Chapter 716: Blackwater Security and Timing
Chapter 716: Blackwater Security and Timing
"Tanya, this is not someone who can be idle at all!" Meng Xiang smiled helplessly.
He originally planned to keep Tanya close by his side, and also to take care of his eyes by the way. But Tanya's fiery temper and contemptuous eyes are not personal bodyguards at all. As she rises in rank, she is more suitable to be a top agent with the help of that European face.
Now Tanya often haunts places in Europe and the United States, cooperating with those shadow companies to implement Meng Xiang's layout plan, and by the way, she also does a secret act of robbing people or robbing money.
This time, in the face of the rapid advance of the Japanese, whether it was the British or the Dutch, while hurriedly resisting, they urgently transferred the plundered wealth of the South Seas.
While most of the wealth that has passed over the centuries has gone to Europe, it has left behind as much wealth as any other rich man in the world. Meng Xiang naturally refused to let go of this, and Tanya personally set her sights on the Dutchman's treasure.
In view of the threat of the Japanese in the sea and sky, and the domination of Europe by the Germans, the Dutch, who planned to return later, chose to find a place to hide their vast wealth and take it out later. It's a pity that their front feet have just been buried, and the back has been taken away by Tanya and others. This wealth of nearly 100 million dollars was sent directly to the global bank in Southeast Asia.
As long as you enter the global bank, even if the Dutch know about it, you can't help it.
Global banks in Southeast Asia have inherited the characteristics of their predecessors, Swiss banks, which only recognize withdrawal vouchers and do not ask where their wealth comes from. The secrecy is so strict that even the British and Dutch local governors cannot intervene, and it has made a name for itself in Southeast Asia since its rise for more than two years.
Like the Stone Bank in Switzerland, Alibaba Bank in the Middle East and Global Bank in Southeast Asia are also Mengxiang's masterpieces.
Later generations talked about many cases of Jews being robbed by the Germans, often involving Nazi gold and Swiss banks. But in the East, the whereabouts of the looted wealth of the Japanese are no longer known.
The huge profits of the robbery made Meng Xiang very sensitive to the wealth information of various places, and in the intelligence he collected, the wealth accumulated for hundreds of years in Southeast Asia was definitely a shocking number, but after World War II, it disappeared without a trace, leaving only the secret share of the samurai gold.
If it weren't for that huge wealth, would the Americans have easily let Japan go?
If MacArthur hadn't waded too deep in this spoils, could he have been pushed down by everyone later? Compared with Patton, who was also too involved in Nazi wealth, he was lucky with a strong background, at least he didn't have to die inexplicably.
If it weren't for this post-war gold, the Japanese would have been able to buy the world's technology with a lot of money so quickly and recover the economy so quickly? Of course, there are reasons for talent and industrial base, but the help of hidden wealth from robbery is indispensable. You must know that the whole of China is hungry to complete the primitive accumulation, sacrificing the youth of two or three generations.
Although Meng Xiang had already warned the Japanese in advance. But the wealth is charming, and the huge profits of robbery are so rewarding that even Meng Xiang can't help it, let alone the inhuman Japanese who are always facing the fat Chinese families.
Without the Japanese taking action in person, provoking those natives to make guns, they will naturally loot everything. Afterwards, the Japanese could immediately give an explanation to Huaxia, and even if they killed all those natives, they would not feel distressed.
Meng Xiang also mentioned a similar thing when he met with those Chinese representatives in Nanyang.
It is very simple to avoid these things, as long as they are armed, but neither Britain nor Japan will allow such civilian armed forces. Moreover, the world of the Chinese is also full of intrigues, like scattered sand, and it is difficult to unite. Sweep the snow in front of the door, and can only passively be slaughtered one by one.
Meng Xiang, who had expected it for a long time, has made a layout for these situations since 39.
Industry and commerce flourished on the territory of the vanguard army, and some preferential conditions attracted many Chinese funds. The Taiping Bank, which was established in China, and the South China Bank, in which the Nanyang Chinese jointly participated in the joint venture, were able to absorb some of the Chinese funds. Especially after the Pioneer Army established the New Deal FU and recognized the Chinese citizenship status of overseas Chinese, these savings rose sharply.
But there are still many Nanyang Chinese who simply don't believe that the eggs in a basket can be safe, and they don't believe that the country can be safe after more than a century of chaos. Generations of people who have endured hardships believe more in their collection of gold in troubled times.
They had no idea that those cellars and secret rooms could not stop the greed of the Japanese, and in the previous life, the Japanese dug deep into the ground and searched, so that these riches could not be hidden. Under severe torture, even the most secret treasures will be often leaked. Even if there are those who slip through the net, what is the use of wealth buried deep in the ground when people die?
