The Shanghai Yuchang Coal Company suddenly released a notice board to change the sale of briquettes to the sale of coal, and stipulated that each household could buy a load of coal every month, sell coal in January at the end of December, sell coal in February at the end of January, close for rest during the Spring Festival, and the people would be responsible for shaking briquettes when they bought them home.

The whole Shanghai market was turned upside down by Chen Mingxiang's move, and the last time he dug three feet into the public concession to arrest people, the impact was certainly not as big as it is now, and it was lively in the hearts of the citizens, but after all, coal was related to vital interests, and the relief activities he presided over made him famous.

If anyone treats Chen Mingxiang as a traitor, the citizens of Shanghai will not agree, and such a good deed is also called a traitor, blind?

Thirty yuan and one hundred catties of coal, this is obviously cheap, if a load of coal changes the proportion, the maximum can be two loads of briquettes, although the firepower is not enough, but it can barely hold on, nothing more than to spend more time cooking.

There are a total of 60 briquette shops in the Public Concession, the French Concession and Nanshi, and even this cannot sell all 50,000 tons of coal in a short period of time, and the stores are all in densely populated areas, and there is no place to store coal.

But Chen Mingxiang had an idea, he divided the three areas into 60 distribution points, each point by the chief of the Bao and the number of the first count, the Huatong Trading Company's transport trucks will transport the coal to the designated place, there is a special person to watch the scales to collect money, in this way, the speed is much faster.

"Chen Mingxiang, a bastard who lacks virtue and smokes, can actually come up with such a way, I greet his ancestors for eighteen generations! This is destroying the rules of the coal industry, turning the sale of briquettes into selling coal, and in this way, the market is completely chaotic! ”

"Even if we open the door to do business now, a load of briquettes must not be less than 35 yuan, the delay is too long, and the cost is getting higher and higher. It's good that he dares to sell a load of coal for thirty yuan, which is to force us to die! "Boss Zheng of Nanyang United Coal was anxious.

"In addition to the stored briquettes, each coal company has also hoarded coal for at least five months, and our working capital is all pressed on it, for this coal price increase, many of us also borrowed money from the bank, and borrowed money from the bank, which is really unbearable, President Hirano, you have to think of a way for everyone!" Boss Zhao of Guohua United Coal said.

Hoarding is to pressure funds, this is the simplest common sense, people who have no money can not afford to hoard goods, the interests are large and the risk is high, often some speculative businessmen, die on this.

This group of local coal merchants in Shanghai, who were engaged in monopoly and difficult to make money in the country, did not see the situation clearly, and followed those Japanese coal merchants to squeeze Chen Mingxiang to death.

But Chen Mingxiang doesn't consider the problem of funds, there are funds from the Xingya Institute behind him, and funds from the municipal government, and the money from the Central Savings Bank can be called at any time, is he still afraid of this means?

"To be honest, the financial pressure of our imperial merchants is even greater, and they have also borrowed a large amount of funds from other trading companies, it is not possible to go on like this, Chen Mingxiang has subsidies in various aspects, and he is also making money by selling coal, and we will appeal to the imperial government to end this situation." President Hirano said.

Japanese coal merchants also felt uncomfortable, their hoarding of coal was calculated according to the coal used in the entire Shanghai market, but they did not expect Chen Mingxiang to suddenly intervene, resulting in no sales for several months, and tens of millions of dollars a month were consumed, and they could not afford it.

Chen Mingxiang stood on the third floor of Yunhua Restaurant, looking at the lively scene of a briquette shop in the distance, and felt a little better.

"Comrade Mingxiang, I just received a reply message from the headquarters, and the higher-level leaders are grateful for the important information you provided, as for Kunyu, it will be a few days late to withdraw to the Guannai."

"Because according to the information you provided, the guerrilla detachment that infiltrated the territory of the puppet Manchurian has encountered a great threat, but the underground party organization in Bingcheng is really short of manpower, so she went to the mountains to contact the guerrilla detachment." Zheng Tonghui said.

The underground party has always been frank and honest with its friends and comrades, and it has not deliberately concealed it.

Chen Mingxiang is very familiar with the situation outside the Guan, and he should know that Lu Kunyu will not receive such a task unless it is a last resort.

"I also know a little bit about the environment near Xiaoqingshan, in fact, Beiman is mountainous and forested, roughly about the same, the difficulty of this mission is very high, I heard that it has snowed heavily for several days in a row, the roads are covered, and it is possible to continue, this situation is very dangerous for her girl's family." Chen Mingxiang said helplessly.

The path was chosen by the little junior sister herself, since she made her choice, she had to bear all the consequences for her decision, and Chen Mingxiang himself didn't know if he could survive until the day of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

He understood the situation outside the Guan, if he had been ordered to lurk in the puppet Manchukuo, it was estimated that it would be difficult to achieve the current situation, and the water in Central China was mixed, so he would be able to fish in troubled waters, and the water outside the Guanxi was too clear, and it was almost impossible to show his strength in this environment, and he would pay a heavy price for despising the enemy.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Wei Dasheng walked out of a ravine in Xiaoqingshan, with a smug expression on his face, lit a cigarette as he walked, and the people from the headquarters of the secret service and the special high section of the gendarmerie hidden in the woods immediately walked out.

"Taijun, I have obtained their code book, and I also know where they are hiding, go down the ravine, I have made a mark on the tree, the imperial army will soon be able to find them, here is a camp left by the former underground party army, that is, some broken wooden houses." Wei Dasheng nodded and said.

"Wei Sang, do a good job, promise you the position and reward, when the guerrilla detachment is exterminated, it will be fulfilled immediately, I will immediately send a report to the Kwantung Army, outflank the gendarmerie from the Ma'anshan area at the same time, it is better to end the battle before it snows heavily, otherwise it will be very troublesome!" Said the head of the operations team of the special high class.

"I also found traps and traps just now, it is estimated that there are hunters catching rabbits and wild boars, and the imperial army should be careful when entering the mountains, so as not to be injured by mistake." Wei Dasheng said.

Soon, the Binjiang Provincial Security Bureau in Bingcheng received a telegram that the military police and police units that had arrived in Xinmin Town began to act at the same time as the Kwantung Army field troops that had rushed to the Ma'anshan area.

In the office of the security chief, Major General Kato Hajiro and Major General Yanagida Motozo sat opposite each other, each smoking and drinking tea, and no one was too lazy to deal with anyone, Takeda Gong looked at these two people, and could only pretend not to see them.

After returning to Bingcheng from Shanghai, the military police and police units began to move, and the field troops of the Kwantung Army also moved from Bayan and Mulan to the area around Ma'anshan, forming a semi-encircled formation.

The military police command meant that it would directly send troops to follow Wei Dasheng from a long distance and go directly to Xiaoqingshan to wait for the attack, which had the advantage of minimizing the possibility of breaking away from the encirclement and shortening the attack time.

However, the headquarters of the Bingcheng secret service means that the guerrilla detachments have always been very vigilant, and the sentry posts can even be placed several thousand meters away, and it is easy for large troops to be detected when they follow their movements, which will lead to a failure of achievements, and Xinmin Town and Ma'anshan are only a few kilometers away from Xiaoqingshan, so it is completely too late.