Chapter 875 Seal

  Xiong Jiashang still has a lot of work to do, so he left after arranging the board and lodging for the comrades of the New Fourth Army.

   "Minister Xiong should have recognized us." Fang Muheng said now that he was doing things carefully.

   "It's normal." Liu Bo said with a smile.

  The three of them are not unknown people. Liu Bo is not only an inspector of the police station in the French Concession, but also a key criminal of the Red Party who has been published in the newspaper. He once caused a sensation in the French Concession and caused a commotion.

  Fang Muheng is the young master of the Fang family.

  He Guan is Jin Kemu's nephew.

  Many people know them.

  However, after these two years of hard fighting in the team, the appearance of the three of them has changed somewhat from before. If it is not for someone who observes carefully and takes a close look, they will not be recognized at a glance.

   "The commander sent us here precisely because we are familiar with Shanghai." He Guan took a piece of biscuit 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, Gusu, Changshu, Jiangyin, and Taicang, east of the Wuxi-Jiangyin Highway, and carried out Guerrilla warfare, creating new bases.

  Because 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 head of the regiment Zhang Ye was renamed Ye Chen.

  The important officers and cadres listed in the military and political departments of the other countries in the Sixth Regiment have also changed their pseudonyms.

  This is the fundamental reason why Fang Muheng and He Guan changed their names to Chen Kewen and Huang Zhongyuan respectively. As for Comrade 'Yu Chang', he is officially 'Liu Bo' on the roster of the Military and Political Department.

   Not only that, in order to deceive people, the Maoshan Anti-Japanese Base Area even established a new Sixth Regiment, and comrades privately called it the New Sixth Regiment.

  The three simply filled their stomachs and threw themselves into intense work.

  Comrade Xiong Jiashang also rushed back.

   "Minister Xiong." Fang Muheng glanced at Xiong Jiashang, "Please tell us about the current situation."

   "Comrades." Xiong Jiashang said to the three people, "Our comrades had 'contacted' 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 enemy's hands, he took the first step to destroy the seal.

  No seal?

  Xiong Jiashang frowned. If so, 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 token.

  Belief in the identity of the Red Party comes from self-judgment.

  However, handing over huge anti-Japanese donations is another matter, and the two parties have strict agreements.

  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 inflexible, but this is also why this wealthy Yuyao businessman is willing to risk his family being destroyed by the Japanese to fulfill his promise and fulfill the trust of his friends.

   "The three of us are Yinxin." Liu Bo smiled and said, pointing to himself, "Especially me."

The key criminal of the Red Party, Liu Bo, lashed out at the judge in the public stables court of the French Concession, shouted anti-Japanese slogans, and was later released. Later, there were rumors that Liu Bo was in the New Fourth Army. This was confirmed by Shanghai newspapers. This gentleman is a celebrity in Shanghai. !

  Fang Muheng and He Guan smiled at each other.

   Immediately, He Guan was thinking about his own thoughts. He had another important purpose for this 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 advance detachment. .

  person refers to the family members of Mr. Tan Pinggong.

  Things refer to medicines, weapons and ammunition, especially medicines.

  …

  Yoshio Maeda took a comfortable hot bath, changed into a loose and comfortable kimono, and came to the living room.

  A young woman in a kimono is skillfully handling the tea set.

  The woman bowed to Yoshio Maeda and came up to help Yoshio Maeda squeeze his shoulders and beat his back. The woman carried the fragrance of fresh bathing.

   At this moment, the voice of the guard came from outside the room, "Division Commander, Su Wenxi is here."

   "Please come in." Yoshio Maeda waved his hand, signaling the woman in kimono to step back.

  Su Wenxi walked into the "official residence" of Yoshio Maeda, the commander of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, in Shanghai, with a respectful attitude.

  He was not familiar with General Yoshio Maeda before.

It was also a coincidence. Su Wenxi, who had tried his best to curry favor with the Japanese big shot before, accidentally learned that the Japanese major general was dissatisfied with the residence assigned to him by the military department. Early in the morning, I asked Shimizu Dongsan from the Consulate General to deliver it to Yoshio Maeda.

  In this way, Su Wenxi got in touch with the commander of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army.

