After the armed battle of the Military Command Bureau against the Japanese puppets in Shanghai, the Shanghai No. 1 District and the Shanghai Special Operations Corps were destroyed one after another, and several leaders were either arrested and defected or placed under house arrest, and basically died down, except for a few guerrillas of the Loyal National Salvation Army, who still persisted in the struggle in the suburbs of Shanghai.

In terms of intelligence, in addition to a few latent working groups, the station directly under the leadership of Chen Mingxiang is currently the main intelligence force of the Military Control Bureau in Shanghai, and in addition to collecting military and political intelligence, it is also responsible for exchanging urgently needed materials for the National Control Region and providing funds for the bureau headquarters.

The evacuation of Li Shiqun's secret service headquarters from Shanghai to Hangzhou means that the spy system of the Wang puppet government has abandoned Shanghai, and the situation has been handed over to the headquarters of the military police stationed in Shanghai and the police department.

Under the "leadership" of Chen Mingxiang, the Shanghai Experimental Zone of the secret service headquarters has become a group of bastards, who only have money in their eyes and are not interested in any kind of intelligence and arrest operations.

Chen Mingxiang could not use the personnel of the Military Command Bureau or the Central Command Bureau in Shanghai to open up a knife, nor could he deal with the underground party, and he had no other means than to use money to open the way and vigorously compile his own intelligence network.

The premise is that there must be a basis for contact, and there is no need to use interests as a link, so why should he have a relationship with the Japanese generals?

However, the higher the rank and position of any important top-secret information, the greater the possibility of knowing it, and the interests are more effective than favors, and the more people can be less vigilant.

"Thank you Chen Jun for the gift to the Consulate General, and I wish you a happy New Year, our Consulate General is going to hold a New Year reception tonight, the fruit you shipped from Nanyang is very popular, if there is any, send some more." Consul General Horiuchi Yujo said with a smile.

For him, the so-called luxury consumer goods such as cigars and red wine are not in his eyes, and this time Chen Mingxiang came to him to greet the New Year, bringing the basis for future cooperation, a large box of US dollars!

"I would like to thank Your Excellency the Consul General for your strong support, all the cooperation agreements signed between me and the Central China Liaison Department after the cancellation of the Xingya Academy have not been affected in any way by this incident, which is completely your deliberate care for me." Chen Mingxiang said.

After the abolition of the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy, all the functions were handed over to the Consulate General in Shanghai, and the power of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also rose with the tide, so there were deep interests between the two people.

After the handover was completed, Horiuchi Yujo did not raise any objection to the secret agreement between several companies under Chen Mingxiang's name and the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy, and continued to operate according to the original conditions.

"Whether it is briquettes or table salt, the work you are doing is to serve the empire, and the social order in Shanghai is stable, so that the logistics of the army can be smooth, and this is also my duty."

"Chen Jun, I want to remind you of one thing, although Japanese businessmen are too self-interested and their greedy behavior interferes with the affairs of the government and the military, you must know that they and the army are an inseparable whole, and they are highly dependent on each other, so you had better not do things too much." Horiuchi said in the city.

This must be because the Japanese coal merchants couldn't hold it and begged the consul general to come forward to reconcile, and the consulate general in Shanghai also had its own considerations, providing supplies for the country and the army, and it must rely on the Japanese chaebol, so he said such things.

"Your Excellency Consul General, I did not deliberately have to go against these Japanese businessmen, and it was none of my business in the first place, but at the request of the Garrison Command, the Central China Liaison Department, the Military Police Command, and the city government, I had to do so."

"You should know very well the style of these people, if you don't get a deep lesson and suffer from the heart, I'm afraid it will be more difficult to restrain in the future, of course, all this comes from your will, I can stop taking action at any time." Chen Mingxiang said.

Although Japanese businessmen engaged in business operations in China for a long time, it can be accurately said that they followed the pace of the Japanese invasion and went deep into various parts of China step by step, because all kinds of resources in the occupied areas were open to them at low prices or free of charge.

Greed knows no bounds, and it is precisely because of this privileged status that it breeds stronger ambitions, and even threatens the interests of the military, such as the coal shortage incident is the best example.

The Japanese government and the military department hoped to maintain the stability of the Shanghai market and use this most powerful industrial leading city in China to send more supplies for the war, but the chaebols did not spare even the necessities of the people's livelihood and wanted to engage in hoarding and make more money.

"Rest assured, the Consulate General in Shanghai absolutely supports you, this matter is also required by the cabinet and the military department, we must maintain social stability in Shanghai, and we must not let the behavior of the chaebol cause turmoil, and there is nothing wrong with your plan to sell 100,000 tons of coal."

"Tonight, at the reception, I will arrange for you to meet with a few Japanese businessmen, and when the Chinese New Year is over, you can run the coal market together."

"One thing to tell you in advance is that in order to prevent the foreign expatriates in the Shanghai concession from secretly participating in the sabotage activities against the empire, the cabinet and the military department decided to set up a concentrated residential area in the Shanghai market, and to move those expatriates and missionaries into it and isolate them from the outside world, so as to facilitate management and prevention."

"This operation will be launched in mid-February, when the Public Concession will vacate a large amount of real estate and personal assets, and you will have made outstanding contributions to the Empire, and you will inevitably enjoy the resources of the Empire, and you will choose a part of them." Horiuchi said in the city.

This is the return of Chen Mingxiang for sending him money, the assets of the British and American expatriates are also imperial property if they are confiscated, and they are either sealed up or used by the Japanese, and he will not receive any benefits, so it is better to give Chen Mingxiang a little benefit, which also reflects that he takes money to do things, and "character" is no problem.

What a bullshit concentration area, is the notorious concentration camp!

Chen Mingxiang deeply felt the viciousness of the Japanese, the concentration camp is hell, and it is estimated that many people will definitely die when the day the Anti-Japanese War is won!

He didn't care about the real estate and personal assets of the British and American expatriates, but at this time he was thinking about how to save their lives, from the Japanese occupation of the public concession to the present, in order to find a protective umbrella for himself in the future, he secretly did a lot of work, first sent away a large number of wealthy merchants, and then had to provide food and materials every month, and the efforts he made could not be wasted.

After coming out of the Consulate General in Shanghai, Chen Mingxiang drove to Riddle's house, since things were inevitable, he had to find a way to face them, notify them in advance, and make a lot of arrangements in more than a month.