"I will definitely convey these words to Minister Li, but you don't have to get your hopes up, his desire for power is too strong, his eyes have been covered, and whoever says such things to him now may be misunderstood by him and become an enemy."

"The secret service headquarters, the security forces, and the police of the Qingxiang Committee constitute a strong capital, which is the capital for him to make deals with various forces!"

"The position of the chairman of the province of Su Province is very important, that is the foundation of everything he has now, without the abundant financial resources of the province of Suzhou, what can be used to support this situation?" Chen Mingxiang shook his head and said.

Li Shiqun had a premonition of danger, but he mistakenly believed that with his current strength, he could keep his position, but in the final analysis, it was greed, and greed made his judgment fundamentally deviate.

In other words, he regarded himself as irreplaceable, and as long as the war waged by the Japanese was not over, he needed the secret service headquarters to maintain his rule, and only he could manipulate this secret service to serve the Japanese.

"His little strength is completely vulnerable to the imperial army of our Great Japanese Empire, and he doesn't even have an army with regular military training, so he wants to be a warlord on one side with a rabble of security forces, spies and police, and he is dying!"

"After so many years in the intelligence department, doesn't he understand a truth? If you want to kill someone, there are actually too many ways, as long as Shibayama Kaneshiro has such a mind, it is no more difficult to pinch him to death than to pinch an ant to death, and he has no chance to struggle! Qingqi Qingyin said.

In the evening of the same day, Chen Mingxiang hosted a banquet to invite Major General Kiyonobu Shiozawa, Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Japanese Consulate General in Peiping, Major General Hikotaro Tajima, director of the Special Affairs Department of the North China Front, and Major General Otozaburo Yano, the headquarters of the North China Military Police, to accompany him.

"The Ministry of Finance of the Jinling government has formally discussed with the Consulate General in Shanghai yesterday the acquisition of Central China Salt Industry Co., Ltd., which also shows that the power of material control is gradually being implemented, although the salt in North China has not implemented this operation, but it is okay to increase a part of the salt field and salt quota for you."

"Some time ago, when I went back to Japan for a meeting, the consul general in Shanghai complained that there was a salt shortage in central China, and the national policy enterprises were not conducive to the operation of salt, which seriously affected the image of the empire, and was also protested by the Jinling government.

"Next month, the North China Transaction Control General Association will be established, which is the former North China General Federation of Import Organizations, and the president is very familiar with you, Lieutenant General Morioka Gao, the former division commander of the 16th Division of the Imperial Army, and also the former head of the North China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy."

At the end of the year before last, when the 16th Division was about to leave Shanghai to participate in the Southern Movement, you not only helped him purchase supplies, but also gave him a large number of cigarettes as consolation, and he always remembered this favor."

"I mentioned that I want to increase your salt quota and give you another part of the salt farm, he happily agreed, you know, such a big resource adjustment, without his support, I don't dare to make a decision." Shiozawa Kiyonobu said with a smile.

This is the causal relationship, Chen Mingxiang did have a deal with the 16th Division, that was in the early stage of the outbreak of the Pacific War, he had a meal with this Japanese lieutenant general under the introduction of Masashi Maeda, then head of the special service of the Ministry of the Army in Shanghai.

The 16th Division belonged to the Japanese army's A permanent horse pulling division, with 28,200 men according to its establishment, and Chen Mingxiang prepared 10 boxes of Bund brand cigarettes for each person, a total of 282,000 packs, equivalent to 114 boxes.

I really didn't expect that Morioka Gao, who was originally based in the Philippines, was actually transferred to North China to serve as the president of the North China Trading Control Association, and this relationship continued to be used.

"I have very little contact with General Morioka Gao, and it is my great honor that he can still remember me, and I must visit him another day." Chen Mingxiang also said with a smile.

"Jun Chen, I heard that your transport fleet for smuggling seems to be able to go directly to the mountain city, right?" Tajima asked in a low voice.

"That's the case, it's not a secret, it doesn't matter if you say it, in the area under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Army, the water patrol team of the gendarmerie is responsible for escorting, and entering the lot of the Shancheng government, the big smuggler of the other party is in charge, does Your Excellency the General need me to bring you anything from Sichuan Province?" Chen Mingxiang said.

Tajima Hikotaro is the head of the special service of the North China Front, and the things he asked must have a special purpose, could it be that the North China side also wants to send spies to the mountain city?

"That's not it, I heard a message from the commander yesterday that the commander of the 11th Army, Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama, has been making frequent moves recently, and he has just completely annihilated the 128th Division of the Yamashiro Government in late last month, and now he is about to start his operation again."

"The day after tomorrow, the 13th Division will launch an attack on the other side of Jiangjin, and the 40th Division will attack Shishou and Huarong to open up an attack channel for the march to the southwest. Tajima Hikotaro said.

Hearing this news, Chen Mingxiang was not too anxious, he knew that these target areas were the garrisons of the 29th Group Army of the Shancheng Government under the jurisdiction of the Sixth War Zone, and there were two armies, the 44th Army and the 73rd Army, and the strength was sufficient.

And it sounds like the scale of this operation of the 11th Army Headquarters is not large, and it is a state of confrontation between the two armies, if you can't even see this move, then it is too underestimate the ability of these generals.

What's more, each brigade and regiment has its own reconnaissance company, and each corps and division not only has a reconnaissance battalion, but even its own intelligence department, and it is not up to him to fight alone.

Chen Mingxiang only stayed in Beiping for one day, and then took a car to Jincheng the next day, in fact, there was not much to do, his main purpose was to meet Kawashima Yoshiko, inquire about the situation in Beizeping, and implement the matter of the salt field through the Jincheng gendarmerie.

If the Central China Salt Company wants to acquire the Central China Salt Industry Co., Ltd., sooner or later there will be a contradiction between the salt sales of the two Huai Salt Farms, and the salt of the Changlu Salt Works is also related to the game between him and the salt merchants in Central China.

"Yoshiko Kawashima, a woman, has been more active in the upper class society of Jincheng and Beiping recently, often holding social drinking parties, and also has close contacts with some generals of the imperial army, and has gathered some of her former subordinates."

"She buys salt for the Jincheng salt farm of Haiyuan Salt Company, I also take special care, how can she send more than 1,000 tons of salt in a month, even if the price is not high, but the income of two or three hundred thousand is no problem, her previous luxury life is completely restored, we should come to eat her a banquet." Naohiro Murano said with a smile.