Spy Wars: Red Shopkeeper

Chapter 109 It’s done
"Okay, I'll go right away." Liu San left as soon as he said that.

He paused and came back, his eyes bulging as he asked, "Who did you say came to Shanghai? Matsui? The Japanese commander-in-chief in Nanjing, Matsui? The general?"

Gu Yansheng knew what he was thinking from the look on his face, "Why, you want to kill him?"

"It's an opportunity. Now that he's coming to Shanghai, can we give it a try?" Liu San felt a little excited when he thought about it. The Iron Blood Assassination Group liked big figures like this the most.

Gu Yansheng poured cold water on him, trying to calm him down. "He went to the city government for a meeting and brought over a hundred military police with him, guarding the entire route from the main gate to the meeting room. Now he's either at the military police headquarters or back in Nanjing. You can't even trace his whereabouts."

"Damn, the shell is thicker than a turtle. Okay, I'm leaving now. Printing money is more important."

Liu Sanyi left.

Gu Yansheng looked at Shen Shuyun, thinking about how to deal with this person.

Shen Shuyun was very honest. She stood there quietly, looking at Gu Yansheng with a polite smile on her lips.

"What can you do? Tell me about your resume first so I can get to know you." Gu Yansheng pulled a stool over and sat down.

Shen Shuyun hummed and said, "I'm from Hangzhou. My family used to sell silk, but after the Japanese arrived, my father was killed by the Japanese and the factory was robbed.

At the time, I was studying secretarial studies at Hujiang University. During the Battle of Shanghai, Director Dai went to the university to organize a group of students to form the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Special Operations Team. I signed up, but since they didn't accept girls, I wasn't selected. Instead, I was recommended to attend the Qingpu training class, specializing in telegraph translation.

"So you are familiar with Shanghai."

"familiar."

"Can you shoot?"

"I've been trained in basic secret agent skills, and my results are decent."

"Not bad?" Gu Yansheng raised his eyebrows. Usually the word "not bad" has nothing to do with "not bad" itself.

But I didn’t ask any more questions.

"Since you have a degree, you can get a government job. You can stay in the hotel first. Tomorrow I will have the Judicial Department put out a job posting for a few civilian staff members. When you see it, go for the interview. I will then recruit you. If you can perform well enough during the process, I can transfer you."

Shen Shuyun nodded repeatedly, "I understand."

"Then you can rest. I'll be leaving first. You can go shopping and relax. Do you have enough money?"

"Enough."

"it is good."

Gu Yansheng went out and headed for the Sassoon Building.

"Call Zhang Xiaolin and ask him to come and discuss things."

"Looks like there's good news?" Sassoon said with a smile, then picked up the phone to inform Zhang Xiaolin.

After he finished the call, Gu Yansheng asked, "Have you started collecting military notes?"

"We're already working on it," Sassoon said, pouring his red wine. "There aren't many military notes on the market right now. Citizens hold onto French currency and dollars, and will only exchange some when needed. They're still worried about the actual purchasing power of the notes, so they're reluctant to exchange more.

The overall effect should wait until companies start paying wages on a large scale, so that they will have to take it even if they don’t want to.

If you ask me, the fastest way for the Japanese is to search every house and force all currencies except military notes to be exchanged for military notes. This is the most effective way.

"Bad idea." Gu Yansheng took the red wine handed to him by Sassoon and sneered, "Besides making it convenient for you, what benefit does this method bring to the Japanese? It costs a lot of manpower and resources to search door to door. How much money do ordinary people have? It's not worth it at all.

The Japanese want a continuous supply, not a complete elimination of all fish. In the eyes of the Japanese, Shanghai is now their city, and these citizens are also property, and property also needs to be protected."

Sassoon just said it casually. How could he not know the Japanese ambitions?

"However, there has been an overflow of military notes recently. Some citizens in downtown SH only have military notes in their hands. When they come to the concession to shop, they have no choice but to pay with military notes. Merchants in the concession either refuse to do business with them or take their money back.

The future of our business may be even greater than originally anticipated. The scope of use of military notes will gradually encompass the entire concession, and even places like Jiangsu will have military notes in circulation."

Sassoon raised his red wine glass and motioned Gu Yansheng to raise his glass to celebrate.

