Xiong Jiashang still had a lot of work to deal with, so he took his leave after arranging the accommodation and meals for the New Fourth Army comrades.
"Minister Xiong must have recognized us." Fang Muheng said now that he was very observant of things.
"It's normal." Liu Bo said with a smile.
None of the three of them were unknowns. Liu Bo was not only the inspector of the patrol house in the French Concession, but also a major Red Party criminal who had appeared in the newspapers. He once caused a sensation in the French Concession and caused uproar.
Fang Muheng is the eldest son of the Fang family.
He Guan is Jin Kemu's nephew.
Many people know them.
However, after two years of hard fighting in the team, the appearance of the three people has changed more or less from before. Unless someone is observing carefully and looking closely, they would not be recognized at a glance.
"The commander sent us here precisely because we are familiar with Shanghai." He Guan took a piece of sesame seed cake and ate it with big mouthfuls.
At the end of last month, the Sixth Regiment of the New Fourth Army, led by its commander Zhang Ye, secretly jumped out of the enemy's blockade and advanced to the east road area between Wuxi, Susu, Changshu, Jiangyin, and Taicang, east of the Wuxi-Jiangyin Highway, and carried out
Guerrilla warfare, creating new base areas.
Since this area has jumped out of the extremely narrow combat scope restricted by the Kuomintang against the New Fourth Army, the Sixth Regiment was renamed the Second Route Army of the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, and the regiment leader Zhang Ye was renamed Ye Chen.
Other important officers and cadres of the Sixth Regiment registered with the National Military and Government Department also changed their names.
This is also the fundamental reason why Fang Muheng and He Guan were renamed Chen Kewen and Huang Zhongyuan respectively. As for Comrade "Yu Chang", he is officially named "Liu Bo" on the roster of the Ministry of Military Affairs.
Not only that, in order to deceive others, the Maoshan Anti-Japanese Base Area even built a new Sixth Regiment, which comrades privately called the New Sixth Regiment.
The three of them simply filled their stomachs and got into intense work.
Comrade Xiong Jiashang also rushed back.
"Minister Xiong." Fang Muheng glanced at Xiong Jiashang, "Please give us an introduction to the current situation."
"Comrades," Xiong Jiashang said to the three of them, "our comrades had 'contact' with Mr. Tan Pinggong earlier, and Mr. Tan insisted on seeing the seal before handing over the donation."
"There is no seal." Fang Muheng shook his head.
Before Comrade Pan Ming died, in order to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy, he destroyed the seal first.
No seal?
Xiong Jiashang frowned. If this was the case, it would be a little troublesome to completely win Tan Pinggong's trust.
In other words, Tan Pinggong may have been inclined to recognize them as the Red Party, but Mr. Tan insisted on seeing the tokens.
Belief in Red Party identity comes from self-judgment.
However, handing over huge anti-Japanese donations is another matter, and both parties have a strict agreement.
Everything is just to confirm 100% that the other party is the New Fourth Army.
Only in this way can Tan Pinggong feel at ease.
Tan Pinggong's move may seem a little unreasonable, but this is exactly what this wealthy businessman from Yuyao is willing to do, risking his family and annihilation by the Japanese to fulfill his promise, fulfill the trust of his friends, and live up to his country and his friends!
"The three of us are the seal." Liu Bo said with a smile, and pointed at himself, "Especially me."
Liu Bo, an important criminal of the Red Party, fiercely criticized the judge and shouted anti-Japanese slogans in the public court of the French Concession. He was later released. Later, there were rumors that Liu Bo was in the New Fourth Army. This was confirmed by Shanghai newspapers. He was a celebrity in Shanghai.
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Fang Muheng and He Guan both looked at each other and smiled.
Immediately, He Guanze was thinking about his own thoughts. He had another important purpose for his trip:
The Shanghai Underground Party has prepared a batch of medicines for the team, and will also support a batch of weapons and ammunition, which are urgently needed by Jiang Kang's forward detachment. The task he received is to successfully bring back all the people and things at all costs.
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People refer to the family records of Mr. Tan Pinggong.
Objects refer to medicines, weapons and ammunition, especially medicines.
…
Maeda Yoshio took a comfortable hot bath, put on a loose and comfortable kimono, and came to the living room.
A young woman in kimono is skillfully playing with the tea set.
The woman bowed to Maeda Yoshio and came up to help Maeda Yoshio squeeze his shoulders and pat his back. The woman's body was filled with the fresh fragrance of having just finished bathing.
At this moment, the guard's voice came from outside the room, "Division Commander, Su Wenxi is here."
"Invite him in." Maeda Yoshio waved his hand and motioned for the kimonoed woman to leave.
Su Wenxi walked into the "official residence" of Maeda Yoshio, commander of the Japanese 15th Division, in Shanghai with a respectful attitude.
