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The Bureau of Investigation and Statistics' expansion report was based on strategic predictions made by Zhang Anping after the Northeast People's Liberation Army launched its summer offensive.

And as it turns out, Zhang Anping's "prediction" was remarkably accurate!
In Northeast China, the Northeast People's Liberation Army launched a summer offensive that annihilated more than 80,000 Nationalist troops and recaptured 42 towns in less than two months.

Before the curtain had even fallen on the People's Liberation Army's summer offensive in Northeast China, the People's Liberation Army's strategic counter-offensive was launched in full force!
Liu and Deng's army broke through the natural barrier of the Yellow River and launched the Southwest Shandong Campaign. After 28 days of fierce fighting, they annihilated nine and a half brigades, totaling nearly 60,000 men. Just as the Kuomintang army was gathering a large force to besiege them, Liu and Deng's army shook off the enemy's heavy forces, crossed the Longhai Railway, traversed the Yellow River flood area, and crossed multiple rivers, finally advancing into the Dabie Mountains.

Later, the Taiyue Corps advanced into western Henan, and the West Henan Corps of the East China Field Army advanced into Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu. The three armies formed a triangular formation, supporting each other and opening up new liberated areas in the Central Plains.

Meanwhile, attacks were launched in the Northwest and Shandong battlefields during this period, tying down a large number of Kuomintang troops and preventing them from returning to the Central Plains.

This first wave of strategic counter-offensive made the Nationalist army, which had suffered heavy losses in its offensive operations, experience for the first time the feeling of being short of manpower on the battlefield of the civil war.

So much so that people almost forgot about the situation in Northeast China—at this time, the Northeast People's Liberation Army launched the Autumn Offensive following the Summer Offensive, and in less than two months, it captured 15 towns and annihilated nearly 70,000 enemy troops!

Placing this information on a huge strategic map gives the illusion that the Kuomintang army is now in decline—but is this just an illusion?

Faced with repeated defeats on the battlefield, the annihilation of large numbers of elite troops, and the situation of "transporting" large amounts of American equipment into the hands of the Communist army, the Nationalist government had no choice but to continue appealing to the Americans for help, demanding that the Americans increase their military aid.

At this moment, the Nationalist government seemed to be shouting to the Americans:

If all else fails, just give me all the assets you've accumulated during World War II as military aid...

……

In October 1947, the Kuomintang army was suffering heavy losses everywhere after our army launched a strategic counter-offensive, and it was also the time when the Kuomintang was most eagerly appealing to the Americans for military aid.

Meanwhile, the Americans were also hesitant about whether to increase military aid.

But they were also at a loss at this time. After Japan surrendered, the Pacific Theater supplies, which amounted to $900 million, were transferred to the Nationalist government for $1.75 million.
In addition, a great deal of equipment was supplied. Some American officials who were knowledgeable about China pointed out in their reports that the military aid supplied to the Nationalist government enabled the Nationalist government to arm 22 fully American-equipped armies (about 60 divisions) and another 20 semi-American-equipped armies.

Logically speaking, with such a large army, it shouldn't have been defeated and left crying for its parents in less than a year, right?

But the reality is so surreal—the offensive was a disastrous defeat, resulting in the loss of a million troops, and the subsequent defensive strategy resulted in numerous holes and crushing defeats.

Americans really can't understand it.

Looking at the data on paper, it's really, really, really hard to believe.

Is it possible that the Nationalist government deliberately exaggerated the losses in order to deceive the US into providing aid?

Therefore, the Americans did not rush to increase military aid, but instead had officials familiar with China conduct more investigations and reports—as for the Nationalist government's request for increased aid, they decided to postpone it for now.

They plan to wait until they have collected and analyzed a large number of reports before making a judgment.

While they waited, the New York Post dropped an atomic bomb into the "dead" lake.

At this time, the New York Post published a series of reports in its Sunday edition, and the first headline of the series was:
[A mysterious deposit that grew from 38 million to over 100 million!]

As the New York Post was published that day, countless Americans who saw the news exclaimed in astonishment:

This is impossible!

