The first thing after the grain was put into storage, of course, was to inspect the goods, and the staff of the Kodama organ and the people from the management department of the Fleet Command took Chen Mingxiang's car and quietly came to the warehouse like a thief, and carefully counted all the grain, which was also requested by Chen Mingxiang.

It is not difficult to check, the weight of a sack is 200 catties of rice, stacked neatly, a pile is a hundred tons, you only need to count how many piles to know, and the sack is opened to check the quality of rice, and finally sign the handover order.

One of the people who participated in the inspection happily took a large red envelope with 1,000 US dollars, ten boxes of cigars and two bottles of red wine.

"Chen Jun, this matter was done very beautifully, and I was praised by the Fleet Command and the Military Command Department for this. In just a few days, 30,000 tons of rice were procured with quality and quantity, which is of great significance to the daily support of the entire fleet. ”

"Admiral Yoshida Zengo, commander of the fleet, highly appreciates your work, and is ready to report your merits to the Military Command Department, and apply for a medal, I have prepared the payment for the goods for you, and you can take it now." Kodama and Shifu said with a smile.

He is indeed satisfied with Chen Mingxiang, this person not only has a close relationship with the navy, but also has the ability and methods, and does the things he explains quickly and well, and is a very good partner to work with.

The reason why he has been in the navy in the past few years is because the Kodama agency has provided the navy with a large number of strategic materials, and 80 percent of these materials are purchased by Chen Mingxiang from the national control area.

"Thank you for the opportunity provided to me, please leave a million dollars, it is a little bit of my heart, please be sure to accept it, this matter is a bit complicated to deal with, and I really can't give more."

"There is one thing I hope your Excellency will understand, the grain needs to be stored in the No. 2 warehouse of Huatong Trading Company for the time being, and then it will be transported to the naval warehouse in the port for a period of time."

"Now the wind outside is a bit tight, and there are eyes everywhere, I have to deal with all aspects of the relationship, and wait for the food shortage problem to be less conspicuous, and then go through the handover procedures." Chen Mingxiang said.

In order to complete the matter smoothly, he had to make a deal with the army intelligence agency, which Kodama and Shifu also knew well, otherwise, Chen Mingxiang would never give him one million dollars.

"I'm still very relieved that you are doing things, it doesn't matter, this batch of grain is reserve food, and it will not be used when there is a shortage of food, and the specific use has to be decided by the Military Command Department, maybe it will be transported back to the mainland as military rations for the United Fleet and the headquarters." Kodama and Shifu smiled and said.

The payment of 15 million US dollars is placed in three large wooden boxes next to it, which is not a small size, and for safety reasons, Kodama will send a car to the horse-drawn villa.

This amount of money is not a large amount for the entire Japanese Navy, but it is not a small amount, equal to the cost of a Brooklyn-class artillery light cruiser of the US Navy, why would the Kodama Agency give it so refreshingly?

In fact, this was not the military expenditure allocated by the Japanese government to the navy, but the return received by the Japanese army after the outbreak of the Pacific War and the occupation of the public concession was the wealth obtained by the war.

After all, the Marines occupied half of the concession area, and they looted a lot of currency alone, plus the relocation of foreign nationals into concentration camps, and looted a large number of them.

The Kodama Agency is an important institution of the Japanese Navy in China, and it has a large amount of secret funds, and the amount of money that this navy spy leader has amassed in the Shanghai market is also extremely staggering.

But he can't put the navy's funds in his own pocket, and he can only get benefits by spending them, and since the front fleet command has such a request, Kodama and Shifu and Makita Kakuzaburo have joined forces to operate it.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, which is a very simple truth.

The various Japanese agencies in Shanghai, including the offices of the army and navy, the intelligence agency, and the military police, while the Consulate General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs assumed the dual mission of the government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It is quite difficult for these institutions to go back to the old days after they have been working in one place for a long time and enjoying a comfortable and prosperous life.

This is often the case, with the first time, there is a second time, it is easy to get on the boat and difficult to get off the ship, and the mentality of collecting and collecting is constantly changing, and finally it is impossible to stop it.

The first thing Chen Mingxiang did when he returned to Marat's villa was to quickly invite the speculators over for dinner, and he happily cashed in the payment of six million US dollars for rice, which also made him a good reputation that he believed in and quickly established himself in the grain industry.

More than 20 grain merchants, when he left, one of them gave a red envelope of 10,000 US dollars, and he received another 260,000 US dollars.

"Chen Jun, the price of the grain you procured from the speculators for the municipal government, as far as I know, is very low, more than 800 reserve bonds per stone, why is there such an amazing dividend?" Kinoshita Eichi was a little dumbfounded, although he was a major general of the military police, he had never seen so much foreign exchange.

The two suitcases in front of him were full of dollars, and it was roughly estimated that it would not be less than one million.

But the problem is, such a large sum of money, converted into yen, is four million, and it can't be spent in a few lifetimes, and it's just a dividend from Chen Mingxiang to the headquarters of the gendarmerie, so what's going on with this business?

"Your Excellency General, I have to report to you one thing, the Imperial Navy's Front Fleet Command, through the Marine Corps Command and the Kodama Agency, privately entrusted me to purchase 30,000 tons of rice as an emergency reserve of food, all of which were settled for me in US dollars."

"Originally, I wanted to report in advance, but considering the complicated relationship between the army and the navy, you still don't know about it, otherwise it will inevitably be difficult. Although I am a member of the gendarmerie, the navy is also an integral part of the empire, and the relationship is too stiff and not in the interests of the empire. ”

"Taking advantage of the outbreak of the grain shortage in Shanghai, I was responsible for negotiating with those speculators, and I used the resources at their disposal to deal with this commission, but the price quoted to the navy was very high, about 2,000 yuan in the reserve of one stone of rice."

"What I didn't expect was that these speculators really came up with 30,000 tons of rice under the pressure of the gendarmerie, so I decided that the Consulate General in Shanghai, the Mei organ, the Marine Corps, and the gendarmerie would jointly share the huge profits brought by this grain, and our gendarmerie would naturally have the lion's share." Chen Mingxiang said.