Now Li Wenjuan is in and out with Zheng Weizhi and White Russian bodyguards, and after Tong Chuan and Chenghua followed the boat to the base area, Yu Dabao was still arranged by Pu Su next door and lived in a simple place. At least you have to keep an absolutely reliable person of your own, who seems to have nothing to do with the fortress.

Although France itself is now in jeopardy, the Shanghai Concession in the Far East is indeed extremely prosperous. The business consortium led by the Russian Chamber of Commerce and the Foreign Commercial Bank has flourished because of the capital injection.

The Russians were originally a European empire, and their standards were not low in terms of commerce, technology, culture and art. It's just that with the change of the domestic political situation, these White Russians who were exiled to Shanghai have become stateless people. By the time they arrived in Shanghai, most of them were in abject poverty. Before Gu Ji took over, the life of the White Russians in the French Concession in Shanghai could not be described as indescribable.

In a way, these immigrants changed the food in Shanghai.

For example, in Shanghai, every family will make a "nostalgic Shanghai salad" during the New Year's holidays, in which the salad dressing is not a regular salad, but mayonnaise. The method is very simple, after the potatoes and green beans are cooked and cooled, add mayonnaise to the diced square leg meat and stir well, if you are particular about it, you can put it in the refrigerator to cool it for a better taste. This salad was actually brought by the White Russians, and there were many Russian restaurants in the area of Xiafei Road (Huaihai Road) back then, and the taste of these Russian restaurants was integrated into Shanghai and became part of the "Shanghai Western Cuisine".

In addition to Shanghai salad, there is also borscht. Borscht is almost the most popular Russian dish in China, and borscht is actually a transliteration of RSIAN by Shanghainese people in the past. Traditional Russian borscht (Бopщ) originated in Ukraine, mostly made with beetroot as the main ingredient, boiled with carrots, potatoes, beef, and cream, red, sweet and sour, and heavy.

Another dish is also the representative of Shanghai-style Western food, tonkatsu. Originating from Austrian tonkatsu, this dish is commonly found in Shanghai's many Shanghai-style Western restaurants, and is a large slice of fried noodles that is cut into long strips when cut, and the standard is spicy soy sauce. This dish has also become a taste memory for Shanghainese. Some restaurants in Beijing also have this pork cutlet, and when I eat it, the chef will emphasize to me that I use the yellow label spicy soy sauce produced in Shanghai, not the imported sauce.

However, among the more than 30,000 Belarusians in Shanghai, only a small number of people are engaged in freelance work and opening shops and doing business, and most of the rest are still engaged in unsophisticated occupations.

Except for those with guns, most of the others worked as waiters, janitors, cooks, and bar luthiers...... Some of the old and infirm could only play the violin and beg on the streets, and most of the music played was the work of Russian musicians such as Tchaikovsky and Romsky Kossakov, and sometimes Russian folk songs, such as "Volga Boatman's Song", which expressed their nostalgia for their homeland.

In addition to these professions, a considerable number of White Russian girls, most of whom were born in China after the October Revolution in Russia, also became prostitutes. At that time, prostitutes were not prohibited in the two concessions, and brothels could be opened as long as they applied for a license from the patrol house and paid taxes, so several Belarusian brothels were opened in the area of Ladu Road (now Xiangyang South Road) and Yaerpei Road (now Jianguo West Road) in the French Concession, the most famous of which was in Xiafeifang (now Huaihaifang) on Xiafei Road, which was closed after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and converted into a Russian-style Western restaurant.

Most of the clients who went to the brothel were European and American expatriates and foreign seafarers living in Shanghai. Those brothels are also divided into hierarchies, among which most of the ladies in the high brothels claim to be from noble families, and are the ladies of the family of so-and-so dukes, earls or barons, and the bustards in the brothels also claim to have noble status, such and such a countess or so-and-so baroness, etc. Regardless of whether these identities are true or not, the thought that he may have a spring breeze with a real aristocratic girl will be flocked to by many European men.

