War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 378 I don’t understand economics, just tell me where it was shipped from!
When the financial crisis occurred in 1934, it seemed that not many people knew this term. Ordinary people at that time just felt that they had become poor for no apparent reason, and they didn’t know why prices of things were becoming more and more expensive.

He also saw a beggar-like woman kneeling on the side of the road, looking at the busy street with a tearful face. Next to her, a girl was kneeling with a piece of grass stuck on her head. The girl lowered her head and said nothing, as if she had never seen the beauty of this world. She was silent.

Didi!

The driver of the 217th Regiment honked the horn to drive away the crowd, and then drove past on the road. However, Xu Chaoyang's eyes were always on the mother and daughter.

In the blink of an eye, he had been back in Dagu for more than a month. During this month, the soldiers in the regiment took off their cotton-padded clothes and started to wear single clothes. The trees around the shipyard also began to turn green...

But the arrival of summer did not make life easier for ordinary people. On the contrary, Bi Sheng once asked him with grievance whether the shipyard could give him a raise.

At first, Xu Chaoyang thought that it was Lao Yang and his gang who had caused the "union" to come to his head. After he got angry, he realized that this matter had nothing to do with the union, and it was the factory director Bi Sheng who brought it up on his own initiative.

This is strange. According to Xu Chaoyang's understanding, the treatment of workers in their factory is already the best in Tianjin. No matter what, they are not unable to survive. Duan Jingwen came to the laboratory to work just to pay off his loan sharks. How come everything changed in just one month?
Xu Chaoyang couldn't understand it, and didn't know how to understand it. Wasn't the war over? How could this society become increasingly depressed in a world without the sound of gunfire?

呲.

It was not until the jeep Xu Chaoyang was in stopped in front of a large courtyard house that he came to his senses. This was the property that Yuan Fuzhen had just purchased. Because of the matter between his second sister and Duan Jingwen, Xu Chaoyang decided not to let Yuan Fuzhen return to live in Wudadao, and simply settled down in Dagu.

"Uncle, you are back."

As soon as Xu Chaoyang entered the yard, he saw a maid carrying bowls and chopsticks walking from the kitchen to the backyard. He had been coming back at this time recently, so the family changed the dinner time to this time.

When he walked towards the backyard, he saw Yuan Fuzhen sitting at the stone table, taking the dishes and chopsticks from the maid and placing them on the table. It seemed that she could only do her man's work herself, and she couldn't even let the maid serve her...

"I'm back." Yuan Fuzhen said with a smile, and pointed to the stone bench: "Come on, it's time to eat."

Xu Chaoyang sat down thoughtfully, and casually told what he had just seen and heard, "What do you think is wrong with this world? Today on my way home I saw people selling their children, and I haven't heard of any war anywhere. Why can't ordinary people make a living again?"

It's not like he hasn't seen the misery of the common people. When they were fighting for the Northeast, the common people were ravaged by the Japanese invaders. But Xu Chaoyang had never heard that the common people could not survive without the war. He really couldn't understand it no matter how hard he thought about it.

"People who sell their children have been around in every dynasty. Maybe it's just you who happened to be there."

"No." Xu Chaoyang took the fish meat that Yuan Fuzhen brought with his bowl and shook his head, saying, "There must be something wrong. If someone happened to be unlucky and had to sell their children, that's fine. The problem is that before I came back today, the director of the shipyard, Bi Sheng, actually took the initiative to ask me if we could give the workers a raise..."

As if she had just realized something, Yuan Fuzhen put a few grains of rice on the end of the chopsticks into her mouth and said casually, "I almost forgot about it if you hadn't mentioned money. My uncle called home today and said that the silver dollar business in Pingjin is very hot recently. He wanted to ask if we can get involved?"

"Trading silver dollars?" Xu Chaoyang didn't think it was human language. Aren't silver dollars just money? Who would play with money for no reason?
"I didn't quite understand either. How about you call your uncle back later?"

Xu Chaoyang quickly put down his bowl and chopsticks, stood up and said, "As for me, let me ask someone who knows about this first." As he said that, he stood up and walked straight to the bedroom.

Xu Chaoyang didn't understand economics, and when he read history, he liked to read about wars the most. He would almost immediately turn over the pages involving economics and politics, as if his brain could automatically filter the pages, allowing his eyes to accurately skip the parts related to economics and politics in the book and search for wars. But this time it was impossible. Even if he had enough money to support the entire 217th Regiment, the workers in the factory had to survive!

"Hello? Mr. Xiong, I'm Xu Chaoyang."

Xu Chaoyang respected Mr. Xiong very much. After all, the entire Dagu Shipyard depended on him, so he only paid him money and never interfered in matters in the laboratory. This was also the main reason why he had a good relationship with Mr. Xiong and could ask him any questions he had.

But Mr. Xiong didn't give him the answer he wanted: "Captain Xu, I don't really understand the things you asked. How about this, there is a young man named Duan in our laboratory who knows a little about these things, how about I ask him to tell you?"

A moment later, Duan Jingwen's voice came from the phone...

But when Duan Jingwen's description of these things entered his mind, Xu Chaoyang sounded as if it were "I've seen this episode"!
"Captain Xu, this is called 'economic plunder'. The Japanese controlled the Northeast, East Hebei, Chahar and other regions to obtain a large amount of resources. They used them to produce tires, medicines and other products that our country cannot currently produce independently. They then dumped them in the areas they controlled in exchange for silver."

"If we look at the entire history, the innovations in 'ore dressing' and 'smelting technology' caused by the Industrial Revolution in the earlier period led to a drop in the price of silver, and the foreigners used the reduced-price silver to exchange for a large amount of materials from my country, causing my country's material poverty; then, the current economic plunder is using higher-priced materials to plunder a large amount of silver stored in my country."

This time Xu Chaoyang understood and responded: "You mean we have nothing left now?"

Duan Jingwen on the phone laughed: "Captain Xu, you are in such a high position that you cannot see the suffering of the people..." He sighed and said: "Do you know what the biggest smuggling business in North China, or even the entire North, is?"

"what?"

"It's smuggled silver dollars!"

"The Japanese have amassed a large amount of silver in our country through commodity dumping and opium cultivation in the Northeast. Now, in the waters outside Qinhuangdao, there are many warships anchored specifically for transporting silver!"

"These ships will transport the smuggled silver from Tianjin to Qinhuangdao, and then from Qinhuangdao to the United States through various channels, and then exchange it for oil from the United States..."

Duan Jingwen wanted to say more, as if he had a lot to say, but Xu Chaoyang suddenly interrupted him: "Wait a minute, where did you say to start?"

"All the occupied areas controlled by the devils..."

"Yes, I am asking you, where did you say it was shipped from to Qinhuangdao?"

　There is a recommendation on the 6th, so take care of yourself these two days. There will also be two updates tomorrow, give yourself some time to relax, and recover on the th, the th.

(End of this chapter)