In the following period of time.
Liu Ze would occasionally appear on the battlefields around Shanghai.
During the Battle of Songhu, as the Japanese increased their troops, the pressure on the Chinese army increased every day.
The Japanese became very cautious. The troops that landed were no longer gathered together. They did not give Liu Ze a good chance.
In every battlefield, the Japanese had set up a large cordon. Coupled with real-time reports of the situation, Liu Ze could only hunt small groups of Japanese troops at the periphery.
Even though it brought a lot of trouble to the Japanese, Liu Ze's actions did not change the fact that the Battle of Songhu was becoming more and more disadvantageous to the Chinese army.
A large number of troops were being defeated by the Japanese, and the situation of the Battle of Shanghai was becoming precarious.
However, the Japanese had also paid a heavy price. With the existence of Liu Ze, the ghost of death, the Japanese could not fight freely.
Especially since Liu Ze kept looting the Japanese's supply troops, the logistics supply could not keep up, and the Japanese troops at the front line could not fight continuously.
However, the Japanese did not seem to notice Liu Ze's actions. They did not plan to take revenge on Liu Ze and only thought of ways to transport supplies to the front line.
All in all, the Japanese were still achieving their strategic goals bit by bit. Liu Ze alone could not take care of the huge Songhu battlefield.
In fact, Liu Ze's daily activities were to find opportunities to mess with the Japanese navy.
However, the three fleets that the Japanese had sent to China were all far away from Shanghai. They were hovering on the sea about 100 kilometers away from Shanghai, allowing the aircraft carriers to take off and provide support.
The Japanese navy was no longer as arrogant as before. They had no intention of approaching the battlefield near Shanghai.
This made Liu Ze feel quite helpless. Actually, he also knew that the Japanese were afraid of him.
Even if he left Shanghai, the Japanese navy might not dare to approach Shanghai easily. At least, the main fleet would not dare to approach it easily.
The Japanese, who had already occupied Shanghai, were not in a hurry to set up a fake government organization because the Hongkou Settlement had been completely destroyed. Instead, they began to rebuild the Hongkou Settlement.
Because if they didn't rebuild, the 70,000 to 80,000 residents and many institutions would have no place to live and work.
Moreover, the offices of the various financial groups in China were almost all concentrated in the Hongkou concession. They were all destroyed by the war. These financial groups naturally had to restore their offices as soon as possible. Otherwise, how could they cooperate with the Japanese military to plunder China's resources and wealth?
Moreover, these consortiums had a strong influence on Fusang's political situation, so the reconstruction work was naturally put on the agenda as soon as possible.
For this reason, the Japanese had specially mobilized a portion of engineers and construction teams from Fusang. Not only had they deployed a large number of trucks, but they had also deployed various construction vehicles to assist in the reconstruction.
Of course, Fusang's various consortium offices in China had also found temporary office areas. The Japanese had simply circled an alley in Shanghai to specially accommodate the headquarters of the Chinese organizations and the representatives of the various consortia.
Don't look down on these corporations. Although the Japanese army had a lot of blood on their hands, the corporations behind the Japanese army were also a group of vampires that were constantly absorbing nutrients from China.
Every time the Japanese army captured a city, the first thing they did was to control the local banks to achieve their goal of economic control.
At the same time, they plundered gold, silver, and other precious metals, followed by all kinds of cultural relics.
According to incomplete statistics, during the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese had plundered more than three million cultural relics from China. Up to now, there were more than two million cultural relics from China in the major museum in Fusang.
The plundering of gold was needless to say. After many years of war, the Japanese had stolen more than 20,000 tons of gold.
The Japanese's so-called economic plunder was basically based on silver.
The method was very simple. It was to completely destroy the original currency system in the occupied areas and then use the military currency to force the people to use it. This was the simplest economic plunder.
Coupled with the economic plunder of the military bills, there was also the silver dollar. Fusang was originally a big country that produced silver, and occupying a large number of cities also allowed the Japanese military to hold a large amount of silver in their hands.
When the French currency depreciated, and the currency of war like the military notes became even more rootless, the silver dollar actually became the hard currency in the occupied areas. The Japanese, who had a large amount of silver dollars in their hands, could use the silver in their hands to plunder a large amount of resources in the occupied areas.
Coupled with military means of plundering, in fact, during the years of the war, the Japanese had plundered more than 800 million tons of food from China.
At that time, many people in China had starved to death because of the war.
As for the role of those consortiums, they did not actually participate in the military's economic and military plunder.
These financial groups were actually plundering all kinds of mineral resources in China. They were conducting resource exploration in the areas controlled by the military. After discovering minerals, they would then mine them.
The military would not only send troops to protect the mining of the various consortiums, but they would also send a steady stream of mining labor to these consortiums. Of course, most of them were prisoners of war and forced labor.
The minerals mined did not belong to these consortiums, but to Fusang. However, these consortiums would have a lot of benefits in the process.
The original resources of Fusang were very scarce. There were not enough mineral resources to develop the military industry.
Therefore, Fusang was desperately trying to transport countless minerals, such as 490 million tons of copper, 200 million tons of rare earth, and 640 million tons of coal. At the same time, they also snatched a large amount of machinery and equipment.
Moreover, this kind of plundering of resources was not only limited to minerals, but also salt mines, forest resources, and human resources.
Because of the soil erosion, the Japanese never cut down the trees in their own country. Instead, they plundered the forest resources from the occupied areas.
However, many of the industrial resources that the Japanese plundered were not transported back to Japan. Instead, they were transported to the northeast for industrial construction (the same was true for Wanwan), especially the arms industry and heavy industry.
By the end of World War II, the industrial output and productivity of the northeast had already surpassed that of Fusang.
In fact, as early as when the Soviets withdrew from the northeast, they dismantled and transported a large number of Fusang industrial production machines.
When the Northeast Field Army entered the Northeast, they also obtained a large amount of Japanese equipment. Many of the cannons used when the Artillery School was first established were pulled from the factory.
The northeast naturally became an industrial base, and the foundation of the northeast was laid during the puppet Manchuria period. The subsequent rise of the Wanwan economy was also inseparable from the foundation laid during the Japanese occupation.
Therefore, if one were to say that defeating the Japanese army on the battlefield was a battle, then it was a war.
Then the resource plundering behind the war was also a war.
The reason why Liu Ze was willing to stay in Shanghai was very simple. Those organizations that were preparing to plunder China's resources were all in Shanghai.
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