Thursday, November 23, Thanksgiving Day in Western countries.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the consul generals of the United Kingdom, France, and the United States signed an important agreement in the conference room of the U.S. Consulate General: "Agreement on the Merger of the French Concession and the Anglo-American Concession"!

After the French Consul General Chuck Bagis, the British Consul General Lord Turner Wesley, and the U.S. Consul General Nelson Ayres signed the agreement and stamped it with their private seals and the official seal of the Consulate General, the three countries signed the "Anglo-American Land Charter of Shanghai" in 1853 (in fact, it was not really merged, the French Concession was withdrawn in 1860, and the British and American Concessions were merged in 1863), and after a lapse of 86 years, the three concessions were truly merged.

Although the merger agreement still needs to be approved by the parliaments of the three countries, it has actually entered into force because it has been communicated many times in advance.

Subsequently, the French Consul General Bagis and the British Consul General Wesley respectively signed the "Concession Authority Agreement" with the US Consul General, deciding to entrust the two parties to the United States the governance of the merged public concession from the next day, which will be valid for 10 years.

Senior officials from the Far Eastern Affairs Observation Mission and the consulates of the three countries witnessed the signing of the three agreements, but on the whole, they were all happy, only Li Junhao frowned, he did not expect such a result!

Li Junhao clearly remembers that in the history of his previous life, after the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941, the Japanese army first occupied the public concession, and then in 1943, due to the influence of many factors, the concession agreement was abolished, and the legal rights of the concession in Huhai and other parts of China were taken back by China. He's a little confused!

Before he could figure out this, Lieutenant Colonel Kerton led the British and French military attaches over and congratulated him, but he didn't react at all, and could only politely politely say something!

After a while, Li Junhao reacted that after the merger of the Three Kingdoms Concessions, Britain and France entrusted their governance to the United States, which means that what he had thought of before was about to happen, the armies of both countries were going to be withdrawn, and his current position became the highest military governor of the concession!

No wonder Kelton and the British and French military attachés came to congratulate him!

Well, that's good news, right? He wants more troops, though! And tanks! Bazooka! Anti-aircraft missile ......

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On Friday, the U.S. Far East Observer Group flew to Chongqing to continue their observation trip.

On the same day, the armed forces of the French Concession and the Public Concession went out at the same time and blocked all roadblocks outside the two concessions (the two concessions were still free to pass), and non-concession residents were forbidden to enter.

Then, the Public Concession police of the brigade entered the French Concession, and with the full assistance of the French, took over the police and the municipal guard, and at the same time expelled hundreds of newly naturalized Japanese arresters - this is the second time they have been laid off, and they have also been deported, but this time it is the French army who are responsible for escorting!

In addition, the Ministry of Industry Bureau has also sent many people to take over the Board of Directors, or to conduct docking, which is relatively much milder.

The changes in the French Concession have attracted the attention of all walks of life in Shanghai, but few people know what is really happening! ——

On this day, Li Junhao was very busy, more than half of the manpower of the police station was transferred, and the street patrol had to be mobilized to fill the position of the international business group! Fortunately, the three integrated regiments have now come in handy, and he has a large number of mobile forces in his hands to mobilize, but there is no shortage of manpower.

The subordinates were very excited, they didn't expect their boss to rise to the next level so soon...... No, it's a few levels, and he has directly become the top person in charge of the army and police forces of the two major concessions! In this state of mind, when you work, you are full of energy, and you don't need to mobilize.

According to Li Junhao's special confession, Wang Renqiang led the manpower of the Investigation Department of the Police Department to seal and control the Political Department of the French Concession Police Department as soon as possible, control the personnel, and seal the files!

Lao Wang now basically understands the boss's political tendencies, and he is not merciless in his execution, and more than a dozen middle-level members of the political department who want to resist are directly locked up by him......

Subsequently, the members of the Political Department were escorted to the barracks at No. 256 Xiaoshadu Road, which had been vacated after the departure of the Italian troops, for residential surveillance.

And all the files of the Political Department were loaded and transported back to the Investigation Department of the police station, and the boss said that these things are very important, and there is no time to sort them out now, but they must be kept safe.

On the whole, with the exception of the Political Department, the takeover of the police force by police officers was very smooth, after all, even the French commissioner was actively cooperating (he wanted to take the first ship back to China after the handover as soon as possible).

In the same way, the middle and high-level patrols of other French nationals have been notified, and whoever successfully completes the handover of their own department first can leave first, which of course has enthusiasm.

Of course, there are also those who are reluctant to leave, and the highest position is the criminal supervisor (deputy chief inspector) Franco Ronner in charge of the detective department, as an old "acquaintance" of Director Pan Sen, he is very confident that he can find a new position in the new concession police structure, so his work enthusiasm is extremely high and he has helped a lot.

Among the patrols in the French Concession Police Department, the middle and high-level are all French, and there are some Chinese arrests in the middle level, and the grassroots are mainly Chinese arrests and Annan patrols.

Among them, the Annan patrol is better, they are already very satisfied with coming here from French China to work, and in their cognition, as long as they obey the orders of their superiors and work hard, they don't need to think too much.

More than half of them have gang backgrounds, but they have heard about the public concession and are afraid of being hit by their new bosses!

Some of the more reckless ones still wanted to fight in a group, but they were immediately said by a companion: Idiot, forgot how the deputy chief police inspector named Akagi died?

They don't have a gang background, but they are only working partially, and they are worried about how to keep their jobs, they don't like gangs by nature, and the two sides are also incompatible, but they don't know what the future will be.

In short, today's French Concession patrol house is very chaotic and uneasy, but on the whole, the takeover of the French Concession by the Public Concession has been successfully completed, and the main reason is actually the full cooperation of the French. However, the takeover is not something that can be done in a day, and there will be a lot of work to be done in the future.

This whole day, Li Junhao did not leave the office of the police station, on the one hand, he was busy, and on the other hand, he was in a state of nervousness, for fear that there would be an unexpected situation and make him a little tired.

Chapter 237 is under review......

(End of chapter)