Reborn in Brazil As a Plutocrat

  Chapter 98 Finding the Enemy

   Waiting for Fang Lang to board the House early the next morning, his head was still groggy when he left Okinawa. Fortunately, the Okinawa waters are now the territory of the Allied Forces, and the Japanese are not just what he wants to meet.

  Actually, the straight-line distance between Okinawa Island and Hangzhou Bay is only about 900 kilometers. If the House’s maximum speed of 35 knots goes directly to Hangzhou Bay, it will take less than 20 hours to reach Hangzhou Bay.

  Of course, a ship can't always be traveling at top speed. Therefore, the House has been sailing westward at a speed of twenty knots. Fang Lang's goal is not the mainland, because if he gets too close to the land, he will enter the attack range of the Japanese aviation.

  Although fuel is in short supply in Japan now, there are still fuel reserves in the country. The Japanese are now trying to find ways to transport strategic materials such as fuel to Japan.

  And these transport ships are the targets of Fang Lang's attack. It's not that Fang Lang doesn't want to directly attack the Japanese mainland, but if he sails a boat to attack Japan directly by himself, he will basically end up in the same end as Don Quixote.

  Wars are not street fights, and you can't be reckless. Fang Lang ordered Hope to take the lead in cruising in the middle of the route from Shanghai to Nagasaki. I am looking for ships that may travel from Taiwan Island to Japan in the East China Sea.

   I don’t know if the Japanese navy was really laid down. For three days, the two warships found nothing. This annoyed Fang Lang very much. The secret channel came late, and it seemed that Little Japan was really **** up.

   After asking for instructions from the Fifth Aircraft Carrier Fleet, Fang Lang began to shift targets. The Nozomi was ordered to go directly to the Korean Strait and attack ships traveling between North Korea and Japan near Tsushima Island.

  Fang Lang himself followed the House and began to test the direction of Shanghai, wanting to test whether the Japanese Army Aviation would send military planes to attack him for his warship.

  Because the Fletcher-class destroyer's air-to-air radar has a maximum detection range of 120 kilometers. Therefore, on July 12, Fang Lang directly led the House into a distance of less than 100 nautical miles from Shanghai.

   But not to mention Japanese planes, not even a Japanese ship. This made Fang Lang very annoyed. I came all the way to fight with you, but you didn't show up, which made me very embarrassed.

   On July 13, Fang Lang's House simply broke into a distance of about 50 kilometers from Shanghai in order to attract enemies to attack at close range.

   But Fang Lang did not dare to enter within a distance of 50 kilometers, because this is the longest range of the Japanese Type 90 240mm heavy cannon.

   If Japan's heavy artillery hits it, it will not be worth the loss. After all, Shanghai is not Japan, and it is impossible for Fang Lang to attack Shanghai. The firepower of the destroyer Fang Lang couldn't reach the Japanese.

  The result was unexpected. The Japanese seemed to be blind, indifferent to the approach of the House. Just when Fang Lang was yelling at the Japanese on the House.

  The Nozomi received good news from the Korean Strait and sank a transport ship bound for Japan from North Korea. And got in touch with the American submarine that was carrying out the blockade mission in the Korean Strait, and played the wolf pack tactics invented by the Germans.

   This hurt Fang Lang very much. For the first time, he wanted to own an aircraft carrier in his heart, so that the embarrassing situation like now would not happen.

  Similarly, Fang Lang also saw the weakness of the Japanese from this situation. Fang Lang never imagined that the Japanese would let the House directly approach such a close distance and remain indifferent.

  Fang Lang simply stopped doing nothing and started to blockade the outer seas of Shanghai. He didn't believe that the Japanese really didn't run out.

   Just when Fang Lang punched cotton and was furious that he could not find the enemy, Universal Steel and Universal Shipbuilding in the United States finally completed the acquisition and integration work.

  Owns steel companies and shipyards across the United States, Britain, Germany, and Italy. Although, the size of steel mills and shipyards in each country is not large.

  Even the factories in the United States are research institutes, but it cannot be denied that the two companies have formally qualified to enter the steel and shipbuilding markets.

  The company's first key task after the integration is to officially start joint venture negotiations with the Brazilian Fangyuan Group, planning to invest in the establishment of a steel plant and a shipyard in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

  This project has been highly valued by the Brazilian government, the Brazilian military, and the Sao Paulo city government. For the first time, the Brazilian Fangyuan Group has appeared in the eyes of Brazilian politicians and Brazilian people.

