Universal Group's investments in Japan all have a notable feature, which is that it only regards Japan as an assembly factory and never allows any core technology to flow into Japan, especially in the field of electronic products, except for the electron tube technology that Japan already possesses.
Universal Group does not allow any possibility for almost all transistor-related products to flow into Japan. Among the products produced by Japanese electronics factories, transistors are not allowed to be used in products that can be replaced by vacuum tubes.
When transistors were really needed, they were purchased directly from Brazil, which was relatively backward. This resulted in the quality of products such as telephones and radios produced in Japan being not advanced.
The US military was naturally very dissatisfied with this, but now the companies that master transistor-related technologies all have some relationship with Fang Lang. Whether it is Bell Labs in the United States or the Brazilian Institute of Electronic Computers, they had reached a trade embargo agreement under Fang Lang's instructions and were not allowed to transfer transistor-related technology to Japan.
Although the U.S. military is very powerful, Fang Lang represents the interests of the consortium, a group of guys who don't even give face to the president. Therefore, if the U.S. military needs products using transistors, they can only purchase them from the United States and Brazil, and direct production in Japan is not allowed.
This led to a rapid increase in orders for Brazil's electronics factories, and electronic technology also began to develop rapidly with the support of these funds, especially radar technology, which made progress so fast that it was visible to the naked eye. There are new breakthroughs in computer technology every day.
Because of Fang Lang's targeting and blockade, Japan's electronic product technology could not be rapidly improved directly through the Peninsula War as it had been in history. It also prevented Japan from achieving rapid economic growth after the war as it did in later generations.
As for shipping, although the Global Group had already been planning its presence in Japan's container shipping industry, Fang Lang had ill intentions from the very beginning, so the construction progress of the Global Terminals Company's container freight terminal in Japan was very slow.
What is even more embarrassing is that before the outbreak of the war, the Global Terminals Company had closed and renovated several important ports in Japan. The war broke out just as the original loading and unloading equipment was dismantled, which caused great inconvenience to the rapid replenishment of logistical materials for the US military.
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However, this method can only temporarily delay the progress of the US military's aid to the peninsula and cannot really change history. Fang Lang knows this very well in his heart.
But he still did it, and his purpose was actually very simple. That was because the progress in the northern peninsula was smooth in the early stages of the war, and the southern peninsula and the first batch of US troops were compressed to the Busan area. In the end, the 25th Division of the US Army received an order to defend the last line of defense.
Fang Lang's purpose in delaying the progress of the U.S. military's supplies delivery is to give the Northern Peninsula a chance to see if they can pull out the nail that the United States has nailed on the peninsula.
In this way, Fang Lang could cause greater casualties to the Americans without making any noise. This can be considered as his contribution to the Peninsula War.
Unfortunately, these are just small measures and cannot fundamentally solve the problem of the war on the peninsula. The blocked docks have to speed up the construction under the pressure of the US military.
In order to delay the construction of the container freight terminal, Fang Lang tried every possible means. The transportation of a bunch of port machinery and equipment from Brazil to the terminal in Japan was repeatedly delayed.
No, a typhoon occurred during transportation and key parts were lost. When the equipment arrived at the dock, it could not be installed quickly. For this reason, Fang Lang secretly leaked the information, allowing the most slow construction company in Brazil to win the bid and become the builder of the Japanese container terminal.
If the Americans had any complaints, they could only argue with the builder, which wasted a lot of their time.
Finally, the efficiency of the U.S. military's logistical material transportation was severely delayed due to construction problems at Japanese port terminals, and was more than three levels lower than historical efficiency.
The 25th Division of the US Army, which was short of supplies, would naturally suffer greater casualties when resisting the attack on the Northern Peninsula. Although this situation made the US military very annoyed, there was nothing they could do. After all, these things had nothing to do with the Fang family.
On the contrary, the Fang family suffered the same heavy losses as them. After all, the slow progress of the project meant losses for their business, which they did not want to see.
Of course, this situation cannot last long. These container terminals will eventually be completed. As for the issue of improved freight efficiency after completion, Fang Lang has already thought of the corresponding methods.
