Chapter 265: The Victor Goes Unpunished

When I heard Chen Bo say the words "Golden Lily Action". Yang Zhen's heart suddenly moved. He remembered that he had heard about it in a book in his later life. In order to plunder China's wealth, the Japanese army specially set up a secret intelligence agency with hands and eyes.

This agency took advantage of the Japanese army's presence on the battlefield and plundered a large amount, almost astronomical amount of wealth, from the areas it occupied. According to post-war estimates by US military intelligence, from the September 18 incident to the victory of the War of Resistance, the Japanese army plundered at least 6,000 tons of gold worth of wealth from Chinese mainland.

Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, at least 60 percent of this astronomical wealth flowed into the pockets of the Japanese imperial family, except for part of the war expenses and replenishment of more than half of the gold and foreign exchange reserves that had been consumed due to the full-scale invasion of China and the import of rubber, oil, metals, and other military raw materials that were in short supply in Japan.

It was also by relying on the large sums of wealth plundered from China and later Southeast Asia that the Japanese imperial family was able to continue to spend a lot of money after World War II, and it was able to support its princes, who had been stripped of their so-called imperial titles. You must know that every year after the war, the Japanese imperial family has to take out a huge amount of allowances to subsidize those members of the imperial family who have no imperial status and therefore no income.

Relying solely on the 300 million yen paid to the imperial family by the national treasury, the allowance of 3 million US dollars is enough to feed fifteen palace families, large and small, and hundreds of people. And the 300 million yen only rose before I crossed over, and there was not so much before.

It turned out that Yang Zhen had never understood that this little devil emperor had so much financial resources. Now I know that more than half of the huge wealth that China lost in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression actually went into the pockets of that bullshit emperor. Grandma's, these bastards. With the wealth obtained from selling drugs that have poisoned countless Chinese, he actually enjoys peace of mind. And fucking said that it was in exchange for investing in stocks, fuck. What the fuck do they really think their bullshit stocks are made of gold?

Judging from the confession, the biggest means of this so-called Kodama agency to accumulate wealth in the war, in addition to the few gold mines that were seized by it, and the blatant murder and forcible seizure of goods, were drugs.

What a bullshit emperor, just fucking the whole is a big drug dealer. If you don't look at it, you don't know that the annual opium production in the northeast alone actually reaches five or six hundred tons. This is not counting Rehe, the largest opium producing area in the Kwantung military-controlled area. What is this number of five or six hundred tons? How many Chinese will be ruined by this.

Guo Bingxun and Chen Bo looked at Yang Zhen's face for a while and his face was blue and purple, knowing that he was really angry in his heart. They are also angry about this kind of thing, but what can anger be? Not to mention that you can't manage it yourself, but how much can your own hand reach into the territory of the puppet Manchurian except for the base area? What can you do other than to be trapped in this world? At least not in a short period of time.

Fortunately, there are several large gold mines, all of which are in the Little Khing'an Mountains. Now most of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains are controlled by their own troops, which means that these gold mines are also controlled by their own hands. The loss of the largest source of income other than drugs can be regarded as recovering a certain amount of loss. At least all the gold produced in the Puppet Manchurians won't be shipped back to Japan.

Yang Zhen knocked on the table, and said to Guo Bingxun and Chen Bo: "The pass is too far away, and our hands can't reach there." But in this puppet Manchurian territory, we can't do nothing, just watch the little devils snatch away the wealth of my Chinese collection of 5,000, leaving behind piles of white bones? ”

"Lao Chen, you are the Minister of Social Affairs of the Military Region, in charge of counter-espionage work and social security in the base area. You go to Chen Long, and you think of a way. Even if you can't break the big net of the little devil, you have to tear him up as much as possible. In particular, they set up a heroin factory in Mukden, and tried to destroy it by all means. ”

Hearing this, Chen Bo said with a bitter face: "Commander, this is not easy to do. The devil's big smoke house is almost all over the Northeast. How many there were, apart from themselves, I'm afraid even the Kwantung Army command doesn't know. And the brothels all over the world, we can't blow them up, right? ”

"The heroin factory in Mukden is very large, and it is heavily guarded. It is also in the hinterland of Nanmanchu, thousands of miles away from us. The road is far away, the small troops can't go, the big troops can't pass, so you can't put on your wings and fly over. Besides, as long as the opium base in Rehe is still there, even if we blow up this factory, they can still build it at any time. ”

"Commander, the land in that area of Rehe is barren, it is all mountain soil, and the grain production itself is low. Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, it has been an important source of opium. Now the little devils are forcing the common people to destroy the fields to grow opium, and I am afraid that the current production of opium there is far greater than that of grain. ”

"Little devil, this is the life and death of the Chinese who don't care about Rehe, even if there is a good year, there is not enough food to eat. Now that large tracts of land are being forced to switch to opium, there is even less food to eat. How many Chinese will starve to death in Rehe this year? ”

"Our troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region tried several times to establish an anti-Japanese base in Rehe, but they could not stand up and could only carry out guerrilla warfare on a small scale. The main reason for this is that the enemy and puppet forces are too strong, and the combat effectiveness of the puppet Manchu army is much higher than that of the puppet army in Guannai, that is, food cannot be solved. The troops went less and did not work. If you go too much, you can't solve the supply at all. ”

"Before I came, the central government talked to me and said that the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region was forming the Jire-Liao Advance Army and was preparing to mobilize some of its vital forces to go north to Rehe. In addition to establishing anti-Japanese base areas in eastern Hebei and Pingxi, it was to prepare for our battle in North Manchuria. At the same time, it is hoped that our troops will be able to find an opportunity to go south and form a north-south strategy with the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region going north. In the final analysis, I want to open up a straight line with the Anti-Japanese Union, instead of borrowing Jiangbei. ”

"It was only when I arrived that I realized that this hope was not possible, at least for a short time. From the Xiajiang base area to the Rehe River, it is necessary to cross the large and small Xing'an Mountains, not to mention the thousands of kilometers along the way, most of which are grasslands with a flat river. Along the way, there was a heavy group of Japanese puppet troops and a large number of cavalry puppet Mongolian troops, not to mention, but also a lack of places to replenish. ”

"And because of the problems of weaponry and training, the troops going north in Kannai were simply unable to confront the Japanese puppet army head-on. Except for the weapons used by the 115th Division when the troops were divided, most of the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region were confiscated civilian guns and weapons and equipment discarded by the 29th Army when it withdrew southward. ”

Later, when fighting with the Japanese puppet army, some Japanese-style equipment was captured one after another. But commander, the equipment of our army in the Kannai is too poor. Although there is an arsenal, based on technology and equipment, it can only repair some broken guns and make some black powder grenades. The Nationalist Government did not issue it, and most of the equipment had to be seized by rear. ”

"In the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, Hanyang has made good guns. There are very few such guns in the formal, Liao 13, and Czech styles. It would be great if every company of a regiment was armed with light machine guns. If there are thirty percent of the troops equipped with the 38 big cover, that is the main force of the main force. ”

"We don't like crooked handles here, but they're a good gun over there. Although there is no way to compare the performance with the Czech, in the case of poor firepower, there is better than nothing. If a Type 92 is captured, the commander's mouth will be crooked. ”

"The most important thing is that there is a huge shortage of ammunition, and except for a small number of reloads, we can only rely on capture. If the main regiment can have fifteen rounds of ammunition per person in a battle, it will be a big one. In local divisional troops, a maximum of five rounds are generally fired. ”

"There is only one artillery regiment in the entire military region that is equipped with a few small mountain guns that the Jin Sui Army lost. The light and heavy mortars of the whole military region combined are not as many as one of our brigades. Even this is often unusable because there are no shells. ”

"Even if the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region exhausts its resources, it will not reach half of the level of our troops' equipment. Not to mention the ammunition. Our soldiers are not counted as wartime replenishment, and the average ammunition carried by us is 120 rounds per person alone. The ammunition that a brigade can shoot out for one year's training is enough for the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to fight for several years. ”

"Even if the Guannai formed the Jireliao Advance Army specifically to cooperate with us, it would definitely not be able to capture Rehe. And we can't reach it with our hands, at least for a short time. Commander, as long as Rehe is still in the hands of the Japanese army, there is no way for us to completely cut off the source of drugs for the little devils. ”

"Cutting off the source of the devil's drugs, our efforts have been in vain. Unless you can get all the big smokers, white-faced people in Manchuria to get rid of drugs. But if this thing is so easy to quit, then there will be so many people who sell their houses and land, and even sell their wives and daughters? Where do the little devils go to make money? ”

Chen Bo's words silenced Yang Zhen. This is true, with the strength of the Guannai troops, which are now contemptuously called the Tubachi Road by the Japanese army because of their broken equipment, it is simply impossible to break the blockade of the Japanese puppet army and occupy Rehe and cut off the source of drugs for the Japanese army. Without cutting off the source of drugs for the Japanese army, everything is in vain.

Even if the drug processing plant is destroyed, as long as the Japanese army still controls Rehe, the source of drugs, it can be rebuilt anytime and anywhere. Moreover, the Japanese army did not just blow up this one drug processing plant, and there were also Siping and Dalian, as well as Tianjin, Nanjing, and Shanghai in Guannai. What's the use of blowing up this place?

Knowing that he was not yet able to cut off the ability of this black hand, Yang Zhen obviously looked a little anxious. I can't wait to immediately set up an airborne army to burn down all the opium-producing and manufacturing areas of all sizes in the northeast. But now he realized that he really couldn't do anything.

Looking at Yang Zhen, who looked a little anxious, Guo Bingxun, who had not spoken, said, "Commander, don't be too anxious. The solution is to think slowly, this matter is not urgent. As long as we become stronger and stronger and liberate more and more areas, there will be fewer and fewer places for the little devils to sell drugs. Only by cutting off its sales channels can it really cut off the black hand of the Japanese army. ”

"But it's not like we can't do anything right now. Since the little devil has used all kinds of methods to attract my Chinese people to take drugs. So why can't we do the opposite? We captured Jiamusi and seized large quantities of opium, morphine, and heroin. ”

"In addition to morphine, which we have to save for our own medicine, opium is too obvious, and those heroin are good things. This kind of heroin looks inconspicuous in appearance, like fine white flour, but it is the most toxic and the strongest of these drugs.

"It's also the most convenient to use, you don't need a smoking gun, just a syringe or even a piece of tin foil. The little devil used this kind of thing to make inconspicuous cigarettes and chewing gum to attract my Chinese descendants to take drugs. So why can't we do it? ”

"We don't have the ability to extract heroin from opium, but we have the ability to mix them into cigarettes and make cigarettes like the little devils. Sold to Japanese soldiers and Japanese immigrants. We seized the two major warehouses of the Fourth Division, Hademen and Forts, which were smuggled from the Guannei in Jiamusi, and the high-quality cigarettes, which could be used to make this heroin cigarette. ”

"Although the little devils strictly prohibit the army from taking drugs, smoking is not prohibited. Even in order to boost morale, cigarettes were rationed from time to time. The cigarettes it supplies are of extremely poor quality because of tobacco. It was not very popular with the Japanese army. On the contrary, the Hardmen and Fort cigarettes produced by the United States and British tobacco were very popular with Japanese officers and soldiers because of their excellent tobacco. It's just that the Japanese army has very strict control over the materials flowing into the Guannai, and it is difficult for ordinary people to get them. ”

"Aren't we going to put that Kitano Takatsu back? He used the smuggling network he had set up to sell the modified cigarettes. This devil was the only one in the entire puppet Manchurian territory who dared to open a smoke shop in private, and he dared to put his hand into the pocket of the Japanese emperor, I don't think he would have the courage to do it. Besides, there is no need for us to tell him that this batch of cigarettes is stuffed. ”

"First, we can retaliate against the Japanese army for plundering our Chinese wealth by unscrupulous means. Second, it can earn us some funds in order to solve our urgent needs. Third, it can greatly weaken the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army. Commander, think about it, how much more combat power does an addict have? Can he still afford a gun when he is a drug addict? ”

"As for whether this kind of cigarette will fall into the hands of the people, you can rest assured, commander. This kind of material that is strictly forbidden in the customs area, not to mention that the Chinese people can't afford it, and they don't dare to smoke it even if they can. If you are caught by the Japanese puppet police, if you don't get it right, you will be given an economic crime of anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese resistance, and you will be peeled off if you don't die. ”

"The cigarettes from these two warehouses were originally smuggled in by the Fourth Division from the Guannai and were ready to be sold to the Japanese troops stationed in Manchuria. Wouldn't it be a pity to leave it alone? We can't train the whole army to be smokers, can we? That's not a good thing. ”

"We're just doing this to give them back what the Japanese did to our compatriots. Since you can't cut off your hand, you should also think about whether you will be retaliated against when you do evil. Commander, the victor will not be punished. ”