Gu Yansheng smiled and took a sip.

By the time the Military Control Commission's printing presses start printing, each print will be 100 million, and the market will be full of military notes. Gu Yansheng is really worried that Sassoon will go bankrupt because of this.

Before coming up with this idea, Gu Yansheng had not expected the emergence of the Military Control Commission. The change in strategy could only be attributed to Sassoon's bad luck.

However, Sassoon is the richest man, so he should be more resilient than Fu Xiaoan.

By then, there will probably be some wrangling between Sassoon and the Japanese.

After a while, Zhang Xiaolin arrived, and he looked in a very good mood.

"How's it going, Director Gu? I heard Sheng Wenyi was taken to Nanjing by the Japanese?"

"Are you well-informed?" Gu Yansheng smiled in surprise.

"I've been in Shanghai for so long, and I can't even get this little bit of information. Isn't it all for nothing?"

Zhang Xiaolin sat down with a majestic posture and ordered Sassoon, "Give me a drink too. Today is worth celebrating. I've been irritated by this jerk for so many days. How much money have I lost? He's finally been taken away by the Japanese. It would be best if the Nanjing Military Court sentenced him to death and shot him on the spot."

If he is really shot, I will go to his grave and burn a truckload of opium. He likes to burn opium to show off so much. I will burn a truckload of opium for him every year on his death anniversary so that he can smoke as much as he wants!

"You're still fighting me. Back then, when the Japanese army entered the city, they were polite to me. But he came and wanted to kill everyone. He didn't even realize how turbid the waters of Shanghai were, and he just wanted to show off. What a jerk! What a brainless bastard."

"Ha ha ha ha."

The three of them smiled.

After laughing, Gu Yansheng said, "Anyway, the drug issue has been settled as of today.

I have to report to the Japanese, so you just pretend to restore the situation in Shanghai little by little. Boss Zhang should first arrange for his own people to stop and let the other gangs make trouble for a few days. After that, you can warn them and everyone should stop.

Then just do business as you would do business.

I'll issue a document at that time, and the goods will still go through the Narcotics Control Bureau, but the goods themselves are yours. You can enter and take them away. There will be a record, just for the sake of formality. You can hide some of the rest. I'll turn a blind eye anyway, so that everyone can get away with it and don't let the Japanese think that the amount is abnormally small."

"Look, this is the right attitude to get things done." Zhang Xiaolin pointed at Gu Yansheng and said to Sassoon, "Director Gu's move is very righteous. With this change of hands, our smuggling problem is gone. The goods can be imported directly from Wusongkou, which saves us a lot of trouble and prevents the Japanese from extorting us every day."

After talking about drugs, Sassoon revealed a piece of news.

In fact, Fu Xiaoan had approached him yesterday, asking him to agree to accept Japanese control and take the lead, even willing to give up some of the profits of other goods. But how could Sassoon agree?
The Underground Economy Department is the biggest interest connection among the three people sitting here.

Shanghai's judicial system cannot bypass Gu Yansheng, and Fu Xiaoan is not qualified to get a share of this matter.

The next day, Gu Yansheng asked the Judicial Department to recruit people, and Shen Shuyun was successfully hired.

Gu Yansheng was not in a hurry to use her. He would keep her for a while, get familiar with her, and then create some situations for her to appear in public, so that she could enter the director's eyes in a way that others would consider normal. That would be all.

As time goes by, the environment in Shanghai is indeed getting better. At least there are fewer cases of smashing and looting, and it is visibly decreasing.

During the meeting, Fu Xiaoan's mood had obviously improved.

But privately, he still urged Gu Yansheng to work faster, as his efficiency was still a bit slow.

Gu Yansheng agreed verbally, but he still had to go at his own pace.

After seven days, the looting and vandalism completely stopped and the Japanese military police withdrew from the urban area of ​​SH.

Ten days later, Gu Yansheng went to see Hase Inchuan with the freshly prepared documents.

"Mr. Hase, this is the document I drafted based on the results of the negotiations. The document isn't the key point; it's a unified format. The attached ratios vary from company to company; this is a private agreement."

"Mr. Gu is very efficient, and the situation in downtown SH has recovered well. I've received fewer annoying calls recently."

