After listening to the introduction of Prince Kong, Chen Qiang was already a little moved.

The reputation of this Prince of Kong is not very good, and after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he relied on raising prices and smuggling goods to loot the people's fat and ointment, making the people's livelihood miserable.

But now that the prince of Kong wants to speculate in the United States, since he is making American money, Chen Qiang has no guilt in his heart, and the money of the Americans is not made in vain, not to mention that Chen Qiang also needs money to buy those Chinese cultural relics that have been lost overseas, and now make more money from the Americans, and he will be able to transport back a few more Chinese cultural relics in the future.

So Chen Qiang opened his mouth and asked: "I don't know what name Kong Gongzi plans to use to buy cars for General Motors, is it to set up a trading company, or in the name of Chongqing?" ”

"When I was in Hong Kong before, I took a fancy to a Levi trading company, which was opened by a British, and belonged to a British-funded enterprise, and I planned to buy this company, and then use the name of Levi to buy cars from General Motors." Young Master Kong spoke.

The relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is very close, and if you do business in the United States, it will certainly be easier for British companies than Chinese companies.

Chen Qiang and Young Master Kong discussed some details, and finally Chen Qiang decided to pay two million US dollars to partner with Young Master Kong to do this business.

But before that, Chen Qiang still decided to inquire about the truth of Prince Kong, after all, it was a business of two million US dollars, and it was better to be cautious.

Prince Kong spends all day drinking, this kind of person will definitely be followed by a group of followers, and with the character of Prince Kong, he will inevitably brag in front of his followers, so Chen Qiang found a private detective and spent all the money to get some real information from Master Kong's followers.

First of all, Mr. Kong really wants to do the car business.

Madame Chiang visited the United States, as Mrs. Chiang's secretary, Mr. Kong met a lot of American political and business people, although Mr. Kong was very good, but his social skills were still very good, and soon he had a good relationship with the senior management of General Motors, and then he learned that General Motors had a large number of civilian cars produced by the United States before the war. Kong Dagongzi's keen business sense immediately sensed that this was a good opportunity to make money.

Although you can make a lot of money by reselling a car, this transaction requires capital. After all, a car is an expensive commodity, ordinary people may need to save money for several years to buy a car, and those who open a fourth son shop in later generations, as well as those who make second-hand cars, which must not have a large amount of capital.

However, Young Master Kong didn't have that much money in his hands.

Young Master Kong is from the Kong family, and although the Kong family is not short of money, it does not mean that Master Kong can mobilize millions of dollars at any time. The Kong family is rich and can pay two million US dollars, but the old man of the Kong family knows what kind of virtue his eldest son is, he is simply a second ancestor who causes trouble, what to do, what to eat is not enough, how can Master Kong take out millions of dollars to accompany the eldest son of Kong to go crazy.

And those followers who eat, drink and have fun with Master Kong on weekdays can't get much money, just imagine if these followers can come up with two million dollars, can they still be guilty of following behind Young Master Kong's ass as followers!

Two million dollars is not a small amount, even if Master Kong went to borrow, there was no place to lend him two million dollars, just at this time, Chen Qiang appeared, and Master Kong learned that Chen Qiang had made tens of millions of dollars in the US stock market, so he came to pull Chen Qiang into this car business.

After learning the truth of the matter, Chen Qiang found a special lawyer and accountant to be responsible for the investment given to Master Kong.

If it is in China, taking 2 million to do business with Master Kong is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger, and the young master Kong will not share the money with you, and by the way, he will swallow your 2 million US dollars, Chen Qiang also has no way to take Master Kong, sue and sue and sue and can't win, and if you use force, there are not as many guns, so you can only suffer dumb losses.

But in the United States, Chen Qiang is not worried that Young Master Kong will repay his debts. First, Young Master Kong does not have so much influence in the United States, and secondly, when doing business in the United States, he must act in accordance with the rules, sign an agreement, and how to divide the accounts is clear and clear, and Chen Qiang also found a special lawyer and accountant, unless Young Master Kong is doing illegal business, otherwise he will not be able to rely on the account.

