Chapter 318: A Trip to Shanghai
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This move effectively clarified the incident of the Hainan army disturbing the people, and Chen Zhong publicly warned Akashi Genjiro in the newspaper.
Chen Zhong warned him that Hainan's military intelligence department had already launched an investigation into Akashi's sabotage of espionage, and that if there was another heinous act of framing the Hainan military, the Hainan troops stationed in Korea would directly attack the Japanese troops stationed in South Korea.
Chen Zhong's public warning really worked, and Akashi Genjiro, who was in Beijing, had to temporarily rein in.
In the first round, Genjiro Akashi was defeated. However, Akashi Genjiro was not willing to give up, and he decided to take a long-term view.
Akashi Genjiro came to Shanghai, and he was going to be quiet for a while, taking advantage of this time to develop his Japanese spy network in the Qing Dynasty.
After he arrived in Shanghai, he was approached by the Japanese Black Dragon Society in Shanghai. Previously, Genjiro Akashi had always disliked associating with the Black Dragon Society, a Japanese folk gangster organization.
Because he didn't like the Black Dragon Society's style of doing things, the Black Dragon Society had offered to work for him many times, but he decisively refused.
However, this time Akashi Genjiro was a little hesitant, thinking that he had been in the Qing Dynasty for half a year, although he had created a lot of trouble for Chen Zhong, but he was cracked by the king of Hainan one by one.
So, Akashi Motojiro did not refuse and did not agree to the Black Dragon Society, but told them that they would have the opportunity to cooperate again in the future, and he first settled down in the French Concession in Shanghai.
After Chen Zhong dealt with the Japanese spy incident in Northeast China, he telegraphed all the Hainan troops, and during this time they recuperated and recuperated, reorganized the army, and prepared for the upcoming war.
In response to the issue of counterintelligence, he made detailed arrangements. All units were also strictly ordered to strengthen the education of military discipline.
For the Hainan army, this was a period of relative peace and stability. Because, in the east, after the First World War between Japan and Russia and the First World War with the Hainan Army, Japan has almost exhausted all its national strength, and it is no longer able to have large-scale military operations, so it can only rely on spy agencies like Akashi Genjiro to do some sabotage.
The contradictions between the various interest groups in the West are intensifying day by day, and they no longer have time to take care of the affairs of the Far East.
With the gradual aging of Cixi's body, she no longer has the energy to make more plans for the army in Hainan.
Therefore, in Chen Zhong's view, it is just a period of adjustment and accumulation for Hainan.
On the morning of that day, Chen Zhong received a telegram from the Military Intelligence Department, which said that Genjiro Akashi had arrived in Shanghai and had made contact with the Black Dragon Society. However, there is no action yet.
Chen Zhong felt the need to make a trip to Shanghai to meet with Akashi Genjiro. Coincidentally, the first batch of projects on Chongming Island in Shanghai has been completed.
Early the next morning, Chen Zhong came to Shanghai on the Hainan ship. He was accompanied by Ma Cong of the Marine Corps, who had been promoted to the rank of Major General Commander of the Marine Corps after the First World War in Liaodong. This time, Ma Cong returned to Hainan to carry out the task of expanding the Marine Corps.
After arriving at Chongming Island, Chen Zhong immediately inspected the construction of the military port. Colonel Lu Fang, who was stationed on Chongming Island, briefed Chen Zhong on the construction period of the military port, which was expected to be completed the year after next.
After inspecting the military port on Chongming Island, Chen Zhong came to the Chongming Island Crystal Research and Development Center. The production here has begun to see scale, and the "Promise Your Life" crystal has been exported to several European countries, has been greatly welcomed, and now the order for luxury crystal products has been scheduled until the end of next year.
The production cycle of ordinary crystal products is fast, and the sales are also fast. Moreover, they opened a crystal jewelry center in the jewelry market of the French Concession in Shanghai.
Chen Zhong decided to take a look, so he went to the jewelry and antique market in the western suburbs of the city in casual clothes. This market is the third largest center for jewelry and antiques in the country.
In this market, there are precious gold, silver and jade products, as well as handicrafts of general materials, as well as many antique monopoly.
Chen Zhong and his entourage came to the crystal and jade area.
There are more people in this area, and the generally high-grade crystals and jade are in the eastern area, and the ordinary crystals and jade jewelry are in the western area.
Chen Zhong came to one of the largest crystal specialty areas-—— peerless Jinghua, where there are nearly ten international crystal specialty counters.
There are indeed many varieties here, such as amethyst, smoky quartz, green quartz, milky white crystal and rose crystal...... A feast for the eyes.
Chen Zhong came to a crystal counter near the entrance of the specialty area and asked the clerk to take out a strip of amethyst.
Suddenly, a young man who looked like a student also came to this counter.
The clerk was a young woman dressed in fashion, and after looking the young man up and down a few times, he saw that his clothes were at best the color of the stalls. After hesitating for a moment, he casually took a piece of ordinary crystal from behind the counter and handed it to him.
The young man looked at the texture of the crystal stone on the counter and said, "Give me another one, this grade is too low, I want the kind of East China Sea crystal stone formed 400 million years ago." ”
The female clerk glanced at him and threw out a sentence: "Your tone is not small, it is good that you can buy this crystal in front of you, don't make trouble here if you can't afford it, what kind of big money is loaded here." ”
When Chen Zhong heard what this woman said, he thought to himself, oh no doubt, I met a dog who looked down on people.
"What do you say, who's messing around here?" The young man's old gentle expression became eerie.
"You are a poor student with no money coming here, and you still need that kind of expensive crystal, you are not sincere to make trouble, what are you doing that?" The female clerk with a distorted face yelled.
This commotion caused a lot of onlookers after a while.
I saw that the young man took out the 80,000 yuan in cash from his bag, threw them on the counter at once, and spread out the eight bundles of money "with a bang".
The female clerk who had been shouting stopped screaming. At this time, a middle-aged man came out from behind and said with a smile on his face: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, little brother, I'm sorry!" ”
The young man ignored them, put the money on the counter back into his school bag, and went to a special counter opposite.
After the young man left, he heard the man and the woman arguing just now.
The counter opposite saw that this was a large customer, and diligently took out a piece of natural crystal with pure texture.
Natural amethyst will give people a cold feeling when placed in the palm of the hand, and if you carry it on your body, the temperature of the crystal will slowly increase with your body temperature until it is the same as your body temperature.
Synthetic crystals are different, at first, they have a cool texture, but as the body temperature rises, the temperature of the crystal will continue to rise, and it will feel higher than the body temperature.
Soon, the young man chose a square amethyst the size of his palm, which cost about 60,000 yuan.
A man and a woman on the counter before rolled their eyes in regret.
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