Chapter 619 Confining the Little Days (First update, please subscribe)
A heavy rain turned the road between farms into a swamp. In the swamp, a Chrysler sedan was struggling there, its wheels stuck in the mud. It was turning with difficulty, but it seemed to be just spinning in place, unable to move forward or backward.
Frank, who was driving the car, stepped on the accelerator anxiously, his brows furrowed, and beads of sweat oozing out from his forehead. He kept adjusting his direction, trying to find a path that could be driven, but every attempt ended in failure.
Ambassador Kirk stood in the heavy rain, his eyes full of worry and helplessness. He had tried to get out of the car to help push the car, but the heavy body was completely stuck in it. Every time the cart was pushed hard, a splash of mud would be thrown all over them.
For a while, the car was surrounded by the smell of earth and the smell of people's anxiety.
"Damn, this is a bad road. We should have driven a jeep over here..."
Frank couldn't help but curse. Ambassador Kirk felt the same way, but they are all used to Nanyang's convenient highway network. , who would have thought that after leaving the highway, it would be such a muddy road.
Actually, there is no way around this. After all, with Nanyang’s current financial resources, “every village” is obviously unrealistic, so leaving the highways and cities, there are mud roads everywhere.
And this is why most of the military's retired jeeps are sent to plantations and farms - because once it rains, except for off-road vehicles, almost no vehicles can drive on such muddy roads. travel. Even a three-wheeled truck can only look at the road and sigh.
Even Porsche and others must consider road conditions when designing cars and improve the passing ability of the car by raising the chassis and other methods.
Just when Ambassador Kirk's Chrysler car got stuck in the mud and couldn't move forward or retreat, in a farm dozens of kilometers away, Li Yi'an was also blocked by heavy rain. During this heavy rain, his life could be used A very stylish word to describe it, you can enjoy the bliss of the world without leaving home. To put it bluntly, it means bedroom, bathroom, kitchen...
However, you have to enjoy the fun, and you have to do the work at noon. After being reckless, when he woke up, Li Yian began to look through the report just sent. Compared with the report, it was not optimistic about the fate of South Korea.
Li Yian is more concerned about another point - whether Japan will rise by taking advantage of the east wind of the Peninsular War!
Although compared with another world, 60% of Japan's industrial production capacity was dismantled by Nanyang and Tangshan. Even those that were not dismantled were laundered by the occupying forces into their industries.
But Li Yian still dare not take it lightly. After all, the United States passed the "Dodge Plan" last year, which was the U.S. support policy for Japan in the early post-war period.
Since the US military occupied Japan, they have spent more than a billion dollars to stabilize the Japanese economy, accelerate its economic recovery, and achieve economic independence. After a year of recovery, although Japan has not yet gotten rid of the reality of industrial decline and material shortages, with the outbreak of the Peninsular War and the stimulation of the special needs economy, Japan's economic revival is only a matter of time.
“Things are a bit difficult to handle!”
Thinking of the historical reality of another world where Japan used the Peninsular War to achieve economic development, Li Yian couldn’t help but feel a little melancholy.
"No matter how hard it is, this war cannot be avoided..."
After turning over the report in his hand, Li Yian frowned and said to himself .
"Beibang, Beibang, you have to work hard and drive them into the sea..."
But even if you drive them out of the sea, will it prevent the US military from intervening? Now that the United States has obtained the required credentials from the United Nations, Marshal Mai, who was originally in a precarious position, may be sharpening his sword and waiting for the troops to gather, preparing to carry out the Incheon landing?
"Mike... landed at Incheon,"
Li Yian's brows knitted together, smelling the faint scent of perfume in the air, and thought to himself.
“How about giving Beibang a heads up?”
As a reminder to Beibang, can they stop the US military from landing in Incheon?
Li Yi'an, who frowned, didn't know the answer in his heart. Compared with Beibang, he was more concerned about...how to end the Peninsula War as soon as possible, so as to ensure that Japan's economy would not suffer a rapid decline due to the special needs economy. recover.