In short, Fang Lang has only one goal, which is to cause as much trouble as possible for the Americans at his own level. If it really doesn't work, it is not impossible for several of the earliest experimental container ships to be directly hit by mines and sink!
The US government must compensate for this kind of transport ship that sank due to the war.
In order to better complete the US military's mission, Global Group also directly purchased the Japanese shipyards and steel mills confiscated by the US military. In order to better provide logistical support to the US military, Global Group even invested in acquiring all the aircraft manufacturing plants confiscated by the United States.
The purpose is to prevent the US military from returning the factories confiscated from the Japanese directly to the Japanese government as it did in history. As long as these factories fall into the hands of the Global Group, they will be at the mercy of the Global Group.
I believe that they will soon become pure OEM factories without core technology, and all Japanese workers will gradually only need to do the most tiring physical labor.
With Fang Lang's act of investing money to purchase the confiscated factories, if the Americans want to return these factories to the Japanese free of charge, they will have to start seriously considering whether the person who made this suggestion will face an investigation by the FBI.
After all, you want to give the Japanese a factory for free when it can obviously be sold. What do you mean by this? Did you accept a huge bribe from the Japanese? I believe no one would like to face such accusations!
What's more, the conditions of the factories confiscated by the Americans had long been thoroughly investigated by the Global Group. The factories that were truly valuable had long been bought by the Global Group. Even if the Americans sold the remaining factories to the Japanese, they would not be able to quickly restore Japan's technology.
As for the large number of jobs that would be created by the reopening of these factories, Fang Lang certainly could not stop it. After all, if he did it too obviously, it might lead to an investigation by the CIA.
Fang Lang's acquisition of these factories that can manufacture and repair US military equipment actually has another very important purpose, which is to learn from them. He plans to arrange some engineers from Brazil to come over to participate in the manufacturing and maintenance of US military equipment.
Since it is production and maintenance, corresponding manual tools will inevitably be provided, which actually contain many core technologies of US military equipment. As long as these things are fully mastered and digested and absorbed, the Fang family's military equipment manufacturing technology will be able to achieve a huge improvement.
Of course, there was also the idea of causing some trouble for the US military. As for how to cause trouble, it was even simpler. They could arrange a few Japanese who hated the United States to cause some sabotage from time to time, bombing here today and there tomorrow. The planes that had just been repaired were bombed by Japanese rioters again.
The Whip of God military contracting company, which was contracted to carry out security work in Japan, was responsible for investigating these cases. How the conclusion would be written was up to Fang Lang's words.
Just as the U.S. military was busy mobilizing its troops and rushing to support the front lines, at the entrance of the United Nations Command in Tokyo, a young man in his twenties with an obvious burn scar on the right side of his cheek sat in a black Toyota car, looking coldly at the headquarters building opposite.
When he saw a row of military vehicles driving into the headquarters gate and heading towards the office building inside, the young man shifted gears and stepped on the gas without hesitation, and followed the convoy into the headquarters.
The convoy ahead thought he was just a normal vehicle and didn't pay much attention to it, and the guard at the entrance of the headquarters didn't think much of it when he saw he came in with the convoy.
It was not until the car behind the convoy in front discovered that this car, which did not belong to the convoy, had followed them into the headquarters that they realized something was wrong. They quickly braked and turned the car. The people in the car also stuck their heads out and signaled the vehicle to stop for inspection.
But at this time, the young man would not listen to the other party's request. Instead of stopping, he directly avoided the other party's interception and drove towards the headquarters building where the convoy was moving in front.
It has to be said that as the headquarters of the United Nations forces, the defense here is still very strong. As soon as they saw that the situation here was not right, the guards immediately surrounded it. All of them aimed their weapons at the car and loudly signaled for it to stop.
But the driver ignored him and instead drove towards the door of the headquarters building with a crazy look on his face, gripping the steering wheel tightly. When the guards saw the vehicle ignoring warnings, they opened fire without hesitation.
The headquarters gate was not far from the headquarters building, so this time was enough for the young man's car to approach the headquarters building.
By the time the guards fired their guns, the car with unknown intentions had already passed the cars and people that were trying to stop it and rushed into the convoy in front.
