After a while, Qin Di came and said to Huizi: "Third aunt, you go to my house to sit for a while, and I will have a good chat with the third uncle." ”

Keiko stood there without moving, but Yan Xue walked over quickly and pulled her away.

Qin Di walked into the house, turned around and closed the door.

Qin Hanxu said: "Ah Di, I'm tired of this kind of life! I studied in Japan back then, did some things with the League, and participated in the Huanghuagang Uprising and the Wuchang Uprising, didn't I just want to make the country rich and strong? Now that the Republic of China has been established for 20 years, I have been beaten by the Japanese! My heart hurts! I don't want to stay in the magic capital and be a rich man anymore, I want to go out and do something. ”

Qin Di looked at the little white hair on the other party's head and said, "Third uncle, you are already old! ”

Qin Hanxu said: "Where am I old? I am only fifty years old, and I am in the prime of life. I have quite a few friends who have already become high-ranking officials in the government and the army! I will look for connections and see if I can go to the army and become a battalion commander or regiment commander! No matter how high or low my position is, I can lead troops to fight!"

Qin Di persuaded: "Third uncle, although you have participated in battles, you are not a graduate of a military academy, and you are too old, so joining the army is not the right path." Moreover, the Japanese invasion of China had just begun, and the occupation of the northeast became a fact. The central government has adopted a policy of non-resistance, and even if you take a division, you will not have a chance to participate in the war. ”

"Then you say, what should I do?"

"There is one thing, third uncle, you can do. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Does the third uncle know Xu Enzeng and Dai Li?"

Qin Hanxu said: "These people are more than ten years younger than me, I don't know them well, and I only have contact with them once or twice. Xu Enzeng studied in the United States and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University; None of them had studied in Japan, so I couldn't talk to them. ”

Qin Di asked, "Then you are in the Central Club, do you know anyone?"

Qin Hanxu said: "I am more familiar with Chen Guofu. I met his father in Japan many years ago. Five or six years ago, when Mr. Qing was preparing to build the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Guofu was collecting supplies in the magic capital, and he came to me several times, and I helped him transfer a batch of firearms. ”

Qin Di pondered for a moment and said, "I'll give you a letterhead, you take the letterhead and go to Chen Guofu." ”

"What am I going to do with him?"

"Third uncle, you wait for me for a while. ”

Qin Di returned to his small building, found the blank note left by Mr. Qing back then, and wrote a few lines on it: "The president's handwritten decree hereby orders Qin Hanxu, a veteran of the Xinhai Revolution, to take the lead in establishing the 'East Asia Economic Intelligence Investigation Bureau', which is affiliated to the 'Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Central Committee of the Qingbai Party' to secretly collect economic intelligence from Japan, North Korea, and Southeast Asian countries. ”

He took the letterhead, turned back to Qin Hanxu, closed the door, and handed the letterhead.

Qin Hanxu was stunned when he saw it, and jumped up suddenly: "Qin Di, you are not small! You dare to forge the president's edict! Isn't this looking for death?"

Qin Di snorted coldly: "This is what Mr. Qing owes me! Just such a note, I spent a million oceans to change you to a small section chief, which can be regarded as cheapening him!"

Qin Hanxu was confused: "What's the matter?" ”

Qin Di told the events of that year: "You took this letter and handed it to Chen Guofu." He will naturally go to Mr. Qing, if Mr. Qing is careful and angry because of the letterhead, then this matter is over, and you don't have to have high hopes for the Qingbai Party. I don't think Mr. Qing will get angry. All you need to do is attach a document explaining the reason for the establishment of the East Asia Economic Intelligence Division. ”

Qin Hanxu asked: "What does this investigation department do?"

Qin Didao narrowed his eyes, pulled out the relevant memories from the depths of his mind, and said slowly: "Japan's war of aggression against China is, in the final analysis, an economic war.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan began to implement the gold standard monetary system in October 1897 with the huge amount of reparations plundered from China as a reserve, completing the modernization of the financial system and greatly promoting the development of Japanese industry.

