Kong Jie and Kong Jie were well disguised this time. They followed John and Joe Foss into the restaurant, but John and John were completely unaware of this.
After entering the restaurant, John and the two went straight to the second floor, where they had reserved a private room in advance.
Kong Jie and Monk followed closely behind.
John and Joe Foss entered the private room and closed the door directly.
The monk took the lead to knock on the door. The wooden door opened, and Joe Foss looked at the young man in front of him warily.
Seeing that the young man in front of him was Chinese, Jobs asked in Chinese:
"Sir, what can I do for you?"
The monk said: "I am Mr. Xu's man."
"Mr. Xu!"
Joe Fus looked up and saw a man dressed as an ordinary citizen not far from the monk. He immediately recognized Kong Jie.
"Please!" Jofus quickly opened the room and got out of the way. The monk stepped forward. Kong Jie entered the house first, followed by the monk. Jofus looked around twice more and then closed the door.
Kong Jie entered the room, and John, who was sitting on the chair, stood up to greet him, "Oh, my friend Xu, we meet again."
The two hugged each other warmly and separated happily, as a courtesy for meeting each other.
Kong Jie smiled and said: "John, I really didn't expect you to come in person for this transaction."
With a smile on his face, John gestured for Kong Jie to take a seat and said, "Xu, this business is not small. I won't feel relieved if I don't come here in person."
When John said this, Kong Jie also looked forward to it a little bit. The two of them exchanged casual greetings and then went straight to the topic.
Kong Jie asked straight to the point: "John, I, Joe Foss, brought you the arms list last time. I wonder how your preparations are going?"
"How many did you bring this time?"
While talking, Kong Jie had already sat down on the seat opposite John.
Jofus had also sat down, and the monk, without Kong Jie's instructions, had already skillfully stood beside the wooden door of the private room, always alert to the surrounding disturbances.
John did not answer Kong Jie's question directly, but looked at the wary monk and said with a smile: "Xu, is this your new subordinate?"
"Brother!" Kong Jie said.
John was startled for a moment, then smiled and got back to the topic and said:
"Xu, you are such a cheerful person. It seems that you came here to meet me this time because of this batch of arms."
"only……"
John seemed a little embarrassed.
"Rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, you even want the M2 60mm mortar. These are the standard weapons of our US Marine Corps. Xu, your appetite is really big. Even if I , it’s not easy to get it.”
"You are a friend I recognize, but to get these equipment, I have to pay a high price and take a lot of risks. This..."
John didn't finish the rest of the words. Kong Jie knew very well what such an old fox was thinking. He was raising the price from the ground up!
As for the big price John needs to pay and the big risks, Kong Jie thinks these are all nonsense.
If it really took so much effort, John wouldn't be here.
The leading party in this transaction seems to be leaning towards John quietly.
Joe Foss on the side followed John and smiled confidently.
Kong Jie was silent for a moment, and then smiled even brighter under the doubts of John and Joe Foss:
"John, I think you know better than me. With your motherland's strong military capabilities, the most important thing your motherland lacks is probably these weapons, which in your opinion are nothing."
"Are they the standard weapons of your Marine Corps? I think these are far inferior to the weapons and equipment of the elite army troops, right?"
"These weapons will even be eliminated by you soon, and these eliminated weapons will have the largest market in China, because here, even these weapons that you may soon eliminate are enough to deal with the backward Japanese army. equipment."
"That's why I'm here today. As a friend, I can't bear to watch you spend more money transporting these weapons that will soon be eliminated back into the country."
"Perhaps the maintenance and transportation fees along the way have exceeded the value of the weapons themselves?"
John was silent, his smile gradually solidified, and Joe Foss on the side quickly closed his grin.
The facts are just as Kong Jie said.
The arms order that Kong Jie proposed to John may seem to the Japanese, National and Eighth Route Army to be quite sophisticated equipment.
But in the eyes of arms dealers like John, there is nothing surprising about these equipment.
If he had not met Kong Jie as a buyer, John would have also found a way to sell off the large amount of weapons and equipment accumulated in the concession before vacating it.
As for the source of that batch of equipment, there is naturally support provided by the military.
The U.S. military has a habit of handing over some obsolete weapons to some arms dealers, thereby bringing greater benefits to the military.
Taking advantage of the war between China and Japan, they used the convenience of the concession to dump a large amount of arms and make war profits. This is the consistent style of the United States.
However, during this period, the relationship between Japan and the United States also became tense. Many arms and equipment in the concession were too late to be sold, and a lot of unsaleable arms were accumulated in the warehouse.
If the accumulated arms and equipment cannot be sold anymore, and they cost a lot of money to transport back to the country, they may be sold as scrap metal. John would never do such a stupid thing.
John's deliberate manipulation before was just a businessman's nature, and he just wanted to wait for a price to sell.
Both sides are smart people.
