Chapter 727: Business

The main purpose of Sin Chew was to smuggle and hoard munitions.

Grain and textile products can be solved in China, medicine can be solved in China, and part of it can be solved through Yu Erjun's channels.

Gasoline and new ordnance have no choice but to smuggle them from abroad.

Gasoline, in particular, is harder to come by than munitions.

In the thirties, there were only three major oil-producing countries because of poor extraction technology.

The largest output is naturally the United States, with an annual output of more than 12,000 tons, the second is the Soviet Union, with an annual output of only about 1,500 tons, and the third is the United Kingdom, with an annual output of 10 million tons.

About half of Britain's oil is used for its own use, and the remaining half goes to France and Germany and the colonies, and less than 10,000 tons are shipped to China.

The Soviet Union produced more than the UK, but the place was too large to even be enough for itself.

The United States accounts for more than 80 percent of the world's oil exports, and Asian countries also come from the United States for gasoline.

From the United States to China, across the ocean, the price of gasoline can be imagined.

This is only one aspect, there are also international political factors.

In all of Asia, Japan is the only military power and the largest business partner of the United States in Asia.

Japan has always demanded that the United States limit the amount of military supplies exported to China as much as possible, and for the sake of interests, the United States will certainly not make enemies with Japan.

Under this tacit understanding, the gasoline quota imported into China is pitiful.

Since the beginning of the 30th year, the government of the Republic of China has issued a purchase restriction order, and during the 35th Five-Year Plan, the monthly limit for each car was 20 liters, and during the Anti-Japanese War, it was directly reduced to 6 liters.

The consumption of cars in the Republic of China is more than half of that of later generations, how far can six liters of gasoline go?

Up to thirty kilometers.

So there is no worry about selling at all, the key is how to find a way to smuggle it in.

The official channel is not to think about it, Fang Buwei just thinks about whether he can think of a way through the relationship of Situ Meitang, and it is best to connect with the headquarters of Mobil Foreign Bank.

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Mobil is different from other foreign banks in that it has a direct sales model and never distributes, while the nearly 500 branches in China only operate civilian products such as kerosene, and only the head office in Shanghai and the secondary branch in Hong Kong do gasoline business.

And only zero pins.

Fang Buwei racked his brains to come up with a way to let Situ Meitang come forward and obtain the distribution rights of Nanyang in the name of Yu Erjun.

Nanyang is a British colony, and fuel oil has always been imported from the United Kingdom, which is cheaper than Mobil, so even Mobil & Co. in Hong Kong only regards Hong Kong as a transit place.

Mobil's oil prices are relatively high, and the British Yanghe is not afraid that the soup oil imported by Yu Erjun from the United States will affect the Nanyang market.

In order to achieve the goal of long-term cooperation, Fang Buwei even decided that even a doubling of the price is acceptable.

The wholesale price of gasoline at the British & Co. in Shanghai is 2 pieces per gallon, or more than 4 cents per liter, while the retail price at Shanghai Mobil & Co. is 3 cents per gallon, or 6 cents per litre.

Even so, the petrol of Mobil could not even be produced in the public concession, so it was sold out.

Because of the national government's gas stations, the uniform price per liter is one piece, and the purchase is limited, and a car voucher can only be sold for 20 liters per month. Fastest update on mobile phone: :// first release

Before going abroad, the black market price reported by the Four Seas Commercial Bank had risen to two yuan and a half per liter.

Two yuan five can buy 100 catties of polished rice, and in the future generations, the purchasing power is about the same as 300 yuan.

But there is still no price.

The price of 100 Mobil Mobil is less than three cents per liter to Hong Kong, and the retail price has more than doubled.

The bottom line is that the CIF price per liter does not exceed six cents.

In fact, as long as this price can be given and the import quantity is still large, Mobil will not care whether you are smuggling or official sales, and can directly drive the oil tanker into Shanghai.

As long as you have a place to put it.

But Fang is not afraid that Mobil Foreign Company will eat black.

This is not a good man and a woman.

Many Americans suspect that Roosevelt the Great, the uncle of the current President Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States, was assassinated and killed, and that Mobil is inseparable.

When Roosevelt was in office, he used the "anti-Gong method" to split the oil company controlled by the Rockefeller family into 33 independent oil companies, leaving only one of them for the Rockefeller family, which is now Mobil.

The remaining 32 are all state-owned.

Even so, during World War II, both the United States and Germany were about to get out of their heads, and Mobil was still able to bypass the military blockade of Congress and the Allies and sell oil to Hitler......

In front of such a behemoth, he is not even a shrimp.

"How much are you going to go in?" The old gentleman asked.

Fang Buwei's heart moved.

The old gentleman asked him, and he didn't mention Yu Erjun, I am afraid that he has already figured out the key.

In front of the old gentleman, there was no need to hide it, Fang Buwei did not deny it, and said directly: "At least 1,000 tons, no more than 10,000 tons!" ”

Fang Buwei was afraid that the amount would be too small for Mobil to look down on, so he was ready to use all the funds of Sin Chew Foreign Bank.

10,000 tons is nearly 30 million liters, even if it doubles every liter, six cents, it is 18 million oceans, or 6 million US dollars, which is just right.

Of course, this is only the worst-case scenario, and Fang Buwei still thinks that it is better to only transport 1,000 tons at a time.

10,000 tons is not a small amount, and even if Mobil really agrees to send a 10,000-ton oil tanker to transport gasoline, there will be no place to put it.

For 10,000 tons of gasoline, at least 15,000 square meters of oil depot will be built......

There is an oil storage depot of Hong Kong Mobil Company, and the party is not at ease.

"How much?" The old gentleman thought he had misheard.

Fang Buwei repeated it again.

The old gentleman stared at Fang Buwei with incredible eyes.

Even if Mobil does not increase the price, the CIF price per liter will be close to three cents, nearly 3,000 liters per ton, which is almost a thousand oceans, and 10,000 tons is 10 million, or more than 3 million US dollars......

Fang is not for having so much money?

"Thanks to the support of the second master!" Fang Buwei was modest.

The old gentleman didn't believe it at all.

How much money Yu Erjun has, he can calculate.

Even if Yu Erjun is crazy, even if Fang is not Yu Erjun's own son, it is impossible for him to bet his entire net worth on this bet.

The old gentleman stared at Fang Buwei for a long time: "Where did you get so much money?" ”

can take out tens of millions of oceans at one time, how many can there be in China, which one he doesn't know?

"Most of them were raised with the help of the second master!" Fang is not bitten to death.

He couldn't tell the old gentleman that he had taken the Japanese treasury.

If Fang is not telling the truth, it means that there is a problem.

Either there is a problem with his identity, or there is a problem with the money.

Yu Erjun tried his best to help Fang Buwei, at least it can show that Fang Buwei's identity is no problem, and his temperament is not bad, it can only be that there is a problem with the source of the money

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