According to Taiji Ota, after the abolition of the Koyain, Shiozawa Kiyonobu will continue to serve in the Greater East Asia Province, stationed in Beiping in charge of diplomatic and administrative affairs, and this devil general is very valuable to Chen Mingxiang, so he intends to establish a long-term cooperative relationship to protect his business in North China.

Shiozawa Kiyonoshi naturally would not refuse this kind of risk-free benefit, because it did not involve military secrets, but he did not think that in the contact, there would also be military secrets leaking out of his mouth.

"This is the material handling license I signed separately for the Beiping Branch of Huatong Trading Company, and all the offices under the Liaison Department in North China will provide the greatest convenience for your business."

"Not only can the goods included in the control materials in North China be transported to Central China unimpeded, but the goods in Central China can also enter the market in North China for sale."

"I think you also know that usually such a material handling permit is only for a batch of goods, but I have made a special mark for you, and it will be filed in each office, which is equivalent to a long-term qualification certificate, and you don't need to open a license at a time, which is too troublesome."

"Presumably General Ota also told you that the Koyain may have to be revoked at the end of the year, and after the establishment of Greater East Asia Province, you will ask me to replace the new transportation permit." Shiozawa Kiyonobu said.

Since the communication between the two sides was very pleasant, the next step was the substantive transaction, Shiozawa Kiyonobu used his power as a minister to issue a cargo handling and movement license for the North China Liaison Department of the Xingya Institute for the Beiping Branch of Huatong Trading Company.

This is an extremely rare special license, the concept of its scope is very vague, indicating the various goods that can be purchased and sold by the Beiping branch.

These include textiles and raw materials, food, daily necessities, stationery, consumer goods, hardware and industrial products, pharmaceuticals and fuels.

With the authorization of the North China Liaison Department, Chen Mingxiang was not only able to purchase cotton, coal, salt and grain from North China, but also to transport commodities from the Shanghai market to North China for profit.

He himself deals in silk and tea, and the industry and commerce in Shanghai are very powerful in China, and the daily necessities such as towels, toothpaste, matches, candles, soap, and toothbrushes, cultural goods such as pens, pencils, papers, and dyes, and consumer goods such as cigarettes and photographic equipment are continuously transported to North China for sale, which is also a large amount of income.

"Your Excellency General, can you find a place to exchange a part of the Union Bank Bonds for me, the Central Reserve Bonds in my hand cannot be circulated in North China, the Beiping Branch needs to lease real estate in various places, the factory needs to buy land for construction and pay salaries, and I also have to buy a few properties in Beiping, which must use the Union Bank Bonds." Chen Mingxiang said.

The Union Bank Bills is a kind of paper money issued by the Joint Reserve Bank established by the puppet provisional government in North China, because it was circulated relatively early, the ratio of the Union Bank Bills to the Central Reserve Bills is 18 to 100, in fact, people who know the inside story understand that this kind of paper money is even worse than the Central Reserve Bills.

At least the Central Reserve Bank of the Wang puppet government, of which Zhou Gaohai was president, also had some gold, silver, and foreign exchange reserves as the basis for the issuance of currency, and the joint reserve bank had only 25 million worth of silver as the basis, half of which was plundered by the silver kept by the Shancheng government in the concession.

What is going on, before the fall of North China, the Shancheng government kept a large amount of silver in the bank, which was a reserve for the issuance of fiat currency, and when North China fell, these silver dollars were sent to the concession for safekeeping and were not robbed by the Japanese army.

There is a concept here, the embassy street in the east * Jiao * Min * lane of Beiping, it is a bit reluctant to say that it is a concession, but it is indeed a bit similar, there are churches, hospitals, banks and other facilities in it.

However, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the concessions of Pingjin and Tianjin were occupied by the Japanese army, and in addition to the 12.5 million yuan of silver taken by the United Reserve Bank, another 1,094 tons of silver, a total of 57 million yuan, were robbed by the Japanese army.

The Japanese army carried out the strategy of feeding the war with war, and the Union Bank was a means of plundering, first of all, it was to exchange the fiat currency at a ratio of one to one, and the Zhengjin Bank would transport the money to Shanghai and exchange foreign exchange from the four major banks of the Shancheng government.

The four banks, Japan, Jeongjin, Goryeo, and Heungyeong, can use their own cashier's checks, that is, deposit receipts, to be credited to the deposit accounts of the United Reserve Bank, and they can withdraw large amounts of Union Bank bills and give them to Japanese businessmen to use for business or speculation.

The North China Dispatch Army Command used the transfer order, and arbitrarily used the Union Bank coupons to serve as military salaries for the Japanese army and the puppet army, and also used them to grab shopping materials.

The funniest thing is that when the pseudo-United Preparation Bank issued the banknotes, it didn't even have time to prepare the silver version of the banknotes, and actually used the banknote printing steel plates left by the Qing Dynasty banks in the past, changed the name, and changed the portraits of the banknotes to the portraits of the Yellow Emperor, Guan Yu, Yue Fei, Confucius and others, and the first denominations of one yuan, five yuan and ten yuan were issued, and the denominations of one hundred yuan began to be issued this year.

Union bank bills are a kind of banknotes that are printed as much as they want, almost equal to waste paper, not only the puppet regime in North China printed a large number of them, but also some units of the Japanese army were also printing, others did not know, Chen Mingxiang knew the inside story, and when he was drinking at Zhou Gaohai's house in Jinling, he heard these shameless acts.

"This is too simple, you are now in charge of the coal shortage in Shanghai on behalf of the Xingya Academy, and when we will have lunch, I will call Wang Shijing, the president of the United Reserve Bank, and withdraw 10 million Union Bank bonds from the bank in the name of the North China Liaison Department of the Xingya Institute, as a subsidy to you, and the dollar and gold may also need to be considered, and the Union Bank bills don't matter."

"As for the property, the imperial army occupied the embassy street, where there are a lot of houses idle, in addition, there are many British and American businessmen's residences are also good, I will allocate you two sets, there is no need to spend money to buy again, you don't have much time to come to Beiping." Shiozawa Kiyonobu said with a smile.

The transaction between Chen Mingxiang and Shiozawa Qingxuan seems to be easy and scary, but this is a premise, and if someone else comes and takes 200,000 US dollars, he will definitely not get such treatment.

It is not easy to use any other identity, and neither the headquarters of the military police stationed in Shanghai nor the Shanghai Special Municipal Government will buy it from the North China Liaison Department.

The reason is very simple: the Japanese army and the Jinling government in central China, the Japanese army in North China and the North China Political Affairs Committee, the two sides are fundamentally contradictory, and each has its own calculations.

And why was Chen Mingxiang able to get the support of Shiozawa Qingxuan?

In the final analysis, he is now working for the Central China Liaison Department, with the purpose of safeguarding Japan's interests in Shanghai, and it is Taiji Ota who personally accompanies him to go through the formalities, and this identity is the most important thing.

Secondly, Chen Mingxiang's hand is big, the shot is 200,000 US dollars, in addition, there will be a monthly salary and shares, and if you can't get some resources, it's really hell!