On January 7, the 31st year of the Republic of China, the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry of the Concession held a new round of election of board members, Oka Qishengnan was "elected" as the latest chief director of the board of directors, and Chen Mingxiang was also "elected" as the new director of Hua, and the number of directors changed from 19 in the previous term to 11 now.

After the secret operation, the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry also announced the positions and authority of the directors to the news media in Shanghai.

"Today's newspaper said that you are now a hot and powerful figure in the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession, especially the Director of Public Works, and in the future, you will have to build a toilet and dig a ditch on the site of the Public Concession, which is really interesting!" Wang Zhen couldn't laugh anymore.

Strictly speaking, this is true, one of the functions of the Public Works Department of the Ministry of Industry is responsible for all the construction approvals and ditch approvals in the area, and without permission, no buildings can be built, not even toilets, and no sewage ditches can be dug.

"The reputation of the city that never sleeps in Asia in the Shanghai concession area has been put to an end by the Japanese army, and now you see that the flickering neon lights in the streets and alleys no longer have the brilliance of the past, this is a regulation made to save electricity, and the shops will close at nine o'clock."

"In the past, I probably enjoyed too many privileges, and I really didn't pay attention to these little things, but today's meeting held by the president scared me a lot, and I didn't expect that the control of the public concession was even worse than I imagined."

"Of the 260 electric buses in the public concession, only 200 were in operation, and the time was limited to three shifts, and in order to save electricity, the Japanese actually demanded that all the trams be stopped on the 11th, and even the traffic lights would be extinguished."

"Loose coal for heating can only be purchased at a maximum of 15 kilograms at a time, and briquettes for cooking can be up to 25 kilograms at a time, I'm afraid it's not enough for cooking!"

"The grain can barely be maintained, and the Japanese army has not yet been ruthless to foreigners in the public concession, but has only made relevant constraints, stipulating that each person is only allowed to buy two liters of rice at a time, and each liter of rice is five yuan, but I think that such a good time will not last long."

"The public concession is going to be a tricky mess soon, and in such an environment, who has the heart to build houses, dig toilets, dig sewers? I, the Director of Public Works, am just an ornament, and it sounds like a high authority, but in fact it is not bullshit! Chen Mingxiang said with a wry smile.

Since the Japanese army had already eaten it in its mouth, it had no intention of chewing it slowly, and was eager to digest it as soon as possible and turn it into a resource to support the war, so the public concession was changing almost every day.

Unfortunately, this change was negative, and the environment was getting worse day by day, and the British and Americans, who had previously had many privileges, began to taste the cruel oppression and persecution of the Japanese army, just like the Chinese people in Shanghai.

The meeting of the Ministry of Industry Bureau was very important, and Chen Mingxiang got a lot of news, and the Japanese army once again emphasized the material level and mobile application system for foreign nationals in the public concession.

Rice, edible oil, automobiles, building materials, hardware, rubber, medicines, wood, fuel, grease, etc., must be registered with the Ministry of Industry, and they are not allowed to move without permission, and at the same time, the addresses of British and American expatriates are not allowed to be moved.

What is this for?

Nonsense, of course, it is to rob the wealth of the public concession, but after all, Shanghai is an international metropolis, and it is too ugly to eat in the open, so it is too ugly to change the soup and not the medicine, and plunder in disguise in this way, anyway, the Japanese have the final say.

"That beautiful secretary of your social bureau sent a notice from the city government on the meeting of the city government on helping people in social difficulties during the Spring Festival, and asked you to come to the city government tomorrow morning to attend the meeting." Wang Zhen said.

"This year's winter was extremely cold, and I heard a report at a meeting of the Ministry of Industry that more than 500 people had frozen to death in the public concession from the end of December to the present."

"Most of them are ordinary people, homeless on the streets, without food or cotton clothes, unable to withstand the cold, and a small number of them are addicts who have been poisoned by the Japanese."

"The newspaper in Shanghai and some philanthropists jointly asked Chen Gongbo to carry out rescue activities, and I guess that with his character of liking to sell his reputation and reputation, tomorrow's meeting will be to study this matter."

"It's inconvenient for me to come forward, you can participate in this matter on my behalf, keep abreast of the progress of the work and the difficulties encountered, and I will find a way to solve it. Chen Mingxiang said.

This kind of short-term behavior is a drop in the bucket for the people of Shanghai who are in dire straits, but the general environment is like this, Chen Mingxiang is helpless, and his identity is extremely sensitive, and what he can do is quite limited.

However, the whole Shanghai market knows that Wang Zhen is his "lover", and Wang Zhen can come forward to participate, just because he personally participates in the same nature.

As long as Chen Gongbo is willing to support, under the banner of the city government, Chen Mingxiang can also mobilize some resources, and the Japanese can't say anything else, and they have to support vigorously on the surface.

After all, their purpose was to turn Shanghai into a logistics base for Japan to wage war, not to see a dead city.

"I saw that the checkpoints in various places in the public concession have been removed this afternoon, and the Japanese have given up on tracking down the lost gold?" Wang Zhen thought it was strange.

"This time it's a ton of gold, and the market price is more than one million dollars, which is not a small amount, can you make twenty fighters, can the Japanese give up the meat to their mouths?"

"In fact, the area of the public concession is handed over to the police department, which is a subordinate department of the original police department, and the criminal special high department is responsible for the investigation, and the traffic arteries in Shanghai and the surrounding areas are all under the strict monitoring of the gendarmerie, the secret service headquarters and the police department, and twenty boxes of gold are not so easy to get out of the city."

"I still find it strange, what kind of force actually caught up with this incident so coincidentally and snatched the gold stolen by the Japanese?" Chen Mingxiang also wants to know the answer.

Wu Sibao, Zhang Guozhen and others did not leak secrets before the operation, and they didn't even know about Pan Da, so they still had a certain degree of concealment.

Moreover, the escort route and time of this batch of gold were heard by Zhang Guozhen from the driver of the ironclad car, and it is estimated that it is very unlikely that other forces will get the news of such a confidential matter.

This leads to an inexplicable doubt, how did the person who robbed the gold and killed the driver and drove away the ironclad know the inside story?

However, the suspicion was quickly solved, Chen Mingxiang returned to his residence from Wang Zhen's residence, and suddenly received a call from Zhou Guojun, asking him to meet at the clinic.