"Everyone has their own abilities. Chen Mingxiang is very good at building relationships and using back doors, and he is very good at doing business. However, such ability is destined to not become very popular. If he wants to establish a government and establish a stronghold, he is probably out of luck.
"Li Shiqun said.
Although these words don't sound good, they are very fair. With Chen Mingxiang's current development trend, it is simply a daydream to become a minister, provincial chairman or mayor of a special city.
According to the orthodox officialdom thinking, the Foreign Affairs Office is not as important as the deputy director of the Social Affairs Bureau. This does not mean that the Foreign Affairs Office is not important, but it is a little side-line, focusing on foreign affairs, and the room for advancement is very limited.
The Social Affairs Bureau is a serious functional department of the municipal government and the largest administrative bureau. If Chen Mingxiang can become the social director of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government, he can seek to be the mayor of an ordinary city in the future and develop well.
He can still be the secretary-general of the provincial government. As for the provincial chairman, that depends on chance.
"Chen Jun, you also have a part-time job at the Secret Service Headquarters. After I became the top military adviser, I noticed that the reputation of this organization was not very good, and Chairman Wang has always wanted to include the Secret Service Headquarters within the intelligence system of the Jinling government. You
What do you think of this?" Matsui Tataro said with a smile.
This was in the restaurant of Villa Mara. Chen Mingxiang specially invited the Japanese chefs from the Consulate General in Shanghai to prepare a table of Japanese dishes for him, Takeo Imai and Yoshitaro Kawamoto.
The wine he drank was Japanese Kiku Shoshon sake, and the tea he drank was Japanese Gyokuro tea, especially the latter. There was not one Gyokuro tea out of a hundred tea trees. Even a lieutenant general like him couldn't drink it casually.
"Your Excellency, General, your subordinate does work part-time at the Secret Service Headquarters, but he mainly works in the military management company of the Military Police Headquarters, and his full-time job is to purchase supplies for the Imperial Army."
"If we talk about this matter alone, it doesn't matter what Chairman Wang of the Jinling government thinks. The key lies in the needs of the empire." Chen Mingxiang said while smoking a cigar.
He knew that Matsui Taitaro's words were to test the depth of his relationship with the Secret Service Headquarters. If he put in a good word for Li Shiqun and the Secret Service Headquarters, or suggested that the Jinling government take control, that would not be the answer the other party needed.
It is classified as a reduced exposure type.
What is the nature of Secret Service Headquarters?
It is the Mei Agency stationed in Shanghai by the Japanese headquarters. It is used to supervise and intimidate a group of traitors in the Jinling government. It exists when needed and is abolished when it is not needed. Life and death depend on the thoughts of the Japanese army. As for the attitude of the Jinling government, haha!
"No wonder Mr. Ying Zuo admires you so much, saying that you are one of the few people who understands well. Your positioning is very accurate and you look at things to the point. Not bad!"
"You tell Li Shiqun that at ten o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow, I took an Army plane from Shanghai to Suzhou to formally inspect the work of the Qingxiang Committee and listen to Li Shiqun's work report on the Suzhou Provincial Government, the Secret Service Headquarters and the Qingxiang Committee. You
Also come with me." Matsui Tataro said.
He admired Chen Mingxiang's logical analysis ability very much. There was something else hidden in what he said just now, but this guy knew what was going on as soon as he heard it. He was a talent!
"I read the newspaper today and found that Huatong Trading Company is openly recruiting employees for its Peking branch. Is Mr. Chen planning to do business in North China?" Yoshitaro Kawamoto said with a smile.
"There is nothing we can do about it. The resources in Shanghai are basically occupied by imperial merchants. My textile factory has also been driven to Suzhou. Not only that, even raw materials like cotton have become a problem now. In the end,
I can’t even touch a good cotton-producing area.”
"The industrial development in North China is mainly concentrated in a few coastal cities, but in comparison, both the technical level and scale are definitely not as good as those in Shanghai. This is also due to historical reasons. Now I can only develop northward and expand the industrial development in North China.
Only by transferring resources to central China can the textile factories continue to survive. This is the top priority of the material exchange between me and the Chiang Kai-shek region." Chen Mingxiang said with a wry smile.
"I have also heard about your conflicts with the imperial businessmen. Even the military-controlled enterprises of the Military Police Headquarters are openly robbed. The plutocrats are too greedy. This is not a private enterprise. It is used for exchange with the Chiang Kai-shek District.
Strategic materials are used to provide military supplies for the imperial army." Kawamoto Yoshitaro said.
Having said that, no one can do anything about it. The Japanese chaebol are responsible for all weapons, equipment and military supplies from aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, fighter jets, tanks, cars to guns and ammunition, as well as military uniforms, boots, lunch boxes, medicines, etc.
In terms of production and manufacturing, the military's military control enterprises only have a small part of the production capacity. This is a combination that complements each other.
The military had to give face to the demands put forward by the chaebols. Compared with such interests, Chen Mingxiang's textile factory was just a small matter.
"I have only been working in North China for a short time, so I'm afraid I can't help you much, but I still have some connections when it comes to conducting business outside the customs."
"In the seventh year of Taisho, which is the sixth year of your Republic of China, I graduated from mainland China and joined the 12th Division as a staff officer. Until I returned to the empire in the sixth year of Showa, which is the nineteenth year of your Republic of China.
Working outside the customs."
"In the 14th year of the Showa era, which was the 28th year of your Republic of China, I served as the top military adviser of Manchukuo. In October of the 29th year of the Republic of China, I became the commander of the Fifth Division. It took more than ten years before and after, and I had many connections.
There is no problem, I can say hello to you if necessary." Matsui Tataro said with a smile.
He rose from a staff officer to an Army lieutenant general in twenty-three years, which was quite fast. Especially when he became the commander of the fifth division, he had qualifications that he could show off.
The Japanese Fifth Division is a standing draft horse division and the most elite Class A standing army division in Japan. In the 29th year of the Republic of China, it was reorganized into one of the four mechanized divisions of the Japanese Army. The 19th division commander,
It is Seishiro Itagaki, who is notorious and has committed numerous blood debts to the Chinese people!
"If necessary, I will definitely trouble Your Excellency the General. Speaking of the Secret Service Headquarters being affiliated with the Mei Agency, I am also considered your subordinate. The General is the elite of the empire. I dare not blaspheme your reputation with vulgar things, but there are
A few elegant antiques are given to you to express my gratitude." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.
Originally, we didn't want to make too big a move outside the customs. It was enough to earn some funds for the bureau headquarters, but Matsui Taitaro himself came in and wanted to help. This resource should be used well.
This old devil has served as the top military adviser. He must have had a lot of contacts with the military and political officials of the Puppet Manchukuo. Bah, those traitors and traitors. To put it bluntly, the help he received was definitely not a little bit.
Although I don't want to move, I am pushed by the situation. This may be an inevitable change when the relationship network develops to a certain extent!
