Jincheng is not only a special city of the Shancheng government, a special city of the Wang puppet government, but also a special city of the North China puppet government.

Since the Qing government in 1860, Britain first set up concessions in Jincheng, and successively France, Germany, Japan, the United States, Italy and other countries set up concessions, but the American concessions, German concessions, Russian concessions, Austrian concessions and Belgian concessions have all been recovered for various reasons.

The British Concession and the French Concession are the most prosperous places in Tianjin, especially the earliest development of the British Concession, there are two commercial areas of Xiaobailou and Huangjia Garden, and the number of foreign banks is as many as hundreds.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the British Concession had been occupied by the Japanese army, and the assets of factories, companies and foreign firms were confiscated, and now they are occupied and operated by Japanese merchants, except for the French Concession and the Italian Concession.

At the headquarters of the Japanese military police stationed in Jincheng, near the Haiguang Temple in the Japanese concession, Chen Mingxiang and Yuri Yuri Yutaro sat in the car of the Peiping military police and took more than four hours to arrive at the military police station under the protection of two trucks full of military police.

This is a barracks, originally the location of the headquarters of the Japanese army in North China, and later moved to Beiping, where it became the station of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army, and the division commander was Lieutenant General Kumayoshi Harada.

"By Lijun, when passing by the British Concession and the French Concession, I seem to have a feeling of returning to Shanghai, but if you have time, you can go to Shanghai City, the French Concession here is a bit shabby, go to see the French Concession in Shanghai, that is the real prosperity." Chen Mingxiang said when he got out of the car.

"I've also been to Shanghai a few times, but I didn't find a chance to go around, since Chen Jun said so, I must go to the French Concession to see, the largest international city in the Far East, a bright pearl, Jincheng can't be compared!" Yuri said with a smile.

Major General Otozaburo Yano, who is currently supervising the work of the gendarmerie in Tsushiro, is mainly responsible for transporting ore, grain, cotton, salt, and coal from North China to Japan, and secondly, to force laborers to work as coolies in Japan, Nanyang, and Manchukuo, and to rob local copper and iron as military supplies.

"Your Excellency the General is waiting for you two in the reception room, Chen Jun, I'm Naohiro Murano, the military police captain of Jincheng!" A gendarme came out of the office building and said.

"Murano-kun, it's a great honor to meet you, and I still need the help of you and the gendarmerie in my business activities in Jincheng in the future." Chen Mingxiang bowed and said, people also bowed to him!

In terms of value, Naohiro Murano is obviously higher than Yuri Taro, most of his goods in North China basically have to be transported from Jincheng Port to Shanghai or Zhenjiang, therefore, the Jincheng gendarmerie is the biggest dependence and guarantee, this devil must make friends.

Yano Otozaburo was wearing a general's official uniform, kneeling on the tatami mat, and there was a set of exquisite ceramic tea sets on the table in front of him.

"Chen Jun, although it is the first time we have met, I have long heard of your name, you have purchased materials for the imperial army, and you have also received a medal awarded by His Majesty the Emperor, and every time you go to the headquarters for a meeting, Kinoshita-kun is always full of praise for you, please take a seat!" Otozaburo Yano said with a smile.

"I just did a little thing for the Imperial Gendarmerie and didn't dare to be praised by His Excellency the General, and General Kinoshita also asked me to convey his greetings to you." Chen Mingxiang hurriedly said.

After sitting down, a beautiful woman in a kimono actually came in and poured tea for the people present, which also made Chen Mingxiang feel very strange, he had not seen a woman at the military police headquarters in Shanghai.

"This is the gendarmerie infirmary, not an orthodox soldier, but she is very good at the tea ceremony, so every time a guest comes, she is called to be in charge of making tea." Naohiro Murano explained.

Chen Mingxiang nodded, signaling that he knew that the medical soldiers did exist, and there were quite a few of them, so there was nothing strange about it.

"In the past two days, I have spoken with General Shiozawa Kiyonobu on the phone several times, and Kinoshita-kun has also sent me a few telegrams, and I already know about your arrival in North China to carry out the tasks of the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy, as well as to carry out commercial activities."

"The order of Xingyayuan also represents the will of the empire, and the command of the gendarmerie sent to North China will definitely be carried out, I have contacted the Kailuan Coal Mine in Phoenix City, and the coal has begun to be loaded and transported, and all the coal can be transported to Jincheng Port within a week."

"Shiozawa-kun said that in order to crack down on the coal merchants in Shanghai and completely reverse the coal market, you have to open several briquette factories in Jincheng, directly produce them and then ship them to Shanghai to solve the problem of coal shortage, and the Jincheng gendarmerie will help you."

"As long as it is a briquette factory within the scope of Jincheng, a little bit of scale, the gendarmerie will come forward to implement temporary management, specially for you to make briquettes, the land near Jincheng Port, you look at it, I will greet the city government, I don't have to pay a penny, go through the procedures directly."

"The transportation fleet of Jincheng Port will also provide you with some convenience, transport coal to the designated place, and also help you transport briquettes to the port for loading." Otozaburo Yano said.

The important links of coal, transportation, and production sites were all solved in three days, and the efficiency of the Japanese army was really high, and if it were replaced by those bureaucrats of the Jinling government, it was estimated that it would not be able to do it in 30 days!

The problems I am worried about are no longer a problem, but there is one most important question, what is the problem?

Of course, it's the distribution of benefits!

The reason why the North China Military Police Command is so active in providing resources is, of course, that it values Chen Mingxiang's ability to make money and wants to obtain the same long-term rich profits as the Military Police Command in Shanghai.

"If I want to bring down the coal market in Shanghai, I have to sell at least 10,000 tons of briquettes every month, and the profit per ton is about 200 yuan, which is equal to 2 million Chinese reserve bonds, and the gendarmerie can get 20%, that is, 400,000 Chinese reserve bonds."

"For example, the purchase price of cotton in North China is about 80 yuan, and the price of shipping to Shanghai is 240 yuan, excluding freight, the profit of 10,000 quintals per month is 1 million, and the help of the gendarmerie can get 40 percent, which is also 400,000 yuan."

"Another example is salt, the cost of shipping a ton from the Jincheng area is 38 yuan, and the salt tax is about 300 yuan, but if it is transported to Central China, the sales per ton is about 3,200 yuan, excluding various expenses, 2,000 tons per month is equal to a net profit of 5 million, according to the distribution of 30%, it is equal to 1.5 million!"

"I dare to say so, if the gendarmerie can relax the restrictions, I can pay the gendarmerie command at least two million a month when the supply is sufficient, it will only be more, not less!" Chen Mingxiang said.

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