roccoschili Chapter 296: Supplies Received
Chapter 296: Supplies Received
In fact, China, with such a large territory, was not poor at all at that time. The reason why the National Government was defeated by the Japanese invaders was not only because of military force, but also because of the economic collapse.
In recent years, the National Government has been fighting the Japanese directly, and the private economic war has never stopped for a single day, and no foreign aid can save the situation.
It was a currency war in the early stages. The Japanese took advantage of the Kuomintang's foreign exchange loopholes and then produced a large number of counterfeit banknotes to obtain foreign exchange and impact the Kuomintang's financial system.
But the national government has four major families, each of which is a rat. How can they win? It can be said that they suffered heavy losses.
When the war reached its later stages and both countries were in economic crisis, they launched a war for supplies.
The Japanese used their advanced technology and cheap industrial products to sell them in large quantities domestically, and then purchased raw materials and supplies in the Kuomintang-controlled areas at high prices.
Take cloth for example. The Japanese charged five dollars for a piece of cloth, but others dared to sell it for three dollars.
These are still the most basic goods. Perfumes, tobacco, alcohol, opium, cosmetics, seafood, etc. are all products dumped by the Japanese.
Marx summed it up very well: with 50% profit, it can take risks; with 100% profit, it can trample on all laws; with 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime.
There was such a huge price gap between the occupied areas and the Kuomintang-controlled areas, and with the temptation of profits from the Japanese devils, these businessmen could really ignore any laws.
Over the years, countless supplies to the Japanese war zones were sent by these traitors. They are even more unscrupulous than the Shanxi merchants in the late Ming Dynasty.
Just like these opiums, the Japanese dumped them at extremely low prices. Not only did they make money, they also poisoned the Chinese people. They are simply despicable.
“Brother Ye Gou, I made a thousand dollars from selling these supplies to the Imperial Army.
Now it's converted into opium, and one round trip, at least three thousand can be earned, it's really lucrative!" After the call, the two men returned to the hold and whispered while packing up the tarpaulin to go back.
"Hehe! There is still money to be made following the Imperial Army. Work hard and I will find you a wife this year." One of the men said with a smile.
"Well, um!" The other younger man hadn't even finished his sentence when his throat was cut by a blade, and blood splattered.
"Why aren't you talking, Zhang? Pull the rope!" the captain cursed.
"Hey! Hello, traitor." Hou Xiaoge walked out from the side with a sneer.
"You, who are you? Where is Ah Fa?" The captain was stunned and put his hands directly into his arms.
"Humph! Why are you trying to pull out a gun?" Hou Xiaoge took a quick step and broke the man's arm.
"Master, please spare my life, please spare my life!" The captain knelt down and kowtowed to beg for mercy.
"Spare my life? Since you have chosen to be a traitor to the Japanese, you should be prepared to die." Hou Xiaoge didn't want to say any more to the other party. He dislocated his jaw, broke his limbs and threw him into the sea to feed the fish.
After beating the other party, Hou Xiaoge did not damage the opium, soap, and cosmetics in the warehouse and collected them all.
As for the boat, it was a wooden boat about fourteen or fifteen meters long, and it just had an engine added to it. Hou Xiaoge didn't think much of it, so he asked Ling'er to remove the engine and then break down the wood.
Fortunately, it was dark and the boat was small, otherwise the disappearance of a boat would have been a supernatural event.
After dealing with this one, there are still at least dozens of smuggling ships near the dock.
Hou Xiaoge let go of any ships that smuggled strategic items such as medicines or steel into the Kuomintang-controlled areas, but he directly destroyed any ships carrying luxury goods such as perfume and opium.
After killing these people, they did not directly take away the ships, but confiscated all the supplies and started farming directly.
But these are still small parts, the big parts are still the warehouses at the docks.
Tianjin Port is not a war zone like Guangzhou Bay. It is located deep in the occupied area and is the rear of the Japanese.
Moreover, the port of Tianjin is very close to the Japanese invaders' lair and can be reached by boat in two days, so it is naturally very prosperous.
The port terminal is very large, so it is impossible for Hou Xiaoge to take away everything in one night. He might as well take away the valuables!
Having had experience in Guangzhou Bay, Hou Xiaoge was naturally familiar with the route and went straight to the area with the strictest security.
"A warehouse full of steel! It's worthless, so don't take it for now."
"No salt either!"
"Flour, no, plant a bomb first."
"Mechanical parts, high value, get it!"
Hou Xiaoge used his mental power to explore and check between warehouses. He basically did not accept ordinary raw materials, only complex industrial products.
After collecting tire machinery equipment from two warehouses in a row, Hou Xiaoge discovered hundreds of bicycles and tricycles in another warehouse. These were all in-demand goods, so he went straight in and beat the warehouse guard.
"Thanks to the Japanese' generosity, these hundreds of tricycles can be used to form a transport team in Myanmar or Yunnan Province. Not bad!" Hou Xiaoge was satisfied with the family touching the semi-finished and unassembled tricycles.
"Hiss! Where did these Japanese get so much mutton?" In a warehouse, at least thousands of tons of skinned mutton shocked Hou Xiaoge.
"I've collected it!"
"Rifle, put it away!"
"Infantry guns, collect!"
I received the message from eight or nine in the evening to three or four in the morning. During this time, I was so tired that my brain started to tremble more than a dozen times and I had to go back to the space to rest.
