When the Western Route Army was rectifying military discipline, the Young Guards in Shanghai, thousands of miles away, were also undergoing the same test.

After entering the city, with the assistance of Fu Guoqiang and others, the Young Guards of the Northern Expeditionary Army took over the barracks of the troops stationed in Shanghai before, and also took over all the power structures here.

In order to prevent all kinds of adverse effects brought about by the transition time, during this time, Xu Shaozhou, the captain of the guards, announced the imposition of military control over Shanghai in accordance with the orders from above, and the officers and men of the young guards who were fully armed took to the streets, replaced the policemen on the streets, and began to maintain public order.

Xu Shaozhou served as the temporary governor of Shanghai and served as the temporary mayor, and at first he did not know how to manage the city, but after just a few days of management, he found that the fighting here was not inferior to the battlefield, but the situation was more serious.

After entering the city, Xu Shaozhou and Sun Yuanliang also carried out a clear division of labor. Xu Shaozhou's main work was to focus on economic order, and Sun Yuanliang was in charge of temporary control. Before the two, Xu Shaozhou's work was obviously more professional.

But then again, standing guard in Shanghai is not an easy task. Everyone knows that there are many forces here, and there are forces from all sides, in addition to those asset tycoons, there are also foreign forces in the concession, and there are various gangster forces such as the Green Gang and the Axe Gang on the ground, so it is not easy to gain a foothold here.

What started out as calm soon changed. On the seventh day after the Northern Expeditionary Army took over Shanghai, the people on the streets on this day suddenly found that the prices of goods had risen a lot compared with last night, and the prices were still rising for the necessities of life, such as rice, flour, grain and oil.

At first, the citizens thought that these were just normal phenomena, but after a few days, the original prices could not help but not fall, but rose all the way, and finally simply rose to three times the previous price, and more seriously, even if it rose three times, many rice shops are still on the board and closed down, the reason is that there is no rice and noodles to sell at all.

Ten days after the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Shanghai, not only were there no people to sell the necessities of life, but even other items were scarce, and all the shops and shops were closed. Some of the officers of the Young Guard, who smoked regularly, found that they could not even buy a pack of cigarettes, let alone anything else, after searching several streets.

The paralysis of the market made the security in Shanghai even worse, and the people were panicked, and everyone was full of resentment and hostility towards the new Northern Expeditionary Army.

Xu Shaozhou realized the seriousness of the problem, until then, he did not notice the changes in the market, and during this time he focused his work on the reception and management of various universities in Shanghai. This matter was instructed to him by Huang Ke, and after Huang Ke laid down a big city, he counted and summarized the technical talents in the engineering field of the university here, because Huang Ke knew that these people would play an important role in the future construction.

Because of the idle in the past few days, he put the market on hold for a while, but he didn't expect that when he continued to observe in turn, the market order had reached such a bad point, Xu Shaozhou had no choice, he directly reported to Huang Ke himself.

After Huang Ke heard the report, he first scolded Xu Shao.

"Something so big, why didn't you ask for instructions and not report it?"

"Report to Comrade Xinghua, it's my dereliction of duty, I've been busy with the statistical work with university professors these days, and a physics expert who studied in the United States came, so I forgot about it." Xu Shaozhou blamed himself a little, he knew that it was a dereliction of duty for him to have such a thing.

"You know what? If someone dies, you and I will be in the book, and we will be criticized by thousands of people throughout the ages" Huang Ke has a deeper experience than others, he has not traveled through the time to study the famine in Chinese history due to lack of food, especially the famine caused by man-made reasons, Huang Ke believes that there is no reason to shirk.

"Yes!" Xu Shaozhou didn't know how to answer on the other end of the phone.

After being silent for a moment, Huang Ke adjusted his tone: "Shao Zhou, tell me your opinion?" ”

"Yes!" Xu Shaozhou actually had an opinion for a long time, and in such a short period of time of fusion, someone must be making trouble behind it.

"Report to Comrade Xinghua, I think like this: Shanghai is the largest city in the Far East, and if such a situation can occur in a short period of time, someone must be making trouble behind it, and I have entrusted Comrade Fu Guoqiang to investigate this point. The most important thing at the moment is to stabilize the situation, otherwise it will have a very negative impact on the Northern Expedition we are carrying out and the governance that we will carry out in the future. ”

"Go on" Huang Ke was very relieved that Xu Shaozhou could have such an opinion.

"Yes, Comrade Xinghua. I think the most urgent thing at the moment is to have food for the citizens of Shanghai, and at present our Young Guards have some reserve materials, which we can take out, and we should also mobilize materials from other places to Shanghai as soon as possible to hit the high prices."

