When it comes to the huge benefits generated by the monopoly of the industry, everything is possible, even if the new strategy of the Japanese government cannot resist the pursuit of interests by the chaebols, and it is the nature and instinct of businessmen to seek profits, and they can even trample on any laws and rules.

Chen Mingxiang, who is a businessman himself, is not very angry at what these people are doing, and if it were not for the nature of the hostile relationship between the two countries caused by the war, his crackdown on Lianmei to manipulate the price of coal in Shanghai would also be a monopolistic act.

It is because of his cruel methods that only 10 of the original 34 Lianmei were left, and 24 Lianmei lost their own market, one is because of capital confrontation, and the other is because of administrative intervention, but often monopolies are created in this way.

"North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd. and Central China Salt Industry Company this time, it seems that they have to expel you from the Lianghuai Salt Farm and the Changlu Salt Farm, you are really arrogant enough, and you actually forced Japanese businessmen to join forces with the subordinate enterprises of Wang's puppet government." Wang Zhen said with a smile.

The North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd. is a national policy company of Japan, with shares of the government and businessmen, and the same is true of the Central China Salt Company, which has shares of the Ministry of Finance of the Wang puppet government and shares of salt merchants, and the nature is similar.

"This is not accurate, as long as there are interests, businessmen do not care whether there is a festival or not, not to mention, Huazhong Salt Company controls the Lianghuai Salt Farm, and the North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd. controls the Changlu Salt Farm, and there is no conflict between the two."

"The two of them mean not only to expel me from the Changlu Salt Farm and the Lianghuai Salt Farm, but to expel me from the entire industry and restore the previous monopoly pattern."

"Haiyuan Salt Company is quite hateful, Japanese businessmen have to pay taxes to the Japanese government, and they have to pay dividends to the Japanese government, and the same is true for the Central China Salt Company, but what about me, not to mention the 'occupy' salt pans and salt sales rights, no one can collect taxes from me, it is not a Japanese enterprise or an enterprise of the Wang puppet government, it is an enterprise with mixed forces."

"I admit that this move is a good move, but the problem is that the timing is a little too late, and Haiyuan Salt Company has its own background, businessmen can go crazy for profit, and the Japanese military police and spies are not worse than them for profit." Chen Mingxiang said.

The chaebol and the military are in a relationship of mutual use, and the chaebol is also pushing the Japanese government to launch this war, but Japan is not something that the chaebol can manipulate, and being influential does not mean that it can interfere with national policy.

Chen Mingxiang's words are very understandable, if the Japanese government's new strategy is not introduced, the influence of the chaebol will definitely be able to drive him out of the salt industry, and even the coal industry will be kicked out.

But now, it is really too late, and the new strategy promoted by the Japanese cabinet and the military department itself has the intention of warning the chaebol that everything must serve the war, but the chaebol has not contributed enough to the war because of its own interests, and has dragged the military department back.

After the Japanese army occupied China, it gave a large amount of resources to the chaebol for free and provided a large number of preferential policies, but the chaebol used the resources obtained by the war to collect money for themselves, and the price given to the military department was not low at all, which naturally aroused the disgust of the cabinet and the military department.

When local battlefields are lost, war resources are scarce, and material support is urgently needed, it cannot be completely relied on by the Japanese chaebol, and delegating power to Wang's puppet government also has this meaning.

"How are you going to deal with these two joining forces? The Kwantung Army's cotton cloth orders are only enough to maintain the operation of the first factory, and the second and third factories are preparing for closure, and salt will become our biggest source of income in the future. ”

"I think we should send a telegram to the first and second intelligence departments first, asking them to reduce their funds, reduce the bribery and infiltration of local puppet government officials and puppet armies, and focus on maintaining contacts and secretly developing, and the most important thing is intelligence. Wang Zhen said.

The number of people in the headquarters of the direct station is not large, but there are four intelligence departments below, all of which have to receive funds from the direct station. The salary is definitely not much, but the activity expenses are very high, and now it is a special period, and the money in the various occupied areas is depreciating.

In the past, the total funds of the 1,000 military commanders in the 1st District of the Military Command in Shanghai were only a few hundred thousand, but now an intelligence department directly under the station has to pay hundreds of thousands, and this is the evil result of rising prices. Think how much that's multiplied!

In the past, the funds of the directly subordinate station were deducted from the smuggling transactions between the Huatong Trading Company and the bureau headquarters, but this time it is different, the bureau headquarters does not need to return the money for five consecutive months, and it is used to make up the funds for the purchase of grain.

"It's okay to do this, those guys' appetites are used to me, and I'm more used to smashing people to death with money, this is not the right way, the situation is changing, and the old routines of the past have to be changed." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.

He knew what Wang Zhen meant, as the situation changed, he also had to do some protective measures for himself, Huatong Trading Company was too famous, and now all the forces of the Shancheng government did not know what was going on, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was estimated that it would definitely become a great threat.

From now on, we must start to lay out, slowly digest those industries that cause trouble, and then save a part of them and transfer them to the industries of the Military Command Bureau, as long as Boss Dai testifies for him, no one dares to trouble him.

But the most difficult thing is also because of Boss Dai, this person is not easy to deceive, there must be real proof, the two earliest intelligence departments must have the eyes of the bureau headquarters, and compressing the funds for the intelligence department is equivalent to transmitting information to the bureau headquarters in disguise.

"This is Bei Zeping's file, circulate the photos to the Intelligence Section and the Operations Section, he has come to Shanghai, you must keep an eye on him, every move must be recorded, including who he has seen, where he has been, if he can take photos, take them hard, don't feel sorry for the film."

"Let me tell you, the people in the intelligence group of the Mei agency will leave it alone for the time being, and they will also give up other tasks for the time being, and concentrate all their energies on monitoring Kitazawa Ping for me." Chen Mingxiang pointed to the file sent by Yoshiko Kawashima and said.

Maybe it's an intuition from the same agent, he clearly feels that the arrival of this Kitazawa Ping will cause great trouble, and the other party is like a poisonous snake hidden in the dark, and he doesn't know when he will come out and bite himself.

And his biggest advantage at present is that he knew the information of Kitazawa Ping in advance, and this guy didn't know that he was being monitored, and before announcing his appointment, he was not so cautious about his activities, and maybe he could gain something.