In a Sichuan restaurant in Chinatown, Fang Lang and Wan Chongxin were feasting on three dishes and one soup on the table, after completing the transaction, Fang Lang said that he wanted to invite Wan Chongxin to have a good meal, for this kind of good thing, of course Wan Chongxin would not refuse.

"Mr. Fang, as for you saying that there is still a big business to take care of me, I don't know if you can tell me what kind of big business it is now!" For this transaction, Wan Chongxin directly received a fourteen dollars in intermediary fees from Fang Lang, plus a reward of fifty dollars from Mr. Valentine, a total of sixty-four dollars, which is equivalent to two months' salary income of an ordinary American worker now. Wan Chongxin is already very satisfied, and it would be better if he could do another business.

"Mr. Wan, I don't know how much income you have every month now?" Originally, Fang Lang was also thinking about whether to directly find a tobacco dealer to directly purchase a batch of cigarettes. Let this business become a long-term business, if it is a long-term business, Fang Lang must ensure that there are special people in charge in the United States and Italy, and it is best to be able to operate as a company.

Originally, the biggest problem was that Fang Lang did not have manpower to be responsible for the development of business on both sides, but this time Wan Chongxin's performance was still very satisfactory to Fang Lang, so he wanted to give him a chance.

"Ugh! Well, this one! To tell you the truth, Mr. Fang, I won't hide it from you, the deal I helped you reach this time is my first pot of gold, it turns out that I am doing some odd jobs and have no formal job, so I have no regular income. This question made Wan Chongxin a little embarrassed, but he didn't hide anything, and still told the truth.

"Then if I set up an import and export trading company in the United States, how about you come and work for me?"

"Aren't you a soldier? Do you still have time for business? ”

"I'm not an American soldier, so what does it matter?"

"If I give you a job, what do I have to be responsible for? How much is the salary? Wan Chongxin is also a forced choice to be an intermediary, if he can have a stable income, of course he will not mind.

"You just need to help me to purchase the goods I need according to my requirements, and then transport them to the warehouse for storage management, and then hand over them clearly with the pick-up personnel I arranged. The salary is eight dollars a week, and if you do well, you will be given a bonus. ”

Wan Chongxin lowered his head and thought about it for a while, then nodded in agreement: "No problem!" I am more than happy to work for you. ”

Hearing Wan Chongxin's agreement, Fang Lang was also very happy, which means that in the future, there will be a special person in charge of procurement in the United States, even if he does not come to the United States next time, he can also let Wan Chongxin notify himself after the procurement is completed. I arranged for Captain Cross to help bring the goods to Italy, and set up a branch in Italy to receive the goods and sell them to the Gambino family, so that there would be a complete trade route?

"Okay, then you will familiarize yourself with the tobacco market in the United States with me today, and tomorrow I will set up an import and export trading company and sign a formal employment contract with you."

In this way, Fang Lang, accompanied by Wan Chongxin, spent an afternoon running through the tobacco distributors in the United States, and learned that the main forces sold in the market now are the Haocai brand cigarettes of the British American Tobacco Company and the Camel brand cigarettes of the Renault Tobacco Company.

After agreeing to meet at Wan Chongxin's house the next day, Fang Lang returned to the Charles Jos when it was dark, and everyone on the ship had already arrived, and they were loading and unloading the goods, while discussing passionately, how much money did you raise, and how much money I borrowed.

Everyone greeted Fang Lang very warmly when they saw him come back, and Fang Lang also responded enthusiastically one by one, and told everyone that he would collect everyone's investment tomorrow morning, so that everyone would take turns to find him at breakfast tomorrow.

After getting a clear answer, everyone stopped surrounding Fang Lang, and Fang Lang found Captain Cross and wanted to discuss with him if he could introduce a few other captains to him.

"Mr. Captain, I mean that if my business can be successful this time, then every time you travel to and from the Atlantic in the future, you can organize your own crew to raise funds or go to the place I give you alone to pick up the goods, and then I will arrange for someone to receive the goods you have shipped directly at three times the price at the port in Italy, and turn this business into a long-term business, what do you think?"

"Fang, of course there is no problem, you are creating income for all of us, how can we refuse?" Captain Cross grinned as he touched his beard with a big smile on his face.

"When the time comes, if you have captains of other fleets that you are familiar with, you can also involve them, and the greater my demand for cargo, the better."

"Oh! Can it really be? But it's better to keep a low profile in this kind of thing, because if we go too far, it might attract the attention of the gendarmes, and it will be very troublesome. Captain Cross was happy, but he whispered a wary warning to Fang Lang.

Fang Lang also took Captain Cross's warning to heart, and couldn't help but think that it seemed that he had to get a little bit involved with Brigadier Neo Jackson, otherwise he would be very passive when he was investigated.

There was nothing to say all night, and before dawn the next day, the crew dragged Fang Lang out of the warm quilt, and Fang Lang could only pick up the notebook one by one and record in detail how much everyone invested.

When everyone's investment was concentrated in Fang Lang's backpack in the end, Fang Lang was also surprised, and with his own funds, he raised 55,000 US dollars, which greatly exceeded Fang Lang's expectations, he thought that 30,000 US dollars was already an astronomical amount, and he didn't expect these American GIs to be able to raise such a large amount.

After getting the investment, Fang Lang took his weapons, carefully put on his backpack, found Wan Chongxin, and went to the U.S. Company Registration Office together to register a company called Global Trade Import and Export Co., Ltd.

Arranged for Wan Chongxin to rent a warehouse near the pier for office and stockpiling. He began to purchase cigarettes non-stop, because for the first purchase, Fang Lang had to go out on his own to understand the market price and avoid being filled by the procurement staff in the future.

In this way, he was busy and finally transported all the goods to the warehouse the next morning, looking at the cigarettes in the warehouse, Fang Lang began to make difficulties, the volume of cigarettes is not large, but it occupies space! Wouldn't it be embarrassing if you couldn't get away?

Fang Lang, who had no choice, finally came over with Captain Cross to confirm the amount of goods, and Captain Cross was also dumbfounded at so many cigarettes. There aren't so many places to load on the ship! Where is this entrainment!

In the end, there was really no way but to transport all the goods to the ship first, after all, this is a business invested by the whole ship.

And so, when the Charles Jos finally set sail, almost every corner was stuffed with cigarettes, and even the crew's lounge was stuffed with cargo.

Fortunately, this is the common property of all the crew, otherwise everyone may be thrown into the sea halfway. Especially when crossing the Atlantic, the fleet was attacked by submarines of the German Navy. Overall, though, there was a thrilling crossing of the Atlantic Ocean back to Italy.

On the way back, the U.S. lost more than a dozen Victory ships, but fortunately, the Charles Jos returned to the port of Naples without any problems.