Chapter 344： : Destroy the foundation of Japanese military industry

A cruise ship arrived at Tokyo Port, and thousands of passengers disembarked. Among these passengers, a large number of managers and technicians from various consortia sent to Japan.

This is already the third batch.

No less than two thousand people have been sent back and forth.

The seven major consortia acquired hundreds of companies and a dozen banks in Japan, and each of these companies had to send their own management personnel.

Some companies need to bring in technical personnel if they want to upgrade their technology or purchase advanced American production lines.

If it's just a company, it can't support this scale of personnel input, but it's nothing to the seven major consortia.

There are dozens of large corporations that can be named by large consortia, as many as hundreds of directly affiliated companies, and more affiliated companies are involved.

Although the number of these management and technical personnel transferred is quite large, they can be scattered among the hundreds of companies acquired by the seven consortiums, which is nothing. There will be more people coming in the future, and it is expected to reach one or two. Ten thousand people.

This is the foundation of the consortium.

At the beginning, Hardy envisioned controlling the Japanese economy and decided to bring these consortia, not only their influence on the economy and the government, but also the talent and technology in their hands.

Sun Tzu's Art of War:

"Ten to encircle, five to attack, double to divide, the enemy can fight, if there is less, you can escape, if you don't, you can avoid it."

Only by investing an overwhelming force can we gain an overwhelming advantage.

Only by Hardy Group itself.

Obviously, there is not enough power to eat Japan alone. With the combined efforts of the seven major consortiums of the United States, the power is enough to eat Japan’s economy. Coupled with the US military occupation of Japan, Japan has absolutely no resistance.

Another big meeting today.

After each company reported their own situation, it was Hardy's turn. Hardy said: "The overall work is progressing well, and it is basically on the right track now. I want to say another thing."

"Before we came to Japan, the military enterprises we bought have not been recovered. The reason is that MacArthur has been obstructing them. We spent US$570 million at the beginning of these enterprises. Now the factory can’t get it back. We will lose a lot of money one day later. ."

"We must find a solution to this matter."

Hardy finished speaking and looked at the representatives of the various consortiums present.

Morgan Stanley's vice president frowned: "US$570 million, and the daily interest is only US$100,000. Now it has been delayed for 60 days, and we have lost US$6 million."

"What on earth MacArthur wants to do, we have sales documents from Congress, why should he obstruct it."

"I think we should give momentum to Washington or members of Congress to warn MacArthur." Someone suggested.

Hardy wanted this result.

In fact, he could go to MacArthur by himself, but he just didn't. When MacArthur blocked them from taking over the factory, Hardy was a little bit happy and deliberately dragged him away.

Now that the acquisition of banks and companies has been completed, many Japanese companies have begun to resume work and production. According to Hardy's design, Japan will become a factory in the United States in the future and castrate heavy and military industries.

Now that Japan's economic structure is basically complete, Hardy can get MacArthur out of his hand.

He is arrogant.

I don't know if he will be afraid of offending the seven consortiums.

The result of everyone's deliberation is to file a complaint with the consortium, and ask the boss of the consortium to go to the congressman or directly to the White House.

Those who prevent capitalists from making money are their enemies.

Lost six million dollars.

This money is not a small number wherever it is placed. At this moment, MacArthur became the enemy of the seven consortiums.

Someone called President Johnson.

And it's not one.

In fact, Johnson has always had a bad impression of MacArthur. Of course, General Marshall, as the Secretary of Defense, is simply annoying to MacArthur.

The two have personal grievances.

When MacArthur became the Chief of Staff of the Army, he had treated Marshall very unfairly, which affected Marshall's promotion. Later, Marshall's teacher Pershing kicked MacArthur to the Philippines, which allowed Marshall to get up.

As for why Pershing kicked MacArthur away, this is another interesting story, because MacArthur married Pershing’s lover and Pershing was very annoyed.

Regarding MacArthur’s obstruction of the seven consortiums from getting the factory, President Johnson and Marshall had a unified opinion. That is, MacArthur felt that he was in charge of Japan. He was very unhappy in not discussing with him before, so he made such a stupid thing. matter.

"I like to brag about myself, I like to be pushy, unscrupulous, and annoying. This is the impression of everyone who has been in contact with him." Marshall said.

"I will send him a telegram in the name of the Ministry of National Defense. The Japanese economy has been handed over to Hardy and told him not to obstruct." Marshall said.

Johnson thought for a while,

Shen said: "I will also ask the Presidential Palace to send him a telegram. The sale of Japanese military industrial enterprises is a resolution of the Congress and no one can stop it."

"During this time, Hardy has been combing the economy in Japan. Hundreds of companies have resumed work. In the future, they will become American factories. Now the Japanese economy is gradually recovering, and it can exchange the food it needs, without the need for continued U.S. assistance. I am very satisfied with what Hardy did."

"MacArthur is stopping him. I think he may have made a mistake in his positioning. Although he is the commander of the Allied Forces and is in charge of Japanese affairs, he represents the United States and executes the orders of the United States. Japan is not MacArthur himself. Colony."

......

Osaka military base.

MacArthur was reading the report with his pipe in his mouth. The report was about the country in the east. The bald head retreated from the island. The north had already occupied most of the land, and even sent troops to confront the British across the river, and finally withdrew.

Now the time for the founding of the country has been determined in the north.

at this time,

The adjutant came in with a telegram, "Commander-in-chief, I received a telegram from the United States. It is a telegram from Congressman Harriman."

"Harriman, how could he telegraph himself?"

Harriman is not an ordinary member of Congress. His father is a famous American railroad magnate. He is also a business elite. He later became a governor in politics and is now a Republican senator. He has high prestige in the Republican Party.

