But in addition to giving thanks to God, there is one more person to give thanks to, and that is Mr. Jiro Ono.
Jiro Ono was already doing well in the circle of militarists, and people admired his skills. One of the proposals he made to occupy the Great China through the One Night meeting was to find a pro-Japanese agent in Sichuan earlier.
Japan would sponsor and support a Sichuan warlord, and when conditions were ripe, declare Sichuan self-government. Then, during the Sino-Japanese war, there would be no rear base for China!
Jiro Ono and his men believed that the warlords of the Great China were basically buyable (unfortunately, that was almost the case). Among the existing warlords in Sichuan, Liu Xiang is the most powerful at present, but relatively young, radical and patriotic. Yang Sen, who had lost to Liu Xiang in a war two years earlier, still had considerable power and was unwilling to accept it, so he chose him.
The Japanese political leaders agreed to the plan and set up a spy organization called "Great East Asia Co., LTD." with the help of the Black Dragon Society and others, which was specifically responsible for courting warlords from all over the country. The Great East Asia Corporation sent representatives to talk to Janssen about providing him with arms and military advisers to help train the army; Two Japanese instructors were assigned to each regiment. After unifying Sichuan, Janssen was to agree to "China-Japan amity" and recognize Japan's "special status" in Sichuan; If necessary, Japan will help Janssen to oppose the central government and allow Sichuan to be autonomous.
Janssen agreed that as long as he could have a stronger army to defeat Liu Xiang and other Sichuan "commanders" and monopolize Sichuan, that would be fine. Other matters, we'll talk about them later. With an army in hand, what is there to fear? Then I'll have the final say.
These arms and money are the first gifts to Janssen after the negotiations.
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Three trucks in the yard were loaded with the goods offered by Bochen Trading Company. King Kong and his men also carried five cases of silver onto the trucks. King Kong, Fu Baoguo, Er Long drove, leaving Fu Baotian, Amao and three children behind. King Kong told the men left behind to close the warehouse door and, if any Japanese came, let them slip through the hole in the back wall.
King Kong and the Fu brothers drove the truck home and unloaded the goods in the workshop prepared for the production of pistols. A few of Ah Qing's men, who are now security guards at the factory, called to help, and Ye Wensheng also came to assist. All of them went to the Black Dragon Society warehouse again and loaded the guns and bullets in the warehouse. They also pulled the more valuable items from the warehouse, such as copper and cloth. The three children had gathered weapons and valuable items from each room, including two sets of woolen military uniforms. By three o 'clock, all the goods had been brought home.
The arms were supposed to be loaded onto the ship the next day and sent to Sichuan, but they were snatched the night before! The Japanese were furious. The prime suspect in this case is the insider: Janssen's representative in Shanghai! Bad conscience! Bad conscience!
Janssen's representative in Shanghai is his brother-in-law, Zhang Fuhao. The Black Dragon Society first scouted on the periphery, but found no clue. He was simply captured, tortured and questioned, but no clue was found. Did he really have no idea? Janssen sent someone else behind the scenes? This warlord is cunning! But you can't be a warlord without being cunning.
After that, the plan to buy warlords was cut. This Ono Jiro's plan has a very low success rate and is a waste of money!
But at this point, Tanaka's penicillin cultivation was finally successful!
Tanaka Sengo went to Britain to develop penicillin strains and spent two months. Because he was traveling by boat, and when he found it, he had prepared a second-hand one and would steal it if he couldn't. But it went surprisingly well. When Mr. Fleming, the British scientist, heard that he was going to buy the strain, he immediately gave it to him.
While engaged in penicillin production, I also want to develop some other products. He found that there was no dishwashing liquid in Japan and the whole world in this time and space!
This is a product that every household uses! It's a small investment but a big profit! It's also easy to produce. Tanaka himself has the ability to design and manufacture it!
So, invest in production.
Tanaka's work attitude is really good! Everything goes well! Noda's first product came out soon.
But there was only one problem: the market response was not good. Or rather, "born at the wrong time!"
At this time, Japan was in the midst of an economic crisis and everyone was poor. If you find a little oil in your bowl after a meal, you will probably drink it with boiling water or simply lick it clean with your tongue!
Even some people who don't have to be so thrifty wouldn't say they have to spend money on something just to wash the dishes. There's no such expense.
Tanaka won't just sit and wait for his fate! He went out early and came back late, and finally got a few high-end restaurants and a few rich families to buy a little. I bought too little and the profit seemed not enough to cover the price of the shoes. And these places still prefer the alkaline water used for washing dishes.
They couldn't be sold, so they had to use the leftovers themselves first. At his own rate for bathing, he could use it for twenty years. The hygiene level of the Japanese in this time and space is not ten or eight times worse than that in the time and space where Tanaka set out!
The investment in dishwashing liquid is a loss. Two months before penicillin was produced, Tanaka's economy was in trouble. Fortunately, Mr. Ono entered the Ministry of War as a second lieutenant by virtue of his connections with the one-night meeting comrades and his own exceptional military skills. It was thanks to Ono's allowance that Tanaka didn't go hungry.
But now the penicillin in Tanaka's hands is only a tiny sample in milligrams, just enough to test its purity and for some animal experiments.
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Janssen was famous among the warlords for having many wives and concubines and was a model of "universal love"! "Beauty loves heroes," and he had a transparent family policy: a woman who was pregnant with his child would be rewarded five thousand yuan! The child's living expenses will be given separately.
So, though there are only a dozen or so official wives, he himself doesn't know exactly how many women he has actually had. It is said that there are dozens.
One day, he saw a young and beautiful girl playing basketball at the girls' middle school and asked the people around him to find out who the girl was from. The people who went there quickly found out.
It was Commander Yang's daughter.
Which Commander Yang's?
It's you, Commander Yang!
Disappointment! Go home!
There are officers of a certain division at home waiting for him to discuss. After the meeting in the front hall, the officers took their leave and went back.
Suddenly, Janssen noticed something was wrong and asked the people around him, "Why did that young officer not go out with the other officers but go into the inner house?"
The people beside him quickly said, "This is your young master so-and-so!"
Then my brother-in-law Zhang Fuhao came in. When he saw Yang Sen's face, he wept: "This Japanese from the East tricked me into Shanghai in order to kidnap me!" Look, he beat me! Finally, they took the 30,000 yuan I had with them and let me out!
Janssen was angry too. Old Man Ge! I said, How could little Japan offer me such a good thing! All right, you go back to the military supply department first. I'll avenge you when I have the chance.
After the full-scale War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, Yang Sen commanded the group army under his command to go out of Sichuan to fight against the Japanese. At first, the positional battles were not very good, but later in the mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare of the Changsha Campaign, they performed better and better, and he was promoted to deputy commander of the theater!