In North China under the occupation of the Japanese invaders, salt rationing was done by two aspects, unlike Central China, which was simpler, in addition to the salt merchants in various regions, there was also a traitor organization called the Xinmin Association to stir up trouble and poison the common people.

On the 24th of December of the 26th year of the Republic of China, under the guidance of Seiichi Kita, the head of the special service of the Japanese North China Front, the Xinmin Association was established and manipulated by the Japanese army behind the scenes.

This force was mainly composed of Chinese people in the occupied areas, and of course, from the chairman to the grassroots leaders, all of them were traitors, who "hired" the Japanese as advisers, and called them "popular organizations" to the outside world.

The chairman of the puppet Xinmin Association is the chairman of the puppet North China Political Affairs Committee, and each province has a guidance department, usually a puppet high-ranking official who is also the minister, and there are provincial offices and county and city guidance departments below the provincial level.

The puppet Xinmin Association has a very large influence in North China, which was occupied by the Japanese puppets, and even all walks of life, schools, and groups have established grassroots organizations, which are simply pervasive, and are characterized by wide distribution and many members, integrating mass organizations and administrative organs.

Cooperatives, which refer to the organizations controlled and established by the Xinmin Association during the occupation, and the lowest units even reached the village level, which were instructed by the Japanese army to be established by the Xinmin Association in order to facilitate the control of rural resources, especially in order to rob the rural food and materials.

On December 24, the 30th year of the Republic of China, the puppet North China Political Affairs Committee promulgated the "Interim Regulations of the North China Cooperation Association" and formally established the North China Cooperation Association, which was the beginning of the implementation of the rationing system in North China, and salt was one of them.

The reason why the so-called Xinmin Association cooperatives are mentioned is to point out the salt rationing and supply system in North China on the Japanese side, and the Changlu Salt Farm controlled by the North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd. distributes salt to the salt merchants' associations in various places.

However, under the rationing system, salt merchants only serve as a transit for salt, and in places like urban areas, they still have a certain right to sell, and in the rural areas, the Xinmin Association cooperatives have to bear the responsibility.

If the people in the county and rural areas want to eat salt, they must first be counted by the chief and then go to the county-level material countermeasures committee to obtain a salt purchase certificate, and then take this certificate to the salt industry and buy it from the salt sales association, which requires a certificate from the local police station to meet the population number.

The salt industry also has to rely on the number of people in the jurisdiction, including villages, households, ages, etc., to make an application form to the material countermeasures committee to obtain a salt purchase permit, and then go to the salt merchant to pay the money, receive the salt purchase slip and road ticket, and only after the salt police check can you get the salt.

The last pass is the inspection of the police and the gendarmerie, of course, the police are under the command of the gendarmerie, how much salt to buy, whether you can get how much salt, this is all up to the gendarmerie to decide, you buy a hundred catties, the gendarmerie will say to give you a catty, do you dare to argue with the gendarmerie?

After saying so much, in the relationship between the three, the North China Salt Industry Co., Ltd. is the weakest, the gendarmerie is stuck in the back two links, and the chaebols can only stare dryly, and if there is salt, it has to be sold for money, and it is nothing to pile it in the salt field!

"This method that General Yano said, I think it is the most practical way of operation, in fact, we all know the style of doing things of the imperial chaebols, and their own huge interest demands, prompting them to take the risk of offending the military and insist on refusing to back down, anyway, the military department can't tear up the face with the chaebol."

"I suggest that once the two sides disagree and the negotiations reach an impasse, I suggest that North China send the Gendarmerie Command to take decisive measures, and the longer it drags on, the more uncertain things will be." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.

"In fact, whether the salt from the Changlu Salt Works is provided to Central China to alleviate the salt shortage currently faced is not the most important thing, the reason why we want to do this is that they have not understood the requirements clearly put forward by the Imperial Council."

"Pooling all resources in the service of jihad is the fundamental guiding principle, and anything that contradicts this principle must be curbed and changed! The Empire is now facing a two-front war, with the Yamashiro government on one side and the U.S. military in the South Pacific on the other, and now is the time to work together to tide over the difficulties, and they cannot afford to hold back. Shiozawa Kiyonobu said.

After a brief conversation, the two sides determined their respective tasks, the communication and coordination at the upper level were the responsibility of the two consulates-general, the movements of the chaebol were responsible for the secret services, the implementation of specific actions was carried out by the gendarmerie, and the sales and transportation of salt were naturally the responsibility of Chen Mingxiang's Haiyuan Salt Company.

For this group of high-ranking Japanese generals, this is really not a big deal, I have never seen businessmen who can compete with the army, although the influence of the chaebol is very great, but the behavior is not to be seen by the military department and the government.

"Mingxiang, I think it's very strange, these Japanese soldiers should protect the Japanese chaebol, how can they help you seize salt resources, is it that Japan **** to this extent? Can anything be done for the sake of profit? Wang Zhen asked curiously.

This is a question that the Japanese general asked after leaving the Marat Villa and rushing to the airport, and it is something she has never figured out.

Raw salt is an important industrial raw material and daily material plundered by Japan, and the relationship between North China and Central China is not very good, so why should Chen Mingxiang be supported to take goods from the Changlu Salt Field and distribute them to Central China?

"For money? You look at these **** elements too simply, if you really see the money, it will be easy to do, this is just one of the incidental reasons, not the main reason. ”

"When I first started to contact the North China side, I shipped two or three thousand tons of salt from the Changlu Salt Works every month, which was indeed a private transaction between a few Japanese generals and the gendarmerie and me, and it was relatively simple in nature."

"No one doesn't like money and wealth, and the same is true for Japanese devils, who use the convenience of their positions to gain benefits for themselves, which is also the norm of the gendarmerie system, but the scale is definitely not as big as it is now."

"Involving the transaction of tens of thousands of tons of salt every month, accounting for one-tenth of the output of the entire Changlu salt field, it is not simply for personal gain, but a game between the Japanese military and the chaebol."

"To put it more bluntly, the Japanese military department wants to establish a first-class war economic system and concentrate all resources to serve itself, and the chaebol also considers its own interests and does not agree with this."

"Why did the Kwantung Army want to add another Manchu industry in addition to the Manchurian Railway, this is the reason, the military is using my hand to knock the Japanese chaebol, asking them to provide more support for the war, especially at the moment when Japan is short of war resources, the supply of materials for the chaebol is even more important." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.