Before the First Sino-Japanese War, the capital of Japanese companies was only 67.85 million yen, but by 1897, after the war, it had increased nearly sevenfold to 532.52 million yen.

By the beginning of the 20th century, 84% of the total number of Japanese companies and 80% of the total number of factories were established after 1894.

In World War I, Japan took the opportunity to make a fortune from the war.

In 1914, Japan's gold reserves were 341 million yen, and in 1920, they increased to 2,178 million yen.

In 1912, Japan was a debtor with 1.9 billion yen, but after World War I, it became a creditor country with a foreign debt of 2.77 billion yen.

Since the beginning of the previous year, Japan has fallen into an economic crisis, many factories have closed, a large number of people have lost their jobs, and the people have been hungry and can only gnaw on the bark of trees. Against this background, the Japanese military, eager to extricate itself from its predicament, planned the '918' incident in an attempt to transfer the crisis through foreign expansion. Occupying the rich northeast of China, Japan began to plunder resources in a frenzy. ”

Qin Di knew that some of these materials came from the memories of his previous life, and his memory was very amazing, as long as he had glanced at it, even if it had passed tens of millions of years, he could still remember it vividly. The other part is that he has read the newspapers in recent years and grasped some new information.

Actually, there are more things that Qin Di doesn't know!

Before the 918 Incident, Japan mainly imported pig iron from the then British India and Malaya. After the incident, Japan plundered 242,000 tons of pig iron from northeast China in 1931, accounting for 61% of Japan's total imports that year, 322,000 tons, or 73% of the total imports, in 1932, 453,000 tons, or 71% of the total, and in 1934, 409,000 tons, or 67% of the total.

Japan's plundering of pig iron and steel in Tohoku was mainly through the Anshan Iron Works belonging to the Manchurian Railway and the Benxi Iron and Steel Works belonging to the Okura Zaibatsu system. In addition to manufacturing arms in northeast China for the Japanese army to massacre Chinese, a large part of the pig iron and steel they plundered were shipped to Yawata and other places in Japan to make weapons.

If Qin Di knew this information, he would definitely blow up the Anshan Iron Works and Benxi Iron and Steel Works!

In addition, Japan snatched a large amount of coal from Tohoku, mainly through the two major companies of Manchurian Railway and Mantan. The former governs 28 coal mines including Fushun, while the latter manages 12 coal mines including Fuxin, Jixi and Hegang. After the September 18 Incident, the amount of coal plundered by Japan from Northeast China increased year by year: 7.03 million tons in 1932, 8.85 million tons in 1933, 10.55 million tons in 1934, 11.27 million tons in 1935, 12.14 million tons in 1936, and 12.66 million tons in 1937. Tohoku coal accounts for 60-70% of Japan's coal imports. In particular, Fushun coal, which Japan calls "an excellent example of industrial coal", is used in key sectors, but the price is only one-fifth of that of Japanese coal.

At that time, although Japan failed to find large oil fields in Tohoku, it still plundered a lot of shale oil. After 918, Japan continued to expand its shale oil mills in Fushun, increasing its annual output from 63,000 tons in 1931 to 300,000 tons in 1936.

Moreover, this is only a part of the plundering of the three northeastern provinces, and Japan's plundering of North and South China is also very ferocious!

Later, when the Japanese army invaded Nanjing, the civilian treasures seized from Nanjing alone amounted to 6,000 tons of gold! During the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China lost more than 20,000 tons of gold!

Through massive plundering and importation, Japan's military industry developed rapidly.

In 1937, Japan produced a total of 42,754 rifles, 2,295 machine guns, 478 artillery pieces, 479 tanks, 1,580 aircraft, and 51,724 tons of warships, which were 10 times, 3.2 times, 4.3 times, 38.9 times, 2.8 times, and 9 times that of 1931, respectively. As a result, Japan's ambitions for foreign expansion continued to swell.