The new business proposed by Fang Lang instantly diverted Joseph Clark's attention. He ignored the threats from other companies and looked at Fang Lang expectantly and asked:
"Boss, I wonder what new business you have discovered? Tell me about it."
Joseph Clark had 100% confidence in Fang Lang's business acumen. After all, compared to his achievements in the military, his achievements in business were legendary. It had only taken him a few years to grow from nothing to the current scale.
So, when Fang Lang told the other party that he had discovered new business opportunities in Japan, he simply put other things aside.
Seeing Joseph Clark's anxious look, Fang Lang smiled.
"Uncle Clark, don't be anxious. Since this is a big business, it will definitely be very difficult to make it a success. We need to use all our trump cards and mobilize our powerful connections in the American political and military circles. Otherwise, this business may be difficult to accomplish.
But if we succeed, God's Whip will become a great company that goes down in history."
It would have been better if he hadn't said this. Once he said it, Joseph Clark became even more restless. The match he had just lit stopped in mid-air, and even the action of lighting the cigar stopped.
"Boss, what exactly is this business? Tell me quickly! You're really driving me crazy when you talk like that."
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Joseph Clark felt very uncomfortable with Fang Lang's keeping a secret, but that was only because the other party was his boss. If John or his subordinates talked to him like this, he would not be able to help but beat the shit out of him.
Seeing that the other party was scratching his head and looking uncomfortable, Fang Lang didn't want to keep him in suspense. He just picked up the lit cigar and took a deep puff, letting the fragrance stay in his mouth for about three seconds before slowly exhaling.
"I want to take over Japan's military and police business."
Fang Lang, who had just exhaled a puff of smoke, directly revealed the answer.
But his answer confused Joseph Clark on the other side, and he asked with a puzzled look:
"What?"
Seeing this, Fang Lang smiled helplessly and continued:
"I said I was going to let God's Whip Military Contracting Company take over the Japanese police and military business."
After hearing Fang Lang's fantastic idea, Joseph Clark wondered if he had heard it wrongly. He looked at Fang Lang in disbelief and said:
"How is this possible?"
Fang Lang was not surprised by Joseph's reaction after hearing about this. After all, although business activities in Europe and the United States are open and many public projects are operated by private companies, the army and the police are the country's violent organs, and he has never heard of any country outsourcing this kind of business.
"Why not? Do you know what the current situation of Japan's police and army is like?"
Joseph was also stunned when he heard Fang Lang's question. As a veteran who participated in the Pacific War, he knew that after Japan was defeated and occupied by the US military, the entire country's violent agencies were disarmed, and the police were naturally one of them.
But in recent years, his attention has been on America and Europe, and he doesn't know much about the situation in Asia, so he really doesn't know the answer to Fang Lang's question.
"This... I really don't know. I only know that after we occupied Japan, all the military and police were disarmed by us, and all work was handled by our occupation forces, but I really don't know if there have been any changes in the past few years."
Hearing this, Fang Lang smiled and explained:
"It is indeed as you said. After the Japanese military and police were disarmed at the beginning, these tasks were handed over to our occupation forces.
However, with the disarmament of the US military in the past two years, the number of Japanese occupation troops has also been reduced accordingly. In addition, due to the increasing pressure on domestic security in Japan, the occupation forces headquarters relaxed some restrictions on Japanese police in 1947 and allowed the recruitment of some local Japanese to form a police force. However, they did not have the right to be equipped with weapons and could only use a short stick.
As a result, Japanese police can only carry out some simple civil dispute mediation and security patrol tasks. Even when they encounter slightly stronger underworld organizations, they have to avoid them. "
"But even if that's the case, they have regained their police force! In this case, how can we take over their police business?"
Joseph Clark was relatively calm and saw the difficulty of the problem at a glance.
Hearing this, Fang Lang smiled and said:
"Then do you think that Japan, as a defeated country, is qualified to have a violent organization again?"
