Spy Wars: Get the Predator equipment at the beginning

In the early morning, the foreign concessions were filled with hawking sounds, the ringing of bicycle and rickshaw bells, and people were coming and going on the streets, busy making a living.

As a pseudo-successful person, Zhang Yunhe was standing in front of the window with a cup of coffee, watching the endless stream of people and vehicles on the street downstairs, and watching the small steamers with black smoke coming and going on the Huangpu River with their chimneys emitting black smoke.

"Ding-ling-ling..." The phone on the desk rang.

Zhang Yunhe turned and walked to the desk, put down his coffee, and picked up the phone: "Hello?"

"Mr. Zhang, a lady named Chen came downstairs and said she had an appointment with you!" Miss Smith's voice came from the phone.

Zhang Yunhe guessed that it was Chen Xiangling who came because the one week agreed upon with her had already passed.

"Please ask her to go upstairs. I'll wait for her in the reception room!"

"Okay, Mr. Zhang!"

While Zhang Yunhe was making coffee in the reception room, Chen Xiangling was brought over by Miss Smith.

"Thank you, Miss Smith. You can go back to your work!" Zhang Yunhe said to Smith.

Smith retreated and closed the door.

Zhang Yunhe walked over and handed the coffee to Chen Xiangling, saying, "I heard you've arrived, so I ground and brewed this coffee especially for you. No sugar!"

"Thank you!" Chen Xiangling said as she took the coffee.

Zhang Yunhe pointed to the chair beside the conference table and said, "Please sit down!"

The two sat down facing each other.

Zhang Yunhe lit a cigarette.

Chen Xiangling took two sips of coffee and said, "Yunhe, we've raised some funds, but it's only enough to buy medicine. As for the weapons and ammunition we need, can you let us pay you first and then pay you when we have enough funds?"

Zhang Yunhe smiled as he smoked a cigarette and said, "Teacher Chen, although we know each other and have some friendship, I am also a businessman. Especially in the arms trade, there is no such thing as credit. This is the same for me and other arms sellers!"

"Although we all want to find a stable partner, no one dares to sell arms on credit to a partner! So, let's not talk about this matter anymore!"

"Well, you don't have any money right now, but if you have other valuables, they can be used to pay for the arms!"

Chen Xiangling's eyes lit up with hope as she asked hastily, "For example? What do you think we could use to pay for the goods?"

Zhang Yunhe said, "For example, the ores that foreigners are more interested in now are iron ore, tungsten ore, etc."

Chen Xiangling's eyes lit up. It just so happened that there was tungsten ore at the location of her base, and many local people had mined this ore and sold it for money or exchanged it for food.

"You want tungsten ore?"

"want!"

Chen Xiangling asked, "What's the price?"

张云鹤说道：“这几天钨矿石的价格大约是每吨60英镑，相当于300美金、750德国马克、1590卢布、1400法币！”

Chen Xiangling didn't understand the market, but she trusted Zhang Yunhe wouldn't cheat her, so she asked, "How about 1400 French francs per ton? I'm not familiar with the market in this industry. You're in foreign trade, so you know more than I do. You won't take advantage of me, right?"

Zhang Yunhe said, "For us domestically, the price of strategic resources like tungsten ore is rising. Before the war, it was only 1100 French francs per ton. Later, the price changed almost every day, and now it has risen to 1400 French francs per ton. But don't think that the price increase is a good thing for us. On the contrary, it is not a good thing!"

"Because many people don't consider the issue of currency devaluation, the fiat currency has been devaluing since the war began!"

Zhang Yunhe took out a document and threw it in front of Chen Xiangling. "Look at this," he said. "Three months ago, the exchange rate of the US dollar to the French currency was 1:3.36. Today's exchange rate is 1:4.67. If this trend continues, it's estimated that by next year the exchange rate of the US dollar to the French currency will fall below 1:8."

"Do you know what this means?"

"What does it mean?" Chen Xiangling asked.

Zhang Yunhe asked, "Haven't you been shopping lately? When you've been shopping, haven't you noticed that many prices are much higher than before? For example, before, a pound of meat cost only 20 cents, but now it costs 30 cents. So the cost of living for ordinary people has increased by half, and it will double by next year!"

After listening to Zhang Yunhe's explanation, Chen Xiangling finally realized the seriousness of the matter. She decided to report the matter to Lao Cui as soon as she returned.

Suppressing the confusion in her heart, Chen Xiangling nodded and said, "I understand. Let's get back to the price of tungsten ore. We are friends. Do you think this price is acceptable?"

Zhang Yunhe smiled. "Although we are friends, I am also a buyer. When you ask me this question, aren't you afraid that I will take advantage of you?"

Chen Xiangling shook her head: "Don't worry, if you take advantage of me now, I can get it back from your wife Liu Huilan later!"

Zhang Yunhe said, "This price is fine. Actually, I don't buy tungsten ore for myself, but for the foreign company. If I can give you a better price, of course I will. After all, I'm not the one making the money. Giving you more won't be a loss for me. It just means the foreign company will make less profit. If I give you a higher price, you will earn more!"

Chen Xiangling thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then 1400 yuan per ton. Where can I trade it?"

"No rush, wait until I figure out how many tons of tungsten ore you need before we discuss the deal!"

Zhang Yunhe took out an abacus and nimbly moved the dials with his fingers. After a quick clacking of calculations, he looked up at Chen Xiangling and said, "The purchase order you opened last time was for 230 million yuan, including yuan for sulfanilamide. Actually, the price of sulfanilamide has increased recently, but I'll still give it to you at the original price!"

"We still have 180 million worth of weapons and ammunition. If we use tungsten ore to offset this, at 1400 yuan per ton, you'll need 1286 tons of tungsten ore. You can do the math yourself. Is there a problem with the number?"

Just now, Zhang Yunhe was moving the abacus too fast and she didn't see it clearly. This was the speed of a single man who had been doing this for more than forty years in his past and present lives. It would be strange if she could see it clearly.

She took the abacus and calculated it herself, and finally her calculation matched Zhang Yunhe's.

"What if the entire payment is paid with tungsten ore?" asked Chen Xiangling.

Zhang Yunhe said: "You can calculate it yourself!"

Chen Xiangling looked up and asked, "Is it only 1400 per ton? Can you give me a bit of the price? How about 1450?"

Zhang Yunhe couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. He said, "Mr. Chen, you just said you believed me. If it were someone else, I wouldn't have raised the price to 1400. I would have quoted 1200 first. I really didn't make a random offer for you. Anyway, I'm not making any money from this. I've made it very clear just now that the price has no impact on my income!"

"1400 yuan per ton is already the highest price. If it goes any higher, I won't be able to explain it to the foreign company!"

"Okay, 1400 is 1400, let me do the math..."

After some calculations, the result was 1643 tons.

"Okay, that's 1643 tons!" Zhang Yunhe agreed with Chen Xiangling's calculation. After thinking for a while, he took a note and wrote down the time and transaction location on it with a pen.