Chapter 30 Chapter 30 USD Trading

Isomura Trading Company is a company specializing in the import of pharmaceutical raw materials.This is a pitifully small trading company. It rented the second floor of the "Kyoei Building". The building is actually a small four-story building located in Muromachi 2-chome. Apart from the president of the company, Isomura, there is only one person in the trading company. There are five employees. There are not many customers who come to this trading company to do business, and there are not so many phone calls. Looking at its staff, they don't seem to be enthusiastic about their work. People who don't know the inside story will be surprised if they come here occasionally. Q: Does this count as a business?

However, Isomura Trading Company is indeed a great business.The import of pharmaceutical raw materials is its superficial business item, but behind the scenes, it is a reputable shop in the dollar black market world. The president, Akio Isomura, is a handsome 40-year-old man with a short beard neatly trimmed with pomade, and an impeccable British suit.His demeanor and demeanor are very foreign, but not too artificial.He also paid great attention to the grooming of his staff. Around noon on January 10, Isomura received a call from Naotaro Motogi.Motoki runs an apartment rental business in Kanda Nishikicho.He invited Isomura to have dinner together in order to reminisce about the past, and said that he would introduce a friend to Isomura.

There were no other activities in Isomura that night.He decided to go to the Yoshino Hotel in Araki Town, Yotsuya designated by Motogi at six o'clock to meet the appointment. The name of the hotel is actually a tavern for entertainment.Akasaka and Yanagi Bridge are luxurious and colorful, but Araki Town is simple and quiet, so it can be said that each has its own advantages.After not seeing Motoki for more than half a year, Isomura's face appeared again in his mind. In the chaotic post-war years, Motoki worked in a secret factory that manufactured alcohol and benzene, which could never be enough.Although it was confiscated several times during the transportation process, this is a profitable job and will never lose money.In just three years after the war, Benmu had already grasped more than 100 million yuan.

But as the society becomes more and more stable, it is not easy to make a fortune.Benmu also tried to work in various companies, but he was still getting worse day by day. Three years ago, Benmu realized that the only way to go bankrupt is to go on like this.So he closed the business and built a modern mansion worth 80 million yuan in Nishikicho.He rented the building to more than 20 trading companies and lived a leisurely and retired life. In the past, he worked hard all day but suffered losses. Today's approach may be more wise. Benmu used all his free time.He serves as the director of the Range Shooting Association, the summer is the shooting range, and the winter is the hunting range.So leisurely and contented, waiting for the day of revival.

Now Isomura came to the appointment.It was already 6:20 when his car stopped in front of the Yoshino Hotel in Arakicho. Yoshino Hotel is a first-class store in this area. Although it is not very spacious, it has been meticulously studied from the garden trees to the details of the architectural design. When they came inside, a proprietress who brushed her neck hair up greeted her with a salute: "Your friends have arrived and are waiting for you..." "It's time to work." Go around the rockery and fountain, and then go inside, there is a house.This is the reserved room.Benmu and a handsome young man were already sitting there.The front seat is vacant.

The young man is Date Kunihiko.The shop's wide-sleeved cotton smock looked a little short on him, and he smiled decently.In Isomura's eyes, Kunihiko is a clean and tidy person.How could Isomura see through the evil hidden in Kunihiko's heart?He even felt a youthful fragrance wafting from this young man. Isomura greeted with a smile and said: "I'm sorry to keep you waiting, I'm in a hurry." Ben Mu, who is five feet six tall and weighs one hundred and sixty to seventy catties, also greeted with a trembling belly and smiled: "It seems that you are still so busy. Tonight, we can slowly dissipate. By the way, I forgot to introduce to you. This is my old hunting friend Gao Guojun. He stayed with his father The stock dividends to live, but also to paint two strokes..."

Introducing Bang Yan as Gao Guo is based on Bang Yan's idea.Kunihiko doesn't want Isomura to know his real name. Isomura took out his business card and said: "My name is Isomura, please take care of me." Bangyan saluted lightly and said: "Please take care of me. My name is Gao Guo. Sorry, I just ran out of business cards." Motoki to Isomura Road: "Let's talk about things slowly later, should we take a bath first?" "Ok." A slim woman with a plump waist and shoulders almost wanted to hug Isomura who had stood up from behind. After bathing, Isomura also changed into a wide-sleeved cotton smock.When he returned to the room, the jug and dishes had already been placed on the table, as if they had been waiting for him for a long time.Four or five geisha walked in coquettishly.

