A secret military radio station in the French Concession was uncovered, and its personnel surrendered to the secret service headquarters after being captured. This was the first time Chen Mingxiang heard about this.
This is not surprising. He has a single line of contact with the bureau headquarters, and Boss Dai will not tell him that the radio stations directly under the bureau headquarters are not on the same line and must not intersect. This is also a huge threat to Chen Mingxiang.
"Cracking the military radio station, especially a secret radio station directly under the headquarters, is a great achievement. Why is there no news at all?" Chen Mingxiang asked.
"This matter has nothing to do with our operations team. It was the intelligence provided to the secret service headquarters by a young man from the Shanghai Municipal Military Command who rebelled at the end of last year."
"Director Li handed over this task to Ma Xiaotian and Jin Hui from the Telecommunications Department. After confirming the radio signal, the Guard Corps entered the concession to secretly arrest the people."
"He was arrested on the same day, interrogated on the same day, mutinied on the same day, and went back to continue reporting on the same day. It is estimated that the military command headquarters may still be kept in the dark." Zhang Jinlu said.
"This is a radio station secretly ambushed by the Military Command Headquarters. The two people in charge specialize in collecting and buying intelligence. Even the Juntong Shanghai City District does not know the exact location of this radio station, but it is not of high value. They just harvested a set of Military Command Bureau information.
The password is completely different from the one in Shanghai." Lin Zhijiang said.
Chen Mingxiang had nothing to do about this. For such a latent radio station, not being discovered was the greatest protection. Once it was cracked, it would be of little value. There was nothing to be gained from a single-line connection.
Although he felt sad, he had no intention of rescuing. Unless the news was received in advance, no matter whether the two military commanders were true or false rebels, there would be no need to rescue them. Underground work is so cruel.
Wan Lilang seldom spoke. Chen Mingxiang always felt that this guy was his biggest enemy. He seemed to be observing him all the time.
During the time he was lurking in the Shanghai stock market, he was only wary of two people, one was Wan Lilang and the other was Nan Zao Yunzi. The intuition of these two veteran agents was very scary, and he suspected that it was the instinctive reaction of the agents.
The transaction between Huatong Trading Company and the Action Corps went smoothly. Chen Mingxiang handed over two hundred quintals of bristles to the Kodama agency. According to his request, Kodama and Shifu offered a purchase price of eight thousand French currency. Each quintal was net
Earning 2,000 French currency is a profit of 400,000 yuan at a time. Unfortunately, this opportunity is rare.
"Boss Zhang, the purpose of my visit this time is very simple, which is to cooperate with us to produce cigarettes. I am responsible for tobacco leaves and road transportation, you are responsible for production, and I pay you processing fees and packaging fees." Chen Mingxiang came to a small cigarette shop in the concession.
factory.
The total cigarette output in the country during this period was approximately 1.66 million boxes, of which British American Tobacco Company accounted for 67%.
Shanghai is the center of the country's tobacco industry, with more than 60% of the country's cigarette factories concentrated. After the August 13th Battle, the Japanese army invaded areas outside the Shanghai concession, and the cigarette industry in Shanghai suffered great losses.
Thirty ethnic cigarette factories were destroyed one after another.
Some cigarette factories also moved into the concession after the war and continued production. Cigarettes are daily consumables with low profits but high sales.
However, in order to realize their ambition to dominate the Shanghai tobacco market, the Japanese army not only robbed tobacco factory equipment, but also listed tobacco raw materials as controlled items, stipulating that tobacco sales must have a move-out permit, and delayed the application, which caused harm to the national industry of tobacco factories.
It is a huge threat. Japanese-funded enterprises certainly do not have this problem.
"This is a good thing. Of course I agree. Huatong Trading Company is well-known in Shanghai. I know that Manager Chen also has such ability. Three textile factories have been brought back to life in your hands, and tens of thousands of families have been fed and clothed. The Shanghai business community has great respect for you.
But the praise is huge!" Zhang Wenyan, the owner of Zezhong Cigarette Factory, said with joy on his face.
He is a wealthy businessman from Jiangsu Province. Due to the war, he took his family property to seek refuge in the concession. He used to sell tobacco, so he built a few rows of houses in the concession. For more than a year, he did not put up the sign.
It was about to close when Chen Mingxiang suddenly came to visit, which made him unhappy.
"This kind of cigarette uses Xuchang tobacco leaves as its raw material. It has no brand and is divided into three types. One type has the four characters "tegong" on the box, the other has the four characters "tegong" on the box, and the third type has the four characters "tegong" on the box.
"The specific quantity depends on the daily output of your cigarette factory." Chen Mingxiang did not answer the question.
"The cigarette factory has three imported British-style cigarette machines. The output of each cigarette machine is 60,000 cigarettes per hour. If calculated based on 20 packs, that is 3,000 packs of cigarettes. They can be operated around the clock. If there is enough shredded tobacco,
, that is, it can produce 72,000 packs, and the three machines are fully operated to guarantee a minimum of 200,000 pieces per day." Zhang Wenyan said.
The Shanghai Military Police has a strength of 1,000 people. Based on the calculation of 1,000 packs per day, it needs 30,000 packs of cigarettes a month. If you add the same number of cigarettes given to the Marine Corps every month, that is 60,000 packs of cigarettes, which is the output of the cigarette factory in one day.
can meet the needs.
"I transported Xuchang tobacco leaves from Jieshou, and the purchase price per kilogram was about one yuan and a half. It cost one hundred and twenty yuan to transport three tons of tobacco to the Shanghai market, which is equivalent to one yuan and fifty-four cents per kilogram of tobacco leaves. We
What is the cost of finished cigarettes?" Chen Mingxiang asked.
"One ton of cut tobacco can produce about 40,000 packs of 20 sticks, which is equivalent to 40 boxes per kilogram. Tobacco leaves cost more than three cents. With cigarette boxes and artificial electricity, the price will not exceed 10 cents. Now the price is soaring and the legal currency value is huge.
If it falls, we have to spend 15 cents as the cost." Zhang Wenyan said.
This is a logical algorithm. With the depreciation of legal currency and rising prices, workers' wages are basically around thirty-five yuan. Chen Mingxiang remembers that there used to be cheap handmade cigarettes that cost a few cents a pack.
"I will give you 25 cents per box as the cigarette factory's gross income. It must produce at least 100 boxes per month, which is 250,000 packs. If you earn 10 cents per box, that is 25,000.
Yes, but the cigarette case must be exquisite and high-end, can it be done?" Chen Mingxiang asked.
"As long as Manager Chen's tobacco leaves can be supplied, there will be absolutely no problem for me. One hundred boxes will be very easy." Zhang Wenyan said with a smile.
"Thirty thousand packs are for military police tegong, thirty thousand packs are for navy tegong, and 25,000 packs are for internal tegong. A total of thirty boxes. The other seventy boxes should all be marked with the Bund brand. There should be a scene of the Bund on the cigarette box.
." Chen Mingxiang thought for a while and said.
With such a production scale, he has to provide 50,000 yuan per month for this investment, but the profits he earns are definitely more than this amount.
Boss Dai needs to smuggle cigarettes to the Kuomintang-controlled area. He charges 50 cents per pack for 125,000 packs of cigarettes, which is 62,500 yuan. Not only the capital is earned, but there is also profit to be made.
Those affiliated with the Military Command Bureau can sell it for 70 cents or 75 cents. If it works well, it can even be sold for 80 cents or 90 cents. The legal currency is depreciating, so the price will naturally rise. Baidu "Spy Network Jie Zhong Literature"
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