"I suggest Mr. Director not to alert the other party yet if he has a suspected target. You can try to put a long line to catch a big fish, there might be an unexpected harvest!" Seeing that Director Hodges already had a target he suspected and was about to make an arrest, Elrond hurriedly reminded him gently.
As soon as Chief Hodges heard it, Elrond's words made sense, and he was no longer in a hurry to go back and capture the spy; I'm sure Mr. Mayor wouldn't have any objections if he could unearth more spies through this one.
"Fang, you have a point, you have done me a great favor this time. Yesterday Blackwell and I said that your compatriots were targeted and humiliated by the Japanese in São Paulo, and as the police chief I failed to do something about it, which was a dereliction of duty on my part. Don't worry, from today the Japanese will become an unwelcome crowd in St. Paul, and I will ask all police officers to put them under residential surveillance, so that they can't move an inch in St. Paul."
That was the main purpose of Chief Hodges coming over this time, hoping that Elrond would apologize for the failure of the St. Paul Police Department to stand up and deal with the Chinese community in a timely manner in the face of bullying in the past.
Elrond understood that if it wasn't for this time that Colonel Tichy had explained to Captain Blackwell, to take care of his own safety, last night's incident wouldn't have happened, let alone today's visit from Mr. Director to make amends.
It seems that Brazil as a partial dictatorship, bureaucracy is very serious, he chose to remain in the army is not wrong, after all, the future of Brazil but there will be up to twenty-one years of military dictatorship, he only in the army to grasp the power, in order to ensure that the interests of Chinese compatriots in Brazil will not be violated.
"Haha .... Chief Hodges, what a thing to say, we are friends, friends should understand each other, let the original matter be in the past! But I hope we can stay friends and be good friends from now on, how about that!" Elrond got up and gave Chief Hodges a cordial handshake.
"Good, good friend, Fang, from now on we're good friends, if there's anything you need my help with, I hope you won't be polite, I'll spare no effort to help you reach it."
"Haha ..... Hodges, my friend, if I ever need your help I won't be polite oh! But don't worry we Chinese will never let our friends help for nothing!" The two men laughed heartily.
At noon, Elrond left Chief Hodges and Capt. Blackwell at home for a nice lunch with Elrond's family and introduced his family to each of his two friends.
Especially Elrond's uncle Fang Xinshui, originally and Hodges director know, just the original relationship is not very close, but after Elrond's introduction, Hodges director directly said, in the future Fang Xinshui have any thing, direct road police station to find him, or call him, there is nothing he can not be smoothed out, just short of directly said that in the future is Fang Xinshui's umbrella.
After the guests left, the family members wondered why Elrond knew so many big names. For an ordinary Chinese family, the garrison chief and the São Paulo police chief could be considered very big shots indeed.
Elrond smirked and stated that he'd be a bigger, bigger man in the future. Causing his family, to roll their eyes at him.
In the afternoon time, Elrond was wandering around the village, relaxing a bit, while conceiving tonight's matter in his mind, thinking for a long time in his heart, now he can only recruit people to do things for him, he can't directly expose his goal, after all, to establish a secret organization you have to be sneaky, and you have to examine the beliefs, abilities, and loyalties of each member before you can send out the invitations to him, and if you directly set up an organization directly no matter what, it wouldn't take two days, it was estimated that the whole of Sao Paulo would know about it.
So, when many of the young men from the village arrived at Elrond's house in the evening, Elrond stated that he wanted to recruit some of the crew of the Globe Trading Co. to train his own captains, who would then be running the route from Brazil to the motherland, and hoped that those who were interested would report to him.
Caused a lot of villagers have been dissatisfied, also thought it is related to the interests of all Chinese major events to be discussed, the result is to come over to recruit crew, many people even cursed and turned away, and Elrond this is not care, even the heart is vaguely somewhat grateful, fortunately, he did not directly expressed the need to set up a Chinese organization, or to these people's situation is estimated to come in is also very soon to be screaming again to go out, and that This organization will still have what secret to say.
