Spy Wars: Red Shopkeeper

Chapter 44 Contradictions
By the afternoon, Gu Yansheng already had an office of his own in this building.

Looking out the window.

Now this pseudo-government has moved back to downtown SH, and the city hall building was renovated and completed based on the unfinished city hall building of the original Nationalist government.

The exterior is not a modern building, but a traditional Chinese architectural style, that is, the palace style.

The appearance is still very beautiful.

Ling Xianwen helped him find a south-facing office on the second floor, and equipped it with tables, chairs, benches, sofas, and tea sets. He even had a German coffee machine brought in on the spot.

Just from this treatment, you can understand what it means to have someone in the court to get things done.

Gu Yansheng made a cup of coffee and returned to his seat to look at the documents.

The first thing to do for any position is to understand the personnel file.

The power structure of the Judicial Department is not complicated. There is a Judicial Section responsible for trials, a Prison Management Section responsible for prisons, a Legal Section responsible for law revision, and auxiliary departments such as secretarial, personnel, and general affairs.

The organization may look small, but it has great power, especially the power of life and death.

There is a pile of prisoner information in the archives. Theoretically, if you want to kill someone, you can just sign your name.

Similarly, if you want to release it, you can just sign it.

Not to mention the revolutionary patriots who were arrested for some reason, even if it was just a simple person who got into trouble and was arrested, it would be very easy to make money as long as they let go.

Of course, the prerequisite is that you have to take responsibility, that is, your subordinates will not rebel against you.

This position pays very well.

Judging from the time when their subordinates entered the government, this time the Japanese institutional reform did not affect them. Except for the chief officer being removed, the middle and lower levels of the Judicial Department basically remained the same.

Gu Yansheng pressed the red button next to the phone. Soon, there was a knock on the door. The young female secretary walked in, put her hands together in front of her belly, and nodded respectfully.

"Director."

"Liu Xiaolou, I'll just call you Xiaolou. I saw in the information that you know foreign languages."

"Yes, I studied foreign languages. I can speak English and French, but my French is not as good as my English."

Gu Yansheng leaned back and asked with a smile, "Then you are considered a rare talent. Logically speaking, if someone of your caliber makes a living in the concession, even as a translator, you can earn a good income. Why did you join the government?"

Liu Xiaolou thought about it, kept smiling, but still shook his head slightly: "Director, it's not like that. I tried to be a translator, but now in the concession, foreigners don't need translators. The ones who need translators are our businessmen.

They really like to drink when they talk business, and sometimes they look at me strangely after drinking, so I can't do this job anymore."

"I see." Gu Yansheng nodded. "How many people here can speak foreign languages?"

"A lot, because we have jurisdiction over a lot of incidents involving foreigners. So, we have five people in our department who speak foreign languages, second only to the Secretary-General in terms of number of people. Sometimes, when we hold large events, like press conferences, we might be called in to serve as temporary translators."

"I see. Okay, I understand. Please inform everyone that all department-level personnel will have a meeting in the conference room in twenty minutes."

"Okay." Liu Xiaolou bowed his head and went out, closing the door.

Gu Yansheng continued to look at the personnel files. Now that he had entered the pseudo-government, work matters were not important. The most important thing was to find a way to help Lu Bowen and the others escape from No. 67's tracking.

I originally didn’t know which department I would join, but now that it has been decided, I can use all the resources at hand and adapt to local conditions.

A major premise is that these two people are going to live in Shanghai for a long time, so the only way he can think of is to make the person No. 67 give up tracking them on his own initiative.

Twenty minutes later, conference room.

Seven section chiefs and twelve deputy section chiefs were all present.

They might not be in the office when Gu Yansheng entered the government, but when the secretary-general entered the office, unless he was deaf, he would have received a call and returned.

Right now, the conference room without Gu Yansheng is quite lively with people discussing Gu Yansheng.

"What's the story behind this? A deputy director showed up out of nowhere. Isn't this a waste of everyone's expectations?"

"do not know."

"You don't know this person, but I heard the new deputy director is quite capable and a master at litigation. Two days ago, he defeated a British barrister in a British court and left him completely helpless."

"How did you know?"

"A law student from the department went to see him. He recognized him the moment he arrived. Ha, he was so adoring. From the way he spoke, he couldn't wait to become his disciple."

"No, it's so mysterious? He was still in court two days ago? Now he's the deputy director?"

"They say you're deaf and blind. Don't you know about the news that's been making the rounds in the newspapers these past two days?"

"Haha, about that defamation lawsuit? If Japan and France stand together, how can they lose the lawsuit? If I were a lawyer, I could win it too." Bang, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and Gu Yansheng walked in, followed by his secretary Liu Xiaolou. The conference room fell silent for a second, and everyone stood up immediately.

Of course, some people also took into consideration that Yansheng was so young, and after their habitual nervousness, they relaxed a little.

Gu Yansheng walked to the main seat and looked around at everyone present. Although it was the first time he saw them, as long as he compared their appearance with the photos in the file, he would know who they were.

"My last name is Gu, Gu Yansheng, from the Gu family. From today on, we are colleagues. As colleagues, I hope that everyone will cooperate sincerely, because the mayor has given me three days. In these three days, I will come up with a plan for judicial reform to solve the problems left over from the previous government.

