Chapter 323 Desk
SH citizens feel that today is the most peaceful day in recent times.

After the riots and gun battles of the previous two days, the Japanese army's strict control period was announced to be over after the overall large-scale manhunt ended yesterday, and no gunshots were heard in Shanghai again.

Theoretically, it should be over. After all, the Japanese publicized in the newspapers that the Military Control Commission's Shanghai Station had been completely cracked down by them.

There is no Military Control Commission in Shanghai anymore, so the revenge against the Green Gang and traitors should also be over.

However, as more wolves came, the citizens decided to observe and observe.

Mei organs.

Yingzawa was in a very good mood. He had already received verbal commendation from the headquarters, and an insider told him that his battle record in Shanghai had been placed on the desk of His Majesty the Emperor.

"The Emperor's desk! Hahahaha."

According to internal information, His Majesty the Emperor has agreed to the military's application for his medal, and he does not seem to be in a mood to refuse the approval of the title.

How rare is the title of nobility.

Yingzo remembered that when Fujita Kazuki received the title, he was really envious, very envious!
It is indeed difficult to approve the title. However, the recent war efforts of the Japanese army cannot be said to be smooth, and the progress is indeed slow. In addition, the domestic economy is in recession and morale is low. Therefore, the emperor intends to use his achievements to publicize him, with the intention of promoting him.

If this is true, then his future will be smooth sailing.

"Shanghai is such a great place." Yingzo stood at the window and looked at the beautiful scenery of Hongkou.

The smoothness of this operation was beyond imagination. Originally, it was thought that Fujita Kazukiyo would cause him some trouble, but he ended up staying in Hankou obediently to study his medicine.

"Hahahahahahaha." Yingzuo couldn't help but burst into laughter again.

At this time, his men walked in.

He said respectfully, "Director, the people below are discussing where to go for a drink tonight and would like to invite you to join us. I wonder if you are free."

"Okay." Yingzuo agreed readily: "Don't go at night. You've been working hard during this period. Let's pick a good izakaya and go there now. It'll be an afternoon and an evening. You can order whatever you want. Indulge yourself today. After drinking, you can go to the geisha house to watch dancing. Young people also need some entertainment activities."

"Then I'll thank the director on their behalf. I'll notify them right away."

"Go." Yingzuo watched his men leave with a smile. Just as he was about to appreciate the beautiful scenery outside the window, he suddenly coughed.

Coughing is normal, but it's the wrong time.

When Yingzuo thought of smallpox, his face suddenly changed.

No way?
At 4 p.m., Yingzuo was lying in the hospital ward for examination.

At the gate of the city government, the secretary general came out after get off work and went to the open-air parking lot in the compound to pick up his car.

On a tall building in the distance, the trigger of a sniper rifle was suddenly pulled, and the spinning bullet flew across the space at a high speed, flying from a high altitude to the low-lying parking lot.

Bang! The bullet pierced through the chest and the Secretary-General was covered in blood on the spot!
The body touched the car door and fell down helplessly. A large amount of blood flowed out from the chest, staining the ground red. At this time, people who were getting off work began to scream violently.

The crowd began to run around, looking for shelter everywhere. The Military Intelligence Bureau sniper on a tall building in the distance calmly put away his gun and put it into his violin case.

Just kill one person, not more. You will have plenty of time to play with the game later.

At 5 p.m., an explosion occurred at the Japanese army's temporary arsenal in Zhabei.

At 7:, the granary caught fire.

At 9 o'clock, a Japanese cargo ship docked at the Wusong River Wharf exploded.

At 10 o'clock, the director of the municipal government office was stabbed to death on the dance floor while watching a dance performance at the Ciro's Ballroom.

At 11 o'clock, two grenades were thrown into the mayor's house, killing the servants and seriously injuring the mayor.

At 12 o'clock, a violent explosion occurred in a izakaya in Hongkou, and the entire store was razed to the ground, scaring the owners of nearby shops.

