Chapter 45: Does Shanghai Really Have Such A Wealthy Zhou Family?
“I will thoroughly investigate why Yoshiko Kawashima came to Shanghai!”
“Besides these matters, is there anything else today that needs to be handled together?”
After Liu Hui digested the intelligence provided by his handler Cao Ying,
he decisively responded.
“Nothing for now. If there is, I will definitely notify you!”
“Now let’s discuss how to investigate Yoshiko Kawashima and Major Ryūkichi Tanaka, one of the Japanese spy chiefs!”
“I’ll investigate Ryūkichi Tanaka, and you investigate Yoshiko Kawashima!”
Cao Ying continued with a brief response.
Liu Hui nodded in agreement,
and next, the two of them discussed in low voices how to conduct a secret investigation.
Tianjin Tanggu,
in the meeting room of the Navy Weekly Newspaper Office,
high-level personnel such as Hou Debang, Chen Diaofu, Zhang Kezhong, and Xie Weijie had all arrived,
and they were waiting for Boss Fan of the Yongli Alkali Plant to return later.
Although they now owned Yongyu Salt Industry Company and Jingsheng Biological Research Institute,
but for saving the nation through industry,
these people also planned to work with Boss Fan to innovatively build an ammonium sulfate plant, produce sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and fertilizer powder, and create a domestic ammonium sulfate plant brand so that the Chinese people would not need to rely on foreigners to import fertilizer and other products.
“Why hasn’t Xudong come back yet? It’s been almost a week! Could it be that he couldn’t get a bank loan in Shanghai? It’s all those damn foreigners. If we could successfully negotiate with them, it wouldn’t be so difficult to build a domestic alkali brand like it is now!”
“I also want to know when Xudong will return here to Tanggu. Ever since he sent us a telegram a week ago saying that the negotiations with those British and German foreigners to jointly operate an alkali plant had failed, and that he was going around Shanghai borrowing from banks, there has been no further news! It was only a couple of days ago that we received his latest telegram saying he had taken the train and was rushing back to see us! Now we don’t know how he is doing?”
“Don’t worry! This isn’t his first time going to Shanghai, and he even studied abroad in the United States, so we don’t need to worry too much. I believe he will return safely! Maybe he even brings good news for us!”
“Yes! That’s right. He even went to the United States, which is tens of thousands of miles away, so we really don’t need to worry too much about his safety. And if there was anything, I believe he would definitely mention it when he got on the train and sent us the telegram!”
“That’s true, but the problem is we want to go to the train station to welcome him back, but we don’t even know the arrival time of his train!”
“Who says we don’t know? I know. If you want to pick him up at the train station, it should be this evening!”
“Really?”
“Of course it’s real!”
“Alright, then we’ll go together to the train station this evening to pick him up! I have many questions I need to ask him!”
“No problem, we’ll go together to pick him up. I also have many questions I want to ask him clearly, especially how the bank loans went? Has any bank agreed to lend us money to build a new alkali plant!”
“It’s all those damn foreigners, they’ve been blocking our domestic technological progress and the purchase of new industrial equipment! They’re really too hateful! They simply don’t want our National Revolutionary Army to rise!”
While Boss Fan and these partners and friends were all gathered in the meeting room of the Navy Weekly Newspaper Office, engaged in heated discussions,
suddenly a burst of light footsteps reached their ears.
“Hahaha! You don’t need to come pick me up, I’ve already returned!”
“Sorry, because I met a benefactor and a new partner in Shanghai, I was delayed in returning!”
Then, before the crowd could recover, a hearty laugh suddenly rang in their ears.
Upon hearing this, everyone turned their gazes to him and stared intently.
Soon, they saw that the person who came was Boss Fan, who had returned in a suit, covered in travel dust.
But at this moment, Boss Fan was beaming with a radiant smile as he responded.
“Yo! You’re finally back! You really made us worry! Quick, tell us, seeing how good your mood is, did a bank make a loan to us?”
As soon as he saw Boss Fan with a face full of bright smiles and in a great mood, Hou Debang was the first to press for an answer.
“Hahaha! The banks didn’t loan us a single penny, they all rejected me!”
Boss Fan shrugged his shoulders with an indifferent expression and smiled as he responded.
“Then why are you so happy?”
After hearing that the bank had rejected the loan,
Hou Debang was slightly stunned, then shook his head with a face full of disappointment.
“Because I met a benefactor. After all the banks rejected my loan application, the Zhou Family in Shanghai gave me money to build a new alkali plant, still named Yongli Alkali Plant!”
“However, their request is for us to open two new alkali plants. One can be built in the capital Nanjing, and the other must be relocated to the rear area Sichuan Region to be built!”
“As for the reason, he said he is worried that the Anti-Japanese War will break out in the future, so for the safety of the factory, one must be on the rear side!”
Seeing that Hou Debang’s mood had suddenly dropped,
Boss Fan was not worried at all and responded.
“What! So rich?”
“Investing in two new alkali plants for us at once?”
“Right, which Zhou Family?”
“Is there such a rich Zhou Family in Shanghai?”
After hearing such a twist,
Hou Debang was also surprised and curiously pressed for an answer.
“Zhou Jixian’s nephew!”
“That is, Zhou Wenhua, who recently stirred up the entire Shanghai and domestic automotive industry chain!”
“You can look at the newspapers! I’ve brought newspapers about him for you!”
“Including the foreign newspapers with those damn foreigners’ sarcasm and blockade statements!”
Regarding his friend Hou Debang’s shock, Boss Fan handed him a stack of newspapers while smiling and responding.
However, when mentioning the foreigners, his expression wasn’t very good, and he couldn’t help but curse.
And his friend Hou Debang immediately opened the newspapers he had received and looked at them, while the other partners also crowded around, distributing the newspapers and reading them.
At the same time,
in Shanghai, the Security Teams to which Zhou Wenhua had issued operation instructions also quickly selected a group of elite Security personnel. Under the personal leadership of a Naval Officer,
they prepared to take out the first target traitor Zhang Yiliang,
and then take out Japanese spy chief Major Ryūkichi Tanaka.
