents."

He thought to himself.

"Do you want us to partner up and import some machinery and equipment from abroad?"

The first merchant stated his purpose.

cooperate

Import equipment from abroad and then transport it to southern Hebei.

Import complete machinery and equipment, the profit is extremely high, but unfortunately, complete machinery and equipment, although the import price is relatively low, relative to the purchase price of southern Hebei, but the transportation is very troublesome.

After all, the area around the base area of the Eighth Route Army was all Japanese territory.

It is very difficult to transport machinery and equipment in, and he really can't do it alone.

"Okay."

The second merchant readily agreed.

He was always worried.

The Japanese called.

There was no expansion of business.

In case the goods are smashed in the hands, it will be a big loss, this year, in the Republic of China, except for the Eighth Route Army, no one has purchased machinery and equipment.

But now that I saw that the Eighth Route Army also had planes, and even bombed the Japanese headquarters in front of the Japanese, I was immediately relieved.

···

"And penicillin?"

Ze County.

A base material sales point located near the bank.

American businessman,

The first complete set of armament equipment was sold to the base area, and so far, it is the largest transaction volume between a single merchant and the base area, Mr. George Galvin.

This time, he personally came to the base area in southern Hebei and came to the material procurement office to ask for penicillin.

"I want as much as I want."

"We still have a lot of them, but we need to pay for them in the second-generation southern Hebei currency, and buy a bottle of 2,500 yuan in large quantities."

The staff replied.

"The second generation of Hebei coins?"

George Galvin, who was originally overjoyed, immediately frowned.

He didn't really have much of it.

Only a few thousand dollars were exchanged for daily consumption.

At present, the Eighth Route Army has not officially opened the channel for exchanging silver dollars or US dollars for new southern Hebei currency, and the official market can only exchange second-generation southern Hebei currency for silver dollars.

"Yes, the second-generation Hebei currency."

The staff answered:

"At present, we are open to direct US dollar exchange for New Hebei South Dollar."

"Dollar exchangeable?"

George Galvin was overjoyed and hurriedly asked:

"What is the exchange rate?"

"Three hundred dollars, can be exchanged for two thousand five hundred yuan of second-generation southern Hebei currency."

The worker replied.

"Good, good, good."

George Galvin was delighted by the exchange line.

"I exchanged three million dollars, and I used it all to buy it."

George Galvin Direct Stud.

He earned $1.5 million through transactions with the base and reselling silver at home.

In just four months, his assets have skyrocketed threefold.

Originally, he thought that this profit was terrible enough, and he was ready to continue to do this deal, bigger and stronger, until he became a superior man, and his assets were not as good as American politics.

But I didn't expect that there was even more terrifying business here.

That incredible penicillin, according to the tests of the Massachusetts General Hospital, can treat almost all infections, with good results and speed, thousands of times better than sulfonamides.

Today, in the United States, a bottle of 5 million units of imported penicillin has been sold to 2,500 dollars a bottle.

If it weren't for the fact that there were several companies and companies that had developed penicillin, I am afraid that the price would be even higher.

As far as he knows, the penicillin produced by these companies and enterprises, because of process problems, the powder is burnt yellow, and there are many side effects, and it is completely unable to compete with imported products.

Far from it.

To this end, he not only used all his working capital of 1.5 million, but also mortgaged 1.5 million to buy penicillin.

"Okay."

The staff smiled and nodded.

"How much penicillin do you have?"

To George Galvin's surprise, he thought that three million dollars would be enough to buy out of penicillin at one point of sale, and that he would need to move goods from elsewhere.

At present, there are three places selling penicillin in the southern Hebei region.

But he didn't expect that in a few minutes, people would gather the goods for him.

"At present, the base is supplying 100,000 bottles to the outside world every month."

Worker staff explained.

Although the amount of penicillin is currently obtained by an independent group, it is easy to ship 5 million bottles a month.

But things are still expensive!

According to the speculation of medical experts, taking into account the war factor, the demand in the high-end market abroad is about 150,000 bottles per month.

100,000 bottles per month, that's too suitable.

"100,000 bottles."

George Galvin frowned.

At present, he is the only one abroad that sells penicillin, and no one knows where he bought it from.

In the southern Hebei region, this kind of penicillin, which is priced at $450 a bottle, and even if it is purchased on a large scale, it costs $300 a bottle, and no one cares about it at all.