Five minutes later, more than a dozen grenades were thrown into the telecommunications room on the third floor of Mei's office through the window. After the explosion, the telegraph machine was severely damaged and the interpreter was killed on the spot.

At 12:15, martial law was imposed in Hongkou, and a large number of military police were dispatched to block all entrances and exits.

At 18 minutes past midnight, a medicine warehouse in Hongkou caught fire.

At half past one, firecrackers were thrown into the Japanese barracks in Zhabei, and the fire exploded for five minutes.

The Japanese soldiers were so scared that they ran out without even putting on their pants, holding their guns to observe the situation. Then they dropped a dozen grenades from the sky, making a loud bang.

At 1:45, martial law began in Zhabei.

At 2:30, the defenders of Wusongkou were attacked by surprise.

More than 40 people armed with submachine guns launched a surprise attack on the defenders, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army. After the attack, the action team rushed to the docked ship and carried out explosions.

After the two ships were sunk, the British and French ship stewards nearby were so scared that they immediately left the port and set sail in the middle of the night.

Subsequently, the Wusongkou warehouse was bombed.

The Japanese army dispatched garrison troops to suppress the rebellion. This group of anti-Japanese elements jumped into the river and escaped in a small boat, which showed that they were well prepared.

Wusongkou is under martial law.

At 3:30, the Japanese army infiltrated the military airport in Hongkou, and six planes were loaded with bombs, which exploded and sent flames shooting into the sky.

At 4:30, someone broke into the Da Gong Cotton Mill not far from Hongkou, and the cotton yarn was set on fire. The flames merged into one piece, emitting thick smoke.

At half past five, everything was quiet and the sky was turning pale.

A beautiful day begins.

Yingzuo didn't sleep all night and his face was ashen!

I couldn't find peace even lying in the ward.

The phone calls from the city government office, the gendarmerie headquarters, and the consulate never stopped ringing all night!

Where do so many military commanders come from?
The chaos in Shanghai has been quelled, and the report applying for commendation has just been submitted. Now such a big chaos has occurred again. How is he going to explain it to the headquarters?

Next to the bed, Li Liqun came in with his head held high.

With his head bowed, he hurriedly reported:

"This series of actions must be the military's revenge for our arrest. I interrogated the relevant personnel and found that the most likely person to have carried out this operation was Zeng Haifeng. After all, there are still a lot of low-level operatives at large in the Shanghai station of the Military, so it is very likely that Zeng Haifeng gathered people to carry out revenge."

The air was quiet for a moment.

"That's all?" Yingzuo asked with a cold face.

Li Liqun's face twitched, and he quickly replied: "I will hurry up and interrogate them to see if there is any clue to where they are hiding."

"Don't tell me that kind of crap!"

Ying Zuo stood up from his seat, walked up to him and said, "Deputy Director Li, if you fail to catch the person in three days, you will bear the consequences yourself."

Li Liqun's scalp tingled and he held his breath. "Yes, I will try my best."

Walking out of the door, Li Liqun took a deep breath, his whole body shook, and he was still trembling a little.

"What did Kagesawa say?"

Li Liqun told his brother-in-law outside the door about the situation.

The brother-in-law spat towards Yingzuo's ward, with a very puzzled expression: "We helped the Japanese capture so many military commissars. We deserve credit for our hard work, right? They didn't give us any rewards, but threatened us when something went wrong. Brother-in-law, do you think the Japanese are made of shit? We captured so many people, isn't it normal for them to retaliate? Look at how Yingzuo is making a fuss."

Li Liqun glared at him: "Why are you talking so much? If Yingzuo hears this, I can't protect you."

The brother-in-law scoffed, glanced in Yingzuo's direction and asked, "What should we do then?"

"Looking for him, go out into the streets and alleys, go door to door with Zeng Haifeng's photo."

"Got it."

