Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

Chapter 585 The Fourth Division's Weird Operation

Commander Shinozuka first anxiously convened a military meeting at the headquarters, and then said a lot of official words and clichés. In a word, he meant one thing: defend with all your strength.

After the military meeting, he summoned his confidant Yamamoto Ikki and division commander Matsui to discuss the next countermeasures.

After all, the three of them are currently allies, connected by interests, and some things can be discussed openly.

Yamamoto Ikki's special forces team is powerful and is the best choice for carrying out some tasks; and the 4th Division is powerful and has a large number of people. As long as they guard the First Army's base camp, everything will be fine.

"You two, this is the current situation. All the investigators at the headquarters have been withdrawn, and they have also promised to send us two divisions of reinforcements. They require my First Army to defend the existing territory in Jin Province."

"At present, it seems that the attack launched by the Eighth Route Army may not be a bad thing for us. It can be regarded as solving a big problem for us from the side."

However, Division Commander Matsui said indifferently: "If someone wants to investigate, let them do it. Anyway, it wasn't us who did it, so we are not afraid of investigation at all."

"Matsui-kun, you can't say that. Even if we are not afraid of investigating the train attack, there are still many things in the city that cannot be made public. Once someone investigates it, it will easily cause unnecessary trouble."

"For example, the guarding at the city gates was quite lax, and they rarely even checked."

"The investigation team has reported this to me many times, but I suppressed it every time. Otherwise, it would have caused another big disturbance."

After hearing this, Division Commander Matsui complained angrily: "Those stupid people don't know how to do business. If we don't do this, how can we attract rich people from other places to do business here?"

"If the goods don't circulate, how can the city's economy improve? How can we earn a lot of dollars?"

In response to the complaints of Division Commander Matsui, Commander Shinozuka also nodded in agreement. Since the arrival of the 4th Division, his horizons have been broadened. Of course, there are also benefits. Now he earns more in a month than in the previous years, which also makes him extremely satisfied.

However, he still wanted to remind him: "Mr. Matsui, some things can be done secretly. There is no need to put everything out in the open. This will easily give people a handle on you."

"There are still some superficial tasks to be done. At worst, we can just replace the Imperial Army to guard the city gates and give them some instructions. Even if something goes wrong in the future, they will be the best scapegoats."

"Also, don't say openly that we treat merchants equally. This kind of thing can easily be reported to the upper echelons by people with backers, causing us trouble. For the sake of the business environment, we just need to crack down on those who don't follow the rules in secret. The people of the Fourth Division are the best at this, so I don't need to say more."

"Yes, yes, I will do as you say in the future."

After he finished speaking, he took out a check from his pocket and handed it over:

"Mr. Shinozuka, this is half a month's income. Your share has been deposited into a secret bank account in Eagle Country. You can withdraw it at any time with this bearer check."

"Our total revenue in the past half month has increased by 20% compared to before, mainly because we have opened several new canning factories, which are specially used to produce military canned food. I believe you two also know that this is a consumable product, so no matter how much we produce, we will have no problem selling it."

"Originally I didn't want to open a cannery. After all, a large amount of meat for our domestic canneries is imported from the Eagle Country. Now our relationship with that country is a bit delicate, and the import channel is at risk of being cut off at any time."

"This has also caused the price of meat in the country to become more and more expensive. Before, even the most ordinary soldiers could occasionally eat a few cans of meat a month, but now forget about it. Even a sergeant is lucky to get a few cans a month."

"But it's strange to say that recently, a large amount of meat has suddenly appeared on the market in Jin Province, which has forced down the originally extremely high prices, although most of them are cured meats, such as cured rabbit, cured pork, etc."

"Although these things are a little inconsistent with our eating habits, it's good to have meat to eat these days, so who cares about these things? Besides, the canned food we produce is cheap, so it's naturally very popular, especially since we are the ones in Osaka who are responsible for purchasing it."

"By the way, the caravan I sent out brought back important intelligence about the large number of wild animals appearing in the Eighth Route Army base area."

Upon hearing this, Yoshio Shinozuka and Kazunari Yamamoto both showed expressions of interest, mainly because this matter was too bizarre and there was no pattern to its occurrence.

"Mr. Matsui, please tell me quickly. This matter is too mysterious. I sent out many intelligence personnel, but most of them disappeared as soon as they arrived there. Even the news sent back by a few survivors was specious and it was impossible to figure out the situation at all."

Division Commander Matsui said proudly, "In fact, those intelligence officers were all going in the wrong direction. This kind of information is not important and can be obtained through casual conversations with the common people in the caravan. However, you directly sent a large number of elite intelligence officers to go there in a high-profile manner. This is simply lighting a lamp in the toilet and seeking death."

"But our caravan is different. We sent out a large number of peddlers, who exchanged a large amount of prey with the locals for some daily necessities. We also built relationships and chatted with them, so it was easy to obtain this information."

"According to the local people, these prey suddenly appeared. In addition to the most common hares, there are also wild boars, wild goats and even bison."

"Wait, Mr. Matsui, you mean, we can still see wild buffaloes in China, and they appear in the villages of ordinary people. How is this possible?"

You know, ancient China has been cultivating the land for thousands of years, and things like bison only exist in ancient legends.

Division Commander Matsui shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "Reality is so magical. Who could have thought that such a thing would happen in this ancient place?"

"My people have encountered this kind of thing before. A huge bison weighing several thousand kilograms entered a village under the cover of night and was captured by the villagers there. Then, every person in the village was given dozens of kilograms of the best beef."

"We bought some at a high price. It was indeed buffalo meat. The local people there attributed this phenomenon to the manifestation of the ancient Chinese sages."

Hearing this, the three people present fell into deep thought. They were also thinking about this problem.

China is too mysterious. As their suzerain state for thousands of years, no one knows what good things the ancestors left for future generations.

Even though their troops still have the upper hand now, if they fail, all old and new grudges will be settled together, and that will be the end of the Japanese devils.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door. After getting permission, the adjutant outside the door brought in a letter.