Chapter 43, Shanghai Strikes Hard.

At 6 o'clock in the morning of November 12, 1933, two divisions from Hongkou had surrounded the concession, and then more than 6,000 policemen led by more than 100 trucks marched to the north road of the public concession. In November 1843, under the terms of the Treaty of Nanjing, Shanghai became a treaty port open to foreign merchants. In December, Shanghai Daotai and the British consul drew a pattern to determine the north-south boundary of the British concession on the Bund. In 1844, the British-funded Jardine Matheson & Co. and Baoshun & Co. had leased a number of lands. In 1845, the Sino-British Association promulgated the Shanghai Land Charter. In 1846, the western boundary of the British Concession was also determined (present-day Henan Road).

On November 27, 1848, the western boundary of the British Concession was advanced to present-day Xizang Road. In the same year, the Shanghai magistrate granted the request of the American Episcopal missionaries to open an American concession in Hongkou. On September 7, 1853, the Xiaodaohui occupied the county seat of Shanghai, and the Chinese government lost control of the concession. On July 11, 1854, the British, French and American concessions of Shanghai jointly established an independent municipal organization, the "Shanghai Public Concession Bureau", established police forces, and formally formed the first concession in the real sense of the word, a country within a country.

In May 1899, the Shanghai Public Concession was greatly expanded, with an area of 33,503 mu (22 square kilometers), and the east was extended to Zhoujiazui (now the corner of Pingliang Road and Jungong Road); The northern boundary reaches the junction of Shanghai and Baoshan counties; The west side extends all the way to Jing'an Temple. The entire concession is divided into four districts: central, northern, eastern, and western.

At this time, the police in Hongkou District, Shanghai, began to be blocked by French and British troops, and there were special police snipers in those police, and at this time there was a sniper point in the distance, and the two snipers gestured at this time, and they saw a French officer's hat knocked off, and another gun rang out, and I saw an Indian Ah San's head was a bullet empty, and those French soldiers shouted, saying that they really dared to shoot, they still really dared to shoot, and the French soldier was shouting speechlesslyAt this time, there was another gunshot, and one of the Indian Ah San also fell to the ground, and at this time all the soldiers were terrified, and the French soldier dropped his gun and ran to his barracks, shouting that they really dared to shoot.

The soldier just took a good start, and the British soldiers at this time wanted to hold on, but those Indian Ah San couldn't stand it, and suddenly their spirits collapsed, and they ran to their own barracks screaming, and the British soldiers at this time couldn't stand the pressure, and then they were a little better with Indian Ah San and took away the guns in their hands. Those French soldiers didn't even dare to take their guns and ran away, at this time, those policemen and troops drove in the direction of the public concession, and saw a big smoke house, and immediately a policeman took two soldiers to control all the people in the big smoke house, the shopkeeper was still yelling, you know who I am, the soldier smashed the shopkeeper to the ground with the butt of his gun, at this time it was to clean up the money, and there was to gather those big cigarettes and tools.

The wharf of Waibaidu is full of American warships and cargo ships, and they are preparing to transport those arrested thugs to Burma to the gang in Hongkou District, because the price is very high, and the American army is the most pragmatic army, as long as the concession has nothing to do with them, in addition to the public concession, the United States is just a few trading houses, where there are big smoke houses, casinos and brothels everywhere like Britain and France, and the Chinese gang has always been good to their navy, As soon as there is goods to be shipped to the United States, they are all asked for their navy to help transport them, and the current American navy is rich and oily, and those green gang gangsters who are hiding at home are also all captured without leaving behind, so it took three days for the public concession to capture nearly 3,000 green gang gangsters, and even Zhang Xiaolin and his eight King Kong are all caught without leaving behind.

At this time, Wang Yaqiao walked up to Zhang Xiaolin and said, wow, isn't this Second Brother Zhang, you have also been caught, or Du Yuesheng can run away on the first day, Second Brother, you can't live long if you dig coal with your body, so you will still be in charge at that time, eh, a person with a lot of prestige, a tycoon on the beach, I didn't expect to dig coal, haha. No one thought that at this time, Wang Yaqiao, the director of the Intelligence Bureau, still had time to laugh at Zhang Xiaolin, and all the policemen also laughed, and then Wang Yaqiao also said to Zhang Xiaolin, thank you, second brother, we will laugh at your money, and when you go to dig coal, they are still in charge of them.

