Shadow Spy

Chapter 257 Obtained the contents of the secret agreement

Before the operation, the three parties made a very rigorous plan and conceived various contingency measures; the reason why they arranged for Gao and Tao to leave separately was to ensure that at least one of them could bring out the secret document.

To everyone's surprise, things went extremely smoothly. Gao Zongwu, who came later, was smoothly picked up by Jiang Anhua when the car arrived at the Henan Road Concession Roadblock.

At that time, Chen Mo, who was escorting, opened his eyes in surprise. He turned out to be the captain of the Fourth Brigade. He was transferred to the First Brigade after Jiang Anhua suddenly left. Unexpectedly, Jiang Anhua, the former captain of the First Brigade, appeared in a police uniform!
According to the plan, Gao Zongwu's safety in the concession was protected by the police station, and with others by his side, Chen Mo just nodded to Jiang Anhua, without saying a word, and quickly left with his men.

Tao Xisheng's family on the other side also entered the concession smoothly. With the support of Jason and Liu Geqing, they were sent directly to Shiliupu Pier to board the ship; after a while, Gao Zongwu was also sent by Jiang Anhua.

At twelve o'clock sharp, the American passenger ship "President Coolidge" set sail on time and sailed away from Shanghai. Ten Youth Gang disciples and ten military commanders escorted the ship and sailed towards Hong Kong.
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Li Junhao left the police station and went home after learning that the passenger ship had left successfully.

Previously, he met Gao Zongwu in the office, exchanged a few polite words, and "looked" at the photo of the secret contract text he carried... Later, when he heard the report from the dock that Tao Xisheng's family had arrived successfully, he asked Jiang Anhua to Gao Zongwu also sent it over.

Compared with the original history, Gao Zongwu and Tao Xisheng also successfully left Shanghai, but this time they took away Mrs. Tao and the five children at once, saving later trouble, which can be regarded as an improvement!
Li Junhao was very happy that he had helped a little bit... Well, he even saw the secret appointment in advance!He was thinking whether he should also send out the contents of the secret agreement in advance?
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On January 1th, Thursday, the first day of work after the holiday, I went to the Consulate General for a meeting as usual.

This is the first meeting of the new year. The heads of various departments summarized the situation last year and laid out the general work plan for this year... Speaking of which, Li Junhao was the most troubled last year, and even directly prompted the United States to completely take control of the concession. Of course, he himself also received generous returns.

Next, the three counselors reported three special situations about China and Japan.

After asking everyone present to keep confidentiality, Political Counselor Justin Sheehan reported important information: The intelligence department has confirmed that on December 12, at the end of last year, Wang Ni, who was expelled from the Chinese Kuomintang, signed an agreement with Japan in Tokyo. The "Wang-Japan Secret Treaty" is also known as the "Outline for the Adjustment of New Support-Japan Relations." Although the contents of the secret treaty have not yet been obtained, it is certain that this is a treaty that betrays China's interests.

Everyone in the meeting sighed after hearing this. It was already very difficult for China to fight against Japanese aggression, and now there is a super traitor like Wang Ni. It is really unfortunate!
Only Ayers looked at Li Junhao standing aside in surprise - this morning, Li Junhao went to see him as soon as he arrived at the consulate, told him what happened yesterday, and handed him a stack of photos, saying that he was a senior citizen. Zong Wu gave a copy of the secret agreement as a thank you for his help.

Ayers took a magnifying glass and read the secret agreement and its attachments, which was officially titled "Outline of Adjustment of New Relations between Japan and China", and shook his head. These Japanese are really ambitious. They want to completely annex China!And this Wang Ni is really a great traitor to his nation, he dares to sign such a secret agreement!

Li Junhao had watched it last night and was still very angry. Wang Ni should die!Damn the Japanese!No wonder Gao and Tao regretted it when they saw the contents of the secret agreement. Not only did they not participate in the signing, but they also wanted to escape Wang Ni because they were afraid of being nailed to the pillar of shame in history!

The secret contract contains a lot of content and attachments, which can be summarized in five main aspects:

1. Use Japan and Manchuria to build a new order in East Asia as a smokescreen to put China under Japanese slavery. 2. Use good neighborly relations as bait to pursue political aggression ambitions.

3. Use economic support as a means to realize the intention of searching for resources.

4. Use common defense as a guise to achieve the purpose of stationing troops in North China.

5. Use the occupation of coastal islands as the fulcrum for the southward and northward attacks.

Li Junhao knew that after this secret agreement was signed, it would not be long before a pseudo government headed by Wang Ni was established in Nanjing with the support of the Japanese. For this reason, it even annexed the pseudo reform government that had been established earlier.

After the establishment of the Wang Puppet regime, China's Anti-Japanese War situation will undergo new changes. In some respects, this is a major turning point in China's Anti-Japanese War!
Wang Ni still had a lot of influence in the former Kuomintang government and the Chinese political arena. After he set up the flag, he would gather and recruit a large number of traitors, warlords, and anti-Chiang forces within the Kuomintang, and established a political network in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, continuously Expanding the puppet army's strength helped the Japanese strengthen their control over central China...

After several unfavorable marches to the southwest, the Japanese army changed its aggressive measures and instead supported the Wang Puppet Government. After stabilizing the occupied areas, it would adjust the direction of its main offensive until it launched a sneak attack on the United States and launched the Pacific War! ——
Commercial Counselor Stephen Thain reported on the 1939 economic report that the Chongqing government had not yet officially released.

In this year, the Chongqing National Government spent 28 billion legal tender, received 7.4 million legal tender, and had a deficit of 20.57 billion legal tender...

Thain specifically pointed out the most important point. In order to cope with the war and obtain more resources, the Kuomintang government adopted an inflationary policy and relied on increasing the money supply to plunder private wealth, which caused a huge blow to China's overall economy!
From the data point of view, since the implementation of legal tender on November 1935, 11, as of the eve of the July 3th Incident in 1937, the total amount of legal tender issued was only more than 14 billion yuan, and in 1939 alone, 42.9 billion yuan of legal tender was issued. This kind of A certain degree of money supply growth has caused the fiat currency to depreciate faster.

This situation has seriously affected market business behavior, and more and more industrial and commercial enterprises are forced to use foreign currencies such as US dollars and pounds for transactions; while areas lacking foreign currencies have to regress to the barter transaction model.

For the United States, the exchange rate of the US dollar against legal tender, which was relatively stable in the past few years, has changed so much that in order to avoid losses, all commercial banks have now abandoned the official guidance exchange rate and adopted market prices.

比如：1939年初时，重庆本地市价还在1:5.5左右，至年底时已经是1:7.8。

Li Junhao thought about the economic situation in the Shanghai Concession. He was not a currency or economics expert, but he imagined: If legal tender was banned in the concession and only US dollars or oceans were used, would it be better for the people?
(End of this chapter)