After Chen Mingxiang and Ding Mocun finished eating at Zhou Fahai's house, they sat there for a few minutes before leaving. Li Hongfei stayed, but Chen Mingxiang didn't care. Mobile version
Even Wang's puppet government is a puppet supported by the Japanese. Just as he said, the Huazhong Salt Company is also a puppet who listens to the instructions of the Japanese. It does not pose any threat to him. He has many ways to deal with Li Hongfei. If he is not honest, he will try it.
Try the gendarmerie’s cornbread!
Besides, Zhou Fahai has made huge profits from Chen Mingxiang in one year. Chen Mingxiang even bears the expenses of his young lover in Shanghai, so he will not be overly partial to Li Hongfei. There is no use in favoritism.
"Minister, Chen Mingxiang extracts 8,000 tons of salt from the Lianghuai Salt Farm every month. According to our salt tax collection method, at least he can save more than 8 million, which is a lot of money!"
"I don't object to giving him a partial reduction. In the future, the company will require his participation in many matters, but it can't be exempted from everything, right? He already earns enough!" Li Hongfei complained.
According to the salt tax collection regulations formulated by the Salt Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, for every 100 kilograms of salt, a Central Reserve Certificate of 38.9 cents is required. In addition, the market price of 2.4 yuan and a transfer fee of 2 yuan are also levied.
, the rehabilitation fee is 30 cents, a total of 4 yuan and 70 cents for the joint bank coupon, which is equivalent to 26 yuan and 10 cents for the China Reserve Bond.
In other words, the salt dealer has to pay a fee of 65 yuan for each pound of salt purchased, but the wholesale price of a pound of salt is now 13 yuan, doubling the profit.
The cost of one ton of salt is 1,300 China Reserve Certificates, and 8,000 tons of salt is 1,040,000 China Reserve Certificates. However, Chen Mingxiang only paid 10 yuan per load, 200 yuan per ton, which only amounted to 100 yuan.
This huge loss of 600,000 China Reserve Bonds made Li Hongfei heartbroken.
He became the chairman of the Central China Salt Company to collect salt taxes for the Jinling Government's Ministry of Finance. If he failed to produce any results, it would appear that he was too useless and his personal ability would be questioned.
From this we can also know how much profit Chen Mingxiang has made in the salt industry. Now Haiyuan Salt Company performs functions on behalf of Huazhong Salt Industry Co., Ltd. without paying a cent, which is equivalent to earning more than 10 million per month!
"Your method of settling accounts is wrong. Chen Mingxiang's Haiyuan Salt Company is not his own. It involves various forces, including the Consulate General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Shanghai, the gendarmerie, the Meiji agency, and the local government.
The Japanese garrison, and the city government also gets a piece of it, why do you think he can be so knowledgeable in Shanghai?"
"As far as I know, he can get up to 30% of the monthly salt sales dividend. This has already reached the top, and the rest must be used as dividends. The salt industry is hugely profitable, because as a human being, we must eat salt, and we don't have to worry about no one buying it.
, the more such an industry is, the more people will miss it.”
"Don't continue to struggle with this issue. You are right. Can we start negotiations as soon as possible? Chen Mingxiang's help is very important. Take advantage of this time to rescue those salt merchants and give him a generous gift. You have offended him.
, this guy has always been known for being petty, the sooner the conflict is resolved, the better." Zhou Fahai said.
After Li Hongfei came out of Zhou's house, he couldn't help but look back and spit on the ground to vent his dissatisfaction.
From the time when the gendarmerie arrested the salt merchant to now, he has been sending money and things here a lot, and the value of them is several million. But when it comes to the critical moment when he is needed, Zhou Fahai actually refuses to contribute, and lightly treats him.
The matter was put on myself again.
The salt merchants are indeed rich, but it is not caused by strong winds. Just from the more than 10,000 tons of salt, each salt merchant will suffer losses of two to three million. Add this to the incident, and it will inevitably hurt his muscles and bones.
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Li Hongfei was very helpless. He originally agreed to cooperate with the Japanese businessmen of the North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd. to deal with Chen Mingxiang. It was indeed for the benefit of the old salt merchants. He planned to use this to kick out the power of the Haiyuan Salt Company and strengthen their control.
Monopoly and control of the salt industry in Central China.
But unexpectedly, those Japanese businessmen actually had diarrhea. Until now, there has been no movement from North China. Chen Mingxiang's freighter still transported the second batch of salt to various places on time. It was like the Japanese businessmen in North China soaked him.
So cool!
"Mingxiang, you are back. Boss Dai is sending a telegram almost every day to inquire about the Japanese army's movements, directly asking you to find out the Eleventh Army's first round of attack targets."
"Secretary Pan also sent me two reports, saying that the Sixth Theater Command was also alarmed by the movements of the Japanese army. He made an exception and sent two messages to the bureau headquarters. He even alerted the commissioners and asked the Military Command Bureau to get it at all costs.
This information." Wang Zhen said with a smile.
The military situation was so high that an early report would give the Sixth Theater Command one more day to deploy. Chen Mingxiang could not stay in Jinling for too long. The key was that there was no radio station of his own here, so he returned to Shanghai the next day.
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It seems that Eleventh Army Commander Isamu Yokoyama's use of deception tactics was so clever that even the Sixth Theater Command was confused and still doesn't know how to respond.
"Please send a message to the bureau headquarters. According to the information I have received, the Japanese Eleventh Army Headquarters' operational plan this time is to attack Anxiang and Nanxian in the first round to open up a channel for the future attack on Wuling, and then attack Song
The Tenth Group Army and the Jiang Defense Army in Zihe Public Security and other places launched an encirclement and suppression campaign, with the main purpose of annihilating the troops in the Sixth Theater."
"Since the Eleventh Army Headquarters keeps the plan confidential, it is really impossible to find out the details. The specific combat time is roughly in early May. If there is any new information, we will report it to the bureau headquarters."
"In addition, I have had an exploratory contact with Ding Mocun. The other party hopes to turn over the dark side and work for the Military Command Bureau. The Bureau headquarters can send people to contact him secretly to strengthen the intelligence power of Wang's puppet government." Chen Mingxiang smiled.
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It seems that Boss Dai is not having a good life either. Even though the Bureau of Military Command is very proud of itself, it has cooperated with the US Navy and established a Special Technology Cooperation Institute. It seems to be very prosperous.
But from the details of continuous questioning of intelligence, we can know that Boss Dai still cares about his relationship with Chen Cheng. He wants to use this method to draw closer to each other, reduce the hostile forces in the mountain city government, and safeguard his own vested interests. In the past,
But there are rarely times when it's so urgent.
But Chen Mingxiang believes that the problem is not how much confidential information has been obtained, but the nature of the Military Command Bureau itself, which has law enforcement powers and an astonishing number of troops, and is destined not to be accepted by major forces.
The military bosses prefer to see the Military Command Bureau as a pure intelligence agency rather than a secret service that supervises all parties. This kind of contradiction will not break out during the Anti-Japanese War, but after victory, this situation will disappear immediately.
