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

Chapter 613 A Tragic History (Part 1)

When Ye Shaohong mentioned the Jinling headquarters, two things involuntarily came to mind.

The first thing was the phone call Dai Yunong gave him last night.

In that telegram, Dai Yunong informed Ye Shaohong that he was aware of the assassination attempt on Mayor Wang.

What puzzled Ye Shaohong was that Dai Yunong did not ask him to continue the investigation.

At the same time, Dai Yunong strictly ordered Ye Shaohong not to interfere in this matter.

This is a little strange.

Ye Shaohong believed that Mayor Wang of Jiangcheng City had some connection with Dai Yunong. After all, their Director Dai was a very shrewd and capable figure in the Nationalist government.

Dai Yunong has a wide network of connections.

Jiangcheng was also one of the top three metropolises in the current era, ranking among the top three in the national government.

Mayor Wang holds a prominent position.

Ye Shaohong could understand that Dai Yunong and Ye Shaohong were acquainted and friends.

There was one thing Ye Shaohong couldn't understand.

Just how deep must their friendship be for Dai Yunong to look at Mayor Wang with such special regard?

It doesn't even look like it.

If Mayor Wang and Dai Yunong truly had a close relationship, why did Mayor Wang not mention this matter during their two meetings?

If Dai Yunong and Mayor Wang did not have a close relationship, then the deeper meaning behind Dai Yunong's strict order to Ye Shaohong not to interfere in the case becomes even more interesting.

Is it a conflict of interest?

Or perhaps Dai Yunong is secretly plotting something else?

Ye Shaohong couldn't understand it.

He was also curious.

So after a night of careful consideration, Ye Shaohong decided to continue investigating the matter.

However, because of Dai Yunong's involvement, he could no longer bring this matter to the forefront.

The investigation can only be conducted covertly.

Fortunately.

The person currently handling this case is Li Yunlong, Ye Shaohong's absolute confidant, and Ye Shaohong did not inform Li Yunlong of the telegram he received last night.

In this way, Ye Shaohong can continue to explore further.

Another matter weighed heavily on Ye Shaohong's mind after he heard it.

As the situation on the Shanghai battlefield became increasingly dire, the top brass of the Nationalist government also realized that the country was about to enter a critical moment.

They began to secretly plan for the future.

Discussing the relocation of the capital is now the top priority for the Nationalist government.

Behind this momentous event lie many, many things that are difficult for ordinary people in later history to know.

For example, the news that Ye Shaohong just received last night.

With the start of the Battle of Shanghai, the Japanese devils were also busy making their plans.

They wanted to strangle the Nationalist government's economic lifeline.

This forced the Nationalist government to compromise and surrender.

To achieve this goal, the Japanese devils began to continuously mobilize manpower, drawing elite forces from Japan itself and the so-called "Manchukuo".

The Japanese devils began their invasion of major coastal cities in southeastern China, moving from north to south, in accordance with the plan devised by their former Prime Minister, Hirobumi Ito.

They seize territory, plunder resources, abduct people, and seize wealth...

This is just the Japanese devils' public plan.

They have a deeper scheme in mind.

That is to completely cut off the Nationalist government's external transportation channels and completely cut off the ports and roads through which the Nationalist government could obtain economic and material aid from abroad.

To achieve this goal, while launching the Battle of Shanghai and occupying ports along the northern coast, the Japanese were also actively planning to open up new battlefields in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, and Macau.

This would cut off the ports and transportation routes along my country's southwestern coast. It's fair to say that the Japanese devils have never given up their desire to destroy China, and they have made all the necessary preparations.

This point was also noticed and discovered by some insightful individuals within the Nationalist government's high-ranking officials.

They reported their findings to the bald-headed Chairman, who was clearly aware of the seriousness of the situation. He immediately summoned the President of the Examination Yuan, who was the chief strategist of the bald-headed Chairman during the Republic of China era.

They locked themselves up and discussed how to resolve the matter.

After urgent consultations, the president of the Examination Yuan finally proposed a bold idea to the bald-headed chairman.

A large number of personnel were urgently mobilized to open the Burma Road.

Before all of my country's coastal port cities fall, we must devise and establish a vital transportation route that can connect us to foreign countries and obtain foreign supplies and aid.

This is a big deal.

This matter concerned the very survival and safety of the Nationalist government. And their assumptions were, in fact, correct, as later history has profoundly proven.

During the subsequent eight-year War of Resistance against Japan, with the fall of coastal port cities and the French colonies in Southeast Asia, the Burma Road gradually became the only transportation route connecting China with overseas Chinese and European and American countries.

Thanks to the Burma Road, the Nationalist government was able to withstand the Japanese invasion from the front, relying on half of the country.

And they persevered to the very end.

However, opening up this new lifeline is actually quite difficult.

After urgently reviewing relevant materials, the Nationalist government's transportation department developed a simplified construction plan.

If this plan is used to excavate and build the Burma Road, it would require excavating and building over 1,100 kilometers of road.

The journey will also involve crossing the Hengduan Mountains.

The entire highway project involved more than 11 million cubic meters of earthwork, more than 1.1 million cubic meters of stonework, 243 bridges, and nearly 1,800 culverts.

More than 80 percent of the Yunnan-Burma Road they planned was located in the mountains.

The difficulty of the project is self-evident.

This isn't even the worst-case scenario.

The most serious problem is that the Republic of China in this era simply does not have suitable engineering machinery.

To open up this new lifeline, we could only rely on manpower and explosives, along with simple tools, to carry out manual labor.

If that's all there is to it, then it's acceptable.

After all, China has a long history of five thousand years, and we have done a lot of things, such as opening up mountains and building roads.

Given enough time and manpower, even the highest mountains can be conquered by the Chinese people.

But the situation is different now. The Japanese devils' wolfish ambitions have been exposed, and their plan to blockade and seize China's coastal cities and ports is now facing many high-ranking officials in the Nationalist government.

It is foreseeable that with the defeat in the Battle of Shanghai, all the coastal port cities in southeastern and southwestern China will eventually fall into enemy hands.

We don't have much time left.

According to the Nationalist government's budget, it would take at most one year.

To attempt to carve out this 1,100-kilometer-long mountain road, 80% of which is located in towering mountains, within a year using only simple tools and manpower would be an almost impossible task.

At the same time, they also encountered a problem.

That is, with the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai, the Yunnan Army was also rushing to the battlefield.

The departure of the Yunnan Army resulted in the depletion of most of the able-bodied men in Yunnan Province.

Ultimately, the Nationalist government concluded that the only way to build this new transportation lifeline was to rely on the mountain people of Yunnan Province.

According to their estimates, in order to build the Burma Road, in addition to drawing on the few remaining able-bodied men in Yunnan Province, it would probably also be necessary to draw on women and children from Yunnan Province.

Do not!

It's not just a fear; based on actual history, they did indeed draw troops from their positions.

In total, 200,000 people were drawn.