He reluctantly took the master of ceremonies stuff for him, and someone else (most likely Liu Yusheng) had written the manuscript in advance, and in a slightly Suzhou accented Chinese, he recited a few nonsense words such as the same language and the same kind between China and Japan, and they should support each other and encourage progress together, and then quickly sat down and wiped the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief.

Lin Xiuxuan sighed in his heart. During the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Wen Lanting led the entire Shanghai industrial and commercial community to raise money for the national army, and made a lot of efforts, but the situation changed, and in the end, this business tycoon still couldn't withstand the coercion and temptation, and took refuge in the Japanese, and now he is the president of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce in Japan.

Then introduced the director of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, Yuan Dengxu, chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, who hurriedly stood up to say hello and then sat down quickly, for fear of being photographed too clearly by the photographer.

During the Battle of Songhu, Yuan Denglu used to be the secretary general of the Refugee Relief Association, and he also did a lot of things for the country and the people, but it is a pity that in the end, he was as late as Wen Lanting.

This was followed by a number of movie stars, newspaper editors-in-chief, singers and Peking Opera celebrities.

After the introduction, the traditional singing, dancing and opera performances of the two countries began. After about an hour of grinding, Li Xianglan appeared in the finale and won full applause with a song "Night Fragrance"; Finally, there is a Peking Opera excerpt "Shiro Visits His Mother", the organizer arranged such a play, and its deceptive motives cannot be said to be not deeply hidden, but after Lieutenant General Suzuki's Chinese and Japanese positions are each safe, and the master and servant have different opening remarks, these subtle intentions have also been wasted.

After all the performances, there was still an after-show hidden in the Xingya Club. I saw that the curtain behind the stage opened, and there was a bronze bell hanging. Obviously, in the eyes of the Chinese Chinese, it is very unlucky to hang a bell at the venue, but although the Japanese are still dreaming of cultural invasion at this time, there is no Chinese taboo at all.

The master of ceremonies invited Wen Lanting, president of the Chamber of Commerce, to ring the "peace prayer" bell specially invited from the Meiji Shrine in Japan with the Japanese representatives.

The loud bell rang, the venue was full of cheers, and the week-long cultural exchange activities were officially launched. Lin Xiuxuan used the camera on his tie clip to record this particularly funny scene, in this place where there is no distinction between black and white, invasion can become goodwill; The death knell can also be used as a blessing, and he thought about bringing the video back to Cheng Dayang and them in the future.

Then the guests left, and the host invited the participants to attend the cold dinner reception in the restaurant next door.

The two of them entered the big dining room one after the other, and found that those VIPs did not come, maybe they had other safer places to drink and feast, so that there would be no chance to get close to gather intelligence, but these are not in charge, it is better to feed themselves first. He guessed that many Japanese VIPs should stay in the International Hotel, so he would have the opportunity to find out some news in the future. Of course, what he wants is not exactly the equipment that 419 needs, he has never told Cheng Dayang about this, the Japanese cruiser that 419 sank was a week ago, so the Japanese army base camp must have known about it, is there a survivor on board? How does the Japanese Navy judge this? Of course, there would be no news in the newspapers, but it was really something he wanted to figure out.

The so-called buffet party could not be a buffet format, and the two of them each took a plate and went to the place where the food and drinks were placed in the middle, and took some food.

Lin Wuxin ate, kept walking back and forth, paying attention to the words of the people around him, hoping to find something useful from it, and after a while, he heard someone talking about black market trading, so he pretended to have foreign exchange in his hand and was in a hurry to make a move, and took the initiative to go up to talk, but the other party was not guarded, and finally got some news. It is said that on the edge of the French Concession of Shiliupu, specifically near the former site of the Bank of China, which was bombed by Japanese planes in 1937, there is currently a large black market for foreign exchange, which can be traded in everything, including tobacco and munitions. If you go for the first time, you must follow acquaintances, and don't bring real money on you, because there has been a big increase in robbery and murder cases there recently, and the Chinese detective can't cover some of them.

The above news seems to be similar to what the director of the Merlin Canning Factory said before.

