The purpose of Chen Mingxiang's visit to Guanwai this time is mainly to settle the payment for the first batch of strategic materials, and compared with a behemoth like the Kwantung Army, he can only be regarded as a small business, and there are still so many people waiting for dividends.

The Kwantung Army has a lot of money, and it is rare to exchange materials from outside, such as tung oil, pig bristles, rosin and tungsten ore, which are mainly produced in the southern region, and the quantity he wants makes him feel frightened, and he has to cut off at least half of the share.

In addition, he specially brought some bamboo leaf green tea, as well as more expensive cigars and red wine, and prepared to meet Ying Zuo Zhenzhao at the Japanese garrison near Bingcheng.

The former head of this Mei organ, who is now the lieutenant general commander of the Seventh Artillery Command of the Kwantung Army, is in charge of two heavy artillery wings and one field heavy artillery wing, and it seems that he is of little use to Chen Mingxiang from the perspective of his position alone.

Chen Mingxiang didn't think so, he just wanted to burn the cold stove, Ying Zuo Zhenzhao single-handedly set up the Mei organ, and the influence existed for a long time, the more he was at such a time, the more he could reflect his character.

As a military advisory group of Wang's puppet government, the Mei organ has absolute authority over the military and personnel aspects, and this resource has been won with great difficulty, so it is natural that it should be well maintained and further effective.

"I haven't congratulated you yet, I heard that the Kwantung Army Command has now been upgraded to the Kwantung Army General Headquarters, which also fully reflects the irreplaceable value of the Kwantung Army, as well as the importance that the base camp attaches to the Kwantung Army." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.

On 1 October, the Japanese Government upgraded the Kwantung Army to a strategic bloc and added two front army headquarters and an armored army headquarters, as well as the headquarters of the Eastern Defense Army and the Second Air Force.

This is in the office of the Chief of the General Staff of the General Headquarters of the Kwantung Army, and there is no change, that is, the house number has changed from the Office of the Chief of Staff to the Office of the Chief of the General Staff.

But this one word put the Kwantung Army and the Kannai dispatch army on an equal footing, and Umezu Mijiro, like Shunroku Hatata, became the commander-in-chief.

"This is indeed the empire's attention to the Kwantung Army, with so many troop establishments added, the demand for materials has skyrocketed, Chen Jun, you are a friend of the Kwantung Army, and the management department is formulating a new supplementary plan, so I bother you." Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara said with a smile.

"Regarding the settlement of the last batch of materials, after the port inspection, I have already prepared, and you can take it away later. We also know that you have a difficult situation, and you have to be responsible for the quartermaster of the imperial army troops in Central China, but this time things are a bit urgent, and you need to expand your own purchases, especially white grey cloth. ”

"Before the end of the year, I need 50,000 pieces of cotton cloth, and I will give you an order of 30,000 pieces, and the management department is trying to prepare cotton yarn, and the rest of the headquarters will ask the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army for assistance and transfer it from Shanghai." Furuno said.

It's pie in the sky!

Chen Mingxiang immediately thought that he could eat this order, he had just used the hand of Taiji Ota to get 30,000 pieces of faucet muslin from the Shanghai Japan Textile Association, and he originally wanted to cope with the next batch of orders, but now it was the beginning of November, and by the end of December, in two months, it was easy for the three textile factories to produce 20,000 pieces of cotton cloth.

It's not that he doesn't care about the common people in the Kuomintang and transports cotton cloth to the Kuomintang for sale, but that he plans to exchange cotton cloth for cotton yarn, so that the quantity is much larger, and one piece is exchanged for one and a half pieces, and this kind of good thing is impossible in Central China.

What to do with the cotton yarn exchanged by the Military Control Bureau, he knew with his nose that it was nothing more than cooperating with those big forces with backgrounds and supplying them to the textile mills they controlled.

As a result of this, the Military Command Bureau and these big capitalists have made profits, but the price of cotton cloth has soared all the way, and the life of the common people has become more and more difficult.

If the cotton cloth is directly transported to the national control area, the big bosses are happy, and those privileged classes are also happy, because it is money that changes hands, and there is a serious shortage of cotton cloth in the market, and this money is very easy to earn.

But he is not willing to let these people easily make money with their own hands, the profiteers in the Shanghai market are hoarding, how can the profiteers in the Guotong region be any better? The world is as black as a crow, and the profiteers are all raccoon dogs, and their nature cannot be changed.

Chen Mingxiang calculated that if cotton yarn was provided to the Military Command Bureau, the effect would be much better, at least the cotton mills producing cotton cloth would eventually need workers to operate the machines and vehicles to transport them, so they could retain a lot of jobs.

"Your Excellency General, I think I can follow this huge order, now I have 30,000 pieces of cotton cloth in my hand, which was originally intended by the 13th Army Headquarters to exchange materials with the Chiang Tong Region, if the amount of cotton yarn provided by the Kwantung Army is enough, in fact, the effect is the same." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.

"Then this matter is much simpler, in fact, our Kwantung Army General Headquarters is not willing to ask the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army to come forward to coordinate, it is better to have you do it for you, you wait a while, I will sign a cotton cloth purchase agreement with you immediately."

"The number of cotton yarn involved this time is too much, 75,000 pieces, not a small number, I strive to send 50,000 pieces to Yingkou Port within a week, and it can arrive at Zhenjiang Port within half a month, you start to spin cotton cloth first, and the remaining 25,000 pieces will be sent out on December 1 at the latest!" Furuno Yoshitake is also a great joy.

The Kwantung Army has always been regarded as the flower of the Imperial Army, and since the 918 Incident, it has occupied the northeastern region in one fell swoop, so they look down on the army in the Kannai, and the relationship between everyone has always been tense.

It was only because of the limited resources of the puppet state of Manchukuo and the fact that after General Umezu Mijiro became the commander, he had to ease relations with Kannai for reasons of changing his image.

Now that it has been upgraded to the General Army and become a strategic group of the Japanese army, it proves that the imperial government still looks at the Kwantung Army differently, and its status is also rising, so it is not very willing to owe this favor to General Shunroku Hata.

"Generals, in order to celebrate the promotion of the Kwantung Army, and also for the successful completion of our first business, I will invite you to dinner tonight, and you will decide on the place, have a few drinks and chat." Chen Mingxiang sent out an invitation.

Since the General Headquarters of the Kwantung Army can now settle the payment, the next highlight is dividends, this time it is the US dollar and gold that are used for settlement, in fact, in the puppet Manchukuo, foreign exchange such as the US dollar cannot be spent, but now there is no alternative currency.