The cost of tax evasion in the United States is very high, and there is no need to pay taxes for illegal means, but if you buy a car and sell a car from illegal channels, even if he is willing to sell it, the ordinary people who buy a car are not willing to buy it, and ordinary Americans cannot break the law in order to buy a car.

Therefore, if Kong Dagongzi wants to do business in the United States, he must follow the rules of the United States, and Chen Qiang is not worried that Kong Dagongzi will repay his debts because of this.

The historical Prince of Confucius, before monopolizing Sino-US trade, relied on reselling foreign exchange in China and reselling cars in the United States to complete the initial capital accumulation, and then he had the capital to monopolize the trade between China and the United States, established Yangzi Company, and obtained huge wealth through price gouging and smuggling.

At the end of World War II, the official price of the domestic dollar for fiat currency was different from the black market price, which was four times the official price, which meant that taking a dollar to the bank to exchange for fiat currency could quadruple if it was exchanged for fiat currency in the black market.

Kong Dagongzi took advantage of Madame Jiang's relationship to exchange fiat currency for US dollars in Chinese banks, and then took it to the black market and exchanged it for fiat currency, thus obtaining four times the profit, which was the first pot of gold of Kong Dagongzi.

With the first pot of gold, Mr. Kong started a car business in the United States, and he also used his relationship with General Motors to buy cars in the name of Liwei, and then sold the new cars as second-hand cars to ordinary Americans, earning the difference. Therefore, the eldest prince of Kong has sufficient capital to monopolize Sino-US trade.

Now with the two million US dollars provided by Chen Qiang, Kong Dagongzi started to buy and sell this car more than a year in advance.

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After the United States issued a decree prohibiting automobile manufacturers from selling new cars, the production of civilian vehicles in the entire United States came to a complete standstill, and with the continuous influx of orders from the army, all automobile production lines were changed to the production of military vehicles, such as military jeeps, military trucks, military motorcycles, armored vehicles, tanks, etc., more than 20 automobile production plants under General Motors, and any factory can produce hundreds of thousands of military vehicles a year, and Chevrolet even began to produce bomber engines and 90mm cannons. By the end of 1942, GM's production capacity had increased by 50% compared to the beginning of the year.

It can be said that Detroit in this era was the largest arsenal in human history, and the people of the whole city were either producing weapons or serving those who produced weapons.

After the ban on the sale of new cars was enacted, car companies and dealers had a large amount of inventory in their hands, which were new cars, but they were not allowed to sell. To make matters worse, the U.S. government has issued three orders to civilian car dealers. The first is that government departments and the military can buy new cars. So at that time, when people went to buy new cars, they all took the approval of the government or the Ministry of Defense, just like buying a bicycle with a bicycle ticket in the era of the planned economy.

The second order prohibits inflating the price of a car. This will obviously hurt car manufacturers and dealers. Used cars outside are more expensive than new cars, so it is natural for me to sell new cars and increase prices, but the government does not allow it, and new cars have to be sold at the original price. In fact, this decree is suspicious of forced buying and selling, because only the government and the military can buy new cars, and the government restricts the price of new cars from rising, so the US government and the military can buy new cars from car manufacturers and dealers at prices much lower than the market price.

The third order is that new cars that have not yet been sold may not be diverted for other purposes. At this time, the manufacturer said that I dismantled the car, and the parts were recycled and made for other things, which was also to reduce some losses, but the government told you that this is not possible, you have to honestly put the car and store it, and wait for the government and the army to buy it at a relatively low price.

This rule was probably formulated because the U.S. government was worried that automakers and dealers would buy cars in disguise. For example, if a car company tells an employee that I won't pay my salary for the next few months, and then use the car to offset the employee's salary, this is not a sale of a new car, it is not a violation of the law, but this is equivalent to the car company selling the car in disguise. And the employees must be very happy, the price of the car has risen crazy this year, the company gave me a new car, I took it to sell to the second-hand car dealer, I can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in minutes, maybe more than the direct salary, why not! That's why the U.S. government doesn't allow automakers to use new cars for other purposes.

