Xiong Jiashang still has a lot of work to deal with, and after arranging food and accommodation for the New Fourth Army comrades, he said goodbye first.
"Minister Xiong should have recognized us." Fang Muheng said with great observations now.
"It's normal." Liu Bo said with a smile.
All three of them are not unknown people. Liu Bo is not only an inspector in the French Concession Police Office, but also a major criminal in the Red Party who has been in newspapers. He once caused a sensation in the French Concession and caused a lot of controversy.
Fang Muheng is the eldest son of the Fang family.
He Guan is Jin Kemu's nephew.
Many people know them.
However, after the hard battles in the team over the past two years, the appearance of the three of them has changed a little bit from before. If it weren't for the careful observation and close-up viewing, they wouldn't have been recognized at first sight.
"The commander sent us here because we are familiar with Shanghai." He Guan took a sesame cake and ate it in big mouthfuls.
At the end of last month, under the leadership of the regiment commander Zhangye, the Sixth Regiment of the New Fourth Army secretly broke out of the enemy's blockade and advanced to the east of Wuxi, Gusu, Changshu, Jiangyin and Taicang, which was east of the Wuxi-Jianyin Highway, to carry out guerrilla warfare and create a new base.
Since the area here has exceeded the extremely narrow combat range restricted by the Kuomintang against the New Fourth Army, the Sixth Regiment was renamed the Second Route Army of the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteers, and the regiment commander Zhangye was renamed Ye Chen.
The important officers and cadres registered by the military and political departments of other government departments of the Sixth Regiment have also changed their pseudonyms.
This is also the fundamental reason why Fang Muheng and He Guan changed their names to Chen Kewen and Huang Zhongyuan respectively. As for Comrade Yu Chang, he was "Liu Bo" on the roster of the Ministry of Military Affairs.
Not only that, in order to cover up people's eyes, the Maoshan Anti-Japanese Base Area even built a new sixth regiment, and the comrades privately called it the new sixth regiment.
The three of them simply filled their stomachs and devoted themselves to the stressful work.
Comrade Xiong Jiashang also rushed back.
"Minister Xiong." Fang Muheng looked at Xiong Jiashang, "Please introduce us to the current situation."
"Comrades." Xiong Jiashang said to the three of them, "Our comrades had 'contact' with Mr. Tan Pinggong in advance. Mr. Tan insisted that the donation could be handed over only when he saw the seal."
"No seal." Fang Muheng shook his head.
Before Comrade Pan Ming died, in order to avoid falling into the opponent, he took the lead in destroying the seal.
No seal?
Xiong Jiashang frowned. If this is the case, it would be a little trouble to completely win the trust of Tan Pinggong.
In other words, Tan Pinggong may have tended to recognize them as the Red Party, but Mr. Tan insisted on seeing the token.
Believing in the identity of the Red Party comes from self-judgment.
However, handing over huge anti-Japanese donations is another matter, and the two sides have strict agreements.
Everything is to confirm that the other party is the New Fourth Army 100%.
Only in this way can Tan Pinggong feel at ease.
Tan Pinggong's move seems a little ignorant, but this is exactly the kind of businessman in Yuyao who is willing to fulfill his promise at the risk of being destroyed by the Japanese, fulfilling his friend's trust, and living up to his country and his friends!
"The three of us are seals." Liu Bo said with a smile, and as he said, he pointed at himself, "especially me."
The Red Party criminal Liu Bo fiercely criticized the judge in the Public Stable Court of the French Concession, shouted anti-Japanese slogans, and was later released. Later, there were rumors that Liu Bo was in the New Fourth Army. This was the news that he had been confirmed by the Shanghai newspaper office. This lord is a celebrity in Shanghai!
Fang Muheng and He Guan both looked at each other and smiled.
Immediately, He Guanze thought about his thoughts, and he had another important purpose for this trip:
The Shanghai underground party prepared a batch of medicines for the team, and will also support a batch of weapons and ammunition. These are urgently needed by the Jiang Anti-Advance Detachment. The task he received was to successfully bring back people and things at all costs.
People refer to Mr. Tan Pinggong's family books.
Things refer to medicines, weapons and ammunition, especially medicines.
...
Maeda Yoshio took a comfortable hot bath, changed into a loose and comfortable kimono, and came to the living room.
A young woman in a kimono is skillfully fiddling with a tea set.
The woman bowed to Maeda Yoshio and came up to help Maeda Yoshio pinch his shoulders and massage his back. The woman was wearing the fragrance that had just finished bathing.
At this moment, the guards' voice came from outside the room, "Subordinate Commander, Su Wenxi is here."
"Please come in." Maeda Yoshio waved his hand and signaled the kimono woman to retreat.
Su Wenxi walked into the "official residence" of Maeda Yoshio, the commander of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, and was respectful.
He was not familiar with General Maeda Yoshio before.
It was also a coincidence that Su Wenxi, who had tried his best to curry favor with the Japanese great man, accidentally learned that the Japanese major general was not satisfied with the residence given to him by the army. Su Wenxi forced and tempted him to get a three-story garden villa overnight. Early the next morning, he asked Shimizu Dong San from the Consulate General to deliver it to Maeda Yoshio.
