Chapter 208: Business without capital(1/2)
Hong Kong, Eighth Office.
"Old Li, I'm here to turn around. I'll ask what we mean, and see if this business can be done?" Zhang Guan knocked into Lao Li's room with a telegram in his hand.
"Business, my family will introduce us to business?" Lao Li said in surprise. One of the tasks of the Eighth Office of Hong Kong was to accept donations and supplies from overseas Chinese on behalf of the organization.
This is a major source of organizational funding, and every amount of money is very valuable.
"It's still a business that is unsuccessful, it depends on whether we dare to do it." Zhang Guanyi said.
"I'll take a look."
"This business..." Old Li looked at it and couldn't help but think intently. First of all, it must be beneficial to his side, and secondly, the risk is not small.
"What does home mean?"
"Zheng Jiang found various excuses to issue less and stop distributing our funds. If he could have a large amount of funds for purchasing drugs and obtain the same medicine, no matter how risky this matter is, it is worth doing." Zhang Guanyi said.
"What do you mean, let our people disguise themselves as the "Iron Blood Group" and trade with the Military Control Commission?" Lao Li said.
"What's wrong? Even if they make money from the National Military Commission, at least part of them is used on the anti-Japanese soldiers. However, we solved the source of the drug funds and passed on some of the risks to them." Zhang Guanyi said, "And we can use the identity of the Iron Blood Group to carry out activities. With the relationship between the Military Commission, for us, as long as we operate properly, we can gain more."
"Who will be responsible?"
Lao Li thought about it and found that the issue of candidates is very important, especially candidates that the other party can trust.
"Contact Lao Hu and ask if he has any suitable candidate?"
"Okay, he came from the Iron Blood Group. If we want to do this business, we have to find someone who was once the Iron Blood Group, who can trust us and will not be suspected by the Military Commission." Zhang Guanyi said.
“That’s right.”
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Shanghai Bund, Hong Kong Tongheng Bank Branch.
"Jiahui, are you off work?"
"Um."
"Let's go to the movie tonight. There is a movie played by Hu Die. I heard that it's good-looking. Let's go together?" Xiao Xu, the bank's cashier, warmly invited the new Tong Jiahui.
"Oh, no, I feel a little uncomfortable today." Tong Jiahui declined.
"Is that..."
"Yes." Tong Jiahui nodded.
Tongmin Tea House.
"Miss Tong is here, I'll call you the shopkeeper." When the guy saw Tong Jiahui, he immediately greeted him and ran to the back and called someone.
"Comrade Lao Gui, Lao Li is calling." Under Hu Yunzhi's guidance, Tong Jiahui went upstairs and took out a piece of paper from her bag.
Hu Yunzhi took it and looked carefully, and showed a hint of surprise on his face: "Comrade Jiahui, why did Lao Li suddenly send me such a telegram? Is there any special task?"
"I don't know either. I'm only responsible for conveying it. The others are not within my mission scope." Tong Jiahui said.
"Can you use the bank's radio station normally?" Hu Yunzhi asked.
"It's okay during the day, but unless I'm on duty at night, usually, the manager needs to be approved by the radio station." Tong Jiahui said, "but it's not a big problem to copy and receive telegrams."
"Okay, I understand. I have a choice in my mind, but I don't know where he is now. If he can find him, he is very suitable to do this." Hu Yunzhidao.
"You said?"
"Zheng Mao is also a member of the Hutou Gang. He used to contact and keep materials. He is our steward. If he could find him, as far as I know, Zheng Mao is also a sincere person who is committed to revolution." Hu Yunzhi said, "If he could find him, I can talk to him personally."
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Huainan, a brigade of the anti-Japanese guerrillas of the New Fourth Army.
"Old Zheng, the commander of the detachment telegram, let us help inquire about someone..."
"Looking for someone, Lao Jiang, are you not kidding? Find someone to find our brigade. Our brigade is all native local soldiers. How can the commander find someone?" Captain Zheng Hong smiled.
"Listen to me first." Political Commissar Jiang said.
"Okay, you said, you said..."
"The person the commander is looking for is your family, his surname is Zheng, his name is Zheng Mao, and he has participated in the Battle of Shanghai..." said Political Commissar Jiang.
"Wait, Lao Jiang, what did you say? What's this person's name is Zheng?"
"Zheng Mao, this word is quite rare and most people can't recognize it." Political Commissar Jiang suddenly found that his partner's expression was wrong, "Old Zheng, you won't know this person, right?"
"It's not just about knowing me, Lao Jiang, do you know that my real name is Zheng Mao?" Zheng Hong said embarrassedly.
"It's not such a coincidence, right?" Old Jiang stared at the boss with his eyes wide open, looking disbelief.
"I don't know if the Zheng Mao the commander is looking for is the same person as you. If it is the same person, it would be a coincidence." Zheng Hong said.
