Bright Sword: Hosting the independent regiment, all become special forces

Chapter 258

"Hello sir!"

The two puppet soldiers saluted a substandard military salute, and one of them seemed to be an officer.

"Tell me, what are you looking for?"

Zhang Wei handed the sweet potatoes in the wine bottle to Shi Dafan.

Shi Dafan didn't like drinking very much, but he had to keep what Zhang Wei rewarded him.

"Well, sir, we are from the Second Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Association Army. I am Liu Damao, the first battalion commander. This is my younger brother, Liu Ermao. Our brigade commander wants to do business with you."

Zhang Wei couldn't help laughing and said: "Do business with me? Is there any business I can do with you?"

Liu Damao smiled: "If you want to talk about the profits, it should be smoke, soil and salt. Medicines are the most profitable. Of course, neither we nor your army have the ability to get medicines."

"If you don't plant tobacco soil, you wouldn't dare to sell tobacco soil on your territory of the Eighth Route Army even if we had a hundred guts."

"So we found it this time for the salt."

Zhang Wei nodded, motioning for him to continue talking.

"Our Shanxi is also one of the salt-producing areas. You know this better than the officer!"

Saline and salinized soils are soils that contain an excess of soluble salts.

"Datong, Shuozhou, XZ, Taiyuan, Jinzhong, Luliang, Linfen, Yuncheng and other places all have a lot of saline-alkali land. Making salt is very simple, but most of them have been occupied by the devils, and the price given by the devils must be clear to you. of."

The Shanxi region is the oldest sub-industry center of the salt industry in China, and it also has huge commercial interests.

After the devils took over Shanxi, they naturally would not let go of such a huge profit target, and quickly established the relevant Salt Administration Bureau. After the occupation, they announced the confiscation of "enemy property"

Almost all of Yanchi's production, distribution and taxation are under control. The Japanese army has control of this material that can effectively control the people, so it will naturally strengthen its control.

So they robbed it first, and took almost all the salt industry into their own possession. Not only that, they even robbed all the raw materials for production.

Even in order to prevent these salt production tools from being taken away and falling into the hands of the Eighth Route Army or the Jinsui Army, let us use these tools to make explosives and other things.

In the end, there were not many people in the saltworks, and the supplies were exhausted, and the production was suspended. Even so, the Japanese army arbitrarily demanded that the saltworks continue to work.

These bosses and workers were powerless to resist, and either went bankrupt or fled, resulting in a significant reduction in the amount of salt on the market, and the price of salt continued to rise.

Even if the base area wants to get a large amount of salt, it needs to fight wits and courage with the devils. The devils have stationed a lot of regular troops and puppet troops in the salt production areas.

Although compared to a big city like Taiyuan, it should not be underestimated, and it is precisely because of this that the Eighth Route Army, Jinsui Army, Central Army, and even some bandits.

They must compete with the Japanese army, attack, and rob the resource of salt.

Shanxi is not only a salt-producing area in Yuncheng, but also has a salt industry in other areas.

"Our second mixed brigade is the locust alliance army stationed in the Jinzhong salt production area. If we have our help, I think the head of the group, isn't this salt material handy?"

After hearing this, Zhang Wei was obviously moved. Although he had no intention of doing business, the threats around Fangshan County had been cleared away, and the brother troops stationed in Lin County.

If they can further occupy the Nanyanggou area, then they will have a steady stream of salt transported to the southeast Shanxi base.

There are at least 50 million people in the southeast of Shanxi. If this salt is obtained at almost no cost, the merchants will make money if they sell it for 90 and they sell it for 50.

In the past, if the people were organized to return from the mountains using mules and horse-drawn carts, considering the loss, it is assumed that about ten tons could be transported in one trip.

Calculated for one ton, it costs at least 5000 yuan, which is quite a lot.

A trip of 5 to [-] yuan has a lot of purchasing power, enough to feed their many troops.

And the most important point is that the purchasing power of goods issued in the border areas is constantly declining.

This has a lot to do with the devils and the puppet army. A large number of counterfeit banknotes have been mixed into the base market.In many places, counterfeit banknotes have been mixed into the market.

However, in order to support the border region government, the Eighth Route Army generally used the currency of the base area.

Although there is the Eighth Route Army as a guarantee, the most important thing is that some people voluntarily buy counterfeit banknotes, real banknotes of thirty or forty, and buy counterfeit banknotes to use.

Even more damage to the market has caused more Baixin to choose to believe in silver dollars rather than border currency.

And this trip also earned silver dollars, although the purchasing power has dropped a lot compared to before.

The shopping power in the border area was the worst in 42 and 43, and it will get better and better in the future.

The anti-Japanese base area in Fangshan County is regarded as the gateway to the southeast of Shanxi. Although it is hundreds of miles away, it is really not easy to feed a 3000-strong army.

There are only a small number of off-duty young men, but this is Shanxi, with deep mountains, potholes, and saline-alkali land, so now Zhang Wei and the others are also facing new problems.

That is, on the one hand, we must continue to expand the army and increase our strength, and on the other hand, we must bear the problem of how to continue to increase production and feed so many troops.

Previously, Zhang Wei and the others chose to use war to support war. They wiped out the transportation team of the [-]th Division, took down the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold, and the Special Warfare Brigade took down a large number of puppet troops.

Only then did the problem of supplies be solved, but if this continues, the autumn harvest will be the limit. Fangshan County is not a high-yield grain and crop.

If the cavalry regiment comes over, it is really a big problem for people to eat horse chews, which means that there is no need to worry about food and drink at present, and bullets can also be effectively supplied after the arsenal resumes production in the future.

But the future is really uncertain.

The brigade commander of the Second Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Association Army is not a simple person, he saw through the embarrassment of Zhang Wei's unit at once, and came to do business with Zhang Wei.

Moreover, Zhang Wei was also moved by the huge profit.

"Tell me, how much profit do you want?"

Liu Damao smiled: "Commander Zhang, we will provide you with detailed transport routes, information on the devils' garrison, and the sales in the Japanese-occupied areas, so what our brigade commander means is that you will provide manpower and everything else will be handed over to us." Give it to us, so we want [-]% of the profit."

Zhang Wei frowned and stared at Liu Damao.

Liu Damao felt as if he was being stared at by a lion and a tiger. Zhang Wei became angry, and a majestic murderous aura gushed out of him.

One must know that there were no more than [-] or [-] devils killed by Zhang Wei alone. How could Liu Damao survive.

Seeing Zhang Wei staring at him, Liu Damao only felt that the temperature in the whole room seemed to drop a few degrees, his hair stood on end, and he was sweating coldly.

Liu Damao gritted his teeth, couldn't bear the pressure, and immediately said: "Fifty percent! Captain Zhang, there can be no less!"

Zhang Wei withdrew his gaze and said lightly, "Thirty percent!"

(End of this chapter)