My years of espionage

Chapter 1517 Good News, Bad News (asking for monthly tickets)

Chapter 1517 Good News, Bad News (asking for monthly tickets)

Cheng Qianfan stood at the window and watched the car where Zuo Shangmei lived drove away from the yard of the Central Police Station.

A smile appeared on his lips.

"Brother Fan." After Li Hao came in, he closed the door casually.

"The boss called and asked us to find a way to find out the military movements of the Japanese 11th Army." Li Hao said, "But the boss also said to be careful."

"I understand." Cheng Qianfan nodded slightly, a thoughtful look on his face.

The task that Dai Chunfeng ordered was extremely difficult.

With his identity and level, it would be difficult for him to have the opportunity to contact Gangcun. Therefore, his only way to break the deadlock was to start with Ping Chongyang.

However, originally, Sakamoto Ryouno and Taira Shigeyoichi were old classmates, and this was a relationship that could be utilized. Unfortunately, the two did not have a good relationship, and it was not easy to connect with Taira Shigeyoichi through Sakamoto Ryouno, and it required careful planning.

Fortunately, Boss Dai's order was to "find a way" instead of "at all costs", which was very tolerant for the usually strict Dai Chunfeng.

"Also, the little Taoist priest has recovered from his injury." Li Hao said.

"Yes, two good news early in the morning." Cheng Qianfan nodded happily.

It can be said that the young Taoist priest had a narrow escape from death this time, as it was truly in great danger.

"The young Taoist priest has already been exposed to the enemy, so it is not appropriate for him to stay in Shanghai any longer." Cheng Qianfan pondered and said, "Pass my order to transfer Captain Zhuo Yun to the Rangers as deputy captain and concurrently captain of the second squad."

"Yes."

……

Bang bang bang.

There was a knock on the door.

Li Hao opened the door and saw Su Zhe standing at the door.

"Vice President Cheng, President Jin wants you to come over." Su Zhe glanced at the two of them and said lightly.

"Understood." Cheng Qianfan glanced at Su Zhe and said, "Go back and tell President Jin that I will be there after I finish the things on hand."

"Vice President Cheng, President Jin wants you to come over now." Su Zhe said.

"Assistant Su, if your ears don't work well, just listen carefully!" Li Hao glared at Su Zhe, "Didn't you hear Brother Fan say he'd be there soon?"

Su Zhe glanced at Li Hao and scratched his ear with his right pinky finger. "Strange, where does the barking sound come from?"

"What did you say?" Li Hao was furious and was about to rush over to teach Su Zhe a lesson.

"Enough." Cheng Qianfan slammed the table.

Li Hao immediately stopped, put away his fist, and stared at Su Zhe with a bad look.

Cheng Qianfan picked up his police hat and walked past Su Zhe. He looked at Su Zhe coldly and said, "Assistant Su, I have something to do with the squad leader Pete in the investigation squad. Go back and tell President Jin that I will be there soon."

Hearing Cheng Qianfan using the Political Department's Investigation Team to suppress Jin Kemu, Su Zhe snorted coldly and turned away.

Cheng Qianfan turned his head to look at Haozi, and seeing that Haozi was trying to hold back his laughter, he glared at him coldly. Haozi quickly stopped smiling and looked serious.

……

Seeing Cheng Qianfan coming in, Peter immediately asked anxiously, "Is that Japanese gone?"

"The Japanese dwarf's reaction when he sees the cargo list must be very interesting."

"Are you furious?" Pete kept asking with excitement and anticipation on his face.

"You seem very excited?" Cheng Qianfan glanced at Pete, "Does Squad Leader Pete hate the Japanese so much?"

"I don't like the Japanese for a long time, you know that." Pete said, "Tell me quickly, are the Japanese scared? Are they angry?"

"Just as you wished, Sasaki Umezu was frightened. He was very angry and said that you were blackmailing him." Cheng Qianfan nodded and said.

"Hahaha." Pete laughed happily.

"I don't know if our luck is too good or too bad." Cheng Qianfan sat on the sofa, picked up Pete's cigarette box, popped out a cigarette, lit it, and took a slow puff.

"What do you mean?" Pete asked.

"Bad news." Cheng Qianfan said.

"kindness?"

"The warehouse of the Military Police Headquarters caught fire last night," said Cheng Qianfan.

"What?" Peter was shocked. "What about our goods?"

"There is another good news." Cheng Qianfan said, "The batch of goods that were seized by the military police happened to be in the warehouse that caught fire. All the goods were burned to ashes."

"PUTIN!" Pete's face changed. "How can this be considered good news? Our goods were burned, and you actually said this is good..."

As he said this, Pete was stunned. He just stared at Cheng Qianfan.

Then, Pete reacted and couldn't help laughing, "Well done, well done, it's really good news."

……

"I told Umezumi Sasagami." Cheng Qianfan chuckled and said, "They are lucky. They got the cargo list before you found out that the cargo was burned. Otherwise, with Captain Pete's greed, it would not be a matter of 200,000 silver dollars."

