Dai Xingbing was not the "veteran" of Wang Jingwei's traitor gang, and he came to Shanghai relatively late, so he was not assigned to the garden house in Lane 1136 of Yuyuan Road, but rented a small courtyard by himself, and the 14 agents of the assassination team hid in the side room and waited for the opportunity.

In fact, there is also a major general of the Military Command Bureau waiting for news here, Major General Wu Gengshu, secretary general of the Military Command Bureau, this assassination operation was initiated by Dai Xingbing, Dai Li sent Wu Gengshu to support, and led the assassination elite to be responsible for specific actions, all of them are backbone members who regard death as home.

"I have tried Fu Xiao'an a few times, this old guy has always been left to talk about him, and has always refused to give a clear attitude, this time I directly forced him to ask him that there was no way out, and he promised to create an opportunity for us, invite Wang Jingwei to his house to participate in the banquet, we infiltrated Fu's house under his arrangement, and assassinated Wang Jingwei."

"In the entire Far East or in Asia, Shanghai's industrial, commercial, economic and financial status is irreplaceable, whether it is for the Japanese or for the soon-to-be-established Wang puppet government, Fu Xiao'an, the puppet mayor, has a very important role, so as long as Fu Xiao'an sends an invitation, Wang Jingwei, a big traitor, will definitely give face." Dai Xingbing said with a smile.

This is to talk about the abnormal prosperity of the isolated island area again, this year in the 28th year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1939, the number of new factories increased by more than 1,700 in one year, and all walks of life, especially the textile industry, the recovery momentum is the most rapid.

According to a survey conducted by the Shanghai Cloth Mills Association, as of December now, there are as many as 823 new weaving, dyeing and weaving and hand-weaving factories in the concession, and more than 23,000 new looms!

Working day and night, these factories produced 1,420,000 pieces of cotton cloth per month, and the profits per cotton cloth were two to three times greater than they were before the war.

In January, the number of workers employed in the factories in the concession was just over 31,000, but by April it had risen to more than 130,000, and by the end of the year it had risen to 230,000.

Large and small knitting mills and flour mills work overtime day and night, but they still cannot meet the needs of the market, and the profits are frighteningly high. There were 500 new firms and more than 160 banking institutions in the concession, and at the end of the year, all but one of the banks and money banks in the city were profitable.

Japan is a country that is basically not self-sufficient in war resources, so it has a relaxed attitude towards the concession economy, first, it is unwilling to quarrel with Britain and the United States, and second, the Japanese economy also needs support from the Shanghai market.

It relies on imports of oil, iron sand, and copper for its heavy industry, and most of its industrial raw materials such as cotton, wood pulp, and sulfuric acid are imported. Under such circumstances, the Shanghai Stock Exchange has become a transit market for Japan to acquire and transship strategic materials and arbitrage foreign exchange.

Although the Japanese army also adopted blockade measures against the concessions, they only prohibited the sea traffic of Chinese ships, and although they also regularly blocked and inspected ships from third countries, they did not completely prohibit them from entering and leaving.

Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, nearly 60 percent of the tonnage of ships entering and leaving Shanghai belonged to third countries other than China and Japan, and of course, the Japanese were well aware that a considerable number of them were Chinese ships flying foreign flags.

The isolated island of the Shanghai Stock Exchange has also become a commodity trading center for European and American countries in the Far East.

With the tense situation in Europe, all European countries have implemented a policy of controlling import and export trade to a certain extent, and hostile countries have launched economic wars with each other.

After the outbreak of the Second World War, Germany destroyed British sea lines at every turn, imposed a strict blockade on the entry of neutral ships into the British Isles, and imposed trade blockades or restrictions on Germany by the Anglo-French bloc and the Nordic countries.

In this environment, the UK has used the Shanghai market as a market source for raw materials and animal products. Germany also took advantage of the Trans-Siberian Railway to transport pigments, medicines, hardware machinery, chemical products and other commodities to Shanghai in exchange for urgently needed materials.