Then all the troops drove into the east road of the public concession, which was also the most prosperous part of the concession, and the two divisions and 6,000 policemen at this time were the same, but at this time, the people of Hongkou were a little bullying, and they copied the embassies of Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden, saying that they did not have any documents to prove that the Nanjing government agreed that all the people who entered Shanghai should go to dig coal, or they could ask the country to take the money, and all the money and property should be confiscated, and they should pay back taxes. At this time, there is still that country that is willing to speak for such a small country.

The Italians have long been hiding in the German embassy, but all the Italian commercial banks, banks and other enterprises in Shanghai are all owned by the people in Hongkou District, that is, the commercial banks and banks of France, Germany, Britain, and the United States have not moved, and all other small countries and some commercial houses in the Soviet Union have the same fate, and in the end, even the spies of the Central Union have arrested nearly 100 people, because those casinos and brothels are also opened by them, and the two largest tobacco houses in the public concession are also opened by the people of Zhongtong. At this time, Chen Guofu asked Dai Li to come forward and please.

Chen Guofu's uncle, Chen Qimei, was the father of the Xinhai Revolution and became a sworn brother with the chairman of the committee. Chen Guofu graduated from Zhejiang Army Primary School when he was young, and was influenced by Chen Qimei to join the League. He participated in the Xinhai Revolution, the Second Revolution and the Yuan Revolution. During the Second Revolution in 1913, Chen Qimei was elected commander-in-chief of Shanghai to fight against Yuan. At the beginning of 1915, Chen Qimei planned a series of anti-Yuan military actions in Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang. On May 18, 1916, Chen Qimei was killed by gunmen sent by Yuan Shikai at the residence of his Japanese friend Junzaburo Yamada in Shanghai. In 1920, he operated a securities exchange in Shanghai, and his shareholders included the chairman of the Nanjing government, which made a lot of profits. Part of the profits was used to support the revolution of the Nanking government. His younger brother Chen Lifu.

In 1924, the chairman of the National People's Congress presided over the preparations for the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, and Chen Guofu handled the procurement of military supplies and the recruitment of talents on his behalf in Shanghai. In 1926, Chen went to Guangzhou and was elected as a member of the second Central Supervisory Committee of the Nanjing Government and served as the acting director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee. At the beginning of April 1927, he and the rightists in the Nanjing government, Wu Jingheng and Zhang Jingjiang, proposed a bill to impeach the Red Party, in preparation for the subsequent purging of the party. In 1928, the chairman of the committee returned, and Chen Guofu served as a member of the Nanjing government, a member of the government, and vice president of the Supervision Yuan. In essence, he is responsible for the organization of the Nanjing government, sorting out party affairs and cleaning up the party. In addition to re-examining and registering party members of the Nanjing government, he began to set up an investigation organization, which was later specifically responsible for countering the "Central Unification". In 1929, he served as a member of the Central Executive Committee and deputy director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, and established the Central Political School of the Nanjing Government. Second, Chen was in charge of the party affairs of the Nanjing government, so that at that time, he was known as the "Chen family party in the world of the Jiang family". In 1932, Chen Guofu was the vice chairman of the "Guidance Committee"; In 1933, he concurrently served as the governor of Jiangsu Provincial Government, responsible for the improvement of water conservancy in Jiangsu and the Huai River.

At this time, the relationship between Dai Li and Wang Yaqiao is still quite good, Dai Li personally came to intercede, Wang Yaqiao said, Brother Yunong, it's not that brothers don't help you, because we are different from you here, the most powerful thing we have here is the Independent Commission Against Corruption, our people's salaries here are very high, we just don't want corruption to appear, and there is a big smoke that is absolutely forbidden in our place, and it is already considered an extrajudicial favor if you are not shot, don't think about the rest, you and I are brothers, and you are also engaged in intelligence work, I am also engaged in intelligence work, and everyone can understand it, and I also told the chairman to rest assured that we will increase the tax revenue by 50 million US dollars here to help your Nanjing government, and don't always think about those crooked ways to make money, you also know that we are a Hongkou District and Baoshan County, which can earn nearly 50 billion US dollars a year, and now our income is basically the same as that of the United States, and we have helped you build a large steel plant, and you can raise some other processing factories, so that you can also make money.