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Municipal Government Office convened a press conference with reporters. A spokesperson attended the conference and needed to explain to the public who was responsible for the large-scale destruction last night.

He was shot dead on the spot by the reporter.

So the reporters attending the press conference took a lot of photos of the spokesperson's body, so it was not a wasted trip.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the president of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce came forward to calm the merchants, but when the situation was over, he was shot to death.

The attacks continued at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.

As the sabotage in Zhabei grew in scale and violence, Yingzuo used his power as Emperor of Shanghai to impose a blockade on the Zhabei area.

In the concession, chaos resurfaces.

When carrying out sabotage operations, Kagesa was still cautious. Some business groups that knew they had a strong background or were loyal to Japan would not touch him. But the Military Control Commission had no scruples.

Kill whatever you can find, destroy whatever you can find, as long as they are Japanese, they can be killed, soldiers, politicians, ronin or anyone else, there is no target, everyone is a target!
As the war spread, violent explosions continued to sound in Shanghai, in Zhabei, in the Concession, in the Concession, in Hongkou, in Hongkou, and in Wusongkou.

A large number of complaint calls were made to the Japanese consulate, and the consulate's complaint call was directly made to Yingzuo's Ume Agency. Others were afraid of Yingzuo, but they were not, and they still scolded Yingzuo.

Then Yingzuo scolded Li Liqun harshly.

After three days, the situation had not changed at all. The Japanese army's forced martial law led to soaring prices.

Once the panic could not be stopped, prices, which had just stabilized a few days ago, took off again.

Flying straight into the sky!

And when some news suddenly spread that a large granary in Zhabei was burned down, the price of rice would be very high for a period of time, so everyone should stock up on rice as soon as possible.

Citizens' panic intensified again.

And when the news came again, the Japanese's own military granaries had been bombed.

That's it! The Japanese are coming to grab Mira.

The rice on the market was sold out and the price of rice was adjusted every half an hour.

Not to mention the Chinese, even the Japanese soldiers couldn't afford it.

Complaints became more intense, and the British and Americans who felt cheated took the matter directly to newspapers around the world.

The consulate had the example of its previous cooperation partner Fujita Kazukiyo, and could no longer tolerate the idiotic behavior of Kagesawa, so it directly reported to the higher authorities and demanded that Kagesawa be punished.

Ministry of Army.

The military naturally knew about the chaos in Shanghai, but the documents requesting credit had already been submitted to Emperor Hirohito, and the Mitsui Mitsubishi faction would not give up on Kagesawa at this critical juncture.

Therefore, Mitsubishi's people went against the majority's opinion and tried their best to buy time for Kagesawa in the hope that he could turn the tide and resolve the Shanghai incident.

The reason was, "It is normal for Chongqing to launch a counterattack after the Military Control Commission encountered such a big change."

The explanation was reasonable, and there was no other choice, so the military sent a telegram to reprimand the Ume Organization and urge Yingzuo to resolve the situation in Shanghai as soon as possible.

This delay lasted half a month.

Yingzuo had no way out at all. All the power he could control in Shanghai was working hard for him.

But even with such efforts, no clues about Zeng Haifeng could be found.

The Military Control Commission's actions were continuing, and some people did fall into his hands, but the result of the interrogation was that they had only received orders to carry out sabotage operations. No one had ever seen Zeng Haifeng, and no one even knew who was in command.

The situation was getting worse day by day. There were explosions every day and people were dying every day, with officials of the Shanghai puppet government being the most obvious.

The media reporters even made a joke in the newspaper: "The day before yesterday I went to interview the secretary general of the municipal government office, but I didn't finish the interview and planned to go again yesterday. When I went there yesterday, I found that the secretary general had been replaced. I interviewed him again, and guess what happened when I went again today? Hey, he was replaced again."

The mocking words were like slaps in the face of Yingzuo, but he really tried his best. The lack of results after trying his best made people feel the most powerless.

