In other words, in Pu Su's view, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between crime and conspiracy in Shanghai today, because both of them have left the remnants of Shanghai's civil society to the ground.

Because Shanghai is a city rich in nightlife, hotels have become a prime target for both warring sides in the war of terror, especially for pro-Nanjing elements, who have combined extortion with terror.

During the Spring Festival of 1940, eight dance halls were bombed, five of which were simultaneously attacked within an hour of the night of January 25. They are Ciroth, MGM Ballroom, Fairy World, Emerald, Paramount, Lambeth Bar, Lambeth Lodge, and a hotel on Edoya Road near Maho Road.

Most of the bombs were "disrupted", made with phosphorus or gasoline, but the shards of glass that flew up when the Ciros exploded hit the son of a Chinese police officer in the Public Concession, killing him.

As usual, the police investigated and pursued pro-Nanjing elements, while the terrorists easily fled to the safety of their homes in the land or to 76 Jisifeier Road, and regular police were not allowed to enter the Japanese's shelter.

Now, 76 Extreme Fil Road has a new owner. Due to the long-term feud between Zhou Huhai and Li Shiqun in the Wang puppet regime, the latter gave up the post of head of the secret service headquarters in January 1940 and gave it to Wu Shibao. In Wang Weiwei's secret secret service agency, Li Shiqun was still a powerful figure, serving as Nanjing's police minister. Ting Mo Chuen was appointed Minister of Social Affairs. But these two no longer directly run No. 76.

The formal "Shanghai Special Municipal Police Department" was reorganized into the "Shanghai Municipal Police Department" and placed more directly under the control of the new mayor. When Chen Zhibo cracked down on the illegal industry, Wu Shibao, the head of "No. 76", who was known as the "extortion king", was in some ways more difficult to control than Li Shiqun.

In early March 1940, Mayor Chen ordered the seizure of all casinos in the land. However, at least four large entertainment halls continue to open their doors. The owners of the four casinos "knew" Wu Shibao and the Japanese gendarmerie because they had to pay 12,000 yuan a day to the "East Asian Charity Association" (located at No. 25, Lane 1032, Yuyuan Road), and the head of this association was a veteran Japanese police officer.

Wu Shibao turned around and told the Chinese police chief, Colonel Lu Ying, that any attempt by the city government to shut down the casino would lead to an unhappy ending. He asked Colonel Lu Ying to explain to Mayor Chen that the casino owners had weapons in the Chinese club, and that if the city government wanted to seal them, they planned to put up armed resistance. And in the background is the Japanese gendarmerie.

Chen still wants them to close the casino. However, the owners of the entertainment hall increased their protection fee to 15,000 yuan per day to ensure that the Japanese would provide armed support to the armed personnel of the puppet regime in the event of a conflict with the Chinese municipal government.

At the same time, other illicit industries flourished in the occupied Shangjiao. Prostitution continued to grow, so much so that Wang's puppet government eventually lifted the ban on prostitution, leaving Shanghai full of unlicensed pheasants. The drug trade is also thriving, with similar patterns occurring across the country and in Shanghai.

After the Japanese occupation of Nanjing in 1937, the Japanese secret services began to implement the "narcotics" policy, which, if fully implemented, could generate 300 million yuan in annual revenue. A Chinese peddler with a pistol worked for a Japanese narcotics dealer and sold a packet of heroin for only five cents.

Two years later, it is said that 42 opium parlors in Shanghai were legally operated with the permission of the Japanese and the city authorities. The condition is that a certain protection fee must be paid.

By May or June 1939, the casinos and opium parlors in the land had become the main source of revenue for the puppet Nanjing government. About 3.74 million yuan per month were collected from improper industries, of which 750,000 yuan went to the Nanjing treasury in the name of "special tax." Smaller quantities are given to local administrators.

For example, two officials are said to collect 50,000 yuan a month from a casino run by foreigners. The Six Nations Club on Hagrid Road pays more than 10,000 yuan a day, the United Overseas Chinese Association pays 3,000 yuan, the Chinese Association pays 3,000 yuan, and Evan Tai also pays 3,000 yuan. Journalists estimate that these tributes amount to 50 percent of the casino's total revenue.

At the same time, however, the Japanese government in Tokyo was concerned about the situation of crime, drugs, and other illicit industries in the area controlled by the Nanking regime in Shanghai. An editorial in Tokyo's Asahi argued that the most effective way to strengthen the regime in Nanking was to remove China's long-standing ills, including gambling and opium tobacco, and urged the Japanese authorities to force Wang to implement these reforms.

