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Chapter 191 Money Magic

After Xu Bing left, Li Yunsheng went to the public concession to find his cousin Li Yuntao. As soon as the two met, Li Yuntao said excitedly: "Thank God, you are finally safe."

Li Yunsheng smiled and said, "I am lucky and my life is great. The Japanese bullets cannot hit me. Besides, I am not on the front line, so my life is still somewhat guaranteed."

Li Yuntao sighed and said, "Since this war broke out, I have been worried about you since I learned that you have come to Shanghai to participate in the war. I have asked someone to inquire about your situation many times, but the war was very fierce, and all the people were in a mess. I couldn't get any specific information from you. Now I feel relieved when I see you appearing without missing arms and legs."

Li Yunsheng said with emotion: "I feel a little sad because I am so worried."

Afterwards, the two of them exchanged greetings for a while, and Li Yuntao said, "You are here to find me this time, otherwise the war will be so tense, and you will have no time to come to find me."

Li Yunsheng said lightly: "There is one thing. Before the war, I sent a telegram to my second brother, asking you to try your best to stockpile some medicines, especially life-saving medicines such as sulfonamide. I don't know how you did it."

Three months before the outbreak of this war, Li Yunsheng sent a telegram to his cousin Li Hongwen in Shanghai, asking him to try his best to store a large amount of medicines and daily necessities in the concession, so Li Yunsheng told Zhang Hao that he had enough medicines to treat the wounded in the department.

Hearing Li Yunsheng's words, Li Yuntao smiled and said, "I have reserved two warehouses of medicines, most of which are produced by our own pharmaceutical factory, and I have collected some from other places. As for the precious sulfonamide, our pharmaceutical factory cannot produce them at all. You also know that it is expensive and the output is not particularly high, so I only got more than 100 boxes, about 2,000 pieces."

Although there are already a lot of these drugs, enough for thousands of wounded people, it is a drop in the bucket for the whole of China. Li Yunsheng can only take care of himself first, and then help others with conditions. He can also use these drugs to make friends with some military generals, so he said, "Second brother, please arrange a few people to transport some medicines to the French Concession, which is enough to treat hundreds of people. As for sulfonamide, he will bring me five boxes," and after that, he gave Li Yuntao the address in the French Concession.

Li Yuntao did not hesitate either. He is the president of Bank of America. He has many people under his command, and there is a big American brand. He still has no problem doing these things. He agreed readily. Then hesitated for a moment and said, "Yunsheng, the current price of medicines has increased ten times compared to before the war, especially sulfonamide. On the black market, it is priced at gold, and it has no market. And we have sufficient medicines. Should we sell a part of it?"

Li Yunsheng immediately said: "Second brother, I have all the medicines, and with my current value, I don't need to use this to make a profit, so don't do it anymore." However, I felt a little moved in my heart. My cousin is a capitalist, and I couldn't help but think about it when I see huge profits. But these medicines are not available now, and I still have great uses in my hands, so I won't agree.

Li Yuntao nodded and said, "Okay, since you say that, let's listen to you. Anyway, you are the owner of these medicines." After saying that, he glanced at Li Yunsheng, with a little unwillingness in his tone.

Li Yunsheng couldn't help but sigh at the magic of money. Even his cousin as a banker, so he spoke, "Cousin, you have seen big scenes, why bother with these small profits? Moreover, in the three months before the war, I will notify you of the news. With your means, you will also make a lot of profits in other places."

Li Yuntao said dissatisfiedly: "Not a small profit for flies. Half of these drugs are profitable, but with your value, I'm afraid I really don't care," and then said with a smile: "This time I thank you for your blessing. I made a big profit, especially when I purchased some real estate and biological materials before the war, I also made a profit of millions of dollars."

Li Yunsheng immediately said: "Isn't that all, second brother, we have ways to make money, so don't make money like medicines, after all, we are all Chinese."

Liu Yuntian smiled awkwardly, then thought for a while, and said mysteriously: "Yunsheng, I have a friend who is an officer of the US Navy. He quietly found me a few days ago and said that there is a batch of arms in the Pacific Fleet now, and asked me to find a buyer for him. Do you want to mix this with it?"

Li Yunsheng immediately asked: "How many arms are there? Is it made by the United States or from other countries?" This is a good thing for Li Yunsheng. After all, all countries are strictly neutral and have adopted an arms embargo on China. The war has been fighting for more than a month, so the domestic weapons are now inadequate.

