Chapter 80 "Hometown" Comes
One afternoon in late July, Josie was enjoying afternoon tea in the garden while writing a letter to Margot.
After arriving in the UK, Josie would write a letter to Margot basically every week to tell her she was safe, and Margot would write back.
There are no overseas telephone calls these days, and the text that can be sent by telegram is short, so the most common long-distance communication is actually a letter, and because Josie's way is relatively wild, he can directly borrow the military's air transportation channel and logistics network, basically In just a few days, this letter will be delivered to Margot steadily.
Of course, this is mainly because most of the correspondence with Margot is homely, and the nature of confidentiality is not high.
If it was a communication with Dix, it would directly become an encrypted telegram.
While Josie was writing the letter, Vito drove a jeep into the manor, asked the servants where Josie was, and then hurried to the garden.
"boss!"
"It seems that the matter has been settled?" Josie just finished writing the letter at this time, folded it and put it in an envelope, handed it to the waiter at the side, then picked up the empty cup on the table, poured a cup of iced tea and pushed it to the table On the other side, motioned Vito to sit down and said.
"It's done. It's a senior brother of the Razor Party. He's the ground staff of the Royal Air Force Base in Brize Norton. After half a month of investigation, he finally identified the plane and found an opportunity to maintain it. The things were put up, and the wiring was connected according to your requirements." Vito was not polite, sat down and drank the black tea in the cup, and then replied in a low voice.
"Good job! You have worked hard during this time, let you take two days off and go relax!" Hearing Vito's answer, Josie smiled slightly, took out his wallet, and took out a white paper worth a thousand face value from it. Pounds, handed over.
Before World War II, the United Kingdom, as the most developed country in the world, had a huge annual international trade volume, so even if the pound had a strong purchasing power, it was not enough to issue only one hundred or fifty denominations, so the largest denomination of the pound during this period was One thousand—Actually, a million-pound pound was issued after World War II, but it was specially printed to cooperate with the Marshall Plan. There were only nine copies made, the one in Mark Twain’s million-pound novel A million pound note, that's what it is.
However, by next year, these old-fashioned white pounds will be announced to be out of use, because in the past few years at the end of World War II, Germany printed a full 1.4 billion pounds of counterfeit banknotes, which made the pound market extremely chaotic.
At that time, the newly issued British pound, from 1945 to the end of the 1960s, had a maximum denomination of only five pounds, because the original colonial system had collapsed, coupled with the rise of the US dollar, the British pound guaranteed its purchase. , the demand for large denomination banknotes is low.
But now that Josie is doing business in the UK, there are not so many US dollars in the UK market. Coupled with foreign exchange control and other factors, it is impossible for him not to accept pounds at all.
So in the face of those British dignitaries waving large sums of pounds and begging Josie to sell them materials, Josie could only reluctantly agree.
But this is also a prerequisite.
First of all, Josie does not accept British pounds with denominations of 5, 10, and 20, because these three denominations have the largest amount of British pounds in the market, and the counterfeit currency printed in Germany is also in this denomination.
Although the rest of the denominations are accepted, the price has to be increased by 30%.
Josie will find a way to spend the pounds received as soon as possible—such as buying British properties and daily consumption, all in pounds.
However, when buying those properties, there is no 30% price increase, but at least 30% price reduction.
With the current market situation in the UK, many fixed assets cannot be sold at a high price at all, and few people buy them, which just gives Josie a chance to buy the bottom.
Thus, Josie earned at least 60% more profit after doing this again and again.
Sure enough, it is really cool to make money from wars, and it is no wonder that those low-level officials risked violating the national ban to do this.
Well, Josie assured that he did not allude to anyone, but simply explained the current situation in Britain.
It is precisely because Josie has a lot of pounds in his hands now, so he is also very generous in rewarding his subordinates. Basically, they start with a hundred pounds, and those like Vito who have been busy for more than a week are worth a thousand pounds. Not much.
Although Josie and many American businessmen in similar situations dislike the British pound, Vito will not, because this thousand pounds is enough for him to call dozens of British girls every day—and they are high-end goods, and have a carnival for several days in a row up.
Of course Vito wouldn’t really do that, otherwise dozens of girls a day would be overwhelming.
"By the way, boss, when I came back, I met some old friends from the 82nd Division. I heard from them that both the 82nd Division and the 101st Division had returned to the UK for repairs." Vito, who put away the money, shared another piece of news he knew... He served in the 82nd Division before, and it is normal to know people.
"Oh? Really?" Josie touched his chin when he heard the words, and then said, "That's just right, go find Linden when you leave, he should still have some fruit, beef and ale, let him count it, give General Ridgway and General Taylor will be sent there. In addition, let him invite the two generals and other high-ranking officers on my behalf, and have a banquet at the Ritz Hotel tomorrow night to celebrate their triumph... By the way, send a separate invitation to Lieutenant Winters of E Company .”
As the war draws to a close, the Allied forces have now completely controlled the Atlantic route, and more and more materials are being shipped into the UK. Coupled with Josie's previous large-scale bulk cargo, the UK's conventional material supply has been greatly improved. Although Josie's goods are still making money for him—after all, the cost is very low, it is impossible to make huge profits like when he first arrived in the UK.
There are only those high-end products such as fresh fruits and beef, and there are still more markets.
But Josie has basically made enough money. Except for tobacco, other businesses have begun to gradually close down. When the Allied forces regain Paris and put them on the European continent, these materials can be sold at a better price... After all, the cost of land transportation is comparable to Shipping is much more.
Josie didn't bother to recycle some of the remaining materials in the external warehouse, so he simply gave it to the military as a favor.
Especially Ridgway and Taylor, these two generals are promising figures.
It is absolutely right to make friends with each other at this time.
And very coincidentally, when Josie was entertaining the senior regiments of the two divisions the next day, a bombing squadron of the US Navy received a bombing mission. It exploded into a cloud of fireworks in the air, and the debris of the plane was scattered in the English Channel, not even a piece of debris could be found.
Such accidents were actually not uncommon during World War II, so no one thought there would be any tricks here.
It's just that a major named Joseph Kennedy was added to HNA's death list.
"Boss, thank you!" Lyndon Schneider said when reporting to Josie a few days later.
"Thank me? Thank me for what? I should thank you. In the past two months or so, you have made so much profit for me. It's very good. This is your bonus!" Josie smiled slightly and turned A suitcase was pushed to the other side.
However, Lyndon Schneider did not happily accept the box as Josie imagined, but looked hesitant.
"What happened?" Seeing this, Josie couldn't help but restrain his smile. It's impossible for Linden not to know that the box contained a huge sum of money, and his character shouldn't be the way he is now.
So something must have happened.
"Boss, someone from my hometown wants to see you!" Linden hesitated for a while, and finally said it through gritted teeth.
Hometown? Josie was not a little confused when he heard this.
But then I came back to it.
If it was Josie herself, then she would definitely regard Xia Guo as her hometown.
But from Linden's mouth, it can only be another one.
"Bavaria or Austria?" Josie asked thoughtfully.
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