He was not familiar with General Maeda Yoshio before.
It was also a coincidence that Su Wenxi, who had tried his best to win over the Japanese big shot, accidentally learned that the Japanese major general was not satisfied with the residence assigned to him by the military department. Su Wenxi used coercion and inducement overnight to get a three-story garden villa.
Early in the morning, I asked Tozo Shimizu from the Consulate General to deliver it to Yoshio Maeda.
In this way, Su Wenxi established a relationship with the commander of the Japanese 15th Division.
After the fall of Wuhan, Maeda Yoshio's 15th Division withdrew from Hankou and was stationed in Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and areas near Nanjing, and was responsible for guarding the Wuhu-Nanjing railway.
In other words, its main task is to lead a team to encircle and suppress the anti-Japanese armed forces in southern Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
The Watanabe Brigade that had previously encircled and suppressed the Taniboguo Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force in the Qingdong region was Yoshio Maeda's unit.
Basically, Maeda Yoshio will leave his station in one to two months and return to his "home" in Shanghai.
Su Wenxi would visit her very promptly. This was the thickest thigh he had ever hugged. He didn't dare to relax at all, and he was extremely flattering.
"Secretary-General Su's face is full of joy. This is good news." Maeda Yoshio signaled Su Wenxi not to be formal. After he sat down respectfully, he nodded with satisfaction and said casually.
Hearing what Yoshio Maeda said, Su Wenxi smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty General, this is the inventory of last month. Please take a look."
In addition to giving away a house and hiring a famous Japanese geisha to serve Maeda Yoshio, Su Wenxi's real way to further his relationship with Maeda was to win over Maeda Yoshio to "do business" together.
Currently, Japan has established five major smuggling strongholds in Tianjin, Xuzhou, Shanghai, Hankou and Guangzhou in the occupied areas of China, and is smuggling and dumping Japanese goods to China's rear areas.
Japan smuggled a wide variety of items to the rear areas, including opium in the largest quantity.
At the same time, Japan implemented a blockade policy against China in an attempt to block Sino-foreign traffic.
Japan's two-pronged policy of blockade and smuggling, although contradictory on the surface, actually plays a complementary role.
The main purpose of the blockade is to prohibit the inward transportation of military supplies and some production tools for economic development.
The smuggled goods are limited to some daily necessities that have nothing to do with the military or development and production.
The purpose of smuggling is two-fold: first, to exchange Japanese goods for a large amount of legal currency, and then use the legal currency to go to the financial markets in Shanghai and Hong Kong to obtain the Chinese legal currency exchange fund.
The second is to exchange Japanese goods for battlefield exports, such as tea, silk, bristles, vegetable oil, cattle and sheep skins, etc., to enhance its foreign exchange reserves. Therefore, this is completely consistent with Japan's financial offensive against China at this stage.
In July last year, Japan agreed on a "strategy against China that adapts to the current situation" at the Five Prime Ministers' Meeting, and decided that in order to make China lose its ability to resist the war, it should "try to cause the collapse of the legal currency" and obtain China's funds abroad, thereby strengthening its financial position.
The emperor ordered the central government of China to eliminate itself.
At that time, the Nationalist Government still maintained the legal currency foreign exchange market in Shanghai out of consideration for maintaining the hearts of the people in the occupied areas and the interests of Western powers in China.
Japan took advantage of this and used smuggling and other methods to exchange for legal currency, and then went to the foreign exchange market to arbitrage legal currency exchange funds, thereby putting huge pressure on the legal currency foreign exchange market and causing the legal currency to depreciate or even collapse.
As the pseudo-Secretary-General of Shanghai City, Su Wenxi was very familiar with various Japanese policies. For someone like him to defect to the Japanese and become a traitor, it was nothing more than power and profit.
Su Wenxi had a vicious vision and wanted to respond to the Japanese's call to smuggle cakes into the Kuomintang-controlled areas. However, he knew that this kind of cake was not something he, a mere traitor, could take a bite of, so he immediately recruited Yoshio Maeda to join him in the smuggling business.
And it was euphemistically called in response to the call of the Five Prime Ministers Meeting of the Empire of Japan.
Maeda Yoshio glanced at Su Wenxi, briefly glanced at the dial, then showed surprise and nodded with satisfaction, "Not bad, not bad, Secretary-General Su, thank you for your hard work."
Seeing Su Wenxi's wry smile just now, he thought that last month's profit had decreased.
"Your Excellency Maeda is satisfied, Su is relieved." Su Wenxi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The general entrusted me to work for the benefit of the Japanese Empire, so Su was tossing and turning, fearing that I was not doing a good enough job."
Maeda Yoshio laughed loudly, "Secretary-General Su is a friend of the Locust Army and a friend of mine. I can rest assured when you do things."