After that, Japanese politicians began to talk about ways to "strengthen" Nanjing. As a result, Ambassador Kumataro Honda, upon his return to Tokyo, openly urged support for the puppet government. As a result of this turmoil, the Japanese increased the pressure on Wang Weiwei, and during his visit to Tokyo in June, he swept away some of Shanghai's excessively improper business spots.

Even before leaving for Japan, Wang Wei had ordered Pan Zhijie, the head of the Huxi Special Police Headquarters, to close all casinos between May 31 and June 2. Mayor Chen privately supported the decision. In any case, Wu Shibao, the head of the secret service headquarters, managed to thwart Wang Jingwei's plan.

Deng Zuyu, Nanjing's deputy police minister, went to Shanghai to inspect the work, and Wu Shibao warmly welcomed him, including spending the night in a nightclub that had just been opened by a European gambling owner. Here, the casino manager reopened the roulette wheel downstairs, while the upstairs played "che-de fer" card gambling and slot machines.

The next day, when Pan Zhijie received news that the casino had reopened, he quickly agreed to punish those responsible. Five days later, he personally led a raid on Evan Tai and Yuelai Bar. But other nearby entertainment venues that operate with great fanfare have not been harassed at all.

In addition, only some gambling equipment was confiscated, while the casino itself was not forced to close. It is reported that a new large entertainment hall has just opened on Columbia Road, one of the best residential areas in Shanghai.

Even so, the fake newspaper Shanghai still inexplicably claimed that Mayor Chen had won the anti-gambling battle. It said that on May 31, all Chinese-run casinos were closed down and "never to reopen"; Pan Zhijie has permanently closed the entertainment halls opened by outsiders in western Shanghai, and at the same time has taken action against the popular "flower club" gambling group.

As a result, the area once discredited as "bad land" has been reinstated as a 'good land' – an ideal residential area with high-end roads, and a variety of special districts with growing industries......

The Nationalist Government tried to use Wang's puppet regime to connive at Shanghai's large-scale unfair industries to achieve the greatest propaganda effect. Previously, Chang Kaishen personally wrote for the poster industry, which criticized the puppet government and called for war on gambling and opium. Mayor Chen then insisted on closing down the foreigner-owned casinos in the concession (which at the time were only run by the French, a money-swindling gambling machine), and supported the efforts of the regular Chinese police to take over the local businesses.

Later, General Lu Ying, the head of the Shanghai Special City Police Station, headquartered in Nanshi, finally seized Pan Zhijie's control of the land. General Lu sent his deputy to the Huxi Special Police Headquarters with instructions to serve as a liaison officer between Pan Zhijie and the city police.

After the defeat in the secret agent war of 1939, Daley's military command began to regain its position in Shanghai, and the "undercover work" developed significantly, and in the winter of 1938 and the following spring, the horrors tended to converge.

On January 20, 1940, Dong Yu, a famous lawyer, was shot four times when he was rushing to work in a small car. Prior to that, in November, he played a considerable role in the transfer of the Second District Court of the French Concession to Wang Ching-wei's regime.

On January 25, a Chinese gunman tried to kill Masazo Kotsu, the Japanese manager of Nihwa Textile Co., Ltd., as he was walking down Robertson Road. But the agent got stuck after firing a shot, and the manager was able to escape.

On February 16, Duan Luchen, a former executive director of the Nanjing "Ethics Association", was wounded by a gunman while drinking morning tea at a restaurant in Wufulou on Minti Niyin Road.

On Feb. 25, several Chinese agents killed an unappointed Japanese official and wounded a Japanese official. A few hours later, a third Japanese official was shot. Soon, a Chinese gunman seriously injured a Chinese working in a factory linked to a pseudo-police officer.

On February 26, one Japanese soldier was killed and another wounded. And there was a Japanese sailor who was attacked by gunmen in broad daylight. That night, when Wang Yong, a puppet policeman, left Pujiadu's home, a Chinese agent shot him several times in the abdomen.

On March 12, the 23-year-old son of a collaborator banker and his Japanese wife, Wu Xiao'an, was kidnapped while leaving the Evan Tai nightclub on Yuyuan Road. On March 14, assassins attacked two Wang puppet officials in Gangtu, killing one and wounding the other.