John, whose smile was frozen, knew that little tricks could not deal with Kong Jie, so he simply said clearly:
"Xu, to borrow an old Chinese saying, let's be honest! I need to know what your specific receptive capacity is, and how much of my batch of arms can you eat? If your appetite is not as big as I thought, I can only find another buyer, whether it is the Chinese army or the Japanese army, I think they are willing to take over this batch of arms."
Kong Jie asked: "The Chinese army and the Japanese army, can they give you a satisfactory price?"
"I think John can definitely get some information about the future situation of the concession with your information channels. The Japanese are watching with eager eyes, waiting for you to be forced to evacuate, and they will just reap the benefits for nothing!"
"Will they give you a satisfactory price? They will never. They will only wait until you have no other choice, buy the arms in your hands at the price of cabbage, or even snatch them directly."
"As for the national army, under the Japanese blockade, it is difficult for you to find a smooth channel. I don't know how long it will take to open up a channel like the one we have now."
"But how long can you businessmen and your American troops stay in the concession?"
"In addition, those secretly smuggling national troops have always been stupid. They often like to buy things that can bring them benefits. Are they willing to use money to exchange for these weapons that they only use when they go to the battlefield to fight the devils?"
As Kong Jie spoke, the expressions of John and Joe Foss changed slightly.
Indeed, Kong Jie was the most suitable buyer determined by the two.
Kong Jie struck while the iron was hot: "There are many businessmen in the concession who know which way the trend is heading. I heard that many American and British businessmen are trying their best to sell off their factories in China."
"But the Japanese are eyeing these factories, and Chinese businessmen are afraid to buy them. The Japanese are waiting for you to buy them at the lowest price when you are desperate."
"John, do you have the heart to sell your factories in China and the arms you have hoarded in China to the Japanese so cheaply, and to the troops who are very likely to become enemies of your motherland in the future?"
John's silent face was a little ugly, and his throat seemed to be dry. He waved to Joe Foss beside him and said, "Qiao, pass over some teapots. The weather is really dry today, and my throat is so thirsty that it's almost smoking." "
After taking the teapot and pouring himself a cup of tea, John seemed to have recovered after a few sips.
"Xu, I want to hear what you mean."
Obviously, the leader of the transaction at this time has been successfully transferred to Kong Jie.
There was no trace of pride on Captain Kong’s face, but he said with dignity:
"John, we are friends, and we are friends across thousands of mountains and rivers, across time and space, and across races."
"We have an old saying in China: When a friend is in trouble, draw your sword to help him."
"I can assure you that our subsequent cooperation will be very pleasant."
"I think you already know the future direction of the concession in your heart. How long you American businessmen and the American military can stay in the concession, maybe even you yourself don't know."
"So we must seize the time for our subsequent cooperation."
"If you don't plan for some things early, when the time comes, it will be too late."
Having said this, Kong Jie raised his first finger:
"First, John, I can pay for all the factories in China under your name, including those of some American businessmen in China around you."
"I dare to buy what other merchants dare to buy, and I dare to buy what other merchants dare not buy."
"As for the price, I will definitely satisfy you. In addition, as I said again, I only conduct these businesses through you, John, as the middleman, so the favors extended by your friends and businessmen around you are only with you. On John.”
As for how much money John, the middleman, will earn from it, this belongs to the tacit understanding between the two, and there is no need to say more.
John's eyes brightened as he listened to Kong Jie's promise.
Kong Jie then raised a second finger: "Second, as for how big my appetite is, John, you will know if you try it. In a word, no matter how many arms you have, as long as you can deliver them, I can give them to you." Affordable price.”
"There's only one principle. You can't fool me with junk."
"Of course! But...Xu, are you sure you are not joking?" John's breathing became a little rapid.
Kong Jie said: "I never joke about big things."
After saying that, there was obvious hesitation on the faces of the two people who saw John.
Kong Jie said: "In this case, I think the list of arms I sent to Joe Foss last time, John, you may not have sent it all according to the quantity this time, so I will pay you a deposit in advance."
"The deposit is here?" John looked suspicious. When Kong Jie and the monk came in, they seemed to have nothing on them.
How are they going to give this deposit?
"Monk." Kong Jie shouted.
The monk who had been guarding the wooden door responded, then opened his coat and took out a stack of drawings from close to his body.
With John and Joe Foss looking confused, the monk placed the set of drawings in front of John.
Kong Jie motioned to John to open the drawings and browse. John nodded and began to flip through the drawings.
John turned the first page with confusion on his face. He was still disapproving at first, but as he continued to turn the pages, his expression gradually changed to surprise, and finally to inexplicable excitement and excitement.
"This, oh my god, this is incredible, Xu, how did you get such a drawing?"
This time it was Kong Jie's turn to smile disapprovingly.
"This is the wisdom of us Chinese people. How about it, John, are you satisfied with my deposit?"
The excited John even danced and hugged the blueprint and replied: "God, this is so satisfying. The value of this blueprint is far greater than the batch of munitions you need!"...
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