Chapter 258 Tianjin Japanese Concession
Compared with other concessions, the Tianjin Japanese Concession can be said to be the corner with the most serious dirt and dirt, which is mainly manifested in three aspects: smoking, gambling, and prostitution, among which tobacco is the most.
In the Japanese Concession, opium smoke is most famous, with four hotels: Deyi Building, Leli Hotel, New Hostel and Xiyou Villa.
Deyi Building is located on the south side of the four sides of the clock on Xu Street in the Japanese Concession, and the more than 200 rooms of the hotel are rented to tobacco shops except for a small number of accommodation for tourists.
Every year, after the tobacco produced in the mainland and India is transported to Tianjin, it is concentrated in the Deyi Building, which then distributes it to various lines. The authorities of the Japanese Concession not only profited from the sale of opium, but also openly shielded and even participated in the transportation of opium, thus making the Japanese Concession a major base for opium trafficking.
After 1924, Xu Depu, deputy chief of justice of the Japanese Police Department, was responsible for transporting opium to the Japanese Concession
。 For the sake of convenience in transporting tobacco, Xu Depu also specially opened Guangyu Automobile Shop at Yudrikou, Fusang Street, Japanese Concession, called Taxi, which was actually opened for transporting tobacco.
The Japanese Concession authorities imposed an additional public welfare fee in the form of rent on the Deyi Building, which could reach more than 500,000 yuan per year, so that the tobacco and tobacco shops were openly protected by the Japanese Concession authorities.
Other hotels, such as Leli Hotel, have more than 40 tobacco stores, Xiyou Villas have more than 30 tobacco stores, and the new hostel has more than 70 tobacco stores. The tobacco shops and tobacco houses of all hotels take Deyi Building as an example to pay public welfare fees to the Japanese Concession authorities, so they are protected by the Japanese Concession authorities.
At that time, there was a smoke shop in every corner of the Japanese Concession, which was opened under the protection of the Japanese police department, and the patrolmen could extort money from it.
In addition to allowing the public sale and consumption of opium, the Japanese concession also produced a large number of drugs with high levels of various kinds.
The manufacture of narcotics was initially led by several of the oldest Japanese merchant pharmacies in the Japanese Concession, such as Matsuki Shengda Pharmacy, Maruji Brothers Pharmacy, Nandeyi Pharmacy, etc.
These pharmacies possess the "Danda" drug, which is indispensable for the manufacture of drugs, and anyone who manufactures drugs must purchase this drug from these pharmacies.
Except for a few high-ranking Japanese in the Japanese police department, the Chinese patrol did not dare to inquire about the drug production of these pharmacies.
In addition to the above-mentioned pharmacies, there are also Tenshundo, Tenkido, Suda Pharmacy, Tatada Pharmacy, and Kanayama Pharmacy that deal in drugs. Some Japanese companies also deal in drugs.
In addition, Japanese businessmen who distributed narcotics also found some Korean ronin who were living in difficulty to open white noodle restaurants in the "Sanyi" and Sanyizhuang areas of Nanshi City to poison the Chinese people.
These North Korean ronin drug trafficking must be approved by the Japanese consulate. In some cases, drugs are also dispensed directly by the consulate. Under the protection and connivance of the Japanese concession authorities in Tianjin, drugs spread from Tianjin to the whole of North China.
In addition to drug trafficking and drug production, there are many gambling games in the Chinese Tea Garden and the Oriental Hotel in the Japanese Concession, and the gambling leaders of these gambling games are Li Mingde and Fang Ming.
Later, Liu Baozhen opened a treasure bureau in Longxingli, the north exit of Rong Street, on the border between the Japanese Concession and China, and Yuan Wenhui, the leader of the Youth Gang, also opened a casino in the Japanese Concession.
Casinos pay to buy off the Japanese. openly gambling day and night, becoming a demon cave where people kill people without seeing blood.
After 1931, Ren Weiyu, a Shanghainese who lived in Penglaili, the Japanese concession, opened a flower club gambling game in Qiushan Street () New Street, which opened every afternoon, and later developed into two cylinders, new and old.
This gamble soon spread to all corners of Tianjin City, and spread to Yangcun, Beicang, Tanggu and other places. This kind of gambling pit is the most popular, and under the protection of the Japanese concession authorities, it is unhindered.
There are many brothels, which is another "feature" of the Japanese concession. At that time, there were many brothels on both sides of the streets around Luzhuangzi in Xujie in the Japanese Concession, such as Yudri, Zhongxiaoli, Sunrise, Dongshengli, etc. Later, it gradually developed to the new hostel and the junction of the Sino-Japanese border near the Zhonghua and Tongqing tea plantations.
In addition, there are also many brothels in Shengdri and Fugui Hutong near the Central Plains Company, as well as Japanese geisha houses and Korean prostitutes, and there are also secret prostitutes in the area of Simianzhong.
These houses were controlled by local ruffians and hooligans, and under the protection of the Japanese Police Department, they opened a large number of "kiln accounts" while operating, and the Japanese Police Department profited greatly from the exploitation of prostitutes and lower-class laborers.
In the course of its invasion of China, Japan constantly sent spies to engage in espionage activities. Before and after the First Sino-Japanese War, its focus was on the Liaodong Peninsula, the coast of the Bohai Bay, and Shanghai, and its strategic goal was to investigate the Qing government's military records and war preparations in these areas. Served the military operations of the Japanese army.
At that time, the person in charge of espionage sent by the Army General Staff Headquarters in Tianjin was Army Captain Shi Liangtian, who was openly a military attache in the consulate and led several mainland ronins to conduct investigation activities for him.
Japanese spy Shunzaburo Harada is working as an adviser to the Tianjin Patrol Police Bureau. So. Tianjin became one of the centers of Japanese imperialist intelligence activities during the Russo-Japanese War.
Dai Li asked Wen Hao to pay attention to this Japanese named Harada Shunzaburo, who took advantage of the favorable conditions of the consultant of the Tianjin Patrol Police Department and Bureau, and took the opportunity to contact some senior executives in Tianjin, which was used to buy those corrupt officials and hunt for China's intelligence in Northeast China and North China.
Those who operate yellow. The Japanese who were poisonous and gambling were running dirty hook stalls and secretly hunting for information about China in Northeast China and North China.
Dai Li asked Wen Hao to establish an intelligence agency in Tianjin as soon as possible to grasp the movements of the Japanese, so that he could make meritorious contributions in front of Jiang Gong.
Wen Hao never thought he had ever been a spy, but he knew that the Japanese spy organization in China was pervasive, and they carried out large-scale espionage activities against China after the First Sino-Japanese War.
In the Japanese concession of Tianjin, there were a large number of Japanese spies active.
Although Wen Hao could not immediately obtain the confidential information of the Japanese, it was still okay to cause some trouble to the Japanese, especially the losses caused by the Japanese spy agencies.
And Wen Hao also hated the yellow drug gambling in the Japanese Concession, and after he took Zhou Yuying and them to the Japanese Concession several times, he knew the dirty side of the Japanese Concession.
Wen Hao had a bold idea formed, but the machine was not mature, and he didn't do it for a long time.
Now the fifteen students will be proficient in using firearms under Wen Hao's three-month intensive training.
And they also have to learn to ride a bicycle, and at the same time, Wen Hao also used the money to buy an old car again, so that they can learn how to drive.
Also teach them some assassination, fighting skills.
However, Wen Hao also asked Wu Yaru to teach them Japanese.
However, some students have a strong sense of resistance, that is, they refuse to learn Japanese, and they hate anything that is actually Japanese.
Happy March 8th Day.
(To be continued.) )
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