When the car rushed into the convoy, the guards had to be careful with their guns to avoid accidentally injuring the American officers in the convoy. It was this caution that allowed the young man to seize the opportunity, and he drove the car directly to the door of the headquarters, sticking to the vehicles in the convoy.
This situation naturally scared the guards and American military officers in the convoy to death, and everyone realized that something serious was going to happen. Just as a group of American guards were shooting at the young man with terrified looks on their faces.
The young man, who had already been shot several times, suddenly had a relieved smile on his crazy expression, and then the black Nissan car turned into a fireball right in front of the commander's office.
There was a loud bang and the guards who were rushing towards the car were engulfed by the flames. The guards who were a little further away were also knocked over by the shock wave generated by the explosion and flew backwards for more than ten meters before falling to the ground, losing their lives instantly.
The entire convoy was directly affected by the explosion. The three vehicles closest to the exploding vehicle were blown away, and only stopped when they hit the wall of the headquarters building and were squeezed into a pile of scrap metal.
The windows of other vehicles a little further away also shattered instantly, and the powerful shock wave directly took away the American military officers in the cars. Most of these people only had scratches from glass on their surfaces, but they were bleeding horribly from all their orifices, and they could not be more dead. Needless to say, this was a horrific killing by the shock wave.
The office area on the first floor of the headquarters building was in a mess. Iron debris from the explosion flew everywhere, almost sweeping across the entire first floor. The hall was in a mess, with no one standing there at all.
The people upstairs were slightly better, they just felt dizzy and had tinnitus, and they lost their balance and sense of direction and could not stand steadily. At the same time, the glass shattered by the shock wave caused almost everyone to be scratched by the glass.
All the glass in the headquarters building was shattered, which shows how powerful the explosion was. For a moment, the entire United Nations Command fell into chaos.
What made Americans feel fortunate was that the Japanese emperor, General MacArthur, the commander of the US forces in Japan, was not at the headquarters at that time, otherwise the US military command system would have collapsed.
However, the young man who drove a car to blow up the US military headquarters was named Hamahideo. He was originally a Japanese soldier who was seriously injured in the Battle of Iwo Jima. All his comrades stayed on Iwo Jima, but he, who was wounded in an early battle, was the only one who was sent back to his homeland for treatment.
But before he could recover from his injury and return to the team, the American boy's hometown of Hiroshima exploded, and all his relatives and friends lost their lives in an instant.
With the surrender of Japan, he became a homeless ghost. The economy of Japan, which had just been defeated, was in decline, so of course he could not find a job. He could only beg for a living like a homeless person.
Two years passed like this. Although the situation in Japan had improved slightly, people like him at the bottom of society could only barely get enough food and clothing.
It was not until early 1950 that a fellow Hiroshima native found him and told him that there was an organization that could provide some help to homeless people like them. Under the guidance of this person, he came to a simple warehouse in the countryside of Yokohama.
Although this warehouse was simple, it provided them with basic living security. He found that many people here had the same experience as him, and almost everyone's relatives were killed in the two big bombs.
When such a group of people get together, they naturally often curse the hateful Americans. Gradually, the hatred in his heart towards Americans reached a level that could not be resolved at all.
Watching those American soldiers acting arrogantly on Japanese soil, sleeping with their women, and beating and scolding the Japanese at will. They were all filled with indignation.
Until one day, when they had finished their simple dinner and gathered in the cargo yard as usual, ready to criticize the Americans as usual.
The middle-aged Japanese man in charge of the warehouse stepped forward and led them to a wall. He opened a wooden board and saw a photo of Tianhuang behind it.
In the lower right corner of Tianhuang's photo, there is a much smaller photo of this middle-aged man and Tianhuang. Hama Hidayo would never have thought that this inconspicuous middle-aged man could actually know His Majesty Tianhuang and be qualified to stand next to Tianhuang for a photo. What an honor this is!
While he was still marveling at the thought, the middle-aged man spoke slowly.
“My fellow countrymen, haven’t you all been wondering why I took you in and helped you?
I think today is the time to tell you the answer. ”
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