AWB Chapter 863: The Game Within the Game (Part )
Chapter 863: The Game Within the Game (Part )
In an old garden house in Hongkou District, Shanghai.
Rogers stood respectfully at the door of the study, and the noise coming from inside could be heard clearly through the door.
"No, absolutely not, Mr. Sanders, you have too big an appetite."
"Business is not a one-shot game. There is no need to decide the outcome in one go."
The man who was speaking was tall, with an oval face and a tuft of beard in the middle. He was obviously Japanese.
"President Shimazu, what are you afraid of?" Sanders is a Jew whose ancestral home is in Britain.
He has an excellent resume in the UK. He has worked in intelligence for a long time and has been to British colonies in Asia, Africa and other places.
After leaving the army, he used his previous intelligence network to unite some Jews to form a small consortium.
With a powerful intelligence network, their consortium made hundreds of millions of pounds in profits in just a few years.
Therefore, his position in this consortium is absolutely irreplaceable.
Cohen is just a department manager. If he fails to do his job well, he can always find someone to replace him.
Shimazu Yoshio took a breath and said, "I have fought with Chen Yang before, and I know his methods and details."
"If our sales network had not been fully laid out, there would be no need to take such a big risk."
Sanders smiled contemptuously and said, "President Shimazu, you are too sensitive."
"When the Soviet-German War broke out, Mr. Josephkovic agreed to buy 5,000 boxes of penicillin for five tons of gold."
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and, according to the intelligence I have obtained, procuring penicillin is not a matter for one department."
"In addition to Europe, Soviet intelligence agents have also tried to reach a supply agreement with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in North America, but it has not been signed yet."
"It's not just them. Mogayev from the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs has already successfully traded with Minister Chen once."
"If we are slow this time, they will probably finish the deal first. You know, this kind of business doesn't come around often."
Shimazu Yoshio hesitated and said, "But from what I know about Chen Yang, this person never does things without a purpose."
"Mr. Sanders hasn't come to China yet. Penicillin here is about $120 per bottle."
"Within just a few days, without any warning, he suddenly changed the price to $70 per bottle."
"I always feel like he's adjusting the price to target someone."
Sanders stood up and patted Shimazu Yoshio on the shoulder and said, "President Shimazu, you are really a little sensitive."
"In fact, the increase in penicillin production has long been no secret in Europe."
"According to our intelligence, the Sunshine Pharmaceutical Factory in Germany is the largest factory in the world with the most production lines. It can produce 100,000 boxes of penicillin every year for the German army to use."
"The Japanese factory in Kyushu can also produce about 60,000 boxes a year."
"Even their factory in Italy produces 4,000 boxes of drugs every month. With so many drugs produced, when the market is in oversupply, they can only choose to sell at a lower price."
Hearing this, Shimazu Yoshio felt a little bitter at the corners of his mouth.
Originally, Kyushu Pharmaceutical Factory was built by them. Shimazu Yoshio told his father several times not to cooperate with those people.
It is their business if they want to take away the network from Chen Yang. As long as the interests of the Chamber of Commerce are not harmed, they can still cooperate well.
However, my father was already dazzled by the huge profits from penicillin.
In addition, those people promised that after taking away the network from Chen Yang, they would give most of the profits of the pharmaceutical factory to the Osaka Chamber of Commerce.
Of course, profit is one reason, but the more important thing is that they want to use this opportunity to extend the Osaka Chamber of Commerce into the Black Dragon Society's territory.
The interests between gangs are no less than those between pharmaceutical companies.
However, the result was that not only did they fail to take away the network from the other party, but they also lost the sales network in southern China.
Shimazu Yoshio was a very cautious person. After suffering a loss, he learned to be even more careful.
But Sanders didn't think so. He had no conflict of interest with Chen Yang, and after buying the drugs he would sell them to the Soviet Union.
The reason for cooperating with Shimazu Yoshio was that the 400 boxes of medicines in Cohen's original plan were provided by the Osaka Chamber of Commerce.
They reached the agreement a long time ago, and the idiot Cohen has offended Minister Chen. Although Minister Chen is a money-grubber in the eyes of outsiders, there is no guarantee that he will not play any tricks.
After all, he is a self-employed businessman, and these self-employed businessmen really have no bottom line. As long as the price is right, my dad will sell it.
The most crucial point is that this time Sanders came to China not only to make money, but also to teach these ignorant Chinese people a profound lesson.
Let them know that doing business is not as simple as they think.
"Mr. Sanders, is there really no problem with your plan?" After a moment of silence, Shimazu Yoshio changed the subject and asked.
"What's the problem?" Sanders asked back with a smile.
"President Shimazu, you assured me that your network in the southwest is very developed. That's why I chose to cooperate with you."
"After we get the drugs, we will use your network to get them on board a ship from Myanmar, bypass Minister Chen's surveillance, and send them to the Northeast. At that time, Mr. Josephkovic will arrange for someone to meet us there."
"If you don't have the ability, I think we should stop this plan."
“No, no, no,” Shimazu Yoshio shook his head and said, “There is no problem with the transportation network. Chen Yang’s hand cannot reach as far as Myanmar.”
"I meant your deal."
"Oh, so you are afraid that I don't have that much money?" Sanders smiled and took out a deposit receipt issued by the Shanghai Stock Exchange Monetary Authority.
The above number made Shimazu Yoshio a little dazed. Two thousand kilograms of gold, which is a full two tons of gold.
What Sanders brought from Europe was not pounds and dollars, but two tons of gold shipped from Mexico.
He was the first person to know about Operation Barbarossa, and he was also the one who informed the Shanghai Stock Exchange, which made Chen Yang a great contribution.
He had been planning for this a long time ago. When war comes, all commodities will experience inflation, and at this time, the value of gold will be reflected.
At the beginning of the 35th year of the Republic of China, the price of gold was relatively stable and still very cheap. One ounce of gold was US$ in the US trading market. Even in China, the price of gold was maintained at sixty oceans for a small yellow croaker.
By the 30th year of the Republic of China, as Germany conquered European countries one after another and began to attack the Soviet Union, global supplies were in short supply and serious inflation began to occur in Europe, which soon spread to Asia.