Hasegawa Inkawa was flipping through the documents while talking. He saw that the privately agreed ratio was roughly between 30% and 40%. He asked, "30% is a bit low. Can this ratio be increased?"

Gu Yansheng nodded: "It is possible to bring it up, but not now. They have just experienced the conflict during Sheng Wenyi's time. When I negotiate with them, in order to reach an agreement smoothly, I also have to pay attention to their emotions. Restoring Shanghai's economy is my first priority.

As for the increase in this ratio, it is actually included in my subsequent design.

What I mean is that we should first let them accept our jurisdiction, so that we actually have the dominant power. Then when Shanghai's economy improves, we can take it back little by little.

This way, we can get some benefits first, while also retaining the possibility of getting more later. This is a gradual process, which is more secure for Shanghai's economy now."

Hasegawa thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay, let's get the situation under control first, and we'll figure out the rest after Shanghai's economy improves."

Hasegawa signed his name happily, indicating that the resolution was passed.

With Sheng Wenyi as a precedent, stability must be the top priority when dealing with things.

Gu Yansheng took the opportunity to ask curiously, "Mr. Chang Gu, how is Sheng Wenyi?"

Hasegawa said casually, "He shouldn't be in serious trouble. Nanjing wants to deal with him, but somehow he contacted people in Manchuria. Someone in Manchuria has protected him. He might be imprisoned for a while, and then he might be taken away by Manchuria. He attended a military academy in Japan and has classmates in Manchuria."

He was tough enough that even Nanjing didn't kill him. But it didn't concern Gu Yansheng. As long as this person didn't come to Shanghai again, it would be fine.

But Gu Yansheng changed his mind and felt that if they really went to Shanghai later, it would actually be fine, because if Sheng Wenyi had any hatred in his heart, he would definitely not be the first one, then Fu Xiaoan would naturally be the first one.

There will be a good show to watch.

"Mr. Gu, I'll leave it to you to execute this. Reach an agreement with them as soon as possible to help Shanghai's economy recover."

"Okay, I'll take my leave now."

The next day, Gu Yansheng called a meeting of gang leaders of all sizes.

Everyone was very cooperative. The terms had been agreed upon long ago and all we had to do was sign them.

After they left, Gu Yansheng watched his men pack up the signed documents, thinking about how to get a little more of it, so that the less left for the Japanese, the better.

"Xiaolou, notify the mayor's office and ask him to schedule a time. I need to call a meeting and have all the directors present."

"Ok."

Gu Yansheng returned to the office.

Now all we have to wait for is the counterfeit money.

Whether the Japanese military note plan can be successfully disrupted depends on the ability of the Military Control Commission.

The Japanese have such high expectations for Shanghai's economic recovery that it would be unworthy of the position of major staff officer in the economic intelligence group that Boss Dai gave me if I didn't cause some damage.

But for so many days, Liu San didn't contact him.

I don't know how it's going.

The Huxi Factory was the underground printing point of the Military Control Commission in Shanghai.

Chen Mo brought Liu, the bank's assistant manager, to accompany the printers in conducting the experiment.

Several people were studying how to make money here day and night, and their clothes were stained with all kinds of dyes.

Manager Liu works in a bank and is familiar with printing money.

Chen Mo had a list of Japanese yen-printed materials from Chongqing. Except for the tree pulp whose composition was not clear and could not be bought, the rest of the things were not difficult to buy. As long as you could afford it, you could buy everything in Shanghai.

The purchased materials are mixed into color paste by the printer, and the rest is the problem of paper.

They had no paper, making paper was too troublesome, and they couldn't even rob it. The Japanese yen was not printed in Shanghai, but in Japan.

Fortunately, Chongqing had already been researching various banknotes. A telegram was sent, asking Boss Dai to send a ton of paper, which arrived in Shanghai just yesterday.

After an experiment, everyone looked at the newly printed money carefully.

"It's similar, so similar." Looking at the Japanese yen in front of him, the intoxication at first sight swept away all the fatigue of the past few days.

I touched it and it felt good.

"It's done."

"Is it really done?"

"It's done!"

"It really worked! It really worked! Hahahaha, it worked!"

(End of this chapter)