Although Mitsubishi is now unable to carry out industrial production, as the king of heavy industry in Japan, it will never allow an American to develop in Japan unscrupulously. Matsumoto Yuta, in particular, regards Downing as Mitsubishi's biggest enemy in the future, and he believes that if Downing is allowed to expand so unlimitedly, a new chaebol may appear or even replace Mitsubishi's position.

Based on this consideration, Matsumoto planned a test of Tangning. That's right, Matsumoto only thought it was a temptation, he never thought that he could defeat Downing by such an event, but he didn't have a more suitable card to play for the time being, so he could only try it, but Downing's reaction was still a little unexpected for him.

He originally thought that Tang Ning would either happily agree, or just see through this scam at a glance, but Tang Ning's current approach is in between, although he kicked out the bamboo, but left the information, what did he think?

The eldest friend who cooperated with Matsumoto's action disagreed: "Matsumoto-kun, you think of this American captain too much, after all, he is just a hairy boy, where does he get so much experience, I think he just doesn't want to give Takekami-kun benefits, so he just kicked him out, you see, it won't take a few days, he will start to act." ”

Before Matsumoto could speak, Takegami frowned and said, "I'm not so optimistic, you haven't seen the way he received me, and he didn't show a little excitement from beginning to end, as if such a large amount of supplies he urgently needed was not tempting to him at all." ”

The elder friend asked curiously, "How is this possible?" Let's compile a list of materials according to the needs of the new factory he is about to open? ”

Takegami nodded: "yes, that's why I think it's the weirdest." ”

Matsumoto waved his hand and said, "Forget it, since the bait has already gone down, then it depends on whether the fish can be baited or not, Takekami-kun, you have to live in seclusion for a while these days." ”

But at this time, Downing didn't have time to care about this kind of mess, he was busy studying a telegram. This telegram was sent by the DuPont Group, but the person who sent the telegram was not Jimmy, who he was familiar with, but Mark, the president of DuPont Production.

On behalf of the board of directors, Downing and Jimmy's negotiations were generally agreed, and at the same time, a new way of cooperation was proposed, that is, Downing did not need to pay for raw materials and transportation costs in cash, but could replace the cost of raw materials by means of processing.

In fact, to put it bluntly, DuPont has taken a fancy to the cheap and efficient labor in Japan, but it is limited to the current situation and cannot set up factories in Japan, so it has come up with a sneaky concept, and handed over the labor-intensive projects that need rough processing to Tangning to do, so as to replace the raw materials and transportation costs that Tangning needs to pay, so that the military department can not interfere, after all, Tangning is responsible for the military project, and successfully uses Japan's cheap labor, and at the same time can get a part of the profits. Because the top account is definitely higher than the amount of cash.

Downing has no opinion on this, because now the cheapest and most affordable in Japan is the high-quality labor resource. This is not nonsense, since the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese have generally not been poorly educated, at least in Asia, and the Japanese are as diligent as the Chinese, not as lazy as the Indians. Moreover, Downing also knew that in later generations, the work discipline of Japanese-style enterprises had reached the point where it was unacceptable to ordinary people, and it was said that workers had to take leave to go to the bathroom and answer the phone, but at the same time, the quality of Japanese-style products was also world-renowned.

Three days later, Tang Ning replied to the telegram, saying that he agreed to the project in principle, and the specific implementation plan would have to be negotiated by the two parties, but it is estimated that this time it will definitely not be Jimmy's playboy.

Due to the availability of relevant equipment and technical personnel, Downing's four new factories began to formally recruit employees, although in February 1947 there were a number of labor waves, that is, workers' strikes, but it did not have any effect on Downing, after all, the treatment of the cola factory was there, so the people who came to apply for jobs were far away.

This time, because there were too many employees recruited, Tang Ning also strengthened management, recruited a large number of down-and-out retired soldiers as security teams, and then arranged for the reserves of his own escort team as patrol teams, which is actually equivalent to military police, patrolling inside the five factories, and he still trusts these children whom he trained and brainwashed.

Of course, such a large-scale recruitment will inevitably bring in some ill-intentioned guys, especially the Swiss Army Knife Factory, because Downing used him as a bridgehead to enter the manufacture of weapons, so he spent a lot of effort in the construction, so the most people were mixed in.

"According to the investigation so far, a total of forty-six commercial spies (the term was taught to him by Downing) have been mixed in the four new factories, and even two have been mixed in for the expansion of the Coke factory. Among them, the saber factory has the most, with a total of twenty-eight. From the point of view of the source of personnel, Mitsubishi Mitsui Sumitomo and other similar small factories have them, but Mitsubishi has the most, and the four new factories have commercial spies they have planted. Ono, who is now promoted to the intelligence chief of the Downing Security Team, reported.

Tang Ning nodded slightly: "There are less than fifty people, a little less than I imagined, have you investigated their backgrounds and family situations for these people?" ”

Ono replied solemnly: "Boss, don't worry, everything has been investigated, and at the same time, I have asked Team Leader Matsuda to send an informant to keep an eye on it twenty-four hours a day." ”

At this time, Matsuda Yoshiko has changed to behind-the-scenes intelligence collection work, after these months of arrangement, her informants have been all over Tokyo, it can be said that the big and small things that happen in Tokyo, as long as she wants to know, and after a while, after the second batch of escort reserves are trained, Tang Ning will put them in Matsuda Yoshiko's hands as thugs, and when the time comes, it will be the day when she Matsuda Yoshiko will come out again.

PS: The shipwreck incident was not written according to the originally designed outline, because after repeated discussions and deductions with four or five friends, it was found that there were big loopholes and unreasonable places in the original plan, so it was written differently, so it may cause the plot to be slightly incoherent, please forgive me!