Wind spy

The Jincheng Office of Huatong Trading Company’s Beiping Branch was located in Xiaobailou in the former British Concession. It was once the residence of a British company. The Gendarmerie gave Chen Mingxiang to Chen Mingxiang and also gave two former foreign banks to open Two cars and four trucks were allocated to the silk shop and tea shop.

Chen Mingxiang gave Yano Otosaburo 100,000 U.S. dollars, Murano Naohiro was 20,000 U.S. dollars, and the two sides quickly reached a cooperation. These confiscated British businessman assets are a bit of "sincerity" of the military police!

The office of the Beiping branch found a cargo yard near Jincheng Port. It was originally built by an American businessman. There are several large warehouses in it for transshipment and short-term storage of goods to and from Jincheng Port. I went through the formalities for Chen Mingxiang and even the nearby land.

"You guys are staring at this matter. The key is water, electricity and telephone. Before the machines come, you should recruit people to clean up the site, bring coal and loess over and wait for construction to start, and go to the port to transport coal ash and pave the road." Chen Mingxiang Said in the yard.

"Boss, we have found six briquettes factories in Jincheng, all of which use machines to make briquettes. A briquette machine can produce six to seven talons of briquettes in an hour, and that’s about one hundred and four. More than ten dans, 30 machines are fully opened, and the output is more than 4,000 dans a day." Office manager Sun Dingxin said with a smile.

"More than that, I need to make 200,000 quintals of briquettes every month to stimulate the Shanghai stock market price of briquettes. In other words, the daily output of Jincheng cannot be less than 7,000 quintals. I hope it is 10,000 quintals. For this reason, For the new briquettes plant, I purchased 30 of the latest briquettes and they will arrive at Jincheng Port in four days."

"This is a high-intensity manual work. It is divided into three shifts and can only work for a maximum of eight hours. A machine requires four people to transport materials, two people stare at them, and four people transport the briquettes to the storage yard. This is three hundred. People, according to the third class, there are nine hundred people."

"There are stevedores at the wharf, but we don't care about it, but the briquettes at the briquettes factory will need a lot of manpower to load and unload coal. In this way, you recruit a hundred stevedores."

"In terms of wages and benefits, a fifty-yuan bank voucher is given every month, and one meal in the morning, midnight and evening, cornmeal wotou, pickles, and rice porridge are enough. The monthly welfare per person is one catty of coarse salt and one catty of cane sugar. , A towel, two bars of soap and ten boxes of matches."

"Free up two rows of warehouses as dormitories. This is far from the city, so there must be a place to rest. Also, I asked the freighter to bring in some shredded tea leaves, boil enough boiling water every day, and send a tea cup for each person." Chen Mingxiang After thinking about it.

Doing business is to perform tasks better. Money itself is not that important to him. Therefore, he always treats workers who make money for themselves.

Since I have the ability to help them, the conditions must be made more affordable. Is this a thing for me?

However, it is very important for workers. Salt, sugar, towels, soap, and matches are all controlled materials. They must be rationed monthly, and they cannot be bought casually.

"Boss, the treatment of our family is too good? Even monthly benefits are paid. The benefits are the highest salary in the first half of the month. There are few industrial and commercial enterprises in Tianjin that dare to do this, which will cause the chamber of commerce and various companies. The factory is dissatisfied!"

"What we have visited and investigated in the past few days is that in the best textile factories or chemical factories in the local area, the wages of workers in a year are about 300 yuan, which is the highest income. The annual income of ordinary workers is less than 200 yuan. Coolie’s income is less than 100 yuan a year."

"A briquettes factory like ours does not have much technical content. A monthly salary of 20 yuan is enough, but 600 yuan a year, plus the benefits have to be doubled. This has caught up with the textile industry in the Shanghai stock market. Workers have an annual income." Sun Dingxin said embarrassedly.

He was shocked by the series of treatments and benefits offered by Chen Mingxiang. You are a capitalist. This is like doing charity, working three shifts, not talking about food and drinking, and giving back so many scarce supplies every month. We came to Tianjin to make money, not to spread money.

"Bullshit, this is particularly a Union Bank coupon, which is a grade worse than the China Chuo coupons. What is the current price chaos? Twenty yuan, the cornmeal from Pingjin and Tianjin costs 50 cents per catty. Rice is a piece of five and a millet of eight cents. You still compare with the Shanghai stock market. You can't buy even three catties of rice for 20 yuan in the Shanghai stock market. You let the workers wait to drink the northwest wind?"

"The North China Liaison Department of the Xingya Institute gave us 10 million Union Bank coupons. 1,000 people only cost 50,000 yuan a month. This benefit is 10 yuan, and 60,000 yuan a month, OK? Is it 800,000 per year? It will take twelve years. How much money can we make during this period?"

"Furthermore, what we will have is salt in the future. I have already agreed with the gendarmerie to set up a few fixed points in the Changlu Saltworks. At 50 yuan per ton, one ship per month and a quota of 2,000 tons of salt. What is the concept? No need to spend money to buy salt!" Chen Mingxiang said.

He focused on three things in North China, one is coal, the other is cotton and the other is salt. As long as these three are played well, it is an incredible wealth, especially the most inconspicuous salt.

There is a severe shortage of salt in the Kuomintang Controlled Area. The salt farms are basically in the occupied areas, controlled by the Japanese puppets, but actually controlled by the Japanese, and the prices are also rising sharply.

I heard that the Japanese North China Front Army snatched more than 44,000 tons of salt from the Changlu Saltworks last year and shipped it to Japan at a cost of 38 yuan, but the Japanese only gave 20 yuan. The more you produce, the more you lose. many.

Chen Mingxiang has the assistance of the North China Liaison Department and the Gendarmerie. He does not care about the salt tax or anything, that is, the cost of 50 yuan and the transportation cost of the salt field.

Transported to the occupied areas and Kuomintang-controlled areas in Central China, he did not pay the salt tax. This is his own site. On the surface, he seems to be making a fortune, but in fact it is to solve the salt shortage problem.

According to the Japanese military's material control and rationing, an adult has a catty of salt a month, but in fact, the salt company under the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Institute does not have such a large transportation capacity at all, and the military ships are busy. Sending important materials to Japan ignores the needs of the occupied areas.

Japanese expatriates in the Shanghai stock market can get one catty of refined salt per month. The people in the occupied areas only have one catty of salt a month. In the 29th of the Republic of China, one catty of coarse salt was equivalent to one catty. Up to now, it has doubled. Not only that, salt has always been a profiteering industry.

"This is great. We have our own salt farm, which means we have a cornucopia cash cow. The income alone is amazing."

"It turns out that salt is an industry with small profits but quick turnover. Now that material control is implemented, profits are going up somehow. I dare say that by the end of the year, it won't rise to five yuan a catty, that's the hell." Sun Dingxin said.