Such a policy is tantamount to cutting off the way of life for car dealers, but fortunately, the army's orders have filled this vacancy, and every car manufacturer has made a lot of money. Without an order from the military, the entire American auto factory would have gone out of business.

Kong Dagongzi is still very capable, he got through the high-level relations of General Motors, and then bought a large number of civilian cars from General Motors. It is estimated that the top management of General Motors took kickbacks from Kong Dagongzi.

Then Mr. Kong bought some cats and dogs, put these cats and dogs in the car, and sold them with the car.

U.S. law doesn't allow the sale of a new car, and there is another law in the U.S. that says if you have a pet in the car, then the car is not considered a new car. Mr. Kong took advantage of this law, bought a new car, threw a cat or dog into it, and then I had a pet in the car, so this car is an old car, but in fact, the condition of this car is a new car, but there is an extra cat and dog.

Many people may think that how could Americans be so stupid and easily exploited by Kong Dagongzi, but in fact, Americans are really so stupid, and the historical Kong Dagongzi used this trick when he resold cars in the United States in 1944.

There are also many people who think that such a simple method, how can others not think of it. However, American businessmen really didn't expect this method, and the first time in history to exploit this loophole was this big boy.

Perhaps this is also the difference between Chinese and American cultures, for most Americans, pets are their family, their friends, and no one will put their family in the car and sell it; However, for many Chinese, pets can be commodities, can be money-making tools, and can even be food, and selling cats and dogs in the car is no different from throwing a pack of instant noodles and a bottle of mineral water in the car.

This batch of new cars under the banner of second-hand cars has just been introduced to the market and has been immediately welcomed by the American people. But whoever can afford to buy a new car, who will buy a used car. Moreover, there has been no new car on the American market for a whole year, and the wallets of the rich have long been hungry and thirsty, especially those who are eager to drive a new car to save face, even if they want to spend more money, they are willing to buy a new car.

After all, in the United States in 1943, new cars were a scarce resource, and they were absolutely in short supply.

The outbreak of the war greatly stimulated the industry in the United States, which allowed more people to get the opportunity to work, and also allowed the working people to get higher salaries. What's more, the concept of consumption in the United States is that the United States eats what it eats, and first spends the money earned tomorrow today, and then spends what it earns the day after tomorrow, and there is no such thing as savings. People have a lot of spare money in their hands, and they can't buy a car to drive!

When the economy is good, the people have money in their hands, and there must be more people who want to buy a new car, but at this time, there is no new car to buy in the United States. As a result, this batch of new cars of Master Kong has become the most sought-after commodity in the United States, and the price has soared, and the price has to be bought.

This is a bit like the buyers who will increase the price of the car in the future, like a very powerful imported MPV, more than 300,000 sold abroad, and more than 300,000 import taxes and fees, and then it is really mentioned that the car has to increase the price by more than 300,000, up to more than 1 million prices, but there are still many local tyrants vying to buy, even at the cost of waiting for a few months, in order to pretend to have face, after the car is bought, blow a wave, how comfortable the car is, how awesome the capsule seats, and fool people who don't understand. But in fact, in terms of ride comfort, more than one million people buy luxury brand business cars, and the comfort is full of MPV. Or buy the kind of joint venture brand MPV of more than 300,000 yuan, and spend 300,000 yuan to modify it, the comfort is not bad, and you can save more than 300,000 yuan.

This is the case with the batch of cars that Master Kong got now, not only are they expensive, but they also have to queue up if they want to buy them.

As soon as Master Kong saw that the car was selling well, he hurriedly continued to increase the price, and the original price of a car was increased to two thousand and a half, and then to three thousand. However, the more the price is raised, the more people buy, and the more people buy, the more ruthless the price increase, so that the cycle continues, the more expensive these cars are sold, and the more Kong Dagongzi makes more and more.

Chen Qiang didn't pay attention to the matter of Prince Kong's car, anyway, there was a professional accountant staring, so Chen Qiang didn't have to worry about it, just wait until the car was sold in the end, and count the money when the settlement was made.

At this time, Chen Qiang has begun to prepare for the first draft of the new basketball league.

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