Hardy Empire 1945

A cruise ship arrived at the port of Tokyo, and a thousand passengers disembarked. Among these passengers, there were a large number of management and technical personnel sent to Japan by various consortiums.

This is already the third batch.

No less than 2,000 people have been sent back and forth.

The seven major consortiums have acquired hundreds of companies and more than a dozen banks in Japan, and each of these companies must send its own managers.

Some companies need to bring in technical personnel if they want to upgrade their technology or purchase advanced production lines from the United States.

If it was just an enterprise, it would not be able to support such a scale of personnel investment, but it was nothing to the seven major consortiums.

There are dozens of big companies that can be named by the big consortium, hundreds of companies directly under it, and even more affiliated companies involved.

Although the number of these managers and technicians transferred is quite large, they can be scattered among the hundreds of companies acquired by the seven major consortiums. million people.

This is the foundation of the consortium.

At the beginning, Hardy envisioned controlling the Japanese economy and decided to bring these consortiums, not only their influence on the economy and the government, but also the talents and technologies in their hands.

Sun Tzu's Art of War says:

Ten will surround it, five will attack it, double it will divide it, the enemy will be able to fight it, if it is small, it will be able to escape, and if it is not enough, it will be able to avoid it.

Overwhelming superiority can only be obtained by investing overwhelming forces.

Only by Hardy Group itself.

Obviously insufficient power, it is impossible to eat Japan alone, but with the combined efforts of the seven major consortiums of the United States, the strength is enough to eat Japan's economy, coupled with the military occupation of Japan by the United States, Japan has absolutely no power to resist.

Another big meeting today.

After everyone reported their situation, it was Hadi's turn. Hadi said: The overall work is progressing well, and it is basically on the right track now. What I want to talk about is another thing.

The military enterprises we bought before we came to Japan have not been recovered. The reason is that MacArthur has been obstructing these enterprises. We spent 570 million US dollars on these enterprises. Now the factories can't get them back. We will lose a lot of money one day later. .”

We have to find a way to solve this matter.

After Hadi finished speaking, he looked at the representatives of various consortiums present.

The vice president of Morgan Stanley frowned: 570 million dollars,

The interest alone is US$100,000 per day, and now it has been delayed for 60 days, and we have lost US$6 million.

What exactly does MacArthur want to do? We have sales documents from Congress. Why should he obstruct it?

I think we should mobilize our forces and let Washington or members of Congress warn MacArthur. Someone suggested.

That's what Hardy wanted.

In fact, he could go to MacArthur by himself, but he just refused to go. When MacArthur stopped them from taking over the factory, Hardy felt a little happy instead and deliberately delayed not going to him.

Now that the acquisition of banks and companies has been completed, many Japanese companies have begun to resume work and production. According to Hardy's design, Japan will become a factory in the United States in the future, and the heavy industry and military industry will be castrated.

Now that Japan's economic structure has been basically completed, Hardy can take out MacArthur.

He is arrogant.

I don't know if he will be afraid of offending the seven major consortiums.

The result of everyone's discussion is to sue the consortium together, and let the boss of the consortium go to the congressman or directly to the White House.

Whoever prevents capitalists from making money is their enemy.

Lost $6 million.

Where the money is placed is not a small number. At this moment, MacArthur has become the enemy of the seven consortiums.

Someone called President Johnson.

And not one.

In fact, Johnson has always had a bad impression of MacArthur. Of course, General Marshall, who is the Secretary of Defense, is simply annoying to MacArthur.

The two also had a personal grudge.

When MacArthur was the Army Chief of Staff, he treated Marshall very unfairly, which affected Marshall's promotion. Later, Marshall's teacher, Pershing, kicked MacArthur to the Philippines, which made Marshall stand up.

As for why Pershing kicked MacArthur away, this is another interesting story, because MacArthur married Pershing's lover, which made Pershing very annoyed.

Regarding MacArthur's obstruction of the seven major consortiums from getting the factory, President Johnson and Marshall have the same opinion. That is, MacArthur feels that he is in charge of Japan. He was very unhappy that he had not discussed with him before, so he made such a stupid thing. matter.

He likes to brag about himself, loves to be in the limelight, unruly, and annoying. This is the impression of everyone who has come into contact with him. Marshall said.

I will send him a telegram in the name of the Ministry of National Defense. Japan's economic affairs have been handed over to Hadi and tell him not to obstruct it. Marshall said.

Johnson thought about it.

Shen Sheng said: I will also ask the Presidential Palace to send him a telegram. The sale of Japanese military enterprises is a resolution of the Congress, and no one can stop it.

During this period, Hardy was in Japan to sort out the economy. Hundreds of companies have resumed work. In the future, there will be factories in the United States. Now that the Japanese economy is gradually recovering, they can already exchange for the food they need. They don't need continued assistance from the United States. I'm very pleased with what Hardy did.

MacArthur is stopping him. I think he may have made a mistake in his positioning. Although he is the commander of the Allied Forces and is in charge of Japan's affairs, he represents the United States and executes the orders of the United States. Japan is not MacArthur himself. colony.

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Osaka military base.

MacArthur was reading a report with a pipe in his mouth. The report was about the country in the east. He retreated to the island with his bald head.

Now the time for the founding of the country has been determined in the north.

at this time,

The adjutant came in with a telegram, Commander-in-Chief, I have received a telegram from the continental United States, a telegram from Congressman Harriman.

Harriman, why did he telegraph himself?

Harriman is not an ordinary member of Congress. His father is a famous American railroad magnate. He is also a business elite. He later became a governor in politics and is now a Republican senator.

