Chapter 33: The Great Harvest (2)
When Lu Yuan, who was disguised in disguise, left Hongkou District, he did not attract the attention of the Japanese soldiers at the checkpoint, and he quickly disappeared into the crowd when he left Hongkou District. Not long after Lu Yuan left Hongkou District, Shinji Maeda, who worked at Fukuyama Bank, left his residence with his briefcase and went to Fukuyama Bank, which was not far from his residence. Shinji Maeda has worked at Bank of Fukuyama for more than 10 years, and it was a year ago that he was sent to the Shanghai branch, and even Shinji Maeda himself did not expect that he would one day be called the manager of the Shanghai branch.
After being promoted to manager of the Shanghai branch by the headquarters a few years ago, Shinji Maeda has become more passionate about the job, arriving at the bank half an hour early every day, and being the last person to leave when he leaves work every day. Today is the same, Maeda Shinji also left his residence early, and those gold and silver ingots stored in the vault make Maeda Shinji a little nervous these days. If it weren't for the order of the headquarters, perhaps those precious metals would have been sent back to the mainland across the ocean.
The headquarters ordered the Shanghai branch under its own management to smelt those precious metals on the spot, and Maeda Shinji naturally knew that doing so would bring certain benefits and benefits to Fukuyama Bank, but on the contrary, these precious metals also brought certain risks to the Shanghai branch. Fortunately, he had a good relationship with the top brass of the Shanghai garrison, and at his request, the military police headquarters sent additional guards to the bank, believing that under their care, the bank should be impregnable.
Following his old custom, Shinji Maeda stopped at the bakery on the corner of the street and bought a loaf of bread before rushing to the bank. As usual, after leaving the briefcase in the office, the first place that Shinji Maeda had to inspect while walking and eating was the vault. Descending the stairs to the basement, and then down a not-so-long corridor to an iron door, Shinji Maeda stretched out his hand and knocked rhythmically on the iron door. A small window on the iron door was suddenly opened, and a pair of bloodshot eyes appeared in Maeda's sight, and the person behind the window glanced at Maeda Shinji before opening the iron door from the inside.
Behind the iron door was a small room, and it was a Japanese military police officer who opened the iron door for Maeda, and another military policeman was napping on the table at the moment. "Manager Maeda, everything was normal last night." Ono, a gendarme with a wooden personality, always says this sentence when he meets Shinji Maeda every day, and Shinji Maeda always replies that you have worked hard. Passing through Ono's room where they were on duty, Shinji Maeda would have the key he carried with him and open an iron door, and the bank's vault would actually appear in front of Shinji Maeda.
According to the usual practice, Ono and the two of them can go back to rest after Shinji Maeda knocks on the door. It's just that today's situation is a little different, and the bank manager, who might have stayed in the vault for a long time in the past, quickly let out an exclamation after opening the door of the vault. After a "boom", Ono immediately felt a wave of shaking of the mountains, and a wave of heat mixed with the dense dust gushed out from the door of the vault.
Early in the morning, an explosion occurred at the Bank of Fukuyama, and the military police stationed in Hongkou District immediately dispatched urgently, and then the situation was reported layer by layer, and a few minutes later, the top brass of the Japanese army in Shanghai was informed of the news. The street where the Bank of Fukuyama was located was immediately cordoned off, and a large number of Japanese military policemen appeared, mixed with an unknown number of plainclothes agents. The guards in the bank have been controlled by the gendarmes who arrived here first, although they are all former companions, but this matter is too sensitive and serious, and the gendarmes who rushed here can only do this.
The place where the explosion occurred was more tightly controlled, and the gendarmes who cordoned off the scene were only slightly relaxed until the sappers sent by the garrison arrived. The sappers quickly cleared the rubble from the blast site and carried out further cleanup in accordance with the original structure of the vault until they found the bodies of the bank manager, Shinji Maeda, and the two gendarmes on duty. "Your Excellency, the scene has been gradually cleaned up, and the bodies of the bank manager and the gendarme on duty have been found at the scene of the explosion." The captain of the engineer was reporting to the highest-ranking officer at the scene when a shout was heard at the scene of the explosion.
Seeing the hand flags waved by the sappers at the scene, the gendarmes who were on guard at the perimeter immediately dispersed and looked for suitable cover in accordance with the orders of the officers. The sappers who cleaned the vault found a * again, and after some nervous disassembly, the captain of the sappers finally got up from the rubble with the dismantled * in his arms. Seeing from afar the * held in the hands of the engineer captain, the gendarmes who stood up one after another around them all clapped their hands and jumped for joy.
