Chapter 541 Silver Speculation
"Brother Liu, this group of people has too strong control over that area. It seems that they can only take turns to let the team members go and investigate a little bit."
"Well! I'll go back and arrange for someone to continue to investigate! Are you going back together? Or..."
Lin Mo shook his head and said, "Brother Liu, you go back and arrange it! I want to take a walk on Military Affairs Road and see the situation.
By the way, Brother Liu, I sent me a few team members who could drive and meet me on the road. I went to get some cars, relying on my feet and rickshaws, and my mobility was too poor."
"Okay..." Liu Zhenshan responded, took a few more bites and left first. Lin Mo waited until Yi Wenbin and the others finished eating before checking out and leaving.
Lin Mo did not go there at the first time, but went to the garment shop and changed the outfits of the three of them. Lin Mo continued to play the role of the young master, put on a pair of sunglasses, and a handsome young man appeared.
Yi Wenbin and the others also changed their clothes and acted as Lin Mo's followers. They bought two new bicycles. As for why there were only two, it was because Liu Daxiang couldn't ride them.
Liu Daxiang pushed the car for Lin Mo, and Lin Mo walked in front of him, and it looked like that. Lin Mo bought another camera, and the three of them headed towards the military road.
Yi Wenbin carried Liu Daxiang, a big man, and felt uncomfortable no matter how he thought and complained all the way.
Fortunately, when I arrived at Jungong Road, I had to push the cart away. Lin Mo walked while observing the surrounding situation and took pictures with a camera.
Halfway through the way, Shi Baocun brought a few people to meet Lin Mo at the intersection of Puxi Road and Jungong Road. After listening to the investigation, Lin Mo asked the few people to continue checking along Jungong Road and wait at the front of the road.
Lin Mo and the other two walked along Puxi Road, passed Qiujiang Wharf, Hujiang University, Gongda Spinning Mill, etc., and entered the East District of the Public Concession, and met with Shi Baocun and others.
After exchanging the situation with each other, they continued to investigate and see the distribution of Japanese forces in the east of the public concession, especially the easternmost side of the east of the public concession.
The situation is not very optimistic. From time to time, Japanese-style houses and Japanese people wearing kimonos can be seen, especially on the easternmost side, around the Gongda Spinning Mill and the dormitory.
In fact, this has something to do with the Military Intelligence Department and Lin Mo. After all, the fire in Hongkou burned down a large number of private houses, and the Japanese expatriates naturally scattered to other Japanese expatriates gathering areas.
The investigation was almost done, and several people met at the agreed location. Lin Mo did not take them to get a car immediately, but left the east district of the public concession and went to the area where the Lin Family Trading Company in Shanghai.
After several people were settled, Lin Mo went to the Lin family store alone, found a telephone number, and made an appointment with the person in charge of the Lin family in Shanghai.
The Lin Family Trading Company has a branch in Shanghai, a three-story villa with a large area. It is indeed quite grand if placed in Nanjing, but in the prosperous area of Shanghai, it is just ordinary, but the location is very good.
Lin Mo opened a private room nearby. Not long after, the head of the Lin Family Shanghai Branch walked in and covered him up.
The person who came was Lin Zhenping, who was of the same generation as Lin Mo's father. He had been with Lin Mo's four brothers since childhood. Later, he took over the Lin family's business in Shanghai and was a core member of the Lin family's business.
After all, although the Lin family is in Hangzhou, the previous import and export business was basically negotiated in Shanghai, which was once the core of the Lin family's business.
"This is the money you want!" Lin Zhenping took out three stacks of money from his briefcase and placed it on the table. It was three stacks of old yen, one stack of hundreds of yuan, one stack of twenty yuan, and one stack of five yuan.
As for the ten-yen denomination, Lin Mo specifically instructed not to do so, because when exploring the east district of the public concession, Lin Mo paid attention and found that ten-yen was almost a taboo item among Japanese and overseas Chinese in Shanghai.
"Uncle Xie Ping..." Lin Mo put away the paper and started chatting with Lin Zhenping.
"Uncle Ping, how is the progress of Baiyin investment?"
Lin Zhenping smiled and said, "Don't worry, everything goes well, the funds to go abroad have basically been in place, and the positions have become a big part of them."
"Uncle, I heard you say so professionally, it seems that I have put a lot of effort into it recently?"
"Of course! The Lin family wants to transform, so why don't you say more quickly and I'll give way!"
"How can it be..." Lin Mo and Lin Zhenping learned about the foreign silver investment arrangements. When Lin Mo knew that Lin Wenjie's cousin in the United States was very attentive, he felt relieved.
"Uncle Ping, what is the trend of silver prices recently? I have been busy with work during this period and have not paid much attention to these news."