In this news article, the New York Post tells a "story":
In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, some people, wanting to prevent the Japanese from taking advantage of the situation and eventually occupying the Shanghai concessions, planned an uprising before the Japanese made their decision—it was more like a scorched-earth policy than an uprising.

This man was incredibly audacious; he looted all the banks in the Shanghai International Settlement and took away all the currency and gold through an armed uprising.

In the normal story, this huge sum of money was destroyed in the Japanese bombing.

But the truth is:

The money was switched by this audacious madman through a deceptive trick, and divided into two batches. One batch was "secretly" handed over to the Nationalist government's treasury, while the other batch of forty million US dollars was secretly given to the chief aide.

All of the above is merely the prelude to this story—the real story has only just begun!
In April 1942, an American bank met a mysterious tycoon who deposited a huge sum of money, amounting to $38 million.

Then, the money kept increasing, not because of interest, but because huge sums of money kept being deposited into this account, and as of now, the money has exceeded 100 million!

An anonymous person tracked down the account and discovered that all the money in it came from the far East, to a country impoverished by war. The person was very curious as to why someone in this poor country would have such a large amount of savings.

So he continued his investigation and finally determined where the initial money in the account came from.

Chongqing!

This money came from Chongqing.

Coincidentally, the initial amount was 40 million, but 2 million of it went into the account of an arms dealer—buying arms worth 500,000 from that dealer. These arms were then sent to the Chinese battlefield under the guise of a donation.

It is worth mentioning that of the last batch of $500,000 worth of weapons, only about $80,000 was delivered to the soldiers after being transferred via the Hump airlift and Kunming Airport, while the remaining $420,000 worth of weapons disappeared without a trace.

At that time, Americans had not yet been extensively educated by Commissioner Smith, so most of them held the attitude of "this is impossible" towards the news published by the New York Post, thinking it was pure nonsense. However, many people were very curious about that "madman". If this was true, how much money did this "madman" put into his own pocket?
After a week of build-up in the media, the new Sunday edition of the New York Post was released, and a new story began.

This episode's story is called:

A real estate tycoon from the mysterious East!

This story is rather dull, filled with all sorts of data, but behind these detailed figures lies a shocking truth:

In the past few years, mysterious funds from the East have invested massive amounts of real estate in the United States and Brazil!

A massive amount!

According to data investigated by the New York Post, the exact amount of this enormous sum is over "one billion US dollars"!
Far from the vortex of war, the Americas attracted countless wealthy refugees during the war. The influx of these wealthy individuals with massive amounts of capital naturally led to a surge in real estate prices. But it's hard to imagine that a poor, mysterious Eastern power could have more than a billion dollars flowing into the real estate markets of the United States and Brazil.

This... isn't that a bit too exaggerated?

Readers were filled with speculation, but the New York Post's report ended there, because they really couldn't collect any more data. However, the fire ignited by the New York Times revealed the key to skyrocketing circulation to other American newspapers, who then began to use their own methods to collect various data.

Against this backdrop, the New York Daily News dropped a bombshell no less significant than that dropped by the New York Times.

This is not military aid!

The New York Daily News, with daily sales exceeding 200 million copies, is a game-changer.

This report focuses entirely on the amount of military aid from the United States and the actual amount of military aid received by the Chinese military. It takes five batches of military aid as the "protagonists" and details the various experiences these five batches of military aid went through after leaving the United States.

Similar to the New York Post's previous report about "spending two million" to purchase 500,000 munitions but actually receiving only $80,000 worth, this story is supported by more detailed and reliable data, and even details how officials of the Nationalist government manipulated the system.

At the end of this report, the author also wrote humorously:
In fact, compared to civilian donations, military aid is ultimately a higher-level treatment—at least it can arrive in China intact.

However, donations from the general public were not so fortunate.

A donation of up to four hundred million US dollars, three-quarters of which mysteriously "vanished" – among these vanished funds, some money became a tributary that expanded 3800 million in savings accounts…

Senseless!

