Shadow Spy

Chapter 71 Preparation for Transaction

On Sunday, Li Junhao assigned Xiaohu a new task - to investigate the distribution of forces in the major dock areas in the concession and to contact the brothers in Phoenix Village.

After Xiaohu went out, he called the Commercial Office of the Consulate General and asked the staff on duty in the information room to prepare information on cotton spinning mills, machinery factories, daily chemical factories, paper mills and other enterprises in the public concession. He would read it when he went to work on Monday .

In addition, he called his "friend" Franco Rona, the supervisor of the French Concession Police Department, hoping that he could help check the situation of enterprises in the French Concession.Rona fully agreed to his request and said he would send someone to deliver the information to the Consulate General on Monday afternoon.Li Junhao expressed his gratitude and asked to sit down with him when we had time.

After putting down the phone, Li Junhao began to reflect on himself. After more than a month, his circle of friends seemed to be too small. He didn't know who to call even if he had a phone at home?Just like in my previous life, when I was bored and wanted to find someone to have sex with, but there was no one to accompany me.But in today's world, how can we make true friends?It seems that I need to go out more.So he said: "Xiao Yu, let's go shopping together?"

Xiao Yu said, "I'm not going, Brother Jun. Today I want to knit the collar of this sweater!"

Oh fine!Li Junhao realized, today is Sunday, why bother yourself? Why don't you go out? There are still many books to read!

Seeing Li Junhao scratching his head and going upstairs again, Xiao Yu thought for a moment before understanding what was going on and laughed happily.
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May 5st was the International Labor Day in later generations, but of course it would not be celebrated in China at this time. However, on the streets of the Shanghai Concession, there were still many young people throwing leaflets celebrating Labor Day. In this regard, the patrols in the two major concessions did not have any overreaction - in the past ten years, similar things have happened every year at this time. Even if there is no pandemic this year, it will be very peaceful. Why do you still think so much?

On this day, thousands of miles away in Chongqing, more than 10 workers held a commemorative meeting and parade to celebrate the May Day International Labor Day.On this day, the "National Spiritual Mobilization" began to be implemented across the country!The Nationalist Government held a national spirit mobilization swearing-in meeting at Chongqing Military Commission Square at [-] p.m. Chairman Chiang Kai-shek was waiting for the meeting, and State Chairman Lin Sen delivered a speech... After the meeting, a torch parade was held, with more than [-] participants.

On the same day, the joint bombing plan of the Sea of ​​Japan and the Army Air Force was officially confirmed, and the bombing campaign against the Chinese National Government was about to begin...
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A regular morning meeting will be held on Monday because today is the beginning of a new month. This morning meeting is another consulate-general-level meeting chaired by Mr. Ayers, the Consul General.

This time, Li Junhao was already experienced. During the meeting, he followed Miss Hanprey and sat directly at the conference table.The process of the meeting was still the same as last time. Each department reported on its work, the four counselors arranged the work for this month, and the Consul General Mr. Ayres made a concluding speech.Of course, the theme of this meeting is entirely focused on the collection of strategic materials, and each counselor and department head has a clear mission.

Mr. Ayers also announced a very attractive incentive measure - as long as individuals complete their own indicators, they will receive a performance rating recorded in the file. Those who reach the critical point of assessment can even be directly promoted to positions!Mr. Ayers directly pledged his personal reputation to this point, which caused a great sensation.

However, after Li Junhao learned about the current situation in Shanghai and Shanghai, he was not optimistic about it. The water in the entire market had been muddied. The United Kingdom and the United States, which claimed to be civilized managers, even if they controlled the public concession, would not Maybe like the Japanese and puppet spies who openly robbed and plundered, it would be difficult to take advantage in this battle for supplies.

When the meeting ended, they all went downstairs. Hanpuri asked him: "Pan Sen, how are you doing there? Can you complete the task?" Li Junhao replied: "There are some clues on the tung oil, we still need to see the final result."

"Oh? That's great." Hanpuri was a little surprised. Pan Sen had just been here for a month and he was able to find a way. This was a bit beyond her expectation! "Then keep an eye on me, my mission is heavier, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you..."

"Don't worry, Miss Hanpuri, I will do it." Li Junhao felt warm in his heart. In any case, it was pretty good that Hanpuri could say that.He was thinking that if Wen Qiang's goods could arrive in time, he wouldn't mind helping her.
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After returning to the office, Miliya sent over a large pile of corporate information from the information room. Brown also received a call and went out to get back a thick document bag, saying that it was sent by the Rona Supervisory Office of the French Concession Police Department. Sent.

Throughout the morning, Li Junhao has been looking at these materials and preparing to select some reliable companies to place orders. Although he cannot yet determine the situation on Wen Qiang's side, he must prepare in advance.

In the afternoon, he took Brown and Yuri out and personally inspected nearly ten factories and four firms. He selected two factories and two firms, ordered a large number of goods, and each paid a deposit of 5000 French currency. It was agreed to pick up the goods ten days later, and full payment would be made on time.

He doesn't feel any pain at all when it comes to spending fiat currency. Although the value of fiat currency is relatively stable now, he knows that this currency will depreciate faster than the speed of printing in the near future, so it is better to get rid of it as soon as possible.

In his previous life, he knew something like a joke. During the All-out Anti-Japanese War, in order to destroy the economy of the Kuomintang-controlled areas, the Japanese army specially established the Army's Ninth Research Institute, also known as the Noborito Research Institute, to study the production of counterfeit legal currency banknotes; later, the Army Minister Dong Dong Tōhideki approved the implementation of the counterfeiting operation of legal currency, codenamed Sugi Work. To this end, a special spy agency, the Sugi Agency, was established. Starting in the 28th year of the Republic of China, counterfeit legal currency banknotes were sent to the Chinese market.

At the beginning, due to insufficient counterfeiting, the counterfeit banknotes were easy to spot, with little success. After spending a lot of manpower and material resources, the Shan government finally launched counterfeit banknotes with a higher degree of imitation, but it was already the 30th year of the Republic of China (1941). , but at this time, the legal currency began to depreciate rapidly!
Under such circumstances, the Kuomintang did not even bother to specifically deal with the counterfeit banknotes dropped by the Japanese army, because they were very "confident" - in the face of the rapidly depreciating legal currency, a few counterfeit banknotes could not make a big splash!

Facts have also proved that the Japanese army was so angry that they were so angry that after thinking about it, they spent several years, manpower and material resources on the "cedar work", but in the end they even lost money!

This incident sounds like a joke, but for the Chinese people at that time, it was real suffering. Whether it was devaluation or counterfeit banknotes, they were ruthlessly embezzling the wealth in the hands of the people.

(End of this chapter)