At the entrance of the Yamato Hotel, Zhang Tianhao appeared directly outside the door with Qian Chong Wu Teng, holding an invitation in his hand.
The two Japanese spies stood there, looking at the people holding invitations in their hands, and could bring one person into the place, and everyone who entered would be inspected.
"Please show your invitation and proof of identity!"
Zhang Tianhao and Qian Zhongwu Teng didn't say much, but directly took out their identity certificates and invitations and put them in the hands of the guards at the door for them to check.
Zhang Tianhao's identity certificate is also a new one. It turns out that the old one has been replaced by Qian Chong Wu Teng.
"It turns out to be Qianzhong-kun and Mihara-kun. Sorry to bother you, please!"
Speaking fluent Japanese, Zhang Tianhao let the two of them in directly.
When I walked into the hall, I saw that there were already many people in the hall, most of them were bringing beautiful women, only Zhang Tianhao was bringing Qianzhong Wuteng.
But no one would notice him here. After all, there were quite a lot of people in the entire hall, not even a hundred, but maybe fifty or sixty.
As for the waiters, they were already standing aside, or were walking between the guests with plates.
"Hahaha, President Mihara, you are a rare visitor. Please come inside. Please come inside."
At this time, when Kodama's secretary saw Zhang Tianhao and Qianzhong Wuteng, he couldn't help but laughed loudly and walked over, while making a gesture of invitation.
"It turns out to be Mr. Sanzuo, sorry to bother you!"
Zhang Tianhao bowed slightly as a salute, and then walked towards the middle hall.
Kotaro Sanzao, Kodama's secretary, although he is the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, he is also the secretary of the Japanese secret service, mainly in business.
Of course, the treatment of anti-Japanese people is the same as that of other secret service agencies. They all arrest people, interrogate and train them, and there are a lot of them.
Walking into the hall, my eyes swept across the entire hall. It can be said that the men are well-dressed, and the women are as beautiful as flowers, with charming smiles.
Suddenly, Zhang Tianhao's eyes fell on a young woman, and he did not expect that he would meet the Gao family father and son here.
"Why are the father and daughter of the Gao family here?"
A trace of doubt flashed in Zhang Tianhao's eyes, but he was immediately relieved. At least Gao Jinbao and Gao Lanzhi's family still had some status among the gangs in Shanghai.
They were originally wiped out from the human world in history, but they are still alive.
"wrong!"
When the man turned around, Zhang Tianhao discovered that the person with Gao Lanzhi was not Gao Jinbao, but another person, a stranger.
"It looks like I have an extra piece of green on my head, which is really interesting!"
As for Gao Lanzhi, Zhang Tianhao originally offered her a good life in the United States, but she gave up and returned to Shanghai to start her own business as a big sister.
"It seems that we still need to have someone investigate the Gao family. I don't know if Gao Jinbao is dead."
As soon as the thought came to his mind, he immediately gave up this idea and began to look around.
There are also some people he knows here. Of course, most of the people he knows are from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce. He really doesn't know many other Chinese people.
"President, do you want to deal with these Chinese people?"
"No need, they are just tools for us to use. We don't need to deliberately maintain a good relationship with them. As long as there is benefit, they will take the initiative to cooperate with us, instead of us going to them."
"That's right, but President, would you like to meet some people from the Imperial Chamber of Commerce over there? That's Sanyo Sasusu from the Sasusu Chamber of Commerce, that one is Habasaburo from Hajin Yang Company, that one..."
While Qian Chong Wu Teng introduced them, Zhang Tianhao memorized them one by one. After all, he still wanted to memorize some people from the chamber of commerce, at least he might interact with them in the future.
"By the way, Qian Zhongjun, do you know the purpose of this banquet?"
"It is most likely a matter of imposing a material embargo on the Chinese government. After all, only ships from the Empire and other countries can travel on the Yangtze River. Therefore, the Empire wants to control the materials transported to the mainland, especially some important strategic materials."
He explained carefully, and then looked at Zhang Tianhao's face.
But Zhang Tianhao didn't change at all, and instead laughed.
"This doesn't seem to have any impact on us, right?"
"Yes, even if we control transportation, it is only under the control of the army, and we are taking the navy route. They dare not check us on the Yangtze River, even the gendarmerie. It is a pity that 30% of the profits must be handed over to the navy for logistics every year.
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"Haha, Qian Zhongjun, you are overthinking. We cannot make profits as a family. The only way is to make money together. We don't have the ability to eat alone, so this is the best."
"That's true. If Qiandao-kun hadn't been involved, we might have had to hand over 35% of the net profit. Now handing over 30% is pretty good."
The Sanyuan Club founded by Zhang Tianhao has already opened up all the transportation arteries along the Yangtze River. Basically, the safety of their cargo transportation is quite guaranteed.
The only chamber of commerce that values credibility and does not participate in politics.
As for embargoed materials, or prohibited materials, Zhang Tianhao emphasized before that transportation was not allowed at all. Now that Zhang Tianhao has come back to take charge of the overall situation, he has also begun to smuggle a small amount of goods.
Therefore, the transaction amount was not large and did not attract the attention of the Japanese.
After all, not everyone can get through to the Japanese Navy. Now that Zhang Tianhao has gotten through, the other Japanese can only stare, and there is nothing they can do.
Of course, if it is a large chaebol, Zhang Tianhao is still far behind, and the difference is not even a tiny bit.
"By the way, President, a joint chamber of commerce may now be established to further strengthen the control of supplies. We must also be careful when purchasing supplies in the future. For example, salt!"
"Material control, are other foreigners allowed?"
When Zhang Tianhao heard this, he immediately understood that Qian Zhong Wu Teng was reminding him, and he couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
"What can you do if you don't allow it? Unless you buy it from the concession, but the things in the concession are all bought from outside. They don't dare to completely violate the empire. Otherwise, you can believe the life of the people in the concession."
Zhang Tianhao couldn't help but nodded, as if he was in Tianjin. He was going to buy several thousand kilograms of salt to give to Qin Yuxiang, but the last time he went there, he found that he needed an approval slip from the TJ Municipal Government before he could sell it, otherwise it would not be sold at all.
Not for sale.
It's like the previous salt control in Xinjing. Each household is only allowed to buy one catty, and only one catty is allowed to be purchased at one time. I'm sorry if you buy more, you are committing a crime.
"It seems we have to prepare in advance!"
"Yes, the prices of grain, salt, and even coal are rising now. Because it is difficult to transport them, the prices of various materials are rising. And we have transported a large amount of coal through the Heitian Branch in Tianjin, and now there is a steady flow of coal.
We made a lot of money by transporting coal from North China."
"In addition, we also transport a lot of salt from North China. The salt there is much cheaper than here. You can make a lot of money by transporting it here or selling it to others halfway. So, President, don't worry.
I’m worried about the salt. As for the fabric, there’s really nothing I can do about it. Shipping it from North China would be a bit of a loss. It’s better to buy it locally.”
"In addition, our ships basically run in Shanghai, Nanjing, Tianjin, and Hangzhou. We also occasionally run in Wuhan and Chongqing, and we always get a lot of harvest."