Chapter 516: Disappearance Investigation II (Seeking Monthly Ticket)
Hearing Takeshita Shinya's words, Yuzhi Imai also felt it made sense and agreed that if Cui Guangqi had the intention to defect and leave Shanghai, he really didn't have to spend this money.
As for the fact that Takeshita Shin-kun also received 5,000 yen bribes from Choi Guangqi, Yuzhi Imai didn't care. To be honest, there are many places within the jurisdiction of the Investigation Office that can do things and gain a lot of benefits.
Taro Sagawa and Yushi Imai know this. They have enough experience and experience, and they can be said to be clear about the following tricks.
There is an old Chinese saying that when the water is clear, there will be no fish. Yushi Imai knows very well that there is no truly clean government in this world. Not to mention that in the environment where corruption in the Chinese officialdom is popular, the habits in the officialdom are like this. Even the Japanese cannot be honest and self-disciplined. This is even more so, these senior executives of the special high school courses. They have great power in their hands. They just need to reach out and earn a lot of wealth. Several people can tolerate it.
Even Yushi Imai's most respected old boss, Kawamoto Kurashi, the former chief of the Special High School Course who was grateful to him, was not clean in this regard. In order to buy a white porcelain bottle, he threw out 11,000 US dollars without blinking. Was it really used their own salary? Of course not, the origin of their money cannot be clearly stated, it is nothing more than a trick.
So Taro Sagawa also acquiesced to this kind of thing. These benefits are also a means to win over these Chinese people who are willing to serve the Japanese. When he arranged this liaison position for Takeshita Shinya, he considered that this was a good job, which could not only allow Takeshita Shinya to get some qualifications, but also allow him to receive some benefits. So Wen Hao and Cui Guangqi gave Takeshita Shinya some bribes, and Yuzhi Imai did not think there was anything wrong.
"What Mr. Takeshita said makes sense. This is indeed a basis for judgment. Good job. Mr. Takeshita, you have a clear mind. You need to work harder in the future. Remember, the most important thing for an excellent agent is not the gun in his hand, but his mind!" Yushi Imai nodded to Takeshita Shinya with satisfaction.
This scene really surprised Wen Hao on the side, and couldn't help but look at Shinya Takeshita even more highly. He knew that Shinya Takeshita had a deep background in the special high school class, but he didn't expect that Yuzhi Imai knew that Shinya Takeshita received Cui Guangqi's bribe. Not only did he not have any intention of scolding, but he encouraged and comforted him more. You should know that Yuzhi Imai's position is still above Shinya Takeshita's teacher Akita Akihito, and there is no need to give Akihito Akihito face. From this we can see that Shinya's background is definitely not as simple as he said before. It is very likely that it is related to Mr. Shinya Otani whom Shinya rescued before. It is said that he is a very high-ranking figure. It seems that he must double his attention to the liaison officer in the future and correct his attitude.
Yuzhi Imai turned to Wen Hao and asked, "Where is Cui Guangqi's residence?"
Wen Hao quickly replied: "After Deputy Director Cui joined the Detective Office, I arranged a residence for him in the dormitory area, but he was very cautious and had never been there. He rested in his own office every night, and there were two operation team guards around him!"
"So cautious?" Yuzhi Imai couldn't help but be surprised. He knew that Cui Guangqi was afraid of death, but he didn't expect that he would be so careful. "Let's go to his office to take a look!"
Wen Hao quickly led the way in front, and the group soon came to Cui Guangqi's office again. The door was locked, and only Cui Guangqi had the key. His subordinates did not dare to rashly enter their boss's office because they were not sure about Cui Guangqi's whereabouts, so they did not pick the lock.
Wen Hao also wanted to avoid suspicion. He and Cui Guangqi were not in the first place and had a rift between them. He simply waited for the Japanese to investigate, so he did not enter the office.
"Pry open the lock!"
Hearing Yuzhi Imai's orders, Wen Hao quickly ordered the agents behind him.
With the order from the director, the door lock was quickly pried open. Yuzhi Imai signaled everyone to retreat, and he entered the office alone.
This is the second time Yuzhi Imai has been here. A few days ago, he had just investigated the place because of Deng Yuankai's assassination, so he still had an impression of the layout in this office.
Yuzhi Imai looked around and then began to search gradually. His experience was naturally extremely rich. It was naturally no problem to search such a routine search. Soon after, he searched the office and found two pistols under Cui Guangqi's desk and seat.
Finally, he set his eyes on a row of bookcases in the northeast corner of the room. He came to the front of the bookcase and observed it carefully for a moment. He quickly discovered the problem. He pushed it hard with his hand, and the bookcase was easily removed as a whole, revealing the safe behind it.