Before the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce in Alyosha, there was a White Russian underworld organization in Shanghai, called the Russian Federation, and its headquarters was on Fenyang Road. The head was Count Monsolov, a cavalry captain in the Imperial Russian era. In addition to controlling brothels and extorting protection money from the shops opened by the White Russians, this organization also attached itself to the "Inoue Mansion", a spy agency of the Japanese Black Dragon Society in Shanghai, to collect intelligence and sell arms for them, and to sell the old guns discarded by the Japanese army to various armed forces in the suburbs of Shanghai. This organization, including the leader, was wiped out by Pu Su in the previous gold case, except for a few acquaintances such as Scar, and the White Russian gangsters who took refuge in it, the others were all wiped out.

Like brothels all over the world, those White Russian brothels were originally controlled by the triad, but the difference is that the people who control the brothels are local White Russian underworld figures. After Gu Ji took over, he forcibly closed these places, and those White Russian women who were originally engaged in this profession gave them two choices. Either he intermarried with Alyosha's subordinates and received unified care as a family member, or he moved out of the French Concession and fended for his own way.

In the end, although a considerable number of White Russian women chose to leave the French Concession, many remained. Most of them are now women of good families. After all, for the vast majority of women, the choice of that path was a desperate choice.

Originally, most of these White Russians were scattered in the middle of the former French Concession, that is, the current Sinan Road and Ruijin 2nd Road extended westward to Fenyang Road and Yueyang Road, a large and narrow area. Gu Ji successively adjusted them and the Chinese residences, until now a complete closed community has been formed, which is conducive to management and is not easy to produce contradictions between the Chinese and the White Russians.

At that time, the overall atmosphere of Shanghai Tang was contemptuous of these deflated three, including Jews, Indians, and Annamite people. The pride of Shanghainese people has always been very superior, and they have even bullied them at every turn, which is completely different from what happened later.

In some high-end places in Shanghai, you can often see that the elevator drivers who drive the elevator are these so-called foreign nobles, nodding and groveling, and some women are still countesses and the like. Foreign aristocratic beauties are elevator drivers, even if they are put into the present, they are quite advanced.

In any case, later the Chinese saw more and more instigated foreigners on their own ground, and foreigners even enjoyed a lot of privileges, these are helpless facts. It's just that in recent years, the people's reflection on this phenomenon has become more and more in-depth, and indeed, it is time to change their thinking.

These White Russians used to be financially strained, and even if they had excellent business acumen, they could not do anything about it. In the past, when the gang was in control, they had no chance to save for business and expand after being exploited. And Gu Ji's purging of the gangsters is tantamount to squeezing most of the interests and assets that originally belonged to the White Russian collective in disguise, and subsidizing the original destitute White Russia.

In this way, White Russia, which was originally very bitter, at least had a basic guarantee. And the original average is barely maintained, and the original conditions are not bad, but they are also averaged, barely maintaining their livelihood.

At present, Pu Su's policy is that the businessmen within the scope of the chamber of commerce, as long as they operate the businesses he designates, the chamber of commerce will cooperate with the foreign trading house, let Li Wenjuan, the representative of the foreign trading house, contribute capital and sign a formal business contract. If there is no capital, the foreign commercial bank can advance the capital in advance. Such a form of cooperation was naturally very popular with those merchants, who had gone their separate ways when they fled from the capital, and many of their contacts had wandered around the world, and all the import business was just a matter of taking a telegram and asking about the market.

As for the documents for customs clearance, all documents are handed over to the Chamber of Commerce. Zheng Weizhi handed it over to Lao Ren, and Lao Ren did what he could do, and if he couldn't do it, he introduced the related person, and asked Li Wenjuan to take Zheng Weizhi and the bodyguard to bribe. So things went very well, and the Russians all felt hopeful, and everyone showed great enthusiasm.

At this time, only Pu Su felt the changes in the European battlefield. The majority of the Chinese people are indifferent to the situation in Europe as far away. thinks that it is so far away, and it has nothing to do with them. In fact, such a thing as war can affect the whole body, let alone a world war.

Therefore, he has begun to secretly let Lao Ren pay attention to the dynamics of No. 76, and take care that he must not offend the people of No. 76, especially anyone who represents Wang's puppet regime.

