Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 272: Build the Road First
Subtitle of this chapter: The Greatest Taboo of the Country
"Defend and attack the black iron (くろがね), float the castle and build the castle..." (The gray-black copper wall and steel wall with both offensive and defensive capabilities are reliable steel fortresses on the water...)
"Master Ball, I thought you were going to use "Song of the Showa Restoration" as the background music."
"Host, you are facing a shameless navy. Of course, you should use either "Sakura of the Same Generation" (the school song of the Etajima Naval Academy) or "March of the Battleships."
"Master Ball, you are wrong. In fact, the author of "Song of the Showa Restoration" is also a shameless navy."
Four years before the February 26th Mutiny, there was the May 15th Mutiny launched by low-ranking naval officers. One of the masterminds, Lieutenant Taku Mikami, was the author of this song.
"Oh...Miluo (べきら)の渕(ふち)に波騒ぎ, Wu (ふ)山の云は乱れ飞ぶ..." (The waves in the Miluo Yuan are surging, and the clouds are flying beside the Wushan Mountain...)
"Master Ball, stop now!"
"Host, don't you want this system to change the BGM?"
"Master Ball, you're so damn noisy, I can't even hear my own voice."
"Yoshi..."
Master Yuan, finally able to calm down, nodded with satisfaction and said in English, "Please take a seat, Mr. Yamamoto . Now we can talk about the business between us."
After sitting down, Yamamoto Fifty-Six took out a handkerchief from his trouser pocket and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Then he asked with lingering fear: "Mr. Yuan, weren't you talking about business just now?"
"Of course not!" Yuan Yan looked at the eight cents in surprise and said, "This is me... well, the small contribution you and I made to the cause of world peace, how can it be business?"
"Hmm..." Isoroku Yamamoto took out his handkerchief and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
Our Master Yuan continued to talk to himself: "Mr. Yamamoto, this is what I want to do. I want to set up a shipping company recently..."
For a multinational company or an evil organization that wants to cause trouble across the world, logistics, money flow and information flow are extremely important. Yuan Yanshu, who has the Master Ball system, has taken care of the information flow by himself; and as a time traveler, he is not too worried about the money flow; but unfortunately, as a low-end time traveler, he does not have a two-way door or a portable space, so the only thing he needs to pay attention to is logistics.
Although he himself still doesn't know what his grand plan will look like, as a quasi-economist trained in economics, he knows what preparations should be made to complete his grand plan of causing trouble around the world.
If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. If you want to make things happen, you must send key historical figures and sufficient material preparations to key locations at key historical nodes.
Instead of looking for a way when the time comes, it is better to prepare a ready-made logistics network by yourself, and this shipping company is the first step.
Contrary to what most people think, whether in 1920 or a hundred years later, buying a ship is not a difficult task, as long as you have money, the difficult part is to equip the ship with a team of professional sailors. However, a hundred years later, there are shipping companies that can be outsourced, and now Yuan Yanshu can only find a way on his own.
Isn't this solution right in front of him? He can just find "retired" Japanese naval personnel to become his crew members.
As for cooperating with people in the "Imperial Japanese Navy", he didn't have much resistance in his heart.
Yuan Hongjian is indeed a nationalist with Huanghan tendencies. But… but, he is a post-90s nationalist in 2017, which is very different from the online nationalists who just emerged in 1997.
The first generation of nationalists born in the 1970s and early 1980s had a strong revenge mentality as victims of history, which was reflected in the large number of plots of destroying Japan and the United States in the initial historical fictional novels, especially the Japanese, in which there were definitely no good people and no good ending.
Cooperate with the Japanese?! Don’t even talk about this matter, just kill all the men first.
However, with the rise of Seris, the victim mentality of the subsequent nationalists is no longer so strong, and they can look at Seris' century-long history of humiliation with a more calm and objective perspective. Their views on neon gold, which brought the greatest humiliation and harm to Seris, have also changed subtly.
Of course, another reason is that they found that the Japanese friends who were praised as "Showa men" when they were young actually became "Heisei otaku" when they grew up. Yuan Hongjian and his group actually had a kind of angry mentality towards the Japanese gold of the same age. What about the third Sino-Japanese war?
Therefore, the historical fiction novels of that period underwent a wonderful transformation. Both left-wing and right-wing authors wanted to get the Japanese to jointly build the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. What's more, the two sides organized a Sino-Japanese joint fleet to fight a decisive battle with the United States in the Pacific.
Now that the idea of a Sino-Japanese joint fleet has come up, what does it matter if a Sino-Japanese joint merchant fleet is established?
At least at this stage, Yuan Yanshu and Japan, especially the Japanese Navy, have a common goal in Southeast Asia, which is to break the Western colonial system.
Besides, as long as the crew members joined his shipping company, he didn't believe that he couldn't convert the neon gold. If he did it well, he could use the neon gold to influence the Japanese navy. Maybe by the time of World War II, he would have already controlled an armed fleet .
Yamamoto Isoroku also thought he understood: "Mr. Yuan, do you want me to help you find some retired naval personnel to serve as crew members?"
"Mr. Yamamoto, I don't think you understand." When it comes to business, our Master Yuan will not let us down. He said very seriously: "I mean for you... um, to set up a shipping company with some of your colleagues and me."
"Of course I know that your army has strict discipline and your soldiers are very self-disciplined, but you don't have to pay money or show up, and you don't even have to leave any written materials. You can send financial personnel to supervise the company's operations, and the profits will be sent to the place you specify on time. All you have to do is provide some convenience..."
"Mr. Yuan, are you trying to bribe me and my colleagues ?" Yamamoto Isoroku was a typical soldier after all, and he became furious when he heard this.
As a professional soldier, he certainly knew the consequences. And from what this Chinese man said, he was not running a normal shipping business, but smuggling!
He didn't want to see his beloved Japanese Navy using surface ships or even submarines to escort smuggling ships.
So Yamamoto Isoroku stood up, bowed slightly and said: "I'm sorry, if that's the case, I can't accept it!"