Lin Zhenping heard this and said, "International silver prices are still fluctuating, rising and leaping, but overall they are rising, especially after the Lin family's funds intervene.
As for domestic silver prices, they are rising steadily and silver speculation is hot, especially in Shanghai. Even if silver flows in a row, the price of silver has not jumped down.
Of course, there are also contributions from the Lin family. We are also considered a big dealer in Shanghai for speculation. The silver spot in handheld has a value of over tens of millions of oceans."
"Wait..." Lin Mo didn't stop nodding at the beginning, but these last few words were directly confused to Lin Mo.
"Uncle Ping, isn't it right? Isn't the money invested abroad? Why do you buy silver with so much money? You can buy so much?"
When Lin Zhenping heard this, he explained to Lin Mo that after hyping banknotes in Shanghai, the money he planned to invest in silver increased several times.
Later, the funds from the Military Intelligence Department joined in. The Lin family felt that the amount of funds was too large, so they reduced part of the funds of the Lin family and stayed.
"This is not right, Uncle Ping! Some of the funds left are transferred to my account, and some are spare, so it is impossible to have a scale of tens of millions, right? After all, my account alone is transferred to my batch one after another, but it is no less than one million."
Lin Zhenping heard this and explained: "It's not just the ones left behind. When the Lin family first raised money, the land and property in the Shanghai Concession did not move, and they only mortgaged the silver some time ago.
Moreover, the silver purchased can be mortgaged to the bank. According to different circumstances, you can borrow 50% to 90% of the market price. If you roll it up a few times, won’t you have it?
The Lin family used 80% of the loan to mortgage a lot of silver bricks to bank money shops and other places, and borrowed funds to continue purchasing silver. This should be no problem, right?
After all, this situation is a basic operation in Shanghai now. Some guys have already left five or six times, and many people have already held more than 10 million silver spots."
"It should be no problem..." Lin Mo shook his head with a wry smile. He really didn't expect Shanghai to play like this.
What a man! Crazy leverage. According to one million, I bought silver and mortgaged it with 80% of it. In the end, it was five million.
This is definitely not a good thing in normal times. After all, leverage often means risks, but now the Silver Act is coming soon. This operation may offset some of the risks, so why not make a profit?
As for the source of funds of the Lin family, Lin Mo didn't feel strange. After all, a large part of the Lin family's property is land and real estate in Shanghai. Even the Lin family has so many properties, these properties have contributed considerable efforts.
After all, the Lin family has been doing business for many years, and Shanghai is the most important place, and buying land and houses are indispensable. The current location of the business is built by buying land that year.
In addition to the residence, there are also the residences of Lin members, the dormitories of the business staff, the goods warehouses and other places. The land price was cheap at that time, and 180 taels per acre, and they were all built by purchasing land.
With the expansion of SH urban area, the original remote place had long been reduced to a prosperous neighborhood, with land prices directly ranging from tens of thousands of thousands, a hundred times increase. The Lin family moved several times in warehouses and dormitories of the commercial banks.
However, the Lin family did not take action on the vacant land, but converted it into a house, shop, etc. for rent. The Lin family kept shaking hands on the land deeds. This business is no less profitable than the Lin family's trade.
He said that, but Lin Mo still had some questions, so he asked: "Uncle Ping, the bank has to take a lot of risks to accept these mortgages. Will they be willing to bear it? And what channel did they come from so much silver?"
"You don't understand the situation in Shanghai." Lin Zhenping smiled and explained: "Shanghai's real estate, especially those in the concession, has always been a hot commodity. There is no need to worry about selling it at all, and you may not even be able to buy it if you have money.
What's more, recently, the land price has risen very fiercely. The fewest has increased by 40% or 50%, and the more has doubled directly. Many of the mortgages have regretted it.
As for silver, it is even simpler. The domestic currency is silver, and the deposited into the bank is also silver, and the loaned out is also the depositor's bank. What about the bank not just because the price of the silver falls?
Even the silver price fell and the lender could not pay back the money. Once the bank confiscated the collateral, the extra silver became their profits."
Lin Mo was speechless when he heard this, which was due to the inertial thinking of later generations. He didn't think that this group of bankers had a stable profit and no loss of business this time.
"As for silver spot, it was mainly shipped by a foreigner named David. He was the one who transported silver in large quantities at the beginning. Now at least half of the silver in Shanghai is shipped by him.
It is understood that these silver were shipped from some countries in Mexico and South America, which is the main production area of silver. In recent years, White Banks have not had a good relationship and a lot of the silver produced is in their hands.
The family behind David had a considerable influence in the mining industry in these places, and they were the first to do this business, so there was such a situation."
