"Kita Zeping followed me to Yunhua Restaurant, stayed for a while and then withdrew? Ignore him for now. Kit Zeping is much smarter than Kojima Nariko. He knows that following him will cause trouble for him. In Shanghai,
It’s a piece of land, my eyes are wider than his, and I have many tips from people.”
"Guojun, there is something I have to tell you in advance. I have to use more than half of the gold you snatched from the Japanese. The Military Command Bureau is currently facing great difficulties in funding and needs salt from the Yanzhou base area as temporary
source of income, but they don’t give me payment for the goods, I plan to propose two thousand gold bars this time as the capital of Chang’an Trading Company.” Chen Mingxiang said.
Kitazawa is an expert in intelligence and knows how to calculate the stakes. If he follows him for a long time in Shanghai, his trap will be exposed sooner or later, so he simply doesn't use this method.
Chen Mingxiang knows very well that whenever he encounters a big fish like himself, the other party will never give up, which also indicates that he will adopt other methods.
"Sir, this batch of gold was given to you by our brothers. As long as you need it, without saying a word, I will take out two thousand gold bars tonight." Zhou Guojun did not hesitate.
"All of them will be packed into boxes and transported to the warehouse at the headquarters of Huatong Trading Company, and a special person will be sent to watch. Half of them will be sent to Shaanxi Province by car. I have to wait for notification of the location. The other thousand may have to be sent to the dock warehouse in Zhenjiang for storage, but
Before that, you have to do something for me."
"The Japanese army seized the four major silver buildings in Shanghai, including Fang Jiuxia and Lao Fengxiang. Find a master of gold and silverware and remelt all the gold bars and cast them again. The Jianghai Customs mark on them must be completely removed, otherwise there will still be trouble."
"After the remaining more than 1,200 large gold bars were recast, they were transported to Mara Villa for storage. In the future, special bonds will flood into the financial market, and the depreciation rate of China Reserve Bonds will be faster. Maybe these gold,
It is the capital for us to settle down and live our lives." Chen Mingxiang said.
At this moment, the shareholders of the North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd. almost exploded with anger. They originally planned to unite with the Central China Salt Industry Company to squeeze Chen Mingxiang out of the salt market. However, unexpectedly, the Central China Military Police intervened.
A large group of salt merchants were arrested and things were messed up.
How dare the salt merchants fight with the gendarmerie? Money is more important than life. The calculation is clear. What's more troublesome is that the action in Central China has not yet ended, and the action in North China has begun.
"This is an official letter jointly sent by the North China Front Army Headquarters and the Consulate General in Peiping, ordering all salt merchants and cooperatives to sell salt at a unified price and not to adjust prices without permission, nor to reduce rations to cause salt shortages."
"I have received news from Tokyo that major companies have united to appeal to the cabinet and the military, but were rejected. This also shows that the imperial government and the military have tacit approval of this matter." North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd.
The president of the company said.
Most of the Japanese chaebols are headquartered in Tokyo, and the representatives sent to various places are direct representatives. After receiving the request from the branches, the leaders of the chaebols quickly united and submitted a petition to the cabinet and the military ministry.
It is required to revoke the Shanghai Haiyuan Salt Company's sales rights and salt fields in the Changlu Salt Fields and restore the previous exclusive control of the North China Salt Company. This will be conducive to the concentration of resources, transport more raw salt to the mainland of the empire, and also have a negative impact on North China.
It plays an important role in stabilizing the regional salt market.
To put it bluntly, this is a hidden threat. The chaebols cannot sit back and watch local Chinese companies take away a piece of the cake from the monopoly industry, even if they have the shadow of the garrison behind them.
But before that, the Consulate General in Shanghai and the Consulate General in Peiping had jointly submitted a situation statement to the Cabinet and the Military Ministry. Alleviating the salt shortage in Central China was only a secondary task. The most important thing was to rely on the Haiyuan Salt Company.
Implement warnings to chaebols.
The North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd. has made a lot of profits by relying on its control of the Changlu Salt Field. However, the military has not benefited much from it, and the prices of orders undertaken by the chaebols behind it have not been reduced.
What's even more egregious is that the Japanese army in North China often delayed handling the "military salt" requisitioned from the Changlu Saltworks, which undermined the strategy of using war to support war.
The so-called new policy was originally issued with the purpose of beating the chaebols. After receiving the reports from the two consulates general, it would be damned if the cabinet and the military were biased towards the chaebols!
"That's not all. North China dispatched gendarmerie headquarters to various gendarmerie teams to talk to salt merchants and local cooperative leaders, telling them that the past matters should be forgotten. If after the conversation it is discovered that salt is being withheld or salt is sold at high prices, the gendarmerie will be summoned.
The team is squatting in prison. Under such circumstances, who dares to cooperate with us?" said a Mitsui representative.
"Did you see that the Military Police Headquarters has come forward? This means that Haiyuan Salt Company is just a tool to suppress us. We are competing with Chen Mingxiang to find excuses for others. Maybe they want us to make things bigger!"
"Headquarters has sent me a message. We must make concessions to the garrison when necessary. We cannot get entangled in such trivial matters. If they impose military control on the Changlu Salt Field, our losses will be great. Every year we ship back
The hundreds of thousands of tons of domestic raw salt are one of the foundations of industrial raw materials for major companies," said a Mitsubishi representative.
Since the headquarters cannot withstand the pressure, the representatives stationed in North China will not take the risk to fight with the garrison. The key is that they all know the importance of Changlu Saltworks to the empire, and Chen Mingxiang cannot cause any big disturbance.
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The Japanese invaders and chaebols are crazy about plundering raw salt, not only for the living needs of the Japanese people, but more importantly, raw salt is an indispensable industrial raw material, which has an irreplaceable role in Japan's military production and completes the manufacturing of weapons.
Orders to obtain wealth are also required.
Therefore, the more than 10,000 tons of salt that Chen Mingxiang transports from Changlu Salt Field every month is not so difficult to accept compared with the orders and resources received from the military department.
This is also a matter of timing. Before the Japanese government changed its strategy, even if the garrison wanted to suppress the chaebol's monopoly on resources, it would have been almost impossible.
Because the Japanese army does not have its own military industry system, it can fight wars, but it cannot convert the seized resources into war materials. It must rely on the chaebol to do so.
"The North China Dispatch Gendarmerie Headquarters sent a message directly to my radio station on the 76th today. The salt problem at the Changlu Salt Farm has been successfully resolved, and the original steps are still being followed."
"The monthly output of Changlu Salt Field plus smuggled salt is more than 10,000 tons. It is very easy to give 1,000 tons to the bureau headquarters. You can generate electricity for Boss Dai. No matter how great the difficulties are, our directly affiliated stations must find ways to resolutely
Complete the instructions from the bureau headquarters." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.
