Chapter seven hundred and thirty first layer of insurance
The plane landed at Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai. Chen Mingxiang finished his work in Guanwai and Jincheng. This time it can be said that he returned with a full load and the harvest was amazing.
"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Chen, for this mission outside the customs. You and I will go to the 13th Army Headquarters to give a brief report to Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru." Kinoshita Eiichi said with a smile.
This time, he went to the airport to pick him up in person. The purpose was to take Chen Mingxiang to the Thirteenth Army Headquarters to report on the material exchange agreement between Huatong Trading Company and the Kwantung Army Headquarters. Tomorrow, he had to rush to the Commander-in-Chief of the Dispatch Army in Jinling.
Department, make a face-to-face report to General Hata Jun6.
"I am ashamed to bother you, General, to come here in person. Fortunately, I have gained a little this time and will not let down Your Excellency General's trust." Chen Mingxiang said respectfully.
"Oh, it's not easy to get the words "somewhat rewarding" out of your mouth. Come on, come and talk to me in the car." Kinoshita Eichi's eyes lit up.
Chen Mingxiang has always been low-key and humble, and never comments on his achievements. If he says this, it is definitely not a slight gain, but a huge gain.
One thing to understand here is that the entire Military Police Headquarters stationed in Shanghai will benefit from Huatong Trading Company's dividends. However, for the companies that Chen Mingxiang started privately, such as coal companies and salt companies, only the top executives of the Military Police Headquarters receive dividends.
The famous one-eyed Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru of the Japanese Army met with Chen Mingxiang in the commander's office and carefully read the material exchange agreement signed between Huatong Trading Company and the Kwantung Army Headquarters.
The original copy is at the company's headquarters. It is a copy used by the Military Police Headquarters in Shanghai for filing. Sawada Shigeru specifically asked about some of the details, and Chen Mingxiang gave detailed answers.
"Chen Jun's grasp of the heat is very accurate, and I appreciate it very much. First, we must ensure that the material supply of our Thirteenth Army will not be reduced too much, and then we can make exchanges with the Kwantung Army."
"Actually, this cooperation is also a good thing. At least you can get a lot of cotton yarn as capital. Just follow this agreement and I will greet each division below and provide convenience for your material transportation." Sawada Shigeru said.
Chen Mingxiang is a smart man. He knows that his base is in central China, so he first ensures the material supply of the Thirteenth Army. This shows that he has not been blinded by the temptation of profit.
"Sawada-kun, because the war consumes too much, the empire's logistics supply is tight. Whether it is the military or merchants, most ships have been requisitioned, and the daily consumption of Shanghai has been affected, which also includes our expatriates.
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"I hope the headquarters can send a letter to the Central China Liaison Department of Koya Institute, requesting the requisition of coal and salt from North China to make up for this shortcoming and ensure that normal life is not disturbed," Kinoshita Sakaeichi said.
As for the tension, the material supply difficulties in the Japanese-occupied areas were certainly not that obvious. The rationing system only affected the people in Shanghai and had little impact on Japanese expatriates.
Japanese businessmen in Shanghai must first protect the needs of their own expatriates. This is a hard condition. The Consulate General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Shanghai is watching!
However, it is also true that salt and coal are in short supply. The key lies in the serious shortage of ships during this period. The military ships opened up the battlefield in Southeast Asia and were not enough. The merchants' civilian ships were recruited by the military and the government to transport urgently needed food supplies, and the inventory was also reduced.
It's time for emergency.
The Thirteenth Army Headquarters is the emperor of the entire Shanghai market and has the responsibility to respond to these situations. Kinoshita Eichi's request is reasonable, but his purpose is to add an extra layer of insurance to Chen Mingxiang's business.
"Okay, I will immediately send a written request to the Central China Liaison Department of the Koya Institute in the name of the headquarters. You can take it directly to General Taiji Ohta. North China is the main production area of these materials, but our relationship has some unclear reasons.
, it is more convenient for internal coordination within Koya Institute." Sawada Shigeru said.
He didn't care about this trivial matter. As for whether the Central China Liaison Department of Xingya Institute needed Chen Mingxiang to operate it, it was not within his scope of concern.
"Your Excellency General, I know that you are of noble character and do not dare to offend with vulgar things. This is a wild ginseng I brought back from the area outside the customs. It is very precious due to its age and you may not be able to buy it with money. It is a small token of appreciation.
"Chen Mingxiang took out a wooden box from his bag.
Wild ginseng is indeed real. This is a tea shop in Bingcheng. I got a few by chance, but they are not that old, probably twenty or thirty years ago, and the weight is not very heavy. It would be more than half a catty.
Chen Mingxiang is reluctant to give away century-old wild ginseng, but bragging is inevitable.
"Thank you Chen Jun for your love and care. I will accept it. I have heard about the wild ginseng outside the customs for a long time. This is a treasure that can save lives. To me, it is much more precious than those gold and silver jewelry." Sawada Shigeru
Very satisfied.
His health is not very good, and his eyesight is getting worse. It is not uncommon to give him US dollar gold bars. Chen Mingxiang's gift is a good one, and it was delivered to him.
As a result, the official letter from the Thirteenth Army Headquarters to the Central China Liaison Department of Xingya Yuan designated the Military Police Headquarters in Shanghai to be responsible for handling daily supplies. In disguise, it created an opportunity for Chen Mingxiang, and the Military Police Headquarters accepted the task.
, it must be left to Chen Mingxiang to handle it.
It was already afternoon when I got home. I smelled alcohol on Chen Mingxiang, so Wang Zhen quickly made him tea. Girls can easily develop a strong sense of dependence on the man they like, even though she is also a female agent carefully trained by the Military Command Bureau.
, but she was still a little uncomfortable with Chen Mingxiang's absence these days.
"There's nothing important here in Shanghai, right?" Chen Mingxiang asked, holding a tea cup.
"Old Zheng came to see you once. He heard that you hadn't come back yet, so he left in a hurry. After my questioning, he had to tell me that he was a husband and wife of underground party intelligence agents who were arrested by the gendarmerie.
He is currently being tortured in the prison of the Military Police Headquarters," Wang Zhen said.
"There is nothing I can do now. Unless I can withstand the torture of the military police and be transferred to the prison in the Shanghai Experimental Zone of the secret service headquarters, I can do something to release the person openly. Food is so tight and there are so many prisoners in the prison.
It’s a waste of resources.”
"Today at noon, I, Taiji Ota, and Katsuo Okaki had dinner. Since making briquettes cannot use the coal quota of the North China Liaison Department, the Central China Liaison Department of Koya Institute asked me to allocate 20,000 tons from my own coal quota as Shanghai
The municipal power coal will be subsidized by 20 US dollars per ton, which is 400,000 US dollars."
"In view of the requirements of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau of the Public Settlement, I have to produce 300,000 tons of briquettes every month, equivalent to 15,000 tons, with a subsidy of ten dollars per ton, which is 150,000 U.S. dollars. I will get the payment voucher tomorrow. You can go to the office
The gold bank took out the money." Chen Mingxiang said.