After finishing speaking, Xu Shaozhou deliberately paused, waiting for Huang Ke's reaction, and only after Huang Ke did not react did he reply: "Report to Comrade Xinghua, my thoughts are like this, the report is over!" ”

Huang Ke on the other end of the phone gave some praise for his idea, "Your idea has improved compared to before, and this way of dealing with it is basically appropriate." However, you must remember that it is necessary to find out as soon as possible those who are trying to endanger the economic order, to kill a group of such black-hearted market monopolies, and to properly rectify the order in Shanghai. ”

"Yes, Comrade Xinghua!" After hanging up the phone, Huang Ke also began to make preparations for this matter. He first reported the incident to Wang Jingwei of the Guangzhou government, and began to mobilize grain from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places of the Eastern Route Army to enter the Shanghai market.

Under the coordination of the Guangzhou government, many parts of the Eastern Route Army began to be economically transferred to Shanghai, and with the shipload of supplies pulled by large cargo ships emitting black smoke from the Shanghai wharf, Shanghai's market gradually returned to normal. The merchants who tried to make money in this way lost all their money, and at the same time, it also gave many people a new understanding of the Northern Expeditionary Army and the new government.

However, in just one week, because of the chaos of Shanghai's economy, Xu Shaozhou lost a lot of weight, and he knew that at this time, he needed to find a knowledgeable person to help him, if he kept doing it like this, it was inevitable that this situation would not occur in the future.

Soon, Wu Guozhen, who had just returned from the United States, was appointed secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Office, and was actually in charge of Shanghai's economic work, becoming Xu Shaozhou's right-hand man.

Wu Guozhen is the same age as Xu Shaozhou, is a doctor of Princeton University, after returning to China, he was originally going to work in Wuhan, after Huang Ke met him, he found that although this person was young, but he still had some attainments in the economy, at this time Huang Ke did not have a better candidate in his hands, so he was assigned to Shanghai to assist Xu Shaozhou and others in their work.

In the aftermath, his performance really lived up to Huang Ke's expectations, and Shanghai, the leader of the Far East, showed a thriving economy.

While restoring order in Shanghai, Fu Guoqiang has also made some progress in investigating the manipulators behind the scenes. After a period of investigation, Fu Guoqiang discovered that this action to raise prices was instigated by the forces of Britain, France, Japan, and other countries in the concessions, and that the Japanese intelligence agencies Fujita Tsuyoshi and Ouyang Hui and others could not be dragged out.

With the help of the gangsters, these mercenary businessmen hoarded some important daily necessities, making it difficult for the common people to live in a secure life.

Fu Guoqiang has made a list of some major businessmen, and is ready to arrest them at any time and sit down to make an example. It's just that these people are all hiding in the concession, so they can't do it. After discussing with Xu Shaozhou, Xu Shaozhou felt that it was not appropriate to make any greater moves for the time being, so as not to affect the stability of Shanghai.

After the restoration of economic order, the military control in Shanghai also began to be lifted. After the establishment of the Songhu Garrison Command, the troops stationed in Shanghai also began to enter a peacetime stationing state, and people from various industries such as police, highway and tram drivers began to go to work normally, and Shanghai Tang returned to its former prosperous appearance.

After the military control was lifted, Deputy Captain Sun Yuanliang was also relieved from heavy military affairs, and he was appointed as one of the standing committee members of the Songhu Garrison Command to preside over the training work.

After a lot of free time, Sun Yuanliang met some people in Shanghai's business community and the underworld under the introduction of Fu Guoqiang, from Huang Jinrong, Du Yuesheng, to Fang Pingxiang. After a period of contact, Fu Guoqiang didn't know how Sun Yuanliang was so familiar with these people?

Fu Guoqiang just knew that his uncle Fang Pingxiang gave Sun Yuanliang an American-made Austin car, and Sun Yuanliang often drove the Austin sedan to Shili Yangchang, sometimes going to the dance hall to sing and dance, and sometimes not even coming back.

Soon after, another merchant gave him a bungalow in the concession, and Sun Yuanliang moved out of the office and lived directly in the house, calling several servants, and different women came to serve him every day.

Xu Shaozhou also had to ask several times, but although Sun Yuanliang was his deputy, he did not belong to Xu Shaozhou's jurisdiction in terms of qualifications and administration, so it was not easy for Xu Shaozhou to give orders to him directly.

In addition, the political views of the two have always been different, and after several quarrels, the two are almost openly opposed.

There is no higher rank in Shanghai, or there is no one who can control him, so Sun Yuanliang began to have no scruples, and at night he still changed into a suit and drove an Austin sedan to Shili Yangchang, and tonight a businessman wanted to introduce him to a beautiful woman who had worked in the "Declaration" before. As soon as he heard the word beauty, Sun Yuanliang's heart rippled.