  The Brazilian Navy Department and the Brazilian Expeditionary Force even directly stepped forward as the Fangyuan Group platform. Let this newly established company in Brazil become a household name in a day and hang on the headlines of major newspapers in Brazil.

   It even shocked the treacherous Brazilian political arena. Don't think that the author's description is exaggerated. The reason why Brazil became the only country in South America to send troops to participate in the European War.

   It is because in the summer of 1940, the Brazilian government simultaneously launched negotiations with the United States and Germany in order to build the earliest modern large-scale steel plant.

  In the end, the U.S. government reached an agreement with Brazilian President Vargas to provide an interest-free loan of 10 million U.S. dollars for Brazil to build a steel plant in Rancho Volta.

   marks Brazil officially abandoning Germany and joining the US camp. From this we can see how much influence a modern steel plant will have on the Brazilian government.

  In fact, the so-called joint venture negotiations seem to outsiders to have undergone repeated negotiations, and even attracted large domestic capital in Brazil to participate in a share. Unfortunately, they don't know that all this is just a play.

   Therefore, the big capital in Brazil is doomed to get nothing.

  On July 13th, Fangyuan Group officially announced the establishment of a joint venture company and started investment negotiations with the government. It plans to invest 20 million US dollars to establish a steel factory and a shipyard in Brazil.

  Fang Lang who received the news was naturally very happy, and it could be regarded as dispelling the depressed mood he had been in for several days.

  In the early morning of July 14, the radar of the House detected a ship approaching the House. Fang Lang thought that the Japanese were finally going to fight, and quickly ordered the House to turn.

  But when the other party entered the visual range of the lookout post, they discovered that it was a wooden fishing boat. This made the crew of the House decide to be bored, thinking that the Japanese were attacking with wooden fishing boats.

   Just about to aim at the opponent and kill him with a single shot, Fang Lang suddenly remembered that the sixth sense didn't seem to feel hostility this time!

   Instead, he ordered the boatswain to drive the traffic boat with ten soldiers to check the situation. Don't wait until the fishermen are guilty.

   Soon the boatswain brought back two people dressed like fishermen, and reported to Fang Lang that they were intelligence personnel of the national army, hoping to meet the Allied commander.

  Fang Lang looked at the two of them carefully for a while and then said:

   "What are you doing! What are you doing here!"

   When the two saw the soldiers who brought them over, among them were a few yellow men and a black man, they felt their hearts beat. When I approached and saw the military flag on this warship, I had never seen it before, and I was wondering!

   Hearing a question in Chinese from an officer on the opposite side, I was even more taken aback. The older man, who looked about fifty years old, took the initiative to say:

   "Sir, are you an allied army?"

   Listening to the other party's voice is obviously much younger! This made Fang Lang couldn't help but look at the man opposite him more carefully. He turned his head and asked the boatswain in a low voice:

   "Have you been searched?"

  I thought to myself, don't wait for two Japanese spies to assassinate me at close range, it would be embarrassing.

  The bosun nodded.

   Fang Lang replied:

   "We are warships of the Confederate States, who are you?"

  Hearing Fang Lang's answer, the two were obviously relieved. The man who took the initiative to speak continued:

   "Sir, you speak Mandarin really well. My name is Zhong Ze, and I am a major intelligence officer at the Shanghai Station of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Nationalist Government. Next to me is my translator Qiu Yuyi. Nice to meet you."

   These two can be regarded as the first batch of real fellow countrymen that Fang Lang met after his rebirth. However, Fang Lang is very aware of the power of the Japanese intelligence agencies, and he cannot easily trust them.

   Don't wait to be used by the Japanese, you will be in big trouble.

   "Do you have evidence?"

  Zhong Ze glanced at the soldiers with guns on guard all around, and pointed to the position of his belt with his finger.

Fang Lang understood what he meant, and just shook his head without saying a word, and a soldier stepped forward, fumbled along the position of the man's finger, and soon touched a hard object, took it out and checked it, Only then handed it to Fang Lang.

   After a closer look, it turned out to be an identity document, roughly meaning that the national army sent two personnel from the Military Intelligence Bureau to board the ship to negotiate a joint attack on the Japanese army. I hereby certify it.

  (end of this chapter)