A secret radio station of the Military Control Commission in the French Concession was cracked. After being arrested, the personnel surrendered to the secret agent headquarters. This was the first time Chen Mingxiang heard about this.

This is not surprising. He has a single line contact with the bureau headquarters, and Boss Dai will not tell him that the bureau headquarters’ direct radio station is not a single line and must not intersect. This is also a huge threat to Chen Mingxiang.

"It's a great achievement to crack the Military Control Commission Radio, especially the secret radio station directly under the headquarters. Why is there no news at all?" Chen Mingxiang asked.

"This matter has nothing to do with our Operation Corps. It was at the end of last year when a small minion from the Shanghai Municipal Government of the Military Control Commission rebelled and provided information to the secret service headquarters."

"Director Li handed over this task to Ma Xiaotian and Jin Hui of the Telecommunications Department. After confirming the radio signal, the Guard Corps entered the concession and secretly arrested people."

"The arrest was carried out on the same day, the interrogation on the same day, the rebellion on the same day, and the report continued when I went back on the same day. It is estimated that the headquarters of the Military Commission may still be kept in the dark." Zhang Jinlu said.

"This is a radio station where the headquarters of the Military Control Bureau was secretly ambushed. The two people in charge specialize in collecting and bribing information. Even the Shanghai Municipal District of the Military Control Bureau did not know the exact location of the radio station, but the value was not high. It was because it had obtained a set of passwords from the Military Control Bureau, which was completely different from those in the Shanghai Municipal District." Lin Zhijiang said.

Chen Mingxiang has no choice but to do anything about this. This kind of lurking radio station is not discovered to be the greatest protection. Once it is cracked, it will have no value. There is no oil or water to squeeze in a single line connection.

Although he felt sad, he had no intention of rescue. Unless he received this news in advance, no matter whether these two military commanders were real or false, they would lose the need for rescue. Underground work was so cruel.

Wan Lilang rarely speaks. Chen Mingxiang always feels that this guy is his biggest enemy, and he seems to be observing him all the time.

During the period of lurking in the Shanghai Stock Exchange, he was only wary of two people, one was Wanlilang and the other was Nan Zaoyunzi. The intuition of these two old spies was scary, and they suspected that they were the instinctive reactions of the agents.

The transaction between Huatong Trading Company and the Operation Corps was very smooth. Chen Mingxiang handed over the 200 quintals of boar bristles to Eryu's agency. According to his request, Eryu and Shifu gave a purchase price of 8,000 quintals, and each quintal made a net profit of 2,000 quintals, which was a profit of 400,000 yuan at a time. Unfortunately, such opportunities were rare.

"Boss Zhang, the purpose of my visit this time is very simple. We are all working together to produce cigarettes. I am responsible for tobacco leaves and road transportation. You are responsible for production. I will pay you processing and packaging fees." Chen Mingxiang came to a small cigarette factory located in the concession.

During this period, the total national cigarette production was about 1.66 million boxes, of which British American Tobacco Company accounted for 67%.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange is the center of the national tobacco industry, which concentrated about 60% of the country's cigarette factories. After the Battle of August 13, the Japanese army invaded areas outside the Shanghai Stock Exchange Concession, and the cigarette industry in the Shanghai Stock Exchange suffered great losses, and nearly 30 ethnic tobacco factories were destroyed one after another.

Some tobacco factories moved into the concession after the war and continued to produce. Cigarettes are daily consumables, with low profits but large sales.

However, in order to realize the ambition of dominating the Shanghai Stock Exchange tobacco market, the Japanese army not only snatched the equipment of tobacco factories, but also listed tobacco raw materials as control products, stipulating that tobacco sales must have a delivery certificate, and delayed the processing, posing a great threat to tobacco factories in national industries. Of course, Japanese-funded enterprises do not have this problem.

"This is a good thing. Of course I agree. Huatong Trading Company is famous in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. I know that Manager Chen has such ability. Three textile factories are resurrected in your hands. Tens of thousands of families have enough food and clothing. The business community in the Shanghai Stock Exchange appreciates you very much!" Zhang Wenyan, the owner of Zezhong Tobacco Factory, looked full of joy.

He was a wealthy businessman in Su Province. Due to the war, he took his family property to the concession to take refuge. He used to do tobacco sales and built several rows of houses in the concession. After more than a year, he had not made the signs out. It was about to close, but Chen Mingxiang suddenly visited and couldn't help but feel unhappy.

"This kind of cigarette uses Xuchang tobacco leaves as raw materials. There is no brand. It is divided into three types. One cigarette box has four words: the gendarmerie special supply, the other cigarette box has four words: the navy special supply, and the third type has four words: the internal special supply, and the specific quantity depends on how much your tobacco factory produces every day." Chen Mingxiang did not respond.

"The tobacco factory has three imported British cigarette machines, and the production of each cigarette machine per hour is 60,000. If calculated based on twenty packs, it is 3,000 packs of cigarettes, which are operated all day. If there are enough tobacco, it can produce 72,000 packs, and the three units are fully opened and guaranteed at a minimum of 200,000 packs per day." Zhang Wenyan said.

The Shanghai Gendarmerie is organized by a thousand people, and it is calculated based on one thousand packs per day. It requires 30,000 packs of cigarettes per month. If the same amount is given to the Marine Corps every month, it is 60,000 packs of cigarettes. The output of the tobacco factory can meet the demand in one day.

"I transported Xuchang tobacco leaves from Jieshou. The purchase price per kilogram is about 1.5 yuan. A car transported to the Shanghai Stock Exchange for three tons, which costs 120 yuan of oil. It is equivalent to one kilogram of tobacco leaves and one 50 cents. How is the cost of our finished cigarette?" Chen Mingxiang asked.

"A ton of tobacco can produce about 40,000 packs of twenty packs, which is equivalent to 40 boxes per kilogram. Tobacco leaves cost more than three cents, plus cigarette boxes and artificial electricity, it will not exceed one cent. Now prices are soaring, the value of fiat currency has plummeted, and we have to pay 10,500 cents as a cost." Zhang Wenyan said.

This is a logical algorithm. With the depreciation of the fiat currency, the wages of workers are basically around 35 yuan. Chen Mingxiang remembers that he had a few cents a pack of cheap handmade cigarettes.

"I will give you a box of 25 cents as the gross income of the tobacco factory. You have to produce at least 100 boxes per month, that is, 250,000 packs. If you make one dime per box, that is 25,000 yuan, that is, 25,000 yuan, but the cigarette box must be exquisite and high-end. Can it be done?" Chen Mingxiang asked.

"As long as Manager Chen's tobacco leaves can be supplied, I will definitely have no problem here. One hundred boxes are very easy." Zhang Wenyan said with a smile.

"30,000 packs are special supplies for military police, 30,000 packs are special supplies for navy, and 25,000 packs are special supplies for internal supplies, a total of 30 boxes, and the other seventy boxes are all made into Bund cards. There should be a Bund scenery on the cigarette box." Chen Mingxiang thought for a while and said.

With such a production scale, he has to provide 50,000 yuan for this investment every month, but the profit he earns is definitely more than this.

Boss Dai needs to smuggle cigarettes to the Kuomintang-controlled area. Each pack costs 50 cents, which means 62,500 yuan. Not only can the capital be earned, but there is still profit to get.
Chapter completed!