"Who are you calling greedy?" Pete was unhappy when he heard this, he yelled, then Pete rolled his eyes, "Yeah, you have a point."

He said to Cheng Qianfan, "What do you think if I make another list of goods and say that our goods are worth three hundred thousand silver dollars?"

"Don't be too greedy. Be careful of getting shot." Cheng Qianfan glared at Pete and said, "Also, this is your cargo. Don't make any mistake about it."

"What a shame, what a shame." Pete shook his head and sighed, "If I had known earlier that their warehouse was on fire, what a shame, what a shame."

"Okay, I'm here to tell you about this. As for how to negotiate with the Japanese gendarmerie and claim compensation from them, it's up to you." Cheng Qianfan picked up the police hat on the table, "Boss Jin is looking for me, I'll go over."

"You ordered the closure of Zhang Xiaolin's gambling den and salt house. The authorities have been receiving calls constantly in the past two days and it's a headache for them," Pete reminded.

"Got it." Cheng Qianfan nodded. He knew that Pete was reminding him why Jin Kemu might be looking for him.

……

"Uncle Jin, are you looking for me?" Cheng Qianfan walked into Jin Kemu's office leisurely. He picked up a snuff bottle on Jin Kemu's desk and looked at it with interest.

"Director Sarath called personally." Jin Kemu glanced at Cheng Qianfan and said, "I'm under a lot of pressure too. Let's release him in a while."

"It seems that Mr. Jin is under a lot of pressure." Cheng Qianfan put down the snuff bottle, and raised a sarcastic arc at the corner of his mouth, "Is this still my Uncle Jin who hates pressing films?"

The problem of the proliferation of pressed films in Shanghai can be said to be long-standing and deeply rooted.

"Shanghai's salt houses are the best in the world, with elegant and clean furnishings, and exquisite tea bowls and lamp trays. The Mianyun Pavilion is the most famous, with hangings and carvings on the windows. Others, such as Nanchengxin and Beichengxin, are famous for their spacious pavilions, and Zuileju and Yonghengchang are famous for their convenient wine and food... At midnight, the two markets come and go on time with the tide, and the smell of people and smoke is as hazy as fog... The smoke is like miasma, the smoke is as poisonous as snakes, and it kills people like hemp..."

This is a passage from Ge Yuanxu's "Miscellaneous Notes on Shanghai Travels" in the Qing Dynasty.

The word "the best in the world" is very shocking. As the most prosperous metropolis in the Far East, it is famous for its salt houses.

Salt houses have even become a symbol of the most upscale places in Shanghai. Some have exquisite interior decorations, some have spacious business premises, and some serve excellent food and wine. Each salt house has its own characteristics.

……

In April of the 14th year of the Republic of China, the French Concession negotiated with Du Yongsheng. The French side proposed that the other party pay 35,000 yuan in "hush money" to allow them to open five tablet pressing shops and a warehouse, but Du insisted on paying after ten days of trial operation.

At the beginning of June, the two sides reached an agreement. Du Yongsheng promised to pay the French side 140,000 yuan in one lump sum after three months of operation, and then pay 80,000 yuan per month. The cost of unloading a box of pressed tablets from the warehouse was 250 yuan, and a salt shop paid 500 yuan per month.

From then on, the license plate numbers of Sanxin Company's tablet-pressing trucks were handed over to the French Concession Police Station in advance, and the Chinese police in the French Concession Police Station were controlled by Huang Jingrong.

The Chief of Police of the French Concession Police Station could receive a monthly kickback of 2% of the profits from film production.

At the same time, Du Yongsheng became the Chinese director of the Municipal Council.

In this way, Du Yongsheng reached a "win-win" situation with the French Concession and the International Settlement authorities.

Over time, the police system of the concession was gradually infiltrated by the film-pressing trade.

In the 20th year of the Republic of China, the new consul of the French Concession authorities was dissatisfied with the 300,000 yuan "allowance" provided by his predecessors Du Yongsheng, Huang Jingrong, Zhang Xiaolin and others. He demanded an increase in the benefits and threatened to ban drugs.

Under such circumstances, the Green Gang took a different approach, and the Nationalist government's Shanghai Special Mayor Wu Tieyi allowed the Sanxin Company to move into the Chinese area.

The following year, under the protection of the Ministry of Finance of the National Government, Sanxin Company reopened in Taiping Lane, Nanshi in another form, paying 200,000 yuan to the local and central governments every month.

The Nanjing government's Anti-Opium Bureau gave the seized tablets to Du Yongsheng to purify into morphine, heroin and red pills. As a result, the Kuomintang government could make a profit of 50,000 US dollars a day, and this money was directly turned into military expenses for the Kuomintang to suppress the Red Army, and turned into airplanes, cannons and bullets.

Du Yongsheng even later became a member of the Shanghai Anti-Smoking Committee.