"Well, it's just in time. This time it's all here." Benmu hugged a young prostitute whose breasts were so plump that she was about to tear off her skirt, and suddenly lifted the woman's front skirt. "You are so bad!" After the sexy woman screamed, she reached out to grab Motoki in return. Motoki estimated that several people were already a little bit drunk, and then winked at a slightly older geisha. The older geisha named Xiaolong put down the three strings and whispered something to the girls around, and all the geisha smiled knowingly and said: "Then, please drink slowly..."

After speaking, they left the room. Motoki leaned on the arm of the chair and said: "I think, let's turn to the topic. After the negotiation is over, let's go over it again." Isomura straightened his upper body, and lit the lower chimney: "Is it about buying and selling?" Bang Yan spoke.Although he drank the wine, his face did not change at all. "Yes. I want to buy some dollars." Isomura didn't know how to answer for a while: "Oh?" Kunihiko showed the embarrassed Xiangzi, smiled and said: "It's like this. This spring, I plan to go around the United States and Europe, and buy some gemstones and high-end shotguns by the way, so that I can save travel expenses."

"indeed." Benmu said: "Gao Guojun is definitely not the kind of person who informs the police. I can guarantee that." Isomura exhaled a puff of smoke and said: "I don't know how much you need?" Bang Yan said flatly: "Eighty thousand dollars." Isomura put out the cigarette he had just taken two puffs of, and hurriedly asked: "What did you say? Say it again." "Eighty thousand yuan." Isomura's eyes sparkled, and he asked again: "Is it eighty thousand dollars?" Benmu took a sip of the cold wine and said:

