Chapter 43 The heart is powerless
Huatong Trading Company added two new cars, Chen Mingxiang began to learn how to drive under the guidance of Zhou Haiwen, the Zhou family as a wealthy businessman in Shanghai, Zhou Haiwen has long been an old driver.
"I am thinking of finding two good locations in the Shanghai market, opening two pharmacies, medicines, especially Western medicine, which are now more expensive than gold, and we will inevitably do such a transaction in the future, in order to cope with all aspects of inspection, it is also an excuse for the special high class, and this matter must be done in advance." Chen Mingxiang said.
"Brother, you are more suitable than me to be a businessman, you are right, now as long as you have the goods in your hand, you can sell as much as you want, all of them are settled in the gold ocean, such as sulfonamides, quinine, and aspirin tablets, which are all strategic materials embargoed by the Japanese, and they are also materials urgently needed by the national control area, I think it can be done." Zhou Haiwen said.
"Tomorrow I will go to the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany to contact the company, organize the supply of goods, you pay attention to the customers who come to the company to negotiate business, to see who has this relationship."
"We are divided into two steps, part of it is on the surface, and it is filed with the special high class, and part of it is our brother's, which is sandwiched in the goods and operated in the dark box, and the company has no overnight food, I feel panicked!" Chen Mingxiang said.
Huatong Trading Company is now a typical leather bag company, one is to use the customer's deposit to receive, the other is to use the supplier's goods to go far, it can also be said to borrow chickens and eggs, so it is not a long-term solution, the company must have liquidity.
In order to earn more money and increase one's value in the eyes of the Gendarmerie Command and the Special High School, the variety and scale of transactions must be increased.
The funds for the activities of the special high school have a specified purpose, and they can't get much if they want to be transferred, and they have to be reviewed by the regulatory department, so the secret service headquarters has no need to count on it, and he is still short of money, so Chen Mingxiang set his eyes on the medicine.
This is a strategic material that is expressly prohibited, and even if it is a special high school, it must be cautious, but fortunately, there is a precedent for the Mei organ to condone the exchange of materials between the secret service headquarters and the national control area, and Chen Mingxiang is not afraid that the special high school will not agree.
"The progress of our company's business is far lower than I expected, and such good conditions should not be such a success." Zhou Haiwen said with a frown.
"It's a normal thing, everyone is waiting, if the first business is done smoothly, you see, the next guest will step on the threshold." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.
He is not a businessman, but he understands the psychology of businessmen better than Zhou Haiwen, although Huatong Trading Company claims to have the right of inspection and passage of the military police headquarters, but this is lip service, and there is no actual example to prove it.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, the first transaction is to show the strength to the businessmen in Shanghai, and when everyone finds out that this is indeed the case, they are still worried about no business? It's a joke!
In just one week, 1,000 pieces of 20 pieces of cotton yarn were produced by the textile factory and transported to the wharf by truck.
Many merchants of sufficient weight in the Shanghai market sent people or personally came to watch the transaction, and they saw that the gendarmes in charge of the inspection at the wharf turned a blind eye to this scene, and the transaction was successfully completed.
"Mingxiang, I really told you to tell me, yesterday afternoon we just delivered goods to the merchants in the Guotong area, and in the evening the owners of several large textile factories came to my house, begging me to help them start work."
"Shanghai has experienced a lot of bombing and shelling, many textile mills have been blown up machinery, after the war the Japanese began to completely suppress the local textile industry, there are a large number of spindles idle, how do you think this matter is handled?" As soon as Zhou Haiwen got to work, he found Chen Mingxiang's office.
Before the war, there were more than 60 textile enterprises in Shanghai, accounting for more than 40 percent of the country's total share, and the textile industry was highly developed.
During the war, textile enterprises were greatly damaged, and many textile mills' machines and workshops were destroyed, which seriously affected the development and survival of the industry.
This is not the most deadly, Japanese enterprises rely on the power of the army, frantically grab machinery and materials, and forcibly buy shares in textile factories to achieve the goal of controlling the textile industry.
Cotton yarn and cotton are all embargoed materials, which fundamentally cut off the raw materials of the textile factory, resulting in the inability to start, and the products are also prohibited from being sold to the outside world, and the textile industry is tossed and miserable.
Fengchang Textile Factory caught the line of Huatong Trading Company and restarted production, which also made some of the textile enterprises that stayed in Shanghai see hope, Zhou Haiwen was the nominal deputy manager, so he found the Zhou family.
"You said it yourself, in order to dominate the market in Shanghai, the Japanese textile industry is trying its best to suppress the development of the local textile industry, how can I have the courage to snatch food from the dog's mouth?"
"If there are too many textile factories affiliated to the company, the special high school will not agree, and besides, those Japanese textile companies will sue us to the Japanese government when they see that their interests are damaged, and you don't have a strong backing, so don't stretch your hand too far."
"At most three, this is the limit, and you have to slowly attach one family to another, and the special high school has not tasted the sweetness of gold dollars, and it is not easy to speak now."
"Let those textile mills sell the spindles to Fengchang Textile Factory first, and then we will go all out to start work and strive to send out another 2,000 pieces by the end of the month, this number will be much more beautiful." Chen Mingxiang shook his head and said.
"Mingxiang, you just think of a way, a textile factory can bring living conditions to thousands of people, we are doing things for the Japanese, although most people don't know much, but they should know that they have to leave a way back, right?" Zhou Haiwen said.
Huatong Trading Company can have the right to pass without inspection, this is definitely the relationship between the military police headquarters, and the wealthy businessmen in Shanghai are all old and sophisticated figures, so they don't need to think about it to know what's going on.
Zhou Haiwen actually didn't want to be the deputy manager, and the young master of the Zhou family was not short of money to spend, but Chen Mingxiang was his good buddy, and with his father's strong persuasion, he was not openly a traitor, but just worked in Huatong Trading Company, and Chen Mingxiang was in front of him, so he agreed.
He has sympathy for the people of Shanghai in his heart, and he really wants to do something for his hometown through Chen Mingxiang, this old classmate is unfathomable, and there seems to be nothing that cannot be done.
"The tree is so big, you toss so much, you want to send me to the cusp, do you think this power is so easy? Do you think the Japanese can't find people to do things? Chen Mingxiang refused without hesitation.
He didn't know that revitalizing a textile factory could bring food and clothing to at least three or four thousand families, but the current situation was really powerless!
In the final analysis, he is an agent, and completing the tasks assigned by the headquarters is the right thing, and the establishment of Huatong Trading Company is only an auxiliary means of obtaining intelligence, and Boss Dai does not need him to save the national industry in Shanghai.