This afternoon, we will study the candidates to be stationed in the Nanjing office, which is a key organ that connects departments at all levels of the provincial government, and the Nanjing office is an espionage agency in the Nanjing area on the surface.

Chen Yongcheng reported on the site selection in Nanjing, a property along the street of Sipailou near the Liangjiang Governor's Palace, along which a Xingye Industrial Store will be set up to sell the company's products, and the back has been transformed into a reception room, a telegraph room and a restaurant. It can accommodate 20 people, receive 30 people at a time, and have a secret passage leading to a residence across the street.

Li Congshan took out a stack of handwritten documents and said: "This is the resume of the selected ten people, all of whom are members of the Fujin Party, who have no problem with political loyalty, and who have participated in a two-week military training in Tianfen. ”

Hu Wenkai took over everyone's resume and looked at it in detail, eight men and two women are around 20 years old, Zhang Facheng is 23 years old from Changsha, Hunan, graduated from Wuhan Huazhong University, comments are steady, good at observation, organizational skills, and recommended to be the director of the Nanjing office.

"In this way, let Zhang Facheng come to my office tomorrow, I have to have an interview with him to rest assured, and the office needs to use a middle-aged man in his forties as the nominal person in charge of the store's product sales, you go and dig out the candidates, and it doesn't involve core things."

Chen Yongcheng said: "Do you still need to recruit irrelevant people? There are enough of our people. ”

"Don't you think all people are too young? You can't think about it with the thinking of our company, the company in China is not the manager of a person in his forties and fifties? I want something like not to arouse obvious suspicion. ”

"The owner was thoughtful, which we didn't take into account. When I went back, I recruited a middle-aged man to hide his eyes, and the chef was recruited locally in Nanjing. Li Congshan reacted quickly.

"There are two things in the functions of the office, one is clear, to expand the company's business to Nanjing as soon as possible, to radiate to the mainland based in Nanjing, and the other thing is to cooperate with the company to win southern Jiangsu, if there is an opportunity, you can also absorb some useful talents in Nanjing."

Chen Yongcheng said: "Boss, I've encountered something here. ”

"Chen Yongcheng, what else can stump you now? Your sales company is very busy now, and your business is getting bigger and bigger. Li Congshan laughed.

"Tell me, what's stumping our Manager Chen." Hu Wenkai estimated that he had encountered a problem.

"The thing is on the side of the American branch, and there is a company in the United States that has offered to buy only 2,000 engines for walk-behind tractors, so that the profit will be greatly reduced. The company didn't dare to call the shots, so I asked for instructions. ”

Hu Wenkai still took it seriously, looked at Li Congshan and asked, "What is your opinion?" ”

"Of course it's sold, this product is not high in technical content and will be imitated sooner or later, my opinion is a big sale, in the words of the boss, it is called increasing market share." Li Congshan said.

Hu Wenkai said to Chen Yongcheng: "All the products of Chen Yongcheng's company can be split and sold, you calculate the price and give Li Congshan a copy, and sell it if there is no problem with the production side." Cash transactions on credit are not allowed for all transactions. ”

"Li Congshan and Chen Yongcheng don't be entangled in the fact that they have to develop and produce everything by themselves, they can't wait, they can buy the equipment they can buy, buy it back and then transform it. The progress of the textile factory in Yong'an Town is too lagging behind, which seriously disrupts the company's overall deployment. ”

Lao Yi said: "I agree with the boss's words, the company is not a country can not be all-inclusive, now the company focuses on the development of heavy industry core in steel, other equipment I think can be bought, can not be scattered, in the words of the boss a person only two hands, can not catch twelve loaches in one hand." ”

Lao Yi's words said that the three of them laughed, and Chen Yongcheng said that he would connect with Li Congshan and Yang Siliang as soon as possible to see what equipment needed to be purchased, and let the American branch be responsible for the purchase.

"What about the arms sales from France?" Hu Wenkai is very concerned about this.

Chen Yongcheng opened his notebook and replied: "Except for the 7.92 mm bullets that you ordered to leave behind, the boss, all the guns in the Tianfen warehouse were sold out, most of the guns were sold to Zhang Zuolin's troops in the northeast, and some were sold to Sichuan and Hunan. ”

"Are the funds accounted for separately as I requested?"

"The funds are not in the company's general ledger, part of them is used for the purchase of ammunition-making machinery and investment in shipyards, and there is a significant part of the balance."

"As long as there is a demand, sell it, the next batch of goods is already on the way, don't worry about the supply of goods in Europe in the near future, after the First World War, guns should be piled up. The troops are about to be reequipped with Type 20 rifles, which are no better than a burning stick for us. Hu Wenkai said.

According to the later generations of * type rifles, Hu Wenkai opened a mold in the Yatian South Road factory and used the stamping industry to build an assembly line, and set up a firearms factory in Longwangmiao.

"Chen Yongcheng, the sales staff on your side need to continue to recruit, and the American branch will set up offices in New York and San Francisco as soon as possible."

"The boss has to increase, the company's sales have reached more than 100 people."

