There was no official Japanese Concession in old Shanghai, but as more and more Japanese expatriates settled in Hongkou, the Hongkou area gradually became a Japanese Concession.

After the opening of Shanghai in the mid-19th century, the first to come were the Western powers, and later the Japanese began to live in Shanghai on a large scale, most of them lived in the area of Wusong Road and Wuchang Road in Hongkou, and many Japanese opened yarn factories and textile factories in Hongkou and Yangpu. In 1923, after the opening of the regular route from Shanghai to Nagasaki, the number of Japanese expatriates began to increase dramatically.

In this area of Hongkou, there are many factories opened by Japanese, and there are also Japanese shops on the roadside, watch shops, clothing stores, photo studios, izakayas, and even brothels opened by Japanese.

This is not a new thing, and it can be found in Shanghai now. (Note 1)

Of course, in addition to the normal businessmen, the Japanese intelligence agency in the old Shanghai was also set up here.

A heavily guarded building in the Japanese ghetto of Hongkou was one of the locations of the Japanese intelligence agencies in old Shanghai.

In one of the rooms, Tani Sansango was kneeling on a tatami mat, and in the host's place, a man in a kimono in his fifties.

The man in the kimono was named Kojiro Sada, and his ostensible identity was that of a scholar who had published many books on Sino-Japanese relations, and his actual position was that of the head of the investigation section of the Manchurian Railway.

The official title of "Investigation Section Chief" does not need to be detailed, and everyone must know what he does.

I saw Gu Sansanwu bow slightly, and said: "Section Chief Sada, my basic investigation work is almost completed, and I will complete the investigation report as soon as possible, and then submit it to you." ”

Kojiro Sada nodded and said, "I heard that your investigation has encountered some difficulties?" ”

"It's not difficult, it's just that when I was investigating at the middle school affiliated to Fudan University, Yamazaki lost to a Chinese." Gu Sansanwu said.

"Yamazaki also confessed to the Chinese?" Sada Kojiro said casually.

"He deserves the consequences for his own mistakes. I have asked him to pack his bags and return to Manchurian tomorrow, and this kind of loser will only bring us shame if he continues to stay in Shanghai. Gu Sansanwu replied mercilessly.

"Oh, as long as it doesn't affect the progress of the investigation, it's up to you to arrange everything." Sata Kojiro paused in his voice, and then said: "Although this investigation was carried out by our South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd., the military department still attached great importance to it. ”

"There are some things that I don't have to hide from you, sooner or later, this land under our feet will belong to the Great Japanese Empire, and in the future, our brave samurai will enter this land and occupy this place."

"And at that time, the middle school students you have been investigating these days are likely to become soldiers, they will become warriors, they will become warriors who will resist us, and they will cause casualties to our warriors! They will become our enemies. Therefore, we must have an understanding of the enemy, and there is an old Chinese saying that knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will win all battles, and this is the truth. ”

Gu Sansanwu nodded very seriously: "Section Chief, I understand, your words made me pause, my work today is to prepare for the occupation of this land in the future." If we understand the physical fitness of Chinese teenagers, we understand the physical fitness of future Chinese soldiers. ”

"Yes, young people are the future of a country, and the young people of China will meet our soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire in the future, and the more we know about them, the better the chance of winning. Therefore, I hope that your investigation report will be as detailed as possible, and this report may serve as a reference for the military department to formulate offensive strategies in the future. If you have any difficulties, you can come to me directly. Hirojiro Sada said.

"Please rest assured, Mr. Sada, that I will do my best to complete this work." Gu Sansanwu said and bowed again.

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Of course, Gu Sansanwu will not be idle and run from the northeast to Shanghai to find fault, he is under the banner of sports exchanges, and the real purpose is to investigate the physical fitness of Shanghai middle school students.

As mentioned before, the government of the Republic of China may not know how many newspapers there were in old Shanghai, but the Japanese do, and this is enough to show that Japan's investigation of China has reached a pervasive situation.

In fact, the Japanese military also knows very well that the time for a full-scale invasion of China is not yet yet possible, and there are still hundreds of thousands of Northeast troops in Zhang Shaoshuai's place, and it is not possible for Japan to enter the Guannai in a short period of time. It is for this reason that they will ask the Manchurian Railway to investigate the physical fitness of Chinese teenagers.

