"Ono-kun, you are my best friend in the Japanese Navy, you have helped me a lot in the past few years, since this matter is related to your future, I will do my best to help you, I will give you four thousand pieces of cotton cloth, and I can hand it over to you tonight." Chen Mingxiang said.

"It's really good, I'll notify the finance to send you the payment immediately, and I will bring someone to the warehouse to receive it in the evening, Chen Jun, thank you for your help!" Ono stood up excitedly.

The cotton and cotton yarn market in Shanghai has always been controlled by the army, and he also knows that Chen Mingxiang does not have much inventory in his hands, and even the textile factory in Suzhou is half dead, and it is not easy to come up with so many goods at one time.

"Ono-kun, my guard wants to strengthen its firepower, I heard that the Marine Corps has a hundred submachine guns developed by the Empire, can you get me a few? I'll have to take some extra measures for my own safety, I don't have a place to get guns, so I'll have to ask for your help. Chen Mingxiang asked.

The Hyak-type submachine gun, which was produced by Japan in the 39th year of the Republic of China, is similar in appearance to the German MP-18 submachine gun, uses eight-millimeter bullets, and is common to the Southern Type 14 pistol.

With a magazine capacity of thirty and fifty rounds, armed with bayonets and bipods, the current length is one hundred and twenty centimeters, the effective firing range is one hundred and twenty meters, and the production is not very large.

This submachine gun is basically being tested by the Army, the troops participating in the test are in the South Pacific theater, and the Marine Corps is also equipped with a small part, which is not a standard weapon.

"The 100-style submachine gun is not equipped with the Marines in Shanghai on a large scale, fortunately, the number of your guards is not large, I can think of a way to give you a few, when the concession was captured, the Marines collected a batch of weapons, nothing very good, such as Browning pistols and revolvers are quite a lot, these weapons are not needed by our Marines, pick a batch of better ones and give them to you." Onakasa thought for a moment and said.

He didn't tell a lie, the number of 100 submachine guns is indeed not much, just a few hundred, and in the face of a huge number of marines, it is impossible to achieve the standard configuration, and even put it in the warehouse and no one uses it.

According to the thinking of the Japanese army, why use several bullets to complete the problem that one bullet can solve, it is a pure waste of resources, so the positioning of the Baishi submachine gun is a small light machine gun.

This transaction did not go through the Kodama agency to pay for the goods, so there was no need to pay dividends to Kodama and Shifu, so Chen Mingxiang gave Ono Nakasa $450 per piece of cloth as a thank you, but the other party only received $200 per piece.

There are different needs at each stage, Ono Nakasa is most concerned about his military rank at this time, the money aspect is secondary, there is no soldier who does not want to be a general, and so is he, and the gap between Nakasa and the general is too far, and there is hope for Osa.

Wang Jingwei, who had attended the six-nation meeting, returned to Jinling on the evening of the 7th, and immediately after the morning of the 8th, he convened an emergency meeting to formulate a so-called "Measures for the Investigation of Cotton Cloth and Cotton Yarn" in view of the current situation in Shanghai, stipulating that all cotton cloth sold without permission shall not be broken into pieces and sold privately, and violators will have their goods confiscated and will be punished.

"Director Chen, the market in Shanghai is clean, but there are many black markets for cotton cloth in many places, a large number of cotton cloth merchants have turned their targets to the underground, and some of the goods that have been registered have also appeared in the quantity of the situation, I hope that the police can crack down on this kind of thing, and cannot continue to let it go." Nie Lusheng came to the police station again.

After receiving the official letter from the Jinling government, Chen Mingxiang ordered the police station to drive out all the stalls of the cloth shops, so that there would be no goods in the market.

But the cotton merchants could not sit idly by and watch themselves suffer, so they united to engage in the black market of cotton cloth, continued to sell cotton cloth to the outside world, and the office of buying cotton gauze had to come to Chen Mingxiang to discuss, and Huatong Trading Company was a public acquisition.

"Director Nie, the police station is not a servant of your Chamber of Commerce and Commerce, we only do things according to the government's official documents, anyway, the task is not completed, you don't have to worry anymore, beware of angering your peers and causing trouble for yourself."

"As far as I know, your business union will buy cotton gauze offices, and a large number of cotton cloth and cotton yarn have been looted, and the main yarn mills, textile mills, cotton cloth shops and cloth shops in Shanghai have been emptied by you, and the goods that have not been registered are only a few, and it will be boring to dig three feet into the ground." Chen Mingxiang didn't care.

"Director Chen, of course we don't want to pursue it, the so-called compulsory acquisition method, everyone knows the depth and shallowness, but this phenomenon has been published in the Japanese newspapers, the Ministry of Industry of the Jinling government, today asked the Commercial Unification Council to crack down on the black market of cotton cloth, and we have no choice!"

"They don't actually object to the cloth sellers' association, they are all peers, but since the Japanese want to track it down, they have to make a move to deal with it, and everyone means that they can at least be able to deal with it." Nie Lusheng said with a wry smile.

Chen Mingxiang suddenly understood, these people from the Chamber of Commerce also felt the pressure, and they were unwilling to tear their faces with their peers, this time the investigation of the cotton black market was also to deal with errands and acting, and even the control agency also had such an attitude, so you can imagine the extent to which the corruption of Wang's puppet government has been.

"It's not impossible, as long as the Commercial Unification Council gives funds, the police station will be able to speak, in this way, you first print a batch of propaganda materials, and I want the police stations in various regions to post them and carry out a crackdown campaign, and the daily subsidy is indispensable, so you have to give money for a meal and buy a box of cigarettes, right?" Chen Mingxiang said.

"We can give the funds to the police station, but what about the more than 16,000 police officers in the city, we can't afford to give money according to the capitation, so we will print the propaganda materials and notices, and the fourteen sub-bureaus in the old public concession and five sub-bureaus in the old French concession, and allocate 1.9 million yuan in savings coupons at one time to carry out a ten-day operation, isn't this outrageous?" Nie Lusheng said.

It is said that such a subsidy is a bit outrageous, and it did not follow the certificate procedure, and the police department was obliged to assist in the work of the Chamber of Commerce and Commerce, and it should be applied to the city government, and the city government came forward to ask the police department to perform the task, which is the normal process.

Doing so now is tantamount to the Commercial Unification Council giving each branch 10,000 yuan of central reserve bonds a day, and the aggregate is the fund for 190,000 central reserve bonds a day.

Of course, although it sounds like an astonishing number, the total establishment of these dozen or so police substations is nearly 8,000 people, and according to the subsidy of 10 yuan a day for one person, it will cost 80,000 yuan, which is really not very high.

Ten yuan in the coupons, even a simple stall meal on the street is not enough, but it is okay to buy a box of cigarettes, besides, Chen Mingxiang, the chief of police, no one dares to provoke in the Wang puppet government, and the money is given to the police station, and no one will dare to ask for trouble.

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