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In the days that followed, there were no major clashes between the Broadway Building and the Raid Camp, but the looting of the French Concession and the Public Concession continued.

After this contest on Henan Road, the patrol camp seemed to understand that the action against the Broadway building would inevitably lead to retaliation, so it no longer provoked, so the two sides entered a tacit understanding, not engaging in direct confrontation with each other, but only tacitly looting the public concession and the French concession.

In the blink of an eye, seven days passed.

In the past seven days, including the French Concession, the entire Shanghai Concession has become a pot of chaos in the Northeast, whether it is the northern and eastern areas of the concession controlled by the Japanese, or the central and old west areas controlled by the British, or the French Concession, and even the Chinese boundary blocks such as Zhabei and Longhua, all of which have been frantically looted.

Of course, it was only the black industry that was looted, and other industries did not have much impact.

In particular, the banking industry in the concession has not been affected in any way, Xu Rui has a good control over the rhythm of this robbery, but he is just a dead hand to the black industry in the concession, because the black industry is a shady thing after all, even if the concession authorities are dissatisfied, they can't spread it out, but can only eat coptis dumbly, and they can't say it.

Although the Japanese, French, and British armies imposed martial law on the areas under their control from the next day, they were of no use at all.

Because, whether it is the Japanese army, the British army, the American army or the French army, they all have their own ghosts.

Especially the Japanese army, there is no serious martial law at all, and Kagesa Zhenzhao is even secretly conniving at the people of the Broadway Building to attack the black industry in the northern and eastern districts of the concession under the control of the Japanese army.

Because the benefits went to the Broadway Building, the lion's head had to be given to the Japanese army.

Although he knew that this was killing chickens to take eggs, Ying Zuo Zhenzhao couldn't take care of it, otherwise the chickens would let others kill them, at most, after this limelight passed, they would raise chickens and cultivate the opium industry from scratch, as long as Shanghai's population was large, or in a few months, the opium industry would be able to resurrect and restore its old outlook.

It was precisely because of this consideration that the Japanese army did not seriously intervene at all.

Seriously, Kagesa Zhenzhao also pointed to this extra money to solve the immediate difficulties.

Otherwise, with the strength of the little devils, it is completely capable of controlling the situation by really transferring a brigade or even a division into the Japanese concession to impose martial law.

But the British, American, and French armies really have no ability to control the situation, because the Broadway building and the patrol camp are not only outnumbered, but also well-equipped, and the patrol in the concession is not an opponent at all, and it is not possible to transfer garrisons, so in addition to intervening very hard in the first two days, then they simply pretended to be deaf and dumb.

Anyway, whether it's a Broadway building or a patrol camp, it's only the black industry!

Although the tax revenue of Shanghai's black industry accounts for more than one-third of the total tax revenue, it is better to lose one-third than to lose all.

Therefore, the concession authorities did not react too violently.

As for the people in Shanghai, they applauded one after another.

The underworld forces have always been the most hated by the common people, and the underworld forces in Shanghai have a long history, since the establishment of the concession, there began to be gangsters to bully and dominate the market, and then it gave birth to such a century-old gang as the Green Gang, so that the whole of Shanghai is shrouded in its shadow, and the ordinary people in Shanghai are miserable.

However, now that the underworld and evil forces in Shanghai have almost disappeared, how can the common people not applaud?

Among them, the most fierce reaction is the practitioners of pornography, gambling and drugs, especially the big gang of the Green Gang.

After realizing that they could not get support from the Ministry of Industry and Bureau of the Concession, the pornography, gambling and drug practitioners represented by the Green Gang also briefly united to try to hold their own one-third of an acre of land, but as a result, they were tacitly attacked by the Broadway Building and the patrol camp, especially the Green Gang, which was almost uprooted by Xu Rui.

In the looting of the criminal industry and the crackdown on the criminal forces, the Broadway building and the patrol camp swelled up like blowing up balloons, and up to now, the Broadway building has swelled to more than 1,000 people, and the patrol camp has swelled to more than 2,000 officers and soldiers, which can almost be organized into a class A regiment.

It took seven days for the chaos to calm down.

Because at this time, almost all the fat sheep that are worth killing have been slaughtered.

By this time, the entire black industry in Shanghai had almost been uprooted, and none of the black industries such as the big smoke houses, casinos, brothels, and underground money houses had been spared, and almost all the addicts, gamblers, prostitutes, and loan sharks had been caught clean, and they were either imprisoned in Broadway buildings or in the dungeons of patrol camps.

So far, Shanghai's black industry, including the opium industry, has suffered a devastating blow!

However, during the seven days of chaotic fighting, the harvest of the patrol camp was extremely rich, and part of the income from the direct robbery of the public and French concessions, that is, the money and goods snatched from the counters of those large tobacco houses, casinos, brothels, and underground banks.