Li Yuntao did not play the puzzle, and simply said: "It is all made in the United States. There is probably a division's equipment, but it is all light weapons. If you want it, I will give you a list."

Although they are all light weapons, Li Yunsheng is also very satisfied with the number of them. After all, no matter who Li Yunsheng gives him, it is a huge favor. So he said, "I want all the weapons, and you can give me the list as soon as possible."

Li Yuntao simply said: "Okay, I'll contact him later, but you also know that since it was during the war, the price of these weapons was twice as high as before the war."

Li Yunsheng said readily: "The price is fine, but can you guarantee that this batch of weapons will be transported into Shanghai? And you also know that these things must be transported to the concession and will be valuable in the hands of the national army that is in a war." Li Yunsheng is rich now and doesn't care about the money at all. Even if these equipment doubled, it will be only millions of dollars, it's just drizzle.

Li Yuntao said confidently: "Don't worry, this is absolutely fine. The senior officers of the Pacific Fleet participated in this matter. Even these equipment is in stock of the active US Marine Corps. As far as I know, there are several senior executives who want to take the opportunity to make a fortune, so they do this. The concession authorities will not be troublesome at all."

Li Yunsheng thought about it and said softly: "Second brother, the war between China and Japan will last for a long time, so if you have the chance, you can contact these people more and transport more arms through their path."

Li Yuntao immediately said: "This is OK. Now the US economy has recovered a little, but it is not too good. As long as you have money to make money, many arms commerce companies ignore the government's ban."

After that, the two discussed other matters and agreed to meet tomorrow afternoon, Li Yunsheng turned around and left.

Shortly after returning to the French Concession, Li Yuntao sent someone to deliver some medicines. After putting them down, Li Yunsheng instructed Zhang Hao: "These medicines will be handed over to you. If they are not enough, I can still get them, so don't save too much. Don't delay our people's recovery in order to save medicines."

Zhang Hao said seriously: "Don't worry, I will make arrangements," but he sighed a little, thinking that Li Yunsheng had really prepared a lot of backup plans and actually got the medicine so quickly.

Li Yunsheng nodded, then thought for a while, and then spoke: "We just made a vote last night, so the Japanese must be very cautious these two days. In addition, we are short of staff, and the supplementary personnel also need to be repaired. I plan to let the brothers repair them in the past two days. What do you think in action?" Zhang Hao is the most flexible among Li Yunsheng and his men, so he asked for his opinions.

Zhang Hao said softly: "Section Chief, I think it can be repaired for two days, but will there be any objection to the Corps Command?"

Li Yunsheng said lightly: "Commander Chen now asks me to give up other goals and focus all my energy on the supply of poison gas bombs from the Japanese army. I should not have any objections. I am only worried that the Japanese will transport a large number of poison gas bombs to the front line in the past two days." After that, he said the task assigned by Chen Xiucheng.

After hearing this, Zhang Hao said, "Section Chief, since the Japanese poisonous gas bombs were transported from the Northeast, they must be on the sea. So we just need to send people to mingle into the Japanese-occupied area and stare at the Japanese docks. After all, arms transportation is nothing else, especially poisonous gas bombs, which must be escorted by warships."

Li Yunsheng immediately smiled and said, "Fortunately, I discussed it with you, otherwise I wouldn't have thought of this for a while," he felt a little emotional in his heart. He didn't even think of this, and it seemed that he was negligent.

Zhang Hao immediately said: "Section Chief, you must have been too tired these days, so you are a little negligent, so you can take advantage of this opportunity to take a break."

Li Yunsheng sighed and said, "It's not that easy," and then changed the subject and said, "Since you have thought of the solution, you will be responsible for this matter."

Zhang Hao said with a little embarrassment: "Section Chief, now the dock is full of Japanese territory. If our people pass by, it is easy to be discovered. After all, they don't understand Japanese, so they will be exposed if they ask a Japanese soldier."

Li Yunsheng slapped his head and sighed, "I'm confused. It seems that I'm really not energetic these two days. Well, you just need to place the wounded. I will arrange for others to do this." There was a candidate in my heart, Zhou Wei, who had been lurking in Shanghai for several years. He knew Japanese and was the most appropriate thing to do. And tonight was the day to meet Murakami Ritsu, and he happened to give this matter to him.
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