With both umbrella companies and copycat companies choosing to trade in Global Bank, and some shadow companies with British, French, American, and German-Italian backgrounds also making the same choice, Universal has resisted the greed of the British and Dutch and erected a brand of credibility in Southeast Asia. In the past two years, it has also won the trust of some Chinese. More critically, Universal won the opportunity to have its own formal armament by supporting British and Dutch warships.
Blackwater, a security company under the umbrella of Global Bank, has been granted a license to be responsible for the security of all kinds of wealthy people.
Some of the local Chinese children who defected to the vanguard army were sent back, leading more Chinese young people to join the Blackwater Security Company, plus the clone soldiers who served as the backbone support, Meng Xiang had an army in his hands that could be dispatched at any time to protect the Chinese world.
In just over a year, Blackwater Security has grown to 30,000 people. Although the total number of personnel and the weapons equipped are too sensitive to be leaked to the outside, the exposed parts alone are already eye-catching. Even the British and Dutch had asked Blackwater for help when defending against the Japanese, but they were politely rejected by Universal with strict neutrality, and only agreed to support some of the arms. It's a pity that the Anglo-Dutch army is really not powerful.
After the Japanese came, they did not ignore this force, but the global bank was very good, helped the Japanese to match, and bought a Yamato-class battleship from the copycat company at a low price, plus the support of the umbrella company, etc., so that the Japanese opened up the net.
On the other hand, Global Bank also quickly entered into business with the powerful Japanese Chrysanthemum Bank, and received the support of the White Dragon Society behind Chrysanthemum Bank.
In a series of wars such as the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the White Dragon Society, which provided all kinds of intelligence and supported the actions of the Japanese army in a timely and accurate manner, became more and more prestigious, and even directly ranked on Hirohito's thigh. This time, Chrysanthemum Bank went south, and it also participated in the plan to plunder wealth.
Chrysanthemum Bank wanted to open up the situation soon, so it chose to sit on the global banking network.
In the face of the rising limelight and the White Dragon Society, which can be eaten in both the sea and land worlds, the leaders of the Japanese army also know how to send some favors.
Moreover, the exposed weapons of the Blackwater Company did not deviate from the category of pistols and submachine guns, there were no machine guns and artillery, and the number of exposed people was not large, so naturally there was less threat to the Japanese army, so they let it go.
But what they obviously don't know is that Blackwater is not just choosing to protect the Chinese billionaires. On the surface, there is a fellow country fund of various names as a cover, as long as it is a Chinese citizen, or even as long as it is Chinese, it will be within the scope of their protection.
Unbeknownst to them, Blackwater's pistols and submachine guns were only aimed at the would-be Indigenous thugs, and that Blackwater's stealth crews were training hard with artillery and tanks in the nearby tropical jungle. In the same dense forest, there are large-scale regular troops of the vanguard army under the banner of anti-colonial, banditry, and natives, who are doing various tropical rainforest adaptation training, just waiting for the order from Meng Xiang.
"Timing! We still lack a suitable opportunity, so we can only wait for the Japanese to send it to us! Meng Xiang picked up a secret telegram on the desk and handed it to Fan Chong.
Fan quickly swept through and had only a few simple sentences mentioning a small riot in Australia caused by Aboriginal demands for independence and freedom.
"Is this an opportunity?" Fan Chong knew that Meng Xiang had already made arrangements in Southeast Asia and even Australia, but he couldn't guess whether such a thing was Meng Xiang's arrangement, so he couldn't help asking.
"Maybe!" Meng Xiang didn't say anything, but smiled slightly.
Little did anyone know that the date of the riots, December 7, was a day that changed history. Of course, I didn't know that this small-scale riot of 100 people was just the beginning of a big storm that changed history.
"The Japanese are advancing rapidly in Burma and are now engaged in an exchange of fire with the 200th Division." Fan Chong changed his words.
"After all, we still have to fight first!" Meng Xiang sighed lightly and said.
On December 15, the Japanese and Dai Anlan's 200th Division officially began to fight. However, the British army obviously did not trust Dai Anlan's strength and retreated early. In the face of the fierce Japanese army, Dai Anlan and others had no choice but to evacuate.
Retreating all the way, by the time the New Year's bell rang in '42, the Japanese army had occupied half of Burma.
"Our countrymen are really fighting wars, and they always play heroes in front of the British, and this loss is a bit big!" Meng Xiang, who always paid attention to the south, looked at the latest battle report and sighed helplessly, "It's time to warn the Japanese that it's time to advance!" ”
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