"If the Incheon landing fails, will the US military give up?" Li Yian frowned and was a little unsure, but one thing is for sure, Washington's determination to intervene on the peninsula will not change. Yes, after all, they have linked the situation on the peninsula to the situation around the world. They believe that once the situation on the peninsula changes fundamentally, Russia's next step will be to expand to the world. Therefore, to a large extent, the peninsula will It was the forefront of the tit-for-tat confrontation between the two major camps of the Cold War, which directly determined the future development trend of the Cold War.
For this reason, the Americans will definitely not give up on the peninsula issue.
Failure means an increase in the difficulty of the war, and it also means an increase in military expenditures. Will this lead to Japan getting more orders?
"Fuck...fuck!"
For the first time, Li Yian was in a dilemma when faced with a problem, and even felt a little at a loss.
Even standing on the shoulders of historical giants, Li Yian is somewhat at a loss as to what to do - the special needs economy of the Peninsula War was a key factor in saving the Japanese economy and moving it towards the fast track of post-war recovery.
“Through the special needs economy, Japan earned the first pot of gold after the war and got rid of the economic difficulties of the war, thereby laying the foundation for the subsequent trade revitalization,”
Closing his eyes and recalling the path of Japan's post-war economic recovery, Li Yian suddenly sat up straight and wrote two words on the paper vigorously.
“Trade!”
The key is trade!
"That's right! That's it!"
Clapping his palms hard, Li Yian couldn't help laughing.
"Really, I'm just trying to learn from others, but I've forgotten how to draw pictures!"
When formulating Nanyang's economic development plan, Li Yi'an, an economic layman, planned this project Things are not difficult, just follow the example of Japan - after Japan achieved economic recovery through the Peninsular War, with the support of the United States, Japan signed the "San Francisco Peace Treaty" with other countries, and then with the support of the United States, Japanese companies Borrow money to buy machinery and equipment and cotton, then export cotton textiles to the United States and use foreign exchange to repay the debt.
As a result, Japan's exports have grown rapidly. Japan's share of U.S. cotton textile imports was only 17% in 1951, but increased to more than 60% five years later. In 1955, in New York, cheap Japanese-made shirts priced at only one dollar appeared, also known as the famous "one-dollar shirt." Cheap Japanese textiles directly impacted the American textile industry. Who doesn't like cheap things?
So the U.S. textile industry immediately organized an anti-dumping campaign. This is the legendary "$1 blouse incident", which also became the starting point of the trade war between Japan and the United States. This trade war lasted for half a century. Long before the famous "Plaza Accord" harvest, the United States and Japan conducted The trade war, together with bills such as long-arm jurisdiction, has launched a total of eleven attacks on Japan.
The scope of the Japan-US trade war began in the 1950s, including but not limited to textiles and textiles in the 1950s. Steel in the 1960s, household appliances in the 1970s, and cars in the 1980s, followed by the 1990s
It is precisely because of the experience of the Japan-US trade war that Nanyang textile prices have always maintained a relatively high profit margin. Although the prices are relatively low, they will not have a big impact on the US textile industry.
But what Li Yi'an really cares about is not the trade war caused by the impact of cheap goods, but that Nanyang goods cannot be labeled as "cheap goods". After all, he has always hated "cheap goods" .
Why should Nanyang people be America’s cheap labor force?
How mean people must be!
Not only will they be complacent about being a cheap labor force. He also took the initiative to label himself "high quality and low price", but in fact, it was just a bargain.
Rather than relying on the so-called "high quality and low price" to occupy the market, Li Yi'an prefers brand and quality. Therefore, in the past few years, high quality has gradually become the label of Nanyang goods. But good products are certainly not cheap!
But what about the future?
What if Japan relies on the support of the United States and their cheap labor to hit the American market with cheap goods?
What should we do at that time?
Everyone loves bargains!
(End of this chapter)