Chapter 339： : Fuck MacArthur

The speech is over.

Hardy led the economic guidance team with more than forty people to leave the airport and stay at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

The Imperial Hotel Tokyo was built in 1923 and is the highest-level hotel in Japan. MacArthur also lived here when he first arrived. Later, the Allied Forces headquarters was located in the First Building, and MacArthur was given a Japanese-style manor. MacArthur moved out. .

To protect safety,

Hardy also specially dispatched HD security personnel to Japan to take charge of security. They did not come with Hardy, but were sent to Japan two months in advance. A total of more than 200 people have purchased a place in Japan to establish an HD security branch. .

HD security is responsible for the safety of the personnel of the Economic Guidance Group. As for the expenses, the government is naturally responsible. After all, Hardy and the others are government actions.

After flying for more than ten hours in a row, the delegation members are also tired. Today, everyone has a rest. The welcome reception organized by the Japanese government will be held in two days.

And this time.

The reporters went back to their newspaper offices to get busy.

Today, the Economic Guidance Group came over and Hardy’s speech at the airport revealed a lot of important information.

Early the next morning.

The headlines of the newspapers were all the speeches delivered by the Economic Guidance Group when they arrived in Tokyo and Hardy.

Yomiuri Shimbun:

"Yesterday the US Economic Guidance Group arrived in Tokyo and began to guide Japan’s economic development. At the airport, the Economic Guidance Special Envoy delivered a speech..."

This is followed by the original text of Hardy's speech.

However, it is bolded in some places. For example, Hardy said: "President Johnson said that Japan must completely get rid of the influence of imperialism and **** thoughts before it can return to the international community."

Comments and analysis articles are added at the end of the original text,

"The words of Special Envoy Hardy show that Japan still has the possibility of returning to the international community. The resistance is those who launched the war. Their imperialism and **** thoughts have brought Japan into the abyss, and it is still Japan's recovery. stumbling block."

Nihon Keizai Shimbun:

"Special Envoy Hardy has brought the latest assistance and is ready to completely abandon the military industry and vigorously develop the civilian production industry. If Japan can become an industrial base, it will solve the employment problem for millions of people and quickly restore the Japanese economy."

Hardy’s Global Times is also developing well in Japan.

Has become a national newspaper.

The main reason is that other newspapers still have profit pressure. The Global Times does not. During the development period, they will even receive a lot of subsidies from the group, which allows him to develop so quickly.

The Global Times’ point of view is very different from the Japanese newspaper’s focus. In other words, Japanese newspapers are reluctant to mention it. The Global Times helped him mention:

"Special Envoy Hadi once again criticized Japan for launching the war, demanding that Japan must recognize its mistakes and sincerely apologize, so that it can fundamentally break with the imperialists and the old factions that launched the war, and complete the UN set by the United Nations. Transformation goals."

"Then Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida said that the Japanese side sincerely admitted that it was wrong to start that war. The Japanese Prime Minister expressed repentance on the war on behalf of Japan."

At the back of the newspaper is a photo of Shigeru Yoshida bowing.

As soon as the report came out, it caused great repercussions in Japanese society. In fact, the Japanese economy is already in a state of collapse. The people cannot even meet the minimum living standard. Many people are hungry and some even starve to death.

They hope someone can come and help them out of the predicament.

The Japanese people welcomed Hadi’s arrival. Especially from the report, Hadi’s special envoy made great efforts to change the current situation in Japan. He sold useless military enterprises in advance and turned them into a much-needed cash belt. return.

In the eyes of many Japanese.

Hardy's behavior is almost like an angel of salvation.

People's impression of Hardy is very good.

What about selling Japanese assets? This is for our sake, turning waste into treasure. There are not many people who really help Japan. They misunderstood him before, which made many people feel ashamed and became more respectful of Hardy in their hearts. .

As for the reform strategy that Hardy plans to implement in Japan, it will convert the military into civilians in an all-round way, vigorously develop the people's livelihood economy, completely abandon military industry and resource-based industries, and slow down the manufacturing industry.

Countless Japanese people feel that this should be the case.

I don’t have enough to eat, and I’m also considering what to do with the heavy industry, which is costly and laborious. The first priority is to get the Japanese economy back on track.

What do people think.

Naturally, I want to live, and then live well.

What do those politicians’ ideas have to do with me? I just want to make sure that my family and I can live and live better.

Seeing the direction of Hardy's reform, Americans and Europeans all feel that Hardy's direction is not wrong.

Let's not talk about other things.

If Japan had no heavy industry and all its military industries, it would naturally become non-aggressive and would be in line with the requirements of the United Nations.

No matter how.

