Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 606
Qian Xiaobao rushed back to Harbin at noon the next day.

"Did something happen?"

Seeing Qian Xiaobao come out and come back to Ono, Da Kuan asked.

"Sir, I have a suggestion." Qian Xiaobao said.But he only said one word at the beginning and then looked at Ono Tahiro and stopped talking.

"If you have any suggestion, just say it." Ono Tahiro said.

"Sir, in Manchukuo, Japan and Manchukuo pay attention to harmony, and the Japanese and Manchurians get along well; in the south of Shanhaiguan, we pay attention to Japanese-Chinese harmony, and the Japanese and Han people get along well. Look at our Manchukuo, the Japanese and the Manchurians get along well these years. I went to Shanghai these years and saw that every household burns coal pellet stoves for cooking and heating, but now they don’t even have coal for cooking. It’s so pitiful. It’s not like in Manchuria where ordinary people can go to the mountains to collect firewood. There are plenty of logs on the mountains " Qian Xiaobao said.

Hearing this, Ono Dakuan already understood what Qian Xiaobao meant. He wanted to quietly transport coal to Shanghai to sell for money.

"Coal is a strategic material, and it is inappropriate to transport it to Shanghai without a proper reason." Ono replied with a frown.

"The No.13 Army Command in Shanghai also needs coal. We can transport some coal to them. As for the coal flowing from them to the people of Shanghai in the future, that is their business." Qian Xiaobao said.

Ono Dakuan's eyes lit up, he understood what Qian Xiaobao meant.

Part of the coal transported to Shanghai was sent to the No.13 Army Headquarters stationed in Shanghai, and the other part was quietly sold.

As in Manchukuo, when the Japanese occupied other parts of China, they first wanted to control resources such as coal mines and iron ore.

Ono Tahiro also knew that Shanghai and other places in China were short of coal. One reason was that Japan now needed a lot of coal to produce all kinds of military supplies at full capacity. High prices thus search for people's fat and people's cream in China.

Specifically, coal is controlled and distributed by the Carbon Coal Federation under the Xingya Institute.

The Kwantung Army and the Chinese Expeditionary Army each have their own interests. It is indeed a good idea to secretly transport some coal to Shanghai for sale.

"I can get the coal for you, but you still have to be careful after transporting it to Shanghai." Ono Tahiro said.

"I will definitely do it perfectly!" Qian Xiaobao said.

It took Ono Dakuan only one day to get [-] tons of coal from Muling Coal Mine, and it will be transported to Harbin in two or three days for standby.

Muling Coal was originally invested and mined by Russian businessmen. After the Japanese came, they forced a joint venture to seize the coal mine.The armed force of hundreds of people in the coal mine is also controlled by the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army. The leader of this force is the traitor Xie Wendong who surrendered from the Anti-Japanese League.

Qian Xiaobao returned to Muling Town to load the medicinal materials and mountain goods purchased by Liu Guangpin into the truck immediately.

Three days later, Qian Xiaobao and Hemoto Taro went south with the truck loaded with medicinal coal.

The largest ship of the Manchukuo Maritime Police Force, the Sea King, was originally a merchant ship loaded with cargo, but it was equipped with two anti-aircraft machine guns.

So every time the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army used this ship for transportation missions, it loaded the most.

When Qian Xiaobao boarded the Sea King again, the captain who greeted him had been replaced by police officer Jiang Yuren.

"Why did you change the captain again? Has the original captain Gao Yongfu been promoted?" Qian Xiaobao asked knowingly.

Jiang Yuren's smiling face froze. It has been a year since Gao Yongfu took the peninsula labor team to the Aleutian Islands, and there has been no news of him since he left.

Jiang Yuren deliberately inquired about the reason why Gao Yongfu was suddenly sent to the Aleutian Islands. It is said that this was a special order from the Kwantung Army Command.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuren put on a flattering smile and replied: "Gao Yongfu wants to serve the Great Japanese Empire wholeheartedly, and he himself proposed to go to the Pacific Ocean. Last year, he took the labor team to the Aleutians shortly after completing his mission in the Intelligence Department. "

"That's right, I really admire Brother Gao's integrity! The last time I took the same boat with him, I hit it off right away. I thought of inviting him to drink in Shanghai, but I didn't expect him to go to the Aleutians." Qian Xiaobao regretted Said.

Jiang Yuren laughed dryly and did not answer.

"Five hundred tons of coal were loaded into the cabin, and the medicinal materials were piled on the deck and covered with canvas." Qian Xiaobao said to Jiang Yuren.

"Yes! I'll let them ship as you said right away." Jiang Yuren said hastily.

A day later, the Neptune, which had a deep draft, headed south cautiously along the coastline of Bohai Bay.This old ship, old enough to be Qian Xiaobao's grandfather, could not stand the rough seas deep in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea when it was fully loaded.

Four days later, the Neptune arrived at the Whampoa Port in the afternoon.

This time, Qian Xiaobao was not in a hurry to meet Zhang Xinzhai, the old man of the Green Gang. He asked Kawamoto Taro to stay on the boat by himself, put on a suit and got off the boat with a suitcase.

People in Shanghai generally use briquettes for boiling water and cooking, which are made by mixing clay and coal powder.There are hundreds of briquette factories large and small distributed in Shanghai, and these briquette factories have joined together to form the mechanism briquette industry association.

Qian Xiaobao walked around the street but didn't see a shop selling briquettes. To be precise, these shops selling briquettes were closed and not open.

He bought sauced duck and sweet and sour pork ribs on the street, and a bottle of old Shaoxing wine, boarded a rickshaw and rushed to Xingrenli.

Qian Xiaobao rushed to the Shikumen in Xingrenli, but there was no one there.He looked at the east wing room where Zhang Lixing lived, all the bedding and clothes were there, which meant that Zhang Lixing was still living here and had not left.

Zhang Lixing only returned home when it was getting late.Seeing the lights on in the living room, he cautiously walked to the window and looked in, and saw Qian Xiaobao sitting on the sofa with a big face and smiling at him outside the window!
Shanghai has been influenced by foreign countries for a long time, and it pays attention to profit in everything but indifferent to human relations. Now it is a chaotic world full of profit-seeking people.

Zhang Lixing fled here from his hometown in the Northeast and did not make a single friend. Now seeing Qian Xiaobao coming, he couldn't help but get red eyes.

He quickly walked into the living room and said, "Your boy is finally here!"

"I've already bought the food, let's talk while eating." Qian Xiaobao said.

"You don't know, the French Concession has been taken back by the Wang government. Now I barely found a job in the District Office of the Eighth District. Now I have been hesitating whether to leave here." Zhang Lixing said.

"Where do you want to go after leaving here?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"I want to go to Chongqing!" Zhang Lixing replied.

"Now that the Yangtze River is blocked by the Japanese, it is impossible to get through. It is too dangerous to go thousands of miles across the blockades. Even if you can reach Chongqing, what can you do?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"Let's stay here, at most three or four years, everything will have a result." Qian Xiaobao persuaded.

(End of this chapter)