Chapter 875 Seal
Xiong Jiashang still had a lot of work to deal with, so he left after arranging the food and accommodation for the comrades of the New Fourth Army.
“Minister Xiong must have recognized us.” Fang Muheng said now that he was very observant of things.
“It’s normal.” Liu Bo said with a smile.
The three of them are not unknown people. Liu Bo is not only the inspector of the French Concession's patrol house, but also a red party criminal who has been published in the newspapers. He once caused a sensation in the French Concession and caused uproar.
Fang Muheng is the eldest young master of the Fang family.
He Guan is Jin Kemu’s nephew.
There are many people who know them.
However, after these two years of hard fighting in the team, the appearance of the three people has changed somewhat from before. Unless someone is observing carefully and looking closely, they would not be recognized at a glance.
“The commander sent us here precisely because we are familiar with Shanghai.” He Guan took a piece of sesame seed cake and ate it with big mouthfuls.
At the end of last month, the Sixth Regiment of the New Fourth Army, led by its commander Zhang Ye, secretly jumped out of the enemy's blockade and advanced to the east road area between Wuxi, Susu, Changshu, Jiangyin, and Taicang, east of the Wuxi-Jiangyin Highway, and carried out Guerrilla warfare, creating new base areas.
Since this area has jumped out of the extremely narrow combat scope restricted by the Kuomintang against the New Fourth Army, the Sixth Regiment was renamed the Second Route Army of the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, and the regiment leader Zhang Ye was renamed Ye Chen.
Other important officers and cadres of the Sixth Regiment registered with the National Military and Government Department also changed their names.
This is also the fundamental reason why Fang Muheng and He Guan were renamed Chen Kewen and Huang Zhongyuan respectively. As for Comrade "Yu Chang", he is officially named "Liu Bo" on the roster of the Ministry of Military Affairs.
Not only that, in order to deceive others, the Maoshan Anti-Japanese Base Area even built a new Sixth Regiment, which comrades privately called the New Sixth Regiment.
The three of them simply filled their stomachs and got into intense work.
Comrade Xiong Jiashang also rushed back.
“Minister Xiong.” Fang Muheng glanced at Xiong Jiashang, “Please give us an introduction to the current situation.”
“Comrades,” Xiong Jiashan said to the three of them, “our comrades had ‘contact’ with Mr. Tan Pinggong earlier, and Mr. Tan insisted on seeing the seal before handing over the donation.”
“There is no seal.” Fang Muheng shook his head.
Before Comrade Pan Ming died, in order to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy, he destroyed the seal first.
No seal?
Xiong Jiashang frowned. If this was the case, it would be a little troublesome to completely win Tan Pinggong's trust.
In other words, Tan Pinggong may have been inclined to recognize them as the Red Party, but Mr. Tan insisted on seeing the tokens.
Belief in the Red Party identity comes from self-judgment.
However, handing over huge anti-Japanese donations is another matter, and both parties have a strict agreement.
Everything is just to confirm 100% that the other party is the New Fourth Army.
Only in this way can Tan Pinggong feel at ease.
Tan Pinggong's move seems to be a bit unreasonable, but this is why this wealthy businessman from Yuyao is willing to risk being destroyed by the Japanese to fulfill his promise and fulfill the trust of his friends. He will live up to his country and his friends!
“The three of us are the seal.” Liu Bo said with a smile, and pointed at himself, “Especially me.”
Liu Bo, an important criminal of the Red Party, fiercely criticized the judge and shouted anti-Japanese slogans in the public court of the French Concession. He was later released. Later, there were rumors that Liu Bo was in the New Fourth Army. This was confirmed by Shanghai newspapers. He was a celebrity in Shanghai. !
Fang Muheng and He Guan both looked at each other and smiled.
Soon, He Guan was thinking about his own thoughts. He also had another important purpose for his trip:
The Shanghai Underground Party has prepared a batch of medicines for the team, and will also support a batch of weapons and ammunition. These are all urgently needed by Jiang Kang's forward detachment. The task he received is to successfully bring back people and things at all costs. .
人 refers to Mr. Tan Pinggong’s family members.
Material refers to medicines, weapons and ammunition, especially medicines.
…
Maeda Yoshio took a comfortable hot bath, put on a loose and comfortable kimono, and came to the living room.
A young woman wearing a kimono is skillfully playing with the tea set.
The woman bowed to Maeda Yoshio and came up to help Maeda Yoshio squeeze his shoulders and pat his back. The woman's body was filled with the fresh fragrance of having just finished bathing.
At this moment, the guard's voice came from outside the room, "Division commander, Su Wenxi is here."
“Invite him in.” Maeda Yoshio waved his hand and motioned for the kimono-clad woman to leave.