"Terrible. I've heard of big numbers too, but eighty thousand..." "How about it? As long as you talk about the ratio of US dollars to Japanese yen, I can bring all the cash today." "..." "You mean to say that the eight parties can't raise dollars." There was a sneer in Kunihiko's words, but he couldn't feel it from his voice. "That's not what it means. To me, it's also a business. It's not that difficult to raise the sum... It's just that it can't be done right away. Can you wait until seven o'clock tomorrow night?" This lucrative deal made Isomura very excited, but he couldn't show it to the outside world.This is the demeanor of a big businessman. Bangyan smiled frankly and said: "Okay, okay, I don't need to be so anxious. I'm too anxious. It's not good for any of us to exchange some counterfeit banknotes." Isomura hurriedly waved his hands and said: "Where did it go, you don't have to worry about it. I'm talking about credibility, and I will never do that kind of thing. In addition, there is a middleman, Mr. Benmu..." "I'm relieved now, how much yen do I have to pay for one dollar?" Isomura replied on the spot: "The market is one dollar for four hundred yen." "The market I heard is roughly the same, but, about that..." When Bangyan said the second half of the sentence, he covered it up with laughter. Following Kunihiko's words, Motoki turned his face and asked Isomura: "Isomura-kun, should you reconsider that issue?" Isomura's eyes suddenly dimmed, and he pretended to be puzzled and asked with a smile: "That question refers to..." Benki said: "Isomura-kun, this is not a small business. If one dollar is exchanged for 400 yuan, 80,000 dollars is 32 million yuan. Of course I don't know how much you can earn, but it's always worth it. It should be a lot of money, right? Could you make a little concession, and it is precisely because of this that I specially introduced you here." Isomura said hesitantly: "It's not easy to handle. This kind of business can never make a lot of money as outsiders imagine, and besides..." Isomura originally wanted to say: Besides, don’t you have to give you some handling fees, Motoki-kun?But he didn't say it.He also understood that Mr. Benmu would not refuse to collect a handling fee from this young man. Motoki took the content behind Isomura's "Let's talk" elsewhere, and he said: "Are you trying to say: Are you the only one who can raise this huge sum of money at once?" Isomura replied: "No, I don't dare to brag like that, well, I'll let some. Three hundred and ninety-five yuan for a dollar, what do you think. I'm risking my life." "How about three hundred and eighty yuan a dollar?" "Are you trying to kill me? Too little! Too little!" Isomura scratched his head. The result of the bargaining was three hundred and eighty-five yuan to one dollar. Isomura drank it himself, hiding his inner joy.This transaction can earn at least 1.2 million yuan.The remaining question is how to lower the handling fee to Benmu. In fact, why isn't Kunihiko secretly happy? Isomura only cares about the exchange ratio, and doesn't seem to have any doubts about the nature of the banknotes that Kunihiko presents. After clapping their hands a few times, those geisha came into the room again.The room was so lively that there was almost no order.Kunihiko went to the toilet, and Isomura took advantage of this gap to approach Motoki to discuss the handling fee.Benmu only asked to give him 100,000 yuan after the matter was completed, enough to buy bullets for hunting.Isomura agreed. That night, Benmu embraced two geisha and forgot to return.Isomura left here after midnight in order to raise the required dollars overnight.It was Kunihiko who paid the fee. At seven o'clock the next day, when the lights of other trading companies in the Kyoei Building had been extinguished, the three of them gathered in the president's office of the Isomura trading company. At this time, there were no staff in the office of the Isomura Trading Company.Because Motoki made a request, don't let the staff know about it.He was worried that if the transaction was leaked to the police, the staff would also recognize him. Isomura also had his own plan. Since he had to pay the staff some remuneration, he was unwilling to let the staff find out the amount of the transaction. The president's office has the size of six seats.There were no windows, and in front of the entrance stood a large gold cabinet and a wine cabinet side by side, and in front of them was a large table. There is a space in front of the table where there are tables, chairs, etc., and tax-dodged Havana cigarette packs are strewn about on the table.Bang Yan was dressed in blue, from a suit to a shirt in the same color, and was carrying a plain bag in his hand.Benmu sat on the chair wearily, as if he had to drink two more cups to dispel the smell of yesterday's alcohol. Isomura invited Kunihiko to sit down and said: "I'm ready, I'm sorry, before I take it out, please see what you brought to catch." Bang Yan said: "Look." He unzipped the bag and threw the bundled banknotes on the table. According to the face value, there are 30 banknotes bundled into a bundle of one million yuan, and another bundle of 800,000 yuan.These bills are also crumpled appropriately, and the numbers of the paper coins are shuffled like playing cards.The money is Chisako's ransom fee snatched from Kanno, all in cash. Of course, when handling these banknotes, they wear rubber gloves so as not to leave fingerprints.80,000 U.S. dollars requires 30.8 million yen.But the ransom was only 30 million yuan, and the shortfall of 800,000 yuan was made up with money stolen from the female owner of Bodo Club. Isomura said loudly: "Hey..." Then ask: "Can I have a click?" As he spoke, he grabbed a bundle and twirled it skillfully with his fingers. These banknotes, which had been secretly coated with fluorescent agent by the Metropolitan Police Department, did not