Last year, that is, in the 31st year of the Republic of China, more than 633,000 tons were robbed of the Changlu salt field alone, and this year's target has declined, and the minimum requirement is 500,000 tons, that is because the output of the Lianghuai salt field and the output of the salt field in Lu Province are slowly increasing, and the demand pressure for raw salt has been reduced.

In terms of output, it is not difficult to achieve the goal of maintaining an annual output of more than one million tons in the face of the frenzied expansion of the salt pans by Japanese businessmen.

But Chen Mingxiang intervened, and his two salt pans would take away one-sixth of the sales volume in a year, which would inevitably affect the interests of the North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd.

"Since the empire launched this war to invade China, there has been a sharp contradiction between the chaebol and the military and even the government, we as merchants pay taxes to the empire and provide the materials needed for the war, but the ultimate goal is to make money!"

"How can there be such a good thing that the imperial government and the military ministry want us to serve the war effort, and on the other hand want to implement a policy of détente in the occupied areas, reduce the hostility of the local people, and stabilize the rule of the puppet regime, and will this give us a way to live?" Said a representative of Mitsui.

The North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd., which is responsible for monopoly business such as salt production and sales, is affiliated with the national policy company set up by Japan in North China, that is, the North China Development Company, and half of the shareholders of the North China Development Company are the Japanese government, half are Manchurian Railway from outside the Guan, and there are also large chaebols such as Sumitomo, Mitsui, and Mitsubishi.

The Japanese government only has administrative agencies in the occupied areas, such as the former North China Liaison Department of the Xingya Yuan and the current Consulate General in Beiping, and does not participate in the actual operation.

In other words, the salt industry in North China is completely in the hands of the chaebols, and now that Chen Mingxiang has taken away the salt works from them, it naturally touches their interests.

"What the Consulate General in Beiping said is good, this is a temporary strategy, when the salt shortage in Central China is alleviated, Haiyuan Salt Company will return the salt fields, who will deceive?"

"What is salt, a profitable daily necessities, Haiyuan Salt Company can spit out the meat that eats in the mouth? In the other party's mouth, can the salt shortage in Central China be alleviated? Sumitomo's representatives also felt that this was too much of a.

Everyone is doing business, who doesn't know what's going on, what temporary, what salt shortage, that's all liars! The end result must be that the "salt shortage" has always existed, and the salt pans have been borrowed "temporarily", and they will do the same.

The salt field in northern Jiangsu in central China is also called the Lianghuai salt field, not without raw salt, you salt merchants in central China came to our north China to grab meat to eat, what is this matter?

"On the surface, North China has the best Changlu salt farm, but the salt control and rationing work in North China has led to a large-scale salt shortage, high salt prices, and salt smuggling and salt grabbing have occurred from time to time, which has caused turmoil in social order."

"The cabinet and the military department don't want to see this phenomenon, and hope that North China will be stabilized, so they will push these problems on us, why Chen Mingxiang was able to get two salt pans from the Changlu salt field is because the Consulate General in Beiping implements the new policy of the empire, which is also a warning to us!" This was stated by the representative of Mitsubishi.

In the past, these things must have existed, but the Japanese cabinet and the military department did not care, they regarded the Changlu Salt Works as the production place of industrial raw materials, as well as the production of civilian materials, as long as they could meet the domestic demand, the people in North China lived or died, they did not care!

What's more, national policy companies such as the North China Development Corporation are jointly run by the government and the chaebols, and they do not use material control methods to plunder resources on a large scale, so how can the companies make profits and dividends, and the chaebols cannot get benefits, how can they pay taxes to the government, and how can they support this war?

But now it is different, the Japanese government feels its own threat, and hopes to use North China as a long-term supply base, and needs a relatively stable social environment, in order not to hinder the long-term plundering of resources, salt is a continuous renewable resource.

The chaebols certainly don't accept this, and if they want to meet the government's demands, they have to reduce their own profits, and what are they investing money in this company for? Those who don't make money to contribute are philanthropists!

"This is a typical black pot for us, I admit that in the salt control and salt rationing, the North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd. has obtained certain benefits, but the country draws hundreds of thousands of tons of raw salt from the Changlu salt field every year, and the North China Front Army transfers more than 100,000 tons of salt every year, which is the problem."

"We can't let these businessmen send raw salt to the country for free, we also need production costs, and if we can't make profits locally, we have to get it from the occupied areas, if the price of salt is not high, where will the money come from?" Said a representative of Mitsui.

There are two large salt farms in North China, one is the Changlu Salt Farm, which is the largest salt farm in the country, and the other is the Lu Provincial Salt Farm, which accounts for two-thirds of the country's salt production in North China.

Such abundant conditions are abundant, but all cities and counties in North China are full of salt shortages, and there are many reasons why such a phenomenon exists.

First of all, although the total amount of salt in the salt works has increased, the supply to North China has decreased, and more than half of the salt production has been purchased and transported to Japan by Japanese merchants at low prices for industrial and living needs.

Secondly, the salt merchants who originally existed in North China went bankrupt and closed down one after another under the pressure of the Japanese pseudo-Japanese and various taxes, and those traitorous salt merchants not only implemented the Japanese pseudo-salt rationing regulations, but also privately lowered the price to make huge profits, and the common people could not afford to eat salt.

In addition, the gendarmerie and police in various localities, as well as large and small material control agencies and traitor organizations, also make profits in salt, and the so-called salt rationing is very arbitrary, and the salt applied for purchase often does not even reach one pound of coarse salt per person per month.

"Net talking some useless, we can't sit idly by, we have to snatch the salt field back, how can the best place in the Tanggu salt field fall into his hands?" This was stated by the representative of Mitsubishi.

"It will definitely not work if he comes hard, he is now carrying out the instructions of the Consulate General in Beiping, and he clearly wants to make trouble, but we also have our own advantages, and the raw salt needs of the country and the army are in our hands, and we are qualified to bargain."

"In addition, I heard a news, Chen Mingxiang's behavior in the two Huai salt farms, the newly established Huazhong Salt Company is also very dissatisfied, I have invited the person in charge Li Hongfei to come to Jincheng for talks, this time the two sides are united, must give him a painful lesson!" said the head of the North China Salt Industry Joint Stock Company.