Chapter four hundred and thirty seventh well-intentioned
The reason why Chen Mingxiang wanted to acquire silk reeling and silk weaving factories in Suzhou and Hangzhou was not simply to make money, but also to protect local mulberry farmers, silkworm farmers and part of the silk weaving industry.
For Japan, the silk weaving industry is the main source of fiscal revenue and plays a very important role. The oppression and plundering of China's occupied areas is naturally even heavier.
First, Huazhong Silk Co., Ltd. took over 129 silkworm breeding farms in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions and dumped Japanese silkworm seeds. However, the varieties provided by Japan were all obsolete varieties. As a result, silkworm farmers suffered huge losses and their output continued to increase.
Decline.
Secondly, the Huazhong Silk Co., Ltd. exercises control over the cocoons in the occupied areas. Before the Anti-Japanese War, the purchase price for a hundred kilograms of cocoons was four hundred French dollars, but the current purchase price offered by the Japanese is only eighty French dollars.
Cut off eighty percent.
In this way, only one-third of the purchase price was paid in cash, and the rest was issued as promissory notes to be cashed after the cocoons were reeled into raw silk and sold.
A large number of silk reeling and silk weaving factories in Suzhou and Hangzhou went bankrupt, and a large number of silkworm farmers and mulberry farmers went bankrupt. China's silk weaving industry was fatally damaged.
Chen Mingxiang knew that he did not have the ability to change all this, but he believed that he could do something within his power. On the one hand, he bought bankrupt factories and gave workers who had mastered the skills a living, and on the other hand, he loaned money to mulberry farmers and silkworm farmers to restore raw materials.
production capacity.
Before the Anti-Japanese War, there were 2,300 electric looms and 3,000 hand looms in Suzhou, but now there are only 500 electric looms and 1,000 hand looms registered, either because they were destroyed by the war or stopped.
production.
Chen Mingxiang's silk reeling factory and textile factory account for one-third of the currently registered machinery in Suzhou. This fact also made the Huazhong Silk Co., Ltd. jealous, and they continued to sue him.
If he wants to withstand the huge pressure from the Japanese chaebol, he needs strong support from the Japanese military. Therefore, he not only has to give red envelopes to these powerful Japanese officers, he also has to use part of the proceeds as dividends in order to get
Asylum from the Qingxiang Committee.
His factory does not pay any fees, that is, water, electricity, materials and labor, which are called cost expenses, and the rest is all profit.
The sales price of each piece of silk is 5,000 French currency, and 60% is cut off as the cost of the silk weaving and reeling mills. Based on the net profit of 2,000 French currency, if 2,000 pieces are produced in a month, that is 4 million French currency.
Chen Mingxiang had previously promised to give Li Shiqun and Qingqi Zhongzuo a 40% dividend, and sales were in his hands. When doing accounting, the maximum amount could be two million French currency.
The four-percent dividend is 800,000 French currency, and the military police are given another 200,000 French currency, which means half of the profits on the books are gone. These greedy and shameless guys should be satisfied.
"No wonder you are doing so well in our Imperial Japanese Military Police system. Mr. Chen is really generous in his work. I am very satisfied with the remuneration." Norifu Shigeto said with a smile.
Of the 200,000 francs, he was able to put 150,000 francs into his pocket, and the rest was distributed to the military police and military officers as subsidies. At present, the area where Qingxiang is being implemented is very small, and the number of Japanese military police is only eighty.
Xianzuo only has more than 200 people, so 50,000 yuan is enough.
"This is only for the Military Police on the surface. I will give the Colonel one hundred thousand legal currency per month as a relationship fee to help me maintain the normal operation of the factory. Huazhong Silk Co., Ltd. often troubles me, and there are some things that require your intervention.
solve."
"In addition, the telephone lines between Suzhou and Shanghai are often blocked, and the telephone lines are easily damaged by guerrillas. I need the colonel to give me a radio station and put it in my office to facilitate communication with Shanghai." Chen Mingxiang
said.
"No problem, this is a small matter. Chen Jun is a member of the Imperial Japanese Army Military Police. If Huazhong Silk Co., Ltd. dares to cause trouble for you, I will naturally coordinate it. The radio station can give it to you, but you are responsible for arranging the radio operator yourself."
Shigeto Nobumi thought for a while and said.
Even if this private deal is concluded, with the favor of the military police, the bullshit Huazhong Silk Co., Ltd. can only stay far away. The Japanese are also afraid of the military police.
Next, Chen Mingxiang spent a few days walking around Suzhou City and bought a garden house with a yard as an office. It was also the residence of a famous family in Suzhou. It has convenient transportation and is close to the business district. It has a large area.
The environment is beautiful and has a Jiangnan garden style layout.
The office has not been listed for the time being, because whether it is the transaction with the Qingxiang Committee or the sale of silk fabrics, it belongs to his own industry. It cannot bear the name of Huatong Trading Company. It needs to register a new company. The office staff are recruited from Shanghai.
Will be sent over later.
Now we have to rely on Norifu Shigeto to deal with the pressure from Japanese businessmen. When the interpersonal network between Suzhou and Hangzhou is smoothed out and a better backer is found in Japan, Chen Mingxiang plans to have the Operations Department kill Norifu Shigeto.
.
Of course, for the safety of the local people, they had to do it secretly and create the illusion of accidental death. Otherwise, the crazy Japanese military police would definitely dare to carry out large-scale revenge.
"I am now protected by the Qingxiang Committee and the Japanese military police. Just give me a free hand and select a group of mulberry farmers and silkworm farmers in the surrounding areas, sign a cocoon recycling agreement, and provide them with living and production funds. In the payment
deduct."
"Give me two silkworm breeding farms for my own use. Don't use the silkworm seeds provided by the Japanese. Those are rubbish that no one wants. The output is small and the quality is poor."
"When you go to the countryside to collect silkworm cocoons, bring more young men who can fight. If the people from the Huazhong Silk Co., Ltd. dare to be unreasonable, beat them up first. If they dare to come to the factory, you will go to the Qingxiang Committee.
The Chongteng Agency came forward."
"Follow me and don't cause trouble and don't be afraid of trouble. Although I am a soft-spoken person, there is no problem in keeping you. After the office is established, contact me through the radio for important matters." Chen Mingxiang said.
Before leaving Suzhou, he visited his textile factory and silk reeling factory. These two factories are popular in the silk weaving industry in Suzhou City. Firstly, the wages are high, and secondly, no one dares to bully anyone who wants to come here.
There is an endless stream of people going to work.
Except for the shortage of raw material for production of silkworm cocoons, which affected the output, everything else was running well. Chen Mingxiang summoned the middle-level and above managers of the factory and held a brief meeting.
He has now paid protection fees to Lieutenant Colonel Qingqi and Li Shiqi, and paid protection fees to Norifu Shigeto. He is very confident. During this period, money can be used to control the gods, and the Japanese can also be bribed, as long as the underground party and the underground party are not involved.
No one in the mountain city government can touch him.
The time he came to Suzhou this time was very short, everything was in a hurry, and there was no time to deal with his own business. The key is that Chen Mingxiang had a bold guess about the mystery that had always been there, and he was anxious to go back to verify this judgment. Anyway, the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Suzhou
The distance between the two continents is not too far, so just come twice more.
