"I provide you with five hundred tons of bristles and two thousand tons of tung oil every month. The delivery location is in Anqing. My people are in charge there. I'll tell the Japanese military police in advance and tell them to use your freighter to transport to Shanghai.
Goods, this kind of thing doesn’t happen once or twice.”
"However, these military supplies will not be in the name of Huatong Trading Company. The risk is too high. It can only be said to assist smuggling. For this reason, I need to find a suitable agent in Anhui Province."
"In addition, the crew on the freighter you arrange to pick up the goods in Anqing must be reliable. If this matter comes out, neither the Japanese nor the mountain city government will sit idly by and ignore it, and they will no longer be able to cooperate in the future," Chen Mingxiang said.
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The monthly supply volume is really a lot. After all, it involves a transaction of 600,000 US dollars, which is definitely a huge amount of money at this time. But it also depends on how to compare. For example, tung oil is only produced in one province in Hunan Province.
That’s 600,000 loads. Where does this go?
"Mr. Chen's consideration is very thorough. No wonder the business is so big. In order to ensure long-term cooperation between the two parties, we will definitely choose the right crew members. There is no need to worry about confidentiality. But I don't know when the first transaction can be started?"
Smythe asked.
The bristles collected by the mountain city government are given to the British and American countries in a 20% ratio. Unfortunately, the British only occupy 20% and the United States 10%.
As a British person, Smythe's first consideration is his own motherland. These scarce strategic materials must be transported back to the United Kingdom for use. As for the Americans, they have not encountered a war!
"I will start making arrangements now and strive to ship the first batch of goods by the end of April. I will adjust the transportation plan to the Shanghai stock market in advance and reduce the quantity of goods purchased for the Japanese army, but I cannot reduce it too much. I have to increase purchases locally.
Strengthen your efforts and make deals with other smugglers, this is also a way to ensure your own safety."
"Considering the large volume of these goods, it is best to deliver them multiple times, for example, divided into ten times. During the transportation process, I also mix goods for the Japanese. It is too easy to expose the goods at one time." Chen Mingxiang said.
"Mr. Chen, even if it wasn't during the war, you would have done an outstanding job. A person who pays attention to details will win more opportunities than his opponents," Smyth said.
With the efforts of people in the financial circles in Shanghai and the efforts of major banks in Shancheng government, Li Shiqun finally agreed to release the bank employees who had been raped.
However, he required the arrested employees not to leave the Shanghai market, but to live in a separate branch of the Bank of China. If anything happened, they should inform the supervisors at the secret service headquarters in advance, and everyone must sign a guarantee. If one of them escaped, he would be arrested.
Everyone goes to jail.
"The military commander has really caused enough trouble for me. Lieutenant Commander Qingqi from the Mei Agency called me just now. The Shan Agency is very dissatisfied with the Southeast Trading Company and me. They haven't paid a penny for supplies yet, and Huatong Trading Company
Here, half of the task has been completed." Li Shiqun complained.
"Minister, I remember telling you how to deal with this small matter. The goods worth more than one million yuan are just a drop in the bucket for the entire smuggling in Shanghai. This year's foreign exports exceed last year's and may reach more than three billion French currency.
The space for us to move is very large," Chen Mingxiang said.
The Shan agency was tasked with using counterfeit banknotes to procure supplies for the Japanese army. However, when the quota was issued, only Huatong Trading Company completed the work according to the schedule. Lieutenant Colonel Okada and Seimori Sakata were very dissatisfied with Li Shiqun.
The paralyzed ones are all working for the imperial army. The Southeast Trading Company also enjoys special inspection-free treatment, and the quota is only one-fifth of others. As a result, no action has been taken yet. There is only the Mei Agency in the eyes, not the Shan Agency?
"I have solved it according to your method. In March and April, all the agents at the secret service headquarters used counterfeit banknotes to pay their salaries and reimburse the funds of various departments. Of course what you paid was real currency, but the supplies have not been purchased yet."
"It just feels like it's so cold at high places. There are so many mothers-in-law above my head. My little daughter-in-law is getting angry all day long. Minister Zhou sends me telegrams every now and then about the Central Reserve Bonds. I have to direct the brothers to complete the instructions. The Mei Agency also has
Important work arrangements, I'm not a god!" Li Shiqun complained.
"My subordinates are the ones who are always on guard. They are all old customers we have cooperated with for a long time. I give them counterfeit money as payment for goods. Once discovered, Huatong Trading Company will be finished. How will I explain to the Military Police Headquarters then?
"Chen Mingxiang had a "helpless" expression on his face.
"Lieutenant Colonel Qingqi said that the Shan agency is transporting counterfeit banknotes again. This time the quantity is even more terrifying than last time. The counterfeit banknotes worth 100 million in legal currency have a higher level of imitation than what we used this time. If all of them are put into Chiang Kai-shek District
, that’s a big one!”
"Since you and Huatong Trading Company have allocated a quota of 10 million, when this batch of counterfeit banknotes comes at the end of the month, the agency will not allocate it to you for the time being. We will arrange the task in the second half of the year. Anyway, there are plenty of counterfeit banknotes. We can print ten million banknotes a year."
Billions are no problem."
"But the trouble is, Lieutenant Colonel Qingqi said that the Sugi Agency will continue to allocate 10 million to Southeast Trading Company at the end of the month. I am also worried that the large-scale use of counterfeit banknotes will discredit the company and no one will be willing to do business with me in the future.
There will be a funding problem for the secret service headquarters." Li Shiqun said worriedly.
Is your income affected?
Chen Mingxiang was shocked on the surface when he heard this figure, but he was very calm in his heart. He had expected this situation for a long time, and also gave a special early warning to Boss Dai. It is estimated that the bureau headquarters and the Ministry of Finance of the mountain city government have already taken countermeasures.
The frantic Japanese cannot achieve the results they want by using force, nor can they achieve it by economic means. Even if the counterfeit money succeeds, it will only be a labor pain.
Because the legal currency is depreciating faster and faster, falling almost every month, if it is delayed until the end of the year, it is estimated that 100 million counterfeit notes will not even be able to buy 10 million supplies.
"It is impossible to purchase so many counterfeit banknotes in Chiang Kai-shek's district without problems. After all, the counterfeit banknotes are not genuine, and the secrets are unlikely to be exposed in a short time. However, problems will arise sooner or later if circulated for a long time."
"Director, my subordinates have a method, but the risk is a bit high. I haven't dared to use it yet. The key is that it is not very convenient to operate." Chen Mingxiang said.
"We are all brothers. If you have something to say, just say it. I won't blame you if you say something wrong. There are multiple ideas and multiple ways out. Let's see if we can work around it. I really can't handle so much counterfeit money." Li Shiqun
said.
"When these ten million dollars come, we can simply invest in the black market to cash out. Gold dollars or pounds can be used, and use hard currency to purchase materials from the Chiang Kai-shek area. But doing this will smash the Shanghai financial market and let the Japanese
It’s a big deal to know.”
"Besides, converting ten million into hard currency requires a large number of people to exchange small amounts. I don't have that many manpower, but the director has plenty of people. But I want to remind you that it must not be used unless it is a desperate situation.