In this way, Su Wenxi got in touch with the commander of the 15th Japanese Division.
After the fall of Wuhan, Maeda Yoshio's 15th Division retreated from Hankou and stationed in Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Nanjing and the guard duty of the Wuhu-Nanjing railway.
In other words, its main task is to lead the 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 anti-Japanese guerrillas in the Qingdong area was Maeda Yoshio's troops.
Maeda Yoshio will basically leave the station in one to two months and return to Shanghai's "home".
Su Wenxi would visit him very quickly. This was the thickest thigh he had been holding at the moment. He dared not relax and neglect at all. It was a very flattering thing.
"Secretary-General Su's face is full of spring breeze, this is good news." Maeda Yoshio signaled Su Wenxi not to be restrained. After he sat down respectfully, he nodded in satisfaction and said casually.
Hearing Maeda Yoshio said this, Su Wenxi smiled bitterly and said, "God General, this is a inventory from last month, please take a look."
In addition to giving away the house and hiring a famous Japanese geisha to serve Maeda Yoshio, Su Wenxi's real way to take his relationship with Maeda Yoshio further was to win over Maeda Yoshio to "do business" together.
At present, Japan has established five major smuggling strongholds in the occupied areas of China, including Tianjin, Xuzhou, Shanghai, Hankou and Guangzhou, and has smuggled and dumped Japanese goods into the rear of China.
Japan smuggled everything from the rear, including the largest number of crows.
At the same time, Japan implemented a blockade policy on China, attempting to block Sino-foreign traffic.
Japan's two-pronged approach to blockade and smuggling, although it seems contradictory on the surface, it actually plays a complementary role.
The main purpose of the blockade is to ban the internal transportation of military supplies and some production tools to develop the economy.
The smuggled goods are limited to some daily necessities that are not related to military affairs or production development.
There are two purposes for smuggling: one is to exchange Japanese goods for a large amount of fiat currency, then use fiat currency to Shanghai, and Hong Kong's financial market to embezzle Chinese fiat currency foreign exchange funds.
Second, exchange Japanese goods for battlefield export products, such as tea, silk, pig bristles, vegetable oil and cattle and sheepskin, to enhance their foreign exchange reserves. Therefore, this is completely consistent with Japan's financial offensive against China at this stage.
Last July, Japan agreed at the Five Prime Ministers' Meeting to "a strategy for China that adapts to the current situation" and decided that in order to make China lose its ability to resist the war, it should "try to cause the collapse of fiat currency" and obtain China's funds abroad, so as to let the Chinese central government eliminate it financially.
At that time, the National Government still maintained the fiat currency foreign exchange market in Shanghai in order to maintain the people's hearts in the occupied areas and the interests of Western powers in China.
It is precisely this that Japan uses smuggling and other methods to exchange fiat currency, and then purchase fiat currency foreign exchange funds in the foreign exchange market, which puts huge pressure on the fiat currency foreign exchange market and causes the fiat currency to depreciate or even collapse.
As the secretary-general of the pseudo-Shanghai City, Su Wenxi is very familiar with the various policies of Japan. It is nothing more than power and profit for people like him to defect to Japanese people as traitors.
Su Wenxi's eyes were so fierce that he wanted to respond to the Japanese call to smuggle the Kuomintang-controlled areas. However, he knew that this kind of cake was not something that a mere traitor could take a bite, so he made a quick decision to win over Maeda Yoshio to do the smuggling business together.
And it is called responding to the call of the Five Majors of the Great Japanese Empire.
Maeda Yoshio glanced at Su Wenxi, glanced at the plate, then looked surprised and nodded with satisfaction, "No, good, thank you Secretary-General Su for your hard work."
Seeing Su Wenxi smiling bitterly just now, he thought his profits had decreased last month.
"Your Maeda is satisfied, so Su is relieved." Su Wenxi then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "After the general's instructions to seek benefits for the Japanese Empire, Su tossed and turned, fearing that he would not do well enough."
Maeda Yoshio laughed, "Secretary General Su is a friend of the Locust Army, my friend. I feel at ease when doing things."
Su Wenxi quickly stood up and bowed deeply, "Thank you for your love, you have taken up such precious time for you. I am very uneasy. Su will not disturb you, you will rest."
Maeda Yoshio looked at Su Wenxi who was respectful, and nodded with a smile, "Secretary General Su, don't worry, you are my friend, the empire's friend, no one can touch you."
Su Wenxi is not happy for Shanghai Mayor Fu Xiaoqin. Fu Xiaoqin has always wanted to take Su Wenxi away. Maeda Yoshio knew about this situation, but he has never suppressed Fu Xiaoqin for Su Wenxi. He only came forward when Fu Xiaoqin was about to take action. What he wanted was Su Wenxi who was walking on thin ice and felt at ease.
Su Wenxi bowed deeply again.
Back in the car, Su Wenxi took out a beautifully packaged gift from her briefcase and threw it on her seat.
"Uncle." His nephew Su Dingwen looked at him in surprise, "This is a gift from Mr. Xiao Cheng to you to General Maeda, why are you..."
"Cheng Qianfan's heels cannot reach General Maeda." Su Wenxi smiled calmly, "I said that the gift was given out, and he still has to thank me."
As he said that, he sneered.
To be continued...