If a bag of chemical fertilizer has to pass through seven or eight hands from the factory to the farmer, one can imagine how much burden the farmer has to bear. This is the inevitable result of supply shortages. Even the People's Party has no good solution; they can only put great effort into supply channels, improving systems, and emphasizing discipline. If some places go too far, they can only make an example of someone to warn others. Fortunately, China is frantically building railways, and the government has also stepped forward to establish logistics enterprises, and allowed private individuals to intervene in the logistics industry. This has barely managed to hold things up.

In order to solve the fertilizer problem from the root, China has invested huge manpower and material resources. The 125,000-ton synthetic ammonia production line has just been completed, and the trial operation of the new 150,000-ton and 200,000-ton production lines has begun. Even a 300,000-ton synthetic ammonia production line has begun design according to plan. Not only synthetic ammonia, but research on nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizers and trace element fertilizers has also received huge investment. China is vowed to solve this shortage situation.

But in Japan, feudal strongholds stand in great numbers, and there is no relatively perfect system to coordinate this matter. After a series of tricks, the Army Ministry has temporarily controlled synthetic ammonia in its hands. The Japanese military does not have the ability of China to invest huge funds and use the scientific research power of the entire industry to promote the synthetic ammonia and fertilizer industries, nor does it have such plans.

The military uses the shortage of chemical fertilizer and the people's desire for chemical fertilizer to divide Japanese farmers, who originally had no status in Japanese society, into different classes. Any family of retired soldiers who supports the military's candidates in the vote can get relatively priority purchasing rights and can get relatively cheap prices. Those who are not from military families but support the military can get second-class treatment. As for those who do not support the military, they can go wherever it is cool.

If the military's approach could really be thoroughly implemented, Kita Ikki would not say anything. According to Kita Ikki's investigation, the facts are completely different from what the military imagined. The military itself is not a unified group, let alone having discipline under a political program. To effectively distinguish who is a supporter of the military, there must be strong grassroots strength at any rate. The military positioned its grassroots strength as soldiers and retired soldiers. This is equivalent to the military completely handing over the grassroots to those people it has enfeoffed. After mastering these enfeoffed powers, these families first consider how to maintain the "privileges" related to chemical fertilizers. The second is to earn benefits through this "privilege".

So, link by link, things of deceiving superiors and deluding subordinates happened naturally. The trading of chemical fertilizers at the grassroots level is chaotic, which runs counter to the slogan of "seeking welfare for farmers" that the military once shouted.

However, the upper echelons of the military do not seem to care. Their pursuit is simple: to ensure that the people designated by the military can be elected in the election. In the eyes of the Army Ministry, synthetic ammonia is a card in the hands of the Army Ministry, a very important card. To make this card work, it must have enough attraction. Maintaining the supply shortage of synthetic ammonia fertilizer is the best way to increase the influence of this industry. Although the Army Ministry hates zaibatsu and merchants, their practice is no different from the unscrupulous merchants of monopoly groups.

By drawing a circle on the ground to make a prison to divide a region, and then using what they have in their hands to coerce others. Because the productivity of the feudal system in agricultural countries is not developed enough and the scope of transactions is not large enough, there is still a tiny bit of "warmth". The feudal system in industrial countries completely displays the most brutal side of the feudal system.

For the benefit of small groups, people, please go and suffer! For the benefit of small groups, people who refuse to attach themselves to this group, please go and die! In order to climb to the peak of enfeoffed power, any means is not a problem.

Kita Ikki has despaired of such a military.

Compared with the military, the current Japanese Prime Minister Takahashi Korekiyo is considered a true "capitalist roader" in Japan. Capitalism is certainly more advanced than the feudal system, but it is not much more advanced. Not to mention that Japan's capitalist system is far from the true capitalist system.

Kita Ikki is at any rate a member of the Tokyo local assembly. The commune under his command has expanded a lot of land by relying on the initial influence of chemical fertilizers. Intensive management has greatly improved the labor efficiency of the commune, making it more powerful than other small-scale operators in Japan. In addition, the chain industries opened by Kita Ikki also have the scale effect of integrated production, supply and marketing, so Kita Ikki has become the target of attack by many forces. Farmers accuse Kita Ikki of bullying people with power, and merchants attack Kita Ikki for selling at low prices and dominating the market. Even gang members are opposing Kita Ikki because Kita Ikki supports Takahashi Korekiyo's actions to strengthen public security and crack down on gangs.