These teenagers are still young, they are just students, but when the war breaks out in the future, they will be adults, they will become soldiers, they will take up guns and fight the invaders. In particular, these teenagers who have gone to school may become officers in the future and become the main force in the fight against the invaders.

Gu Sansanwu was once the first Asian sprinter, and also participated in the Olympic Games, this identity is a good cover, for sports is still in the barbaric era of China, Gu Sansanwu's visit, there is a feeling of "welcome a big cow to come and guide the work". Gu Sansanwu's investigation also went well, and he collected a lot of information about the physical fitness of Chinese teenagers.

In fact, Gu Sansanwu's data collection work has almost been completed, and Yamazaki Masao's provocation in Fudan High School is not within Gu Sansanwu's expectations, he didn't expect his disciple to be so carried away, and he had to take the initiative to add a play after winning the game. He didn't expect that a Chen Qiang would emerge and defeat Masao Yamazaki like a crusher.

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Early the next morning, Chen Qiang came to the door of Fudan High School, and he planned to return the vest, shorts and rubber shoes to Wang Changshou.

After waiting for a while, he saw Wang Changshou coming from a distance in a chartered car, and Chen Qiang immediately greeted him.

Chen Qiang deliberately put on an expression of concern for others, and said: "Young master, I'm really sorry yesterday, I didn't have time to participate in the tug-of-war competition and left, I have no choice, I won that Japanese, if the school investigates and knows that I am not a student of the school, maybe it will also affect you, young master!" ”

"I understand, you slipped away in advance, and I will save trouble, you are going to be caught, I am nerve-wracked, I don't even know how to explain it to the teacher. But you were really good enough yesterday to outperform the Japanese, how did you do that? Wang Changshou asked curiously.

"It's just running, and I just think that someone in front of me wants to buy my newspaper, and I can run as fast as I can. I'm a newspaper seller, and I have to run around every day to earn a living, and if I can't run fast, I'm afraid I won't even be able to earn money before eating. Chen Qiang replied.

Of course, he had to say this deliberately, he had no power, no power and no background, he could only hide his clumsiness, and if he talked about any sprinting skills, it would bring unnecessary trouble.

The little fat man Wang Changshou is also easy to fool, anyway, he doesn't know how to sprint, but he thinks what Chen Qiang said is very reasonable.

"Young master, I'll give you back the clothes and rubber shoes." Chen Qiang said and took out the vest, shorts and rubber shoes.

"I'll give it to you, it's old, and I can't use it anymore if you wear it, so you can keep it for yourself." Wang Changshou waved his hand, and then said, "It's time for me to go to class, let's go first." ”

Chen Qiang didn't want to owe Wang Changshou a favor, this vest and shorts were not worth a few dollars, but rubber shoes were not cheap, at this time, China did not have a rubber industry after all, and he could not produce rubber shoes, and rubber shoes were imported. Scarcity is expensive, even second-hand old rubber shoes, you can go to the clothing store to sell a few dollars.

Chen Qiang stopped Wang Changshou with one hand, took out a few Fengyue tabloids with the other, and handed them to Wang Changshou: "This is my new newspaper in the morning, give it to you, even if I thank you for sending me clothes and shoes." ”

As soon as Wang Changshou heard that it was given away, he immediately took the newspaper and put it in his schoolbag.

At this time, at the gate of the school, a pair of eyes were staring here, it was a teacher from Fudan High School.

"Isn't that newsboy the classmate who outperformed the Japanese yesterday? What a newspaper boy he is! No wonder the teachers in the school didn't know him, it turned out that he wasn't a student of our school at all! ”

The teacher's eyes rolled and he remembered the scene of the whole school looking for people yesterday.

"I heard that Principal Li was looking for him yesterday, but the whole school couldn't find him, and Principal Li was very unhappy at that time, so that several directors were disciplined, should I tell the news to several directors?"

The teacher looked at Wang Changshou again: "I also have an impression of that fat man, it seems that his name is Wang Changshou, and his academic performance is not very good on weekdays, it seems that Wang Changshou knows that newsboy." ”

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Note 1: I'm talking about finding izakaya now, so if you want to be crooked, shouldn't you take out your recommendation ticket?