Chapter 182: Money is Hard to Borrow

Chen Mingxiang saw that there was a clear slap mark on Nakajima Shinichi's face, which was probably beaten by Qing Nakasa's anger, and the slapping of the Japanese army was commonplace, and it was natural for the superiors to be lowered.

No matter how good you are in the process of a job, but the result goes wrong, then the effort you put in is not scored, or it is negative.

"Director Li, people with a little status in Jiang Tong District all know the background of the Southeast Trading Company, can you tell what forces dare to attack us?" Sunny Nakasa asked.

The Southeast Trading Company is one of the two institutions with special access rights in Shanghai, and although the Huatong Trading Company has the support of the Military Police Command and can be said to be unimpeded, the Southeast Trading Company is not bad, and it is nothing more than a troublesome point in the procedures.

The profits of scarce materials during the war period were enough to make those businessmen in the national control area regard this company as the god of wealth, who was caught in the door and robbed the goods of the company's transport team, and did not want to make money in the future?

What's more, it was a very miserable thing to provoke the secret service headquarters, not only the money, but also their lives, and even the whole family.

"There are no eyebrows yet, it is estimated that the possibility of being a businessman is almost zero, and the possibility of local garrisons and bandits in Tanzhou is relatively large, but this kind of thing has never happened before, and it is difficult to judge at once." Li Shiqun shook his head.

"Won't it be the armed forces of the underground party?" Sunny Nakasa said.

"Absolutely not, first of all, there are more than 40 escorts in the transport team, and they also carry two light machine guns, and the guerrillas of the underground party on the Hunan and Jiangxi borders have a rifle that is used as a treasure, and there are not many bullets, so they can't eat this escort team."

"If the guerrillas had done it, they wouldn't have been able to drive fifteen trucks, so where did they get so many drivers? Also, for those trucks that can't be driven, the guerrillas don't just remove the fuel tanks and tires, leaving the rest intact. Li Shiqun said.

This inference is very reliable, the situation of the partisans is very difficult, they basically lack everything, and they are not finished without dismantling the cars in pieces.

To say that the guerrillas can drive trucks is simply incredible, and besides, these are twenty trucks carrying goods, how can fifteen cars pull the goods away?

"Director Li's analysis is very reasonable, I will let the intelligence officers of the special high school collect information from the surrounding areas, so many vehicles pulling goods, there will definitely be clues." Sunny Nakasa agrees with this judgment.

"Your Excellency Zhongzuo, the case needs time to be investigated, but the transaction of the Southeast Trading Company cannot be interrupted, and I hope to get the help of the Mei Agency." Li Shiqun said.

"This gap is a bit big, the loss of three million fiat currency, General Ying Zuo is also very embarrassed, the Mei organ lacks financial support at the moment, and its own funds are also insufficient, you can talk to Minister Zhou first and borrow some from the Ministry of Finance!" Sunny Morning shook his head.

The Japanese invaders were eager to dig three feet into the ground in China, but no matter how hard they tried, they still could not balance the war attrition.

The Mei organs themselves have no income, and because of their support for Wang's puppet government, they have some privileges, and the earliest funds came from the customs duties withheld by the Jiang Customs, which withheld as much as 40 million legal tender from the end of last year to the beginning of this year.

However, after the establishment of the Wang puppet government, the life of the Mei organs was not so comfortable, and in order to give the puppet government a fixed financial revenue, the Japanese government gave the tax revenue of the Jiang Customs and the unified tax of the areas actually controlled by the Wang puppet government to the Ministry of Finance of the Wang puppet government.

What is the unified tax, which is a kind of commodity tax during the Republic of China, which originated in the Qing Dynasty at the earliest, mainly cigarettes, wheat flour, matches, cement and cotton yarn, which are divided into three ways: on-site collection, on-site collection and self-declaration by merchants.

Without the tax revenue of the Jiangxi Customs, the Mei organs, like other intelligence agencies, can only rely on domestic financial allocations, and it does not matter if they make a small fuss, but when it comes to millions of dollars, they need to ask the military department for instructions.

The current fiscal expenditure method of the Wang puppet government is called living within the limits of the expenditure, and the amount of expenditure is determined according to the monthly income, which is very effective, and the Ministry of Finance has a slight surplus.

"Minister Zhou cries poor every day, I'm afraid this thing is very difficult to operate, can you borrow some money from Huatong Trading Company first, so that Southeast Trading Company can turn around?" Li Shiqun said.

The Ministry of Finance of Wang's puppet government thinks every day about how to make money and power from the Japanese, hoping to include all customs tariffs into the scope of the Ministry of Finance.

Huatong Trading Company has been running well, the working capital is very rich, take out one or two million legal currency, the problem is not very big, as long as the business of the Southeast Trading Company is carried out smoothly, the loan can be repaid in two months.

"In this way, I will tell Minister Zhou about this matter, first lend 3 million yuan to the Southeast Trading Company, the Ministry of Finance will set up a central reserve bank, and is coordinating with all parties, and when this matter is implemented, the Ministry of Finance's funds will be much more abundant." Sunny Nakasa said.

He also felt a headache, Huatong Trading Company is an institution controlled by the Military Police Command and the Special High School, how dare you really say that Miura Saburo is notoriously greedy for money and difficult to speak, that is, General Kagezo came forward to borrow money, and it is estimated that he was also sprayed with saliva, and he thought it was quite beautiful.

"Mingxiang, our secret service headquarters is about to pay salaries, you can lend me 500,000 fiat currency from the company's finances first, and when the appropriation from the Ministry of Finance arrives, I will ask the General Affairs Office to transfer it to you immediately." Li Shiqun was also forced to be anxious.

If the secret service headquarters delays the payment of salaries, the impact is too bad, especially for Li Shiqun's image, and he can't even pay the most basic salary, how did you become a director?

"Forget about the company, it's not convenient to borrow such a large amount, and I will let Director Ye go to the audit team's finances to get it, I'll say hello to the Gendarmerie Headquarters and the Special High Section, and delay handing it in for a month." Chen Mingxiang said.

The commander of the gendarmerie, Saburo Miura, kept a close eye on the accounts of the Huatong Trading Company, and every month he had to check them in person, and he also had to do a simple check with the financial staff.

Although he didn't know that Chen Mingxiang had moved his hands and feet, the nature was different, this was equivalent to his territory, and no one else was allowed to get involved.

Although half of the cost of the inspection team was to be given to the military police headquarters and the special high school, Miura Saburo did not dare to embezzle all the money himself, which was a very stupid act, and he wanted to subsidize more than half of the funds of the military police headquarters.

For example, the officers and gendarmes under their command will be given daily allowances, living conditions will be improved, and they will be reimbursed for food, drink, and entertainment. Since it is a business-to-business matter, borrowing money is very easy to accept, at most it is just a complaint.