The Jincheng office of the Beiping branch of the Huatong Trading Company, located in the Xiaobailou of the former British Concession, was once the residence of a British company, and the gendarmerie gave it to Chen Mingxiang, and also gave two old sites of foreign firms for the opening of silk and satin shops and tea shops, and allocated two cars and four trucks.

Chen Mingxiang gave Otozaburo Yano 100,000 US dollars, and Naohiro Murano was 20,000 US dollars, and the two sides soon reached a cooperation, and these confiscated British merchant assets were a little "sincerity" of the gendarmerie!

The office of the Beiping branch found a freight yard near Jincheng Port, which was originally built by an American businessman, and there were several large warehouses in it for transshipment and short-term storage of goods to and from Jincheng Port.

"A few of you are staring at this matter, the key is water, electricity and telephone, before the machine comes, first recruit people to tidy up the site, transport coal and loess over and wait for the start of construction, and go to the port to transport some coal ash and pave the road." Chen Mingxiang said in the freight yard.

"Boss, we have found six briquette factories in Jincheng, all of which use machines to make briquettes, a briquette machine can produce six to seven quinquets an hour, 24 hours a day, that is, about 140 quintals, 30 machines are fully open, and the output is more than 4,000 quintals per day." Office manager Sun Dingxin said with a smile.

"Not only that, I need to make 200,000 quintals of briquettes every month, which can stimulate the price of briquettes in Shanghai, 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, I purchased 30 sets of the latest briquette machines for the new briquette factory, which can arrive at Jincheng Port in four days."

"This is a high-intensity physical work, divided into three shifts, at most eight hours, a machine needs four people to transport materials, two people to watch, four people to transport briquettes to the storage yard, this is three hundred people, according to three shifts is nine hundred people."

"There are stevedores at the wharf, so we don't have to worry about it, but the briquette factory will need a lot of manpower to load and unload coal, so you can recruit a hundred stevedores."

"In terms of salary, I will be given 50 yuan a month in a coupon, one meal in the morning, noon and evening, cornmeal and pickles, and rice porridge, and each person's monthly welfare is one pound of coarse salt, one pound of cane sugar, a towel, two pieces of soap and ten boxes of matches."

"Set aside two rows of warehouses as dormitories, which are far from the city, and there must be a place to rest. Also, I asked the freighter to bring some broken tea leaves, boil enough boiling water every day, and give each person a teacup. Chen Mingxiang thought for a while and said.

Doing business is to perform tasks better, and money itself is not so important to him, so he has always been kind to those workers who make money for themselves.

Since I have the ability to help them, the conditions must be more affordable, is this still a matter for me?

However, it was quite important for the workers, salt, sugar, towels, soap and matches, which were all controlled materials, which were to be rationed monthly, and were not readily available.

"Boss, our family's treatment is too good, isn't it? Even monthly benefits, the first half of the monthly salary, the entire Jincheng industry and commerce, there are few that dare to do this, which will cause dissatisfaction among the chamber of commerce and various factories! ”

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

"In a briquette factory like ours, there is no technical content, and a salary of 20 yuan a month is enough, and it is actually 600 yuan a year, plus the welfare has to be doubled, which is just up to the annual income of textile workers in Shanghai." Sun Dingxin said with some embarrassment.

He was shocked by Chen Mingxiang's series of benefits and benefits, you are a capitalist, this is like doing charity, three shifts, not to mention eating and drinking, and giving so many scarce materials every month, we came to Jincheng to make money, not to scatter money.

", this is a special Union Bank coupon, which is a grade worse than the Central Reserve Coupon, what is the current price of goods, twenty yuan, the stick noodles in Pingjin and Tianjin, five cents per catty, five cents and eight cents per catty, you are still compared with the Shanghai market, the Shanghai market can't even buy three catties of rice for twenty yuan, you let the workers wait to drink the northwest wind?"

"The North China Liaison Department of Xingya Academy has given us the support of 10 million joint bank coupons, 1,000 people are only 50,000 yuan a month, this benefit is 10 yuan, is it good to count 60,000 yuan a month, is it good to count 800,000 yuan a year, then it will take 12 years, how much can we earn during this period?"

"Besides, what we will have in the future is salt, and I have already agreed with the gendarmerie to set up a few fixed points in the Changlu Salt Factory, according to 50 yuan per ton, a boat a month, and a quota of 2,000 tons of salt, what is this concept? You don't have to spend money on salt! Chen Mingxiang said.

He has his eyes on three things in North China, one is coal, the second is cotton, and the third is salt, as long as he plays with these three things, it is a great wealth, especially the most inconspicuous salt.

There is a great shortage of salt in the Guotong area, and the salt farms are basically in the occupied area, which is controlled by the Japanese puppets, but in fact they are controlled by the Japanese, and the prices are also rising sharply.

I heard that last year, the Japanese North China Front Army stole more than 44,000 tons of salt from the Changlu Salt Works and shipped it to Japan, at a cost of 38 yuan, but the Japanese only gave 20 yuan, and the more they produced, the more they lost.

Chen Mingxiang had the help of the North China Liaison Department and the gendarmerie, and he didn't care about the salt tax or anything, that is, the cost of fifty yuan and transportation costs for the salt works.

Transported to the occupied areas and nationalized areas of central China, he did not pay salt taxes, this is his own territory, on the surface he seems to be making a fortune, but in fact it is to solve the problem of salt shortage.

According to the material control and rationing of the Japanese army, an adult has a pound of salt a month, but in fact, the salt industry company under the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy does not have such a large transportation capacity at all, and the military ships are busy transporting important materials to Japan, ignoring the needs of the occupied areas.

The Japanese expatriates in Shanghai can each get one catty of refined salt per month, and the common people in the occupied areas only get one catty of salt a month per household, and one catty of coarse salt in the 29th year of the Republic of China is six pieces of salt.

"It's great that we have our own salt farm, which is equivalent to having a cornucopia cash cow, and the income from this alone is very amazing."

"It turned out that salt was an industry with small profits and quick turnover, but now the material control system has been implemented, and profits have turned over and risen, I dare to say, if it doesn't rise to five yuan a pound by the end of the year, it will be hell." Sun Dingxin said.