GBP Chapter 338 Zhang Chi: I will launch a cultural offensive in White Eagle
Chapter 338 Zhang Chi: I will launch a cultural offensive in White Eagle
Unfortunately, Commander Luo is not a prophet, so he naturally cannot predict what will happen in a few years.
Therefore, from the perspective of geopolitics rather than ideology, he sees the Republic of China, with its vast territory and large population, as a natural ballast for regional security.
This is also why he was willing to promise before to give the Republic of China a seat as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations to be established.
He even expressed regret for not being able to fully control and reorganize the White Party's army.
Because he knew very well that as long as the Republic of China existed and did not completely turn to the Russian bear in the north, it would not matter even if it had some flirtations with the north.
After discussions between Commander Luo and his core think tank, they all believed that the huge domestic market would definitely belong to White Eagle in the future, so their discussion quickly turned to Europe.
It could be said that, with the exception of the outlier Zhang Chi, everyone in the world had to admit that Europe was the core of the world. Compared to that, everything that happened in Asia was secondary.
Even Commander Luo was mainly thinking about how to take advantage of the opportunity of the White Eagle soldiers setting foot on the territory of the European continent again, to grasp the core of this world in his hands and obtain the "mandate of heaven" for the United States.
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However, while General Luo still placed Asia in a secondary direction, the United States had already started a new propaganda campaign about "Chinese culture" under Zhang Chi's layout.
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Various news and special reports began to appear in various newspapers and magazines.
Even in the comic "Super Watson vs. Tokyo Zombies," the white protagonist has a Chinese supporting character who pulls out a magical gadget, with a voiceover box saying, "This is an improved version of Zhang Heng's seismograph. It can find all the zombies!"
Through Yegorov, Zhang Chi secretly controlled or influenced newspapers and magazines, and covert propaganda began to appear continuously.
On the surface, this was an effort to promote the United States' allies thousands of miles away by using the slogan of jointly fighting the Japanese invaders and avenging the young men who died in Pearl Harbor. But in reality, it was gradually and subtly introducing Chinese culture to the American people.
It is said that if you want to eliminate disputes, you must understand each other.
Zhang Chi knew very well that the cultural image of China in the minds of the Baiying people was the image of "Fu Manchu" with squinty eyes, a pig tail, and being insidious and cunning.
In the future, Chinese people will naturally not have a say in international propaganda, but will easily be smeared as villains.
Of course, it is not realistic to let Chinese people be the protagonists in Western comics and novels right from the start. Zhang Chi had to let Chinese people appear as main supporting roles, such as the hermit, the old man in the ring and other positive images.
Anyway, with the completion of the large loan and the restoration of the shipping route, Pegu has been continuously transporting rubber, ore and other raw materials to White Eagle. For the first time, Zhang Chi felt that the money he had at his disposal seemed to be endless.
He even began to understand why in his previous life, in Little John Khan's series of bizarre small countries, there were so many "anthropomorphic" "benevolent kings" who could easily embezzle more than a country's GDP.
The temptation is really too great!
So Zhang Chi simply focused on spending money, and with the entertainment and business methods of decades later, he began to invest crazily in White Eagle.
The most important and largest investment is in the retail department store industry.
Nearly 20 years before Walmart, Zhang Chi asked Yegorov to establish a chain of retail department stores with a unified supply chain - New Era Department Store in White Eagle, Arkansas and Kentucky.
Taking advantage of the end of the war rationing system, New Era Department Store emerged with 21st-century marketing methods and a large number of products that did not require rationing points.
As for why some of the products sold by New Era Department Store do not require allocation points?
Zhang Chi could only say that Commissioner Smith was really awesome.
Next, relying on Yegorov's good friendship with Texas oil tycoons, New Era Department Store began to rapidly expand into the Texas market.
The brand of New Era began to quietly invade the daily lives of every local White Eagle resident.
As for Zhang Chi's ultimate goal, it is naturally to push New Era Department Store to the entire White Eagle and take the opportunity to control the upstream chain of some commodities.
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On an autumn day in 44, the Pickard family's pre-war Chevrolet Special Deluxe sedan was bumping along Route 66 in Arkansas.
Ten-year-old Billy pressed his face against the car window, watching the giant billboards on the roadside flash by.
"Dad, look, it's the Security Army!" Billy shouted excitedly.
On the billboard, a People's Army soldier wearing a conical hat filled with branches and a jungle camouflage combat uniform is arm in arm with a White Eagle Marine carrying a Springfield rifle. Below, in red Gothic letters, it reads, "The Eastern Allies Need the War Bonds You Purchase!"
Father Johnson glanced up and quickly focused his attention back on Route 66:
"Thank God for our allies in the East..."
Billy obviously had no idea what his father Johnson was talking about; he was just at that age where he was curious about all new things.
Instead, his mother followed his father's words and made the sign of the cross on her chest.
The rusty car door creaked with the bumps, and the War Ration Manual piled on the back seat was shaken and slid to the feet of her sister Emily.
"Sister, why does Daddy want to thank the Anmin Army?"
Sister Emily picked up the ration manual and began to explain patiently to her brother.
It turned out that after the Pearl Harbor incident, with the complete destruction of transportation to Southeast Asia, almost the entire world was plunged into war. General Luo signed the "Emergency Price Control Act" in January 1943, and then implemented a food rationing system starting in the spring, which was divided into a red dot and blue dot points system.
In addition to food, strategic materials such as gasoline and tires were also rationed.
The most important of these are tires. As Nanyang fell completely under the control of the Japanese, all rubber in the White Eagle country was naturally used for military purposes first, and civilian car tires were naturally sold at sky-high prices on the black market.
White Eagle, a country that had 30 million cars on the road in the 3100s before the war and could be said to have grown on car tires, has seen its private transportation fall into a complete depression.
Even automobile companies like Ford were pulled into producing B-24 bombers and tanks.
Even wealthy families like the Pickard family, whose father is a senior electrical engineer, have to live a "hard life" where they usually rely on bicycles and buses to travel, can only eat steak twice a week, and only eat 28 eggs a week.
(According to the information, the White Eagle people have never experienced hard times. What the city people call hard times is that they can't eat steak and can only eat pig's trotters, pig liver and bacon.)