"Then you hurry up and go to the detachment headquarters to ask, the search is so urgent." Political Commissar Jiang said.
"Okay, I'll leave the matter to you for the time being. Lao Jiang, I'll go to the detachment headquarters." Zheng Hong nodded. The detachment commander was anxious to find this person. There must be something very important and could not be delayed.
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"Deng Hong, if you don't stay with your own troops, you leave the team headquarters without authorization. What are you doing here?" The commander of the detachment questioned when he saw Zheng Hong.
"Commander, I came for this telegram." Zheng Hong took out the telegram and put it on the table and said, "If the person you are looking for is not described incorrectly, it is probably me."
"You, aren't your name Zheng Hong?"
"Yes, my name is Zheng Hong now, but before that, I had another name, Zheng Mao." Zheng Hong explained.
"Do you know someone called 'Military Advisor'?"
"Military advisor..." Zheng Hong, it shouldn't be that Zheng Mao couldn't help but feel a little bitter, nodded, "I know, after Brother Jiu died, he led the Iron Blood Anti-Traits Group in Shanghai, killed the Japanese invaders, and killed the traitors, which made the enemy frightened."
"Since you said you knew each other, that's right. Get rid of it and go to Shanghai. I have a task left to you." The commander said bluntly.
"Now?"
"That's right, but before going there, I will explain some things to you. In a while, someone from the Security Department will explain them to you." said the commander of the detachment.
"Why are you standing there? Why don't you go quickly?"
"Yes, commander." Zheng Mao respected a military salute, turned around and ran out quickly.
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Lu Liankui's funeral was extremely mournful, with the coffin of golden nanmu, the Chinese and foreign police officers supporting the spirits, more than 100 cars were seen off, and monks and Taoists performed great rituals.
However, future glory is just a flash in the pan.
The huge wealth left by Lu Liankui has become a fat man coveted by all parties. In addition to marrying the third wife, he also maintained several dark rooms outside.
The drama of competing for wealthy families is inevitable, which makes newspapers that like to publish gossip news about celebrities have material to write.
Lu Xiyan didn't care about these. What he cared about was that the third ship of medicine was about to arrive. Among this ship of medicine, Meng'an Company increased orders.
Because Meng'an Company opened two large pharmacies in Shanghai and Hong Kong at the same time, it required a large number of conventional drugs.
These conventional drugs are all through formal channels, and of course there are valuable smuggled drugs and medical devices, and medical devices are also within the business scope of Meng'an Company.
Therefore, this batch of goods is the most important.
The total value from drugs to medical devices exceeded 3 million French currency. In addition to investing in the money earned in the early stage, we also borrowed part of the loan from the bank and supported some from Tang Jin.
This batch of drugs and medical devices will be taken away in Hong Kong.
It is worth about 500,000 French dollars, and it is used as a store for Anping Pharmacy in Hong Kong.
Shanghai is the main store, so naturally we need to stockpile more medicines.
The situation in Europe is very delicate. Lu Xiyan took this opportunity to store goods and specially built a medicine warehouse for this purpose.
Once a conflict breaks out on the European continent, the supply from Europe may be less stable.
For this drug purchase, Lu Xiyan spent a lot of money to buy White a plane ticket from Hong Kong to Paris!
He was also hired as the purchasing representative of Meng'an Company, returned to Paris in advance, and ordered various medicines and medical devices needed by Meng'an Company.
Otherwise, this ship of medicine would not have been loaded and shipped back so quickly.
Money is magical, especially for real Westerners. Given what they need most, he can sacrifice his life to help you do things.
He can even help you cut the price for pharmaceutical companies and get a price many times lower than in China.
As long as you can buy low-priced and guaranteed medicines, Lu Xiyan doesn't mind giving White a high salary, and he must be worth the price first.
"The drug cargo ship arrives in Hong Kong tomorrow. Lao Sun has already arranged the arrangements. With the help of Tongheng Bank, the customs declaration procedures will be completed. At that time, you only need to pay taxes to pick up the goods." After dinner, Meng Fanxing went upstairs and said.
"Does our family find a servant? We can't always call Xiaowu and Yan Lei? Besides, they have their own affairs," Lu Xiyan said.
"It's easy to find people, but people's hearts are hard to predict." Meng Fanxing said.
"This is really a troublesome thing to get someone with ulterior motives into the house." Lu Xiyan nodded.
"Yeah, let's look for it slowly."
Lu Xiyan suddenly remembered a person, Gu Xiaobai's wife, that country woman in Suzhou. After Guo Hanjie mentioned that she cooked good dishes and was very diligent.
Gu Xiaobai has been sent to Hong Kong, and his wife and children did not go with him, so he didn't want to live with his wife and children.
To be continued...