  After the fall of Wuhan, Yoshio Maeda's 15th Division withdrew from Hankou, stationed in Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and areas around Nanjing, and took on the task of 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 Battalion of the Gu Baoguo Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Group that had previously encircled and suppressed the Qingdong area was Maeda Yoshio's unit.

  Maeda Yoshio will basically leave the station in one to two months and return to his "home" in Shanghai.

  Su Wenxi will visit in a very timely manner. This is the thickest thigh he has hugged so far. He dare not relax and neglect in the slightest.

   "Secretary-General Su has a happy face. This is good news." Maeda Yoshio signaled Su Wenxi not to be cautious, and after he sat down respectfully, he nodded in satisfaction and said casually.

  Hearing what Yoshio Maeda said, Su Wenxi smiled bitterly and said, "Your Excellency, this is the inventory of last month, please take a look."

  In addition to giving away the house and hiring a famous Japanese geisha to serve Yoshio Maeda with a lot of money, the real way for Su Wenxi to further improve his relationship with Yoshio Maeda is to win over Yoshio Maeda 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, smuggling and dumping Japanese goods to the rear of China.

  Japan smuggled all kinds of items to the rear, among which the amount of opium was the largest.

  At the same time, Japan implemented a blockade policy against China in an attempt to block the communication between China and foreign countries.

  Japan's two-pronged policy of blockade and smuggling, although seemingly contradictory, actually plays a complementary role.

  The main purpose of the blockade is to prohibit the internal 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 the military or the development of production.

  The purpose of smuggling is twofold: one is to exchange Japanese goods for a large amount of legal currency, and then go to the financial markets of Shanghai and Hong Kong with legal currency to extract Chinese legal currency foreign exchange funds.

  Secondly, Japanese goods were exchanged for battlefield exports, such as tea, silk, bristles, vegetable oil, and cattle and sheep hides, to enhance their 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 that adapts to the current situation" at the meeting of the Five Prime Ministers, 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 Chinese funds abroad. Let the Chinese central government eliminate itself.

  At that time, the national government still maintained the legal currency foreign exchange market in Shanghai out of the consideration of maintaining the hearts of the enemy-occupied areas and the interests of Western powers in China.

  Japan is taking advantage of this, using methods such as smuggling to exchange legal currency, and then buying legal currency foreign exchange funds in the foreign exchange market, so as to put huge pressure on the legal currency foreign exchange market and promote the depreciation or even collapse of the legal currency.

  As the pseudo-Secretary of Shanghai, Su Wenxi is very familiar with various Japanese policies. For people like him who defect to the Japanese as traitors, it is nothing more than power and profit.

  Su Wenxi has a vicious vision and wants to respond to the call of the Japanese to smuggle into the Kuomintang-controlled area. However, he knows that this kind of cake is not something that his mere traitor can take a bite of, so he immediately wins over Yoshio Maeda to do the smuggling business.

   And the euphemistic name is to respond to the call of the five-phase conference of the Great Japanese Empire.

  Yoshio Maeda glanced at Su Wenxi, glanced roughly at the dial, and then showed surprise, nodded in satisfaction, "Yes, yes, Secretary-General Su has worked hard."

  Seeing Su Wenxi's wry smile just now, he thought that last month's profit had decreased.

   "Your Excellency Maeda is satisfied, so Su can rest assured." Su Wenxi breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I was entrusted by the general to work for the benefit of the Japanese Empire. Su tossed and turned, fearing that he might not do well enough."

  Yoshio Maeda laughed loudly, "Secretary-General Su is a friend of the Locust Army, and a friend of mine. I can rest assured that you do things."

  Su Wenxi got up quickly, and bowed deeply, "Thanks to Your Excellency, General, for taking up such precious time of yours, I am very disturbed, Su will not disturb you, General, and you are resting."

  Yoshio Maeda looked at the respectful Su Wenxi, satisfied in his heart, and nodded with a smile, "Secretary-General Su, you can rest assured that you are my friend and the empire's friend, and no one can touch you."