The people of the Military Control Commission are really not afraid of death. Even under the current high-pressure martial law, there are still countless fearless Chinese people who rush out with guns, just to fire a few shots at the military police on the road.

The gendarmes are on strike!

Ever since Zhang Xiaolin's death, the extra allowances that the gendarmes of the Shanghai Gendarmerie Command had received every month were no longer paid. The reason was that Yingzuo had ruined Captain Fujita's business, and the allowances for these people were originally the money that Captain Fujita earned from his business. Knowing that their salaries were low, he paid them out of his own pocket.

That’s more money than the monthly salary paid by the Japanese headquarters!
A private makes 8 dollars a month, and the starting salary for the military police headquarters is a little higher at 12 dollars, but the maximum salary for ordinary soldiers is 15 dollars depending on their years of service.

But prices in Shanghai are soaring now. With 15 yuan, you can't even afford to smoke cigarettes, let alone buy some wine to drink at a pub, let alone go to a geisha house. That's an income level that allows you to drink at home.

Who wouldn't blame me? I've already cursed Yingzuo's family eight hundred times.

When Captain Fujita was here, everything was fine. I had good food and drinks every month. Shanghai was peaceful. I was lazy at work and drank after work. I lived a carefree life. Now I have to stand on the street under the scorching sun and face the guns of those crazy people in the Military Control Commission, and I don't make much money every month.

It’s fucking irrelevant now!
If this is the case for the military police at the headquarters, the living standards of ordinary soldiers stationed in places like Zhabei Wusongkou are even worse.

For them, it’s really 8 dollars a month.

They don't have a gendarmerie headquarters living in the prosperous Hongkou. There was only a warehouse in Wusongkou, so they could have asked for some kickbacks. But now all the ships have been bombed, the warehouses have been burned, the number of people doing business has decreased dramatically, and people are in panic. Should we give them money?

That little money is not enough for the share above.

The Japanese soldiers dared not speak out, and the consulate could no longer tolerate it. They were the first line of defense facing the anger of various countries, and they sent a telegram to sue Kagesawa.

After receiving the telegram from Shanghai, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided not to tolerate it any longer. Since the military would not take any action, it would report the matter to His Majesty the Emperor.

The Foreign Minister went directly to Hirohito.

"Is the situation in Shanghai so bad?" Hirohito was shocked. "Didn't the military submit a memorial a few days ago to commend Kagesa, saying that he did a good job in Shanghai and solved a spy agency in Chongqing?"

"It's not solved at all! They are just deceiving Your Majesty!"

The foreign minister was furious. He took out a folder and handed it over. "Your Majesty, please take a look. This is all the news clippings about Shanghai from various countries that I have collected in recent days. The briefing given to you by the military is completely false! What did you say that the Shanghai issue has been resolved? The price of rice in Shanghai has increased fifteen times compared to a month ago! Is this the price that can be expected in a peaceful Shanghai?"

"Fifteen times?" Hirohito was shocked by the number.

The price of rice is the most indicative of economic stability. The fifteen-fold increase in rice prices directly reflects the dire situation in Shanghai. It's almost like a famine!
The worse it is, the more it represents a collapse in prices in Shanghai, this economic metropolis!

He picked up the report and read it carefully. The more he read, the colder his expression became, and the angrier his eyes became.

With a flick of his hand, he threw the report heavily to the ground!

"The military is becoming more and more daring. After what they have done, they still have the nerve to ask me for medals and titles. For such trash?" Hirohito cursed, pointing at the report.

"Your Majesty, only you can make a decision on the Shanghai issue. The military is covering up for Kagesawa too seriously. The pressure here is too great, and all countries are dissatisfied. If it goes on like this, they will suffer losses in Shanghai and cause a chain reaction to the affairs of our other regions. It will be too late for us to do anything then." The Foreign Minister said earnestly.

