The plane landed at Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai, and Chen Mingxiang finished his work in Guanwai and Jincheng.

"This time I went to the Guanwai to carry out the mission, Chen Jun worked hard, I will go to the headquarters of the 13th Army with you and make a brief report to Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru." Kinoshita Eichi said with a smile.

This time, he personally went to the airport to pick up the plane, and the purpose was to take Chen Mingxiang to the headquarters of the 13th Army to report on the material exchange agreement between the Huatong Trading Company and the Kwantung Army Headquarters.

"His Excellency General Lao came in person, and his subordinates are ashamed, but fortunately, I have gained a little this time, so as not to live up to the trust of His Excellency the General." Chen Mingxiang said respectfully.

"Oh, it's not easy to say the words that are slightly harvested from your mouth, let's go, go to the car and talk to me." Kinoshita Sakae's eyes lit up.

Chen Mingxiang has always been low-key and humble, never commenting on his achievements, he said this, it is definitely not a slight gain, but a lot of gain.

This is necessary to clarify the concept that the entire military police headquarters in Shanghai will benefit from the dividends of the Huatong Trading Company, while the companies that Chen Mingxiang himself privately opened, such as the coal company and the salt company, only the high-level of the military police headquarters have dividends.

Shigeru Sawada, the famous one-eyed dragon lieutenant general of the Japanese army, met with Chen Mingxiang in the commander's office and carefully read the material exchange agreement signed by the Huatong Trading Company and the Kwantung Army Command.

The original is at the company's headquarters, which is a copy used by the Shanghai Military Police Headquarters for the record, and Sawada Shigeru made a special inquiry about some of the details, while Chen Mingxiang answered in detail.

"Chen Jun's grasp of the heat is very accurate, and I also appreciate it very much, first of all, we must ensure that the material supply of our 13th Army will not be reduced too much, and then we can exchange with the Kwantung Army."

"In fact, this cooperation is also a good thing, at least you can get a large amount of cotton yarn as capital, just implement it according to this agreement, I will greet the following divisions and regiments, and facilitate the transportation of your materials." Shigeru Sawada said.

Chen Mingxiang is a smart man, he knows that his foundation is in Central China, so he first guaranteed the supply of materials for the 13th Army, which shows that he was not blinded by the temptation of interests.

"Sawada-kun, because the war consumption is too large, resulting in a shortage of logistics supplies in the empire, whether it is the military or merchants, most of the ships have been requisitioned, and the daily consumption of Shanghai has been affected, including our expatriates."

"I hope that the headquarters can send a letter to the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy, requesting that coal and salt in North China be requisitioned to make up for this deficiency and ensure that normal life is not disturbed." Kinoshita Eichi said.

If we want to talk about tension, the difficulties in the supply of materials in the Japanese-occupied areas are certainly not so obvious, and the rationing system suffers from the common people in Shanghai, and the impact on the Japanese expatriates is very small.

Japanese businessmen in Shanghai must first ensure the needs of their own expatriates, which is a mandatory condition, and the Consulate General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Shanghai is staring at it!

However, it is also a fact that there is a shortage of salt and coal, and the key lies in the serious shortage of ships in this period, because the military ships are not enough for themselves because they have opened up the battlefield in Southeast Asia, and the merchants' civilian ships have been requisitioned by the military department and the government to transport urgently needed food and materials, and the inventory has also reached an urgent time.

The headquarters of the 13th Army is the emperor of the entire Shanghai market, and it is responsible for responding to these situations, and Kinoshita Sakae's request is also reasonable, but his purpose is to add an extra layer of insurance to Chen Mingxiang's business.

"Yes, I will immediately send a written request to the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy in the name of the headquarters, and you can take it directly to General Taiji Ota, these materials are the main production area in North China, but our relationship is a little unclear for unknown reasons, and it is more convenient to coordinate within the Xingya Academy." Shigeru Sawada said.

He didn't care about this trivial matter, and as for whether the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy wanted Chen Mingxiang to operate it, it was not within his scope of concern.

"Your Excellency General, I know that you are of noble character and dare not offend with vulgar things, this is the wild ginseng I brought back from the Guanwai area, it is very old and very precious, and it may not be able to be bought with money, it is a little heart." Chen Mingxiang took out a wooden box from his bag.

Wild ginseng is indeed true, this is the semicolon of the tea shop in Bingcheng, I got a few by chance, but the age is not far away, about twenty or thirty years, and the weight is not very heavy, if it is more than half a catty of hundred-year-old ginseng, Chen Mingxiang is reluctant to give it away, but it is inevitable to brag.

"Thank you Chen Jun for your love, I will accept it, the wild ginseng outside the gate has long been heard, this is a life-saving treasure, for me, it is much more precious than those gold and silver jewelry." Shigeru Sawada is very satisfied.

His health is not very good, his eyes are getting worse, it is really not uncommon to give him dollar gold bars, Chen Mingxiang's gift is considered to be his favorite, and it was delivered to the point.

As a result, the official letter from the 13th Army Headquarters to the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy became a designation of the Military Police Command in Shanghai to be responsible for solving the matter of daily necessities, which created an opportunity for Chen Mingxiang in disguise, and the tasks accepted by the Military Police Command must be handed over to Chen Mingxiang to handle.

When I got home, it was already afternoon, smelling Chen Mingxiang's alcohol, Wang Zhen hurriedly made him tea, girls are easy to have a strong sense of dependence on the man they like, although she is also a female agent carefully cultivated by the Military Command Bureau, but Chen Mingxiang left these days, she is still a little uncomfortable.

"There's nothing important here in Shanghai, right?" Chen Mingxiang asked with a teacup.

"Lao Zheng came to look for you once, and when he heard that you hadn't come back yet, he left in a hurry, and under my questioning, he had to tell me that it was a couple of husband and wife intelligence officers of the underground party, who were arrested by the gendarmerie and are currently being tortured in the prison of the gendarmerie headquarters." Wang Zhen said.

"Now I can't do anything, unless I can withstand the torture of the gendarmes and be transferred to the prison in the experimental area of the secret service headquarters in Shanghai, I can do something to release people openly, food is so tight, there are so many prisoners in the prison, this is a waste of resources."

"At noon today, I, Taiji Ota, and Katsuo Okaki had dinner, and in view of the fact that the coal quota of the North China Liaison Department could not be used to make briquettes, the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Institute asked me to allocate 20,000 tons from my own share of coal as power coal in Shanghai, and for this purpose, I will be subsidized by 20 US dollars per ton, which is 400,000 US dollars."

"In view of the requirements of the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession, I will produce 300,000 quintals of briquettes every month, which is equivalent to 15,000 tons, and the subsidy is 10 US dollars per ton, that is, 150,000 US dollars. Chen Mingxiang said.

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