The downstream products of a steel plant can bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the financial revenue of your Nanjing government, but your people can't imagine that if you look at our Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant here, the downstream products of a Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant have an income of nearly 10 billion US dollars a year, not to mention that they were thinking about making guns and guns at that time. You can also develop downstream products, you can look at our trucks, jeeps, are all downstream products. Brother Yu Nong, in fact, the people we have here just don't like the people in the Central Union, don't embarrass me, besides, you don't want me to have a good future, in the final analysis, Tang Juwu is the boss, I am the director of the Intelligence Bureau or the deputy, do you say that my words are useful, and your people are not bad, we didn't move them, you can just ask, at this time, Dai Li also knew that these people were okay with themselves, that is, they asked their own people to close the casino and do other livelihoods, Not a penny of his own.

I had no choice but to go back to Nanjing, and after I went back, I reported to the chairman, and the chairman said, they really want to give us 50 million US dollars, Dai Li said, well, besides, they are not bad for money, they can make 50 billion US dollars a year in Hongkou and Baoshan, and they will also send us this little money, the chairman said, you can make so much money in these two places, damn, Tang Juwu, that bastard, I asked him to come to Nanjing, he just didn't want to come, called a person surnamed Cao to come, he couldn't be the master at all, you said, That Zhang Dashuai is also such a good talent, so he will be a battalion commander, and he will be handed over to a Japanese, which is really a blind thing. Chen Guofu said, then our money and people are hopeless, Wang Yaqiao said, the last nod is Tang Juwu has the final say, I have no way to do this, Chen Guofu said, why do you have no loss at all, Dai Li said, after all, Wang Yaqiao and I are still brothers, and we haven't opened a tobacco shop, if we open a tobacco shop, it will be the same fate, the chairman of the committee is also beautiful at this time, where will he care about Chen Guofu's small money, just forget it, it is also for others to seize the handle, and not to mention that they are not killed, let's just say that when you go to dig coal, it will still be released, so that's it, right?

On November 29, 1845, Shanghai Daoguang deceived Yugong Mujiu in the form of a notice, promulgating the Shanghai land lease charter in the form of a notice, demarcating the north of Pidgin (now Yan'an East Road) and the south of Lijiachang (now Beijing East Road and Yuanmingyuan Road). In the 28th year of Daoguang, the British consul Ali Guo and Su Song Taidao Lingui agreed to extend the concession to a straight line between Suzhou Creek in the north and Zhoujing Bang and Su Zhai on the bank of Suzhou Creek in the west (now Middle Tibet Road). The area is 2820 acres. On September 20, the second year of Tongzhi (1863), it was merged with Shanghai Meiquan Quanwolf Jiang Lease Yongqi Boundary to form the Public Concession (I

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At this time, the British people in the British Concession no longer dared to show their faces, and they still arrested those gangsters and those from other places everywhere, as well as the property of those small countries, at this time there was no money to be made, even the people of the Green Gang and other gangs were also in the ranks of arrests, and those people just couldn't run out, and the British Concession was cleaned up in one day, and finally it was the largest concession, the French Concession.

The French Concession maintained a high degree of independence in old Shanghai, and the entire Shanghai French Concession was the most exclusive residential area in old Shanghai, and the architectural style can be said to be uniform. The reason why the sycamore is called the French sycamore in China is also because it was first introduced to China by the French and planted in the French Concession of Shanghai. Shanghai's reputation as the "Paris of the East" is also named after the French Concession, because its architectural style is independent of the Public Concession and the Chinese Concession, and is almost the same as Paris thousands of miles away. The French always maintained great control over the French Concession. In the Battle of Songhu, the invading Japanese army invaded the public concession area around Hongkou and included the public concession north of Suzhou Creek into the de facto sphere of influence of the Japanese army. However, under the threat of the French navy, the Japanese army did not touch the French Concession. This not only reflects France's position in the international community at that time, but also reflects a history of humiliation in China.

