Chapter 229: Trade Begins
What Chen Liqing didn't know was what kind of impact the cigarettes he brought out from Guizhou had already caused in Yueben. Just as opium opened the market of the Qing Dynasty, his special tobacco also opened the underground market of Yueben.
**Brand cigarettes are now in the underground market of Yueben, which is simply priceless, and ordinary people can't buy a cigarette even if they have the money to buy it. Because of the problem of transportation, Chen Liqing's cigarettes are actually extremely limited every time, and the limited cigarettes are naturally in short supply to the huge market.
The shortage of supply has led to the inflated price of their ** brand cigarettes, and its price has exceeded the ability of most people, but because this kind of cigarette has an extraordinary paralyzing effect on people's spirit, some people are unforgettable because of smoking this kind of cigarette, because of the dependence on spirit and **, some people even do not hesitate to abandon their homes and bankrupt to buy cigarettes.
As a result, the cigarette spoiled here, and its surname inexplicably changed into something like a drug. And as soon as this kind of thing appears, it is often accompanied by high profits and high incomes, which naturally attracts the attention of some underground forces. The Black Dragon Society coincidentally became the first group to play cigarettes.
Of course, according to Chen Liqing's plan, it was impossible for cigarettes to be so expensive. He originally wanted to take the civilian price route, so that everyone could smoke this healthy ** brand cigarettes. However, he miscalculated their transportation capacity, which led to a shortage of cigarettes and a high price of cigarettes.
This is just a small miscalculation by Chen Liqing, but for some families, it is a disaster.
Naturally, Chen Liqing didn't know these things, but now the people from the Black Dragon Society came to the door, and after Shen Hongying said this, Chen Liqing knew.
Knowing that it was cigarettes that attracted the attention of the Black Dragon Society, Chen Liqing was a little apprehensive at the moment, but after the apprehension, since people came to the door, they had to face one way.
Of course, knowing oneself and knowing that the other side will win all battles, now that he knows that it is the Black Dragon Club who is behind the trouble and has found the mastermind behind the scenes, the supermarket problem will naturally be solved.
That night, under Chen Liqing's instructions, Wax went to Futian Kangyuan with Shen Hongying, Yang Shuzhuang and others to discuss the issue of the transport team, but Chen Liqing did not go.
Since the Black Dragon Society has come to the door, and according to their fearlessness, Chen Liqing can also guess, I am afraid that these people from the Black Dragon Society probably know their details. If he is so blatantly exposed in front of the Black Dragon Society, then he may no longer have any hole cards on his side.
Therefore, Chen Liqing did not participate in this level of affairs, but found Xie Haiyang and the others, and asked him to check the Black Dragon Society, and the strength and purpose of the two Fukuda Yasuo brothers.
Of course, Xie Haiyang and the others did not live up to Chen Liqing's expectations, and in less than two days, under the heavy attention of the Black Dragon Society and others, they found out some details of the Black Dragon Society.
Some of the warlords of the book are the beginning of the association, this investigation, they also have a general understanding of the composition of the Black Dragon Society's forces, on the surface, Futian Kangyuan has an ocean transport fleet, and Futian Kangyuan also has a small electrical appliance manufacturing factory. However, secretly, the Fukuda family controlled many military and political departments in Tokyo, Osaka, and Yokohama, and it was a very large family.
And the Black Dragon Society is just a small force in their hands, but this small force has eaten about two-thirds of the cigarette throughput they brought before.
With such a force, Chen Liqing's small stronghold in Osaka is not vulnerable at all, even if people want to rob them of their tobacco, I am afraid they will not have the power to fight back at all. But fortunately, now it seems that the Futian family has fallen into a small economic crisis, and it just so happens that at this time, they see the huge profits brought by tobacco, which is like a hungry wolf seeing a lamb, and they will naturally not be polite.
However, after finding out that there were actually British people behind this tobacco business, they restrained the hard-line methods they wanted to use, and instead contacted Shen Hongying and Wax, who were in charge of tobacco, to discuss how to increase the supply of tobacco. However, Chen Liqing had instructed that the tobacco business would not be so easily revealed to Yue himself, and they eventually suffered several losses and did not discuss the cigarette business. When they were in a dilemma, they found the popularity of Walmart supermarket, and at the same time, they also paid attention to the opposition of some people. So, as soon as some people's minds turned, they thought of this way of attacking the east and west, forcing Wax to contact them.
I have to say that this trick hit Chen Liqing and them.
However, now that they understood their purpose, Chen Liqing and the others quickly came up with countermeasures.
Isn't it just cigarettes?
Yes, but the price is so high, and they have to send their own fleet to China to pull goods. Chen Liqing was worried that the cargo throughput of Fangcheng was not enough, but now that he is interested in helping them transport tobacco, why not cooperate. Although this cooperation made Chen Liqing a little unhappy, but when things got to this point, the cooperation was over.
Of course, it is not so easy to cooperate, and in the next day, Chen Liqing and they finally reached a cooperation on the tobacco issue after handing over several times with the people of the Black Dragon Society.
During this period, Chen Liqing himself did not show up, these things were handed over to Shen Hongying and Vax and others to discuss, and Shen Hongying, a cunning bandit, also shined during this period, using his caution and cunning to make some people of the Black Dragon Society miserable, and finally lost in the cooperation.
After Chen Liqing knew this, he also felt that he had really found the right person.
In August 1912, the major events of the Republic of China finally arrived, and after entering August, Song Jiaoren began to prepare to unite various parties in the Republic of China to formally establish the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang, a party that has made significant contributions to history, has finally appeared in the land of China.
At the same time, Chen Liqing returned to Fangcheng again.
The affairs of Yanjing Shanghai are still none of his business, and after returning from Yueben this time, Chen Liqing has only one thing.
Build a harbor for the defense of the city!
The people over there are about to come to Fangcheng to buy goods, and according to the seaport on the side of Fangcheng's Liangtoulong Village at this stage, it is naturally not enough to deal with the sudden increase in throughput several times. Chen Liqing on the side of the Black Dragon Society didn't know how many people they would send to transport tobacco, but in the face of enough benefits, there would only be more and more ships coming to Fangcheng. The previous port, which could barely berth more than a dozen search ships, was naturally not enough and needed to be expanded.
Of course, it is not only the seaport that needs to be expanded, but also the various factories and production bases in Fangcheng. Once I come to Fangcheng, even if Fangcheng is exposed in the eyes of Yue, all kinds of advanced commodities will naturally be sent to Yueben by the way, and finally this is a place where it becomes a large production base in the southwest, why doesn't it need to be built, it needs to be covered?
Although this can be said to be the territory that Wax himself bought from the Chinese, a little more advanced, a little better economy, I may not be so easy to suspect, because he is Wax's sphere of influence, the British Empire, and it is not a big deal to help build China.
However, there must also be some relatively confidential surnames, which can make Yue himself paralyzed for a while, after all, Chen Liqing lacks nothing, and he lacks time to develop the southwest. If all aspects were well coordinated, I would not have noticed this side of the southwest so quickly, which would be beneficial to the development of the southwest. Therefore, these various aspects of things came all at once, Chen Liqing was almost too busy to eat, and he raced against time to arrange a series of changes in Fangcheng to deal with the arrival of the trading fleet.
Finally, in mid-October, Futian Kangyuan's ocean-going fleet appeared at the sea level of Fangcheng, and when their sanitary napkin flag was hung at the sea level of Liangtoulongcun Port, Chen Liqing knew that the expected era of bilateral trade was coming.