Many core members of the Green Gang have also joined the anti-smoking management circle.

The smoking ban in Shanghai has become a joke.

In fact, the French Concession now openly prohibits the trade of pressed films, but there are countermeasures to every policy. Du Yongsheng fled to Hong Kong Island, Huang Jingrong closed his door to visitors, and Zhang Xiaolin defected to the Japanese and expanded his influence. He also bribed senior police officers and directors of the French Concession authorities and opened a salt house in the French Concession under the name of "traditional Chinese medicine health care."

And this director Sarat was one of Zhang Xiaolin's backers who was bribed by the senior authorities in the French Concession. According to Cheng Qianfan's secret investigation, this person could receive a bribe of about 5,000 silver dollars from Zhang Xiaolin every month.

The most important thing is that Zhang Xiaolin expanded the salt houses in Shanghai on a large scale, and he received strong support from the Japanese. The Japanese and Zhang Xiaolin divided the profits, which not only allowed them to make a lot of money, but also to make films to poison the Chinese people.

Jin Kemu, who has patriotic feelings, has always hated this.

……

"Don't be so sarcastic." Jin Kemu glared at Cheng Qianfan, "Let him go if I tell you to."

"Okay, Uncle Jin, since you have spoken, I will let them go. Let them go." Cheng Qianfan chuckled.

Seeing that Cheng Qianfan understood what he meant, Jin Kemu said unhappily, "Young people are so impetuous. Use your brain before doing anything."

"Yes, yes, yes." Cheng Qianfan stepped forward and massaged Jin Kemu's shoulders. "You are a very shrewd and cunning old man. Qianfan still has a lot to learn."

"You little bastard." Jin Kemu cursed angrily.

……

"Chief, these are the confessions of the guards on duty that night, including Takahashi Kiyono, Kita Kintaro, Bando Kazuya, and Nagasaka Kazuo." Shinichiro Suganuma, chief of the detective section of the inspection room of the gendarmerie headquarters, handed a stack of documents to Kenjiro Kitani.

"Is there anything unusual?" asked Kenjiro Kitani.

"Nothing unusual has been found so far," said Suganuma Shinichiro. "The guards on duty at the warehouse were not paying attention to the inside, and the fire started from inside the warehouse. Objectively speaking, the guards were dedicated to their duties and did not find any problems."

"But..." Suganuma Shinichiro said thoughtfully.

"But what?" Kitani Kenjiro asked immediately.

"There is a situation." Suganuma Shinichiro said, "Sugimoto Yoshiki was supposed to be on duty that night, but he was not feeling well, so he asked Sergeant Takahashi Kiyono to take his place."

"Feeling unwell?" Kitani Kenjiro frowned. "Have you checked this with Sugimoto Yoshiki?"

"Hello." Suganuma Shinichiro nodded, "I have already questioned Sugimoto Yoshiki. According to him, he had a stomachache and diarrhea last night. We had no choice but to ask Takahashi Kiyono to take over the guard duty."

"Diarrhea?" Kitani Kenjiro pondered, "How could it be such a coincidence? Sugimoto Yoshiki asked someone to take his place, and then the warehouse caught fire that night?"

"Does the room chief suspect Sugimoto Yoshiki?" Shinichiro Suganuma asked.

"No, I suspect everyone involved." Kitani Kenjiro said, "Yoshiki Sugimoto is not feeling well. Has he taken any medicine? Has he gone to the medical room for treatment? We need to continue investigating all of this, down to every detail."

"Hay."

"Also, we need to investigate Takahashi Kiyono who was filling in for Sugimoto Yoshiki," Kitani Kenjiro said thoughtfully. "We need to investigate his relationship with Sugimoto Yoshiki. Why didn't Sugimoto Yoshiki find someone else to fill in for him, but Takahashi Kiyono?"

"Hai." Suganuma Shinichiro nodded, then asked doubtfully, "Does the chief suspect that there is something wrong with our soldiers?"

"We'll know if there's any problem once we check it out." Kitani Kenjiro shook his head. "If we check it out, it will be a form of protection for these soldiers."

He said with a serious expression, "The warehouse caught fire, and it was a strange fire. This is a serious matter. We must first conduct a self-examination. Only by eliminating possible internal problems can the gendarmerie avoid greater trouble."

"Hay."

……

"Has Mr. Sakami come back?" Kitani Kenjiro asked, "Didn't he go to Cheng Qianfan in the French Concession to get the cargo list?"

"Not yet." Shinichiro Suganuma shook his head and said.

At this time, the guard came in and reported, "Chief, Lieutenant Colonel Umezumi Saejo is back, and he has something to report to you."

"Yoshi." Kitani Kenjiro smiled, stretched his body, and leaned back on the chair. "Sagami-kun was eager to see me as soon as he came back. It seems that Sagami-kun has made a new discovery."

"Finally, there is good news." He said with a smile, "Please come in, Mr. Sakami."

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