Relocating to the three textile factories in Suzhou, the construction of the new factory is very fast, far beyond Chen Mingxiang's imagination, the factory wall has been completed, and the main part of the workshop has also been completed, which is the first part to start.

The construction team is building dormitories and warehouses, electricians are already laying lines in the workshop, and the construction site is busy, with vehicles coming in and out, bringing in building materials such as bricks, sand, wood and cement.

Chen Mingxiang and Zhou Haiwen accompanied Li Shiqun to "inspect" the construction site, accompanied by government officials from Suzhou and, of course, newspaper reporters from Wang's puppet government.

These three pieces of land were originally large textile factories, after the Japanese army captured Suzhou, the machinery and cotton yarn were robbed, and the boss had to sell them at a low price.

Li Shiqun used the administrative power of the provincial government, coupled with the coercion and inducement of the secret service headquarters and the police department, and the surrounding houses had to be relocated in large numbers, and the area of each factory was more than four times larger.

Of course, in order to eliminate the influence, Chen Mingxiang gave a very generous relocation subsidy from the textile factory, which reduced the resentment of these ordinary people, although they were a little reluctant to leave their homes, but it was much stronger than those traitor businessmen and the puppet city government.

The spies of the secret service headquarters and the police of the police station forced a large number of construction craftsmen from Suzhou to work at the construction site of the textile factory, but the daily wage was twice as high as usual, and they were open to provide three meals a day, and their enthusiasm for work was also good.

Considering the actual situation in Suzhou City, Zhou Haiwen adopted a daily wage, and the money was settled on the same day, so as not to affect the construction progress due to difficulties in the construction of the construction work.

"Minister, at the current rate, at most by the end of August three textile mills can start, in fact, we all know that whether you can make money, the most important thing is the output, but also the supply of raw materials."

"With the number of our machines, it is easy to complete the output of 12,000 pieces of 20 cotton yarn a year, and the current price of Shancheng is nearly 9,000 pieces of fiat currency per piece, which is 24 million fiat currency and 2 million fiat currency per month according to the net profit of about 2,000 yuan per piece."

"If you want to talk about pure profits, cotton cloth and flower gauze are higher, the price of leading muslin cloth in the mountain city is 12,000 pieces, about 4,000 yuan per piece, and 1,000 pieces are sold in January, which is also about 4 million legal currency."

"The headache now is that cotton procurement is a big problem, and the Japan Textile Association has also set up a point in Suzhou to collect a large amount of cotton, and I need your full support in this regard." Chen Mingxiang said.

The net profit of six million per month of the three textile factories is really not much, although the majority is in the military police headquarters in Shanghai, how can he score two percent, that is, 1.2 million legal currency, which is equivalent to 60,000 US dollars, Li Shiqun was suddenly moved.

gave Chen Mingxiang 500,000 US dollars as a dot fee, he was distressed and had to go back, if Chen Mingxiang's factory started smoothly for a year, dividends alone could make up for it.

"You can rest assured that you can send people to the countryside to set up some points to collect cotton, the people of the Japanese Textile Industry Association can't make any waves in the Soviet Province, there is the favoritism of the gendarmerie, there is the secret help of the secret service headquarters, and your own territory is still afraid of those Japanese businessmen?"

"I will supply you with a large amount of cotton from the Qingxiang Committee at a low price, which is also an exchange of materials for the Imperial Japanese Army, and I believe that the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army will definitely support it." Li Shiqun said.

Seeing a large piece of fatty meat, he just can't eat it in his mouth, this is definitely not okay, Li Shiqun is also using the relationship between Huatong Trading Company and the Japanese military, for another person, his support will definitely not be so great, at least he dare not do it blatantly.

But the Huatong Trading Company is another organization, specializing in exchanging materials with Chiang Tong, and the Japanese army is fighting for favoritism on its own, so what is he afraid of?

"What about Wu Kaixian, the senior member of the Shancheng government who was arrested? After Deputy Secretary-General Wang took him to Suzhou, it seemed that he had never heard from him again. Chen Mingxiang asked casually.

"You don't know about this, General Ying Zuo put him back in the mountain city the day before he left Shanghai, or the plane that I sent him on with Qing Qijun will land at the Japanese airfield in the southwest near the Chiang Tong District, and then he will return to the mountain city by himself."

"Wu Kai first took away a copy of the cooperation plan drawn up by the Mei Agency, but so far there has been no reply from the Shancheng government, it is estimated that General Yingzuo has done useless work, but it is useless to keep him." Li Shiqun shook his head and said.

"What you didn't get on the battlefield, you can't get it by painting a big pie, you can guess it with your nose, the conditions put forward by the Japanese army must be very harsh, and the mountain city didn't agree to it before, and it is impossible to agree now."

"I heard information from within the Japanese army that the war between Japan and the United States is not going well, and the Japanese Navy suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Midway some time ago, and four aircraft carriers were sunk by the US military, although this cannot determine the victory or defeat of Japan and the United States, but the situation has changed subtly."

"General Kagesa's meaning may not be his own meaning, but it may represent a signal that the Japanese army will withdraw from the battlefield in China and mobilize more troops to deal with the war situation in Southeast Asia." Chen Mingxiang said.

Li Shiqun was dumbfounded, although he had achieved the position of chairman of the provincial government, but when it came to the name of Midway, he really didn't know anything, beyond the scope of familiarity, and Chen Mingxiang was very far from Chen Mingxiang in this regard.

However, he still knows the concept of four aircraft carriers being sunk, which is a large surface ship that can take off and land aircraft, and how many aircraft carriers does the Japanese army have?

Chen Mingxiang has close ties with the navy, and this news will definitely not be faked, and it is estimated that he has said about the intentions of the Japanese side, and he suddenly has an inexplicable sense of panic in his heart.

After staying in Suzhou for two days, Chen Mingxiang and Wang Zhen took a navy transport plane back to Shanghai, but if he didn't come back, he couldn't do it, the Japanese navy and army in Shanghai were looking for him, and Kinoshita Eichi personally called him to go back.

Chen Mingxiang did not know that the famous Battle of Kokoda Trail and the Battle of Kuah Island in World War II were about to begin, which was the beginning of the Allied counterattack and the turning point for Japan to truly shift from strategic offensive to strategic defense.

This time, the Japanese army tried to use the Battle of Kokoda Trail to complete the occupation of Port Moresby, so as to threaten the route between the United States and Australia, prevent the United States from using Australia to carry out a counteroffensive against the Japanese army, and also attack the eastern and northern parts of Australia, including the important Melbourne.

In order to achieve this operational goal, the Japanese Army formed the Seventeenth Army in May, and the Navy formed the Eighth Fleet, with the main force and command center located in Rabaul, New Britain.