9.23 Emerging Industries

"General Huang, your self-confidence is admirable, and I am also full of sympathy for the people of your country. www.biquge.info But I think that with Japan's modern military equipment and the strategy and tactics of your army, it will not be easy for China to win this war! You have already lost Xuzhou, and you may lose Wuhan soon! Once that happens, how will you fight? ”

Huang Haoran knew that it had come to a critical moment! Whether or not you can convince Stilwell depends on these two or three minutes! After thinking about it for a while, Huang Haoran decided to use an example that Stilwell was very familiar with to convince this stubborn American military attaché!

"Mr. Military Attaché, during the American Civil War, didn't your current government suffer successive defeats at the beginning, and the army in the South was much stronger than in the North? But what is the final outcome? This battle between China and Japan will last for a long time, and even if we lose Wuhan again, the war will not end! China has such a vast territory that even if the Japanese send all their troops to China, will they be able to control the vast occupation zone? You also said that the longer the Japanese front is stretched, the more opportunities we have! When our army recovers, the counterattack will naturally come! ”

"But militarily, losing Wuhan means defeat!" Stilwell is really stubborn enough, maybe in this Yankee's opinion, the so-called will and spirit are nothing, only the population and the city are the actual things!

"There is a kind of defeat called occupation! There is a kind of victory called retreat! Mr. Military Attaché, I must reiterate once again that defeat is not the same as being conquered. In China's 5,000-year history, it has been forcibly occupied by foreign enemies several times, but the Chinese nation has not perished! Although Chu has three households, he can die in Qin! What's more, our government now has a million troops and most of China in its hands! Little Japan wants to occupy China, dream of it! Huang Haoran was really forced by Stilwell, and even used the lines in a film and television drama that he liked very much in his later life!

Stilwell seemed to be shocked by Huang Haoran's momentum, and he finally shook his head and retreated: "There is a kind of defeat called occupation!" There is a kind of victory called retreat! Very contradictory two sentences, although I can't quite understand it, but I admire General Huang's courage! I hope all Chinese soldiers are like General Huang! ”

Seeing that he finally won Stilwell, Huang Haoran was ecstatic in his heart, after this meeting, Huang Haoran had already scored full impression points in front of Stilwell! Now, it's time to drive a wedge between the United States and Japan!

Huang Haoran got up from the sofa and personally refilled Stilwell with a cup of tea, then sat back on the sofa and pretended to be distressed and said to Stilwell: "Mr. Military Attaché, about this war in China, you can take your time, and the results I can say will definitely appear." Then Huang Haoran changed the conversation and began his second phase of his battle plan:

"However, with all due respect, Colonel Stilwell, I think that your country's current policy toward China and Japan is obviously somewhat unwise. By selling arms, steel, and oil to the Japanese, you are actually indirectly strengthening Japan's military power. It seems to me that your government is playing with fire! One day you may well shoot yourself in the foot! Your people will pay a terrible price for this. ”

Stilwell is worthy of being an American citizen, and when he heard Huang Haoran mention that the United States is likely to be harmed by Japan, Stilwell immediately sat up straight and asked nervously:

"General Huang, could you please elaborate on it? This statement of yours is very special! ”

Although Stilwell tried to hide his emotions, Huang Haoran still saw some of his inner activities. As an extremely extroverted American, after hearing Huang Haoran's words, Stilwell should have a greater reaction!

But now Stilwell is so calm, it's obvious that something is wrong! It's as if Stilwell already knew that Japan wanted to be bad for the United States!

Huang Haoran guessed right again! Regarding the problem mentioned by Huang Haoran, Stilwell has actually been pondering! He also felt the seriousness of the problem and believed that the US government should stop selling weapons and strategic materials to Japan. Although after the Nanjing Massacre was exposed, the U.S. government issued a ban to stop the export of strategic materials to Japan, but this ban was only aimed at the official U.S. and did not have any binding force on private enterprises! As a guide to the free economy, there are actually no officially run enterprises in the United States, in fact, this ban is just for show! Cargo ships laden with arms and strategic supplies still travel between the United States and Japan!

In order to prevent the government from continuing to arm Japan, Stilwell also sent a report to Washington. But so far there has been no news.

Stilwell did not expect that he would hear the same speculation from Huang Haoran today, and he was now eager to hear the high-ranking Chinese general's objective assessment of the US sales of strategic materials to Japan.

