"Economic development is the last word!"

Taihang Mountains.

The Deputy General Staff walked leisurely, looking at the scenery all the way, and behind him, the guards led the horses.

Towering Taihang,

These four words describe not only the danger of Taihang Mountain, but also the poverty and hardship of the people of Taihang.

Living in the dangerous Taihang Mountains, the land is barren, it is difficult to dig out anything to eat in the field, and the transportation is also very inconvenient.

"Indeed."

"Then you should know that the economy is one of the foundations of war."

With the influx of large numbers of victims, it is still increasing rapidly.

"Although according to the intelligence, I learned that Tuba Road has the idea of building an industrial zone and a large arsenal, and it also plans to produce hundreds of thousands of tons of steel per year, and there is even a detailed planning map."

Dirt Eight Road is a very formidable force.

"Terrible?"

And the effect of all this development is··

Ishihara glanced at his deputy.

Although the strength of Tubalu is very strong, and the performance of weapons and equipment is advanced, not to mention the small number, after all, it is also weapons and equipment from others, and its own strength is actually very poor.

The masses of the people, support the troops with actions.

"It is impossible to force the preserved fruit to surrender, it is impossible to destroy the Tubalu, and it is impossible to completely occupy the Republic of China."

Ishihara snorted coldly:

"I don't know why they imported all this junk machinery and equipment."

The deputy nodded.

"That's right."

To this end, the local administrative organs have decided to accelerate economic development.

and

The area of the base area has expanded, and the population has grown explosively, and the Taihang base area alone controls as many as 47 large and small counties, and the total population has also reached 5 million.

For one dollar, you can buy a pound of well-packaged imported grain, and you can buy about three and a half pounds of high-quality sorghum in bulk.

"In rural mountain villages, they have widely promoted planting and breeding, raising cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and other livestock, and at the same time organizing large-scale land reclamation to promote agricultural production technology reform, and providing a large number of copies."

You know, this is a month's worth of data.

After the Battle of the Hundred Regiments,

The deputy asked:

The output value here is still not counted as farms directly operated in the base area.

"It's not difficult!"

"Where's the machine?"

More than 80 hours of training are set aside every month, and taking into account the distance, the interval between training, the time spent in formation, ideological education classes, and so on, in fact, the time spent on militia training is more than 100 hours per month.

It is the direct effect of the economic development of the base area and the improvement of the living standards of the people.

In other words, today's Tubalu base area is rapidly accumulating capital.

Moreover, this is only the result of the development of the Taihang base area in less than half a year, with the investment of a large amount of funds, the start of a large number of factories, the construction of farms, the reclamation of wasteland, the construction of water conservancy facilities,

It is expected that the base value of land will double to an annual output value of 300 million US dollars.

Northern Review.

"100 million!"

"yes, it's scary."

With the development of the Taihang base,

"Today's Eighth Route Army Taihang Base Area, the total population is about five million."

"Five hundred thousand!"

Ishihara flipped through the information in his hand. This is all he has seen and heard in the three months since he traveled to Taihang, Taiyue, and the base areas in southern Hebei.

Thanks to Gangcun's attention, he was given real power, and his deputy also became a fragrant dumpling, and in the end, the youngest son of an imperial lieutenant general was selected.

The Deputy General Staff suddenly said to the chief of staff of the divisional headquarters:

"You go and ask Li Yunlong when the promised 50,000 mules will be delivered."

Moreover, with the economic development of the base areas, the grain subsidy is no longer as good as the road construction team and the water conservancy construction team, and it is even better than breeding and farming at home.

The chief of staff of the division said:

"In the Taihang base area, the number of militia members is 800,000, of which 500,000 can maintain more than 80 hours of training every month."

The division chief of staff nodded.

"With these equipment, we can only build some light factories to produce soap, clothing and other light industries."

"The reason why the empire was able to conquer most of the territory of the Republic of China in the early stage of the war was overwhelming. It is that the economic strength of the empire is far superior to that of the Republic of China. ”

I am afraid that this number has been raised to ten people to mobilize one person.

"Good!"

"You are right, the economy is one of the foundations of war."

The chief of staff of the division headquarters who came with him nodded in agreement.

But militia training is hard, far more difficult than farm work.

The deputy's tone suddenly became solemn.

Agricultural productivity is also improving.

When Okamura Ninji came to power, Ishihara was immediately reused, and he was appointed head of the intelligence section of the North China Front Army and deputy chief of staff of the North China Front Army.

"In the county seat, a furniture factory and a clothing factory were opened."

"According to statistics."

Although participating in militia training, there is a food subsidy, and it is calculated according to the length of training,

"According to the data in the southern Hebei region, what they import is some scattered, outdated machinery and equipment, or even fragmented."

It is equivalent to the training volume of 11 days in the boot camp, and the training program involves a full set of military subjects, queues, obstacle courses, leap charges, trench construction, and ideological education.

