"This batch of electronic equipment was purchased from Hong Kong City by entrusting a foreign trading house, and it can probably assemble ten radio stations, as well as five hand-cranked generators and ten batteries."

"Forget about the cost or something, when I gave the gift to the Yanzhou base, I don't know if you sent it to Yanzhou yourself, or if I sent it to northern Jiangsu?" Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.

Of course, there is a need to be particular about doing favors, and the expenses for buying things are not even a drop in the bucket for him, and there is no need to ask the underground party for money, so it can be regarded as aiding the anti-Japanese organization.

The things were brought over from the port city by the British trading houses that traded strategic materials, and it didn't cost much money, but it was a bit of trouble, and it was a military contraband that the Japanese strictly investigated.

"I'll give two hand-cranked generators and ten batteries to Yanzhou, and the rest will give you an address and help us send it to the base in northern Jiangsu, thank you Mr. Chen for your help to us." Zheng Tonghui was excited.

There are many inspection points along the way from Shanghai to the base areas, and many urgently needed materials cannot be transported to the base areas at all, causing practical difficulties.

For example, hand-cranked generators, such small devices are not difficult to see in Shanghai, but they are scarce in the base areas, and the batteries used in radio stations are all a problem to charge.

"In this way, it is also difficult for you to bring supplies home, not only the Japanese checkpoints, but also the checkpoints of the Shancheng government in Shaanxi Province, and I will simply do the finishing work together."

"Tomorrow, I will send a truck to the base area to bring Kunyu some imported canned food, chocolates, candies, snacks and biscuits, as well as a change of clothes, as well as some cigarettes, salt, rice, sugar, cloth and other materials to the base area."

"If you Shanghai underground party want to send some small items home, load them and send them away together, I am confident that there will be no big problems along the way." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.

As a smuggling giant in Shanghai and backed by major forces, it is impossible for the inspection team, the police department, or the Japanese military police to strictly inspect his goods.

For Chen Mingxiang, it is really easy to get some scarce materials, and he doesn't need to spend a penny, someone will send it when he says hello, and the number is not very much, and there are more people who want to pat himself on the back.

Since Lu Kunyu still has to stay in the base area for a long time, he plans to send some rare things over, and it is also beneficial to divide them among the leaders and colleagues.

Zheng Tonghui didn't say it, but he was embarrassed in his heart, because Lu Kunyu had already set off for Ice City, and there was an urgent need to pass on information. , otherwise she wouldn't have been selected alone.

"The bureau headquarters sent a commendation order from Boss Dai to the commission, and the Japanese army really launched a large-scale bombardment, for seven consecutive days, up to six hours a day, if it weren't for our timely intelligence, this time it would have caused heavy casualties, and the commission awarded 10,000 US dollars to the station directly under it, and the Ministry of Military Affairs recorded a great merit." Wang Zhen said excitedly with the message.

"How can you use Mei Organ to intervene, Nanzao Yunzi to participate, and the Third Flying Regiment to plan and implement such bombardments without technical content? Unless it's a case! Chen Mingxiang said in wonder.

It's not the first time he's been commended, but he doesn't mean to be excited, he is a first-class Baoding Medal winner, and there is a four-character inscription of "Dry City of the Country", and the commendation order is nothing.

"Paralyze the thinking and suspicion of our intelligence officers, and hide the true purpose of their actions, but in this case, what tricks can be used?" Wang Zhen also thought of the key point of the problem.

"Don't worry about it for now, I'm going to Suzhou tomorrow, you can make these two calls if you have something urgent, the textile factory and the silk reeling factory office, I'll tell you after I settle down in Suzhou and install the phone." Chen Mingxiang said.

"Why did you suddenly remember that you were going to Suzhou?" Wang Zhen asked curiously.

"Don't forget, I am now the economic commissioner of the Suzhou Office of the Qingxiang Committee, and I am also the director of the Material Blockade Management Office.

"The grain and cotton in the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are the materials that are urgently needed in Shanghai at present, and the Japanese control the sales of cotton and give priority to the supply of Japanese-funded enterprises, resulting in a very tight supply of raw materials for my three textile factories, and cotton yarn and cotton cloth are the main commodities for me to exchange materials with the national control area."

"The material control agency controlled by the Japanese chaebol wants to target me, but the Qingxiang Committee has special powers, and the local material control is temporarily under the responsibility of the subordinate organs of the Qingxiang Committee, and with the support given to me by the Gendarmerie Command, this monopoly is not a threat."

"As for grain, Shanghai is based on rice as the staple food, and mainly comes from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but since the fall of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, rice has almost been blocked by the Japanese army, and the amount of rice delivered to Shanghai has dropped sharply, which has caused a food shortage in Shanghai."

"My current status is special, and it is impossible to sell rice to the people of Shanghai at a low price, but I can increase the import of rice in Shanghai and take a median value, so that at least I can help some people not starve to death, and I can't do anything else." Chen Mingxiang said.

After the Japanese occupied the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, they frantically plundered rice as rations for the Japanese army in central China, and the total amount was estimated to reach 9 million quintals, or 450,000 tons, last year, which had a fatal impact on the grain supply in Shanghai.

The market price of rice in Shanghai is roughly 200 yuan per stone, which is equal to two yuan per catty of rice, while the black market price is 240 yuan per stone, which is equal to two yuan and four cents per catty of rice.

The monthly salary of ordinary workers is only about 32 yuan, and they can buy about 16 catties of rice, although one catty is equal to 16 taels during the Republic of China, but one catty of rice in two days, even if you drink porridge, you will starve to death!

What's more serious is that whether it is the normal market price or the black market price, the key is to buy it, and the amount of rice imported from the Shanghai market is far from meeting the needs of the public, which is the lowest survival guarantee!

"I know what you said, the major rice stores in Shanghai are currently seriously short of supply, and the Japanese military police blockade is very severe, and it is difficult for smuggled rice to come in.

"In fact, from the beginning of the war to the present, there are people starving to death in Shanghai every day, and I don't dare to watch that kind of scene, while the Wang puppet government and the Japanese suppress public opinion and do not allow newspapers to report it."

"The two main reasons are that there is no money to buy grain, and second, the money earned in exchange for work is not enough to eat, the market price cannot buy rice, the black market price cannot afford to buy rice, and the food shortage has even affected the public officials of Wang's puppet government, and they are also facing the same situation." Wang Zhen said.

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