Joseph Clark was stunned by this question. As a defeated country, it should not have a national violent institution again. But can the current Japanese police be considered a violent institution? He really couldn't say. After a little thought, Joseph Clark still answered:
"In my opinion, they certainly shouldn't be rearmed. But I'm not sure if police using batons is a violent agency?"
"Hehe... Let's leave this issue to the gentlemen in Congress and those politicians to consider. What we need to do is to mobilize our influence in the American military and political circles to make the Japanese police who use short sticks an illegal violent institution."
Upon hearing this, Joseph immediately understood what Fang Lang meant. If the current Japanese police are illegal, then the American occupation forces will inevitably have to take on the task of maintaining law and order in Japan again. With the current strength of the American occupation forces, it is obviously impossible to bear such a burden. This is when the opportunity for God's Whip Military Contracting Company comes.
"I understand what you mean. It is not difficult to push this bill through Congress. But the problem now is that Japan is MacArthur's territory. The Japanese government must have obtained his consent to reorganize the police department.
If we use our connections to overturn the rules he has set without his consent, it will definitely cause a strong backlash from him. If he objects, it will be difficult for this bill to be passed.”
Hearing what Joseph Clark said, Fang Lang smiled confidently and said:
"Knowing that he might object, we have to find a way to shut him up."
"What does the boss mean?"
"As far as I know, MacArthur only has one son, Arthur MacArthur IV, right?"
"Yes!"
"Then find a way to make Arthur MacArthur IV one of the shareholders of the Japanese branch of God's Whip. Of course, you should arrange for someone to personally have a good talk with Mr. MacArthur about this matter."
When Joseph Clark heard what Fang Lang said, he understood what Fang Lang meant. After thinking for a while, he couldn't help but ask:
"However, although winning the Japanese police business can guarantee a stable income for our company, the profit will not be as high as our current level."
"Who said we can only take down the police? Don't forget, the military is the real violent agency. As long as we can take down the Japanese military, we can make a lot of money. At that time, we can get a fixed amount of military funds from the Japanese government every year, which is the real big deal."
Fang Lang's words seemed like a fantasy to Joseph Clark.
"Boss, Japan is a defeated country and cannot have an army! Their military expenditure is used to maintain the military expenditure of the US occupation forces.
If we were to take over Japan’s military business, it would be equivalent to replacing the U.S. occupation forces, and the military would never agree to this.”
Fang Lang was of course very clear about this, but the reason why he had the crazy idea of contracting Japan's military and police business in the name of the company was, of course, because he had his own reasons.
As far as he knew, with the outbreak of the Korean War, the US occupation forces were transferred to the peninsula, and the island lacked basic defense forces. Japanese politicians took the opportunity to propose the idea of forming a police reserve.
At this time, the US occupation forces were focused on the peninsula and had no time to take care of the situation in Japan. However, as Japan was the logistics base for the peninsula war, the US military would certainly not allow chaos to occur.
The idea proposed by the Japanese at this time was just right for the United States, and the United States agreed after a brief discussion. After all, the Japanese did not have to pay for the establishment of a police reserve to protect their rear bases, and the Americans had no reason to refuse.
But the Japanese government obviously would not be willing to allow itself to become a country without armed forces, so it soon established the Maritime Guard and the Security Agency, which are paramilitary organizations.
When Japan's economy developed rapidly due to the Peninsula War and it regained sufficient economic strength, the US government saw the value of the Japanese government because of its strong support for the US government in the Peninsula War, including sending people to perform logistics and minesweeping tasks in the name of military husbands.
At the same time, taking into account Japan's special geographical location, which was naturally a frontier for containing the Soviet Far East and China, the restrictions on Japan's military power gradually began to be relaxed. The newly appointed Ichiro Hatoyama government took the opportunity to propose a plan to rearm Japan.
The Japanese government then established the Air Self-Defense Force and officially renamed the Police Reserve and Maritime Security Force as the Japan Self-Defense Force.
Fang Lang knew the origin of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, so he deliberately proposed such a concept before the outbreak of the war on the peninsula. To be honest, this idea was indeed a bit whimsical.
