After all, there are only a few people who can be indifferent to life and death, and they must not be forced to make a choice for this task, and they need to be 100% willing, otherwise they will be easily recognized by Nanzao Yunzi.

Chen Mingxiang can afford to wait, and he has endured it for more than two years, and it is not bad for this month.

Of course, the past two years have also been a test for Zhou Guojun's group, and he is also observing whether these people can be reused and take on greater functions.

He was relieved that up to now, no members of the group had found anything abnormal, and the hard work of the past two years had not been in vain.

Chen Mingxiang had just returned to the office of the Social Affairs Bureau for less than 20 minutes, but Zheng Tonghui came, still carrying the ID of "News Daily" on his suit, which also means that this newspaper has not been seized by the Japanese puppet.

At the same time as the Japanese army entered the concession, it carried out a large-scale seizure of the news media, and nine newspapers in the concession, including "Declaration", "News", "Damei Evening News", and "Zhengyan Bao", were closed down, and more than 30 private radio stations were closed.

The "Declaration" and the "News" are under the management of the reporting department of the dispatched army, and have become tools for the Japanese puppets to guide public opinion, and several foreign radio stations are owned by the subordinate organs of the Propaganda Department of the Wang puppet government and continue to broadcast to the outside world.

"Lao Zheng, I have been sweating for your "News Daily", this time the Japanese army entered the concession, and the news media organizations suffered heavy losses, it seems that you have not been affected." Chen Mingxiang said.

Sun Yuxin, as a secretary, brought tea to the guests, and as soon as her eyes made a slight contact with Zheng Tonghui, she quickly dodged it, and Chen Mingxiang returned to the office, which was the phone she called.

Her task is to use Chen Mingxiang's cover to spy on the dynamics of the Japanese puppet, but what makes Sun Yuxin feel depressed is that for such a long time, Chen Mingxiang rarely works in the Social Bureau, and she sorts out the information and sends it to the Bank of China for approval.

As if to avoid suspicion, there is basically no other gossip between Chen Mingxiang and her except for work, it is completely a relationship between superiors and subordinates, and now there is a saying in the Social Bureau that Mo Guokang can be Chen Gongbo's home, and she Sun Yuxin can be Chen Mingxiang's half of his family.

"This is also normal, our "News Daily" is only a very small private newspaper among the many newspapers in the public concession, and its circulation in Shanghai is not large, and its remarks are not sharp."

"Usually the pages are literary works and advertisements, and the news in the social news section is reprinted from other newspapers, so this time it was not seized by the Japanese pseudo, and they also need some small newspapers to put on a façade." Waiting for Sun Yuxin to leave the office and cover the door, Zheng Tonghui said with a smile.

"You have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, say, what is the matter with me this time?" Chen Mingxiang asked.

He had very little contact with the underground party, and he never met on any important issue, and he guessed that the underground party might need help.

"You can also see the current situation in Shanghai, there are people dying of hunger every day, a large part of them are babies who are still swaddling, and the scene is simply miserable."

"According to the instructions of our superiors, with the assistance of the Shanghai underground organization, we launched a fundraising campaign to buy food for the poor homeless families and those who are old, weak, sick and disabled."

"At this time, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, what rice, cornmeal, sorghum flour, bean flour, etc., as long as it can make people starve to death, the goal has been achieved."

"As for the money, we raised a little, but the Japanese pseudo-blocked the traffic arteries of Shanghai, and the cheap grain outside can't come in, and the price of the grain store in the city is too high, and the funds raised can't buy much rice and noodles, so I can only ask you to help with this matter." Zheng Tonghui said.

Chen Mingxiang was immediately surprised when he heard this, he knew that the situation of the underground party was not good, and the situation of lack of food and clothing also applied to them, but in such a situation, the underground party still had to think about the refugees in Shanghai, which was a very precious quality.

"Sneaking around, maybe it will cause unnecessary trouble, Chen Gongbo of the municipal government likes to buy the hearts of the people, you join some influential philanthropists, make an application report to the Social Bureau, and I will hold a 'goodwill activity' during the Chinese New Year in the name of the Social Bureau, so that I will not be ostracized."

"The Japanese army has just occupied the public concession, and the people's hearts are unstable at the moment, and they have to take this into account, after all, Shanghai is an important base for Japan to provide resources for the war, and they will not refuse a little favor on the surface." Chen Mingxiang said.

The underground party can only help refugees in the form of non-governmental organizations, which is not only small in scale, but also easily interfered with by the Japanese and puppet sides. And Chen Mingxiang operates in the official name, the scale will definitely be much larger, and the Japanese puppet side will have to cooperate, this is the difference between the two sides.

"Of course it's better to be able to operate like this, I'll immediately go and unite those philanthropists to apply to the Social Bureau, Mingxiang, you have done a meritorious and meritorious deed for the fathers and villagers in Shanghai!" Zheng Tonghui was overjoyed.

"Your "News Daily" must follow up at any time and brag about Chen Gongbo and the Social Bureau, so you must make this attitude to make Chen Gongbo feel more comfortable." Chen Mingxiang said.

"You can rest assured of this little thing, the underground party is not as rigid as you imagined, under special circumstances, you have to take special measures, if you can save more people by touting Chen Gongbo, I have no problem writing praise articles to him every day, the life and death of the old folks is the most important thing, and this does not conflict with the principle."

"In addition, I have another thing I want to ask you for, the price of grain in Shanghai is too high, many of our comrades' families have run out of rice, and there is no extra funds in the organization, can you think of a way?" Zheng Tonghui said.

When the underground party's funds were not rich, they used to tighten their belts to support the war of resistance and purchase all kinds of war materials for the base areas.

However, as the situation in the Shanghai market deteriorated day by day, the fiat currency began to depreciate on a large scale, and the members of the underground party even had a problem eating, and the market price of rice actually reached 200 fiat currency per stone, which has exceeded the comrades' ability to bear it.

The leading comrades of the provincial party committee of the Soviet province and the municipal party committee of Shanghai City had no choice but to ask for assistance from the material procurement group, because after all, this is what they do, and there may be more channels.

But the leader of the material procurement team had no other channel but to ask Zheng Tonghui to contact Chen Mingxiang again and ask him for help to alleviate the current predicament.

"I'll write a note, you go to the Maochang rice store at the price of 130 yuan of rice, extract 50 stone of rice and eat it first, and then come to me when it's not enough. Chen Mingxiang didn't care.