The reason why the hospital operation was not intercepted by the public concession was not because they were lucky or not discovered. It is impossible for patrols all over the concession not to follow their movements, and there are even many tails hanging behind them during the evacuation, all of which shows that the upper echelons of the concession are aware. Why didn't you use people like last time, maybe you also feel that you have hit a hard stubble.

Alyosha's well-trained combat effectiveness, as well as their loyalty and cooperation with each other, made the Public Concession feel that it was a regular armed force. And in Pu Su's conversation with Jonad, the other party also seemed to regard him as an armed force. Although the Americans had not yet made enemies with the Japanese at this time, they also sold them strategic materials such as steel and rubber. But that's just for business reasons, and ideologically, their political ideas are definitely biased in favor of the European countries, which are traditional allies.

Therefore, the authorities of the public concession are unwilling to clash with Pu Su and them again at this time for various purposes. First of all, once such an army is blocked, it can only represent an exchange of fire, and from the perspective of the opponent's combat effectiveness and command, casualties are inevitable. In a foreign concession, especially the current situation, it is unacceptable for the upper echelons of the public concession.

And although they inquired about the Nationalist government in Chongqing through channels, what came from there was an expected outright denial, completely denying that this team had nothing to do with them. But they also had their own intelligence network, and learned that that on the same night, a "legal" tobacco sales shop under the control of Wang's puppet regime was confiscated, and several "traitors" were executed, and their identities were made public and some leaflets were scattered at the scene. In their opinion, this information has proved from the side that this armed force is actually the identity of the guerrillas.

The purpose of sending the U.S. Wing that day was actually just to prepare for a siege because of the theft of the truck, and they encountered a different team than the one that was operating in Huxi. Apparently, the team was operating against the drug ship and the Green Gang, which was controlled by No. 76. Being able to launch two operations at the same time, and they are well organized, decisive in action, and extremely strong in combat, this can't be some rabble of bandits, how many bandits can take out two tanks, break through the barricades, break through the suppression of the encirclement on three sides, and still be able to walk away?

In fact, just because of a few trucks and the lives of a few Japanese, they fought with each other in a daze, not to mention the huge losses, and it became a joke in Shanghai and even the world. For this reason, the Ministry of Industry of the Concession has been severely questioned by the local Home Minister and the Prime Minister. They were warned not to get involved in the political situation between East Asian countries, and the best thing to do was to stay out of it.

So that night, after receiving the news that several trucks had reappeared in the jurisdiction, the Ministry of Industry Bureau asked the subordinates to exercise restraint and observe from a safe distance, so as not to let the other party have any misunderstanding.

The more this is the case in the concession, the more Pu Su feels that time is pressing. The current situation is actually in favor of the siloed pattern. The Japanese and Wang's puppet government were afraid of Westerners, so they couldn't reach here. Once the French Concession and the Public Concession could not withstand the pressure of the Japanese army and let them infiltrate, the situation for them reached a point where it could not be worse.

And all this that is about to happen, he obviously has a hunch, but he can only be powerless, all he can do is to try to put in place what should be deployed before this.

As the Belarusian community began to grow stronger in the French Concession. The first Belarusian newspaper appeared in April under the name "Russians in Shanghai", nominally run by the "Russian Chamber of Commerce", and then an Orthodox church was built in the fortress, which was still very large, and by the time the Belarusian community was able to support two Belarusian schools, there were already three Russian newspapers in circulation throughout Shanghai, as well as a special radio station.

Tens of thousands of Belarusians, there is nothing wrong with applying for a radio station. The radio station is called "Voice of Russia" and broadcasts radio in Russian around the clock. This is a very normal ethnic demand, and the French concession authorities, who uphold democracy and freedom, quickly recognized the legitimacy of the "Voice of Russia" radio station under the persuasion of the old Ren and the bribery of Li Wenjuan.

Newspapers are just a front piece. Of course, the publication of newspapers was of extraordinary significance to those White Russians. Originally, very few of these Belarusians knew English, so it was difficult to find decent jobs in Shanghai.

What's more, in the French Concession, foreigners are mainly French. They usually do not have access to newspapers, but now they have Russian-language newspapers, and they are very proud of them, and they are even more full of trust and gratitude for Alyosha and the "Russian Chamber of Commerce" they represent.

And the real purpose of Pusu is to establish a legal radio station!

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