After looking at the situation outside the gates of several Japanese-funded factories, Chen Mingxiang could not help but be extremely satisfied, the workers did not smash or demonstrate, but just stayed quietly in the workshop, waiting for the results of the negotiations between the deputies and the Japanese businessmen, and everything seemed to be in order.

The Japanese military police and marines went around in a circle as if they were burning their butts, but they quickly withdrew, and such a quiet scene did not need to be vigilant at all, and it was purely a waste of time, and it was enough for the Ministry of Industry and the Police Department to send a few sentry posts.

Since the workers only asked for some food to ensure their survival, the Japanese businessmen did not object, and their eyes were not blind, and the little salary they opened could not buy a few catties of rice, not only did the workers have no strength to work hungry, but there were also a bunch of hungry family members who could not walk steadily, who still had the heart to work?

White rice is a bit difficult, if you can't do it, you can give broken rice, or coarse grain, anyway, you can't starve and die and can work as the principle, as for the source of food, you can only find the Consulate General in Shanghai to come forward, this is to produce materials for the empire, where can we buy food?

But the grain speculators in Shanghai were dumbfounded, it was really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, and seeing that things had taken a turn for the better, they didn't expect such a thing to happen!

"The situation can be passive, we got the news that the power of food rationing for the citizens of Shanghai will be transferred to the Ministry of Food of the Jinling Government next month, and the above has also specially said hello, let us hold on for a few days to see how the wind changes."

"I thought that this matter would drag on and on, but I didn't expect those workers to suddenly go on a general strike, and the Japanese were stimulated to turn their faces and arrest Lao Zhang and them to the gendarmerie!" A grain merchant surnamed Liu said.

As soon as the strike began, the special high school and the intelligence department went out in a big way, arresting 12 people at a time, all of whom were sent to the headquarters of the gendarmerie.

"Everyone knows that the Japanese are anxious and have begun to be ruthless to us grain merchants, I notified the Jinling side, it is useless at all, those officials and old men are arrogant when they take money, and they are all strained at a critical time!"

"I can see clearly, it is useless to hold the arm of the Jinling government, the small arm can't twist the thigh of the Japanese, and the vice minister of finance who presided over the joint investigation team was completely kept in the dark and did not call him, and he didn't know that such a thing had happened." The grain merchant surnamed Ma said.

Vice Minister of Finance Chen Zhishuo was indeed wronged, and when the Consulate General in Shanghai Horiuchi made a decision in the city, he didn't communicate with him at all, let alone him, even if it was Zhou Gaohai, if he said that he would dry you, could it be difficult to dare to have any opinions?

"Going back and forth, if you want to solve the problem this time, you still have to negotiate with Chen Mingxiang, I knew that this was the result, and I simply agreed last time, isn't there not so many things? I am worried that the price offered this time will be different, not only will I not make any money, but I will also have to fall into the pit and fall half to death. A grain merchant surnamed Han spoke.

"Lao Han, this is hindsight, you were the one who opposed it the most fiercely, and what did you say that one stone of rice is less than 500 yuan, and we will make hundreds of millions less for these tens of thousands of tons, and now that Lao Zhang and they have been arrested, you have become an immortal and become an immortal instead, can you pinch it?" The grain merchant surnamed Liu pursed his lips and said.

The grain merchant surnamed Han trembled with anger, but he still held back and didn't break the nose bone of the old rival opposite with a fist.

The people around are not surprised, the reason is that these two guys are old enemies, nothing more than the surname Han and the surname Liu at the same time took a fancy to a dance hall backup girl, but in the end, the surname Han married someone home as the fourth aunt's wife, the surname Liu has a grudge for this, and he speaks a little yin and yang, and always dismantles the station surnamed Han.

"Don't talk about these useless, find a relationship and meet with the people inside first, confirm our bottom line, and then go to Chen Mingxiang to negotiate, this time you have to take a generous gift to the door, prepare more gold dollars, and hit the gendarmerie headquarters, since you eat this bowl of rice, it is inevitable to be slaughtered." The grain merchant surnamed Ma said.

Since they arrived at the prison of the gendarmerie headquarters, these twelve grain merchants did not have any special treatment, and went directly into the cells, listening to the screams coming from the interrogation room, they were also soaked with cold sweat, and their whole body was trembling.

The most terrible thing is that after being caught, there was no movement until dark, and dinner was a cold and hard nest, mixed with sand, and a bowl of cold water.

There is no doubt that this is definitely not a cold white open, the Japanese military police do not have such a good heart, but these two things together, it is inevitable to run a loose stomach overnight.

Don't eat? It's so good that it's in your cell, and when you're done eating, you'll talk about the next meal, and it's not only humid and stuffy, but there's only a commode, and the room is full of stinking.

These people go out to take a car, either in a suit or silk or satin, and eat delicacies from the mountains and seas.

"So far, no one has come to bring clothes to visit, and the people outside are all dead? We were caught in prison for the benefit of everyone, and if they went too far, don't think that you can stand on the shore and watch the excitement, and sooner or later you will be dragged into the water! ”

They scolded their peers in the cell, but they didn't know that in fact, that night, the accomplices applied to the special high school to visit them, and sent some clothes and food, but they were sternly rejected by the head of the special high school section, Gangcun Shisan Shaozuo, and did not accept the gifts, and threw them directly out of the door.

If you pay the bill, you may be able to get some benefits at that time, and no one will come to you after you can, which is the practice of cutting off your money.

However, the matter must be divided into important matters, and the current food shortage problem is a major event related to the safety of the Shanghai market, and it is also a major event involving the interests of the empire, and it is irresponsible to accept gifts casually for one's own future.

Gangcun Shisan Shaozuo is a very shrewd guy, and he naturally does things in a measured manner, not to mention, with Chen Mingxiang coming forward to negotiate with speculators, he is afraid that there will be no benefits to be taken at that time?

"Section chief, I don't think we should be in a hurry to negotiate at this time, let's dry it first, and continue to arrest people, the greater the movement of the special high class, the greater the pressure on them, and the more benefits we get."

"At noon the day after tomorrow, let the people from outside visit the prison in prison, and in the evening, I will invite this group of people to dinner, and this matter will basically be done." Chen Mingxiang said this to Gangcun Shaozuo.

He is staring at the matter of the police academy exam, and he doesn't want to deal with this group of people for the time being, and the exam questions are also freshly released, he has to pass the questions and answers to the military commanders who took the exam.