leave any marks on the surface, and Isomura breathed a long sigh of relief. Bangyan asked: "What? Is it a fake note?" "Where is the word, I just looked at it carefully... Now I will look at it." Isomura wiped his sweaty fingers with his fingertips, and started counting money at a speed no less than that of bank counters.Even though it was fast, it took a long time. "Thank you." After Isomura counted the bills, he loaded a large number of bills into a large wire mesh basket and sent them to the vault behind the desk. Isomura covered the dial of the vault door lock with his body, and then turned it a few times according to the code sequence, and the heavy vault door was opened. The middle tier of the vault held green bundles of bills ranging from ten to a thousand dollars.Isomura put the Japanese yen bills given by Kunihiko into the vault, put the bundle of dollar bills into a wire basket, and brought them to the table. Isomura said as if speaking a line: "It's your turn to count the bills. Here's eighty thousand dollars ready." Bangyan deliberately pretended not to count the banknotes, counting them one by one.Of course it took a lot of time. "It's exactly the right amount. I'm relieved, then." Bang Yan said with a smile and put the stacks of dollars into the bag. Benmu lit a cigarette, turned to Bangyan and said: "My work is done. I will start from here at five o'clock tomorrow morning and go hunting in Sunlight. I have entrusted them with the lottery for the hunting area. I plan to hunt there tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." Bang Yan pulled the zipper of the bag and said: "You're talking about the Sunshine State Hunting Area, right? I missed the application date..." "That's a pity. But there will be a chance, and I'll have to stay here a while and have a few words with him. What are you going to do?" Motoki licked his dry lips with his tongue and said. Hearing this, Bang Yan immediately stood up, put on thin leather gloves, looked at Motoki for a while, and said: "Then, I'll take my leave first, and you can talk slowly. Also, Isomura-kun, maybe I still have something to ask you, and then I have to ask you for help." "You are not in a hurry." Isomura Road. Kunihiko politely declined Isomura's persuasion, and walked out of the president's office with dollars full of black market transactions.His walking was so leisurely. As expected, Motoki, who had just sent Kunihiko out of the house on the stairs, chased him up from behind. Although Motoki was very fat, his legs and feet had been exercised because he often went hunting in the mountains, so he didn't feel too out of breath after running a few steps . Bangyan was still holding the bag in one hand, and handed the pre-prepared envelope containing 100,000 yuan to Benmu with the other hand and said: "It's a little less, just to express my gratitude." The voice is so low that it can't be heard in the president's office.The location is at the turn of the stairs, right on the side of the second floor, and will not be seen. "I accept your wish, but I have no reason to accept it." Although Benmu said so in a low voice, he didn't push the envelope to Bangyan again. Bang Yan said: "I don't want the police to think that I am also a member of the dollar black market and cause trouble. So I hope you don't tell him my real name. If he asks about me, you can prevaricate for me appropriately. " "I understand the meaning of this...then, I will put this away bluntly. Let's go hunting together if we have a chance." Benmu stuffed the envelope into his pocket. Bangyan and Benmu broke up at the corner of the stairs.Five minutes later, he came to the Industrial and Commercial Credit Bank, which was some distance away from the Gongrong Building, and took the car he parked here. He bought this car with his own money, and the number plate was registered by the Land Transportation Bureau. He hid his bag behind the seat of the car, whistled leisurely, and drove the car to Motoki's house in Kansuke-machi, Yushima. Kunihiko parked the car in front of the earthen wall of the quiet Yushima Temple.He took out a flashlight and a not-so-big canvas bag from a box, and put them in his trouser pocket, which was hanging down due to the weight of the canvas bag. Motoki's house is at one end of a hotel street, and the area is densely wooded.The wooden house covers an area of ​​250 square meters, and many trees are planted in the yard.The leaves of the trees climbed the high walls and stretched out. The door was not locked, and the dim door light illuminated the house number of Motoki's house.He looked into the courtyard as he passed the door.There is a main room and a side room in the courtyard, all of which are bungalows.At this time, only the living room in the main room was still lit, and the side room was completely dark. Bangyan could have entered through the main entrance, but a nine-foot-high wall was not an obstacle for Bangyan.Bang Yan turned left along the wall, and with just a jump, he put his hand on the top of the wall, and then jumped into the yard with a light jump. In front of you is the room where the lights have been turned off.This is a two room cottage.Like the main house, it is also made of wood.Benmu and his wife separated and lived here by himself. Like all hunters, Motoki's family life is very unhappy.Benmu's two sons were born with congenital malignant brain disease, which may be the retribution of Benmu's dissolute life.His wife hated her husband and had never let him near her bedroom since then. He pressed his body against the side wall, took out the thin fleece gloves from the back pocket of his trousers, and replaced the leather gloves.He looked at the main room, and the lighted room had already drawn curtains. Kuniyan used a master key made of hair pins to easily open the side door.He entered the house, closed the door with his back hand, and saw the light of the flashlight shoot out from