Reborn Brazil as a Plutocrat

When Fang Lang boarded the House early the next morning, his head was still groggy when he left Okinawa. Fortunately, the Okinawa waters are now Allied territory, and the Japanese are not what he wants to encounter.

Arrived.

In fact, the straight-line distance between Okinawa and Hangzhou Bay is only about 900 kilometers. If the House goes directly to Hangzhou Bay at the maximum speed of 35 knots, it will only take less than 20 hours to arrive.

Of course, the ship cannot always sail at the highest speed. Therefore, the House has been sailing westward at a speed of twenty knots. Fang Lang's target is not the mainland, because if it gets too close to the land, it will enter the attack range of the Japanese aviation.
Although Japan is currently short of fuel, it still has oil reserves in the country. The Japanese are now trying every means to transport strategic materials such as fuel to Japan.

These transport ships are Fang Lang's attack targets. It's not that Fang Lang doesn't want to attack Japan directly, but if he foolishly sails a ship and attacks Japan alone, he will basically end up like Don Quixote.

War is not a street fight, and one cannot act recklessly. Fang Lang ordered the Hope to take the lead in cruising along the route from Shanghai to Nagasaki. He was searching for ships in the East China Sea that might be heading from Taiwan to Japan.

I don’t know if the Japanese navy was really beaten down. For three days, the two warships found nothing. This made Fang Lang very angry. He secretly came late. It seems that little Japan was really beaten down.<

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After asking for instructions from the Fifth Aircraft Carrier Fleet, Fang Lang began to shift targets. He ordered the Hope 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 forward in the direction of Shanghai, hoping to test whether the Japanese Army Aviation would send military planes to attack him for his warship.

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

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But not to mention Japanese planes, not even a Japanese ship was encountered. This made Fang Lang very angry. He traveled thousands of miles to come and fight with you, but you didn't even show up. This made me very embarrassed.

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

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

If Japan's heavy artillery fires a shot, the gain outweighs the loss. After all, Shanghai is not Japan, and it is impossible for Fang Lang to attack Shanghai. The firepower of Fang Lang's destroyer cannot reach the Japanese.

The result was unexpected. The Japanese were like blind people, indifferent to the approach of the House. Just when Fang Lang cursed the Japanese for being cowardly on the House.

The Hope brought good news from the Korean Strait and sank a transport ship from North Korea to Japan. It also made contact with the American submarine that was performing a blockade mission in the Korean Strait, and played with the wolf pack invented by the Germans.

Tactics.

This made Fang Lang very hurt. For the first time, he really wanted to own an aircraft carrier, so that he would not be in an embarrassing situation like now.

Similarly, Fang Lang also saw the weakness of the Japanese from this situation. Fang Lang never imagined that the Japanese would let the House approach such a close distance without doing anything.

Fang Lang simply refused to do anything and began to blockade the sea outside Shanghai. He didn't believe that the Japanese really didn't escape.

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

It owns steel companies and shipyards across the United States, Britain, Germany, and Italy. Although the scale of the steel plants 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 officially have the qualifications to enter the steel market and shipbuilding market.

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

This project has received great attention from the Brazilian government, the Brazilian military, and the Sao Paulo city government. For the first time, the Brazilian Circle Group has appeared in the eyes of Brazilian politicians and the Brazilian people.

The Brazilian Navy and the Brazilian Expeditionary Force directly came forward to support Fangyuan Group. This company, which had just been established in Brazil, became a household name in one day and appeared on the front pages of major Brazilian newspapers.

It even shocked the tumultuous Brazilian political scene. 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 the United States 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 by providing an interest-free loan of US$10 million for Brazil to build a steel plant in Rancho Volta.

It marks that Brazil has officially abandoned Germany and joined the American camp. From this, we can see how much influence a modern steel plant will have on the Brazilian government.

In fact, to outsiders, the so-called joint venture negotiations seemed to have gone through repeated negotiations, and even attracted large capital in Brazil to want to take a share. Unfortunately, they did not know that all this was just a show.

Therefore, Brazil’s large domestic capital is destined to gain nothing.

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

Fang Lang was naturally very happy when he received the news, which relieved the depression he had been feeling for the past few days.

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

However, when the other party entered the visual range of the lookout post, they discovered that it turned out to be a wooden fishing boat. This made the crew of the House decide to be bored and thought that the Japanese were attacking in a wooden fishing boat.

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Just as he was about to aim at the opponent and kill him with one shot, Fang Lang suddenly remembered that this time his sixth sense didn't seem to sense any hostility!

Instead, he ordered the boatswain and ten soldiers to drive a traffic boat and go up to confirm the situation. Don't wait until it's the fishermen who will be 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 and hoped 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!"

The two of them saw the soldiers who brought them here, including a few yellow men and a black man, and they felt like they were in a panic. When they got closer, they saw that the military flag on this warship was something they had never seen before, and they were wondering.

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I was even more stunned when I heard an officer opposite ask in Chinese. The older man, who looked to be about fifty years old, took the initiative and said:

"Sir, are you an allied army?"

Listening to the other person's voice, he was obviously much younger! This made Fang Lang couldn't help but look at the man opposite him more carefully. He turned around and asked the bosun in a low voice:

"Have you searched me?"

I thought to myself, don’t wait until two Japanese spies come to assassinate me at close range, it will be embarrassing.

The bosun nodded.

Fang Langcai replied:

"We are Allied warships, who are you?"

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

"Sir, you speak Mandarin very 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. I am very happy to meet you."

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

Don't wait until the Japanese take advantage of it, and you'll be in big trouble.

"Do you have evidence?"

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

Fang Lang understood what he meant. He just shook his head without saying anything. A soldier stepped forward and groped along where the man was pointing. He soon found a hard object. He took it out and inspected it.

Then handed it to Fang Lang.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be an identification document, which roughly means that the national army sent two personnel from the Military Intelligence Bureau to board the ship to discuss a joint attack on the Japanese army, and hereby certify it.