Although MacArthur held a high position in the military, he was not satisfied. He once competed for the president twice, once with Roosevelt. Hehe, he ate a fart behind Roosevelt and returned to the army obediently.

The second time was the last election. Hardy pushed Johnson to power. This time, he competed with Dewey for the candidate in the Republican Party. He was then driven out by Dewey by an overwhelming number of votes, so he could only continue to be his own soldier obediently.

But he didn't give up, and he was ready to participate next time. MacArthur’s camp is the Republican Party, and Harriman is one of the veteran members of the Republican Party and a supporter he wants to fight for.

In the telegram.

Harriman's tone was still euphemistic. He learned that he blocked the Japanese factories that the seven major consortiums had acquired and told MacArthur that this was a very irrational act. Now that he has publicly blocked the cause of other consortia, it has been spread within Congress. If you offend Seven Big consortium, MacArthur still wants to participate in the presidential competition in the future, I am afraid no one will support him.

The corner of MacArthur's eyes jumped.

I just wanted to make that Hardy deflate, but I didn't expect that guy would never contact me even once these days.

This delay took two months.

Now those consortia think that they are deliberately making things difficult for them, which makes MacArthur very internally injured. He really doesn't think so, just wants to suppress Hardy.

What should we do now?

Take the initiative to find Hardy and tell him which factories he can get back now?

It is estimated that Hardy would laugh at himself in his heart.

While MacArthur was still thinking about it, the adjutant came over with a telegram: "Commander-in-chief, a telegram from the Ministry of Defense."

MacArthur quickly brought it over.

After reading the content, I was stunned. The content in the telegram of the Ministry of Defense turned out to be about those factories. The Ministry of Defense notified MacArthur in a very formal tone that the Congress decided to sell the factories to the consortium and asked MacArthur to execute them immediately.

Depend on,

The Ministry of Defense is all down.

It seems that those big consortiums have approached the Ministry of National Defense.

I really offended those consortium bosses. He originally planned to continue running for president next term. Offended the seven consortiums, who would he look for to spend money to support his campaign?

Now MacArthur really regrets that decision.

Give it to him and it's over.

Now it's not human inside and out.

Before he was upset, a third telegram was sent, "Commander-in-chief, this is a telegram from President Johnson."

In this telegram, Johnson told MacArthur in a harsher tone that the factories must be returned to the seven consortiums immediately, and he told him that in the future, Japan’s economic activities should not be interfered and handled by Hardy.

Although MacArthur was awkward, he also knew that he had offended many people now, and he had to bow his head if he wanted to go down.

Call your adjutant.

"Let the military department inform the troops guarding the military factory that it is allowed to receive it. You call the economic envoy's office and tell them that it is ready to receive the factory."

MacArthur finished this sentence.

He crumpled the three-point telegram in his hand and threw it into the wastebasket.

Since he became the commander of the Allied Forces in Japan, he has not been so angry for a long time. On the Japanese side, whether it is the emperor or the prime minister, which is not respectful to him.

......

Hardy's office received a call from the military, telling them that they could take over the factory, and Hardy smiled when he heard the report.

"It turns out that when the arrogant MacArthur gave in, I thought he would be tough with the seven consortiums."

MacArthur is only politically retarded, not really stupid.

He is just an expatriate general. There are not many generals like him in the US army, and he is not irreplaceable.

Hardy ordered the people to take over the factories. This time the American troops stationed in Japan had a lot of fun. After seeing the receiving documents, they handed over the factories to the other party and immediately evacuated them. These factories were completely in the hands of the seven consortiums.

These military factories are all heavy industry industries.

Kawasaki Steel, Kobe Steel, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Shinsung Copper, Yokosuka Shipyard, Mitsubishi Machine Tool, Mazda Motors, Nissan Motor, Mitsubishi Aircraft Manufacturing, Mitsui Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Chemical Industries, Maruzen Petrochemical... .

There are 306 in total.

These factories include steel, shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, gun manufacturing, machine tools, coal mining, coking, petroleum, copper, aluminum, and chemical industries.

It can be said that Japan's heavy industry and military industries are all here.

After these companies got their hands, Hardy once again convened a meeting with the heads of the seven major consortia to study how these factories would deal with it.

According to Hardy’s vision, these heavy industry enterprises will eliminate all military uses and then convert them to civilian use. For example, shipyards can manufacture civilian ships, such as freighters, cruise ships, and fishing boats, but cannot retain the ability to manufacture warships and submarines.

Companies that produce fighter jets, rifles, bullets, engines, torpedoes, missiles, tanks, tanks, artillery, radars, gunpowder, howitzers... etc. These enterprises ~ www.novelhall.com ~ all equipments are dismantled, it should be brought back to the furnace in the future Japan no longer retains the ability to manufacture military industries, which is also a requirement of the United Nations.

If it is another country, it will be a pity to see these production equipment destroyed, but it is of no use to the United States. The seven major consortia have their own military enterprises, whether in terms of production equipment, technology, or scale. Much better than Japan.

All the remaining equipment will be converted to civilian use.

Hardy's idea is simple.

Destroying the foundation of Japan's military industry, perhaps they will reappear in the future, but without these factories now, there will inevitably be an eradication, especially the eradication of talents, and it will be much more difficult to recover in the future.

Hardy's purpose in doing this is actually very simple.

Just for a cool word.

When Hardy told the Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida of the delegation's decision, although Yoshida tried to keep smiling, Hardy could see that his smile was forcibly squeezed out.

If you want to come to Japanese politicians and aristocrats to hear this news, they will feel very depressed.