his hand. The room he entered was a living room and a guest room, the size of nine mats, with stuffed birds and small animals hanging on the walls, as well as processed bear, wild boar and deer heads. There is a glass-paneled gun cabinet in front of the wall near the bedroom, which contains five guns that Motoki feels very proud of.Four of them were shotguns and only one was a rifle. After Kuniyan took a light with his flashlight, there was a slight smile on his lips.Because of the kind of hair pins he had just used, he opened the cabinet door after using two of them. He first opened the cabinet door on the right side, which is divided into three floors, containing various tools for dismantling guns and oil.The top shelf is stacked with ammo detonator boxes and the like. The four flat ones in the ammunition box are rifle boxes.Twenty rounds of ammunition are packed in a cardboard box. These green boxes held Remington shotgun cartridges, two boxes of one hundred and eighty grains and two boxes of one hundred and fifty grains. If you want to fight bears and wild boars, you need to use heavy bullets with a bullet weight between 220 grains and 180 grains.When shooting deer at long distances in the open snow, the 150-grain high-velocity bullet is most beneficial. Ben Muming went to the Sunshine Hunting Area to hunt deer in the next two days, and of course he used 150-grain bullets.And Kunihiko had also heard this from Motoki. At this time, Bang Yan took out a canvas pocket from his trouser pocket, which contained fifty rounds of 150-grain ammunition for a Remington shotgun 30-06 caliber. Bangyan moved two boxes of 150-grain bullets from the gun cabinet to the ground.Relying on the light of the flashlight, he took out the bullets in the magazine and replaced them with the bullets in his own canvas bag.He didn't need to worry, he knew that Benmu might be drinking with the handling fee that Isomura gave him. After changing the bullets, Bangyan smiled sinisterly. The bullets in his canvas bag had now been put into Benmu's ammunition box.This 30-06 caliber cartridge, with its case packed with hunting "AAA" powder, is a fearsome round. Rifle powder, shotgun powder, and pistol powder are all smokeless powders, but their properties vary.Rifles are slow-burning powders, while shotgun and pistol powders are fast-burning. After doing all this, Kuniyan closed the gun safe again.He opened the bedroom door and shone the light into the room with a flashlight.The house was tidy, maybe it was cleaned by the housemaid.It's just that there are countless bottles of western wine that have been opened in the wine cabinet. Bang Yan stood at the door of the bedroom and thought for a while, then returned to the door of the entrance, and locked the door with the key he prepared from the inside. Entering the bedroom, Bang Yan moved closer to the low bed on the right side.It was a double bed with the other side against the wall. Bang Yan got under the bed, although there was a lot of dust, it was still tolerable. With the flashlight off, he waited in the dark, really wanting to smoke a cigarette.This way of waiting made him feel very empty, but he was sure that Benmu must come back tonight, because Benmu had to get ready for hunting in the sun tomorrow morning, not to mention he had to sleep and rest tonight. The time of Benmu's return was really beyond his expectation, it was very early, just after eleven o'clock. Benmu was not drunk.But the fatigue from last night's frenzied noise suddenly hit him, he didn't even bother to open his eyelids, and wanted to sleep.He set the alarm clock next to his pillow to four o'clock, then took off his clothes and got into bed without turning off the light. Snoring dogs.When Bang Yan heard the sound, he quietly crawled out from under the bed. Bang Yan stood beside the bed, staring at the face of Benmu who was still snoring soundly with gloomy eyes. Bang Yan put his right hand into his pocket, and when he pulled out his right hand, he was holding a metal box the size of a silver-plated pocket watch box in his heart. Holding his breath, he opened the metal box lid, which contained anesthetic cloth, Kunihiko gently moved the cloth closer to Motoki's nose. Benmu subconsciously wants his body to get out of the way of the medicine cloth.But the effect of chloroform is extremely fast, and the lungs are already full of micro-molecules of the anesthetic.Ben Mu immediately fell into a state of heavy breathing. Bang Yan put the medicine cloth into a metal box and began to search for the scattered clothes that Benmu had taken off on the corner of the bed. The large wallet of Motoki is a well-designed stylish Italian product.Opening the wallet, Bangyan found that in addition to the envelope containing the handling fee he gave to Benmu, there was also an envelope containing ten 10,000 yuan banknotes.In addition, there are some 5,000 yuan or 1,000 yuan bills, with about 20,000 to 30,000 yuan in change.The 100,000 yuan must have been a handling fee obtained from Jicun.Just look at the serial number on those banknotes and you will recognize them at a glance.Yes, that's what was drawn from the banknotes. Bang Yan replaced these banknotes with ordinary 10,000 yuan banknotes in his wallet. The next day's evening paper had a small report: Motoki was hunting in the Nikko National Game Reserve. When he shot at a stag, the barrel of the gun suddenly exploded. Difficult to distinguish.According to the head of the deer hunting organization, this may be due to the snow in the gun body.In short, such sporadic explosion accidents occur on average every year, as many as 2,000, so it cannot be an anecdote. When people returned home from a day's work and were discussing the news around the dinner table, Kunihiko, who had flown to Kobe this morning and exchanged 80,000 US dollars in green notes for 30 million yen, was on the return flight.While eating, he watched the same news.