Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 770 On the Boundless Sea Part [-]
For [-] tons of cotton, the price Qian Xiaobao negotiated with Zhang Fawu was [-] grams of gold per ton of cotton, so this time Qian Xiaobao carried [-] kilograms of gold when he set off.

The whaling ship set off from Osaka Port three days in advance, and headed northeast after bypassing Kyushu Island.

Now Japan is vigorously developing the whaling industry, and whaling ships often hunt and kill minke whales in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea.

Kawaguchi Masahiro and Sasaki Ryuji were very excited whenever they went out to sea, as if they were back home again.

And this time Qian Xiaobao brought Dashanoka and Kawamoto Taro with him besides Kawaguchi Masahiro and others.

If he can't come in the future, he wants Kawamoto Taro and Oyamaoka to represent him.

The whaling ship approached the Shandong Peninsula two days later at a speed of [-] to [-] knots. Because it was the first time to come and was not familiar with this area, Qian Xiaobao waited until night to circle around the coast for the last distance.

In order to observe whale activities, searchlights were installed on the whaling ship, but Qian Xiaobao did not turn on the searchlights to illuminate the islands encountered during the voyage for safety, but carefully signaled to the islands with a flashlight when he was approaching the islands.

There are dozens of islands in this area. Qian Xiaobao and the others searched for several hours. At two or three o'clock in the morning, they finally saw the response of the flashlight flickering on and off a few hundred meters away.

"Come closer slowly, and be careful of the rocks!" Qian Xiaobao said to Kawaguchi Masyoshi.Then he asked Sasaki Ryuji to observe the situation from the bow.

The whaling ship traveled another 400 meters before being blocked by two small fishing boats in front.

"I can't get any closer, the seabed is too shallow." The person in the boat shouted.

Now the whaling ship is empty, and the draft will be much deeper after loading [-] tons of cotton.

One boat continued to block the whaler's front, and the other rowed around the whaler.In the first transaction, both parties seemed cautious.

The people on the boat sent a signal to the island, and another boat came ten minutes later. Qian Xiaobao saw Zhang Fawu standing on the boat when he was still more than ten meters away from the whaling boat.

Zhang Fawu raised his head and shouted to Qian Xiaobao on the bow: "I will immediately order the cotton on the island to be transported here, and the two of us will trade on the island."

In the dark night, Qian Xiaobao saw the shadows of several large sailing boats moving slowly, approaching here.If you get closer, you can see that the baled cotton is loaded on the boat.

"Anchor!" Qian Xiaobao ordered.

He went back to the cabin and came out with a suitcase to get down from the whaler to the boat.Zhang Fawu meant that cotton was shipped here, and he brought gold to the island for trading.

"President, I'll go." Kawamoto Taro said.

"You can't, I have to go." Qian Xiaobao replied.

Now that the two sides have not established trust, Qian Xiaobao can only trade in person.

The side of the whaling ship was more than one meter higher than the boat. Qian Xiaobao leaned over the side of the ship and let down his hand carrying the suitcase. Zhang Fawu tried his best to stabilize his body and raised his hands to pick up the suitcase. , the suitcase fell on Zhang Fawu's hands, his body shook and he almost fell into the sea.

Thirty catties of gold in a small suitcase is too heavy, and the boat shakes, making it impossible to stand still.

Before the cotton was shipped, Qian Xiaobao handed over the gold box to Zhang Fawu. This was the first step of trust.

Qian Xiaobao hooked the side of the boat with both hands and slowly lowered his body, then jumped onto the boat.

"Go back!" Zhang Fawu said to the rowers.

Although there are many islands in this area, there are not many that can be inhabited.There are no people living on the sea donkey island, only tens of thousands of seabirds.

The small boat passed among the four or five large sailboats loaded with cotton oncoming, and came to the island.

Now there are thousands of bales of cotton piled on the island and hundreds of strong young people waiting to be loaded on the ship.

It seems that Zhang Fawu and the others have made careful preparations for this transaction.

"It seems that the ship will be loaded after dawn. But it doesn't matter, our people have deployed troops on several surrounding islands. If an enemy ship approaches, we will know in advance." Zhang Fawu said.

Although the red Beihai Bank is small in scale, it uses gold as the ballast stone just like the largest banks in the world. After several years of operation, Zhang Fawu and the others have become very mature in terms of bank operation methods.

This transaction is very important to Beihai Bank, and even the Jiaodong Military Region sent a battalion of troops to cooperate with this operation.

"Our ship has lifting equipment, which can directly lift tons of cotton from the sailboat to the ship. As long as you transport the cotton fast enough, the shipment will be fast." Qian Xiaobao said.

This is Zhang Fawu's second meeting with Qian Xiaobao, and he was surprised to see Qian Xiaobao who came to the island without any warning.

"Have you been in contact with our people before?" Zhang Fawu asked.

"I had contact with them when I was in the Northeast, but almost all of those people died." Qian Xiaobao replied.

Zhang Fawu nodded suddenly.

They were very careful in this operation. Zhang Fawu had already been reported that there were no other ships in this area except the whaling ship.

The crane on the whaling ship can hoist more than ten tons of whales onto the ship at a time, so it is not a problem to lift several tons of cotton on the sailboat at one time.

Four or five sailboats soon returned to Sea Donkey Island for reloading.

"It's better to have a machine!" Zhang Fawu said sincerely.

Those strong young men carried the cotton bales on the wooden poles in groups of two and walked up the springboard to transport the cotton to the sailboat.There was a burst of coordinated chant on the shore of Hailu Island.

"Since we're already on the island, let's trade the gold first. We agreed on [-] tons of cotton, so I brought [-] kilograms of gold ahead of time." Qian Xiaobao said.

As he spoke, he opened the suitcase to reveal the flaked gold inside.

Zhang Fawu had seen all kinds of gold bars, even gold ingots and foreign gold coins, but this was the first time he had seen such gold.

Looking at Zhang Fawu's puzzled eyes, Qian Xiaobao said, "As long as it's real gold, it doesn't matter what kind! You can weigh it now."

Zhang Fawu squatted down and picked up the big gold plate with difficulty, and then put down the few smaller pieces of gold that were cut by Qian Xiaobao.

With so many years of working experience in Beihai Bank, he feels that gold is real.

"The big ones are twelve and a half kilograms, and the broken ones are two and a half kilograms, adding up to exactly fifteen kilograms." Qian Xiaobao said.

"Come here!" Zhang Fawu stood up and waved to the back.He thinks it is really not good, and it must be tested.

Several people came over with long-nose pliers and weighing scales.

However, the weighing scales cannot weigh more than ten kilograms of gold at all.

"Chop up all the gold and weigh it!" Zhang Fawu ordered.

Shredding can also test the authenticity of gold by the way.

Two men began to cut the pieces of gold with long-nose pliers, and others began to carefully weigh the pieces of gold under the light of flashlights.

From time to time, a man wearing glasses picked out a few pieces of gold and dripped concentrated acid on them to test the authenticity of the gold.

After more than an hour of busy work, all the gold was carefully inspected and weighed.

"Report, the total gold is 22 kilograms and [-] grams." A person said to Zhang Fawu.

It's not that Qian Xiaobao didn't agree, but deliberately added a little more.

Zhang Fawu said to Qian Xiaobao with a smile on his face: "I asked them to purposely make five tons more of our cotton, so let's pay it off!"

"It's still a loss for you, I will replenish you next time!" Qian Xiaobao said.

(End of this chapter)