Ten days after Chen Gongbo's injury, on November 30, 1940, Wang Jingwei, with the support of the Japanese, established a puppet government in Nanjing, the capital of the former Nationalist Government. It is known as the Wang puppet regime in history. Wang Jingwei served as acting chairman of the Nationalist Government, president of the Executive Yuan, and chairman of the Military Commission. Recruit famous traitors in China, such as Li Shiqun, Zhou Fohai, Chen Gongbo, etc. to hold important positions.

The Nationalist government in Chongqing, headed by Chiang Kai-shek, did not recognize its legitimacy. Because of Japan's alliance with Germany, major European and American countries have not recognized its legitimacy. In order to compete with Chiang Kai-shek and show that he is orthodox, Wang Jingwei still used the red flag of the Republic of China and the symbol of the blue sky and white sun.

However, a puppet is nothing more than a puppet after all. Wang Jingwei hoped to use the power of the Japanese to fulfill his dream of ruling China. And the Japanese are not fools, and while supporting the Wang puppet regime, they are also supporting the so-called "North China Political Affairs Committee" and the "Mongolian-Xinjiang Joint Autonomous Government". For the Japanese, a scattered and antagonistic China is far easier to govern than a unified and powerful China! The actual jurisdiction of Wang's puppet regime was only Nanjing, Shanghai, and a part of the Yangtze River Delta.

In other parts, although there are divisions, due to the intertwining of various forces, the decrees of the Wang puppet government cannot be conveyed at all, and there is no actual ability to control them.

And in order to realize his actual rule, Wang Jingwei's puppet government made a big move a few months after it was established! January 1941. Wang's puppet government set up a puppet Central Reserve Bank, with puppet Finance Minister Zhou Fohai concurrently serving as president, to issue central reserve bonds. It is hoped that the Central Reserve Bills will replace the legal tender issued by the Nationalist Government, as well as the military bills, Huaxing Bills and Union Bank Bills issued by the Japanese, and become the main currency in circulation.

Once Wang's puppet government can achieve this goal, it can use the Central Reserve Bank and the Central Reserve Bank as leverage to leverage the financial system in the Yangtze River Delta and even the whole country. Formation of new financial networks. Take control of the national economy!

In order to achieve this goal, the Wang puppet regime also tried to control strategic materials in the Yangtze River Delta and even in all regions. In March 1941, the Wang puppet regime set up a township clearing committee, gathered a large number of Japanese puppet troops, and carried out a township cleanup operation together with the genuine Japanese army. In addition to militarily exterminating the guerrillas, it also forcibly occupied land, issued paper money indiscriminately, and forcibly occupied major industrial and mining enterprises in the form of entrusted management. Material control was introduced, and a wide variety of exorbitant taxes and large quantities of grain and cotton were collected.

Wang Jingwei is making such a fuss, it is nothing to the Japanese, and using China to control China is the most worry-free thing for the Japanese. But Lao Jiang, who was in Chongqing, couldn't sit still. Wang Jingwei has been making trouble for a long time, which is shaking his country! What's more, Wang Jingwei is also pressing step by step in order to implement the China Reserve Bond in Shanghai.

The implementation of the China Reserve Bills in Shanghai has not been smooth. In addition to the natural distrust and resistance of various industries and shops in Shanghai to the Wang puppet government, which does not know how long it can be found, the major banks also do not buy Wang Jingwei's account.

In order to implement the Central Reserve Bills, Wang Jingwei ordered the four major banks under the jurisdiction of Lao Chiang, namely the Central Bank, China, Communications, and Peasants, to withdraw from the public concession. At the same time, the four major banks also put forward their respective requirements for opening accounts of 100,000 yuan of China Savings Bonds. Among the four major banks, the central bank is under the direct jurisdiction of Chongqing, and it is impossible to lose face. Therefore, he rejected all of Wang Jingwei's requests, and the remaining three banks moved to the French Concession. However, he did not agree to the request to open an account with the China Reserve Bonds, but only politely refused and temporarily stored the China Reserve Bonds sent by Wang's puppet government in the warehouse.

Chiang Kai-shek was furious when he heard the news! At this time, the Silian General Office, the highest financial and economic control agency of the Chongqing Nationalist Government and chaired by Lao Jiang himself, demanded that the four banks in Shanghai should stick to their positions and not make the slightest concession! At the same time, Dai Li was ordered to have the agents of the Shanghai Naval Command Station dispatch on a large scale to assassinate the traitors and employees of the puppet China Savings Bank set up by Wang's puppet government! Be sure to stop the issuance of the China Reserve Bills in Shanghai!

After Chen Gongshu and Chen Mo received the order, they knew that this dogskin was upside down, and it was purely a fight between immortals and mortals, but they also had to carry out the order of the peak.

On January 30, 1941, Li Mingda, the commissioner of the Investigation Department of the Pseudo-Central Savings Bank, was killed.

On 20 February, 1941, two grenades were thrown into the headquarters of the Shanghai branch of the Wang Puppet Central Reserve Bank and exploded, causing considerable material losses and seriously injuring several employees of the Wang Puppet China Reserve Bank.

On March 3, 1941, Fu Rongbing, a staff member of the Shanghai branch of the China Reserve Bank, was shot dead.

On March 21, 1941, Lou Dong, deputy director of the Investigation Department of the Fifth Council of the Provisional Central Reserve Bank, was stabbed to death.

For a time, everyone in Wang's puppet China Savings Bank was panicked. Wang Jingwei and Zhou Fohai were furious and ordered their No. 76 spies to kill back!

On March 21, 1941, Lou Dong, deputy director of the Investigation Department of the Fifth Council of the Provisional Central Reserve Bank, was assassinated on the same day and night. Eleven p.m.

Agent No. 76 took two cars and went to the intersection of Xiafei Road and Saizhong Road, in front of the staff dormitory of the Jiangsu Farmers Bank. Put the car horizontally at the intersection of the lane, set up a machine gun, deceive the door open, and rush in! Kill people when you see them, and show no mercy! Only three people saw the opportunity quickly and hid under the bed or behind the door, surviving.

A few hours later, Wu Sibao, the No. 76 cadre, led a large number of No. 76 spies to surround the staff dormitory of the Bank of China, which was also on Gisfield Road, and arrested 128 people!

On March 23, 1941, after the agents of No. 76 had arrested the 128 people in order of their importance, the Wang puppet police department explained in the "China Daily" controlled by Wang's puppet government that the reason for the arrest of these bank employees was that Wang had repeatedly assassinated the staff of the puppet China Savings Bank in Shanghai by the Chongqing side. He also warned Chongqing that if the assassination continued, the lives of the arrested bank employees would be in danger. In order to put pressure on Lao Jiang in Chongqing, Wang's puppet government also published a list of 128 people arrested by him.

However, such a threat did not work for Lao Jiang. Lao Jiang belongs to a pure shun donkey, and once he is threatened, he will lose his temper. Back then, Xiao Zhang's classmates admonished, and at first Lao Jiang didn't listen to any persuasion, but Song Meiling persuaded Lao Jiang. But later, Xiao Zhang was also imprisoned for half his life. It shows the deep temper of Lao Jiang's unthreatened shun donkey.

The threat of Wang's puppet government, it's no wonder that Lao Jiang can agree! After the arrest of 128 employees, the four major banks stationed in Shanghai were ordered to open normally!

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