In the spacious office of the Liaison Department of Xiamen Xingya Academy, Shigenobu Sawashige was talking with Consul General Uchida.

"It's so funny, the Ministry of Industry of the Gudao Public Concession actually thinks that we are 'throwing stones to ask for directions', and laughs at us for not daring to take them?" Ze Shigenobu paused and sneered and said: "But what they didn't expect was that this time we would take a salary from the bottom of the kettle and completely drive them out of Gulangyu Island, so as to achieve the strategic goal of transforming the two islands of Xiamen and Guyu from a 'base camp of military aggression' to the 'base camp of economic offensive' of our Imperial Japanese Army!" ”

Uchida looked at Sawashigenobu in surprise and asked, "Your Excellency, Britain, France and the United States have united in Gulangyu and have a very arrogant attitude towards Japan. The US Government not only sternly rejected our demands for armed interference in the administration of the Gulangyu Public Concession and for amending the "Gulangyu Land Charter," but urged us to return the occupied Xiamen area to the Chongqing Government. The British government, on the other hand, ignored our demands and declared that it would not allow us to change the concession system, and at the same time urged the Japanese Empire to withdraw the Japanese troops from Gulangyu in accordance with the recommendations of Britain, the United States, and France. This situation is very unfavorable for us, how can we get rid of them as soon as possible? ”

Ze Chongxin stood up and said expressionlessly: "You must know that the victory or defeat of the war depends on the time, place, and people, and we have already occupied the location and people, and the time will come soon!" ”

As he spoke, Shigenobu Sawa came to his desk and handed a telegram on the desk to Uchida, saying, "This is the cipher message that the 'Snow Wolf' just sent. ”

Uchida hurriedly took it with both hands and looked at it carefully.

Shigenobu Sawa continued: "Here, we must be grateful for the outbreak of war in Europe. After the outbreak of the European War, in the face of Germany's lightning attack and the fall of Poland, Britain, France and other countries were already suffering from internal and external troubles, and it was difficult for them to take into account their interests in China. According to the intelligence of the 'Snow Wolf', the British and French fleets and marines have begun to secretly withdraw from Gulangyu, and in a few days, only one of our opponents will be left on Gulangyu Island, the United States. ”

Uchida said with a look of surprise, "Yo Xi, that's great." Although the Americans are strong, they are far away from their homeland, and they are also lonely in front of our great Japanese empire! His face was full of pride and pride.

Sawashigenobu nodded and said, "Yes, our 'Jasmine Bloom' operation won't have much time left for them. From now on, you must cooperate with the action plan, and you must instruct the Ritai ronin in Gulangyu to set up cigarette stalls and gambling halls all over Gulangyu to carry out robbery, kidnapping, and extortion, so as to completely confuse the public security on the island and make it difficult for the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau to put an end to it! ”

"Hey!" Uchida responded excitedly.

The next day, in the conference room of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, a negotiation on the fate of Gulangyu Island was taking place between the Council of the Ministry of Industry and the Japanese.

Consul General Uchida arrogantly said: Our plan for resolving the "Gulangyu incident" has been submitted to the Ministry of Industry and Bureau for many days, but there has been no reply so far.

The director of the British Ministry of Labor said with a smiling face: Your country's proposal is very good, and our Ministry of Industry has unanimously agreed to your country's plan after careful study.

That being the case, let's now hold a ceremony for the signing of the agreement.

The director of the Ministry of Industry looked at the directors and saw that no one raised any objections, so he hurriedly said, "Okay, we'll sign it now." ”

Hong Xingtai smiled and put the two identical texts of the Gulangyu Agreement in front of the director of the Ministry of Industry and the consul general Uchida.

Commander Uchida said to Hong Xingtai: You can inform the directors of the content of the agreement, and if you have different opinions, you can put forward it and revise it.

Hong Xingtai picked up the agreement and read: "There are five articles in this concession agreement:

1. The Ministry of Industry Bureau shall immediately implement the matters concerning the cooperation between the police of the Consulate General of Japan and the police of the Ministry of Industry Bureau;

2. The Bureau of the Ministry of Industry immediately adopts the Japanese as the Minister of Supervision and Police, and the Japanese supervise the police chief of the Ministry of Industry Bureau directly, and manage the incident on the Japanese side and the cooperation between Japan and the Ministry of Industry;

3. If possible in terms of finance, the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry will consider the issue of employing a number of Taiwanese police officers;

4. The issue of the succession of Taiwanese ginseng regime and Chinese directors shall be temporarily postponed;

5. The Japanese Consulate and the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry shall cooperate with the Consulate General and the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry to prohibit acts of disturbing public order in the concession, and the two sides shall exchange various information.

In addition, there are three articles of the agreement on the "suppression of anti-Japanese actions" and five articles of the agreement on the implementation of the "ban on anti-Japanese actions".

After Hong Xingtai finished reading, Consul General Uchida looked left and right and said, "If you have no objection from the Ministry of Industry Bureau, please ask Your Excellency the Director General to sign two documents."

The director of the Ministry of Industry couldn't bear to pick up a pen and signed his English name on the "Gulangyu Concession Agreement."

Uchida signed his name with a smile on his face.

The two parties exchange texts and then sign them.

At the end of the signing ceremony, Uchida stretched out his hand with a smile, and the director of the Ministry of Industry also slowly stretched out his hand with great reluctance, and sparse applause rang out below.