I asked for a meal all the way in the morning, threw a few dishes of the devil at noon, and crashed into the Jufu class, this bath was also soaked through, the wine was also comfortable, I listened to Kunqu Opera and listened to the big opera, the beauties had seen enough, the traitors also killed two, this day is more tired than fighting a day's battle!

I pondered until I was down-to-earth, slept soundly, and got up early in the morning to go back to my comrades, but I didn't expect to enter such a dark courtyard and see an old man who was about the same as the living dead was enough to beat the drum in my heart, and this is not enough! Haunted! What is this coming out of the coffin!

When the coffin lid was pushed halfway, a shadow sat up from inside, which looked like a person, with his hand on the side of the coffin, he jumped out after rubbing it, and stood firmly. Secretary Zhang!

As mentioned in the previous document, this secretary rushed into the city from the railway station, and found the door of the mansion according to the address given by the commissioner, and was led in to meet the master, and handed over the note written by the commissioner, and the old man read the strip on the white gauze lamp on the table, and after looking the people up and down, he asked the old man who was guarding the door to go out and close the door.

As soon as I talked, I knew that the owner of the big house, this old man is Mr. Zhu, it is said that Commissioner Zhang's family and Mr. Zhu's family are world friends, since Mr. Zhang sacrificed his life for the country, his two sons have disappeared, Mr. Zhu only knows that the eldest son of the Zhang family went to the mountains, and the second son was sent out of the country, and no one knows what he did.

Today, this gentleman came with the note of the eldest son of the Zhang family, and the signature behind it is still a nickname that Mr. Zhu is familiar with, and Mr. Zhu has been depressed for a long time, and his mood has become a little clearer.

Zhang Dazhong directly stated his identity as an underground party according to the commissioner's instructions. Because the commissioner said it. His father's underground party identity. Zhu Shibo has long known that he has helped many times, so he doesn't need to go around in circles, he might as well say things straightforwardly.

Therefore, after Secretary Zhang revealed his identity, when he saw the old gentleman's happy face, he knew that what the commissioner said was right, this nominal president of the Chamber of Commerce was in Cao Ying's heart in Han!

He told me about the situation in which our party was preparing to rescue more than 30 patriotic businessmen and well-known people who had been imprisoned by devils. Mr. Zhu also briefly introduced some of the efforts he has made and the difficulties he is facing.

Listening to Mr. Zhu's introduction, Secretary Zhang completely understood what was going on with the devil this time!

As soon as the war in the Pacific began, the demand for all kinds of materials increased substantially, and all of Japan's domestic strategic reserves had to be used to support the southward war, which was not enough, and the northeast and north China also had to provide a large amount of food and other materials for the southward war.

At the same time, the supply of more than one million soldiers of the entire Chinese dispatch army also needs to be solved on the spot, and don't expect the domestic replenishment on time and in quantity.

Against this background, China's little devils have begun to implement new economic policies in the occupied areas, with the aim of squeezing the common people in the occupied areas to the greatest extent. They provided themselves and supported the Japanese forces fighting in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

There are three commercial roads in Baoding, one is the mountain road. The second is the waterway, the third is the railway, this mountain road refers to the trade with the mountainous areas in the west, from the mountainous areas to buy local products and resell them to Pingjin and other places, the farthest can reach Wuhan, Nanjing, and at the same time the mountainous areas need needles, threads, brains, cloth, and so on to sell into the profit.

This water refers to the Chengnanfu River, that is, the section of the moat outside the south city, where is the freight wharf, in Dawan, that year is also white sails like weaving, the cargo ships are very lively, from this on the ship of the goods can go to Baiyangdian, but also north to Tianjin Wei.

Needless to say, the freight cars from Baoding to Beiping and Wuhan, the bulk goods still have to rely on the railway, after all, the scale of the raid like the Hundred Regiment War is not every year, and the Pinghan Road is much safer than the Zhengtai and other railways.

It is precisely because of the prosperity of the three freight routes that Baoding City has become a very prosperous city in the south of Beiping, and because of the smooth flow of freight, before the little devil came in, the national industry of Baoding City is also very developed, printing factories, printing and dyeing factories have opened a lot of homes, and handicraft workshops are everywhere.

In this way, the devil has increased the already harsh economic management policy, such as this waterway transportation, which used to pay taxes on landed goods and not on offshore goods, but now they are all paid! Moreover, the tax rate has been increased to 30%, which is almost the entire gross profit margin of the retail industry, and according to this tax rate, the small shops in Baoding City that account for the commercial retail industry will have to close down.

As for the railway, except for the luggage carried by the person who takes the train, no Chinese can transport goods by rail! The railway was to serve the war, and the wagons from the northeast could carry rice, soybeans, coal, timber, and so on all the way to Shanghai for loading.