Hearing this, Lin Mo secretly observed a silence for this guy. The more ruthless the luck is now, how painful it will be when the silver price soars. I don’t know if this guy can withstand it at that time.
After chatting with Lin Zhenping about silver investment for a while, Lin Mo asked: "Uncle Ping, I asked someone to do the same thing that night when the banknote speculation was made, how is it now?"
Lin Zhenping heard this and didn't react for a moment. Lin Mo mentioned the body. Lin Zhenping remembered that after he just handed it over to someone else, Lin Zhenping never asked about it.
After thinking about it, Lin Zhenping gave Lin Mo an address and said to contact Lin Mo and let Lin Mo go over and see it by himself.
The place is in the Fahua District, Lin Mo carefully put it away. He really wanted to see how the things he arranged were going.
Farewell to Lin Zhenping, Lin Mo and Shi Baocun and others got together and bought their outfits again.
The clothes are Western and more mature. Lin Mo's hairstyle has also changed, his face is disguised, and he wears sunglasses. He looks like he is thirty years old.
I saved the bicycle and told me a few times. Then I went to Hongkou, Zhabei and found a car borrower.
Originally needed an ID card, Shi Baocun used a slightly Japanese accent in Chinese. After scolding her, Lin Mo came out again, said a few words in skillful Chinese, and took another yen, and gave her a considerable car rental fee and deposit. The boss turned a blind eye and asked several people to drive away a car and a truck.
By the same method, Lin Mo and his men got six trucks and four cars in the car dealerships driven by the Japanese in Zhabei, Hongkou, East District of the Public Concession.
Shi Baocun and others were left to drive away. Lin Mo took Yi Wenbin and Liu Daxiang to the Fahua District. Lin Mo was originally going to be alone, but he was afraid of encountering any situation, so he brought two more. It just so happened that Yi Wenbin and the other two could not drive.
Shi Baocun and his men drove home, but drove to the east side of Yinxiang District to find a place to park, which was on the east side of the public concession.
The reason for this arrangement was that Lin Mo expected that the Japanese would definitely check the cars afterwards. After all, no matter how many cars there were in Shanghai, there were fewer people. It was always easier to check cars than to check people, so Lin Mo chose to get cars from the Japanese.
The bicycle was also asked Shi Baocun to ride it and took it away by the truck. By the way, I bought more places everywhere for later use. Of course, the ones I spent this time were also Japanese yen.
Lin Mo drove the car all the way to the Fahua District, and found a place two streets away from his destination to stop, leaving Yi Wenbin and the others to go alone.
When we arrived at the place, there was a three-story residential building. Lin Mo went up to the second floor and knocked on a door. After a while, an ordinary middle-aged man opened the door and quietly welcomed Lin Mo in.
There were three people in the room, one was a big guy who was comparable to that of Su Hongjie's subordinate Zhao Da, the other was a thin man, and the other was gentle and gentle wearing glasses, staring at Lin Mo with bright eyes.
The four of them were the few people who drove trucks to collect corpses that night in Shanghai banknote tide. The ordinary middle-aged man was the eldest, Xuan Guoliang, the big guy was the second, Kuang Dacai, the thin third, Xie Changqing, and the fourth, Zhang Hongsheng, wearing glasses.
"Big Young Master..." The four of them shouted respectfully, Lin Mo nodded with a smile, and signaled to the four people to be under the seat.
The few people made some polite words and then talked about the serious matter. On that day, several people received Lin Mo's order to secretly collect the bodies of Japanese expatriates who committed suicide on the same day and obtain their identity.
On that day, several people drove a corpse collection cart and deliberately let it go at the Concession Bureau of the Industrial Department. They took advantage of the chaos to collect a batch of corpses and secretly transported them away. A total of more than 20 Japanese identities were obtained.
"Master, after that, we obtained a batch of Japanese identities through other channels. They all died unexpectedly after first arriving in Shanghai. They were all handled very cleanly. Now there are fifty-two copies."
Lin Mo nodded after hearing this, and asked about the situation again, before saying, "What is the quality of these identities?"
After hearing this, Zhang Hongsheng replied: "Master, we analyzed the social status, the complexity of our experience, social relations, family, etc., and divided them into several levels.
The third level is forty, and these people have basically complex social relations and extensive interactions. Of course, the relationship is mostly in Shanghai or hometown, and there is value, but they can only be used in daily disguise and will be exposed after careful investigation.
The first two are very valuable, and the family relationship is very simple, not even a person. They usually like to be alone and have no close relationships. They have been away from home for many years in China, so there is no problem with language.
As for the ten parts of the second gear, they are between the first and third gears, and there are available aspects, but there are some shortcomings, so it is difficult to find someone who meets the conditions."
Chapter completed!