Chen Dasan agreed to the grain merchants' demands and quickly contacted the middleman.

Through an intermediary, Chen Jiati's request was quickly fed back to the Mei organ.

When Hikojiro Suga, the head of the intelligence section, got the news, he quickly found Ken Inuyo, and then the two of them came to Kagesa Yoshiaki's office together.

Ying Zuo Zhenzhao has been very busy recently, on the one hand, he is busy welcoming Wang Jingwei to Shanghai, and on the other hand, he has to keep track of the secret battle between the Operations Section and the 76th and the military commander in the concession, and the military will send a note every once in a while, asking them to cooperate with the military to carry out some special operations, so he really feels a little lacking in skills recently.

"I'll only give you five minutes!" Kagesa Zhenzhao raised his wrist to look at his watch, and said, "In five minutes, I will rush to the Marine Corps Headquarters to meet with General Okawauchi with the personnel of Unit 731 who have come to Shanghai. ”

Suga Hikojiro and Inuyangken glanced at each other and said: "Your Excellency, this is the case, the Chen family, who had cooperated with the imperial army before, united more than a dozen grain merchants to make a grain hegemony, but now they have been defeated by Zhong Yi, so I found the imperial army, hoping that the imperial army can help." ”

Inu Yangjian said: "If you can help the Chen family to make a grain hegemony, it can undoubtedly greatly disrupt the economic order of Yinjiang, and it can also create a lot of trouble for Zhong Yi, which is undoubtedly beneficial to the imperial army, because the slower Zhong Yi's work in Yinjiang City is carried out, the less resistance there will be when the imperial army attacks Yinjiang in the future." ”

Ying Zuo Zhenzhao said: "Let's be straight, how much money does it cost to make a grain hegemony?" ”

Inu Yangjian said: "Intelligence shows that Zhong Yi ordered 200,000 tons of corn from Mi Guo, and now the price for public sale is half a cent per catty, and it will cost about two million silver dollars to buy it all, considering that when someone eats a large amount, the price of grain will definitely rise, so at least five million silver dollars need to be prepared, about five million yen." ”

"Five million may not be enough." Suga Hikojiro said, "In order to make a grain hegemony, the Chen family and more than a dozen grain merchants who cooperated with them have already borrowed 2 million yuan from the money bank for usury, and now the principal and interest have rolled over to nearly 3 million yuan, and they hope that the imperial army can help them tide over the difficulties." ”

Kage Sazhen Zhao groaned: "Inu-kun, and Suga-kun, do you think this money can be borrowed?" ”

"I think I can borrow it." Inu Yangjian said without thinking, "Because Yinjiang will be captured by the imperial army sooner or later, there is no need to worry about not being able to recover the capital, that is to say, this is a good deal that will not lose money!" ”

Hikojiro Suga echoed: "I don't understand economics in my humble position, but I believe in favor of Inukai-kun's judgment. ”

"Yo Xi!" Ying Zuo Zhenzhao nodded happily and said, "Then you can go to the finance department to pay the money." ”

"Hello!" Hikojiro Suga and Inukai Ken straightened their feet at the same time, and then paused again.

……

In the blink of an eye, two days passed.

The thick snow has begun to melt slowly, and the various construction sites that have been suspended for nearly a month have become lively again, the landfill project in Yinjiang New Area has been rolled out again, and the construction projects of Zhaobaoshan and Jinjishan fortresses have also started again, because at this time, the first batch of ash ordered by Zhong Yi from the United States has also arrived in Hong Kong.

Zhang Yuanxi walked in with a folder, handed it to Zhong Yi and said, "Mayor, you can approve this money." ”

In private, Zhang Yuanxi usually calls Zhong Yi his brother-in-law or Ziren, but in public, he is always called mayor.

Zhong Yi opened the folder, but it was a hardware material amount, the amount was as high as one million, Zhang Yuanxi said: "Because the amount of money is too large, the Finance Bureau has to ask for your autograph." ”

This is Zhong Yi's rule, and he took out a pen and brush to sign his name.

Zhang Yuanxi took the approval and said: "By the way, mayor, what about the hundreds of thousands of free labor that I said before?" ”

"Don't be in a hurry, it's going to be soon." Zhong Yi smiled and said, "It will be half a month at most." ”

"Half a month?" Zhang Yuanxi smiled slightly when he heard this, but secretly thought in his heart, I believe you are a big ghost.

Seeing Zhang Yuanxi's figure leave, Zhong Yi subconsciously rubbed his bare chin, and before going out in the morning, Zhang Manyi personally shaved his beard, which felt cool to the touch.

At this moment, Cao Ziying suddenly came in and said with a flattering face: "Mayor, there is a situation!" ”

"What's the situation?" Zhong Yi asked casually, but he was a little bored thinking, will he go to the Zhaobaoshan Fortress construction site later, and go to see the cadets of the officer class by the way?

Anyway, he Zhong Yi is also the head teacher of the officer class.

Cao Ziying said: "There are a lot of mud legs at the train station suddenly, and they are frantically buying corn!" ”

"Snapping up corn?" Hearing this, Zhong Yi immediately turned around and said in a deep voice, "What's going on?" ”

"That's right." Cao Ziying swallowed her saliva, and said, "In accordance with your instructions from the mayor, you will send patrol police to guard the Jiangbei Railway Station 24 hours a day, first, to maintain order on the spot, and second, to monitor the sale of corn, each person is limited to 50 catties per day, and those who exceed 50 catties will be fined!" ”

Zhong Yi snorted and said, "You didn't pay a fine, did you?" ”

"The conscience of heaven and earth." Cao Ziying swore with a gambling curse, "As of today, there is still a fine that has not been issued?" Mayor, you have to believe me, Lao Cao and I and those patrol policemen under me have really changed their minds, and we will definitely follow you in the future and serve Yinjiang Father and Elder conscientiously and sincerely! ”

"I believe in you." Zhong Yi said, "What's going on just now?" ”

"That's right." Cao Ziying said, "In fact, there have been signs since last night, most of the villagers from nearby towns came, and the citizens in the city rarely bought fifty catties, generally only ten catties or five catties, but these villagers all bought fifty catties, and early this morning, these villagers came again, and they had to buy fifty catties!" ”

After a pause, Cao Ziying continued: "I feel very suspicious when I am humble, don't be the Chen family and those grain merchants who secretly colluded with them, and come to secretly eat corn again!" Then you can't sell them! ”

"I see." Zhong Yi said, "You go back and continue to watch, but you can't stop them from buying grain, what if they are really waiting for the corn to be put in the pot at home?" If you don't let them buy it, won't their family have to go hungry? ”

"Yes." Cao Ziying snapped upright, then turned around on the spot and walked away.

Seeing Cao Ziying's figure leaving, Zhong Yi pressed the bell again to call Zhou Baoyu in, and ordered: "Secretary General Zhou, you call Xiaogang Zhao's family immediately......

Before the words fell, Zhao Xingjiu's figure had already walked in from outside the door.

"No need to fight." Zhao Xingjiu sat down on the guest chair with a big grin, and said, "Mayor Zhong, my old guy has come to you for dinner again." ”