The Jincheng office of the Peiping Branch of Huatong Trading Company is located in the small white building in the original British Concession. It was once the residence of a British company. The gendarmerie gave it to Chen Mingxiang for free, and also gave the former sites of two foreign banks for opening
The silk shop and tea shop allocated two cars and four trucks.
Chen Mingxiang gave Yano Otonzaburo $100,000 and Murano Naohiro $20,000. The two parties quickly reached a cooperation. These confiscated British businessman assets were a bit of "sincerity" from the military police!
The Peiping branch office found a goods yard near Jincheng Port. It was originally built by an American businessman and contained several large warehouses for transshipment and short-term storage of goods to and from Jincheng Port. The military police designated this place as
For Chen Mingxiang, the procedures were also completed for the nearby land.
"You guys are keeping an eye on this matter. The key is water, electricity and telephones. Before the machines arrive, recruit people to tidy up the site, transport coal and loess to wait for the start of construction, and go to the port to transport some coal ash to pave the road." Chen Mingxiang
Said in the goods yard.
"Boss, we have found six briquette factories in Jincheng, all of which use machines to make briquettes. A briquette machine can produce six to seven loads of briquettes an hour, running 24 hours a day, that is about one hundred and fourteen
More than ten tons, thirty machines are fully activated, and the output is more than four thousand tons per day." Sun Dingxin, the office manager, said with a smile.
"That's not all. I need to produce 200,000 tons of briquettes every month to stimulate the price of briquettes in the Shanghai market. In other words, Jincheng's daily output cannot be less than 7,000 tons. I hope it is 10,000 tons. For this reason,
I have purchased thirty of the latest briquette machines for the new briquettes factory, which will arrive at Jincheng Port in four days."
"This is a high-intensity physical work. It is divided into three shifts and can only work for a maximum of eight hours. A machine requires four people to transport materials, two people to keep an eye on it, and four people to transport the briquettes to the storage yard. This is three hundred
People, according to the third class, there are 900 people."
"There are stevedores at the dock, so we don't need to worry about it. However, loading and unloading coal briquettes in the briquettes factory also requires a lot of manpower. So, you recruit a hundred stevedores."
"In terms of wages and benefits, we will give you fifty yuan in bank coupons every month, and you will have one meal each for breakfast, lunch and dinner, including cornmeal steamed buns and pickles, as well as enough rice porridge. The monthly benefit for each person is one pound of coarse salt and one pound of sucrose.
, a towel, two bars of soap and ten boxes of matches.”
"Two rows of warehouses were set aside to be used as dormitories. This place is far away from the city. There must be a place to rest. Also, I asked the freighter to bring some tea leaves, boil enough boiling water every day, and give each person a tea cup." Chen Mingxiang
After thinking for a while he said.
The purpose of doing business is to perform tasks better, and money itself is not that important to him. Therefore, he has always treated workers who make money for themselves favorably.
Since I have the ability to help them, I have to make the conditions more affordable. Is this still a big deal for me?
However, it is very important for workers. Salt, sugar, towels, soap and matches are all controlled materials and must be rationed every month. They cannot be bought casually.
"Boss, our family's treatment is too good, isn't it? We even pay monthly benefits, which cover the first half of the monthly salary. There are few industrial and commercial companies in Jincheng who dare to do this. It will cause trouble among the chamber of commerce and various companies.
The factory is dissatisfied!”
"The situation we have visited and investigated in the past few days is that in the best local textile factories or chemical plants, the workers' salary is only about 300 yuan a year, which is the highest income. The annual income of ordinary workers is less than 200 yuan.
Yuan, the coolie’s income is less than one hundred yuan a year.”
"For a briquette factory like ours, which has no technical content, a salary of twenty yuan a month is enough. However, the salary is actually six hundred yuan a year, and the benefits are doubled. This is comparable to the textile industry in Shanghai.
The annual income of workers has increased." Sun Dingxin said with some embarrassment.
He was shocked beyond belief by the series of benefits and benefits offered by Chen Mingxiang. You are a capitalist. This is like doing charity. You work three shifts, take care of food and drink, and return so many scarce supplies every month.
We come to Jincheng to make money, not to spread money.
"Bullshit, this is a United Bank bond. It's one level worse than China Reserve Bond. What a mess the prices are now. For twenty yuan, the stick noodles in Pingjin and Tianjin are only 55 cents per catty.
Rice is five cents per dollar and millet is eighty cents, but you are still competing with the Shanghai market, where you can’t even buy three kilograms of rice for twenty yuan, so why are you asking the workers to wait for the northwest wind?”
"The North China Liaison Department of Xingya Institute gave us a support of 10 million banknotes. It only costs 50,000 yuan a month for a thousand people. This benefit is only 10 yuan. It is 60,000 yuan a month, okay?
How about 800,000 per year? It will take twelve years. How much money can we make during this period?"
"Besides, we will have salt in the future. I have already made an agreement with the gendarmerie to set up a few fixed points at Changlu Salt Field. According to the price of fifty yuan per ton, one ship per month, and the quota of two thousand tons of salt. This
What’s the concept? You don’t even have to spend money to buy salt!” Chen Mingxiang said.
He focused on three things in North China, one was coal, the other was cotton, and the third was salt. As long as he played with these three things, it would be an incredible wealth, especially the most inconspicuous salt.
The salt shortage in the Kuomintang-controlled area was severe. The salt farms were basically in the occupied areas and were controlled by the Japanese and puppets. In fact, they were controlled by the Japanese. The price also rose sharply.
I heard that last year the Japanese North China Front robbed more than 44,000 tons of salt from the Changlu Saltworks and shipped it to Japan. The cost was 38 yuan, but the Japanese only gave them 20 yuan. The more they produced, the more they had to pay.
many.
Chen Mingxiang had the support of the North China Liaison Department and the Military Police, and did not care about the salt tax or anything else, just the fifty yuan cost of the salt field and the transportation fee.
When it was transported to the occupied areas and Kuomintang-controlled areas in central China, he did not pay salt tax. This was his own territory. On the surface, he seemed to be making money for the country, but in fact he was trying to solve the salt shortage problem.
According to the material control and rationing of the Japanese army, an adult has one pound of salt per month. But in fact, the salt industry company under the Central China Liaison Department of Xingya Institute does not have such a large transportation capacity at all, and the military ships are busy
Transporting important supplies to Japan while ignoring the needs of occupied areas.
Each Japanese expatriate in Shanghai can get one pound of refined salt per month. The common people in the enemy-occupied areas can only get one pound of salt per month. In the 29th year of the Republic of China, one pound of coarse salt was only 1.6 yuan. Now, it has doubled.
Not only that, salt has always been a hugely profitable industry.
"This is great. We have our own salt farm, which is equivalent to a cornucopia of money trees. The income from this alone is amazing."
"It used to be that salt was an industry with small profits but quick turnover. Now that material control has been implemented, profits are rising. I dare say that if it doesn't rise to 5 yuan per catty by the end of the year, it will be damned." Sun Dingxin said.ntent
