On Sunday, Li Junhao assigned Xiaohu a new task - to investigate the distribution of forces in the major dock areas in the concession, and to be responsible for contacting the brothers in Phoenix Village.

After Xiaohu went out, he called the Commercial Office of the Consulate General and asked the staff on duty in the reference room to prepare the materials of cotton mills, machinery factories, daily chemical factories, paper mills and other enterprises in the public concession, which he would read when he went to work on Monday.

In addition, he called Franco Ronner, the superintendent of the French Concession Police Department, and hoped that he could help to check the business situation in the French Concession. To his request, Rona agreed and said that he would send someone to deliver the materials to the Consulate General on Monday afternoon. Li Junhao expressed his gratitude and made an appointment to sit together when he was free.

After putting down the phone, Li Junhao began to review himself, for more than a month, his circle of friends seems to be too small, and he doesn't know who to call again if he has a phone at home? It's like in a previous life, when I was bored, I wanted to find someone to but no one accompanied me. But in the current world, how can you make true friends? Looks like I need to go out more. So he said, "Xiaoyu, let's go out shopping together?" ”

Xiaoyu said: "I'm not going, Brother Jun, I want to knit the collar of this sweater today!" ”

Oh well! Li Junhao understood, today is Sunday, why do you have to work hard for yourself, or don't go out, I still have a lot of books I haven't read!

Seeing Li Junhao scratching his head and going upstairs again, Xiaoyu thought about it for a while before she understood what was going on, and laughed happily.

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May 1st, this day is International Labor Day in later generations, but in China in this era, of course, it will not pass, but on the streets of the Shanghai Concession, there are still many young people throwing out leaflets to celebrate Labor Day.

On this day, thousands of miles away in Chongqing, more than 10,000 workers held a commemorative meeting and parade to celebrate the International Labor Day. On this day, the "National Spirit Mobilization" began to be implemented throughout the country! At 7 p.m., the Nationalist Government convened an oath-taking meeting for the general mobilization of the national spirit at the Square of the Chongqing Military Commission...... After the meeting, a torchlight procession was held, with more than 100,000 participants.

On the same day, the joint bombing plan of the Japanese Navy and Army Air Forces was formalized, and the large-scale bombing against the Chinese Nationalist Government was about to be launched in full swing......

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The regular morning meeting will be held on Monday, because today is the beginning of the new month, and this morning meeting is again a consulate-level meeting chaired by Mr. Ayers, Consul General.

This time, Li Junhao already had experience, and sat directly at the conference table with Miss Hampley during the meeting. The process of the meeting was the same as last time, with various departments reporting their work, the four major counselors arranging the work of the month, and Mr. Ayers, the Consul General, making a concluding speech. Of course, the theme of this meeting was entirely inclined to the collection of strategic materials, and the counselors and heads of departments had clear tasks.

Mr. Ayres also announced attractive incentives – individuals who complete their targets will receive a merit rating that will be recorded on the file once, and those who reach the critical point of the assessment can even be promoted directly to a position! For this, Mr. Ayers directly and personally pledged his reputation, which caused a great sensation.

However, after learning about the current situation in Shanghai and the Strait, Li Junhao was not optimistic about this, the water of the entire market has been muddled, and Britain and the United States, which claim to be the managers of civilization, even if they control the public concession, cannot be as openly robbed and plundered as the Japanese puppet spies, and it is difficult to take advantage of this material war.

When the meeting ended, they all went downstairs, and Hampley asked him, "Panson, how are you doing over there, can you complete the task?" ”

Li Junhao replied: "There are some eyebrows on the tung oil, and we still need to see the final result." ”

"Oh? That's pretty good. "Hampley was a little surprised, Panson had just been here for a month, and he was able to find a way, which was a bit unexpected for her!" Then keep an eye on it, my task is heavier, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you......"

"Don't worry, Miss Hampley, I will." Li Junhao's heart was a little warm, no matter what, it was already very good that Hanpri could say that. He was thinking that if Wen Qiang's goods could arrive in time, he wouldn't mind helping her.

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After returning to the office, Milia sent a large stack of business information from the data room, and Brown also received a phone call and went out to get a thick bag of documents, saying that it was sent by the Governor of the French Concession Police Department.

All morning, Li Junhao was looking at these materials, preparing to select some reliable companies from them to order, although it was not yet possible to determine the situation on Wen Qiang's side, but he had to prepare in advance.

In the afternoon, he took Brown and Yuri out and personally inspected nearly ten factories and four trading houses, selected two factories and two trading houses, ordered a large number of goods, and each paid a deposit of 5,000 legal currency, agreed to pick up the goods in ten days, and pay the full amount at that time.

Although the value of fiat currency is still stable, he knows that the depreciation rate of this currency will be faster than the speed of printing in the near future, so it is better to get rid of it as soon as possible.

In his previous life, he knew a joke-like thing, during the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to destroy the economy of the national control area, the Japanese army specially established the Ninth Army Research Institute, also known as the Noboru Research Institute, to study the manufacture of legal tender counterfeit banknotes; Later, with the approval of the Minister of War Hideki Tojo, the legal tender counterfeiting operation was carried out, codenamed Sugi Work; To this end, a special spy agency was set up, and from the 28th year of the Republic of China, it sent counterfeit fiat currency to the Chinese market.

At the beginning, because the degree of imitation is not enough, the counterfeit banknotes are easy to be recognized, with little effect, and it takes a lot of manpower and material resources, and the Shanjiao finally launched the counterfeit banknotes with a high degree of simulation, but the time has reached the 30th year of the Republic of China (1941), and at this time the fiat currency began to depreciate rapidly!

In this case, the Kuomintang side did not even bother to deal with the counterfeit banknotes put by the Japanese army, because they were very "confident" - in the face of the rapidly depreciating fiat currency, a little counterfeit banknotes could not make any big waves!

Facts have also proved that the Japanese army was about to be to death, and after calculating it, their "cedar work" that took several years and spent manpower and material resources would lose even their capital in the end!

This incident sounded like a joke, but for the Chinese people at that time, it was a real suffering, whether it was depreciation or counterfeit money, they were ruthlessly encroaching on the wealth in the hands of the people.