Yuzhi Imai did not delay much, and turned toward Wen Hao at the door and ordered directly: "Open it immediately."
"Hi Yi!" Wen Hao quickly agreed, and soon several agents under his command came forward with tools and used violent means to open the safe.
Waving his hand to let everyone retreat, Yuzhi Imai stepped forward to check carefully, and saw some file bags, as well as a neat pile of banknotes and four gold bars.
Although Cui Guangqi didn't take office for a long time, the investigation and investigation office had a large jurisdiction and was very rich. In addition, Cui Guangqi's methods of making money were ruthless, so he quickly accumulated a considerable amount of wealth.
Yuzhi Imai nodded secretly. It seemed that Shinya Takeshita was right. If Cui Guangqi had really defected, how could he not take so much money away? Where could he escape without money?
Needless to say, Cui Guangqi must be in danger.
As for the documents in the file bag, they were also checked, all of which were confidential documents from the detective office and investigation documents from commercial companies in the jurisdiction. From the content, it can be seen that Cui Guangqi still put in some effort to extort money from these merchants.
A document soon attracted the attention of Yuzhi Imai. This was a smuggling channel investigation report of a trade bank. The investigation report showed that the trade bank, named Chen Guang, had been engaged in the business of smuggling electric materials. The boss Zhen Xu was a Zhejiang businessman with an unknown background. He purchased goods from the French Concession and then smuggled them to southern and northern Jiangsu regions to obtain huge profits.
Yuzhi Imai attaches great importance to this document, which is not a trivial matter. If it is just smuggling electric materials, Shanghai has a large population, developed commerce, and complete power equipment. These smuggled electric materials consumed in the urban area of Shanghai, it is okay, but if it is smuggled to southern and northern Jiangsu, the consequences will be more serious. There is the scope of activities of the Wuhan government's Loyal and National Salvation Army and the New Fourth Army of the Red Party. Needless to say, the whereabouts of these electric materials were all sent to the Chinese military.
At this time, due to backward technology and low production capacity, the Chinese government was unable to produce various electrical appliances by itself, and relied entirely on imports of electrical materials, such as wires and cables used for communication, high-power radio stations, vacuum tubes, special batteries and antennas, signal amplifiers, etc. These all need to be imported from abroad. However, because of backward technology in this era, the quality of these electrical materials is very poor, the service period is very short, the replacement frequency is very high, and the consumption is very fast. In many cases, a radio station has to be stopped because of a small component being damaged, causing great waste. Therefore, the Chinese government has always demanded for electrical materials very large.
However, since the war between China and Japan began in full swing, the Japanese have strengthened their economic blockade against the Chinese government, and almost all import channels have been cut off. Now only the French region in Guangzhou can purchase these electric materials, but it is just a drop in the bucket. Therefore, the Chinese government used all the electric materials it can collect for military purposes, and the procurement prices have also soared. The huge profits in this are not from the smuggling of drugs, which prompted some merchants to take risks and start to get involved in the smuggling of electric materials. This Chenguang Trade Bank is doing such a business.
Now in the city of Shanghai, because the Japanese restricted searches very strictly and there was no source of smuggled goods, the source of smuggled goods was in the French Concession and the public Concession. Because there were merchants from various powers from various countries. They rely on their respective backgrounds and used various diplomatic privileges, bribery and other means to escape the inspection of the Wusongkou Customs established by the Japanese, and transport these items into the Shanghai Concession to make huge profits. Ning Zhiheng's Fujiwara Company is one of them.
The concession area is located in the downtown area of Shanghai, and the downtown area of Shanghai occupied by the Japanese is surrounded in the middle, like an isolated island.
If you want to transport smuggled goods to areas outside Shanghai to obtain greater profits, you must go through the Japanese occupied areas. If the Japanese want to cut off these transportation lines, the investment will be very large. This is one of the reasons why the Special High School has formed a special agent investigation department.
Yuzhi Imai carefully read the document and nodded secretly. He had to admit that Cui Guangqi had outstanding abilities. He even sent his agents to infiltrate the French Concession to investigate and found out that the previous owner of the Chenguang Trade Bank was the Brown Trade Bank run by British merchants. This is a large-scale trade bank with the support of the British consulate behind him, specializing in smuggling business.
Of course, Cui Guangqi worked hard to do these tasks, naturally not to cut off this smuggling channel and seek credit from the Japanese, but to follow the clues to track down other next companies of the Brown Trade Bank, then blackmail, or simply intercept the goods and resell them himself. In short, no matter how you do it, you will make a lot of profit.
Chapter completed!