Outside the gate of the club, hang a square wooden card, on which are written simple Yinglin Club five big characters, below are English, German and Japanese, Yinglin is Tang Ying and Han Lin's homonym, Han Lin is too lazy to waste brainpower, casually took a name.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Han Lin, Tang Ying, Smith, Bratton and Ying Zuo Zhenzhao, who are known as the initiators of the club, made a final tour of the club, and the main members were all invited by the three military attaches and Tang Ying.

The parking lot is divided into two parts, the inner area is the parking space in the yard, and the outer area is both sides of the road at the entrance of the club, and there are special personnel responsible for guiding parking and taking care of vehicles.

The hall was already set up, the brand new stalls were worth a lot of money, and there was a small podium against the wall, where in addition to the speeches, there was a band on one side and a temporary area on the other. The band began to familiarize themselves with the venue a week in advance, and also invited a famous female singer in Shanghai to sing.

The layout of the reception site is no different from other places, there is a buffet table against the wall, providing a variety of Western, Japanese and Chinese exquisite side dishes, fruit salads, as well as a variety of international flavors, cakes, fruits, chocolates, candies, etc., and even moon cakes are served in advance for guests to taste.

An open space in the middle is the dance floor, surrounded by round tables, long tables, sofas, chairs, etc., where guests can rest and chat, and the waiters will serve drinks non-stop.

"The preparation of the club is very meticulous, all links are in place, I don't think there is any problem, this evening not only the consuls of the three consulates of our initiator in Shanghai will be present, even the consuls of the British and French consulates in Shanghai will also come to attend, in view of this situation, in the evening, the police department of the Board of Directors will send a large number of patrols to patrol the vicinity to ensure the safety of the party." Smith said.

He and his superiors at the US Naval Intelligence Agency agreed that Han Lin had a strong ability to collect international intelligence, and since he was serving the US intelligence service, the US Consulate in Shanghai had the responsibility to create a better environment for him.

Therefore, not only the U.S. consul in Shanghai was invited to attend the club's opening, but also the British and French consuls in Shanghai.

As long as the club successfully holds a cocktail party, this place is bound to become the focus of diplomatic circles and intelligence circles of various countries, in other words, Han Lin will get more resources.

Although the United States has close relations with Britain and France, it does not represent the US intelligence services and will not use means to obtain intelligence from Britain and France.

"If the consuls of Britain and France are also present, then in addition to the important cocktail parties of the Public Concession Bureau and the French Concession Public Board of Directors, this private club you have opened will become the preferred place for diplomats, businessmen, and financial elites from various countries to meet in private, and tomorrow, the entire Shanghai market will be shaken by this." Bratton said with a laugh.

He is also very optimistic about the prospects of the club, this is to create an upper-level intelligence exchange circle, I knew that Han Lin's connections are so strong, he should have laid out in advance, and now he is a little passive, and he will increase his investment in the club in the future and arrange his own eyeliner.

Kagezo Zhenzhao didn't say much, but he was the most proud, because the deputy foreman of the club was a professional agent of the Intelligence Department of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, and he was the first to insert people in, and he also got Han Lin's attention, proving that he had foresight for Han Lin's club.

The director of the police department of the Public Board of Directors, Luis, and the deputy director, Rao Boze, arrived at the club at four o'clock with a group of patrols.

"Mr. Louis, you look a little tired?" Han Lin asked knowingly.

"Mr. Louis, you look a little tired?" Han Lin asked knowingly.

"Last night near the Shiliupu Wharf, the transport convoy of Zhang Xiaolin, the leader of the local gang in Shanghai, was ambushed by unknown forces, and all the cars and transport trucks were burned, including the goods on the car, and more than 30 people were killed or injured. Louis said with a frown.

"Someone ambushed Zhang Xiaolin's transport convoy? This is a new thing, and if someone dares to confront him in the territory of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, it must not be an ordinary force. Smith said.

Everyone present knows that the Green Gang has a special status and a long history, and its influence in Shanghai is very large, and Du Yuesheng, one of the three tycoons of the Green Gang, is now a Chinese director of the French Concession Public Board of Directors, and his status is very high.

Shanghai is the territory of the Qing Gang for many years, and some people broke out a martial fight with Zhang Xiaolin, killing and injuring more than 30 people at one time, which is no less than stepping on the face of the Qing Gang, and the Qing Gang will not stop.

"There are no clues for the time being, we checked the scene and found that many of the remaining shells were 6.5mm bullet casings, which were inferred to be shells fired from light machine guns." Rao Boze said.

Most of the people present were experts, and even Shadow Sazhen Zhao's face changed, and the machine guns that currently use 6.5 mm bullets are all famous.

One is the Taisho Type 11 light machine gun, known in China as the crooked handle machine gun, which is notoriously jammed and very demanding on the climate, resulting in the Japanese army currently developing the Type 96 light machine gun. One is the Italian Breda Mod.30 light machine gun, which is known as the ugliest machine gun and will not be forgotten at a glance.

When Rao Boze saw the bullet casing, he must have known that it was the cartridge casing of the Japanese Taisho 11 light machine gun, but he was just reluctant to say it on such an occasion, after all, Kagezo Zhenzhao was also there.

"Kagesa-kun, don't your people change their weapons when they are on a secret mission? It's not appropriate to use your own light machine gun so blatantly, right? Han Lin said quietly.

He had long known that when the attack was made, Tongyuan Trading House and the Black Dragon Society were using crooked light machine guns, and he also thought that there would be problems with the bullet casings.

No matter how big the problem is, it's not a problem for the Japanese!

First of all, even if the Jinling government knows the truth, it will not dare to intervene, and it will not be able to hide! And if there is a fire fight between the Japanese and the Chinese, the French are even more unlikely to take it seriously, it is not the French who are dead about their!

"I don't know about this matter, it may be that some of the ronins below have a conflict with Zhang Xiaolin, a group of stupid waste, the empire's standard weapons dare to use it casually, if you use other machine guns to exchange fire, how can there be such trouble?" Kage Zuo Zhenzhao is also angry.

Angry is angry, he didn't take it seriously in his heart, just as Han Lin thought, the people from the Police Department of the French Concession Public Board of Directors, knowing that last night's behavior was done by the Japanese, would also delay the progress of the matter, and finally dragged it down.

Hold the Japanese side accountable for this, the French don't have water in their brains, right?

(End of chapter)