Now that Hardy is completely famous in Japan, many people privately call him the "Japanese New Economic Czar", and he has the power to win the Japanese economy.

Many people agree with this statement.

But he also irritated another person, that is MacArthur, MacArthur was originally responsible for all affairs of Japan, including military, economic and cultural life, he is the true Emperor of Japan, who can control everything.

But now there is a Hardy who has robbed him of control of the Japanese economy, which has weakened MacArthur's power invisibly. No matter who it is, he will not be happy to be divided.

After Hardy came to Japan, the first speech he delivered mentioned that "Japan may return to the international society", which gave the Japanese hope. MacArthur did not give them before, but Hardy brought hope and believed in Japan. People will definitely follow Hardy's words in an attempt to open the gap from Hardy and help Japan regain its independence.

And who controlled Japanese politics before?

He MacArthur.

So this time he MacArthur became the big devil in people's minds, and Hardy became the savior.

Thinking of this,

MacArthur was even more angry.

MacArthur didn't **** Hardy before, but after a day and night, Hardy hasn't called MacArthur yet. Obviously Hardy doesn't **** him either.

He is the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces.

It is the Allied Forces or the highest authority of the United States in Japan, but Hardy did not show the respect he deserves.

You are indeed a member of the consortium, but without my support, I believe that your economic reforms may not proceed smoothly.

Holding his pipe in his mouth, MacArthur ordered the adjutant with his mouth tilted: "Go, tell the people below, that without my warrant, no one can dispose of the seized military industry enterprise privately."

The adjutant was stunned for a moment, "Commander, haven't those sealed factories been sold by the Economic Guidance Special Envoy, let's?"

MacArthur snorted: "I am the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces. I am responsible for everything in Japan. Anything must pass through me. Even if the Congress passes, I must get my permission. When Hardy comes to visit, tell me that I want Go to inspect the troops."

The adjutant understood that Hardy had sold and sealed the factory before without asking MacArthur for instructions. This was because the commander-in-chief deliberately made things difficult for him.

"Good commander."

The adjutant went down to inform the troops responsible for guarding the factory.

......

After a day of rest, everyone fell into a jet lag and recovered a bit. The conference room of the Imperial Hotel was contracted by them. Hardy had a meeting with the people of the seven consortiums to discuss what to do next.

First accept the purchased military enterprises, and then send the management team over to check the situation of these enterprises, and if they can resume work, prepare to accept the resumption of work.

The companies included in the seven major consortia are almost all-encompassing. It is not difficult for these companies to resume work. The specific work can be done by the counterparty.

The second is to continue to acquire Japanese private enterprises, or complete acquisitions or capital injections, including banking, finance, agriculture, infrastructure, such as water and electricity, roads and railways, and manufacturing including petroleum, automobiles, real estate, restaurants, hotels, tobacco and alcohol, Textiles, wood processing, medicine, etc.

The seven major consortiums have a great appetite. The strategy previously formulated privately was to completely control the Japanese economy without having to take it all. You only need to master the leader to get the most benefit.

And according to Hardy's idea, it is to expand the civilian production industry, continue to compress the military and heavy industry, and let Japan's industrial capacity continue to shrink.

This strategy is also in line with the current US policy of controlling Japan.

This time, Hardy brought a team of lawyers, financial teams, and management teams, all of whom were recruited from Wells Fargo Bank and Hardy Group.

At the meeting, Hardy told them to take the American materials and contracts to take over those enterprise factories from the military.

Things are ordered to go on.

Hardy returned to his room. This was the assistant who brought a telegram, "Boss, it's a telegram from Hong Kong."

Hongkong?

Hardy took the telegram and looked at it, and a smile appeared on her face. The telegram was sent by Han Yezhen. Han Yezhen read the newspaper and knew that Hardy was in Japan. She sent a telegram specially and missed it. If you have time, you can go to Hong Kong, or she Come to Japan to visit.

Hardy smiled, "When you call back, you said that I will go to Hong Kong to see her after the initial busy period." Japan is so close to Hong Kong, the plane arrived in just over an hour.

The assistant went out to send a telegram.

There is a special report room in the hotel.

The people who live in the Empire Hotel are either rich or expensive. Many of them are ambassador-level figures or big entrepreneurs who have specially made telegraph rooms for the convenience of customers.

After the telegram came back, the assistant brought in a person. It was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan. "Mr. Hardy, this is an invitation. We invite you and your team members to attend the welcome dinner at the Prime Minister's residence tomorrow."

Hardy took it with a smile.

"Well, tomorrow night I will bring the guidance team to participate." Hardy said.