The sapper captain who was proud in his heart also nodded to the surrounding military police, but at this moment, something strange suddenly happened. A wisp of green smoke drifted behind the engineer captain, and then the Japanese military police at the scene only heard a "boom" sound, and the engineer captain, who had just nodded to everyone, disappeared into the huge smoke ball together with the three engineers under his command. Lu Yuan arranged more than one * in the vault, and the * connected to the door of the vault asked for the lives of Shinji Maeda and the two Japanese military policemen, and only the second one was dismantled by the engineer captain, and now it is the third one* that exploded.
There was another explosion at the scene, and all the sappers sent by the headquarters to dismantle* were killed, so the place was cordoned off again. The new sappers soon arrived, and this time, the sappers acted with much more caution, and it took about two hours for the six Japanese sappers to initially clear the rubble and debris left at the vault site. "Nani? You mean the vault was stolen? "Among the bank clerks who were controlled by the gendarmerie, a terrible possibility had already been thought, and their suspicion was immediately transmitted to the ears of the commander on the spot.
"Your Excellency, because of the order of the Russian nationality to the headquarters of the bank, the group of noble relatives handed over by the army were smelted into gold and silver ingots on the spot in the bank. The smelted gold and silver ingots were only packed yesterday and were supposed to be shipped back to the mainland in three days, but now that the vault has been destroyed like this, it may be that the gold and silver ingots have been in trouble, * just to clean up the traces left at the site. The bank clerk who was questioned stammered his suspicions, but his suspicions were confirmed by the on-site commander.
Soon, a large number of gendarmes rushed into the scene of the explosion and, under the guidance of the bank staff, used various tools to completely clean the vault site. Sure enough, the exclamations immediately rang out, and then everyone knew that the bank's vault had been stolen. Tegaoke soon took over the scene, and trace experts began to survey the site, and after their meticulous and rigorous investigation, some small traces and details that went unnoticed were discovered and gathered together.
With the deepening of the investigation, the tunnel that had been buried by Lu Yuan was finally discovered. Knowing that a tunnel had been found at the scene, the commander of the gendarmerie unit was also immediately excited, at least he already knew that the other party had stolen the bank vault and came in through the tunnel. The gendarmerie began to clean up the dirt in the tunnel in a planned way, but as the clearing of the tunnel began, the people of the special high-tech department accidentally discovered that the tunnel was pointing to a hotel across the street, and then the gendarmes found a suspicious one in the backyard of the hotel.
Just when Hongkou District became chaotic because of the explosion of Fushan Bank, Lu Yuan, who left Hongkou District, returned to his residence safely, and Lu Yuan, who closed the door, still did not feel the slightest sleep, after all, his storage space was full of all kinds of antiques and a large amount of cash. Lu Yuan didn't have much knowledge of antiques, although he felt that these antiques were valuable, but Lu Yuan didn't know how much these things were worth. The cloth bag containing the cash was taken out of the storage space by Lu Yuan, and instantly occupied most of the study, Lu Yuan sat on the floor painfully and happily, and began to count the banknotes in the cloth bag.
After about three hours, the exhausted Lu Yuan finally counted all the banknotes in these bags, yen, dollar, and pound sterling mixed with the Deutsche mark, and the total value of these banknotes that Lu Yuan got from the Bank of Fukuyama had exceeded 300,000 US dollars. 300,000 US dollars, this is nothing if it is placed in the future life, it may not be enough to buy an apartment in some first-tier cities, but Lu Yuan is now in 1940, and these 300,000 US dollars worth of paper notes from various countries are almost enough for him to live the rest of his life richly.
The banknotes are worth 300,000 US dollars, there are hundreds of antiques of all kinds in the study and bedroom, and then thinking of the dozens of boxes of gold bricks and silver ingots hidden by himself in Hongkou District, although Lu Yuan is exhausted, his mood suddenly becomes very good. This time it was really not in vain, thinking back to the hardships he had paid in the previous few days, Lu Yuan felt that it was all worth it, after all, his harvest this time could be described as a bumper harvest.
Sitting on the floor of the study and smoking a cigarette quietly, Lu Yuan immediately divided the cleaned banknotes into two piles, and after putting the two piles of banknotes of different numbers into the suitcase, Lu Yuan got up and called Xu Huanshan. Half an hour later, Xu Huanshan drove to Lu Yuan's residence with two assistants, and saw Lu Yuan's house full of antiques, Xu Huanshan immediately pointed to Lu Yuan, who was full of smiles, and couldn't speak.
"That's right, you don't have to guess, I did it, and these are my gains." In front of Xu Huanshan and the others, Lu Yuan's several suitcases placed in the living room were opened one after another, and the suitcases were full of banknotes, which made Xu Huanshan and the three of them immediately dumbfounded. "There are yen, dollars, pounds and Deutsche marks, and the total should be more than $200,000, which is my gift to your underground party. These antiques, you better take them away, the things left by the ancestors should be left in the hands of the Chinese forever. ”