Whether it is the right to sell salt or the 30,000 pieces of cotton cloth this time, the fundamental reason comes from the Japanese government's new strategy against Wang's puppet government, otherwise there are absolutely not so many good things, even if you go out and step on dog shit, it is not something that can be stepped on every day.

After Chen Mingxiang "knew" the news, Taiji Ota could tell a little about the inside situation, although he had pointed it out, but it can be said that the core content of it was a sentence, increasing the materials necessary for the war was tantamount to plundering China's resources to support the war launched by Japan.

In order to reduce the hatred of the people in the occupied areas towards Japan, they also used the puppet government to assist Japan in obtaining strategic resources, involved the Wang puppet government in the forefront, and gave the power of material control, including the return of the military factory and the return of the concession, etc., to cover up the essence of their secret manipulation by deceptive means, and to hide behind the scenes to enjoy the results.

In the current readjustment of the new relations and new strategy, the Japanese Government and the Ministry of Military Affairs have made up their minds to crack down on the zaibatsu, and an important part of this is to break the pattern in which Japanese businessmen monopolize the economy and the people's lifeline.

Whether it is salt or coal, in the past, Japan's national enterprises exercised control power, and the Wang puppet government could not touch it at all.

But in fact, because these state-based enterprises are actually controlled by the chaebols, they are very disobedient, for example, the cotton price problem mentioned by Taiji Ota is a typical representative.

Of course, the Cabinet and the Ministry of War hope that the lower the price, the better, so that military spending can be reduced, and Japan's economy is about to collapse due to the war.

But the chaebol believes that even if it is a military need, it must earn a corresponding profit, and businessmen are not soldiers or government officials, and everything they do is for money and wealth, and they have also made great contributions to the war and should enjoy the resources and privileges brought by the war.

"In other words, when President Wang returns from his visit to Japan in December, around January, the implementation of the new strategy will begin?" Chen Mingxiang asked.

"You can think that the form is indeed the same as you said, but the handover procedures of the work are more complicated, not so fast, and the whole process will take about a year to complete."

"The garrison is somewhat dissatisfied with the decision of the military department, and it is not easy to promote it, and the manager department of the general headquarters of the dispatch army and the manager department of the front fleet command do not agree to completely hand over the power of material control to the Jinling government." Taiji Ota said.

The corruption and inefficiency of Wang's puppet government were the worries of the Japanese army, believing that it was better to hand over the power of material control to the administrative organs than to the commercial organizations formed by businessmen on both sides, and that Japanese businessmen must occupy the dominant power.

Under such circumstances, Wang's puppet government has a long way to go if it wants to take back this power, and it is by no means possible that the decision of the military department and the cabinet can be carried out smoothly.

"Your Excellency General, I will fly to Guanwai tomorrow, and I will hold a family banquet tonight to thank you for taking care of me, and please be sure to enjoy the light." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.

Everyone is about to leave Shanghai, and it is time to fulfill the promises he made before, and he must fulfill his words before the Japanese invaders are defeated.

"Of course, I am going through the work handover procedures with the Consulate General in Shanghai, and there is less than a month before I return to Japan, I am very happy to go to Chen Jun's house for a banquet, I will bring the bill of lading of this batch of cotton cloth, and in about twenty days, you will be able to pick up the goods at the warehouse at the port." Taiji Ota said with a smile.

He understood in his heart the meaning of Chen Mingxiang's invitation, and with this batch of cotton cloth, he would get a very huge fortune, and he would not have to worry about life problems in the second half of his life and several generations.

After Chen Mingxiang left the Central China Liaison Department of Xingya Academy, he did not go home, but came to Yunhua Restaurant, nominally asking the restaurant to deliver food to his family, but in fact he wanted to inform Zheng Tonghui of the information he obtained.

Generally speaking, he rarely asks for food like this, and it is also for his own safety, but Yunhua Restaurant is no problem, and Zheng Tonghui will definitely supervise it personally.

"Lao Zheng, I got information that around the 14th of this month, the 17th Division of the Japanese Army, the 15th and 36th Divisions of the Jinling Government, will carry out a sweep of the underground party base areas in the Lianghuai area and the Huaihai area." Chen Mingxiang said in Zheng Tonghui's office.

"I remember, thank you for the information, this is very important for our base, I will send the news home tonight, and in addition, the superiors ask when your trading house will start operating?" Zheng Tonghui said.

"I'm going to go to Guanwai tomorrow, and it will take about ten days to come back, if you have difficulties, you can say it in advance, there is no need to wait until the salt sales are settled." Chen Mingxiang said.

"The higher authorities gave me new instructions and were very supportive of the cooperation between our two sides in the field of salt, and since the implementation of the do-it-yourself production campaign, it can be said that the results have been remarkable, and the dependence on foreign countries has been reduced a lot, but it is still in a situation of lack of materials."

"At present, the urgent need is cloth, stationery, paper, hardware, dyes, radio parts and batteries and other materials, now the weather is slowly getting colder, the demand for cotton cloth is very large, although we have solved some of the problems of handmade textiles, there is still a big gap."

"What we mean is, if it's convenient for you, can you transport a certain amount of scarce materials to the base area in advance? You can rest assured, we use salt as a guarantee, and we will not miss you a penny. Zheng Tonghui said.

Since the two sides have begun to cooperate in the field of salt, the base has the confidence to ask Chen Mingxiang to ask, there is really no gold and silver, but the amount of salt can be completely guaranteed, it doesn't matter if you give more, anyway, it is impossible to do business with Chen Mingxiang, and it is impossible to suffer losses.

"Everything else is easy to say, I'll let the people of Huatong Trading Company prepare it later, but cotton cloth is the most troublesome, this kind of material can't be traded for the time being, it's not that I can't get it, but there are three textile factories in Suzhou, and I can always get two or three thousand pieces if I think of a way."

"But the problem is that the distance from Suzhou to the base area is too far, and the volume of the cloth is too large, it is easy to be discovered, in fact, a car can't carry much cloth, and the use of convoys to transport it is too conspicuous. Chen Mingxiang shook his head and said.

Zheng Tonghui also felt a headache when he heard this, he knew that Chen Mingxiang was right, the demand for cloth in the base area was too great, and there was no problem with three or five trucks of stationery paper or dyes, but this number of trucks would definitely not work, if there was a large convoy of more than a dozen cars, it would be really eye-catching, and it would inevitably not be suspected by the enemy, cotton cloth was a controlled material.

But winter is coming, and the fathers and villagers in the base area also have to make cotton clothes, and the army also has a demand, so what can I do?