Su Wenxi was not liked by Shanghai Mayor Fu Xiaoguan. Fu Xiaoguan had always wanted to get rid of Su Wenxi. Yoshio Maeda knew about this situation, but he never suppressed Fu Xiaoguan for Su Wenxi. He only showed up when Fu Xiaoguan wanted to do something. What he wants is a Su Wenxi who walks on thin ice and always feels precarious.

  Su Wenxi bowed deeply again.

   Back in the car, Su Wenxi took out a beautifully wrapped gift from her briefcase and threw it on the seat.

   "Uncle." His nephew Su Dingwen glanced in surprise, "This is a gift from Mr. Xiao Cheng to General Maeda. Why do you..."

   "Cheng Qianfan's heels couldn't reach General Maeda." Su Wenxi smiled faintly, "I said the gift was given out, and he still has to thank me."

   As he spoke, he sneered.

   Cheng Qianfan is good at doing business, and he has a good status in the French Concession, and he is admired by Heutaro Imamura, and Maeda Aicai.

  The most important thing is that Su Wenxi has an intuition that Cheng Qianfan, who is used to trouble, will definitely be more favored by the Japanese than him, and he must not be given a chance to show his face in front of Maeda.

  Yoshio Maeda is now his biggest and only backer, and he is going to keep it secure!

  …

   Not long after Su Wenxi left, the bell rang, and the guard reported that Yuichiro Watanabe, the captain of the Watanabe Brigade, came to visit.

   "Let him in." Maeda Yoshio stroked his mustache and nodded slightly.

  The Sakata Regiment of the Watanabe Battalion is a nail that the 15th Division placed in Shanghai. Only here can the Sakata Regiment protect the interests of the 15th Division in Shanghai.

   Among them, the combat effectiveness of the Watanabe Brigade is the leader of the Sakata United Brigade.

  …

  As soon as Yuichiro Watanabe walked into the living room, Yoshio Maeda took him to the study, and pulled back the scarlet curtain to reveal the military map on the wall.

   "Tell me about the latest military situation around Shanghai." Yoshio Maeda said in a deep voice.

"Report division commander." Yuichiro Watanabe saluted, took the baton from Yoshio Maeda, and said, "After He Xingjian led nearly 50,000 troops of the Loyalty and National Salvation Army to join the empire, the resistance forces around Shanghai were destroyed. A considerable number of Kuomintang armed forces have turned to the locust army. At present, only a small number of Red Party guerrillas are active in rural areas such as Qingdong, Nantou, Fengxian, and Jiading. However, their troops and weapons and ammunition have been greatly weakened compared to last year. , and the range of activities is gradually compressed."

   "Qingdong?" Maeda Yoshio frowned, "Gu Baoguo's department..."

  He looked at Yuichiro Watanabe coldly, "Watanabe, how did you promise me last time?"

A while ago, Watanabe reported to him that Gu Baoguo had been captured and publicly executed. Later, it was found out that the person who was actually executed was Qin Di, the propaganda officer of Gu Baoguo’s Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Brigade. Gu Baoguo was still alive, not only alive, but also Yoshio Maeda was furious at the 'intensified' activity. He called Watanabe and slapped him hard several times.

  Watanabe took it as a great shame, and vowed to wipe out the Gu Baoguo headquarters of the Red Party guerrillas within two months.

  Watanabe Yuichiro blushed, gritted his teeth, "Please give me another half a month, Master Chief!"

   "Half a month is not enough." Yoshio Maeda shook his head.

  Yuichiro Watanabe was surprised. He said half a month. He thought it would be good if the head of the division could give it a week, but he didn’t expect that the head of the division would take the initiative to say that half a month was not enough.

"Gu Baoguo's guerrilla troops have decreased a lot. Although it is annoying, it is actually not a cause for concern." Maeda Yoshio said in a deep voice, "The real trouble is the Red Party and the New Fourth Army. They are like flies and mosquitoes running around. There will be no peace in the place where it is disturbed."

  He glanced at Yuichiro Watanabe, "Is there any latest information about the New Fourth Army at the Super High School?"

   "Reporting to the head of the division, the subordinate has assigned Yuichi Ota to be in charge of the contact with the special high school." Yuichiro Watanabe hesitated for a moment and said.

   Yoshio Maeda snorted coldly, obviously not satisfied with Yuichiro Watanabe's answer.

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