Li Mu also asked someone to appraise the price of these cigarette pictures. They were worth about one hundred thousand silver dollars, and the price of one hundred thousand French dollars was quite reasonable. When people came over, they would always leave some soup for them.

In the next two days, Li Mu found someone to apply for a new identity certificate. It had nothing to do with his current security team leader, whose name was Li Mu.

In the future, if he flies too frequently, he will easily attract attention, so he just needs to change his identity and name. For him, it is quite simple to apply for several different identity certificates in this three-thirds of an acre of land.

After arranging everything here, Li Mu took a platoon of more than 20 people from the guard company and took a boat along the Han River, passing through Xiangyang, and sailed towards Wuhan.

Two days later, I got off the boat and arrived in Wuhan. The whole city was noisy, there were people everywhere, and many students were parading on the streets. Li Mu bought a newspaper, and then he learned that fighting had started in Shanghai, and Songhu

The battle has officially begun.

Li Mu was not in the mood to lament this, because he knew that this was just the beginning, and the war would be more cruel in the future, and half of China would fall in just one year.

As the only variable in this world, he can only flap his little wings vigorously to see if he can change the future.

As an important port city on the Yangtze River waterway, Wuhan has access to the river and the sea. There are many businesses and warehouses on the docks, and there is an endless stream of merchants coming and going.

Li Mu came to Wuhan this time, firstly to take a flight from here, and secondly to buy some goods and bring them to Singapore to sell.

There are many transfers along the way, so it would be a waste of time to just bring things from Singapore.

Li Mu had already selected the specific goods.

During the Republic of China, there were not many goods that had a monopoly position in the world, but one item was a Chinese characteristic: "bristle", that is, pig hair.

Pig bristles have natural advantages, including wear resistance, corrosion resistance, heat resistance, acid and alkali resistance, not easily deformed, moderate hardness, and good toughness. They are the main raw material for brushes in the chemical and military industries.

For example, bristle brushes are indispensable for painting warships, aircraft, various tanks, and military vehicles, and cleaning various gun barrels.

Whether it is daily life, industrial production, or weapons maintenance, scraps from pigs play a key role in war.

Before the invention of plastic nylon, pig bristles were the only material for brushes. Pig bristles were China's traditional export product, ranking first in the world. During World War II, the United States classified pig bristles as a Class A strategic material, which was as precious as arms and was the key to determining the outcome of the war.

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At present, 95% of the global demand for 650,000 boxes of bristle comes from China. Even big capitalist countries such as the United States, Britain, and Germany rely on China for their brush manufacturing industries.

During the Anti-Japanese War, due to traffic congestion, China's bristle exports decreased, which also led to a serious shortage of bristle around the world, and global bristle prices soared. As World War II expanded, more weapons were needed, and China's bristle became a scarce military supply.

During World War II, the United States, as the "arsenal" of its allies, had the greatest demand for bristle brushes. At that time, almost all the raw material bristle for all brush factories in the United States came from China. The bristle was also used to repay loans from the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States to China.

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In 1939, the U.S. government ordered the embassy in China to formally request the Chinese government to ship all the bristles exported from Chongqing to the United States, and the government agreed. However, at that time, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom were all in urgent need of bristles. In order to distribute the bristles, the three countries were still in Washington.

A distribution agency was established, attended by delegations from the three countries, responsible for negotiating how to obtain bristles from China and how to distribute them, and then the matter was settled.

From 1937 to 1945, pig bristles alone earned the country US$30 million in foreign exchange, equivalent to 75 million yuan.

I planned the supplies I wanted to buy, found a knowledgeable agent, and started looking at the goods immediately.

At this time, Li Mu learned that due to the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Japan blocked the sea, blocked roads, and things could not be sold. Many materials that needed to be exported were backlogged in the hands of merchants.

For example, pig bristles are shipped in large quantities every year, and many businessmen are also interested in this business and buy them everywhere.

However, now it is in hand, especially after the Battle of Songhu broke out and the war entered the stage of all-out resistance. There were wars everywhere. Many merchants were in panic all day long and wanted to get rid of the goods quickly and put them in their pockets.

There was a lot of backlog of pig bristles in the warehouses of major commercial banks. Under the guidance of an intermediary, Li Mu met many merchants in this field. Finally, a merchant from Hebei was worried about the situation at home and sold pig bristles at a 50% discount on the usual price.

Li Mu spent 95,000 French coins to take down the bristles from several warehouses.

After quietly putting the bristles into the space, Li Mu exchanged French currency for some U.S. dollars and pounds, then bought a plane ticket at a foreign bank and boarded a plane from Hankou to Kunming.

When he arrived in Kunming, Li Mu didn't stop. He even bought a plane ticket that day. After asking around, he learned that as China's only international route, many people chose to fly out of the country after the Songhu Battle broke out.

Therefore, airlines have also increased the number of flights, sometimes three or four flights a day.

When we arrived in Hanoi, it was almost evening. Li Mu bought a ticket to fly to Bangkok tomorrow and found a hotel nearby to stay.

Today, Vietnam is still a French colony. Compared with the raging war in the country, it still maintains a sense of tranquility.

Without stopping here, Li Mu boarded a flight to Bangkok the next morning. When he arrived in Bangkok, there happened to be a passenger flight to Singapore in the afternoon, so he bought a ticket and flew there immediately without stopping.

We arrived in Singapore at around 7 p.m. that day. The journey from Wuhan only took two days, which is considered a miracle in this era.

That night, he found a low-end hotel to stay in. Early the next morning, after completing his exercise, Li Mu started to visit the market here, mainly to understand the current market situation of bristles.

For those who don’t know, due to the outbreak of the war, trade routes were blocked, and pig bristles are now scarce on the market. Coupled with a group of speculators, China, which almost monopolizes global pig bristles exports, has been plunged into a war with no sign of ending in a short period of time.

Everyone got involved and started to hype.

The price of bristle has tripled in just one month, and it is still very affordable.

Li Mu clicked his tongue when he heard this. He bought bristles at half the market price in China and sold them here at three times the usual price. He made six times the profit just by traveling from Wuhan to Singapore.

It really makes people crazy.

After walking around Singapore for two days, I chose a reliable foreign bank and sold all the bristles I had, and got almost US$200,000.

Li Mu understood that in domestic banks and foreign banks, the exchange rate between silver dollars and U.S. dollars was about 2.4, and one U.S. dollar was equal to 2.4 silver dollars.

Two hundred thousand U.S. dollars, equivalent to 480,000 silver dollars.
Chapter completed!