"Japan has long shouted the slogan of building an empire, and in the eyes of Emperor Hirohito, Japan should become an empire on which the sun never sets, like the actual United Kingdom! This means that Japan's appetite is not limited to China. Between the Soviet Union to the north and the Pacific islands to the south, the Japanese will have a choice. Maybe in the near future. The Japanese will become enemies of your government because of their interests in the Pacific. Therefore, I suggest that your government should immediately stop selling strategic materials to Japan, and instead lend money to China to help China build up its armed forces to resist the Japanese and strengthen its strength to contend with Japan. And compared with Japan, a small island country with poor resources, China's ability to repay its foreign debt is obviously much more reliable! As far as I know, the Japanese Government has invested 90 percent of its gross national product in military expansion and rearmament! If such a country is defeated, your government will have nothing but land and population! ”

After expounding enough reasons, Huang Haoran added a few more sentences: "The last reason is my own, that is, I hope that in the future, Chinese soldiers will no longer eat bombs made by the Japanese with your country's steel!" In this way, the friendship between our two countries can be long-lasting! ”

After listening to Huang Haoran's remarks, Stilwell deeply felt that his trip to the Foreign Ministry building today was worthwhile. No wonder Chief Li, the bigwig of the Chinese military, would respect Huang Haoran like that! Huang Haoran's military shrewdness and political acumen left an extremely deep impression on Stilwell. Although Stilwell can't fully accept Huang Haoran's words now, at least he doesn't want his motherland to be an enemy of a country with such outstanding generals!

Huang Haoran's optimism and self-confidence infected Stilwell. Before meeting Huang Haoran, Stilwell wrote a letter to his wife in the United States in frustration, telling him that he planned to leave his post and retire, because he felt that he was not optimistic about China's war of resistance and felt that staying in China and waiting until retirement would not have any chance of promotion!

But now, Stilwell has changed his mind. He decided to stay in China, at least he wanted to see what Huang Haoran, a famous Chinese general, could do in Wuhan!

In Huang Haoran's eyes, although Stilwell is very straightforward, he is a little rude and straightforward. No wonder he was thrown into the desert so soon after the end of World War II! Although Stilwell is not so optimistic about the future of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression now, Huang Haoran can understand this veteran soldier who was influenced by the Western tradition of "weapon-only theory" at West Point.

In addition, Huang is looking forward to the impact that Stilwell's report will have on Washington......

"That's right! General Huang, did you receive a national disaster salary? ”

In the midst of the casual conversation after the main topic, Colonel Stilwell suddenly came up with such a question out of nowhere.

"Of course! Without exception, China's soldiers, from the highest authorities to ordinary soldiers, all of them received national hardship salaries after 918! ”

Huang Haoran's answer made Stilwell's face flush an ambiguous smile, and just before Huang Haoran was about to help but hack Stilwell, Stilwell came to Huang Haoran's side and said in a low voice:

"General Huang's food and clothing is not like a person who only receives a half-cotton jacket salary to live, it seems that your private business is doing very well!"

When Stilwell said this, he looked like a businessman who had worked hard in the mall for many years, and it seemed that Stilwell seemed to think that he had caught some handle on Huang Haoran, but Huang Haoran was very sure that he would not have any handle in Stilwell's hands.

"Colonel Stilwell, I don't quite understand what you're saying!"

Huang Haoran's defense was obviously used as a prevarication by Stilwell, who had become accustomed to another identity as a Chinese army general over the years, and these Chinese generals were all black-hearted businessmen without exception when they were not fighting!

"General Huang doesn't have to worry, private life should be separated from official business, in our United States, private property is sacrosanct, since your government can't provide you with food and clothing, it is a matter of course to find a way to solve the problem of life by yourself! When your new store opens, I will definitely visit it! Fortunately, the U.S. government is still relatively generous, and the dollar is not like your fiat currency, I think I can still afford it! ”

Stilwell's words, Huang Haoran is more confused! Why does it sound as if Stilwell decided that Huang Haoran was going to open a restaurant in Wuhan? But why hasn't Huang Haoran heard of this matter himself? Could it be that Fan Jie and Wang Huanzhi made a big deal in order to provide cover for the identity of the "hidden" and the personnel of the secret service?

Then there is no need to buy an industry in Wuhan? Let's not say that Wuhan will fall into the hands of the Japanese sooner or later, let's just say that how many pairs of eyes in this government are watching Huang Haoran dripping blood, isn't it nonsense to open a business at this juncture?

After sending Stilwell away, Huang Haoran immediately called the guards who were on standby at the entrance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, and asked him to inform Xu Zilong that while Wang Huanzhi and Fan Jie, who were stationed in the 25th Group Army, they sent people to search for this legendary "private property"! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )