"Junichiro."

After Kotaro Ito put down the envelope, folded it, and hid it closely, he looked at his younger brother, Junichiro Ito, and said in a leisurely tone:

"You say, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and the independent regiment under his command, which is now the Eighth Route Army, are they powerful?"

"Is the Eight Ways strong now?"

Junichiro Ito, who graduated from Tokyo Imperial University, studied economics, and worked in the Republic of China for several years, helping his brother control the entire empire's transactions, thought for a while, and replied:

"Very strong."

"Their overall strength is stronger than that of the Empire."

Speaking of this, Junichiro paused for a while before saying:

"And it's much stronger."

"Huh?"

When Kotaro Ito heard this, he looked at it with a smile and asked with great interest:

"Tell me the specific reasons why you are judging this."

Because of its late start and poor foundation, among the world powers, there is a big gap between the comprehensive strength of the Great Japanese Empire and the four countries of Germany, France, the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States, but after more than 50 years of development since the Restoration of the People's Rule, it has also caught up with and surpassed Italy and other countries.

A strong navy is proof of this.

At this time, his younger brother actually said that in just two years, Li Yunlong's group already had the strength to surpass the empire, and it was far more than that.

It really surprised him.

The information that the two of them came into contact with was almost the same, and even he had personally met Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang, what he originally thought was that in the future, the Eighth Route would inevitably surpass the Empire, but the current Eighth Route strength may be a little worse than the Empire.

No, it should be a lot worse.

"It's complicated to judge how powerful an international power is, but we can make a rough judgment through four aspects."

Although he didn't understand why his brother said this topic, Junichiro still sat in front of his brother and explained carefully:

"Industrial power, military power, economic power, human resources."

Ito nodded, listening carefully.

He started doing business with his uncle after finishing high school, and although he had a lot of social experience, his vision was not as broad as that of his own brother, who graduated from Imperial University.

That's why he carefully asked his brother what he thought.

"Industrial strength, that is, the level of machinery manufacturing."

"In this respect, the strongest in the world is the United States, followed by Germany."

Junichiro narrated:

"Through the intelligence collected by the empire, the Eighth Road is already very strong in this regard."

"We now know that in the area around Taiyuan, there is a large comprehensive steel plant, a large tractor factory, a large tire factory, four giant factories, a large chemical plant, and more than 50 supporting manufacturing plants."

"And not only are they well-equipped, but they're also very technologically advanced, and they're already running at full capacity."

"Take the construction of the earliest integrated steel plant, for example, although it was nominally a steel plant, but in fact it was a steel manufacturing complex, the size of a dozen large factories in the empire combined."

"It is known that its annual output of 1.5 million tons of steel, using a new technology called oxygen bottom blowing converter, steelmaking efficiency is extremely high, supporting steel rolling, steel casting and other equipment are readily available, can produce steel plates, steel wires, steel coils, rails, seamless steel pipes, large castings, etc., and high efficiency, good quality."

"It can even make special steels such as armor steel."

"They don't know where to decide where the raw material problem came from, and they are currently working on production."

"The other three giant factories are the same, technologically advanced, huge, in fact, they are all an industrial ensemble, equivalent to a dozen large factories in the empire, such as tire factories, which can manufacture all kinds of tires, large and small, and a new radial tire technology, which the Americans are trying to buy even now."

"Together with the supporting machine factories, they can completely manufacture steam locomotives, steel rails, bearings, shells of various calibers, machine guns and cannons, light bulbs, wires, and even generators, engines, and all kinds of machine tools."

"These alone are almost equivalent to a huge industrial zone, and it is the world's top industrial zone with the highest level of technology."

After the base areas were opened up for construction, although the troops strengthened security measures and secrecy measures, they could only ensure the safety of confidential information, important equipment and personnel, and the leakage of general information could not be avoided.

"It's really advanced."

Kotaro Ito couldn't help but agree.

The quality of steel wires, steel bars, steel plates, steel nails, steel coils, farm tools, rubber-soled shoes, and clothes that circulated from the merchants of Ping'an County was much better than that of the empire.

These simple commodities have been spread throughout the Republic of China.

Among them, the most visible technical level is the latest production of walk-behind diesel tractors produced by Taiyuan Tractor Factory, single-cylinder, high horsepower, solid and durable, low failure rate and low fuel consumption.

It can be transported, it can be towed, and it can be cultivated.

And the production speed is very high, not long after the establishment of the Taiyuan Tractor Factory, more than 500 vehicles have rolled off the assembly line.

Not to mention the empire, all over the world, there is a certain gap between similar products and each other.

And that radial tire.

After a detailed investigation by Imperial Special High-tech, it is said that this new radial tire is much more advanced than bias tires, good wear resistance and puncture resistance, good cushioning performance, coupled with advanced manufacturing technology, can greatly improve the performance of wheeled vehicles, even if the Americans are secretly turning their faces with the other party, they are also cheeky to buy technology, which shows the advanced nature of this new tire.

"Of course, there is still a big gap between these and the empire, but don't forget, there are currently seven giant factories of the same level as the steel plant under construction in Taiyuan."

"As long as these factories are completed, the total scale of the other party's industry will surpass that of the empire."

Junichiro's tone was horrified at this time:

"And!"

"In Ping'an County, there is also a top large hospital and a senior college."

"The medical technology of this hospital has caught up with Europe and the United States, and there are a large number of top professors and experts in that high-level university, and from the perspective of open classes, the theoretical and practical level of these people is quite high."

Ito nodded silently again.

Since it is an open academy and an open hospital, it is natural that most of the information is open, and it is impossible for the imperial intelligence personnel to enter and destroy it, but it is very simple to collect some information.

These are indeed true, true.

Even if these nearly 1,000 top technicians, talents comparable to top professors, and those factory equipment, the source of these top technologies has not yet been investigated, but it does not prevent the fact that these things really exist in the hands of Balu.

Top technicians suddenly parachuted, and the technical base was already there, as long as they could make up for the middle and low-level technical forces, they would be able to fully control this huge industrial base comparable to the entire empire.

This can be done in a very short time.

"Of course, even with the addition of these seven giant factories, the scale is actually not comparable to that of the Empire."

Junichiro continued:

"After all, the empire has been developing for fifty years, and it has built the world's largest warship, the Yamato, even if they have foreign equipment, technology, and even talents, such a little time is not enough."

Ito nodded, by a wide margin.

That's what he's curious about.

In terms of industrial strength, even if the Eighth Route digests the eleven giant factories, the scale will not catch up with the empire, or even far inferior.

Very simply, the empire produces more than 6 million tons of steel every year, manufactures thousands of aircraft, and nearly 1 million tons of ships, while the other party is now dying of 1.67 million tons of steel per year, and the aircraft cannot be manufactured at all.

The reason why it seems to be more than is that most of the empire's manufacturing industry is in terms of ships, while the other party is all land manufacturing, plus the other party is only technologically advanced in some aspects.

Another is that the other party does not seem to be limited by resources, and has whatever resources they want.

Oddball!

"But industrial capacity is only one part of a country's strength."

Junichiro continued:

"Judging the strength of the country, there are also economic factors, military factors, and the sum of human resources."

"Needless to say about human resources, the Republic of China is the country with the most human resources in the world, and there is no one, although at the moment these human resources are of inferior quality, more than 90 percent are illiterate, and there is a lack of knowledge and talents."

"But they have excellent financial means."

"Relying on a large number of high-quality food stamps, they can be issued in large quantities, the huge population can accommodate a large amount of funds, and then rely on basic materials such as food, fuel, medicine, reinforced cement, etc., and various industrial products produced by themselves, which can easily achieve a positive economic cycle."

"This has given them (town) government a huge economic power and can mobilize its forces to tap its huge human resources, the most notable is that Li Yunlong is frantically collecting talents and refugees, and a large number of talents in the fruit are attracted to it."

"Although we don't know where these materials, equipment, and technology come from, the amount is probably a number that we can hardly imagine, so that they do not need to accumulate primitive industrial capital bit by bit, and can develop industrial power with all their strength, the only limit for them is the number of skilled workers and technical personnel."

