Chapter 676 Countermeasures to Solve the Coal Shortage
With the rank of director of the Central China Liaison Department and vice admiral of the Empire, Taiji Ota personally rushed to Beiping, and the head of the North China Liaison Department of the Prosperity Academy, to be precise, should be the vice minister, Major General Shiozawa Kiyonobu, of course, had to go to the airport to greet him, which was also the first time Chen Mingxiang set foot on the land of Beiping.
Yang Junchu, the manager of the Beiping branch, also waited on the side of the airport's runway with two company employees and a truck.
They arrived in Beiping at noon the day before yesterday and stayed in a hotel for the time being, and the Central China Liaison Department had already informed the North China Liaison Department of this incident, otherwise, they would not be qualified to enter the Japanese airfield.
"It seems that the business of our branch in North China will not be subject to too much difficulty, look at the energy of the boss, it is actually the plane that got off with the vice admiral, the relationship is still so familiar, the Japanese general who picked up the plane, it is said that the rights in the entire North China region are very tough." A clerk said in a low voice.
"Aren't you talking nonsense? If the boss didn't have this kind of upper-level relationship, he would dare to open the branch to Beiping? This is Major General Shiozawa Kiyonobu of the North China Liaison Department of the Koya Academy, and as long as he does business in North China, he must accept his management. ”
"You don't know the origin of this truck, it's a big Zuo of the North China Dispatch Army Command of the Japanese Army, greeting the people sent from the headquarters, and the boss's network can scare people to death." Yang Junchu said with a smile.
Although after the establishment of the Wang puppet government, it was renamed the North China Political Affairs Committee of the Wang puppet government, but it was only changed to a different name, and Wang Jingwei could not command this group of traitors in North China at all.
At first, the big traitor Wang Kemin presided over this so-called political affairs committee, but with the support of the Japanese army in North China, he not only operated the North China region impenetrably, and the Jinling government could not penetrate at all, but also treated Wang Jingwei very disrespectfully.
For this reason, he soon tasted the bitterness, and was overthrown by Wang Jingwei, the No. 1 traitor in China, and removed from the post of chairman of the Political Affairs Committee.
At present, the chairman of the puppet North China Political Affairs Committee is Wang Jitang, who is also a big traitor, who once served as a high-ranking official in Anhui Province during the Beiyang government, and also won a knighthood, and later defected to the Japanese invaders, visited Japan, and met the Japanese emperor.
Since I came to Beiping, I have to talk about the mayor of the puppet government in Beiping, who studied at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and once served as the chief of the Beiping police of the Yamashiro government and the mayor of Ludao City, called Yu Jinxiao.
"Your Excellency General, welcome to Beiping!" Shiozawa Kiyonobu said with a smile.
"Shiozawa-kun, let me introduce to you, this is Chen Mingxiang Chen Jun, he has too many part-time jobs, I won't explain them one by one, the manager of the Huatong Trading Company, a military management enterprise of the Military Police Command in Shanghai, specializes in purchasing strategic materials for the imperial army in central China, and has been awarded the second-class Ruibao Heavy Medal by His Majesty the Emperor." Taiji Ota said with a smile.
In the eyes of the Japanese army, no matter how many part-time jobs Chen Mingxiang had, it was secondary, and the most important thing was the position of the military police headquarters.
"Your Excellency General, I am no stranger to Chen Jun's name, the North China Dispatch Army Command is very envious of the troops in Central China, it is because of a rare talent like Chen Jun that military supplies save a lot of trouble, and even the imperial army in North China has to rely on the material support of Central China." Shiozawa Qingxuan said with a smile and bowed slightly to Chen Mingxiang.
"Thank you for the praise of His Excellency the General, I am ashamed, this small achievement is really not worth mentioning, I will do business in North China in the future, and please support His Excellency the General, if there is anything that is not in place, please bear with His Excellency the General!" Chen Mingxiang said, bowing deeply.
The airport is not a place to speak, and the North China Liaison Department came with four cars and two trucks this time, Chen Mingxiang himself in a car, two Japanese generals in a car, Taiji Ota's entourage in a car, Chen Mingxiang's entourage in a car, and the two trucks were all Japanese military police, responsible for protection and vigilance work.
Chen Mingxiang brought a batch of high-quality tea and silk this time, as well as a batch of red wine and cigars, as well as special cigarettes.
Yang Junchu put the specially marked gifts into the trunks of the four cars of the North China Liaison Department, and the rest on the trucks he drove.
The North China Liaison Department of Xingya Academy is located in the east courtyard of the Tieshi Hutong compound in Beiping, which is an official office of the original Beiyang government, and the west courtyard is the headquarters of the North China Dispatch Army.
The interior has been remodeled in a Japanese style, and Shiozawa Kiyonobu's VIP meeting room is also a sliding door with tatami mats on the floor.
After entering the house, Shiozawa Kiyonobu thanked Chen Mingxiang for the gift while making tea.
This time, he got two catties of high-quality Longjing tea, two horses of high-quality Hangzhou silk, a box of cigars and two boxes of French red wine, and the North China Liaison Department got 100 barrels of special cigarettes in iron barrels.
"Shiozawa-kun, the days of your North China Liaison Department are much stronger than our Central China Liaison Department, the industrial and commercial strength of Shanghai occupies half of China, but it is accompanied by frequent problems, the contradictions between the military and the chaebol, and the relationship is getting worse and worse, and I am troubled by a bunch of every day."
"Chen Jun followed me to Beiping this time to handle the coal business, the purpose is not to seek money, this is the meaning of the headquarters of the military police stationed in Shanghai, the intention of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government, the meaning of the Central China Liaison Department and the Ministry of Public Concession Bureau, the coal shortage problem has caused a serious threat to the Shanghai market."
"Everyone is their own people, I won't say anything about the scene, the coal shortage in Shanghai is, in the final analysis, it is actually those coal merchants in the empire, in order to seek more benefits, the coal merchants of the United Chinese businessmen, artificially created, it is really embarrassing!" Taiji Ota said helplessly.
Although the responsibility cannot be completely placed on the heads of the Japanese coal merchants, the problem is that the distribution of coal is in the hands of the Japanese merchants, and it is not interesting to cover it up.
"Your Excellency General, the contradiction between the military department and the chaebol has never stopped, and this is nothing new, and I also have a deep understanding of the North China Liaison Department, and there are also contradictions brought about by interests here."
"The North China Development Company, which is managed by the North China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy, has repeatedly had conflicts with Japanese chaebols such as Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Okura for the pricing of coal, and we hope that the price of coal shipped back to China will be lower to increase some benefits for the people in China, but the chaebols do not think so."
"Those merchants are short-sighted, no, it should be said that they can't see anything but money, how can they have an empire in their hearts? Enjoying the resources brought by the military, but refusing to contribute to the empire, not making enough money in Huaxia, and making money on the goods of their own country, they are all a bunch of bastards! Shiozawa Kiyotoshi shook his head with a wry smile and said.