readx;? Two days later, a fleet of five freighters arrived at the port of Guangzhou, carrying Wang Haitao and two companies of soldiers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWang Haitao, accompanied by Tangshan Leopard and Li Houwu, boarded the "Kate" freighter from the United States. This is a 20,000-ton cargo ship owned by Morgan & Company, which not only has 9,500 tons of metal materials delivered to Wang Haitao in Guangzhou, but also 10,000 tons of scrap steel delivered to the port of Yokohama in Japan.

Although Wang Haitao was very angry about the scrap steel sent to Japan on the ship, he was helpless, because he was powerless to stop this normal trade between the United States and Japan. On the ship, Wang Haitao met with a department manager sent by Morgan & Co., who conveyed the greetings of the general manager of Morgan Bank, Pitt of Morgan Bank, and a handwritten letter.

Later, he took out a quotation for metal materials issued by Morgan Metal Materials Company to Wang Haitao, as well as international trade inspection certificates for several metal materials. According to the quotation, Wang Haitao had to pay $678,000 for the metal and freight, which would be close to $1 million if combined with the 5,000 tons of steel from his own steel plant.

After Wang Haitao saw these things, he said to the department manager: "I didn't bring dollars today, but brought a ton of gold. You give this ton of gold to the general manager of Morgan Bank, and then bring back my handwritten letter to the general manager of Pete, and the general manager of Pitt will take care of the payment. After speaking, Wang Haitao wrote a reply letter to Pete in front of the manager.

In his reply, Wang Haitao first greeted Pete, and then explained to Pete that after the one ton of gold he brought back this time was converted into U.S. dollars according to the market in the United States, except for the payment for the goods, all the excess amount would be transferred to the account of his iron and steel plant, and the specific matters would be handled by Li Houwu, deputy chief of the financial department of the iron and steel plant.

After writing the letter, Wang Haitao handed it to the manager, and asked Li Houwu and the soldiers to deliver a ton of gold here. The gold was divided into ten boxes of 100 kilograms each, and after the manager and Li Houwu examined the gold together, they jointly sealed each box and sent it to the vault. Wang Haitao explained that after Li Houwu returned to the United States, he went to Morgan Bank with gold to find Manager Pitt to handle specific matters.

Next, Wang Haitao counted and accepted the goods on the freighter, and after going through the handover procedures for the manager, he went to the Guangzhou Port Authority to request transshipment and unloading. The Guangzhou Port Authority originally wanted to impose tariffs on the goods on board, but Wang Haitao took out an official letter from the Fourth Army to prove that these were military supplies from the arsenal, so there was no way to collect tariffs.

But after Wang Haitao, who was not stingy, paid a generous transshipment and handling fee, the officials of the port authority were pleasantly surprised. This is because the transshipment and loading and unloading of military materials is not allowed or a small amount of fees are charged according to the regulations, but this Major General Wang generously paid the loading and unloading fees according to the price of civilian material transshipment, which is unique among officers.

Because of the primitive and backward tools, it will take two to three days for nearly 10,000 tons of metal materials to be fully transshipped and loaded, Wang Haitao arranged for Tangshan Leopard to bring a platoon of soldiers to escort the goods first, and told Tangshan Leopard to find Tang Renli after returning to Tang Renli, and asked Tang Renli to arrange vehicles to send materials to the military factory.

After the Tangshan leopard left, Wang Haitao asked his soldiers to watch the workers loading and unloading on the boat, and he took the two soldiers to the Krupp firm in Guangzhou. In the firm, Wang Haitao met Hans and Diner managers. Hans and Dina had already learned about what had happened to Wang Haitao at the Krupp headquarters in a telegram from the headquarters some time ago, and both the headquarters and his brother Lucas told themselves that if this Colonel Wang came to the door, they would do their best to help.

Therefore, Manager Hans was particularly enthusiastic when he saw Wang Haitao. After the two of them were in a cold conversation for a long time, Wang Haitao explained his intentions, first, he wanted Manager Hans to ask the manager Hans through the internal telegram when the arms at the headquarters could be shipped from Germany. Naturally, Hans agreed to this request without hesitation, and Wang Haitao asked Hans to inquire about the headquarters if he could add 30 light armored vehicles and accessories to be transported to China at the same time as the munitions.

The second question is whether the Krupp firm can help itself buy raw materials for the production of high-explosive munitions, which are urgently needed by its own military factories. After Manager Hans went to send a telegram to the headquarters, he made another phone call to help Wang Haitao contact the chemical raw materials.

Two hours later, a telegram from the Krupp headquarters was sent to Wang Haitao, and the arms would be loaded onto the ship in 10 days, and the top management of the Krupp company would negotiate with the Mercedes-Benz company about the 30 light armored vehicles, and if successful, they could be shipped to China at the same time as the arms, and they also extended their greetings to Wang Haitao in the telegram. At the same time, Hans's chemical raw materials also had a new home, and a British chemical company happened to have a batch of chemical raw materials destined for Japan, and the company agreed to transfer some of them to Krupp Comptoir when it passed through the port of Guangzhou.

Wang Haitao calculated that the shipment would start in ten days, and the time to arrive in Guangzhou should be in late December. Wang Haitao, who knew well, expressed his gratitude to Manager Hans, and asked Manager Hans to accept this batch of chemical raw materials first, and when he came to pick up the arms, he would take them away and settle the payment. After Manager Hans said there was no problem, Wang Haitao left the Krupp firm.

Two days later, all the cargo transshipment was completed, Wang Haitao said goodbye to the manager of Morgan and Li Houwu, sent off the American freighter "Kate", and got on the last small freighter and headed for Longzhou.

Wang Haitao, who returned to Longzhou Port, found that the entire cargo wharf was busy, and the wharf was full of soldiers and dock workers of the Independent Brigade nervously unloading metal materials from the freighter, and then loading them onto military trucks waiting on the wharf to pull them away. At the gate of the wharf, there are constantly heavy-duty vehicles and empty vehicles coming and going. Wang Haitao got off the freighter and saw Tang Renli and Jonas, the deputy director of the military factory, busy on the wharf, as well as the soldiers of Tangshan Leopard and the Guard Company.

After everyone saw Wang Haitao, they came over to say hello, and Wang Haitao asked Tang Renli: "Renli, how is the situation?"

Tang Renli replied: "Report to the brigade, three ships of materials have been transported to the military factory, and the fourth ship has also been partially unloaded and is now being loaded and unloaded. ”

Wang Haitao said: "Yes, aren't you slow to move." Then he asked Jonas, "Director Jonas, how is the quality of this batch of materials?"

Jonas gave a thumbs up and said: "Boss Wang, the quality of this batch of materials is very good, enough to produce guns and ammunition, but now the factory is in urgent need of raw materials that can produce high explosives, without these raw materials, it is impossible to produce high explosives, and it is impossible to produce high explosive bombs." ”

Wang Haitao reassured Jonas that in more than a month, the chemical raw materials would be delivered to the military factory.

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