Since the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Kuah, the Japanese side has switched to a defensive strategy in an all-round way, the US war machine has been fully mobilized, the strength of the navy and air force has been greatly strengthened, and the Japanese navy can no longer confront the enemy, and what is even more cruel is that Japan's own war resources have been exhausted, and it has to seek help from those puppet governments in the occupied areas.

Shanghai has always been an important link in the supply of materials for the Japanese army, although it was seriously damaged by the war, but the industrial base is still largely preserved, especially after the occupation of the concession, a large number of factory equipment and skilled workers have become the prerequisite for material production.

Therefore, the Japanese army needed to maintain a relatively stable social order in Shanghai, which was conducive to industrial production. In the current environment, the demand for food is far greater than the demand for cloth.

The only way to increase the ration of rice is to increase the ration of rice, and the only way is to coarse grains, such as bean noodles, stick noodles, red beans, and white beans, which have become an important part of the people's food ration, and the output outside the customs is the largest.

Both the Kwantung Army and the Dispatch Army belong to the General Army, which is a level, and if you want to exchange for coarse grain, you have to take out the materials that the other side needs, mainly cotton cloth.

The smuggling of cotton cloth in Shanghai has never really been curbed, and the vast number of smugglers with magical powers can always think of ways to sell the cotton cloth and cotton yarn in their hands to the Kuomintang for profit, but because of the intricate and complicated relationships, the Jinling government is powerless to do anything about it.

The Japanese had to accept this fact and use their domestic gold reserves to directly force the purchase of merchants' goods, including those of Japanese merchants, although doing so would touch the interests of the zaibatsu, but in the face of the dire situation, there seemed to be no other choice.

"I have heard that the cotton cloth shops in the city are very lively now, and the merchants are dumping their stocks with all their might, and the more registered the merchants, the more they release the goods, and they have already received the news from the Jinling government's Commercial Unified Association, and this practice of the Japanese will make half of the cotton cloth merchants bankrupt." Wang Zhen said.

The Commerce and Commerce Council is the governing body, but its members all have close ties with businessmen from all walks of life, and they received instructions from the government one minute ago, and the businessmen know about it one minute later, and no one wants to tear their faces with their peers for these things, and they will not benefit from it.

"This is a good thing for the citizens, you want the business personnel of the Huatong Trading Company to contact these cotton cloth merchants privately, if you feel that the goods in your hand cannot be sold, I can swallow a part, the gendarmerie headquarters wants me and the Military Command Bureau to increase the amount of smuggling, cotton cloth is the most important exchange material." Chen Mingxiang said with a smile.

As soon as the compulsory purchase order was announced, the cloth shops in Shanghai were crowded by the citizens, and they frantically snapped up cotton and gauze, which were cheap and there was no limit on the quantity.

The Huatong Trading Company also took action, and Chen Mingxiang relied on his own task with the Japanese military to send business personnel to privately trade with those cotton cloth merchants and pay in full, but with the Central Reserve Bonds.

Even if he had money, he didn't dare to swallow too much goods, and the data given by the Material Investigation Committee of the Commerce and Commerce Commission was that 64,644 pieces of cotton yarn were registered, and 27,466 pieces of cotton cloth were registered, and he planned to swallow 10,000 pieces of cotton yarn and 7,000 pieces of cotton cloth.

The amount of cotton cloth and cotton yarn in Shanghai is certainly much larger than this, and a large number of cotton cloth merchants have evaded the inspection of the material investigation committee of the Chamber of Commerce and Commerce by hiding goods and falsifying accounts, and even this is a purposeful collusion between the two sides.

In order to strengthen the management of the blockade line and prevent the flow of cotton cloth and yarn out of Shanghai, in accordance with the instructions of the Gendarmerie Command, the police and security headquarters, under the supervision of the Japanese military police, have intensified their inspection of the blockade line.

In a courtyard near Sheshan, in the southwestern suburbs of Shanghai, an emergency meeting was being held at the Shanghai Suburb Intelligence Station of the Military Command Bureau, and the topic was naturally for the sake of the Japanese puppet forcible purchase of cotton cloth and cotton yarn.

Army Colonel Luo Baotong, head of the Shanghai suburb intelligence station, presided over the meeting, and Qian Yuguang, deputy head of the army lieutenant colonel, Cao Qingyang, army lieutenant colonel inspector, as well as Yang Luoyuan, chief of the intelligence section, and Sun Maochang, representative of the Youth Gang.

"Boss Dai called many times to inquire about the purchase of cotton cloth and cotton yarn, and as soon as the Japanese and Wang puppet government did this, the goods on the market were emptied, and the police station and the gendarmerie set up a large number of checkpoints to closely inspect the goods entering and leaving the blockade line. Luo Baotong said with a frown.

"Although our Green Gang has contacts with some cotton cloth merchants, we can also get a batch of goods, but the gap in quantity is too big, and it can't be shipped out, this time there is a Japanese military police supervision, even the goods of Japanese businessmen must be inspected, and if it is found to be cotton cloth or cotton yarn, it must also be seized." Sun Maochang said.

The intelligence station in the suburbs of Shanghai accepted Boss Dai's order to smuggle cotton cloth and cotton yarn for the Kuomintang in conjunction with the Qing Gang, but in the face of such a situation, both sides felt a headache, because Boss Dai never listened to explanations, and failure to complete the task was dereliction of duty, and dereliction of duty would be punished.

The most troublesome thing is that the internal relationship of the Shanghai suburb intelligence station is very complicated, the station chief Luo Baotong is a person from the Hunan department and belongs to Tang Zong's henchman, while the deputy station chief Qian Yuguang is a person sent by Wang Xinheng, and the intelligence section chief Yang Luo is originally a henchman of Zheng Jiemin of the Guangdong department, and only the inspector Cao Qingyang is an old subordinate of Wang Yixin in the Shanghai Experimental Zone of the Military Control Bureau, and this is the person who really belongs to Boss Dai.

Cao Qingyang used to be the person in charge of the intelligence station in the suburbs of Shanghai, but at that time this intelligence station was not even a C station, but more like a contact point.

With the addition of personnel and equipment, the rank was upgraded to station B, and his "qualifications" were a little shallower, and he only held the position of inspector.

How can I say it, Cao Qingyang has no real power in the intelligence station on the outskirts of Shanghai, which means that he cannot reach the world or the ground, and he has been completely hollowed out by these three forces. But for the task of the bureau headquarters this time, he has no responsibility, and the inspector is only responsible for the discipline in the station.

"I have carefully investigated, except for the normal passage of goods from Huatong Trading Company, any other forces must be strictly restricted, and if they want to transport goods out, they can only go through Chen Mingxiang's channel, and his fleet can be directly sent to the national control area." Yang Luoyuan said.

"The problem is that Chen Mingxiang's Huatong Trading Company is a smuggling agency that directly cooperates with the headquarters, and most of the funds of the bureau headquarters are exchanged for trading with him. Luo Baotong said.

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