Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 605
On the morning of July [-]th, the auditorium of the Shanghai French Concession Board of Directors was decorated with lights and festoons. Chen Gongbo, President of the Legislative Yuan of the Wang Government and Mayor of Shanghai Special City, and Hu Minyi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and hundreds of officials and so-called social leaders Everyone is well-dressed and dignified.

There were hundreds of people from the French Concession Board of Directors standing in the auditorium, and the one standing at the front was Mr. Margerie, the French Consul General in Shanghai and the general director of the Board of Directors.These people all have complicated expressions, even dejected ones.

Today is the day when the French Vichy government handed over the Shanghai French Concession to the Wang government.During this period of time, the Wang government has been publicizing this matter. Taking back the Shanghai Concession means washing away the shame of the Chinese nation for 100 years, and it is a major historical achievement of the Wang government.

Two days later, on August [-]st, the Wang government will hold an even grander ceremony to celebrate the recovery of the Shanghai International Settlement.

Zhang Lixing stood in the crowd and looked at the scene in front of him with a blank expression.

In the negotiations before the handover, the Wang government had promised to retain most of the staff of the former French Concession Board of Directors, including Zhang Lixing.

The French Concession will be changed to the Eighth District of Shanghai Special City, and the police station on Songshan Road will be changed to the Third Police Station of Shanghai Special City.

In this situation, it turned out that the members of the Public Directorate of the French Concession could only stay in Shanghai temporarily, and it was impossible to return to France.Besides, most of them didn't want to go back, including hundreds of Annan people who used to patrol the streets all day long and were used to seeing the colorful world. They also didn't want to go back to Annan.

After the handover ceremony, Zhang Li walked out of the auditorium, and the celebration parade on the street had already begun.Hundreds of beautiful women dressed in cheongsams walked on the street, attracting the attention of passers-by.

This is a parade for women engaged in special industries encouraged by the Shanghai Special Municipal Government. Among these people are many foreign women with tall noses and dark eyes.

Zhang Lixing returned to Xingrenli's residence, this Shikumen was bought by Qian Xiaobao with twelve large yellow croakers, and Zhang Lixing lived here temporarily.

Zhang Lixing now wants to leave Shanghai and go to Chongqing, but the Wang government has been propagating that the area under the Chongqing government is economically difficult and the people are struggling to live. Although Zhang Lixing knows that this is a lot of hype, it doesn't take much to know that life there must not be easy.

Moreover, traveling from Shanghai to Chongqing is full of dangers, and Zhang Lixing, a frail scholar, is really not sure.

It seems that we can only wait for Qian Xiaobao to discuss with him when he comes to Shanghai again before making a decision.

Ever since they knew that Italy had changed, the Japanese treated the people in the Italian consulate much worse than before, because they had concluded that Italy's surrender would only happen sooner or later.In the end, the water and electricity of the Italian Consulate on Songhuajiang Street were cut off.

Seeing that he couldn't stay in Harbin any longer, the Italian consul Maffei led all the embassy staff to the Xinjing embassy for help.

More than a dozen people left Harbin like bereaved dogs.

Qian Xiaobao finally received the order to buy medicinal materials and go to Shanghai.

"We need to purchase as many medicinal materials as possible. Now the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army has to rely more on itself. Only in this way can we achieve the goal of supporting war with war." Ono Dakuan ordered Qian Xiaobao.

The Intelligence Department of the Kwantung Army maintains at least a few thousand spies throughout Manchukuo, and these people alone cost a lot of money every year.Japan does not have much resources for the Kwantung Army stationed in Manchukuo at all. On the contrary, the Japanese now have to keep drawing blood from Manchukuo to supplement other battlefields.

"Sir, I think you mean that no matter what it is, as long as it can be exchanged for money, you can buy anything. Apart from medicinal materials, I think many special products in the Northeast can be bought, such as fungus, mushrooms, fur, pine nuts, hazelnuts, and various mountain products. Go to Shanghai to change money." Qian Xiaobao said.

In fact, the most profitable thing is of course to transport opium paste to Shanghai, but the main production area of ​​opium in Manchuria is in Rehe, and it is very convenient to transport it to North China from there, and the business of opium paste has been firmly grasped by the Kwantung Army Command In his hands, the Kwantung Army Intelligence Department has no way to get involved.

Another thing is food, but now all the food in Manchukuo is shipped to the various stationed islands in the Pacific Ocean and Japan.A large number of Japanese young people were drafted into the army, and the rest had to go to factories to work overtime to produce military supplies. Now the people who work in the fields are basically old people and women.Therefore, Japan also urgently needs food supplies from Manchukuo.The Japanese army in other places can only rely on squeezing the food of the local people.

"That's what I mean, do it boldly! Anyone below who dares to stop it will report to me immediately!" Ono Takuro nodded.

After receiving the order, Qian Xiaobao immediately took Hemoto Taro on the train and rushed to the first stop, Muling Town.

When the two rushed to Liu Guangpin's house, Liu Guangpin, who was eager to see through, danced happily.Every year at this time, he was worried that Qian Xiaobao would not come again, and the medicinal materials that had already piled up like a mountain would be worthless if they were stored in the warehouse for another year.

"Cook quickly! Kill the big goose in the yard and stew it! Make sure to order some fresh ones for the chief officer from Harbin. I'll go to Dagai later to see if there is any roe deer and pheasant for sale." Liu Guangren urged.

The woman who was chopping pig food in the yard hurried to a corner of the yard, opened the straw curtain and took out a big black and shiny coal from below.It turned out that there was a small pile of coal under the straw curtain.

"It's a good life, it's all burning coal!" Qian Xiaobao said with a half-smile.

Qian Xiaobao's words made Liu Guangshu tremble in fright.Coal is now a strategic commodity, and ordinary people who burn coal are economic criminals!Moreover, the Japanese strictly controlled the entire process of coal production and transportation, and ordinary people could not get coal at all.

"I picked it up when I dropped the coal at the coal filling station of Muling Railway Station when it was pulling coal," Liu Guangpin explained.

When Qian Xiaobao saw Liu Guangfu for the first time, he was lying on a blanket wrapped in a torn quilt in winter.The nickname Liu Guangpin was given to him because he was poor, and it was ironic that he couldn't wear pants.

Now he is already the No. [-] figure in Muling Street, with five people and six people, and he is not afraid of being arrested for blatantly pulling coal to the house to burn.

"Coal is really a good thing, why didn't I think of it!" Qian Xiaobao said without thinking.

When the three of them ate together, Qian Xiaobao didn't seem interested in the goose stewed with vermicelli and mushrooms and the roe deer meat dumplings with one meat egg.

Liu Guangpin, who had been persuading him to drink, wondered what this officer usually eats. I heard that they like to eat thin meals, so how can they eat thin meals?

He absent-mindedly finished his meal and said to Taro Hemoto: "Stay here to buy medicinal materials, and take inventory of the medicinal materials in the warehouse first. Remember, besides medicinal materials, other mountain products should be purchased as much as possible! I remembered one thing. Hurry back to Harbin immediately."

(End of this chapter)