During the seven days of chaotic fighting, the patrol camp robbed a total of 109 large tobacco houses, 68 gambling houses, 58 large brothels, and 18 underground banks, and robbed a total of more than 13 million yuan in legal currency, more than 2 million yuan in the ocean, and jewelry worth 20 million legal currency from the cabinets of these large tobacco houses, gambling houses, brothels, and underground banks.

Just from the counters of these black industries, a huge amount of more than 30 million fiat currency has been obtained!

This is not counting the meat tickets tied to the patrol camp, as of the end of the eye, more than 2,000 meat tickets have been redeemed, the average ransom of more than 2,000 meat tickets is 20,000 yuan of legal currency, and this alone has received more than 45 million yuan of legal currency, but the legal currency is now depreciating sharply, and 45 million legal currency is now only worth one million US dollars!

In other words, these two items add up, and the patrol camp has already earned more than 1.5 million US dollars!

However, compared with the latter ones, these two receipts are nothing at all, and most of the meat tickets sent by the Broadway Building through various methods are tied back in the patrol camp, but there are also big fat sheep like Huang Jinrong, Lu Xiaojia and Duan Hongye, and the oil and water of these big fat sheep are considerable.

Not to mention anything else, Huang Jinrong alone paid nearly five million dollars in tribute to the Broadway Building! Of that amount, a million dollars were deposited in Citibank's account, half a million pounds in HSBC's account, a million dollars worth of stocks and bonds, and more than a dozen properties.

There are also Lu Xiaojia and Duan Hongye, which add up to almost eight million dollars!

Although the remaining meat tickets are not as fat as the three of Huang Jinrong, they are much fatter than those small tickets, and the more than 100 meat tickets that have been paid tribute have contributed more than 50 million US dollars to the patrol camp and the Broadway Building! It can be seen from this that the local tyrants and inferior gentry who fled to the Shanghai Concession at that time were still young and old.

By the way, Minister Song was also tied up with a meat ticket.

In the end, the Song family contributed $2 million to the patrol camp from the Citibank account, and the camp was willing to release them, but then again, the $2 million is really not worth mentioning from Minister Song's years of national disasters, and it is even more of a drop in the ocean than what he will get from the United States in the next few years.

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Broadway Building.

Wang Husheng was taken aback by the number calculated by Liu Mei.

After staring at the numbers on the white paper for a long time, Wang Husheng turned back to Xu Rui and said, "Old Xu, I'm not dreaming, right?" Already got a huge sum of nearly 60 million dollars? ”

60 million US dollars, according to the current exchange rate, one dollar to fifty fiat currency, that is 900 million!

Although it is still 100 million short of Xu Rui's initial estimate of one billion, it is already very scary!

Xu Rui said: "It's only 60 million US dollars, which is less than half of what I expected, I originally thought that this looting operation could get more than 100 million US dollars, but I didn't expect it to be only 60 million US dollars." ”

"Only 60 million dollars?" Wang Husheng said, "Sixty million is too little, which is less?" ”

In fact, $60 million is indeed a lot, and you must know that the total amount of aid provided by the Soviet government to the Nationalist Government in the form of loans is only $50 million, but then again, this time they almost wiped out the black industry in Shanghai, and they also caught so many meat tickets, it is not surprising that they have scraped together $60 million.

As the saying goes, there are still 3,000 nails in the broken ship, although China is poor and weak, but with such a large population, there are still a few rich people, after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, many rich people hid in the concession, and the wealth that followed them into the concession is not a few, if Xu Rui really goes out to rob, 500 million US dollars can be grabbed.

But Xu Rui obviously can't do this, he is not a real bandit after all, a real bandit can rob without a bottom line, but Xu Rui can only attack the pornography, gambling, and drug industries!

Fortunately, there are 60 million US dollars, which is enough for Xu Rui to do a lot of things.

Wang Husheng couldn't help but longing: "Old Xu, what are you going to do with these 60 million US dollars?" ”

"There's a lot to do." Xu Rui said, "First of all, we must purchase at least three divisions of weapons and equipment from the United States, and we must also purchase enough ammunition to maintain the troops of the three divisions for at least half of the operation, which will cost almost half of the money, and the rest of the money will be used to purchase machinery and equipment, giving priority to the purchase of a complete set of equipment for a fine chemical plant." ”

"A fine chemical plant?" Wang Husheng said blankly, "Didn't you talk about the arsenal before?" ”

"The arsenal needs it, and the fine chemical factory needs it." Xu Rui nodded and said, "Because only a fine chemical factory can produce artillery fuses, if a fine chemical factory cannot be introduced, once the devil navy desperately blockades Shanghai, the arsenal we built in Shanghai and the arsenal in Dameishan will have to be blinded." ”