hotmtlnovel Chapter 42 Money Laundering
Chapter 42 Money Laundering
The Huaxizi cosmetics set is not technically difficult. With Xiaozhi's help, Yan Shuo bought a factory in Huajie. He advertised it as a beverage factory, producing soft drinks and other beverages, which were sold to nightclubs, hotels, and restaurants.
Actually, there are enough machines inside to make cosmetics, lipsticks, powder compacts, etc. Each machine can make several thousand kilograms of cream at a time. Dozens of dolls can each be responsible for one process, and hundreds of sets can be made a day. It's just a matter of buying the raw materials, the machines, and the dolls from Xiao Zhi. As long as the dolls are not damaged, they can be used indefinitely without paying wages. As long as the machines are not broken, they can be used indefinitely. When not in use, the machines can be stored in the space ring, which doesn't take up much space.
When the Japanese came to inspect the beverage factory, they couldn't find anything special about it; it was just a few empty buildings that could be used as warehouses.
Cosmetics are not like other bulk commodities, where hundreds of tons are bought every day. Cosmetics are more expensive and smaller in scale. Moreover, there are only so many wealthy people at this time. Producing a few hundred boxes a day can sell for about a month, or a few thousand boxes, which can cover Yan Shuo's initial emotional value investment. There are still raw materials left over. He must have bought key raw materials that are difficult to obtain. There are plenty of bulk raw materials on the market. It would be much better to just spend money directly, as they are incredibly cheap.
Yan Shuo also planned to make the couple's battle robes. By this time, he had already inquired and found out that the United States could make raw materials such as nylon. He knew that DuPont had mature technology, so he asked Xiao Zhi to make rayon. The process was similar to nylon, but it was more absorbent than nylon. It would not burn the skin like nylon when it caught fire, and it was sticky and difficult to take off quickly.
This type of rayon is easy to tear, can be hooked, and has strong snagging resistance. When it catches fire, it turns into a charred powder like cotton, and it won't stick to the skin, causing less damage. It also has high flame retardancy.
Rayon fabrics can be used to make couple's outfits, stockings, and underwear. They can be torn quickly with force without causing injury, and they are also elastic enough to provide good coverage and sweat absorption. It is believed that there is a good market for them in the fields of stockings, couple's lingerie, and outfits.
He sent people to the United States and other European and American countries to register patents. Once the patents were in order, he started a factory to manufacture them.
When others ask, just say it's a German patented technology. When Germany is about to fail, transfer the patent to the Portuguese. With careful maneuvering, the patent will always remain in your own hands.
The soda factory has several beverage patents, all provided by Xiao Zhi. That's how it's being handled so far. Yan Shuo has already contacted a large law firm in Hong Kong to help him with soda patents in various countries. Now, in addition to the rayon patent, there are also patents for couple's battle robe design, stockings design sample patent, and underwear sample design patent.
Aside from a few established soda patents that require licensing, and the fact that new soda patents haven't been granted yet, he's only producing them for himself to drink and taste, not for production. He only produces sodas and other beverages made with the technology already available from the original manufacturer; there's a market for them anyway. The boss is dead, his wife is selling the business, and he'll be picking up the pieces.
As for how the boss died, well, he was unlucky. He was passing by a Japanese checkpoint when he encountered special agents and engaged in combat with them. During the exchange of fire, he was taken away by a stray bullet. That's how it happened.
The soft drink factory wasn't big, but it wasn't small either, with a dozen or so workshops and a dozen or so products. The owner's family business was quite substantial. His wife figured she couldn't manage the business on her own, so she put it up for sale. She wanted to settle in Hong Kong and take the children with her. Otherwise, she wasn't confident that the Japanese and the Wang Jingwei regime would devour them completely. Yan Shuo looked at the factory, which was valued at over 100,000 yuan, and had a stable customer base and distribution channels. After some haggling with the owner's wife, he bought it for 70,000 yuan.
Yan Shuo looked through the money he had obtained in his space: more than 6 million yuan in Chinese currency, more than 2 million US dollars, more than 600,000 pounds sterling, and a considerable amount of large and small yellow croakers. So much dirty money! It's a headache. How am I supposed to spend it?
He robbed people everywhere; if he were to openly spend it, well, he'd be asking for trouble.
Okay, Yan Shuo has his sights set on the stock market. It's the perfect place for money laundering—legal and legitimate.
About eight pharmaceutical companies were involved, each investing over 100,000 yuan. It's wartime now, and pharmaceutical companies' stocks are rising every day. If you invest 10,000 yuan, you can get tens of thousands back in a few days. It's insane.
There were also textile mills and real estate; textile mills were the fastest rising sector, and each lost more than 10 yuan.
The cigarette factory lost over 3 yuan. The bank lost 3 yuan.
He then invested the remaining 10 yuan into his own Fengming Records and Film Company.
Speaking of this Fengming Records and Film Company, they currently have 10 artists, all of them young, pretty, and alluring girls. Wow, they're making money, really making money.
Invitations kept coming in, and while earning ten thousand yuan a day was a bit difficult, making a few thousand was really not hard. Some of these men were old folks who would spend hundreds of yuan just to get close to her and become her bedmate.
If these old men, Japanese soldiers, puppet troops, high-ranking officials of the Wang Jingwei regime, and other social bigwigs knew that he had slept with a tech doll and was pretending to be a wealthy old man, they would probably be scared to death on the spot.
Oh, and don't forget about the filter patent. If cigarette factories add filters, they're sure to make money in the health sector. They should get it implemented as soon as possible.
Yan Shuo smokes Double Happiness cigarettes himself, then the street version when someone else is around, and the one supplied by Xiao Zhi when no one else is around. Good grief, he even has to recycle the cigarette butts directly into his spatial ring. Xiao Zhi has complained about this so many times. If it weren't for the emotional value, Yan Shuo would have been scolded to death by Xiao Zhi. He really treats Xiao Zhi like a garbage dump.
As Yan Shuo rummaged through his memories of World War II, he keenly sensed that this world...
The original version states that Germany invaded Poland in September. Now, the New Year is just around the corner, so the dates don't match up.
"Xiao Zhi! How am I supposed to compile intelligence now? It seems like I won't be able to make a living from international intelligence anymore. The dates for this intelligence report don't match up." Yan Shuo couldn't figure it out, so he had to ask Xiao Zhi.
"Brother, calm down! The core of the intelligence is still usable! The dates can be adjusted. It's strategic intelligence; a few days off is fine, as long as it's close enough. The higher-ups have their own judgment. You're just an agent in China, dealing with things thousands of miles away. You don't have any informants, so a few days off is understandable. As long as the content is roughly the same, it's acceptable. Just make sure your content is slightly more detailed and comprehensive than others or your on-site informants. A slight difference is fine. It shows you've tried your best and used your brain, making your intelligence seem more convincing. Besides, any strategic international intelligence requires deliberation and comparison from the higher-ups. There's room for error. They'll only praise you, not criticize you."
Xiao Zhi's voice was resolute, first calming Yan Shuo's anxiety: "Think about it, in the original history, Germany attacked Poland in September because it needed to wait for two things: first, to reach a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union on August 23, to avoid fighting on two fronts; and second, to wait until the autumn harvest was over to ensure the supply of military food!"