Wind spy

Since the defeat in the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Japanese side has fully turned to a defensive strategy. The United States’ war machine has been fully deployed, and the strength of the navy and air force has been greatly strengthened. The Japanese navy has been unable to confront the enemy. What’s more cruel is Japan itself. The war resources were exhausted, and they had to seek the help of those puppet governments in the occupied areas.

The Shanghai stock market has always been an important part of the Japanese military's material supply. Although it was severely damaged by the war before, the industrial foundation is still largely preserved. Especially after the occupation of the concession, a large number of factory equipment and skilled workers have become a prerequisite for material production. .

Therefore, the Japanese army needs to maintain a relatively stable social order in the Shanghai stock market, which is conducive to industrial production.As far as the current environment is concerned, the public's demand for food is far greater than the demand for cloth.

Increasing the rice ration is temporarily unnecessary. The only way is coarse grains. Coarse grains such as bean noodles, corn noodles, red beans, and white beans have become an important part of the food ration, and the output outside the customs is the largest.

Both the Kwantung Army and the Dispatching Army belong to the general army and are of the same rank. If you want to exchange for coarse grain, you have to take out the materials needed by the other party, mainly cotton cloth.

The smuggling of cotton in the Shanghai stock market has never really been curbed. Smugglers with great powers can always think of ways to sell cotton and cotton yarn in their hands to the Kuomintang Controlled Area for profit. Due to the complicated and complicated relationship, the Jinling government can do nothing about it.

The Japanese have to accept this fact and use domestic gold reserves to directly compulsorily purchase merchants’ goods, including Japanese merchants’ goods. Although doing so will touch the interests of the chaebols, they can face a bad situation. There is no other choice.

"I heard that the cotton shops in the city are very lively now. Merchants are doing their best to dump the inventory in their hands. The more registered merchants, the more they release more goods. They have long been released from the Chamber of Commerce of the Jinling Government. I got the news that this practice of the Japanese would bankrupt half of the cotton merchants." Wang Zhen said.

The Chamber of Commerce Unification is a governing body, but its members all have close ties with business people from all walks of life. One minute ago they received instructions from the government. One minute later, the business people knew about it. No one wanted to do anything. These things are torn apart with colleagues, and they will not benefit much.

"This is a good thing for the citizens. You ask the business staff of Huatong Trading Company to contact these cotton merchants privately. If you feel that the goods in your hand cannot be sold, I can swallow part of it. The Gendarmerie Command wants me and the Military Statistics Bureau to add With a large amount of smuggling, cotton cloth is the most important exchange material." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.

As soon as the notice of the compulsory acquisition order was issued, the cloth shops in the Shanghai stock market were overcrowded by the citizens, who were rushing to buy cotton and gauze. At this time, the price was cheap and there was no limit on the quantity.

Huatong Trading Company also took the initiative. Chen Mingxiang relied on his own mission of the Japanese military to send business personnel to privately conduct transactions with those cotton cloth merchants, paying the full amount, but using the Chinese savings voucher.

Even if he is rich, he does not dare to swallow too many goods. According to the data provided by the Materials Investigation Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, the number of registered cotton yarn is 64,644 and the registered cotton cloth is 27. One thousand four hundred and sixty-six pieces, he intends to swallow ten thousand pieces of cotton yarn and seven thousand pieces of cotton cloth.

There must be much more cotton and cotton yarn in the Shanghai stock market than this. A large number of cotton merchants used methods such as concealing goods and falsifying accounts to evade inspection by the Materials Investigation Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and even this was a purposeful collusion between the two parties.

In order to strengthen the management of the cordon and prevent cotton and cotton yarn from flowing out of the Shanghai stock market, according to the instructions of the Gendarmerie Command, the police station and the Security Command, under the supervision of the Japanese gendarmerie, have increased the intensity of inspections on the cordon. All goods of cotton yarn shall be temporarily detained.

In a yard near Sheshan in the southwestern suburbs of Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Shanghai Suburban Intelligence Station of the Military Statistics Bureau is holding an emergency meeting. The topic is naturally about the Japanese and puppet’s forced purchase of cotton and cotton yarn.

The chief of the Shanghai Suburb Intelligence Station, Army Colonel Luo Baotong presided over the meeting, the deputy chief of the army lieutenant colonel Qian Yuguang, the army lieutenant colonel Inspector Cao Qingyang, the chief of intelligence army major Yang Luoyuan and the Qinggang representative Sun Maochang.

"Boss Dai called many times to inquire about the purchase of cotton and cotton yarn. The Japanese and the Wang puppet government had done so, and the goods on the market were emptied. The police station and the gendarmerie set up a large number of checkpoints to strictly check the goods entering and leaving the blockade. According to this situation, the mission of our intelligence station will definitely not be completed." Luo Baotong said with a frown.

"Although our Youth Gang has contact with some cotton merchants, they can also get a batch of goods, but the difference in quantity is too large, and it has not been able to be shipped out. This time, the Japanese military police will supervise them, and even the goods of Japanese merchants will be inspected. If it is found to be cotton cloth or cotton yarn, it will also be seized.” Sun Maochang said.

The Shanghai Suburb Intelligence Station accepted Boss Dai’s order and united with the Youth Gang to smuggle cotton and cotton yarn for the Kuomintang Controlled Area. But in the face of this situation, both parties felt headaches, because Boss Dai never listened to explanations. Failure to complete the task would be dereliction of duty. Be punished.

The most troublesome thing is that the internal relations of the Shanghai Suburb Intelligence Station are very complicated. The stationmaster Luo Baotong belongs to the Hunan family and belongs to Tang Zong’s confidant. As for the deputy stationmaster Qian Yuguang, he was sent by Wang Xinheng. The intelligence chief Yang Luo was originally He belongs to the confidant of Zheng Jimin of the Cantonese family. Only the inspector Cao Qingyang, an old subordinate of Wang Yixin in the Shanghai Municipal Experimental Zone of the Military Statistics Bureau, is the one who truly belongs to Boss Dai.

Cao Qingyang used to be the person in charge of the Shanghai Suburb Intelligence Station, but at that time this intelligence station was not even considered as a Type C station. It was more like a contact point. Later, after the military-controlled Shanghai district was overthrown, the bureau headquarters decided to take the Shanghai Suburb Intelligence Station Station upgrade.

With the addition of staffing and equipment, the rank was upgraded to Type B station, his "qualifications" were a bit shallower, and he only served as an inspector.

How should I put it, Cao Qingyang has no real power in the Shanghai Suburb Intelligence Station, which means that he can't reach the world or land, and is completely emptied by these three factions.But for the task of this bureau's headquarters, he has no responsibility. The inspector is only responsible for the discipline inside the station.

"I have carefully investigated. Except for the normal passage of Huatong Trading Company's goods, all other forces must be strictly restricted. If you want to ship the goods, you can only use Chen Mingxiang's channel, and his fleet can be directly sent to the National Controlled Area. "Yang Luoyuan said.

"The problem is that Chen Mingxiang’s Huatong Trading Company is a smuggling organization that directly cooperates with the headquarters, and most of the funds of the bureau’s headquarters are in exchange for trading with him. Boss Dai has clearly stipulated that without the consent of the headquarters, we Don't contact Chen Mingxiang privately, and he won't buy it." Luo Baotong said.