"The glass factory has been put into production, the textile factory is about to be launched, the shipyard is also under construction, and there are many small factories that depend on us and urgently need to enter the international market.

Hu Wenkai turned to Li Congshan and said: "Li Congshan, you start preparing your successor, and you will be transferred to Tianfen in mid-April to take charge of the military factory and shipyard. ”

Li Congshan took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it over: "Hu Bin, 26 years old, graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Beijing Yenching University, and is a member of the Returning Party. ”

Hu Wenkai took it and handed it to Lao Yi: "Give it to Wang Xihai and ask him to issue an appointment letter tomorrow." ”

"We are simply not enough people now, it's not that it's not enough, it's not intimate, it's still too short, it's easy to have a two-year reserve period, and it's hard to get a few governors like Jiang Qiuming and Dai Jitao out of June four or five counties." Hu Wenkai sighed.

Li Congshan and Chen Yongcheng looked at each other, and they also sighed and sat there in a daze.

Lao Yi took a cigarette in his mouth and said: "You don't let one person be the governor, you stuff dozens of people into each county as a group, are you afraid that you won't be able to control the field?" If you want me to see it, we should quickly select seven or eight potential people from the two counties of Haimen and Nantong to serve as deputy governors, and then select a few people from among them. ”

"I'll be in Shanghai County, let Dai Ji be in Wujiang County, and the rest will be as Lao Yi said, there is no way. Li Congshan: The intelligence officers you trained can start collecting black materials about these county governors and police chiefs, and publish them in the newspapers from time to time. ”

Li Congshan replied: "The boss has already started collecting, and he will publish one or two articles in the newspaper this week." ”

"In the future, we will divide the labor, let Sun Daming do the propaganda thing, this kid has been dreaming of building high-rise buildings every day during this time, and you will be responsible for collecting materials and leaving it to Sun Daming. These things can only be mastered by a few people internally, and at this stage, it is the period of Taoguang and obscurity, and everything is operating in secret. Hu Wenkai looked at his watch, and it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, so he stood up to end today's meeting.

Not far from home, the climate is pleasant, Hu Wenkai put his hands in his pockets and walked home. Except for the company and some dignitaries in the concession, no one knew him. I bought a declaration from the grocery store on the street, and while walking, I met Boss Wang of Lu Restaurant, and the two of them stood on the side of the road and chatted for a while. I saw my car passing by, followed by a U.S. consulate car.

Carrotta is a flurry who only knows how to brake and move forward, and even has a hard time changing gears. I like to drive by myself, but fortunately, the street cars in Shanghai are not as fast as in later generations, so Hu Wenkai followed her.

Pushing open the door of No. 3 Lane 181, a middle-aged man in his thirties on the sofa immediately stood up, walked quickly to Hu Wenkai's side, stretched out his hand and said: "Mr. Hu has been looking up for a long time, I am Carr, the commercial and cultural counselor of the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, and this is my business card." ”

"Welcome to the Humble House, please be seated." Hu Wenkai grabbed the outstretched hand and shook it vigorously.

Hu Wenkai and Carrota exchanged a look, and Carrotta turned and went upstairs.

Karl put down the teacup in his hand and said, "Mr. Hu, my visit this time does not represent the US government, it is purely a private visit. ”

"Mr. Karl, please speak." Hu Wenkai naturally changed his title.

"I was commissioned by the Carnegie Steel Consortium to discuss the price of steel with Mr. Hu."

"The sales price of ordinary steel sold by your company in the United States is about 92% of the price of steel produced in the United States, which has had an impact on the steel complex, I mean the price shock, and many suppliers blame the steel consortium for taking a market monopoly position to cause the sales price to be inflated."

Hu Wenkai paused for a while and said, "Mr. Carl, I have a question, what is the problem of my company selling steel in the United States in violation of American law?" ”

"Mr. Hu is not this problem, everything in your company complies with US law. In order to stabilize the price of ordinary steel in the U.S. market, please raise the price of your company in line with the selling price of the steel complex, not less than 1%, and the steel consortium will ensure your company's ordinary steel sales, if there is a backlog, the steel consortium will be responsible for sales, and the steel consortium will open sales channels to your company. ”

Hu Wenkai stood up, took out a cigar from the long table, handed it to Carl, lit one himself, stood in front of the window and paused for ten minutes, and then said: "The sales volume of my company's ordinary steel products in the United States is not high, if the sales channels of the steel consortium can be opened to my special steel, everything is easy to discuss." ”

"I don't think there's a big problem with this, your company's special steel steel complex is already scarce, and ordinary steel production can't have an impact on it." Carl said absently.

Hu Wenkai said with a smile: "Mr. Karl, you should call the consortium first to get an accurate answer, and then our company does not want to have any additional conditions." Of course, this is only limited to the US and Canadian markets. ”

"I will, wait until tomorrow to get an answer. Mr. Hu: To be honest, my father's company has purchased your steel and large tractors, and the quality is very good. Kay continued.

"May I ask what your father's company is?"

"Samuel Insal Utilities Holdings"