Although MacArthur held a high position in the military, he was not satisfied. He participated in the presidential election twice, once with Roosevelt.

The second time was the last election. Hardy pushed Johnson to power. This time, he competed with Dewey for the candidate in the Republican Party, but was driven away by Dewey with an overwhelming number of votes. He could only continue to be his own soldier obediently.

But he didn't give up and was ready to participate in the next one. The camp MacArthur invested in was the Republican Party, and Harriman was one of the senior members of the Republican Party, and he was the supporter he wanted to win.

in the telegram.

Harriman's tone was rather tactful. He learned that he blocked the Japanese factories that the seven major consortiums accepted the acquisition, and told MacArthur that this was a very irrational behavior. Big consortia, MacArthur still wants to participate in the presidential competition in the future, I am afraid no one will support him.

MacArthur's eyes twitched.

I just wanted to make that Hardy feel bad, but I didn't expect that guy to never contact me these days.

This dragged on for two months.

Now those consortiums think that they are deliberately making things difficult for them, which makes MacArthur very internally hurt. He really doesn't think so, he just wants to suppress Hardy.

What should we do now?

Take the initiative to find Hardy and tell him that you can take back those factories now?

It is estimated that Hardy will laugh at himself in his heart.

While MacArthur was still pondering, the adjutant came over with another telegram: Commander-in-Chief, the Ministry of Defense sent a telegram.

MacArthur quickly brought it over.

After reading the content, I was stunned. The content of the telegram from the Ministry of National Defense was actually about those factories. The Ministry of Defense notified MacArthur in a very formal tone that Congress had decided to sell those factories to the consortium and asked MacArthur to implement them immediately.

Depend on,

The Ministry of Defense is down.

It seems that those consortium bosses approached the Ministry of Defense.

I really offended those consortium bosses. He originally planned to run for president next term. If he offended the seven major consortiums, who would he find to spend money to support his campaign?

Now MacArthur really regrets that decision.

Just give it to him.

Now it's not human inside and out.

Before he could finish his annoyance, a third telegram was sent, Commander-in-Chief, this is a telegram from President Johnson.

In this telegram, Johnson told MacArthur in a more stern tone that those factories must be returned to the seven major consortiums immediately, and told him that in the future, Japan's economic activities should not be interfered with and obstructed, and that Hardy would be completely responsible for handling them.

Although MacArthur is rebellious, he also knows that he has offended many people now, and he must bow his head if he wants to continue to mess around.

Call your adjutant.

Let the military department notify the troops guarding the military factory to allow acceptance. You call the office of the special economic envoy and tell them that the factory is ready to be accepted.

MacArthur finished this sentence.

He crumpled the three-point telegram in his hand and threw it into the wastebasket.

Since he became the commander of the Allied Forces in Japan, he has not been so angry for a long time. In Japan, no matter whether it is the emperor or the prime minister, whoever treats him respectfully.

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Hardy's office received a call from the military, telling them they could receive the factory, and Hardy smiled when he heard the report.

It turned out that MacArthur, who was arrogant and arrogant, also conceded defeat. I thought he would be tough with the seven major consortiums.

MacArthur is just politically retarded, not really stupid.

He is just an expatriate general. There are not many generals like him in the US military, and he is not irreplaceable.

Hardy ordered people to take over those factories. This time, the people stationed in the US military in Japan were much happier. After seeing the receipt documents, they handed over the factories to the other party and immediately evacuated them. These factories fell into the hands of the seven major consortiums.

These military factories are all heavy industries.

Kawasaki Steel, Kobe Steel, Sumitomo Metal Industries, New Star Copper, Yokosuka Shipyard, Mitsubishi Machine Tool, Mazda Motor, Nissan Motor, Mitsubishi Aircraft Manufacturing, Mitsui Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Chemical Industry, Maruzen Petrochemical...... .

There are 306 in total.

These factories include steel, shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, gun manufacturing, machine tools, coal mining, coking, petroleum, copper, aluminum, chemicals and many other aspects.

It can be said that Japan's heavy industry and military enterprises are all here.

After acquiring these enterprises, Hardy once again convened a meeting with the heads of the seven major consortiums to study how to deal with these factories.

According to Hardy's vision, all military uses of these heavy industrial enterprises will be eliminated, and then converted to civilian use, such as shipyards, which can manufacture civilian ships, such as freighters, cruise ships, and fishing boats, but cannot retain the ability to manufacture warships and submarines.

Enterprises that produce fighter jets, rifles, bullets, engines, torpedoes, missiles, tanks, chariots, artillery, radar, gunpowder, howitzers...etc.

All the equipment has been dismantled and should be returned to the furnace. In the future, Japan will no longer retain the ability to manufacture military industry, which is also a requirement of the United Nations.

If it is other countries, it will be a pity to see these production equipment destroyed, but it is useless to the United States. The seven major consortia have their own military enterprises, no matter in terms of production equipment, technology or scale. Much stronger than Japan.

The rest of the equipment will be converted to civilian use.

Hardy's idea was simple.

Destroy the foundation of Japan's military industry, maybe they will reappear in the future, but now that these factories are gone, there will inevitably be a generational gap, especially the talent gap, and it will be much more difficult to recover in the future.

Hardy's purpose in doing so is actually very simple.

Just for a cool word.

When Hadi told Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida of the delegation's decision, Yoshida tried to keep smiling, but Hadi could see that his smile was forced.

Presumably Japanese politicians and aristocrats will feel very depressed when they hear this news.