As your superior, I have only one requirement: you must be careful in your work. I am a lawyer and I attach great importance to the control of details.

Okay, take a seat, let’s have a meeting.”

When Gu Yansheng said that there were only three days left, the atmosphere in the meeting hall became a little subtle. Some people looked at each other, not daring to speak, but their eyes were full of shock.

After sitting down a little more relaxed, someone immediately had the courage to ask.

"Deputy Director Gu, you said the mayor only gave us three days. How far do you want us to go?"

Gu Yansheng looked at the person who was speaking. He was the first from the left, 32 years old, the head of the Judicial Section, Du Yue.

Gu Yansheng spoke frankly, "The mayor's biggest headache right now is the issue of foreign ships recklessly transporting prohibited materials. He wants us to come up with a comprehensive and practical plan within three days."

"Three days?"

Gu Yansheng's clear explanation caused even louder exclamations.

"That's simply impossible, Deputy Director Gu. You don't understand the huge problems here. If it's just a matter of transporting supplies, the Japanese don't have patrol boats. They can just check and seize the supplies themselves, right?

However, the Japanese did not want to offend the British and Americans, and did not want to make relations with them too strained, so foreign ships passing through Wusongkou were basically exempt from inspection.

Then this thing will definitely come ashore.

When we got ashore, they said that someone had violated the regulations and asked us to intervene, but how could the concession court listen to us?

Let alone three days, as long as the Japanese don't take action themselves, we won't be able to solve it even if we are given three months or three years. This problem is simply beyond our ability to solve."

"Yes, Deputy Director Gu, this job is not easy. Cases involving foreign businessmen must be brought to the International Court of Justice, and the concession will not rule in our favor."

"I remember that foreign company not long ago?"

"Ancient."

"Yes, Jardine Matheson. At that time, a lot of foreign companies were bringing in contraband from abroad. Coincidentally, there were more and more assassinations in Shanghai. The Japanese wanted to stop this trend and make an example of it, so they seized all the ships and supplies.

How could foreigners stand this? In anger, they sued Japan.

The lawsuit was filed in the concession. They said the items were only used in the concession and were not intended to be sold in the city. The Japanese ban did not apply to them. Moreover, even if the items were leaked out, what was it to them? It was not them who leaked them out.

The lawsuit was lost and the court ruled that the city government should release the suspects. The Japanese were furious. At that time, the military police pointed a gun at the head of the anti-smuggling section chief and said that whoever dared to release the suspects would be shot.

How could the anti-smuggling department dare to let him go? Of course, they had to listen to the military police.

But the consulate ordered them to be released.

It is said that newspapers in the concessions were condemning Japan, saying that their actions would damage Japan's international reputation and that people would accuse Japan of affecting their concession rights in China. They were asked to seize the goods by reasonable means. If not, they should release the goods immediately, otherwise they would damage Japan's reputation and make him unable to escape the blame.

The anti-smuggling chief was so confused after hearing this. Both sides were acting like whores and still wanted more.
Ahem, you can't afford to offend both sides. Whether you release it or not, you will be shot. At that time, you were in tears and begged Chief Du to approve a sealing note for him and ask him to send another department to seal it again. Let him delay for a few days, as many days as possible, and let him find a way.

Chief Du, is this true? "

Du Yue, who was on the left, hummed and said, "They let me delay for three days, just three days, and generously promised me a favor, a favor from the Anti-Smuggling Department, so I could buy some goodies at a much lower price, but I didn't agree to this at the time.

Approving the sealing note is a small matter. I am just afraid that there is something fishy about this. If I approve the note, our department will be the one to seal the property. If someone disappears at that time, won’t we be left out in the cold?
Deputy Director Gu, this matter is indeed extremely difficult to handle. The main reason is that the Japanese themselves haven't reached a consensus. They are conflicted. We are caught in the middle. No matter what we do, the result will be wrong. And the more we do, the more mistakes we make.

Gu Yansheng had heard Wolf talk about this case, but it was only told from Wolf's perspective, that is, from a lawyer's point of view, how exciting the game process in court was, and he never mentioned that there were so many twists and turns in it.

No wonder the Japanese were so kind as to release so many contraband. He was also wondering why the Japanese released the consulate even though they knew about the contraband. It turned out that the consulate intervened to save face.

Thinking about it this way, Hasegawa Inkawa was so anxious to find him, probably because he couldn't withstand the pressure from the Military Police Headquarters. If he let him go once or twice, it would be fine. But if he let him go every time, the Military Police Headquarters would be furious.

Hasegawa Inkawa was counting on him to solve this problem, so he generously gave him the position of deputy director.

As expected, there is no deputy director for free.

"Director, can we discuss this matter with the mayor? Three days is simply not possible."

There were many smart people present. Just by listening to the time, they could guess that the new deputy director and the mayor were probably not in the same camp, otherwise they wouldn't have given such a tight time limit. Isn't this just embarrassing?

But now this matter is not just the deputy director's business. If things go wrong, the entire department will be in trouble.

(End of this chapter)