On March 16, Sheng Shouchen, the head of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui Unified Taxation Bureau, was shot and knocked down by six armed Chinese agents in a car in the alley in front of his home on Yuyuan Road. On March 17, Pan Zhidong, the captain of Wang Wei's guards, was shot in the neck on Aiwenyi Road

。 On March 30, a young Chinese man fired two shots in the chest of Shen Zhizhi, an official at the Shanghai tax bureau.

On April 9, Chinese gunmen killed one Japanese military police and wounded another in Yangshupu, north of Suzhou, Hebei.

On April 12, two Chinese assassins killed two corporals of the Japanese gendarmerie in Yangshupu. On April 15, Chen Huhui, an employee of the Inland Revenue Department, was injured by a Chinese agent while waiting for a bus.

On the same day, a Chinese gunman shot a Japanese Marine sentry in the abdomen by the Xinzha Bridge. On the 17th, Guo Ziyuan, a police officer in Qiannan City and now working for Wang's puppet regime, was shot and killed at the corner of Yuyuan Road and Aidoya Road.

The targets of these nationalist assassinations were almost exclusively Japanese soldiers and sailors, often Chinese on duty at Japanese sentry posts and collaborating with the enemy, and generally for the police, tax authorities, or Japanese and Chinese companies supported by the occupation forces. As many of the attacks were successful, few of the military commanders were captured, and most of them fled into the public concession afterwards.

However, the KMT's "latent work" was not without challenge. Their former opponents who had worked for the Nanking regime in the spy campaign were concentrated in three highly competitive arenas: newspapers, courts, and banks.

In November 1937, as soon as the Japanese defeated the Chinese defenders in Shanghai, they took over the Kuomintang press office in the Public Concession and declared that all Chinese newspapers would be censored.

In order to avoid the face-saving submission of the Japanese censors, many Chinese newspapers hired British and American citizens as publishers to register with the concession authorities as foreign publications.

The Declaration, for example, became a registered enterprise in the United States, ostensibly issued by U.S. lawyer Allman (X F Aln), who was also a member of the Bureau of the Department of Industry. As a result, the "Yangqi Daily" and its supplements became the most important forum for intellectuals to resist during the "isolated island" period.

Since Japan and its puppet government are unable to manipulate these "foreign newspapers" through censorship, they have resorted to terrorist activities.

From the beginning of February 1938, employees and editors of foreign-registered newspapers were threatened, such as Yuan Lunren of Eveng and Zhang Yixu, editor-in-chief of the Chinese edition of Eveng Post and Rcury, who received threatening letters, sometimes containing boxes containing dead people's severed hands.

In one way or another, Japan and its puppet government warned them either to stop their anti-Japanese activities or to face a terrible end.

Newspapers that refuse to close publication can be attacked with bombs or gunfire, as happened to Mr. Zhang. On July 16, 1939, while he was sitting in a German restaurant on Nanjing Road drinking coffee and eating sandwiches, gunmen employed by Wang's puppet regime and Japan suddenly rushed up and shot at Chinese who refused to cooperate with the "New East Asian Order" or who seemed hesitant to cooperate with such cooperation.

Foreign publications, which were considered critical of Japan's strategy, found grenades thrown in from windows. Almost every day, Randall Gould, the editor-in-chief of the American Evening News, receives threatening letters that will retaliate in various ways.

Shanghai's largest daily newspaper and the most powerful supporter of the anti-Japanese resistance in particular, the Declaration, became the target of their attacks. Its "publisher" Allman was one of seven foreign newspaper men threatened with "expulsion" from the puppet government in Nanjing, and the editor-in-chief, Zhu Yue, was shot and wounded by a terrorist in June 1939.

Two masked Japanese armed men also beat him in the apartment of Hallcti Abend, a New York Times reporter. Of the 83 educators, artists, writers, editors, and journalists blacklisted by Wang's puppet regime in February 1940, 10 were employees of the newspaper.

Each name on the blacklist is marked with "Dead". As a result, many went into hiding or went to Chongqing. One of the journalists on the blacklist later reported that he deliberately dropped off at the previous or second stop of his destination every morning when he went to work.

He also instructed his family what to do if he died at the hands of gangsters; Once he worked in the newspaper office, arranging newspapers inside the steel doors, and using the printing press protected by iron grilles, he was in a constant state of great uneasiness, wondering if he would be able to return home tonight.

Of all the publications attacked, the Declaration was the main target. The newspaper was bombed three times. The first atrocity occurred in January 1940, when three people threw four grenades, killing one and wounding 19. Among them was a Chinese patrol.

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