While Li Junhao was busy building up his strength, the Okada Trading Company, which leased the No. 8 warehouse, was still in chaos - two days ago, the four guards of the warehouse disappeared, there were blood stains left on the scene, and all the goods were missing! The disappearance of the four Japanese ronins is not a big deal, but 5,000 pieces of cotton yarn, 1,000 quintals of tung oil, and 30,000 quintals of rice are the goods that the Imperial Navy wants, and the trading company has spent a lot of money to barely get them together, which is the biggest trouble! (Cotton yarn 25 kg/piece; One quintal is 50 kilograms, and one quintal is 100 kilograms. ）

Li Junhao guessed correctly, Okada Trading Company is really subordinate to the secret service, and its superior is the Intelligence Department of the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters in Shanghai, which is responsible for collecting strategic materials for the navy. Now the loss of so many supplies is a disaster that the trading company can hardly bear, especially the 1,000 quintals of tung oil, which is urgently needed by the Japanese Navy's dispatch fleet, if it can't be delivered on time within ten days, it is estimated that the Kodama agency will really come to kill!

At about 8 o'clock in the evening of April 5, in the No. 8 warehouse at the 16th shop wharf, Hidetoshi Okada, the president of Okada Trading Company, was pacing the warehouse with a gloomy face. As an experienced Imperial agent, he admits that he was a little careless when arranging the warehouse guards, first, the number of people is insufficient, and second, there is no strict emphasis on discipline, only four people work in shifts, two people in each shift, which is indeed a bit less! But what puzzled him was: whose side was the attacker?

He can think of a lot of forces that have the ability to kill and kidnap people in Huhai, but to get away a lot of materials from late night to dawn, which not only requires a lot of manpower, but also has to have enough transport vehicles, and he can only think of one force with this kind of strength - military commander! In other words, it is a military command organization with the support of youth gang members.

At this moment, several Japanese people in kimonos walked up, and Hidetoshi Okada immediately greeted him, bowed to the somewhat vicious and gloomy young man at the head and said, "Shaozuo, why are you here?" ”

The person who came was Kodama Yushio, who had a background in the Black Dragon Society, one of the young leaders of the right wing/forces, now only 28 years old, he was in the prime of life, and when he was full of ambition, after the Japanese army occupied the Shanghai Sea, he was recruited by the Japanese Naval Aviation Headquarters, with the wartime rank of Navy Major, engaged in spy activities in the Shanghai Sea, and assisted in the collection of strategic materials, Okada Trading Company was one of the commercial organizations that received his orders to serve the Navy, and he heard that a large number of materials had been lost, of course he wanted to come and see for himself.

"How many supplies were lost?" Kodama asked coldly.

"5,000 pieces of cotton yarn, 1,000 quintals of tung oil, 30,000 quintals of rice...... Four more people are missing. Okada Hidetoshi didn't dare to raise his head.

"Yaga!" As soon as Kodama Yu Shifu heard "tung oil", he was angry, scolded angrily, waved his hand, and slapped it in the face, beating Hidetoshi Okada!

"Ha-yi!" Hidetoshi Okada hurriedly stood firm, no matter that the corners of his mouth were bleeding, he still bowed his head respectfully and admitted his mistake - this is the normal situation between the upper and lower levels of the Japanese: stand up when beaten!

"Tell me, what the hell is going on?" After giving vent for a while, Kodama Yu Shifu calmed down and asked.

"At present, it is only known that it happened in the early hours of the 3rd, and it will not take more than five hours...... "Hidetoshi Okada replied, "all the goods in the warehouse were lost, and even the gold bars, cash, and weapons in the office were also robbed......

"So, you don't know who did it?" Kodama Yushifu said.

"Yes...... However, I suspect that the only force with such ability and motivation is the military commander and the ...... of the Green Gang," Hidetoshi Okada said.

"No, there's another one!" Yushi Kodama sneered.

"You mean...... It can't be! Hidetoshi Okada looked up in surprise, a little incredulous.

"Nothing is impossible!" Kodama Yu Shifu said, "Okay, don't waste time here yet, go and prepare another thousand loads of tung oil immediately, this is the material urgently needed by the Imperial Navy, I will only give you ten days, if you can't do it, you can cut your own stomach!" ”

"Ha-yi!" Okada Hideshou hurriedly bowed down and agreed, but then said with some sneering: "Shaozuo, the time is too tight, I can only find a way in the local black market, but ...... The price is 200 yuan a load, and there is really not so much money in the trading company......" After speaking, his head lowered, obviously afraid of being beaten again.

Kodama Yu Shifu glared at him fiercely, but he also knew that he was telling the truth, 1,000 quintals of tung oil cost 200,000, 5,000 pieces of cotton yarn also cost 200,000, and 30,000 quintals of rice cost 2.4 million...... Hum! If this thing is not done well, then no one will be able to protect you! ”

"I understand! Thank you, Shaozo! Hidetoshi Okada hurriedly thanked him, feeling a little relieved.

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Kodama Yu Shifu left the dock and took the car back to Hongkou, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, nearly 3.5 million weapons, cash and goods were lost like this? No, people must be found, goods and money must be recovered, and he also wants the lives of these people!

After rushing back to the headquarters of the Japanese Navy's Special Marine Corps, Yushio Kodama approached Shinnaka Onodera, the chief of the Intelligence Division, and told him about it. Ono Nakasa was also very angry, and immediately called his subordinates and arranged intelligence officers to start investigating the matter, with two main targets, one is the powerful Green Gang organization in Shanghai that Okada Hidetoshi suspects, and the other is the Japanese Army!

That's right, it's the Japanese Army, and in view of the serious contradictions between the Navy and the Army, Ono and Kodama are even more suspicious of the Army's doing.

After the Japanese army occupied Huhai, the army occupied all the Huajie and Huhai counties and surrounding areas, and the military police headquarters stationed in Shanghai controlled the security of the occupied areas; The navy took control of the northern and eastern districts north of the Suzhou Creek in the former public concession, and replaced the patrol of the concession with marines, which is commonly known as the Japanese Concession.

Because of the contradiction between the two branches of the military, the army has been setting up obstacles for the navy, and even food and other daily necessities have been set restrictions on the navy; if it were not for the marines themselves to find a way to use some Japanese-funded commercial banks to supply, they might not even have enough military rations, let alone materials such as cotton yarn and tung oil!

In particular, tung oil made in China, which has the properties of moisture-proof, anti-corrosion, acid-alkali resistance, etc., is a strategic material needed by airplanes and ships, and if the army knew that there were 1,000 quintals of tung oil in the public concession, it would definitely be the first to start!

It is precisely because of their speculation that the people of Phoenix Village inexplicably escaped the pursuit.