On the 16th, all the newspapers in Shanghai reported on the front page that Yuchang Coal Company sold low-priced briquettes, and pointed out the key to it, which was a good deed made by Chen Mingxiang, general manager of Huatong Trading Company, with the joint support of the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy, the Military Police Headquarters, the Public Concession Industry Bureau, and the municipal government, and sincerely worked for the welfare of the people in Shanghai.

One side sells briquettes is in full swing, in the praise of the public slowly expand the market, Yuchang Coal Company is ready to open another 50 briquette shops, must be completed in November, the new shops, 30 in the public concession, 20 in the French concession, 10 in Nanshi.

Chen Mingxiang has no problem with his funds, he has the Shanghai branch of the China Reserve Bank as the backing, and he has no problem with how much he wants to lend, and there is no problem with people.

They couldn't imagine that Chen Mingxiang's operation method would be so simple, closing hundreds of briquette shops in Shanghai, gritting his teeth and holding on, waiting for the chaos in the Shanghai coal market to clean up the mess.

Three days later, the freighter transported tens of thousands of tons of coal to Shanghai, where it was transported to the charcoal yards of five briquette factories for storage, and the briquette factories also resounded with the roar of machines, adding thousands of jobs to Shanghai.

"Do you feel that our direct station, busy with these people's biological resources all day long, is a bit out of business?" Chen Mingxiang sat in the living room of his home, smoking a cigarette and said.

Since the end of the Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi in September, the Japanese army in central China has not taken any military action, and the two sides are still in a stalemate, which has put the intelligence gathering work into a situation where it is not working.

If the Japanese army does not launch a campaign, there will be no major military intelligence, and even if it is the intelligence work in Shanghai, there will be no bright spots during this period, and the operation corps stationed in Shanghai by the bureau headquarters has been cracked, and basically there is only a relatively large combat unit left directly under the station.

But the people directly under the station were successively assigned to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, North China and Guanwai regions, and only a few people remained in the urban area, and in such a situation, they inevitably had impetuous emotions.

"I'm also worried that Boss Dai will have ideas, the four intelligence departments have not been established for a long time, and the degree of infiltration is not enough so far, and there are no achievements, everyone can't just rely on the credit of you, the stationmaster, to eat the old book, right?" Wang Zhen smiled and said.

On the one hand, she is thinking about this guy, and on the other hand, she is also worried about the direct station, the resources given to the station by the bureau headquarters far exceed those of the A station, and even the establishment of the score zone is higher, and the level of trust is unprecedented, all of which comes from Chen Mingxiang.

Up to now, the four intelligence departments of the direct station have not done an inch, and she herself is not in a hurry, but she is afraid that Boss Dai will be in a hurry, and in the final analysis, she is still worried that Chen Mingxiang will be affected.

"Your concept of an agent is one-sided, and the work we are doing now is also one of the functions of the agent, and the military is important, but the economic aspect is equally important. No one can say how many more years the war will last, and all the soldiers who defend their homeland must be patient enough. ”

"The station is using the resources of the Japanese to seek opportunities for its compatriots to survive, such as coal, to solve the problem of survival for the people in Shanghai, such as salt, how many families in central China will be saved from the threat of salt shortage?"

"From the beginning of the 29th year of the Republic of China to the present, my Huatong Trading Company has delivered hundreds of millions of yuan or even hundreds of millions of important materials to the national control area, including grain, cloth, cotton yarn, medicines, hardware tools and tires, etc., which are all necessities urgently needed by the people's livelihood."

"I dare say that all this we do carries as much weight in the hearts of the committee as strategic intelligence, the government needs an economic foundation for its rule, and the purpose of smuggling is not to make a profit."

"We are responsible for the financial operation of the bureau headquarters, and with us, the more than 40,000 members of the Military Command Bureau can work with peace of mind. In this regard, all the staff of the direct station should be proud! Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.

An agent of his level has surpassed the identity of a strategic agent, because he is the leader of the same type A station or sub-district chief, a heavyweight leader, and to the Military Command Bureau, he is a feudal official, and there are few local stations that can be compared with him.

With the change of identity and position, his vision has gradually changed, and his vision is different from before, and he can look at problems from a certain height.

The many contributions made in the early stage are too dazzling, and if you want to make great contributions again in the later stage, the difficulty is not ordinarily high.

Chen Mingxiang has never doubted Boss Dai's ability, North China and the Guanwai region are almost blank areas, and the heels of the two intelligence departments have not yet stood firm, how easy is it to make achievements? If he didn't even have this patience, Boss Dai would not be at the helm of the Military Unification Bureau.

"I think that it is not only the personnel in the station who have an impetuous mentality, but also the personnel of the four intelligence departments who have this problem, everyone is a little anxious, a little unable to find the direction, in such a situation, it is easy to make low-level mistakes." Wang Zhen said.

"The current situation is not the same as before, since the outbreak of the Pacific War, the strength of the Japanese army has been severely limited, most of the military operations are in North China, they are consolidating their own occupation areas, implementing the three-light policy against the underground party base areas in the heartland, and the mountain city government, which has a heavy concentration of troops and has an advantageous terrain, is not capable of carrying out a major campaign."

"Therefore, I judge that in a short period of time, this pattern will be maintained, even if the military operation will not be too large-scale, everything depends on the changes in the war of the Japanese army in the South Seas, the two sides have temporarily maintained a balance, which side the balance is tilted on, depends on the degree of pressure from external forces."

"No matter how important the intelligence is, it also comes from the foundation laid by long-term accumulation, and the intelligence departments of the directly subordinate stations first of all do not give up monitoring the daily words and deeds of the Japanese army and the puppet army, which is the most basic work, and the first and second places are particularly important, they are close to the national control area."

"The second is to target the traitors and spies in the occupied areas, and start to clear the obstacles that threaten them, just like I eradicated Kojima Nariko."

"Wait patiently, probe cautiously, make careful arrangements, sink yourself and your subordinates to the bottom, don't float on the water, and integrate with the surrounding environment, especially the Customs Foreign Intelligence Office and the North China Intelligence Office."

"All departments of the direct station try to reduce assassinations as much as possible, focusing on rebellion and inducement, you pass on my words to the direct agency and the four intelligence departments, this is the guiding direction of the work, be careful, remember!" Chen Mingxiang said.