Before Cao Cunyue left Guhuai, he reached an agreement with the newly established "Xinmin Trading Company" to exchange cloth for cotton, and paid the difference, he needed more cotton.

Liang Laoqi left what he needed to buy cotton, and divided the remaining money into three parts, which he did not keep for the time being, one part was counted as the dividend of the Xinmin Association, and the other two were distributed to Ma Tao and Miki Pingfu.

Subsequently, Liang Laoqi made a look of excitement and said to Ma Tao and the others: "Consultant Sanmu, Director Ma, this is just the difference between cotton and cloth, and the cloth sold in exchange is also a sum of money, and we have made a fortune by using it to buy cotton!" ”

As soon as the trading company was established, it had already made a big business, the Xinmin Association had an income, and the two of them also got a sum of money, and after the cloth was transported to Guhuai and sold, they could have a large harvest, Miki Heio and Ma Tao were very excited, and they both felt the bright prospects of the trading company, and it seemed that the ocean of white flowers and shining gold bars in front of them were piled up.

The Xinmin Association became rich and took the lead in setting up an intensive Japanese language intensive teacher class in Guhuai, which laid a good foundation for Guhuai's Japanese language education and was praised by the secret service.

Xinmin Trading Company, Liang Laoqi sent a large number of "Seven Dragons" brothers, divided into many teams, to go to the surrounding counties to buy a large amount of cotton.

Because Liang Laoqi's people were quite kind, they did not buy and sell as forcibly as the Japanese and their lackeys and traitors, and the price was relatively reasonable, so they could easily buy back a large amount of cotton.

In December 1938, the Japanese government set up the Koya Yuan to take charge of affairs toward China.

The Japanese army abolished the Special Service Department of the North China Front Army and renamed it the "North China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy," which was responsible for ruling all aspects of Japan's affairs in the occupied areas of North China, and establishing, supervising, and guiding the organs of the puppet regime at all levels in North China, so as to create a good public order environment in the occupied areas and ensure the stability of the rear of the Japanese army.

The Guhuai secret service is still the dispatched agency of the "North China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy" in Guhuai, and all the previous responsibilities remain unchanged.

With the passage of time, some of the Japanese troops who participated in the Battle of Wuhan returned to North China one after another, and with it, a large amount of ammunition and supplies were also transported to the Japanese-occupied areas in North China.

As an important city in North China, Guhuai has also accumulated a large number of various military supplies. Guhuai Railway Station has almost become a huge military warehouse.

A large number of Japanese troops also came to Guhuai, so that the large and small officers in Guhuai City gathered.

In the past, the reason why the Japanese army could not go all out to fight in the south and suffered from containment was that there was a large number of Communist Eighth Route Army in North China.

In order to solve this problem, the North China Front Command put forward a plan for "fighting to rectify the situation" and focused the attack on the anti-Japanese base areas of the Eighth Route Army in North China.

At this time, the North China Command of the Japanese Army was formulating a clearance operation plan and preparing to carry out a large-scale sweep in North China to ensure the security of the occupied areas and ensure the safety of the main lines of communication.

Troops ready to take part in the sweep are also being assembled.

The Xinmin Association became rich and began to develop as planned, not only opening the intensive Japanese language training class on time, but also occupying the former Yude Middle School in Guhuai Xiguan, preparing to set up a youth training center there.

For the establishment of the youth training center, the Xinmin Association carried out a lot of publicity in newspapers, radio and other media, encouraging the young people of Guhuai to take the initiative to participate in the first phase of youth training.

Unexpectedly, soon, more than a dozen young people came to take the initiative to sign up for youth training, and several of them were henchmen sent by Liang Laoqi.

Ma Tao was naturally delighted, he didn't expect someone to take the initiative to sign up so soon, and immediately sent a stipend to the first batch of young people who took the initiative to sign up to show encouragement, he was ready to train these people as the backbone of the Xinmin Association, and let them participate in the preparation of the youth training center.

Chen Dabiao's secret training for intelligence officers is also about to begin. He selected more than 20 intelligence agents scattered outside, and secretly gathered them in Guhuai, and the training site was also placed in the original Yude Middle School.

Feng Tiandong wanted to know the list of these intelligence officers very much, but he couldn't ask Chen Dabiao directly, so he could only secretly ask Liang Laoqi to inquire through the cronies he had placed in the youth training center.

After a period of preparation, all the preparatory tools of the youth training center are in place.

In late December, the Xinmin Association Guhuai Youth Training Center was established vigorously. Feng Tiandong also attended the establishment ceremony on behalf of the secret service.

Almost at the same time as the establishment of the Youth Training Institute, the "Xinmin Trading Company" transported a large amount of cotton purchased to Beiping in the name of the Linghua Club in accordance with the requirements of the secret service, and the remaining small part of the cotton was ready to be shipped to Tianjin in exchange for cloth.

Iwasaki Hirosuke made meritorious contributions, and the "Linghua Kaisha" was at the forefront of the plundering of materials in North China, and also won large profits for the Mitsubishi family.

Iwasaki Daisa praised Ishikawa Ichiro and Feng Tiandong for their suggestions and work to the Xinmin Association, and once again felt that Feng Tiandong had used it correctly.

In order to facilitate the smooth departure of goods out of the city and into the city, Feng Tiandong, Ma Tao, and Liang Laoqi prepared to have a banquet together with Zhu Cun'an, director of the Guhuai Municipal Office, the Material Control Committee, and the Inspection Department.

For this reason, Feng Tiandong came to the inspection department of the Material Control Committee of the Municipal Public Office, and asked to meet Director Zhu, but the secretary outside the door did not know Feng Tiandong, looking at his appearance and style, he thought that he was from somewhere, so he coldly wanted to drive him away.

"You can't come here, just do whatever you have to do." The secretary didn't even raise his eyelids, so he was going to send Feng Tiandong away. I've never seen such an ignorant person, who comes here, who doesn't want to honor him as a secretary first, otherwise, if you want to see the director, no way!

Feng Tiandong was not angry, he had seen a lot of this kind of character, took out his ID and threw it in front of the secretary.

Feng Tiandong smiled and said softly: "If you stop me now and don't let me see Director Zhu, then I have to ask someone to tie him up to the secret service to meet." ”

The secretary picked up the ID and looked at it, "Huh! The cold sweat flowed down, not only the documents were powerful, Feng Tiandong had also heard that the Municipal Office did not know how many high-ranking officials had a good relationship with their Feng family, and it was not difficult to play him to death as a little secretary.

The little secretary was frightened, and he didn't report it, so he hurriedly bowed and bent over, and directly let Feng Tiandong into Zhu Cun'an's office.

I don't know what to talk about, half an hour later, Feng Tiandong left the director's office in a leisurely manner.

That night, Zhu Cunan sat with Feng Tiandong, Ma Tao, and Liang Laoqi in the private room of "Yueya Restaurant".

"Yueya Restaurant" is not far from the Municipal Office, a two-storey small building combining Chinese and Western, although it is not big, but it is very exquisite, and the food is also very good, it is the place where Guhuai government officials invite guests to eat.

It's still the same old thing, and before he said anything, Liang Laoqi gave Zhu Cunan a heavy gift first.

Everyone politely made it to the dinner table, and while the food was not served, Feng Tiandong introduced their purpose to Zhu Cun'an.

Several people talked happily with each other, and everything was negotiated in a staggered manner.