Su Wenxi walked into the "official residence" of Yoshio Maeda, commander of the Japanese 15th Division, in Shanghai with a respectful attitude.
He and General Maeda Yoshio were not familiar with each other before.
It was also a coincidence that Su Wenxi, who had tried his best to win over the Japanese big shot, accidentally learned that the Japanese major general was dissatisfied with the residence assigned to him by the military department. Su Wenxi used coercion and inducement overnight to get a three-story garden villa. Early in the morning, I asked Shimizu Tozo of the Consulate General to deliver it to Maeda Yoshio.
In this way, Su Wenxi established a relationship with the commander of the 15th Japanese Division.
After the fall of Wuhan, Maeda Yoshio's 15th Division withdrew from Hankou and was stationed in areas near Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and Nanjing, and was responsible for guarding the Wuhu-Nanjing railway.
In other words, its main task is to lead a team to encircle and suppress the anti-Japanese armed forces in southern Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
The Watanabe Brigade of the Taniboguo Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force that previously encircled and suppressed the Qingdong region was Yoshio Maeda's unit.
Maeda Yoshio will basically leave his station in one to two months and return to his "home" in Shanghai.
Su Wenxi will come to visit in a very timely manner. This is the thickest thigh he has ever hugged. He does not dare to relax at all. It can be said that he is extremely flattering.
“Secretary-General Su’s face is full of joy. This is good news.” Maeda Yoshio signaled Su Wenxi not to be formal. After he sat down respectfully, he nodded with satisfaction and said casually.
Hearing what Maeda Yoshio said, Su Wenxi smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty General, this is the inventory of last month. Take a look."
In addition to giving away a house and hiring a famous Japanese geisha to serve Maeda Yoshio, Su Wenxi's real way to further his relationship with Maeda was to win over Maeda Yoshio to "do business" together.
At present, Japan has established five major smuggling strongholds in Tianjin, Xuzhou, Shanghai, Hankou and Guangzhou in the occupied areas of China, and is smuggling and dumping Japanese goods to China's rear areas.
At the same time, Japan implemented a blockade policy against China in an attempt to block Sino-foreign traffic.
Japan’s two-pronged policy of blockade and smuggling, although contradictory on the surface, actually plays a complementary role.
The main purpose of the blockade is to prohibit the inward transportation of military supplies and some production tools for economic development.
The smuggled goods are limited to some daily necessities that have nothing to do with military affairs or development and production.
There are two purposes of smuggling: one is to exchange Japanese goods for a large amount of legal currency, and then use the legal currency to go to the financial markets in Shanghai and Hong Kong to obtain China's legal currency exchange funds.
The second is to exchange Japanese goods for battlefield exports, such as tea, silk, bristles, vegetable oil, cattle and sheep skins, etc., to enhance its foreign exchange reserves. Therefore, this is completely consistent with Japan’s financial offensive against China at this stage.
In July last year, Japan agreed on a "strategy against China adapted to the current situation" at the Five Prime Ministers' Meeting, and decided that in order to make China lose its ability to resist the war, it should "try to cause the collapse of the legal currency" and obtain China's funds abroad, thereby strengthening its financial position. The emperor ordered the central government of China to eliminate itself.
At that time, the Nationalist Government still maintained the legal currency foreign exchange market in Shanghai out of consideration for maintaining the hearts of the people in the occupied areas and the interests of Western powers in China.
Japan is taking advantage of this, using smuggling and other methods to exchange for legal currency, and then arbitraging legal currency exchange funds in the foreign exchange market to put huge pressure on the legal currency foreign exchange market, causing the legal currency to depreciate or even collapse.
As the pseudo-Secretary-General of Shanghai City, Su Wenxi is very familiar with various Japanese policies. For people like him to defect to the Japanese and become traitors, it is nothing more than power and profit.
Su Wenxi had a vicious vision and wanted to respond to the Japanese call for smuggling into the Kuomintang-controlled areas. However, he knew that this kind of cake was not something that a mere traitor could take a bite of, so he immediately recruited Yoshio Maeda to join him in the smuggling business.
And the euphemistic name is to respond to the call of the Five Prime Ministers Conference of the Empire of Japan.
Maeda Yoshio glanced at Su Wenxi, glanced at the dial, then showed surprise and nodded with satisfaction, "Not bad, not bad, Secretary-General Su, thank you for your hard work."
Seeing Su Wenxi's wry smile just now, he thought that last month's profit had decreased.
"Mr. Maeda is satisfied, and Su is relieved." Su Wenxi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The general has entrusted me to work for the benefit of the Japanese Empire, but Su is tossing and turning, fearing that I am not doing a good enough job."
Maeda Yoshio laughed loudly, "Secretary-General Su is a friend of the Locust Army and a friend of mine. I can rest assured when you do things."