Hirohito sighed deeply, took off his glasses, squeezed his eyes with his hands, and felt quite tired: "Ha~, tell me, do you have any ideas to solve this problem?"

"Then Fujita and Kiyoshi should go."

The Foreign Minister said with a bitter face, "Your Majesty, the situation in Shanghai is too chaotic right now. I don't trust anyone except him. I don't think anyone else can solve this problem except him. And who can compare to him in terms of understanding Shanghai?"

"Fujita does have experience." When Hirohito thought of Fujita Kazukiyo, he felt relieved. After all, Fujita Kazukiyo had dealt with this kind of thing before, so there should be no problem.

I quickly agreed, but then I remembered, "Hey, didn't Fujita go to Shanghai? He also came to tell me that he was not in Shanghai?"

The Foreign Minister shook his head and said, "He is long gone. Soldiers at the Hankou frontline headquarters were poisoned on a large scale, and Fujita was called to Hankou by the Army Ministry to investigate the matter."

Hirohito frowned when he heard this. This was also a troublesome matter.

"How could such a thing happen? Is there a conclusion? Can he get away?"

"Before I came here, I specifically inquired about this matter. It was a lieutenant in the Hankou headquarters who accepted money from the Chongqing elements. Fujita had already handed over the investigation report to the headquarters, but someone in the headquarters disagreed, thinking that he had not investigated it thoroughly. They also suspected that Fujita had killed the lieutenant, so they sent people from the investigation department to Hankou to investigate him. He is still under investigation in Hankou."

"Idiot!" Hirohito stood up angrily. "I don't know who Fujita is. Would he kill a lieutenant for no reason? How precious is his time? Wasting it on these investigations. Are those people in the military too brain-dead to even have the basic logic of judgment!"

"I think so too. Fujita went to investigate. It doesn't make sense for someone to find fault with someone he killed."

The Foreign Minister knew the position of Fujita Kazukiyo in His Majesty's heart. When His Majesty talked about the chaos in Shanghai just now, he only cursed the military. But when he heard that Fujita was being investigated, he didn't hesitate for a second and stood up to curse, and his words were all in defense.

In Your Majesty's heart, Shanghai is not necessarily as important as Fujita Kazukiyo.

"Your Majesty, I heard that some people in the military are targeting Fujita Kazukiyo."

"Is there such a thing?"

"Yeah, actually, during this incident in Shanghai, I was hesitant about whether to recommend him."

"what happened?"

"Your Majesty, the current situation in Shanghai is very different from that time. It is too complicated. When Fujita Kazukiyo solved the problem last time, the situation in Shanghai was not as serious as it is now. Although we were hostile to the Chongqing government at that time, their spy agencies were actually trying to complete the tasks from above. We went to war with them, and they carried out some sabotage actions in Shanghai for propaganda, just to show that Shanghai was still resisting. The show had more significance than the actual significance.

But this time it’s different. Chongqing is determined to take revenge.

If they fight face to face, they are definitely no match for our soldiers. However, Shanghai is of great significance to us. It is our window to the world. If they carry out such sabotage activities, we will be in a passive position.

What if he keeps taking revenge?

Fujita Kazukiyo is very capable, and I am actually very optimistic about him. If he is trapped in Shanghai because of this incident, then the responsibility for the chaos in Shanghai that cannot be resolved will be on his head. Someone in the military is targeting him, so if he is attacked by someone in the military, then my recommendation will be a big sin."

"You are giving up eating because of choking. I think your thinking has become rigid!

If he can't do it well, who else can go to the military? I trust him!
Besides, with me here, who can target him?

Call the military and cancel all investigations into Fujita Kazukiyo, order Fujita Kazukiyo to go to Shanghai immediately to resolve the Shanghai affairs, and add a sentence in the telegram, telling him that it was I who said it, and I will personally celebrate his success when he returns triumphantly. "

(End of this chapter)

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