Although the tax revenue of the concession is controlled by the concession authorities, the rapid development of the concession economy has also led to the surrounding Huajie, which was occupied by the Japanese, and the economic situation of the surrounding districts is still much better than that of other cities, so it will also become an important fiscal and tax area after the establishment of the Wang puppet government.

Strictly speaking, if you want to be the puppet mayor of Shanghai, you mainly have to get the support of the Japanese, and the Wang puppet government cannot decide the ownership of the puppet mayor.

"It's not okay to just say yes, Boss Dai is urging very urgently, maybe the pressure from the commission is too great, did he say when he can invite Wang Jingwei to his home?" Wu Gengshu asked.

Boss Dai sent three telegrams in a row this month, asking how the assassination of Wang Jingwei was carried out.

"He said that he would contact Wang Jingwei tomorrow, and it would take two or three days to prepare, invite more guests as a cover, and if Wang Jingwei agreed to participate in the banquet, he would call me in advance."

"Fu Xiao'an proposed, first of all, when Wang Jingwei came out, he must have the 76th spy around him to protect him, and he didn't dare to guarantee whether he could succeed, this is our business, he is only responsible for inviting people to his home and arranging us to the scene, and he will not participate in specific actions."

"Secondly, our actions must not reveal his identity, and the Japanese also know that our Shancheng government wants to get rid of Wang Jingwei, and they will not suspect him, he still wants to continue to stay in Shanghai, and does not plan to follow us to Shancheng." Dai Xingbing said.

"Anything can be changed before the action, it doesn't matter if you agree first, as long as the assassination of Wang Jingwei is successful, the next thing will be up to him, Fu Xiao'an is the first batch of big traitors who defected to the Japanese invaders after the fall of Shanghai, and it is also the key target of our Military Command Bureau that needs to be sanctioned, if he doesn't leave, we will secretly light the cannon, and we can't let him continue to be a traitor at ease." Wu Gengshu said.

With Fu Xiao'an's covert cooperation, this assassination operation was basically more than half successful, as long as Wang Jingwei stepped into Fu's house, he didn't want to come out alive.

But Wu Gengshu didn't want to let go of Fu Xiao'an, this big traitor was at the top of the sanctions list of the Military Control Bureau, but because he was in a hurry to sanction Wang Jingwei, Fu Xiao'an was much worse in comparison, so he thought about using this person first to fish out Wang Jingwei.

"Report, Boss Dai's envoy sent someone to contact us urgently, and he is a member of the secret anti-espionage team!" The agent on duty at the gate hurried in.

"Boss Dai's envoy? A member of the secret anti-espionage team? Has the identity of the other party been verified? Wu Gengshu stood up violently.

"The military ID card is real, if we want to continue to confirm our identity, we need to send a telegram to the headquarters to ask, but he didn't give us time, saying that to convey the urgent order of the envoy, we must see you immediately. And he said that the bureau headquarters will send the latest instructions soon! The subordinate said.

"Please come in!" Dai Xingbing said.

A young man in a suit and leather shoes walked into the living room with steady steps, and before the two could speak, the newspaper operator ran into the living room.

"This is an urgent telegram sent by Boss Dai, asking us to unconditionally obey the special envoy's arrangement, and we must not disobey, otherwise military law will be involved." Dai Xingbing took it and looked at it and said to Wu Gengshu.

"I'm Dai Xingbing, this is Secretary Wu Gengshu, what are the orders of the special envoy?" Dai Xingbing asked, with a faint premonition in his heart.

There must be some important reason why Boss Dai handed over the jurisdiction of the assassination team to this mysterious envoy, you must know that the assassination team does not even have direct contact with the Shanghai City of the Military Command Bureau.

"After Fu Xiao'an finished talking to you, he ran to No. 76 to inform, and right now, the spies of No. 76 are rushing here. The envoy thinks that your work is too hasty and that you are plotting against the tiger, and he orders that you all immediately evacuate here with me, and temporarily take refuge in a secret stronghold near Dianshan Lake, waiting for further instructions. The person said.

"We've been tricked?" Dai Xingbing felt that it was like five thunderbolts, and the carefully planned action was actually a trap, and it was difficult for him to adapt for a while.

(End of chapter)