"Mingxiang, this is too outrageous, are they still shameless? Today is the opening celebration of our Yuchang Coal Company, and one by one it is blowing endlessly, is this regarded as a policy speech? Qi Ji asked Chen Mingxiang quietly in the crowd.

"Although you are very smart, you have never been a mixed officialdom, look at who is this person who speaks? Can be mixed with the current identity and position, which one is simple? ”

"On the one hand, this is to show the support and attention to me and Yuchang Coal Company, on the other hand, it is also to explain to the top and bottom, the coal shortage problem has been concerned by the Jinling government and the Japanese Xingya Institute, and it is normal to express its position, haven't you seen so many reporters taking pictures and recording the content?"

"Aji, you have to remember one thing, this group of people is not so simple in doing anything, the strange phenomena you see often have deep meanings, learn hard, you are still far away!" Chen Mingxiang whispered in her ear.

At half past eleven o'clock, the ribbon-cutting ceremony officially began, and a group of senior Japanese generals and Chen Gongbo walked up the steps to cut the red silk, and the applause around them was thunderous, and then they went to the banquet place to drink and eat.

The reporters all evacuated the scene and went to various briquette shops to interview and take pictures, and the half-hour time was a little nervous.

At 12 o'clock, the steward and his men of the briquette shop opened the scales to sell coal, and this time a total of 20 briquette shops and five briquette factories participated in the freight yards.

It doesn't need to be too cumbersome, every ten households are one A, and the first chief pays five quinquets, that is, one hundred and twenty-five yuan, and goes home to share it.

Chen Mingxiang's 10 stores, each store is 10 scales, selling 300 quincillettes per hour and 3,600 quinquettes per day, and it is expected to sell the first batch of briquettes within three days, and then replenish again, for a total of a week.

"They really want to play yin, and they just received news from the brothers that all the self-operated briquette shops under the Lianmei have stopped selling, and the external statement is that the supply is insufficient." Zhang Jinlu leaned over to Chen Mingxiang and said.

This is the banquet scene in Wang Baohe's restaurant, Chen Mingxiang's table is in a private room on the second floor, but all those who have seats are all big people who have stomped their feet and trembled in Shanghai, including senior Japanese generals, consul generals and Chen Gongbo.

Business war is also war, intelligence is the first, Chen Mingxiang directly used the resources of the secret service headquarters to order his subordinates to monitor the briquette shop of the United Coal, he never despised his opponents, even if he had a killer weapon in his hands.

Zhang Jinlu was just a small role in the Shanghai Experimental Area of the Secret Service Headquarters, and her seat was in the hall on the first floor, so she had to come over to report to Chen Mingxiang.

"Jun Chen, what's going on?" Taiji Ota, who was sitting next to him, asked curiously.

"Your Excellency General, this is the case, the intelligence officers of our secret service headquarters have reported that the self-operated briquette shop of the United Coal has closed its doors and stopped selling, which is to forcibly push 200,000 users to Yuchang Coal Company to buy coal and increase the pressure on our supply." Chen Mingxiang said.

The faces of several senior Japanese generals present did not change, and they all knew Chen Mingxiang's coping strategy, briquette sales were just a cover, and the real killer move would not come until three days later, and it would not be released in a short time, in order to gain market share for themselves.

"Is there a lot of inventory pressure on the United Coal?" Shiozawa Kiyonoshi asked with a smile.

It was he who came up with the idea to let Chen Mingxiang carry out a raid, but he didn't expect that Chen Mingxiang did a better job and solved the matter directly with coal, so he admired this guy very much, and the Shanghai market really needed such a person to be responsible for disrupting the situation and restraining and warning those unruly chaebols.

The question he asked is also very critical, even if the chaebols have money, the financial pressure caused by hoarding Juqi is uncomfortable enough, and the cost of producing briquettes naturally does not seem to be much, but this thing is calculated in 10,000 tons!

"Your Excellency General, according to my investigation, more than 30 coal companies in Shanghai have to import 50,000 tons of coal from North China every month in order to bear the sales of as many as 1 million quintals of briquettes per month in Shanghai.

"Their briquette reserves are not much, maybe only about two million quintals, but coal has been hoarded for at least four months, even if the price is low, it is not less than 500 yuan a ton, they do not have the coal subsidy policy of Xingyayuan, and they have to bear the military expenditure of the imperial army in central China, which is 20 million."

"I speculate that they have at least 100 million yuan of funds occupied, which is real money and silver liquidity, although they have more than 30 of them, they can't bear such a heavy burden." Chen Mingxiang said.

"Your plan is to hold on until December, and there are still three months to go, and this scene is not easy to perform!" Shiozawa Kiyonobu said.

If Chen Mingxiang wants to complete the supply of 1 million quintals, it will have to be at least in late November, and this gap will lead to two months, and there will not be enough briquettes sold in Shanghai, and the Xingya Institute is also a little worried about the consequences of this.

"Your Excellency General, since I dare to come up with such a trick and accept the heavy responsibility given by the empire, I have a way to survive, this comes from the investigation of consumption, why do I give each family half a load of briquettes, instead of a load of briquettes for daily needs?"

"The total consumption of the Shanghai market is one million quintals of briquettes, and I force the public to use only 500,000 quinquettes a month, because it is not yet winter, and half a quinquet can fully support a month's life, which is nothing more than eating a few less hot meals, which is much better than no briquettes to burn, right?"

"To be honest, the citizens should be satisfied with such a phenomenon before the arrival of winter, and the price is still cheap, and they can still enjoy such benefits at this time, and there is nothing to complain about."

"But in January, it won't work, although the Shanghai market is in the south, the temperature is still very low, if you can't buy enough briquettes, there will be big problems." Chen Mingxiang said.

When a table of people heard Chen Mingxiang's strategy, they immediately appreciated it, every move made by this guy was carefully considered, and it belonged to the way of planning and then acting, according to his operation, those businessmen must even have the heart to die in the end.

It's not that Lianmei can't think of selling coal directly to break the situation, but their thinking is businessman's thinking, and they always want to maximize their interests, in their eyes, Chen Mingxiang is also a businessman, how can there be money that doesn't make money, doesn't make briquettes and sells coal, the profit here is at least 40% worse, it's all money!

No one thought that the price war in the coal market had just begun, and Chen Mingxiang had set his sights on the salt market again, and the 2,000 tons of salt sent from Jincheng Port would soon land in Shanghai and central China.