Lin Xiuxuan tried his best to listen to the news while talking and laughing, and after a while he heard a bunch of people talking, and the Jew Mahler was in a hurry to take action about the shipyard. He hurried to the side, only to hear one person say: "In such a situation, who would dare to take over the shipyard?" Maybe one day the Japanese will confiscate the shipyard. ”

They nodded in agreement, and the man continued:

"Now the machinery and equipment in the factory are also sold at a low price, this Jew is a ghost, where was there such a cheap thing before, it must be seen that the rental industry is going to change, and he is in a hurry to escape from Shanghai."

Lin Xiuxuan nodded yes, and inquired carefully with the man in Shanghainese dialect that would never make people suspicious, the other party actually knew machinery and equipment, and was willing to show off what he had seen, telling him that there were several sets of forging equipment in the Mahler factory waiting to get rid of it, and there were also German Aimak metalworking machine tools, which were discounted, and anyone who had been to see and understood machinery was not greedy, it was a good thing, but unfortunately the plant was open for more than 2 months, and no one bought it. The people of Shanghai are no more stupid than the Jews, and everyone knows that this Mahler shipyard is the object of long-coveted control of the Japanese Ministry of Munitions, and if it were not for the British-funded background, it would have been "requisitioned" long ago.

Cheng Dayang needed high-precision milling machines and punching machines, which should be found in MAHLE's shipyard, and the large forging equipment may not be able to be transported to the island, but it is possible to consider having the on-board technicians bring the drawings here for processing and take them with them. In particular, I also heard that there are still a few machine boats parked in the dry dock of the ship repair yard on Fuxing Island, which were originally inland river anti-smuggling boats of the Republic of China*, and now the only possible buyers are the water police under the Wang puppet government, and they are only willing to pay the Zhongzhu vouchers, for the Mahler family, who are in a hurry to leave China, these waste papers are completely useless, so the ships have been left there like this, obviously if there is hard currency in hand, it can be easily bought. Lin Xiuxuan secretly kept these things in mind, and waited for other conditions to be ripe to do it.

He continued to weave around the various piles of people, eavesdropping on news that might be useful to him, and gradually came to the Japanese again.

Unlike the Chinese who talk about how to survive in this troubled world, or where to covet some small gains, these Japanese talk mostly about the trend of the German blitzkrieg and the possibility of Japanese expansion, and they are all very optimistic. Many people are jubilant that Japanese troops may occupy the French Indochina Peninsula this month, but there are also some people who are worried that reaching out to Southeast Asia under the nose of the United States may lead to unforeseen consequences, and that the United States has long been unleashed to stop exporting strategic resources to Japan.

This argument immediately sparked controversy, with most Japanese believing that there was no harm in a showdown with the United States. In particular, Nitta, the principal of Hibashi Elementary School, was dismissive of this kind of view of the United States at every turn, and the American view was the first to look forward. Lin Xiuxuan found that this belligerent old man seemed to be the convener of the Japanese diaspora in Shanghai, and he had some prestige, as long as he spoke, others would come over and listen quietly, and no one intervened.

"Anyone who says that the United States will become the biggest obstacle to Japan is a fool." The old man said angrily, apparently a little drunk, "I have traveled to the United States, and the Americans, free and loose, extremely self-interested, and unpatriotic; So they're just very weak giants. As the old man spoke, he stretched out his left hand to show everyone, and Lin Xiuxuan noticed that half of his finger was missing, as if it had been cut off by a sharp blade, "In the thirty-seventh year of the Meiji era, when I was in Prince Zaihito's cavalry regiment, I fought with the Russians, and I exchanged one finger for 10 Russian heads. At the end of the day, white people are trash. With that, he burst out laughing uncontrollably.

The Japanese woman wearing a kimono clogs next to her saw that he was a little drunk and lost his temper, so she hurriedly came over to play a round: "Some of our heads are drunk, so everyone laughs......"

"Bastard, the man speaks, and he doesn't back down."

The old Japanese woman resigned to it. Nitta continued to raise his voice and talk about the glory of the past.

In addition to bragging, what this old man talked about had no intelligence value, so Lin Xiuxuan turned around and left, and walked around the huge buffet venue a few times, and sure enough, there were no big people, and he judged that the organizer should have found a more private and safe place in the hotel to entertain VIPs for dinner.