At the same time, in the Plum Blossom Hall in Shanghai.

Yamada Otozo, commander of the Central China Front, happened to be inspecting Shanghai, and the head of the Mei organ, Kage Satsuaki, accompanied him by Hikojiro Suga and others.

After the inspection, the meeting was held in a small meeting.

"Kagesa-kun." Yamada Otozo said, "The Military Command Bureau of China is planning an assassination against Wang Jingwei, you should already know about this, right?" ”

"Hello!" Shadow Zuozhen Zhao said suddenly, "I already know the lowly position. ”

After a pause, Ying Zuo Zhenzhao continued: "And I also know that this assassination of Wang Jingwei is in charge of Chen Gongshu, the former stationmaster of the Shanghai Station of the Military Control Bureau!" ”

"Yo Xi, it's good that you know." Yamada Otozo nodded, and said, "Wang Jingwei has shown enough sincerity to the empire through Zhou Fohai, and this person is the key to the empire's successful settlement of the Shina incident, so his personal safety must be guaranteed!" Do you understand what I mean? ”

"Hello!" Ying Zuozhen Zhao was the first to say, "I understand! The humble position is ready to let Imai Jun personally lead a group of special combat personnel to Hanoi to carry out personal protection for Wang Jingwei! ”

At this time, the special operations brigade of the Central China Front had been transferred to Shanghai and placed under the structure of the Mei organ.

Of course, it should be noted that this is only temporary, and the special operations brigade was transferred to Shanghai only to assist the Mei organs in attacking the Chinese spies and organizations in Shanghai.

"Yo Xi!" Yamada nodded happily and asked, "How is the work of the headquarters of the agents of the Restoration Government going?" ”

"Hello!" Kagesa Zhenzhao paused again and replied, "Initially, the work at the Secret Service Headquarters was not very smooth, but after receiving the help of Ji San, it was easy to recruit enough people. ”

The Ji Sang in Ying Zuozhenzhao's mouth is Ji Yunqing, the boss of the Shanghai Youth Gang.

"Yo Xi!" Yamada Otozo nodded happily again, and continued, "Now that the secret service headquarters is on the right track, we must order them to launch a mission to clean up the Central Command of the Chinese Military Command and the underground party of the Chinese Communist Party as soon as possible, in order to eliminate the espionage activities in the Shanghai Concession that are not conducive to the empire as soon as possible!" ”

"Hello!" Kagesa Zhenzhao paused again.

After a pause, Yamada Otozo suddenly said again: "By the way, Ying Zuojun, do you know that Zhong Yi is the mayor of Yinjiang?" ”

"Hello!" Ying Zuozhen shook his head and said, "This matter has long been known to the lowly position, and our Mei Agency even had a battle with Zhong Yi, but unfortunately, we lost. ”

"Zhong Yi is a cruel and scheming person, it's not strange to lose to him." Speaking of this, Yamada Otozo said again, "But you must be clear about one thing, that is, you must not let him build Yinjiang well!" Because Yinjiang is not only a port city, it can get supplies from the outside world, but also because Yinjiang is too close to Shanghai and Hangzhou! ”

After a pause, Yamada Otozo said again: "I'm afraid you already know that Zhong Yi is going to hold an auction at the Yinjiang Hotel tonight, and raise funds for the development of Yinjiang's industry through the auction of planned commercial land, and we must be vigilant about this!" At least he can't be allowed to act recklessly! ”

"Your Excellency, this is easy to solve." Hikojiro Suga, who was next to him, said, "You only need to send a few attack planes to raze all of Zhong Yi's efforts in Yinjiang." ”

"Baga Yalu, it's not that simple." Yamada Otozo frowned and reprimanded, "Zhong Yi's actions in Yinjiang are in the name of the United States government, if there is a large-scale bombing, the reaction of the United States must be considered!" What's more, now that the industrial construction of Yinjiang has just begun, let our attack aircraft bomb the farmland? ”

"Hello!" Hikojiro Suga slammed his head and didn't dare to interject anymore.

Ying Zuo Zhenzhao turned his head and glanced at Inujiaojian, and then asked in a low voice: "Your Excellency, General, at the moment, there is no major battle in the Eleventh Army and the Twenty-first Army, can't you send a few divisions to defeat Yinjiang as well?" ”

The Yinjiang River is close to the sea and is within the strike range of the Japanese Navy, so Kagesa Zhenzhao thinks it will be easy to take it.

This is also the reason why Ying Zuo Zhenzhao didn't pay much attention to Zhong Yi before, because he felt that there was no need for that, even if Zhong Yi made flowers in Yinjiang, wouldn't it still be a cheap empire in the end?

"Capture the Yinjiang River? Do you think we don't want to? Yamada Otozo smiled bitterly, "But at this stage, the North China Front Army is preparing to launch a large-scale law and order campaign against the occupied area, so it can't draw extra troops to the south, and the 21st Army is barely able to maintain the occupation around Guangzhou, as for Okamura-kun's 11th Army, which is currently preparing for the Battle of Nanchang, it also has no regard for other battlefields." ”

After a pause, Yamada Otozo said again: "More importantly, the empire's finances are on the verge of collapse, and it really can't support multiple fronts fighting at the same time, do you understand?" ”

If Japan still has the strength to spare, it will not stop after the Battle of Wuhan, but will definitely continue to fight westward along the Yangtze River and directly take Chongqing, the capital of China, however, the reality is that the Japanese army stopped its frontal attack after capturing Wuhan, not that little Japan did not want to continue the attack, but it really could not support it.

"Hello!" Ying Zuo Zhenzhao paused and said, "I understand my humble duties. ”

Yamada Otozo said: "Therefore, for Yinjiang, military means can be excluded. ”

Ying Zuozhen said: "Your Excellency, General, since you can't use military means in Yinjiang, can the empire fight an economic war against Yinjiang?" ”

"Economic warfare?" Yamada Otozo said, "You mean blockade?" ”

"A simple lockdown is certainly not enough." "After all, Yinjiang is also a free port, and merchant ships from Western countries can pass through it unimpeded, and the Imperial Navy can't blockade it if it wants to. ”

"What else can be done but lockdown?" Yamada Otozo was puzzled.

Ying Zuozhen said: "Use economic means to disrupt the market order in Yinjiang. ”

"Disrupting the market order in Yinjiang?" Yamada said, "Can you be specific?" ”

Ying Zuozhen said: "Specifically, it is to hoard materials, isn't Zhong Yi going to carry out large-scale construction in Yinjiang?" It is inevitable to use a large number of cement building materials, because Yinjiang is close to Shanghai, Zhong Yi is very likely to purchase from Shanghai, so we only need to raise the price of cement building materials, we can make Zhong Yi give up halfway! ”

"Is it up to the price of building materials?" Yamada Otozo, "How much money do you need?" ”

"Due to the isolation of traffic from the outside world, a large number of building materials have been hoarded in Shanghai, but fortunately, the price has fallen to a low level, so the amount of capital required should not be too much. ”