"There are as many people as there are technologies, funds and equipment."

"It is foreseeable that with the development of time, they will accumulate more and more people, and the speed of development will become faster and faster."

"It won't take long for its strength to completely surpass the Empire, and even, if the follow-up resources can continue to be provided, it may catch up with or even surpass the United States."

"It's the same with military power."

At this time, Junichiro's tone was already a little trembling:

"Judging from the number of aircraft, tanks, and artillery, what limits the strength of their army is not the production capacity of weapons and equipment, not the economy, but people, as long as the population, weapons and equipment will always be enough."

"Moreover, the weapons are very advanced."

"With these resources, taken together, the empire is far worse than Li Yunlong and them."

"It's too far away."

"Even if the empire concentrates all its forces now, I'm afraid it will not be their opponent, even if we fight in the coastal area and the navy supports, but the other party can suppress the navy through huge shore-based aircraft, we have no chance of winning."

"Not to mention the future."

"Moreover, there is also a base area in the coastal area of Shanghai, where there is a suspicion that their navy often uses torpedo boats to attack imperial transport ships."

After saying that, Junichiro felt relieved.

"Indeed."

Kotaro Ito also breathed a sigh of relief.

After listening to his younger brother's analysis, he had a deeper understanding of Li Yunlong and them.

As the person in charge of doing business with them, and the person who had fought with the Independence Group many times, Ito had witnessed the development of that group with his own eyes, and it was safe to say that the group was stronger every day, and every day was stronger than yesterday.

If you give it to someone for another half a year, you may not know what it will become.

So...

Touching the secret letter in his pocket, Ito smiled slightly, and suddenly said:

"Juntaro, make a list of the officers we have in contact with."

has controlled the business for so long, in order to make better profits, Ito naturally established his circle, and most of his circles are the same as Ito, who sneer at the emperor, bushido, and the empire.

This group of people formed a brigade of reach-out fishers.

"And the merchants, make a list too."

"Yes."

Juntaro nodded, and quickly compiled a list of Imperial Ito.

"Brother, what are we doing here?"

Juntaro asked, puzzled.

"Now the wealth we have in our hands is already the limit."

Ito said with a smile.

Juntaro nodded.

Every month, hundreds of thousands of tons of grain and hundreds of thousands of tons of fuel oil pass through their hands, even if they leak a little, they still make a lot of money, but compared with the big capitalists, they are still more than a little worse.

"If you want to go further, you need something else to add value to your wealth and protect it."

Ito licked his lips:

"The Chinese have an old saying, it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail."

"But the two of us..."

Juntaro understands his brother's thoughts.

Since the empire, no, since the defeat of Japan is inevitable, it is time to determine its position, so his brother is ready to fall to Li Yunlong and them to plan for the post-war period.

Become the ruler of Japan after the defeat of the war.

Even if, at that time, Japan was just a defeated country.

But the problem is that one of them has just been promoted to major general and lacks background, and the other is Zhongzuo, although they have compiled a network, but just like that, most of them are middle-level and upper-level officers.

It's a little ridiculous that such two people want to plan such a big thing.

"It's okay."

The corner of Ito's mouth hooked:

"There will be people to help us, and we will have more and more teammates, and we will get stronger and stronger."

······

At the same time.

Somewhere nameless peak.

Chen Fan was in a daze, and suddenly, with a dripping sound, the light blue interface popped up, and the system that he hadn't seen for a long time went online

"Business: Execution!"

"List of war criminals (generals, etc.): Hirohito, Hatohiko Asaka, Ishine Matsui, ·····"

"List of War Criminals (Adjutants, etc.): Takeshi Noda..."

"A list of all war criminals has been listed."

"Kill war criminals to get supplies, arrest and try and kill in public, you can get points, according to which you can exchange points for technical personnel, advanced technology and equipment (upgraded by one to twenty years)"

"This business is a long-term business, and it is limited to a limited time before Japan's surrender."

47 New Business!

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