Americans were stunned, as were the Chinese who had gone bankrupt during the War of Resistance against Japan to support the war effort in China.

This is absolutely fabricated; how could it be so exaggerated?

The Nationalist government was certainly corrupt, but with the nation's survival hanging in the balance, how could their corruption have no bottom line?
These newspapers must be stirring up a frenzy!
Americans naturally paid attention to these reports from the public. Faced with the overwhelming public opinion, Americans decided to investigate whether the newspapers were fabricating stories or simply exaggerating.

The clues found in the newspapers led to something that shocked the Americans.

Damn, these reports weren't exaggerated or bloated at all!
It's actually true!!

It was assumed that the billions of dollars in aid were spent where they should be, and even if it was just a waste of money, it would still make a sound. But the wealthy Americans never expected that people could be so greedy!
So, someone held a press conference and released the FBI investigation report to the public:
Of the $38 billion in aid, $7.5 million was embezzled by a certain family, and the remaining aid will be swallowed up layer by layer. In the end, less than one in ten will actually be implemented!

And this is just one family!
There are as many as four such families.

At the press conference, someone angrily accused the family of being "thieves"—and further claimed that there were four such families, whose bank accounts, antiques, and other valuables in the US, when converted to cash, amounted to approximately…

Two billion!
unit:

US dollars!

Following the press conference, the Americans immediately suspended military aid to the Nationalist government—is this what you call military aid?

It's obvious I'm giving you money!
……

The voice of the United States eventually reached China.

Zhang Anping's old face was terribly red—some things, he had only given a slight nudge, like pushing a pebble off the top of a snow-capped mountain.

Some things were beyond his control, and some things were also unknown to him.

For example, 3800 million...

Zhang Anping was filled with shame. He never imagined that people could be so greedy. Forty million US dollars—although he knew that some of it would go down the drain, he never expected so much to be lost.

This was arguably the biggest and most disastrous "investment" of his life.

He regretted it so much he wanted to bang his head against the wall—it would have been better if the money had gone into the Nationalist army than into that account.

He had thought that since the chief attendant had control of the money, he would eventually put it to good use...

Unfortunately, he could only suffer this injustice in silence.

"Next, shouldn't it be the control of public opinion?"

Zhang Anping grinned maliciously. "My 3800 million has become your savings, hasn't it?"

Then be prepared to face my revenge!

Sure enough, just when things were getting really chaotic in the United States, "trouble" came knocking.

The executive branch issued a direct order: the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics and the Party's Information Bureau were placed under high alert, with close monitoring of all newspapers to ensure that no newspapers published "dirty news" from the United States.

The Executive Office took this matter extremely seriously, even ordering the Security Bureau to temporarily suspend the Special Operations Brigade's training to ensure that no newspapers would disseminate news from the United States.

On the Bureau of Secrecy's side, Zhang Anping volunteered to lead the establishment of a special committee, which he would directly control, to ensure that public opinion remained calm and unaffected.

To this end, Zhang Anping even prepared a dozens of pages of public opinion control plan. When Mao Renfeng received Zhang Anping's public opinion control plan, her heart started pounding involuntarily.

opportunity!

This is a fantastic opportunity!

If I perform exceptionally well in this matter, is it possible to change the chief attendant's perception of me?
You should know that even now, although Mao Renfeng has been promoted to the position of Director of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, Zhang Anping is still the apple of that person's eye. That person has also inadvertently revealed that Zhang Anping will definitely be in charge of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics in the future.

If I handle this matter well, then that person is very likely to change their perception of me.

Mao Renfeng will no longer be a transitional bureau chief!
Realizing this possibility, Mao Renfeng decided to keep Zhang Anping's public opinion control plan hidden.

Of course, doing so would be tantamount to a fierce clash with Zhang Anping, but when he thought about the final result, he felt that no matter what price he paid, it would be worth it!
It's done!

Mao Renfeng gritted his teeth. He and Zhang Anping were mortal enemies. They seemed to be on a honeymoon now, but given the chance, he would definitely kill the other and steal his spoils—it was only natural! (End of Chapter)