"Mr. Special Envoy, I won't bother you. We still have a long time. We will talk carefully tomorrow night." The Minister of Foreign Affairs said.

"Okay, see you tomorrow night."

The Minister of Foreign Affairs bowed farewell.

It didn’t take long for Hardy to send people back to receive the seized factory. The vice president of Hardy Group, who led the team, said angrily: “Those soldiers are very unreasonable. I showed the documents of the US government, but they said they must have MacArthur's command file will work."

Hardy thought for a while.

"They were right. You contacted MacArthur and said that I was going to visit Commander-in-Chief MacArthur."

Hardy intends to meet MacArthur. After all, he is the commander of the garrison here. Many things must involve him. Say hello and get his signature back by the way.

But it didn't take long for the vice president to come back. "Boss, the military said that MacArthur had gone out to patrol the troops and he was not in Tokyo. They had notified MacArthur and MacArthur said he would meet with you when he came back."

Hardy frowned slightly.

He remembered that when he was chatting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida yesterday, the two talked about MacArthur. Shigeru Yoshida also said that MacArthur was in Tokyo. How could he go out for inspection today.

Moreover, the army has a tough attitude to stop them from accepting those factories that have been sealed off. It has a firm attitude, and seems to have been prepared for it. Is there something wrong with it?

Thinking of the character of MacArthur in the rumors.

MacArthur has an arrogant personality and good performance. After he arrived in Japan, he became so solemn and arrogant, offending his colleagues and the president all the time.

During World War II, MacArthur didn't pay attention to Marshall and other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also publicly criticized his commander-in-chief. The senior officials in Washington were fed up with MacArthur.

At the time, Secretary of the Army Henry Stimson said publicly, “MacArthur’s character is annoying and he has offended all the people who work with the army and the navy. He doesn’t even trust his subordinates.”

Hardy suspected,

MacArthur is targeting himself.

He asked him to go out and called Duncan, the intelligence company previously sent to Japan. After the call was connected, Hardy asked Duncan to investigate MacArthur's current location.

After a while, Duncan called back, "Boss, Mike Arthur's car drove out of his house and headed for the Yokosuka base. Our people saw MacArthur sitting in the car."

have to,

It can already be 100% certain.

MacArthur is targeting himself.

The corner of Hardy's mouth slowly conjured up a smile.

He doesn't care about being targeted by MacArthur. Although MacArthur is now the overlord of Japan, he still can't control Hardy because Hardy is only responsible for the economy.

By doing this, MacArthur could only disgust Hardy, and could not do anything else.

In this case.

Hardy decided not to accept it. He once again convened a meeting with people from the seven consortiums and reported the current situation. He even told the news that MacArthur had not seen himself and claimed to have gone out to inspect the base and then left.

The people of the seven consortia were a little angry.

"Our acquisition was approved by the President and Congress. Why should MacArthur stop it?!" Someone said grimly.

"MacArthur's character has always been awkward, perhaps because I was angry that we had operated these factories before and didn't ask for his opinion."

"But this is an economic issue, so there is no need to seek his opinion."

"Because of this, he might feel that we provoke his authority in Japan."

Guessing everything is not far from ten, and then MacArthur did things that make things difficult. All of these here find it a little ridiculous. This is by no means a move that a mature politician should make. This will invisibly offend the seven consortiums. .

But think about MacArthur's character, he can do it completely.

"Then what to do next, he might go out for a period of time, maybe one or two months or even two or three months?" Morgan Stanley's vice president asked.

Hardy said indifferently: "We can only wait for him to come back. We can never collide with the soldiers. That would be a joke."

"The Prime Minister of Japan sent the Minister of Foreign Affairs to send an invitation. Tomorrow a welcome reception will be held at the Prime Minister's residence. After the reception, we will directly start the second step to carry out other business acquisition plans. I don't believe that MacArthur will never come back."

"It can only be so." Someone said helplessly.

"That MacArthur also threatened to participate in the presidential election. A person like him is impulsive and self-serving. He is definitely not a good president." Someone said.

"Hehe, I won't support him anyway."

Hardy was amused. Now that MacArthur has offended all the seven consortiums. He is really a weird character.

After the meeting.

Hardy was afraid that the phone would be monitored, so he asked Duncan to come to the hotel to see him, "Duncan, give you an arduous task. You must be careful when doing this!"

Duncan's face didn't change at all, but he was still very calm.

"Boss, you say."

"Investigating MacArthur's situation, in Japan for so many years, he must have accepted a lot of bribes, investigating who has bribed him, what he has done for others, how much national interests he has sold, and where his money is kept. "

Duncan nodded.

"I understand the boss, I will investigate this matter carefully."

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