Deputy General Staff Officer:

In other words, last month, the Taihang base area produced the equivalent of 100 million catties of imported grain and 350 million catties of high-quality sorghum.

Ishihara sighed.

This part of the militia can be used as a supplement at any time as long as the troops need it.

In today's Taihang base area, more than 300 kilometers of new highways have been built, an average of 10 kilometers per day have been built, more than 1,000 kilometers of mountain roads have been widened and leveled, and more than 1,000 water conservancy facilities have been built.

"Although the empire has more than 7 million mobilized people and more than 3 million direct service soldiers, it does not have the economic capacity to produce enough materials and equipment to provide logistics for so many troops."

Ishihara nodded and said:

"This is also one of the reasons why I said that the Eighth Route Army is terrible."

"It can mobilize more troops, develop and comprehensively equip more advanced equipment systems, produce enough weapons, ammunition and supplies, and organize more complete logistics supplies."

"They recruited workers to build roads in the rugged Taihang Mountains, connecting almost every mountain village and village."

It is 1.5 billion US dollars a year.

The staff officer of the division headquarters sighed emotionally.

"The total population is 5.13 million."

Converted into US dollars, this is equivalent to more than 12 million US dollars.

"But where did they get the machinery?"

"Chickens and ducks and other commodities produced in the countryside were sold to the troops of the Eighth Route Army and sold to the cities."

"The forces that assisted the Eighth Route Army have given the Eighth Route Army's advanced empire for decades planes, radios, oversized trucks, a large number of weapons and equipment, and top foreign talent assistance."

The Deputy General Staff said with emotion.

Meanwhile.

The deputy said:

"The Republic of China has more than six times the human resources of the empire, but its own economic capacity cannot give full play to this huge human resources that the world fears."

Ishihara's tone was solemn.

"Although today's Eighth Route Army can suppress the empire and expand a territory completely isolated from the influence of the empire in the area controlled by the empire, it can have almost inexhaustible funds because of foreign assistance."

"But I know."

"In the final analysis, the core competition of war is the economic capacity of both sides."

"Yes."

After careful consideration, the Deputy General Staff Department decided to put aside part of the work of the army and began to devote itself mainly to the construction of base areas.

In a room within the headquarters.

It does not include farms in the base area that are directly operated by the base area or the army.

····

"It's horrible!"

After three months of development,

Ten times more than last year.

Thanks to the smooth traffic, the task of integrating administrative villages was successfully completed, and the government decree was completed to go to the countryside.

"General, why?"

In this way, the mobilization capacity can be greatly improved.

"At present, agriculture, aquaculture, construction, etc. are the main economic structures, and the total production value has reached 100 million in November."

But now...

The deputy was puzzled.

Once the economic cycle is established, it also means that the region is developing at a high speed and accumulating capital rapidly.

"If the empire had been able to exert all its strength at the beginning, mobilize more than three million troops, and throw two million troops into the battlefield of the Republic of China, the war would have ended long ago."

"But General, I'm a little puzzled."

"As of now."

"Just rely on those, ten times the price of imported garbage?"

On the side, Deputy Ishihara Waner was puzzled:

"Dirt Eight Road is terrible?"

And don't pay for it.

"Is it difficult to provide a set of industrial machinery and equipment?"

In fact, it is equivalent to joining the army.

Ishihara asked.

Through these personal experiences and the information from the investigation, Ishihara finally came to a conclusion.

What circulates in Taihang Mountain is the second-generation new Hebei currency.

these

"As a result, in fact, more than one million troops can only be mobilized to fight on the territory of the Republic of China, resulting in a serious shortage of troops."

"You know what?"

"Economic Circulation."

"At present, there are a total of 1,073 large and small villages and 47 county seats in the Taihang base area."

In other words, in addition to the 40 main regiments with a total strength of 100,000 troops, and more than 20,000 public security policemen, the Taihang base area, which has a population of only more than 5.1 million, has more than 20,000 armed brigades.

Therefore,

The base area is full of vitality.

Eighty hours of military training per month.

"In addition to meeting the needs of the city, the goods and clothing produced in the city are also sold to the rural mountain villages, thus forming an economic cycle."

"And the reason why the empire is in the quagmire it is today is also because of its lack of economic capacity."

He has studied that, in fact, out of a hundred people, only two people can be mobilized to join the army, and if there are more, there will be serious consequences.

"You're an economics graduate from Imperial University, right?"

"But they are quickly turning external aid into their own strength."

There are also 500,000 direct replenishment troops.

"Indeed."

The deputy replied.

This is also the reason why the base camp of the empire did not hesitate to mobilize the main division from the 11th Army, but also promoted a super-large-scale sweep in North China.

Once the construction of the Tubalu Arsenal is successful,

Then, the empire's Republic of China plan is over!

It may even be that even the puppet Manchurian can't be saved. (End of chapter)