- >>->"Ono-kun, you are my best friend in the Japanese Navy. You have helped me a lot in the past few years. Since this matter is related to your future, I will do my best to help you. I will give you
Four thousand pieces of cotton cloth can be handed over to you tonight." Chen Mingxiang said.
"That's great. I will notify the finance department immediately to send you the payment. I will take someone to the warehouse to receive the goods in the evening. Chen Jun, thank you for your help!" Lieutenant Colonel Ono stood up excitedly.
The cotton cloth and yarn market in Shanghai has always been controlled by the army, and he also knew that Chen Mingxiang didn't have much inventory. Even the textile factories in Suzhou were half-dead. It was not easy to produce so much goods at one time.
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"Ono-kun, my guards want to increase their firepower. I heard that the Marine Corps has hundreds of submachine guns developed by the empire. Can you get me a few? I also need to take some measures for my own safety. I don't have room for firearms.
Come on, I need your help." Chen Mingxiang asked.
The Type 100 submachine gun was produced by Japan in the 39th year of the Republic of China. Its appearance is similar to the German MP-18 submachine gun. It uses eight millimeter bullets and is common with the Southern Type 14 pistol.
The magazine capacity is 30 rounds and 50 rounds. It is equipped with a bayonet and a bipod. The current length is 102.5 centimeters and the effective range is 120 meters. The output is not very large.
This type of submachine gun is basically being tested by the Army. The troops participating in the test are in the South Pacific battlefield, and the Marine Corps is also equipped with a small number of them. It is not a standard weapon.
"Hundred-type submachine guns are not widely equipped with the Shanghai Marine Corps. Fortunately, your guards are not large in number. I can think of a way to give you a few. When they captured the concession, the Marine Corps confiscated a batch of weapons.
There is nothing very good, but there are quite a few Browning pistols and revolvers. Our Marine Corps has no need for these weapons, so I will pick a batch of better ones and give them to you." Ono Zhongsao thought for a while and said.
He was not lying. There were indeed not many Hundred Type submachine guns, just a few hundred. Facing the huge number of Marines, they could not be equipped as standard, and they were even left in the warehouse without anyone using them.
According to the thinking of the Japanese army, if a problem can be solved by one bullet, why use several bullets to complete it? It is a pure waste of resources. Therefore, the Baishi submachine gun is positioned as a small light machine gun.
This transaction did not go through the Kodama agency to pay for the goods, so there was no need to pay dividends to Kodama and Shifu, so Chen Mingxiang gave Ono Lieutenant Colonel four hundred and fifty dollars per piece of cloth as a thank you, but the other party only received two dollars per piece.
One hundred dollars.
There are different needs at each stage. At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Ono is most concerned about his military rank, and money is secondary. No soldier does not want to be a general, and so is he. The gap between Lieutenant Colonel and general is too far, so there is hope for Colonel
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After attending the Six-Nation Meeting, Wang Jingwei returned to Jinling on the evening of the 7th, and held an emergency meeting on the morning of the 8th. In response to the current situation in the Shanghai stock market, he formulated a so-called "Measures for the Investigation and Seizure of Cotton Cloth and Cotton Yarn", which stipulated that all
Cotton fabrics sold without permission are not allowed to be broken into parts and sold privately. Violators will have the goods confiscated and be punished.
"Director Chen, the market in Shanghai is quite clean, but many black markets for cotton cloth have emerged in many places. A large number of cotton cloth merchants have turned their targets underground. Some registered goods have also experienced inconsistent quantities. I hope
The police station can severely crack down on this kind of thing and cannot continue to let it go." Nie Lusheng came to the police station again.
After receiving an official document from the Jinling government, Chen Mingxiang ordered the police to dispatch all the cloth shop stalls and evacuate them, so that there would be no goods on the market.
But the cotton cloth merchants could not sit back and watch themselves suffer losses, so they joined forces to run a black market in cotton cloth and continued to sell cotton cloth to external parties. The cotton gauze purchase office had to come to Chen Mingxiang to discuss that Huatong Trading Company was a public acquisition.
"Director Nie, the police department is not your servant of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who comes and goes when called upon. We only do things according to official government documents. Anyway, the task can no longer be completed, so you don't have to worry anymore.
, be careful of angering your colleagues and causing trouble for yourself."
"As far as I know, your Chamber of Commerce and Industry has purchased a large amount of cotton gauze from the cotton gauze office. You have emptied the warehouses of major gauze mills, textile mills, cotton shops and cloth stores in Shanghai. There are no registered ones.
There are only a few goods, so digging three feet into the ground would be pointless." Chen Mingxiang looked indifferent.
"Director Chen, of course we are not willing to pursue the case. The so-called compulsory acquisition method is well known to everyone. However, this phenomenon was published in Japanese newspapers. The Ministry of Industry of the Jinling government issued a document today asking the Chamber of Commerce and Unification
There is nothing we can do to severely crack down on the cotton black market!"
"The Federation of Cloth Sellers actually has no objections. They are all colleagues. But since the Japanese want to trace them, they have to take action to deal with it. Everyone means that they can at least communicate." Nie Lusheng said with a wry smile.
Chen Mingxiang immediately understood that these people in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry were also feeling the pressure and were unwilling to break up with their colleagues. This time they were checking the cotton black market, just to perform errands. Even the regulatory agencies had this attitude. It can be imagined that Wang
How far has the pseudo-government gone?
"It's not impossible. As long as the Chamber of Commerce and Industry provides funds, the police department will be able to talk. In this way, you first print a batch of promotional materials. I want the police stations in each region to post them and carry out a crackdown. The daily subsidy cannot be less. It must be
How about giving me money for a meal and a pack of cigarettes?" Chen Mingxiang said.
"We can give funds to the police station, but there are more than 16,000 police officers in the city. We can't afford it on a per-capita basis. In this way, we will print promotional materials and notices. There are 14 sub-bureaus in the old French Concession.
Five branches allocated a one-time allocation of 1.9 million China Reserve Certificates to carry out operations for ten days. Isn't this outrageous?" Nie Lusheng said.
Ordinarily, such a subsidy is a bit outrageous. It does not follow the certification procedures. The police department is originally obliged to assist the work of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It should apply to the city government, and the city government will request the police department to perform its tasks. This is normal.
process.
Doing this now is equivalent to giving each branch bureaus 10,000 yuan of China Reserve coupons a day, which adds up to a total of 190,000 yuan a day.
Of course, although the number sounds astonishing, the total establishment of these dozen police stations is nearly 8,000 people. Based on the subsidy of 10 yuan per person per day, that is 80,000 yuan, which is really not very high.
Ten yuan in savings certificates is not even enough to eat a simple meal on the street. It is enough to buy a pack of cigarettes. Besides, no one in the Wang puppet government dares to provoke Chen Mingxiang, the police chief. The money was given to the police station.
