After Araki Oi came to Shanghai, although he won a windfall from Dai Zhenwu by playing marbles, there was no breakthrough in the labor business.

After all, compared with the abject poverty of northern China, Shanghai and its surrounding Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are in much better economic condition. In particular, the existence of Shanghai, an international metropolis, has given the poor people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang a place to live. As long as you are willing to endure hardships and make efforts, you can always find a bowl of food in Shanghai, an international metropolis, and you don't have to leave your hometown in order to survive, like the poor people in northern China such as Shandong, Hebei, etc., who have to leave their hometowns and take their families to Kanto.

Therefore, even if Araki Oi was skillful, he did not recruit a few laborers. After all, as long as you can find a bite to eat here, who wants to leave the Jiangnan region with a warm climate and go to the icy and snowy customs to make a living?

Just this afternoon, Araki Oi received a telegram from Masahiko from Tianjin. In the telegram, Masahiko scolded Araki Oi in a loud voice, and warned him that if he could not recruit a group of laborers to send him back within half a month, he would consider transferring him back to Tianjin and sending others over to take over the work of the labor agency.

Although Araki Oi has only been in Shanghai for less than 20 days, he has already fallen in love with life in the largest international city in the Far East. Not to mention anything else, in Tianjin's pachinko room, there are not so many people like Dai Zhenwu for him to harvest, not to mention that after returning to Tianjin, he has to report to Gansu Masahiko every day, and listen to Gansu Masahiko to assign tasks.

Therefore, Araki Oi was so enthusiastic when he met Lin Jiangbei's dung head at this time, especially when he heard that Lin Jiangbei's subordinates would have a group of fellow villagers come over, he looked at Lin Jiangbei like his father, and said that he was reluctant to let Lin Jiangbei go, and he must pull Lin Jiangbei to his apartment to talk about business cooperation.

Seeing Araki Oi's warm invitation, Lin Jiangbei took the shelf instead, "Director Araki, I have just inspected half of this business, so it's not good to give up halfway." Why don't you let me continue the inspection today, and wait until tomorrow, when we make an appointment to talk about your business, Mr. Araki? ”

"Xu Sang, when can't your business be investigated, do you have to put it now?" How could Araki Oi easily let Lin Jiangbei go, he grabbed Lin Jiangbei's arm and said: "It's my business, you missed this village, but there is no such shop." Why don't we strike while the iron is hot, and go to my apartment now and have a good talk!" ”

Lin Jiangbei couldn't help but look at Araki Oi with admiration. He really didn't expect that Araki Oi would be so familiar with Chinese proverbs, although the usage is not very correct and seems a little nondescript, but at least Araki Oi is very proficient in speaking these proverbs, and there is no trace of stuckness.

The point is that Araki Oi would give up his usual "reserved" habit and pull his arm stiffly. I complained that Masahiko Gan would send him to Shanghai to take charge of the labor agency, and judging from Araki Oi's actions alone, if people who didn't know his details, they would definitely regard him as a regular broker in the Chinese business market.

"Alright then!" Lin Jiangbei had no choice but to reluctantly agree, and said to Araki Oi: "Since Director Araki has been kindly invited, if I refuse, it will be too bad to give Director Araki face." ”

Speaking of this, he waved his hand at Liu Xuan and said, "Lao Zhang, then you can go back first." I'm going to talk to Mr. Araki about some business cooperation. ”

When Liu Xuan saw Lin Jiangbei waving at him, his index finger and middle finger were tightly together, and he knew that Lin Jiangbei had made up his mind and decided to enable the second action plan, so he hurriedly responded, "Okay, boss, I'll go back!" ”

Araki Oi's labor agency is on the upper floor of the Toko Theater, and he himself lives in the same apartment building as Tanimura Natsukawa, so Lin Jiangbei naturally does not ignore this factor, and does not consider the possibility of being bumped into by Araki Oi when making plans.

Now that he had made up his mind to take advantage of the chaotic situation tonight to get rid of Tanimura Natsukawa, it was impossible for Lin Jiangbei to give up this situation that he had worked so hard to create just because of the appearance of Araki Oi.

So even if Araki Oi didn't invite him to the apartment to talk about business cooperation just now, Lin Jiangbei had to find a way to induce Araki Oi to invite him to talk, and then take the opportunity to get rid of Araki Oi. After all, if he let Araki Oi go, as long as the news of Tanimura Natsukawa's death was exposed afterwards, Araki Oi would think that he had seen Lin Jiangbei appear in this area tonight, so in this way, Lin Jiangbei would inevitably be listed as a target of suspicion by the Japanese secret services.

Therefore, in Lin Jiangbei's plan, as long as he bumps into Araki Oi, the action plan will automatically switch from plan 1 to plan 2, from only dealing with Tanimura Natsukawa alone to killing Araki Oi together.

Anyway, one is also buried, and two are also killed, and in addition to Tanimura Natsukawa, plus an Araki Oi, it's not much.

It's just that in Lin Jiangbei's prediction, when he deliberately mentioned that a group of fellow villagers wanted to come to Shanghai, Araki Oi might invite him to the office of the labor agency to discuss business cooperation, but he didn't expect that the final result would be in one step, and Araki Oi would directly invite him to his apartment to talk.

It's a lot easier now, Araki Oi's apartment is room 413, and it's only one floor wrong from the 507 where Tanimura Natsukawa lives, and it's not far away. At this distance, if something unexpected happened to Liu Xuan's side during the execution of the operation, it would be more convenient for him to respond, at least much more convenient than if he stood outside the apartment building.

Araki Oi saw that Lin Jiangbei had agreed to the invitation, and finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and hurriedly led the way in front of him, and led Lin Jiangbei into the alley opposite and came to the gate of the apartment building.

As Liu Xuan had previously investigated, there was a special Japanese gatekeeper guarding the door of this apartment building, and when he saw someone approaching, the Japanese gatekeeper stuck his head out of the guard's room, and when he saw clearly that it was Araki Oi, he hurriedly bowed to Araki Oi, "Your Excellency Araki, are you back?" ”

Araki Oi's nose twitched, and his eyes looked at the gatekeeper with a much stern look: "Shimada, you are secretly hiding in the guard's room and drinking again, aren't you?" ”

"Lord Araki, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" The gatekeeper Shimada suddenly bowed to ninety degrees, and sincerely pleaded guilty to Araki Oi.

Araki Oi's face softened slightly, and he said to the gatekeeper Shimada, "Shimada-kun, I'm not against you drinking. It's just that today's situation is special, the Yankee soldiers are making a big move on the other side of the Suzhou Creek, and they don't know what kind of fame they are doing, as a gatekeeper, you can't take it lightly, pay more attention to the movement outside! ”

"Hi Yi! Lord Araki, I see! Shimada replied respectfully.

Seeing that Shimada's attitude was quite sincere, Araki Oi bowed slightly, and then made a gesture of please towards Lin Jiangbei in the direction of the stairs, leading Lin Jiangbei upstairs.

Shimada saw that Araki Oi was quite respectful to Lin Jiangbei, so he naturally didn't dare to do much, and asked Lin Jiangbei's identity, and after Araki Oi and Lin Jiangbei's figures disappeared on the stairs, he retracted back to the guard room, hummed Japanese slang songs while holding the wine bottle, and continued to drink his Japanese sake.

As for Araki Oi's words telling him to pay more attention to the movement outside, he had already been thrown out of the clouds!