Still, Elrond had recruited more than twenty people, three of whom were also Elrond's hairdressers. The reason why Elrond was able to recruit so many people was not that it was hard to find a job in Brazil, this period of time Brazil was in a period of rapid economic development and there was a lack of human resources, so many of the people who came over this time actually had jobs. But to be honest the welfare of Brazilian workers during this period was very poor, working hours were more than twelve hours not to mention the wages were pitifully low, the average production worker was paid less than twenty dollars a month.
That's why Brazil's President Vargas created the Labor Party in March; he was hoping to expand his political influence by creating the Labor Party and improving the treatment of workers. Unfortunately, as a head of a government that is partial to dictatorship, it is obviously naive to begin to liberalize the power in his own hands in the hope that he can use his influence to turn the political ecology of Brazil around.
But the president is still far away from Elrond now, and all he can do is to offer his compatriots a high salary of fifty dollars a month plus an extra allowance for going out to sea, to entice everyone, to join his company. Although he wouldn't tell everyone that this was his own company, there would certainly be a lot of people in the future who would know who the real owner behind this company was.
After informing everyone to go home and get ready to board the ship in Santos Harbor in a week, they were told to go home. Grandpa was very confused as to why Elrond didn't organize everyone into a Chinese-owned organization like he said he would. But didn't open his mouth to ask, knowing that his eldest grandson, now, was a very opinionated man. He was old enough to believe in the young man's own abilities.
Early the next morning, Elrond sent telegrams to the three freighters in Rio de Janeiro to set sail for the port of Santos, and telegrams to the branches in Italy and the United States to find out where the company stood now.
Mr. Cohens, who was getting a headache from the Gambino family's rush for goods, sent a long telegram straight away as soon as he received Elrond's message, which in a nutshell was that the market for cigarettes was very hot. Mr. Bojan Gambino hoped that the supply could be expanded, saying that now with the fierce battle, the cigarettes began to be in short supply. At the same time Mr. Cohens expressed concern that the company had only one downstream distributor in Gambino.
Elrond also didn't expect that in such a short period of time, the Gambino family had lifted more than three million dollars worth of cigarettes from Global Trade, so it seemed that the speed of transporting cigarettes on their own would have to be accelerated.
As for Mr. Cohens' consideration of adding new downstream distributors, Elrond replied directly, asking Mr. Cohens to look for downstream distributors of other goods in Italy. Cigarettes were still to be run by the Gambino family, which was a pre-negotiated program. The Coens were also asked to develop downstream distributors for cigarettes in France and Germany. Indicated that he would soon have twenty million dollars worth of cigarettes to be shipped from Brazil. Worried that too much quantity would have an effect on the price of cigarettes.
Cohens went on to list a long list of commodities that were now scarce in Italy, mainly articles of livelihood, dominated by grain, oil, sugar and spices. But these goods are decidedly less profitable than cigarettes.
But agriculture is the backbone of Brazil's industry, and at the same time, these products are also the materials that European countries desperately need after the end of the war, one must layout in advance, and have a strong transportation capacity at the same time also have the ability to be able to process these commodities.
So over the next few days Elrond began a frantic campaign of investment and acquisition, and after meeting Mayor Scalia through Chief Hodges, and learning that Elrond was going to invest tens of millions of dollars in São Paulo on behalf of U.S. Global Trading, the entire city government began to help Elrond with his acquisition campaign, and in all, three cigarette factories, two sugar mills, a grain and oil processing plant, and a newspaper.
Because they were all small factories, directly after the acquisition was completed, Elrond expressed a desire for the city to sell a piece of land that would be used to allow Elrond to build a larger factory area, purchase more advanced equipment from the United States to build a more advanced factory, and centralize the management of the factory when the time came.
The city government was overjoyed, and without saying a word, it began to re-plan the city, converting a 10,000-hectare plot of land in downtown São Paulo, near the direction of the Port of Santos, into industrial land, and began to resettle the inhabitants of the land.
In order to thank the municipal government for its support, Fang Xinshui set up a real estate development company under the authorization of Elrond to build a resettlement area for all the evicted households, but the land of the resettlement area, in addition to being used to resettle the evicted residents, should be allowed to develop the real estate project on its own by the development company. The city government readily agreed and tripled the size of the original resettlement area.