After Chen Mingxiang and Ding Mocun finished eating at Zhou Gaohai's house, they sat down for a few minutes and left, while Li Hongfeng stayed, and Chen Mingxiang didn't care about this.

Even Wang's puppet government is a puppet supported by the Japanese, just like he said, Huazhong Salt Company is also a puppet who listens to the instructions of the Japanese, and does not pose any threat to himself.

Besides, Zhou Gaohai has made huge profits from Chen Mingxiang in a year, and even the expenses of the little lover in Shanghai are borne by Chen Mingxiang, and he will not be overly biased towards Li Hong, and it is useless to be partial.

"Minister, Chen Mingxiang extracts 8,000 tons of salt from the Lianghuai Salt Works every month, according to our salt tax collection method, at least he can leave more than 8 million yuan himself, which is a lot of money!"

"I don't object to giving him a part of the reduction, and in the future, the company will require him to come forward for many things, but it can't be all exempted, right? He's made enough money! Li Hongfei grumbled.

According to the regulations on the collection of salt tax drawn up by the Salt Affairs Department of the Ministry of Finance, for every 100 catties of salt, it is necessary to levy 38 yuan and 9 cents of the Central Reserve Coupons, in addition, it is necessary to levy the Union Bank Coupon fee of 2 yuan and 4 yuan, the transfer fee of 2 yuan, and the revival fee of 3 cents, a total of 4 yuan and 7 cents, which is equivalent to 26 yuan and 1 dime of the Central Reserve Coupons.

That is to say, for each load of salt purchased, the salt merchant has to pay a fee of sixty-five yuan, and the wholesale of one pound of salt can now reach three yuan a piece, doubling the profit.

The cost of one ton of salt is 1,300 central reserve bonds, and 8,000 tons of salt is 10.4 million central reserve coupons, but Chen Mingxiang only paid 10 yuan a load and 200 yuan per ton, which is only 1.6 million yuan in central reserve coupons.

He became the chairman of the Huazhong Salt Industry Company to collect salt taxes for the Ministry of Finance of the Jinling government, and if he did not make any achievements, it would appear that he was too useless and his personal ability would be questioned.

It can also be known from this that Chen Mingxiang has grabbed a lot of profits in the salt industry, and now Haiyuan Salt Company is exercising its functions on behalf of Huazhong Salt Industry Co., Ltd., and he does not pay a dime, which is equivalent to earning more than 10 million yuan per month!

"Your way of settling accounts is wrong, Chen Mingxiang's Haiyuan Salt Industry Company is not his own, it involves all kinds of forces, including the Consulate General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Shanghai, the gendarmerie, the Mei organ, and the local Japanese garrison, in addition, the city government also scored a piece, why do you think he can be in Shanghai?"

"As far as I know, the monthly salt sales dividends, he is at most thirty percent, this has reached the top, the rest must be taken out as dividends, the salt industry is a huge profit, because people must eat salt, do not worry about no one to buy, the more such an industry is remembered."

"Don't continue to dwell on this problem, you have a right sentence, can you start negotiations as soon as possible, Chen Mingxiang's help is very important, take advantage of this rescue of those salt merchants, and give him a generous gift, you offend him not lightly, this guy has always been known for being cautious, the sooner the contradiction is resolved, the better." Zhou Gaohai said.

After Li Hong came out of the door of the Zhou family, he couldn't help but glance back, and then spit on the ground to vent his dissatisfaction.

During the period from the gendarmerie to the salt merchants, he has sent money and things here, and the value is millions, but when it really came to the critical time when he was needed, Zhou Gaohai actually refused to contribute, and lightly pushed the matter on his head.

The salt merchants are indeed rich, but they are not blown by strong winds, just the more than 10,000 tons of salt, the loss of each salt merchant is two or three million, plus this one, it is inevitable to break the muscles and bones.

Li Hongfei was very helpless, he agreed to cooperate with the Japanese businessmen of the North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd. to deal with Chen Mingxiang together, and it was indeed for the sake of the interests of the old salt merchants, and he planned to kick out the power of the Haiyuan Salt Company and strengthen the monopoly and control of the salt industry in central China.

But I didn't expect that those Japanese businessmen actually had diarrhea, and until now there has been no movement in North China, Chen Mingxiang's freighter still transported the second batch of salt to various places on time, which means that the Japanese businessmen in North China soaked him, and the soak was cold!

"Mingxiang, are you back, Boss Dai almost a day sends a telegram to inquire about the movements of the Japanese army, and directly asks you to find the target of the first round of attacks of the Eleventh Army."

"Secretary Pan also sent me two reports, saying that the Sixth Theater Command was also forced by the Japanese army's movements, and made an exception to send a telegram to the bureau headquarters twice, and even alarmed the commission, asking the Military Command Bureau to get this information at any cost." Wang Zhen said with a smile.

The military situation is like fire, and the Sixth Theater Command will be given one more day to deploy if it is reported one day earlier, and Chen Mingxiang cannot stay in Jinling for too long, the key is that he has not set up his own radio station here, so he returned to Shanghai the next day.

It seems that the commander of the 11th Army, Isamu Yokoyama, used his deception tactics very skillfully, and even the Sixth Theater Command was stunned, and he still doesn't know how to deal with it.

According to the information I have received, the operational plan of the 11th Army Headquarters of the Japanese Army this time is to attack Anxiang and Nanxian in the first round of attacks to open up a passage for the future attack on Wuling, and then launch an encirclement and suppression war against the 10th Group Army and Jiangfang Army in Songzi and Gong'an, the main purpose of which is to annihilate the army of the Sixth Theater."

"In view of the fact that the 11th Army Command has a too high level of secrecy about the plan, it is really impossible to find out the details, and the specific combat time is roughly in early May, and if there is any new information, it will be reported to the bureau headquarters."

"In addition, I have already made a tentative contact with Ding Mocun, and the other party hopes to abandon the secret and turn to the light and work for the Military Command Bureau, and the bureau headquarters can send someone to secretly contact him to enhance the intelligence force in Wang's puppet government." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.

It seems that Boss Dai's life is not easy, don't look at the fact that the Military Command Bureau is now proud, and has cooperated with the US Navy to set up a special technical cooperation institute, which seems to be red and purple.

But from the details of continuous questioning of intelligence, it can be known that Boss Dai is still very concerned about the relationship with Chen Cheng, and wants to use this way to narrow the distance between each other, reduce the hostile forces in the Shancheng government, and safeguard his vested interests.

However, Chen Mingxiang believes that the problem lies not in how much confidential information has been obtained, but in the nature of the Military Command Bureau itself, which has the power to enforce the law and has an astonishing number of troops, is destined not to be accepted by the major forces.

The military bigwigs prefer to see the Military Command as a purely intelligence agency rather than a secret service overseeing all sides. During the Anti-Japanese War, this contradiction would not have erupted, but after the victory, this situation would immediately disappear.

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