Even Hou Xiaoge didn't like many things, so he picked and chose and only accepted less than 1% of the supplies in the port.
I have to say, the Japanese also celebrate the New Year. This warehouse is full of good things, and the Tianjin Port is really rich.
After collecting these supplies, Hou Xiaoge went directly to the warship docked at the port.
"Damn it, these Japanese are really not human! A bunch of bandits." Hou Xiaoge saw a large number of antiques and ancient books on every warship.
Coming to the room of a Japanese colonel who was as fat as a pig, Hou Xiaoge simply knocked the colonel's head crooked and made him fall asleep.
Hou Xiaoge opened the wooden suitcase in front of the other person's bed. It was full of yellow croakers, except for a copy of Jin Ping Mei placed on top, which seemed a bit out of place.
"Bah! You're the only one who's still reading Jin Ping Mei? You probably can't even understand the illustrations." Hou Xiaoge spat a mouthful of thick phlegm directly onto the fat colonel's face.
After collecting the suitcases and burying the fat devil directly in the orchard, Hou Xiaoge went straight to the warehouse.
Entering a cargo hold, at least three or four hundred one-cubic-meter large wooden boxes were neatly packed into the entire hold.
No matter which one Brother Hou opens, it’s either a medical book or a pharmacopoeia. He’s really digging deep!
After capturing a warship, Hou Xiaoge ran to another cabin without stopping.
"Oh! There are still seals from the Japanese military headquarters." Hou Xiaoge was in the hold, looking at the seals stuck everywhere on the wooden boxes. They were quite strict.
Hou Xiaoge picked one up, and the gorgeous porcelain inside immediately came into view.
"Another antique in the cabin. These Japanese guys are really bad!" Hou Xiaoge cursed.
"Young Master, there should be energy stones in the next cabin, hurry over there." At this time, Ling'er's voice came in his mind.
"The energy absorbed by the space will delay the time of collecting supplies. Don't worry, let's collect everything before dawn." Hou Xiaoge refused.
After collecting the cargo in this cabin, Hou Xiaoge went directly to another cabin.
After checking with mental power, I found that the cabin was full of strange stones and half-cut jade stones. No wonder the ring reacted.
"Ling'er, the jade can be absorbed, but the meteorites should not be absorbed yet, otherwise the space will not be opened." Hou Xiaoge said as he put the stones into the platform warehouse.
"Okay, young master, let's hurry up. I'm a little greedy." Ling'er stared at the meteorite in the platform warehouse with a look of longing.
Hou Xiaoge did not answer. The increase in space now did not mean much to him, so he was not in a hurry.
After harvesting the five warships in the port before dawn, Hou Xiaoge returned to the dock to continue harvesting.
Only after the dozens of acres of farmland in the space were piled up to more than ten meters high and the day was just getting light did Hou Xiaoge finish this purchase.
It is now dawn and there are few workers at the dock. If the workers go to work after daybreak and then set off fireworks, it would not be Hou Xiaoge's original intention.
"Hehe! I'm using your spear to attack you. I don't know how you'll respond." Hou Xiaoge stored the shells received from the warehouse in various warehouses.
"It's New Year's Day, little devils, let's see the fireworks in advance!" Hou Xiaoge detonated the bomb after returning to the sea.
"Boom!"
Hundreds of tons of various explosives and dust explosions directly brought a magnitude 5 or 6 earthquake to Tianjin Port.
"Comfortable!"
Hou Xiaoge dived into the water and used a telescope to observe the dock. The huge explosion caused countless casualties at the dock, and the dock was in ruins everywhere.
"Let's go! Let's go home." Hou Xiaoge got on the plane and directly pressed the torpedo remote control device around the warship.
As Hou Xiaoge's plane took off, hundreds of pieces of news immediately spread that the Yanhuang League's Iron-Blooded Anti-Traitor Group was responsible for the incident.
"Yanhuang Alliance, I will kill you all." The chief of the Tianjin Command jumped up and down and cursed.
Bad news doesn’t travel far, but good news travels far and wide.
Last night, the bad commander in Peking was bombed, hundreds of puppet government thugs were wiped out, the port of Tianjin was razed to the ground, and three destroyers and a cruiser were bombed, causing an uproar.
At the same time, radio stations all over China began playing a song spread by Hou Xiaoge: Today is a good day.
"Young Master, I have absorbed the energy stone!" Hou Xiaoge was flying around in the sky on the plane when Ling'er's voice came.
"absorb!"
For a moment, Hou Xiaoge only felt his head slightly hot, and then the space returned to calm.
"Master, Master, there is good news!" After about an hour, Ling'er's voice came in my mind.
"Oh! What good news." Hou Xiaoge had never seen Ling'er so happy.
"Hehe, I'll keep it a secret for now and tell you when you come back." Ling'er laughed happily in a voice as loud as a silver bell.
"Little guy, you've learned to keep people in suspense." Hou Xiaoge raised the corners of his mouth slightly and shook his head.
More than an hour later, the plane returned to the vicinity of Yunnan Province. Hou Xiaoge drove directly to the Myanmar area. Yunnan Province has an important flight base and has been patrolled by American radars, so it is easy to be hit by mistake.
The plane slowly descended, and when it was 200 meters, Hou Xiaoge drove the plane and disappeared into the sky.
As soon as he entered the space, Hou Xiaoge was also shocked. The sun, moon, and stars appeared in the space, which was almost the same as the outside world.
"Master!"
"Damn, Ling'er, have you grown up?"