I was a tycoon in World War I: Starting to save France - Chapter 680

As Djoka said, the smooth implementation of the “war-time rationing system” is more important than winning a battle.

For Charles, the undefeated god of war, a victory is just an increase in the record. The military and civilians have become accustomed to it and nothing has changed.

However, a series of operations of the “wartime rationing system” have hit domestic capitalists with a severe blow that they completely lost control of their materials.

When necessary, Shire can even “fake public and private”.

The landing supplies were counted by the Navy controlled by Charles. With a word from Charles, a certain or even several merchant ships would be selectively ignored by the Navy.

After getting ashore, these materials will not be included in the treasury, and they can become “invisible materials” controlled by the Charles at will.

Military supplies, disabled soldiers, military families… Charles can bring out a large number of supplies to win people’s hearts at any time, and bribing parliamentarians is no problem.

More importantly, Charles used this incident to test the French people’s tolerance for “dictatorship”.

To put it bluntly, this wartime rationing system is that Shire holds the power of life and death with one hand.

Wartime supplies are everything, and it can determine the life and death of everyone, including the frontline troops.

The materials in Charles’ hands rather than being decided by the parliament is to some extent the realization of Charles’ “dictatorship”.

People in France are very disgusted with “dictatorship” and even habitually oppose it.

The parliament also set up defenses on this layer by layer, and repeatedly tried to weaken Charles at the risk of defeat.

But now…

Shire successfully created an atmosphere: if power is not handed over to Shire, there will be danger, the people will go hungry, the military and civilians will riot, and the country will perish.

In the end, in order to save the country, Charles had to take the lead in this crisis and become the only one who controlled the materials.

The whole process is silky and natural, and many people don’t even feel “dictatorship”.

The mentality of the French military and civilians unknowingly changed from “dictatorship against all situations” to “firmly support Charles’ dictatorship.”

But they didn’t feel it.

Djoka knew Shire, and he knew very early on that Shire’s ultimate goal was to defeat domestic capitalists and reach the peak of power.

Now, Charles can be considered to have taken shape.

It was hard to imagine that Djoka sighed in his heart that it took less than two years.

Djoka has always thought this was impossible, and suddenly realized that he was only one step away from success, and he couldn’t even believe that all this was true.

Charles did not go into this topic.

He knew that under the French system, it was the best choice to do it without pointing it out, because it would make people think it was their choice, not Charles’s.

Just like the “wartime rationing system”.

It is to hand over power to Shire under the voices and support of people, not what Shire thought.

Shire opened another document and asked casually: “How is the business in the United States going?”

“It’s very smooth!” Djoka nodded, his eyes gradually turning from gratitude to confusion: “You seem to have known what will happen long ago?”

Charles pretended to be confused: “What happened?”

Djoka turned the desktop file back two pages and said:

“You put the Galand rifle into the people at half price.”

“They were immediately empty and finally appeared on the black market, with prices doubled or even tripled!”

Charles calmly echoed: “Is that true?”

“Yes.” Djoka nodded and said, “You don’t know how popular this rifle is, and you can’t imagine who the main force to buy it?”

Shire shrugged, saying he knew nothing.

“It’s a gangster, an American gangster.” Djoka had an incredible smile on his face: “I thought Americans would use this rifle to hunt, but I didn’t expect that they would use it to equip gangsters.”

As he said that, Djoka turned the document down two pages:

“Look at this. In one month, there were eight fierce battles in New York gangs, which were large-scale fierce battles in the case.”

“Two of the gangs were eliminated in the battle. The United States dispatched police to try to stop them, but was beaten to death and injured by more than 70 people and fled.”

“Then they dispatched the army, but the army was equally powerless to stop it.”

There is no need to say more about what will happen next.

Gangs equipped with “Galand” rifles will experience the phenomenon of “big fish eating small fish” and will expand rapidly in a short period of time.

There is also a detailed record of one thing in the file:

The US military sent a tank unit that Colonel Johnson used for the experiment, but was still beaten to a terrible surprise.

The gangsters learned to suppress the firepower of the US military with three “Galand” alternate shooting methods, which made the US infantry unable to emerge.

However, the tanks entered the city for street fighting, but it was difficult to exert firepower, and the tracks were blown off by explosives in just a few seconds.

In this battle, the US military lost two valuable tanks and suffered more than 40 soldiers.

The gangs beat the army to death and heavy casualties!

Colonel Johnson shouted in anger on the phone: “Compared with their rifles, the weapons in our hands are garbage! If we don’t stop this, we will be the only country to be seized by the gang!”

That night, Colonel Johnson found Joseph: “You must stop selling this rifle!”

“This is a bit difficult, Colonel!” Joseph frowned: “We said when signing the contract before, allowing us to sell light weapons freely on the market, which are obviously light weapons.”

Colonel Johnson swallowed helplessly:

“Yes, they are indeed light weapons.”

“But, you see, it has caused extraordinary chaos in New York, and it is spreading to other cities.”

“The speed is so fast that we can’t stop it!”

Joseph was indifferent: “It has nothing to do with us, Colonel…”

“It’s not good for you, Mr. Joseph.” Colonel Johnson said in a slight threatening tone: “Are you not worried that the gang will occupy your arsenal?”

Joseph turned his eyes to the factory and spread his hands: “Unless the gang has the ability to produce, they may even maintain the entire production line.”

Colonel Johnson thought it was right.

The gang can buy “Galand” from the arsenal at half price, and sell it at a loss.

What is the point of gangsters occupying the arsenal?

Get the gun at a more expensive price, but it is still impossible to maintain it?

One day, the arsenal did not sell weapons and bullets to them, but to their opponents, and the gang’s death came.

Therefore, no one dares to offend the arsenal if the gang offends.

“Okay!” Colonel Johnson said helplessly: “We will buy all your rifles, sir!”

However, Joseph replied: “Unfortunately, it has increased, Colonel, now it is twice the price!”

Colonel Johnson was stunned and was about to get angry, but Joseph interrupted him: “The price has been sold on the black market three times, I want to…”

Listening to this, Colonel Johnson lost his temper instantly.