In the French Concession, a secret radio station of the military command was cracked, and the personnel surrendered to the secret service headquarters after being arrested.

This is not surprising, he has a one-line contact with the bureau headquarters, and Boss Dai will not tell him that the direct radio station of the bureau headquarters is not a line, and it must not intersect, which is also a huge threat to Chen Mingxiang.

"Cracking the military command radio station, especially this kind of secret radio station directly under the headquarters, is a great achievement, why is there no rumor at all?" Chen Mingxiang asked.

"This matter has nothing to do with our operational corps, it is the intelligence provided to the secret service headquarters by a small minion in the urban area of Shanghai who is a military commander at the end of last year when he mutinied."

"Director Li handed over this task to Ma Xiaotian and Jin Hui of the Telecommunications Department, and after confirming the radio signal, the guard corps entered the concession and secretly arrested the people."

"Arrested on the same day, interrogated on the same day, mutiny on the same day, and going back on the same day to continue to send reports, it is estimated that the military command headquarters may still be in the dark." Zhang Jinlu said.

"This is a radio station secretly ambushed by the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau, and the two people in charge are specially collecting and buying intelligence, and even the military command of the Shanghai urban area does not know the exact point of this radio station, but the value is not high, that is, they have obtained a set of passwords of the Military Command Bureau, which is completely different from the one in the Shanghai urban area." Lin Zhijiang said.

Chen Mingxiang has nothing to do about it, this kind of latent radio station, not being discovered is the greatest protection, once it is cracked, it will have no value, and there is no oil and water to squeeze for one-line contact.

Although he felt sad, he had no intention of rescuing, unless he got the news in advance, no matter whether the two military commanders were real or false mutiny, they lost the need to rescue, and the underground work was so cruel.

Wan Lilang rarely spoke, Chen Mingxiang always felt that this product was his biggest enemy, and he seemed to have been observing himself.

During the period of lurking in Shanghai, he was only wary of two people, one was Wan Lilang and the other was Nanzao Yunzi, and the intuition of these two veteran agents was very scary, and they suspected that it was the agent's instinctive reaction.

The transaction between Huatong Trading Company and the Action Corps went smoothly, and the two hundred quintals of bristles were handed over to the Kodama agency by Chen Mingxiang, and according to his request, Kodama and Shifu gave a purchase price of 8,000 fiat currency, and each quintal made a net profit of 2,000 fiat currency, which was a profit of 400,000 yuan at a time, but unfortunately this kind of opportunity was rare.

"Boss Zhang, the purpose of my visit this time is very simple, that is, everyone cooperates in the production of cigarettes, I am responsible for tobacco and road transportation, you are responsible for production, and I will pay you processing fees and packaging fees." Chen Mingxiang came to a small cigarette factory in the concession.

During this period, the total cigarette production in the country was about 1.66 million cartons, of which the British American Tobacco Company accounted for 67 percent.

After the August 13 War, the Japanese army invaded and occupied the area outside the concession of Shanghai, and the cigarette industry in Shanghai suffered great losses, and nearly 30 national tobacco factories were destroyed one after another.

Some cigarette factories also moved into the concession after the war and continued to produce, and cigarettes were daily consumables with low profits but large sales.

However, in order to realize its ambition of dominating the Shanghai tobacco market, the Japanese army not only seized the equipment of the tobacco factory, but also listed tobacco raw materials as controlled goods, stipulating that tobacco sales must have a moving permit, and delayed the handling of the tobacco industry, which posed a great threat to the tobacco factories of the national industry.

"This is a good thing, of course I promise, Huatong Trading Company is famous in Shanghai, I know that Manager Chen also has such an ability, three textile factories in your hands to come back to life, tens of thousands of families get food and clothing, Shanghai business community is very appreciative of you!" Zhang Wenyan, the owner of Zezhong Tobacco Factory, was full of joy.

He is a wealthy businessman in Suzhou Province, because of the war, with his family property to the concession for refuge, used to do tobacco sales, built a few rows of houses in the concession, more than a year, did not put the sign out, seeing that the door was about to close, suddenly Chen Mingxiang visited, he couldn't help but be unhappy.

"This kind of cigarette uses Xuchang tobacco leaves as raw materials, there is no brand, it is divided into three types, a cigarette box with four words for the military police, a cigarette box for the navy for four words, and the third for the internal special supply of four words, the specific quantity depends on how much your cigarette factory produces daily." Chen Mingxiang did not answer.

"The cigarette factory has three imported English cigarette machines, and the output of each cigarette machine per hour is 60,000 cigarettes, if calculated according to 20 cigarettes, it is 3,000 packs of cigarettes, which are run around the clock, and in the case of enough tobacco, it can produce 72,000 packs, and three are fully open and guaranteed to be 200,000 per day." Zhang Wenyan said.

The Shanghai gendarmerie is composed of 1,000 people, and according to the calculation of 1,000 packs per day, it needs 30,000 packs of cigarettes a month, and if you add the same number of cigarettes to the marines every month, it is 60,000 packs of cigarettes, and the output of the cigarette factory in one day can meet the demand.

"I shipped Xuchang tobacco leaves from the first in the world, and the purchase price per kilogram is about one piece of five, and the three tons of oil for a car in Shanghai are one hundred and twenty yuan, which is converted into five cents and four yuan for one kilogram of tobacco leaves, how about the cost of our finished cigarettes?" Chen Mingxiang asked.

"A ton of tobacco can produce about 40,000 packs of 20 bottles, equivalent to 40 boxes per kilogram, more than three cents of tobacco leaves, plus cigarette boxes and artificial electricity, will not exceed a dime, now that prices are soaring, the value of fiat currency has plummeted, and we have to take out a dime and a half as a cost." Zhang Wenyan said.

This is a logical algorithm, and now with the depreciation of the fiat currency and the rise in prices, the wages of workers are basically around 35 yuan, and Chen Mingxiang remembers that there used to be cheap handmade cigarettes for a few cents a pack.

"I will give you two cents and five cents per box as the gross income of the cigarette factory, and at least 100 boxes will be produced per month, that is, 250,000 packs, and you will earn a dime per box, which is 25,000 yuan, but the cigarette box must be exquisite and high-grade, can it be done?" Chen Mingxiang asked.

"As long as Manager Chen's tobacco leaves can be supplied, there is absolutely no problem on my side, and 100 boxes is very easy." Zhang Wenyan said with a smile.

"30,000 packs for the military police, 30,000 for the navy, 25,000 for the internal special, a total of 30 boxes, and the other 70 boxes, all of which are played as the Bund card, and the cigarette box must have the scenery of the Bund." Chen Mingxiang thought for a while and said.

With such a scale of production, he has to provide 50,000 yuan for this investment every month, but the benefits he earns are definitely more than that.

Boss Dai needs to smuggle cigarettes to the Guotong area, 125,000 packs of cigarettes, each pack charges five cents, that is, 62,500 yuan, not to mention the capital earned, there is still a profit to be taken.

Households related to the Military Command Bureau can sell for seven cents or seven cents and five cents, and if they operate well, they can even sell for eight cents or nine cents, and the fiat currency is depreciating, and the price will naturally rise.