Su Wenxi quickly stood up and bowed deeply, "Thank you, General, for taking up such precious time of yours. I am very uneasy. I will not disturb you, General, from your rest."
Maeda Yoshio looked at the respectful Su Wenxi, feeling satisfied and nodding with a smile, "Secretary-General Su, you can rest assured that you are my friend and a friend of the empire. No one can touch you."
Su Wenxi was not happy with Shanghai Mayor Fu Xiaolu. Fu Xiaolu had always wanted to get rid of Su Wenxi. Yoshio Maeda knew about this situation, but he never suppressed Fu Xiaolu for Su Wenxi. He only stepped forward when Fu Xiaolu wanted to take action. What he wants is Su Wenxi who walks on thin ice and feels precarious all the time.
Su Wenxi bowed deeply again.
Back in the car, Su Wenxi took out a beautifully wrapped gift from his briefcase and threw it on the seat.
"Uncle." His nephew Su Dingwen glanced at him in surprise, "This is a gift that 'Mr. Xiao Cheng' asked you to give to General Maeda. How do you..."
"Cheng Qianfan's heels can't reach General Maeda." Su Wenxi smiled lightly, "I just said that the gift was given out, and he had to thank me."
As he spoke, he sneered.
Cheng Qianfan is good at business and has a good position in the French Concession. He is also admired by Hyoutarou Imamura. Maeda loves money. The two of them must not come together, otherwise Su Wenxi will have nothing to do with him.
Most importantly, Su Wenxi had an intuition that Cheng Qianfan, a kid who was always good at getting into trouble, would definitely be more favored by the Japanese than him. He must not be given a chance to show his face in front of Maeda.
Maeda Yoshio is now his biggest and only supporter, and he must rely on him to the death!
…
Not long after Su Wenxi left, the bell rang and the guard reported that Captain Watanabe Yuichiro of the Watanabe Brigade was visiting.
“Let him in.” Maeda Yoshio touched his mustache and nodded lightly.
The Bantian Regiment to which the Watanabe Brigade belongs is a nail placed by the Fifteenth Division in Shanghai. Only here can the Bantian Regiment safeguard the interests of the Fifteenth Division in Shanghai.
Among them, the combat effectiveness of the Watanabe Brigade is the leader of the Sakata Regiment.
…
As soon as Watanabe Yuichiro walked into the living room, Maeda Yoshio took him to the study, opened the scarlet curtain, and revealed the military map on the wall.
“Tell me about the latest military situation around Shanghai.” Maeda Yoshio said in a deep voice.
"Reporting to the division commander." Yuichiro Watanabe saluted, took the baton from Maeda Yoshio, and said, "After He Xingjian of the Loyalty and Salvation Army led nearly 50,000 troops to defect to the empire, the resistance forces around Shanghai were destroyed. A considerable number of Kuomintang armed forces have defected to the locust army. Currently, only a small number of Red Party guerrillas are active in rural areas such as Qingdong, Nantou, Fengxian, and Jiading. However, their numbers, weapons, and ammunition have been significantly weakened compared to last year. , the scope of activities has also been gradually compressed.”
“Qingdong?” Maeda Yoshio frowned, “Tani Baoguo’s department...”
He looked at Yuichiro Watanabe coldly, "Watanabe, what did you promise me last time?"
Last time, Watanabe reported to him that Gu Baoguo was captured and publicly executed. Later, it was found out that the person actually executed was Qin Di, the propaganda officer of Gu Baoguo's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Brigade. Gu Baoguo is still alive. Not only alive, but also Maeda Yoshio was so angry that he became even more active. He called Watanabe over and slapped him hard several times.
Watanabe was deeply humiliated and vowed to annihilate the Red Party guerrilla Gu Baoguo's headquarters within two months.
Yuichiro Watanabe blushed and gritted his teeth, "Please give me another half month, Division Commander!"
“Half a month is not enough.” Maeda Yoshio shook his head.
Yuichiro Watanabe was surprised. He said half a month. He thought it would be good if the division commander could give him a week. Unexpectedly, the division commander took the initiative to say that half a month was not enough.
"The number of Tanihoguo guerrillas has decreased a lot. Although it is annoying to the eyes, it is actually nothing to worry about." Yoshio Maeda said solemnly, "The real difficulty is the New Fourth Army of the Red Party. They are like flies and mosquitoes running around. There will be no peace in a disturbed place.”
He glanced at Yuichiro Watanabe, "Does the Special High School have the latest information about the New Fourth Army?"
“Reporting to the head of the division, I have arranged for Ohta Yuichi to be responsible for the contact with the Special Higher Education Course.” Yuichiro Watanabe hesitated for a moment and said.
Maeda Yoshio snorted, obviously not satisfied with Yuichiro Watanabe's answer.
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