Wind spy

The plane landed at the Jinling Japanese Army Airport, Kinoshita Sakae and Gangcun Shisan Shaosuo led entourage, Chen Mingxiang and Wang Zhen took their bodyguards, got off the plane and boarded the cars that came to meet them.But Wang Zhen and the bodyguard were in a car sent by the Superintendent, and she wanted to return to her home in the mansion district on Yihe Road.

Originally, Chen Mingxiang was going to return to the Shanghai stock market and then report the food situation of Jiangsu Province to Kinoshita Sakae. Unexpectedly, Kinoshita Sakae took a plane to Suzhou, then picked him up with Wang Zhen and flew directly to Jinling.

The headquarters of the Japanese Chinese Dispatch Army is located at Zhongshan North Road, Gulou District, Jinling. It was the former resident of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Shancheng Government.

Facing the Drum Tower, this building is a reinforced concrete structure, with a double eaves and a glazed tile roof. The middle is four stories high, two wings are three stories high, and there is a semi-basement floor.

In the office of the general headquarters, Chen Mingxiang met the high-level generals of the dispatching army, commander-in-chief of the six generals Hata Toshi, commander of the North China Front Army, Ningji Okamura, chief of the general staff, Lieutenant General Matsui Takuro, and commander of the 11th Army Yokoyama Yuki Lieutenant General, Lieutenant General Shimomura Sada, commander of the Thirteenth Army, Lieutenant General Tanaka Hisaichi, commander of the Twenty-third Army, and others are naturally indispensable for Lieutenant General Shibyama Kenshiro, the head of the plum agency.

It can be seen from this that the unfavorable matter of levying military rations in the Soviet province this time has aroused the great attention of the dispatching army’s general headquarters, and such an important meeting was actually held.

After Chen Mingxiang entered the meeting room, he was arranged to sit at the meeting table directly opposite the six generals of Toshi Hata. This was a special reporting position.

On the plane, Kinoshita did not even inquire about the content of his report, which also shows the full trust in him. Fortunately, Chen Mingxiang did not deal with it. The report materials written were tangible.

No one is more familiar with the grain smuggling situation in the entire Jiangsu province than he, especially the grain speculators, he also knows which one is engaged in how much grain.

"Chen Jun, the issue of military rations is very urgent. If the requisition work is in trouble, it will inevitably affect the military spirit and combat effectiveness of the entire dispatched army. This time I specifically invite you to the headquarters, just to hear your opinion on the levy of food. Investigation results."

"The intelligence department of the imperial army and the garrison of the Soviet province have reported on this matter, but their investigations are not satisfactory, please start!" Hata Junroku said.

"My Excellency Generals, I received the notice from General Kinoshita on July 26 to start statistics and analysis of the grain expropriation in Jiangsu Province. According to my survey, the entire army grain collection began in July. It will start operations on the 10th, and will be implemented on July 15."

"Documents from the provincial government show that the imperial army and the Jinling government collected 280,000 tons of indica rice this time, and 350,000 tons of japonica rice. So far, only 74,000 tons of japonica rice have been collected. Indica rice was only collected to 10,000 tons, and the completion rate was 13%."

"Now is the new grain listing stage and the most important expropriation stage. Based on the current trend, I can make a judgment that by next year's new grain listing, the imperial army can only complete about 20% of the requisition work. The total strength of the army in Central China and North China is 728 thousand. The minimum daily consumption of food is 364 tons, and the total consumption is 132,860 tons. According to the normal supply, It needs about 200,000 tons."

"Considering that the imperial army and the Jinling government have a cooperative ratio, although the expropriated grain can basically meet the demand, if even one-third of the Jinling government is given, the imperial army will be short of one-third of the grain. Cut it by one third."

"The key to this happening lies in the following aspects. The output of rice in Jiangsu Province is far lower than last year. This year's output per mu is only equivalent to 20-30% of the high-yield period, and the total amount has decreased. People still have to eat and keep seeds, and there is not much food left after paying the land fortune."

"Furthermore, there is a large outflow of rice from Jiangsu Province. Grain merchants from all over the country rushed into the province to take advantage of the opportunity to collect grain at a high price. In a short time, it increased from 780 yuan per stone of rice to 1,200 yuan per stone of rice. The purchase price given by the imperial merchants was only 600 yuan, which is really not competitive."

"According to the information I got, in half a month, nearly 150,000 tons of rice was flowed from Jiangsu Province. As for Anhui Province and Zhejiang Province, there is no data yet. As far as this amount is concerned, there is no bigger one. Space has been expanded, and there is no major breakthrough in this year’s grain collection task."

"My Excellency Generals, please note that the most important points are two points. The Jinling government is also competing for the rice market. The Shanghai market needs 230,000 tons of household registration rice, and Jinling needs 50,000 tons of household registration rice. The military and police under the Jinling government also need 40,000 to 50,000 tons of rations."

"The provincial government of Jiangsu Province and the counties and district governments at the following levels are all trying to buy food. It is precisely because of their indulgence and even secretly helping that they sell the rice paid by the people privately for grain under the banner of collecting land for the Jinling government. Speculators have caused the continuous loss of rice. At least 100,000 tons of rice entered the pockets of grain merchants through the government..."

Chen Mingxiang’s report mentions four points. The first is the shortage of total production due to the reduction in production. The second is that grain speculators are collecting rice at high prices in Jiangsu Province. The third is that the Jinling government competes for the source of rice. The fourth is the corruption of officials at all levels in the province. corruption.

In fact, he said mainly the latter two points, and the two most critical ones. The Japanese army and the Jinling government have a great conflict of interest in terms of resources. The Japanese army needs rice, and the Jinling government also needs rice. This cannot be reconciled. contradiction.

But the problem is that the Japanese army can't search door-to-door and snatch the people's food. That is not in the interests of the Japanese army.Although they are even more bandits than bandits, what they can plan is long-term plunder, and they cannot do things like killing chickens and getting eggs.

As for the involvement of the provincial government and the officials at all levels in the smuggling, it is essentially Li Shiqun, and everyone in this room can hear it. It's just that Chen Mingxiang's identity is not too clear.

"Chen Jun’s report only took a week. It is indeed more comprehensive and more relevant than what our intelligence agency provided. It was a lot of effort to hear it. Kinoshita entrusted the matter to Chen Jun. The decision made was very wise." Hata Shunroku said.

"Chen Jun, your task has been completed, go home and wait for the news first, and I will send you down!" Kinoshita Sakae stood up and said with a smile.

Listen to what you are saying. At the end of the six chapters of Hata Shun, the next thing is to discuss the new plan for grain collection. Chen Mingxiang is not suitable to stay here, after all, he is not Japanese.

But Chen Mingxiang could let the somber and arrogant Kinoshita Eishi personally send him downstairs, and the people present were also surprised. It seemed that the commander of the gendarmerie had very high regard for this subordinate.