Espionage: I became sworn brothers with Zheng Yaoxian at the beginning, and became the Seventh Broth

Chapter 1064 The Changing Situation

This telegram was sent from the overseas station of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

It doesn't contain any important economic or military intelligence; it's just routine information about the latest situation in Japan.

Why was Ye Shaohong so delighted?

Because, damn it, an economic crisis broke out in Japan.

As the situation on the Chinese battlefield became increasingly tense, the two sides showed signs of confrontation. The Japanese could no longer satisfy their increasingly collapsing domestic economy with their predatory invasion.

As stated in the telegram.

Starting in the summer of 1940, signs of economic deterioration began to appear in Japan. People were finding it increasingly difficult to afford white rice.

A large number of factories declared bankruptcy.

A large number of workers were forced to lose their jobs.

Only the factories associated with the war are struggling to stay afloat.

These signs of economic collapse are only just emerging. It is foreseeable that, with the intense confrontation on the Chinese battlefield, the economic situation in Japan will become even more difficult.

As for the coal, gold, silver, and raw materials for light and heavy industries that the Japanese devils plundered from our Chinese land...

Indeed a lot.

But it still couldn't offset the Japanese invaders' gradual depletion of the nation's fortunes.

Simultaneously.

Japan also lacks war resources such as oil, rubber, and pig bristles.

The Japanese had to import all of these things from abroad.

Ironically, the Japanese had to import all of these things from the United States.

The US also announced an export control order to Japan.

The Japanese military's access to military supplies overseas was restricted. The personnel from the overseas station of the Military Intelligence Bureau who sent the telegram boldly speculated that perhaps in less than two years, the Japanese military's war resources would be completely exhausted.

Ye Shaohong scoffed at this assessment.

Others may not know the specific details, but Ye Shaohong is someone who traveled from the future.

How could he not know?

According to Ye Shaohong's understanding, in 1940, the United States issued an export control order to the Japanese.

But that's all fake. It's just empty talk.

What is the real situation?

While the US publicly announces export controls to Japan, it is secretly still colluding with Japan.

American businessmen even expanded their export share to Japan through smuggling and other means between 1939 and 1941.

At its peak, this kind of smuggling export even tripled or quadrupled.

Some people in later generations have made speculations.

In reality, there is a high probability that the export control regulations imposed by the United States were actively promoted domestically by those capitalist giants in the US.

The aim is to take advantage of the situation to raise the price of exported goods.

To maximize wealth. To be honest, those capitalist tycoons in the US are absolutely capable of doing something like that.

It could even be argued that if the United States had not indirectly provided military supplies to the Japanese during the period of 1930-1941, the Japanese, whose domestic economy had already collapsed at that time, would have long been unable to continue their war of aggression against China.

Even if we cannot evacuate directly, we will absolutely not give the Japanese devils another opportunity to launch a large-scale campaign against China.

Those white-skinned, blond-haired bastards, their hearts are all fucking black.

They made a fortune from the war, but they also caused us great suffering.

What's even more despicable is that while they were secretly smuggling and transporting strategic materials for the Japanese, they were also openly proclaiming their economic support for us.

Military support. All the good guys got done by those bastards in the US.

It's no wonder they dragged the US into the quagmire of war after the Japanese launched their undeclared war.

So many people have died.

Deserve it.

It's all karma.

Besides this news, the telegram sent back by the Military Intelligence Bureau's overseas station also mentioned something else.

The Japanese army is showing signs of running out of reserve troops.

They have already begun recruiting high school graduates in Japan and directly recruiting them into the army.

This doesn't seem like anything special.

After all, in those days, a high school graduate was considered a highly educated intellectual.

They are not young anymore.

It's understandable to let them participate in the war. But the deeper meaning behind this is different once you think about it carefully.

For a country, the future reserve of talent is also part of its comprehensive national strength.

Because the Japanese suffered heavy losses on the battlefield in China, they began to overdraw their national strength in advance by recruiting high school graduates, which changed the situation.

Ye Shaohong even knew that this was just the beginning.

By 1941, due to the rapid loss of manpower at the front, the Japanese had to continuously lower the requirements for recruiting soldiers in their headquarters in Japan.

In the end, even junior high school graduates, and even those who hadn't graduated, were forcibly conscripted into the army.

It was precisely because of this that, after 1941, the Japanese had already shown signs of defeat in the Sino-Japanese War.

Those new recruits who were forcibly conscripted were no match for the elite veterans at the start of the war. In the vast occupied areas of North China, these soldiers newly recruited by the Japanese dared not confront the Chinese army head-on.

They only dared to hide in major cities and important strongholds along the railway lines in the occupied areas.

There were even instances where Japanese soldiers in their strongholds, in order to survive and avoid being attacked by our forces, secretly sent gifts to the troops in North China.

This is true, absolutely true.

In addition, some Japanese devils secretly started doing business with us.

They exchanged weapons, guns, bullets, and other supplies for the increasingly scarce, and sometimes even inexhaustible, military rations and logistical supplies.

It's weird, isn't it?

But this is a true story.

This shows that after 1941, the Japanese invasion of China was actually nearing its end. They were completely finished.

The major battles that broke out on the main battlefield almost depleted the elite troops that the Japanese had accumulated over the years, and their replacements had completely lost the will to fight.

Even so, many people on the internet in later generations still say that without the two bombs dropped on Japanese soil by the United States, we would not have won the War of Resistance against Japan.

That's fucking bullshit.

It must be acknowledged that the direct involvement of the United States in the war did indeed bring our War of Resistance against Japan to an end a few years earlier.

However, upon closer examination and careful review of historical records, it becomes clear that even without the direct involvement of the United States, the united will of the Chinese people and their arduous resistance would have ultimately led to victory in this national war.

But... it will be a few years later.

This is beyond doubt.

The US secretly provided a great deal of assistance to the Japanese, a fact that later generations have not mentioned, but instead have focused on the contributions they made.

We must continue to promote this and express our gratitude...

This only shows that they know too little about history and lack confidence in our country and our nation.

They are overly worshipful of foreign things.

How tragic and lamentable...