But is it completely impossible to achieve? Fang Lang doesn't think so. At least at this stage, this plan is very feasible.
So, after thinking about it, he decided to make his ideas clear to General Joseph Clark to avoid any mistakes in the specific implementation later.
"Under normal circumstances, the military would not agree. But what if a special situation arises?"
Fang Lang's words were like a thunderclap exploding in Joseph Clark's heart. He knew that Fang Lang had huge connections in American politics and business circles. Could it be that the other party had heard some important news about the Far East?
"Boss, the special situation you mentioned doesn't mean that the United States wants to go to war with the Soviet Union in East Asia, right?"
Fang Lang was not surprised at all by his question. After all, everyone knew about the hostile relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, and Japan and the Soviet Union's Far East were across the sea from each other. As the United States gradually stabilized the situation in Europe, it was not surprising to shift its attention to the Far East.
Hearing this, Fang Lang waved his hand.
"The United States is unlikely to go to war with the Soviet Union directly. After all, World War II just ended not long ago, and people hope for peace. However, it is still very easy to start a war of controllable scale in a local area."
When this was said, Joseph Clark's first reaction was that the American upper echelons had already made plans to launch a local war in the Far East. So, he asked anxiously:
"Boss, have you heard any accurate news?"
In fact, the outbreak of the Peninsula War was not initiated by the United States, but was caused by the Soviet Union deliberately hiding it from its home country and instigating the Golden Sun to launch an action to unify the peninsula and forcibly change the situation on the peninsula.
During this period, Fang Lang was the only one who knew that the situation on the peninsula was about to undergo major changes. Even the Golden Sun of the Northern Peninsula, which later took the initiative to launch a war of unification, had to wait until January 30, 1950, before it suddenly received news from the Soviet ambassador to the Northern Peninsula, Stikov, that the iron father was willing to support him in completing the great cause of unifying the peninsula.
What’s interesting is that at this point in time, the hometown delegation was conducting arduous negotiations in the Soviet Union. The Soviets were very dissatisfied with the hometown’s proposal to return the China Changchun Railway and Port of Dalian, which made the delegation of the new regime receive unprecedented cold treatment in the Soviet Union.
The Golden Sun, who had always wanted to learn from his hometown and complete his own cause of unification, directly expanded the army in the northern peninsula to ten divisions after receiving support from the Soviet Union, and requested to use a Soviet loan of 70 million rubles in advance to arm his troops.
Perhaps it was from this time that Americans began to turn their attention to this peninsula, which has been plagued by conflicts since January 1949.
Therefore, it was naturally impossible for Fang Lang to obtain any information from the top leaders of the US government, but Fang Lang certainly could not answer directly like this.
He coughed lightly, then lay back and found a more comfortable sitting position. He took a deep puff of his cigar before speaking in a slightly mysterious tone:
"It doesn't matter whether I have received any accurate information or not. What matters is what kind of impact will a local war suddenly break out in the Far East have on Japan, and what kind of opportunities will it bring to our company."
After hearing Fang Lang's words, Joseph Clark pondered for a while, then asked hesitantly:
"Boss, I wonder where the local war you mentioned will break out? If the US government plans to support Chiang Kai-shek's counterattack, I think it is simply a pipe dream. The Chinese people have already abandoned Chiang Kai-shek.
We cannot change this situation by supporting them or sending troops to fight. Otherwise, it will drag the United States into a huge quagmire."
At this moment, Fang Lang realized that he seemed to have never told Joseph Clark where the war would break out. It was normal for the other party to think of Chiang Kai-shek, after all, the greatest power in the Far East was his hometown.
Even Joseph Clark, a retired Navy rear admiral, could see that Chiang Kai-shek's counterattack was hopeless, let alone other senior American officials? Americans are businessmen, and they will definitely not do such a business that will obviously lose money.
"No...no...you misunderstood. I'm not talking about China, but the Peninsula. Haven't you noticed that small-scale conflicts on the Peninsula have never stopped since the beginning of this year?"
In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, Fang Lang directly pointed out the location of the local battlefield he mentioned.
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