Before the operation, the three parties made a very strict plan and envisaged various contingency measures; The reason why Gao and Tao were arranged to go separately was to ensure that at least one of them could bring out the secret documents.

To everyone's surprise, things went very smoothly, and Gao Zongwu, who was a latecomer, was smoothly picked up by Jiang Anhua when he drove to the Henan Road Concession Roadcard.

At that time, Chen Mo, who was escorting, widened his eyes in surprise, he turned out to be the captain of the fourth brigade, and he was transferred to the first brigade after Jiang Anhua left suddenly, but he didn't expect that Jiang Anhua, the original captain of the first brigade, actually appeared in a police uniform!

According to the plan, Gao Zongwu's safety in the concession was protected by the police station, and with others on his side, Chen Mo just nodded to Jiang Anhua, didn't speak, and quickly left with his subordinates.

Tao Xisheng's family on the other road also entered the concession smoothly, and under the assistance of Jensen and Liu Geqing, they were directly sent to the Shiliupu Wharf to board the ship; After a while, Gao Zongwu was also sent by Jiang Anhua.

At 12 o'clock, the American passenger liner "President Coolidge" set sail on time and sailed out of Shanghai, escorted by 10 young gang members and 10 military commanders, heading for Hong Kong.

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Li Junhao only left the police station and went home after learning that the passenger ship had sailed away smoothly.

Previously, he met Gao Zongwu in the office, exchanged a few polite words, and "looked" at the photo of the secret text he carried...... Subsequently, when he heard the report from the dock that Tao Xisheng's family had also arrived smoothly, he asked Jiang Anhua to send Gao Zongwu over.

Compared with the original history, Gao Zongwu and Tao Xisheng also successfully left Shanghai, but this time they took Mrs. Tao and the five children away at one time, saving the trouble later, which can be regarded as an improvement!

Li Junhao is still very happy that he has helped in it...... Well, I also saw the secret covenant in advance! He was wondering, should he also send out the contents of the secret covenant in advance?

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On Thursday, January 4, the first day of work after the holiday, I went to the Consulate General for a meeting as usual.

This was the first meeting of the new year, and the heads of departments summarized the situation of the previous year and laid out the general work plan for this year...... Speaking of which, it was Li Junhao who tossed the most last year, and even directly prompted the United States to completely control the Great Concession, and of course he himself received a generous return.

Next, the three counsellors gave three briefings on the special situation of China and Japan.

After asking everyone present to keep it secret, Political Counselor Justin Sheehan reported an important piece of information: The intelligence department has confirmed that on December 30, at the end of last year, Wang Rebellious, who had been expelled from the Chinese Kuomintang, signed a "Secret Treaty between Wang and Japan," also known as the "Outline for the Adjustment of New Relations between China and Japan," with Japan in Tokyo.

Everyone at the meeting sighed when they heard this, it was already very difficult for China to resist Japanese aggression, and now there is a super traitor like Wang Rebellious, which is really unfortunate!

Only Ayers looked at Li Junhao on the side in surprise - this morning, as soon as Li Junhao arrived at the consulate, he went to him first, told him about yesterday's events, and handed him a stack of photos, saying that it was a copy of the secret agreement given by Gao Zongwu to thank him for his help.

Ailes took a magnifying glass and read the secret agreement and annexes officially called "Outline for the Adjustment of Japan-China New Relations", and shook his head directly, these Japanese are really wolf ambitions, this is to completely annex China! And this Wang Rebellious is really a great traitor to a nation, and he dares to sign such a secret covenant!

Li Junhao had already seen it last night, and he was still very angry at this time, Wang Shun should be damned! Damn the Japanese! No wonder Gao and Tao regretted it when they saw the content of the secret agreement, not only did they not participate in the signing, but they also wanted to escape from Wang Wei, because they were afraid that they would be nailed to the pillar of shame in history!

There are many contents and attachments of the secret covenant, which can be summarized in five aspects:

1. Using Japan's Manchurian support for the construction of a new East Asian order as a smokescreen, placing China under Japanese enslavement.

2. The ambition of political aggression with the good neighbor reconciliation as a bait.

3. Use economic cooperation as a means to realize the attempt to loot resources.

4. Under the guise of common defense, the purpose of stationing troops in North China was achieved.

5. The occupation of coastal islands should be used as the fulcrum for the southward and northern attacks.

Li Junhao knew that after this secret treaty was signed, it would not be long before the puppet government headed by Wang Wei would be established in Nanjing with the support of the Japanese, and for this reason, he even annexed the puppet government that established earlier.

After the establishment of the Wang puppet regime, there will be new changes in the situation of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and in some respects, this is a major turning point in China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression!

After he set up his banner, he would gather and gather a large number of traitors, warlords, and anti-Chiang forces within the Kuomintang, establish a political power network in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, continuously expand the strength of the puppet army, and help the Japanese strengthen their control over Central China......

After several unfavorable advances to the southwest, the Japanese army changed its aggressive measures and turned to support the puppet government, and after stabilizing the occupied areas, it would adjust the direction of the main attack until it attacked the United States and launched the Pacific War! ——

Commercial Counselor Stephen Sein reported on the 1939 economic report, which had not yet been officially released by the Chongqing government.

In that year, the Chongqing national government had fiscal expenditure of 2.8 billion yuan, revenue of 740 million yuan, and deficit of 2.057 billion yuan......

Sain deliberately pointed out the most important point, in order to cope with the war and obtain more resources, the Kuomintang government adopted an inflationary policy, plundering private wealth by increasing the money supply, and dealt a huge blow to China's overall economy!

Judging from the data, since the implementation of fiat currency on November 3, 1935, as of the eve of the July Seven Incident in 1937, the total amount of fiat currency issued was only more than 1.4 billion yuan, and in 1939 alone, 4.29 billion yuan of fiat currency was issued.

This situation has seriously affected the business behavior of the market, and more and more industrial and commercial enterprises have been forced to use foreign currencies such as US dollars and British pounds for transactions; In areas where foreign currency is scarce, they have had to revert to bartering.

As far as the United States is concerned, the exchange rate of the US dollar against the fiat currency, which was relatively stable in the past few years, has changed so much that now all commercial banks have abandoned the official guide exchange rate and adopted the market price in order to avoid losses.

For example, at the beginning of 1939, the local market price in Chongqing was still around 1:5.5, and by the end of the year it was already 1:7.8.

Li Junhao thought of the economic situation in the Huhai Concession, he was not an expert on currency or economics, but imagined: if the fiat currency was banned in the concession and only the US dollar or the ocean was used, would it be better for the common people?

(End of chapter)