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y), the establishment of a consulate in Shanghai. In July of that year, the first French merchant, Remy, arrived in Shanghai from Canton and immediately proposed to Mintini that he wanted to rent land in Shanghai. Min Tini's favored land is on the Huangpu River between Shanghai Chengxiang and Pidgin, across the pidgin from the British Concession. At that time, Wu Jianzhang, the Shanghai Taoist platform, did not agree to this matter, and was very perfunctory to Min Ti Ni. Later, when Wu Jianzhang was about to be transferred, he proposed to Minti Ni that he could set aside a piece of the British concession for Minti Ni with the consent of the British consul. Mintini was enraged, and he threatened the Shanghai Daotai that if the land was not granted, the French minister would sail north from Guangzhou, and the successor of the Shanghai Daotai Lingui gave in, and the French consulate finally sold the land at a price of 26 taels of silver per mu. At this time, the owner of the 12 acres of land that Remy favored asked for a rent of 300 taels per acre, and the 46 rooms on the land and some coffins cost 100 taels per room and 50 taels per coffin. Mintini went to threaten his neighbors, demanding that the Chinese landlords must rent the land at the French consulate's rent. But after half a year of negotiations, Remy could only rent more than two acres of land at a high price of 320 taels. On April 6, 1849, Lin Gui and Min Ti Ni officially signed an exchange of letters, and the Shanghai French Concession was established, which at this time was only 986 acres. Originally, the Americans who seemed to be interested in the same piece of land were preempted by Mintini, so they could only set up the American Concession in Hongkou, which was still very desolate at that time, north of the British Concession. In the 1860s, the first attempt to expand the boundaries of the independent French Concession was refused. Later, because the Royal French Mail Line Company was going to enter Shanghai, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked Aitang to find a new land for it to use. This time, with the government's request, Aitang directly sent the request to Prince Gong through the minister in Beijing to the hands of Prince Gong Yitong, who immediately asked the governor of Jiangsu to quickly handle the matter of expanding the border as appropriate. Shanghai Daotai had no choice but to issue a notice agreeing to the French side to expand the border, which was the first time that the French Concession had been expanded. After the expansion, the area of the French Concession increased to 1,124 acres.

Cross-border road construction is a common trick used by Western countries to illegally expand their concessions in China, and France is not the first country to build roads across the border in Shanghai. In the sixties of the 19th century, large-scale cross-border road construction was carried out in the public concession, such as Jing'an Temple Road (now Nanjing West Road), which was built by the public concession across the boundary. However, the construction of cross-border roads was illegal in law at that time, and the concession party did not have the right to administer it. Legally, the expansion of the concession can only be carried out after consultation with the Chinese government, and theoretically the Chinese government still has the possibility of refusing to expand the territory. The French Concession was the first to expand the boundaries of the Concession on the grounds of cross-border road construction, which formally enabled the Concession to obtain the right to manage the roads built across the border, which greatly stimulated the cross-border road construction of the two Concessions.

In 1912, the French Board of Directors voted for the French consul to request the Beiyang government at that time to expand the French Concession. In 1913, Mau, then French Minister to China

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ty) formally asked the Beiyang government to recognize the police power of the roads it had built across the border, in fact, to force the Beiyang government to recognize the sovereignty of the French Concession over these roads. This is the first time in the history of the concession, and in the past, the expansion of the concession would be carried out by agreement with the government, but this time it was not even superficial. At that time, Yuan Shikai's government was afraid of the anti-Yuan activities carried out by the revolutionaries in the concession, so it agreed to the unreasonable demands of the French side in exchange for the arrest of the revolutionaries in the concession. In September 1914, the French Concession was officially demarcated, and the French Concession expanded to more than 15,000 mu in one fell swoop, more than six times larger than the previous area. As a starting point, cross-border road construction officially became a means of expanding the concession in a practical sense, and the cross-border road construction area became a "quasi-concession". Encouraged by this, the Public Concession carried out a large-scale cross-border road construction operation in the following two decades, and the cross-border road construction area of the Public Concession reached 47,000 mu, which even exceeded the area of the Public Concession itself.

At this time, Jiang Qiang demanded that the buildings and others in the French Concession should not be destroyed, because the French really built the concession as their own country, and the living environment here is relatively high-grade in the world. There is also the rescue of nearly 10,000 prostitutes, all sent to Taicang's textile factories, garment factories, and other industries, and gave them a set of 50 square meters of houses, Hongkou's operation made those prostitutes' eyes cry red, everywhere to kowtow to the police, those policemen are also good, and accompany them to buy daily necessities.