As for the political efforts of "50% tax" launched by Kita Ikki in Japan, it ended without a disease under the forced suppression of the government. It is absolutely impossible for the government to reduce the people's taxes. They will only ever feel that the tax revenue is not enough.

In short, Kita Ikki serves as the focus of opposition from many opponents. Gathering all kinds of vices and shortcomings, according to the needs of different people, Kita Ikki's image has been molded into "socialist", "unconscionable big merchant", "gangster", "anti-gangster", "dignitary", "anti-government thug"...

Kita Ikki does not care much about these criticisms and even abuse. The situation he faces only makes Kita Ikki more determined in his revolutionary attitude. Without a thorough destruction, there can absolutely be no new Japan.

Therefore, when Takahashi Korekiyo asked Kita Ikki about the news that the Chinese side had agreed to sell old machine tools, although Kita Ikki knew that the People's Party must have a conspiracy in it, he did not mention this matter at all. He just asked seriously: "Does Your Excellency Takahashi have any concerns?"

Takahashi Korekiyo indeed had concerns. He once hoped to imitate China's "Tech Tree Plan", but the current situation in Japan made Takahashi Korekiyo realize that this method could not be implemented in Japan. So Takahashi Korekiyo wants to promote industrial cartels. Since Japan's main enterprises are small enterprises, it is better to form their own organizations by a series of independent enterprises producing similar products, producers acting collectively, so that they can control their output. As for the pricing problem of production enterprises, Takahashi Korekiyo hopes that the government can give a guiding price. This also connects well with Japan's traditional guild system. Moreover, this can also allow SMEs and large enterprises to have a bargaining mechanism, so as not to let large enterprises dominate alone.

In order to improve the strength of SMEs as much as possible so that they have certain ability when bargaining with large enterprises, Takahashi Korekiyo took great pains to import old machine tools from China. He originally thought that China would disagree or set up obstacles, but he didn't expect things to develop far more smoothly than imagined. The Chinese side actually agreed. Having solved the source of old machine tools, Takahashi Korekiyo began to feel embarrassed about how to distribute these machine tools.

Takahashi Korekiyo is very clear about the shenanigans that synthetic ammonia enterprises have made under the control of the military. But Takahashi Korekiyo doesn't want to manage so much. Firstly, the military has some of its own things to do, so they can cause less trouble elsewhere. Secondly, Takahashi Korekiyo at any rate kept a hand, controlling some synthetic ammonia production lines in the hands of the state. These synthetic ammonia production lines serve the industry, which finally guarantees the needs of the industrial sector. The military gang is certainly unreasonable, but the military and the zaibatsu are in a hostile position. The presence of the military can also deter those domestic zaibatsu.

But how to use these old Chinese equipment, Takahashi Korekiyo still is unsure. Whether to distribute to Japan's SMEs or simply establish new state-owned enterprises, this makes Takahashi Korekiyo indecisive.

Distributing to SMEs seems good, but God knows how SMEs will handle these equipment. Now it is not easy for SMEs to survive. If they sell these equipment to raise funds, it would be better to sell them directly to large enterprises. As for setting up state-owned enterprises, this is easy to say. But if state-owned enterprises cannot find excellent persons in charge, it is still a waste. In addition, establishing state-owned enterprises directly will naturally snatch away part of the orders of the zaibatsu, and the zaibatsu cannot turn a blind eye to this.

After stating his worries, Takahashi Korekiyo asked: "I wonder how Kita-kun views this matter?"

Kita Ikki believes that neither road will have any good results. The current situation in Japan is an extreme lack of consumption power. The means of production in Japanese society are fully privatized. The more production capacity is expanded, the worse the situation becomes. If no sales outlet can be found, producing more means more funds are tied up in the production field. Money is all in these production and investment fields, where will the people have money to consume?

"Your Excellency Takahashi, let's just do it according to your own decision. Many times experience is more accurate." Kita Ikki replied, "But the most important thing lies in elimination. Enterprises that adopt new equipment must eliminate old equipment."

Just when Takahashi Korekiyo and Kita Ikki were talking about the allocation of machine tools, whether it was the Army Ministry or the major zaibatsu. Although these two major forces did not communicate with each other, they both reached the same idea, "We must not let Takahashi Korekiyo succeed! These equipment must be controlled by the military (enterprises)!"