Su Wenxi quickly stood up and bowed deeply, "Thank you, General, for taking up such precious time of yours. I am very uneasy. I will not disturb your rest, General."
Maeda Yoshio looked at the respectful Su Wenxi, feeling satisfied and nodding with a smile, "Secretary-General Su, you can rest assured that you are my friend and the empire's friend. No one can touch you."
Su Wenxi was not happy with Shanghai Mayor Fu Xiaolu. Fu Xiaolu had always wanted to get rid of Su Wenxi. Yoshio Maeda knew about this situation, but he never suppressed Fu Xiaolu for Su Wenxi. He only stepped forward when Fu Xiaolu wanted to take action.
What he wants is Su Wenxi, who walks on thin ice and feels precarious all the time.
Su Wenxi bowed deeply again.
Back in the car, Su Wenxi took out a beautifully wrapped gift from his briefcase and threw it on the seat.
"Uncle." His nephew Su Dingwen glanced at him in surprise, "This is a gift that 'Mr. Xiao Cheng' asked you to give to General Maeda. How do you..."
"Cheng Qianfan's heels can't reach General Maeda." Su Wenxi smiled lightly, "I just said that the gift was given out, and he had to thank me."
As he said this, he sneered.
Cheng Qianfan is good at business and has a good position in the French Concession. He is also admired by Hyoutaro Imamura. Maeda loves money. These two people must not come together, otherwise Su Wenxi will have nothing to do with him.
The most important thing is that Su Wenxi has an intuition that Cheng Qianfan, a kid who is always good at getting into trouble, will definitely be more favored by the Japanese than him. He must not be given a chance to show his face in front of Maeda.
Maeda Yoshio is now his biggest and only supporter, and he has to fight to the death to keep him!
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Not long after Su Wenxi left, the bell rang, and the guard reported that Captain Watanabe Yuichiro of the Watanabe Brigade was visiting.
"Let him in." Maeda Yoshio touched his mustache and nodded calmly.
The Bantian Regiment to which Watanabe Brigade belongs is a nail in Shanghai for the Fifteenth Division. Only here can the Bantian Regiment safeguard the interests of the Fifteenth Division in Shanghai.
Among them, the combat effectiveness of the Watanabe Brigade is the leader of the Sakata Alliance.
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As soon as Watanabe Yuichiro walked into the living room, Maeda Yoshio took him to the study, opened the scarlet curtain, and revealed the military map on the wall.
"Tell me about the latest military situation around Shanghai." Maeda Yoshio said in a deep voice.
"Reporting to the division commander." Yuichiro Watanabe saluted, took the baton from Maeda Yoshio, and said, "After He Xingjian of the Loyalty and Salvation Army led nearly 50,000 people to defect to the empire, the resistance forces around Shanghai were destroyed.
A considerable number of Kuomintang armed forces have defected to the locust army. Currently, only a small number of Red Party guerrillas are active in rural areas such as Qingdong, Nantou, Fengxian, and Jiading. However, their numbers, weapons, and ammunition have been significantly weakened compared to last year.
, the scope of activities has also been gradually compressed.”
He looked at Yuichiro Watanabe coldly, "Watanabe, how did you promise me last time?"
Earlier, Watanabe reported to him that Gu Baoguo was captured and publicly executed. Later, it was found out that the person actually executed was Qin Di, the propaganda officer of Gu Baoguo's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Brigade. Gu Baoguo is still alive. Not only alive, but also
Maeda Yoshio was furious because of his "increasing intensity" activity. He called Watanabe over and slapped him hard several times.
Watanabe felt greatly humiliated and vowed to annihilate the Red Party guerrilla Gu Baoguo's headquarters within two months.
Watanabe Yuichiro blushed and gritted his teeth, "Please give me another half month, Division Commander!"
"Half a month is not enough." Maeda Yoshio shook his head.
Yuichiro Watanabe was surprised. He said half a month. He thought it would be good if the division commander could give him a week. Unexpectedly, the division commander took the initiative to say that half a month was not enough.
"The number of Tanihoguo guerrillas has decreased a lot. Although it is annoying to the eyes, it is actually nothing to worry about." Yoshio Maeda said solemnly, "The real difficulty is the New Fourth Army of the Red Party. They are like flies and mosquitoes running around.
There will be no peace in a disturbed place."
He glanced at Yuichiro Watanabe, "Does the Special High School have the latest information about the New Fourth Army?"
"Reporting to the head of the division, I have arranged for Ohta Yuichi to be in charge of the contact with the Special Higher Education Course." Yuichiro Watanabe hesitated for a moment and said.
Maeda Yoshio snorted coldly, obviously not satisfied with Watanabe Yuichiro's answer.
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