But it can be expected that he will not hide it for long, and in the future, a large number of merchants will inevitably come to buy.

It's a pity that he only has three million dollars.

···

Meanwhile.

"What is the exchange rate of silver dollars today?"

Stone Gate.

Suzuki was in an irritable mood.

Things were a bit unexpected.

Even though the empire was fully prepared, in the end, Chief of Staff Watanabe still died, at the hands of Tsuchihachi.

And he died at the headquarters and was killed by Tsuchibachi.

The staff building, all made of reinforced concrete, and the six-story staff building also completely collapsed, and even at that time, the chief of staff was still in the basement, and his life could not be saved.

When did Dirt Eight Road become so powerful?

Suzuki was really hard to accept.

But the reality is that Suzuki has to accept it, so he is in a very irritable mood.

"One to eight."

The subordinate replied.

Due to the depreciation of the silver dollar in the southern Hebei region, Suzuki Fanji asked several times a day about the latest exchange ratio of the new southern Hebei currency.

After all, he was promoted to major general only because of the tens of millions of dollars he earned for the imperial military through economic means and through silver dollar transactions.

Although he did not understand why the earth was devalued by the silver dollar.

"Yes, it has been lowered."

Hearing the data, Suzuki frowned.

A few days ago, it was 1:8:5, but now it has dropped again.

Why?

What is the purpose?

Although it was advantageous, Suzuki was still incomprehensible, just as Dohachi kept importing outdated machinery and equipment.

"It's a good thing anyway."

Suzuki couldn't figure it out, so he didn't want to.

Anyway, for him, for the Empire, it's a good thing.

The more the Tubalu silver dollar depreciated, the higher his profits, and the more the empire profited.

"Increase the acquisition of silver dollars."

He gave the order.

···

"One to eight?"

The other side.

Ishihara Wan'er, who was also in Shimen, also received news that the silver dollar was depreciating again.

"What is their purpose?"

Ishihara doesn't think it's purely economic.

Dirt Eight Road is a powerful force,

After being killed by Watanabe, and in front of the locust army, Ishihara made such a judgment.

The economic means of a powerful force inevitably have other ends.

He began to analyze in detail:

"Originally, the silver dollar in the southern Hebei region, or the silver dollar in the entire Tuba Road base area, was about half lower than that in the international market."

"One hundred silver dollars in the southern Hebei region can only be exchanged for thirty dollars, but in the international market, one hundred silver dollars can be exchanged for fifty, and the empire directly goes to the US Treasury Department, and after paying some other considerations, it can even be sold at a price of one hundred silver dollars for sixty dollars."

"If you continue to depreciate the silver dollar, isn't that more profitable for the Empire?"

"And it's up to nearly 10 million dollars a month, for this money, even the navy..."

"Navy!"

Ishihara suddenly thought of the reason,

Although the army received profits, this was more than the funds actually obtained by the Imperial Base Camp and the Milican Treasury transaction,

Due to the national focus,

Even if the Army's top brass objected, in fact, most of it was invested in the Navy.

More than seventy percent.

The navy is supreme,

This was the national policy of the Empire of Japan.

A country with a narrow territory and facing the sea on all sides is an inevitable national policy.

In order to avoid irritating the United States, even if it could not put into the production of new ships, because of the stimulation of various advanced weapons of the Eighth Route Army, the navy began to vigorously research new technologies - new artillery, new aircraft, new engines, and increase aircraft production capacity.

Due to the large amount of capital investment, the production capacity of the Zero type is higher than expected, and the next generation model has also been put into research and development.

and

Lots of training for new pilots!

Although it is strictly confidential, he knows that the navy will have as many as 2,000 new pilots in the new phase, and it is expected that the navy will be preparing to train 15,000 pilots.

Will the navy come to North China and attack the Tuba Road after the navy is strong?

Although the empire has its eyes on the continent,

But it will never and cannot give up the interests of Southeast Asia, as well as the Pacific.

This is something that even the current prime minister, who is known as the lackey of Britain and the United States, General Mitsumasa Mine, is firmly aware.

So!

When the well-fed Imperial Navy.

What will happen when Milicon is getting tighter and tighter in the face of Milicon who holds the reins of the empire's resources?

In this process,

What role will those people in North China play? (End of chapter)