As for the mountain roads, this is the most crucial thing, and in order to implement Okamura Ninji's policy of besieging and trapping the Eighth Route Base Area, all trade with the mountains must be stopped! No matter what you sell, even if you catch a needle, you will be killed on the spot!

These three roads have been reweighted, how do you let the people live? Little devils don't care if you live or not! Is this the end of the card merchant! Wrong! And even worse!

All the households in the city pay the residence tax according to the capitation, and one person does not care about adults and children, one ocean a year! If you get married, have children, die, etc., you have to pay another copy, what is it called? I have a population change charge! That is to say, you can't just die in vain when you die, and you can only be transported out of the city to be buried after paying the money!

There are so many exorbitant taxes like this! To put it bluntly, you just don't do anything and lie at home waiting for death, and according to statistics, you also have to pay five taxes before you are allowed to lie there and wait for death.

These new policies were announced before the old calendar year, and as soon as they were released, the people all exploded! It's not going to be alive! It's the same with businessmen, saying that if you don't do business, you can do it, but no! You also have to open the door to do business, the devil has to watch the market boom, and you have to go to the newspaper and make a movie!

Who would dare to stab? If you make a big fuss, I will arrest you and sentence you to fight against the imperial army, and I can kill you immediately!

These businessmen got together, and after the discussion, they elected more than a dozen leaders in the industry, plus the famous squires on the ground in Baoding, a total of thirty-two, ready to gather the next day to negotiate with the devils, and ask for these conditions to be relaxed.

But I didn't think about it, but after the discussion, the devil knew about it, and even got the list of people who were going to negotiate the conditions, and arrested people according to the list that night, and there was no one of the thirty-two people missing, and they were all arrested to the headquarters of the gendarmerie.

Later, there was one more person, that is, the eldest son of the Zhao family who escaped from the mountains, these thirty-three people were actually arrested by a secret accusation, that is, there was a traitor within the Chamber of Commerce, who? The appearance of the fourth grandmother of the Zhao family, the little white-faced housekeeper!

This kid also participated in the chamber of commerce to discuss the negotiation with the devil, because he was also a representative of the Zhao family's business at that time, and Zhao Si's grandmother was not good at being a woman, so she said to the outside world that the housekeeper would take care of the business on her behalf.

Relying on this whistleblower to betray his compatriots, the devil rewarded the vice president of the chamber of commerce and helped the devil implement a new economic policy.

Mr. Zhu argued with reason, and slapped the table with the top commander of the occupation army of the devil, but the devil was sent out as a gift, and the person who was arrested was not released, and the president of Mr. Zhu's Chamber of Commerce did not take it, and the people did not touch you, and you didn't have to take care of the matter, there was the traitor of the Zhao family's housekeeper to do it.

Why didn't this devil move Mr. Zhu? Didn't you say it earlier, this Baoding Sanjie all studied in Japan, and it is a coincidence that the garrison commander in Baoding City is the son of the landlord who rented a house in Japan when Mr. Zhu was in Japan!

Your Excellency, the commander of the city defense, the first Chinese sentence that this devil can speak is taught by Mr. Zhu, so he will not arrest or kill Mr. Zhu, but will support you and save face.

In fact, since Mr. Zhang Peizhi was martyred, Mr. Zhu had the heart to go to the mountains with Mr. Guo to pull the righteous army to fight the devils, but he couldn't bear to watch the people in the city being wantonly ruined by the devils. ”

To put it bluntly, he gave up his own life's fame, endured humiliation and secretly became the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and there are only a few people who can support him, not to mention, relying on the age relationship of the city defense commander of the devil, some of the people and businessmen who were arrested were saved.

This time, it's not that a Baoding city did this, the whole of North China is the same, and it is said that the city of Beiping is even more powerful, and every day it becomes a truck to pull people who starve to death.

The devil, the commander of the city defense, could not agree to Mr. Zhu's request for release, because the economic agent from Beiping was in charge of the economic purge this time, and the people directly obeyed the orders of the North China Front Headquarters, and he, the commander of the city defense, only had the duty of cooperation.

When he came back from the city defense headquarters, Mr. Zhu instructed the housekeeper to dismiss his family, give more money, and leave an old servant as a companion.

Pulled back a large coffin, put it in the study where he usually reads and writes, the lights at the door and in the yard have been replaced with white paper lamps, the electric light lines and telephone lines have been cut off, and the lights in the backyard are all extinguished at night! It looks like a tomb of the living dead!

Mr. Zhu laughed at himself and said that he was one of the only remaining Baoding three heroes, and now he is a ghost!

As soon as these situations and Secretary Zhang of the underground party said, Secretary Zhang also felt tricky, he originally thought that the devil was still the same as before, casually charged with a crime, in fact, it was to squeeze money, the money was spent in place, the relationship was dredged in place, and people could be released, but I didn't expect that these more than 30 people were ready to kill a hundred people at all, and it seemed that they couldn't be saved even if they were bankrupt! (To be continued......)