Spy Wars: Red Shopkeeper

Chapter 55 Siblings
Gu Yansheng's figure disappeared for a long time before Liao Litang straightened up and obviously breathed a sigh of relief.

Almost died.

He was really on the verge of life and death. If he said anything unpleasant today, his whole family would be taken to the Japanese law enforcement office.

He couldn't bear this pain alone.

He picked up the phone on the table and called Ma Sihai, "Come to my place right now!"

After hanging up the phone, his trusted subordinate knocked on the door cautiously and came in: "Chief, are you okay?"

"What could be the matter?" Liao Litang glared at him, then thought of something and strode to the door. Sure enough, the crowd had not dispersed yet.

"What are you all doing here? You don't have to do anything! Deputy Director Gu wants to implement judicial reform. As an important part of the Judicial Department, our General Affairs Section must do our utmost to provide support! Do you understand?"

"clear!"

"Do something!"

The subordinates dispersed one by one, smiles bloomed on their faces, and they all relaxed. If the section chief was fine, then they were fine too. It was very clear how to do things.

Soon Ma Sihai hurried over, closed the door first when he entered, and saw Liao Litang slumped on the sofa with his eyes closed, so he asked directly.

"Gu left? What did he say?"

The department is only the size of a palm. Gu Yansheng got angry in the General Affairs Department. If he, the section chief, doesn't know this news, then he has no place in the department.

"What's the surname Gu? When there are many people around, call him Deputy Director Gu. When there are no people around, call him Director."

Liao Litang slowly opened his eyes and warned, "Old Ma, do you still need me to teach you basic etiquette?"

"Gu" Ma Sihai was choked with anger. Isn't it you who calls "Gu, Gu" the most in private?

But now is not the time to talk about this. "What's wrong? Are you so angry? Don't come at me. What's going on?"

"I almost got shot by the Japanese law enforcement office!" Liao Litang was so angry that he suddenly sat up straight and told Ma Sihai directly how painful the situation was.

What he emphasized was that Gu Yansheng had set a trap for them without telling them.

Ma Sihai's hair stood on end after hearing this. If it were him, he would also fall into the trap.

"So resourceful? Yesterday you said she was young, damn, you're blind."

It turns out that we shouldn't underestimate someone just because he has just joined the government and is still young.

Could the people planted by the Japanese consulate be good people?

"Absolute, right?" Liao Litang squinted at him, tapping the table with his fingers. "As for this matter, when I think about it now, I don't know how to answer. 0.8 or 0.5? This opportunity is for you. Do you want to add it?

If you dare to say no, they will go to the prison and tell the guards about this. Who can resist? If it were you, would you dare to refuse?

Ma Sihai frowned and nodded seriously, "I dare not."

The prison guards and they can actually be considered to have a community of interests. They take the lion's share, and the prison guards can also get some benefits in terms of food and medical expenses, but that's all.

The big money they earn from working is not enough for them to share, so it is impossible for there to be any extra to share with ordinary prison guards.

If people really knew that they refused the more than half increase in food allowance, the prison guards might rebel and report them.

At least there is no escape from disunity and a sharp drop in morale.

If that is really the case, when Deputy Director Gu replaces the prison with a new warden with a 0.8 food allowance, I am afraid everyone will have to follow him.

"If we had known earlier, we should have visited his house last night. If we had given him money, things wouldn't have gotten so awkward today."

Ma Sihai sighed. Yesterday he suggested giving Gu Yansheng some gold bars as a test, but Liao Litang rejected it.

The reason for the no is that Liao Litang feels that Deputy Director Gu and the mayor are not getting along. What if after three days, he fails to come up with a plan and packs up and leaves? Wouldn't the money be wasted?
Besides, they don't know the people well enough since they just arrived. Logically, it wouldn't be too late to send them back after a few days if they can really take root in the Judicial Department.

Ma Sihai thought this was reasonable at the time, so he didn't object.

"Some money really can't be saved. I think it's because our attitude is not good enough. How about we go and deliver some in the evening? It's a good sign that they didn't punish you today." Ma Sihai suggested.

"What's the point of giving us shit now? We have a pile of shit on our butts that we haven't cleaned up yet. Will they accept the things you hand over?"

Liao Litang took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "What he said is very clear. If we clean up our mess and make contributions to judicial reform, he will protect us from the Japanese if someone makes a mistake one day.

We can talk about the money later, let's get this done first. You're familiar with the warden, so find a way to deal with him."

"How to deal with it?" Ma Sihai didn't want to think of the worst outcome. The key point was that he couldn't do it. The warden was his subordinate and brother.

Liao Litang glared at him. "What do you think? His brother-in-law is the president of the Suzhou Maintenance Association. If you just extort money from him, won't he complain? It's already this time. Deputy Director Gu has clearly stated that he doesn't like this person. So you should find a way to make him disappear, but the method must be so that his brother-in-law, the president, cannot say anything.

You don’t want to go to the Japanese law enforcement office, do you? " "Okay." Now that things have come to this, Ma Sihai can only protect themselves first.

After thinking for a while, he said, "I will find two people from the prison in Shanghai. When Deputy Director Gu's inspection of the Second Prison is over and the storm has died down, I will find an opportunity to kidnap him on his way home, extort the money to settle the accounts, and then kill him and blame the Military Control Commission.

Didn't he plan a small armed prisoner breakup? If we follow his scenario and investigate, we'll conclude it's a retaliation by the Military Control Commission. He's been involved in some Military Control Commission incidents in prison before, so it's a logical conclusion."

"Let's do it this way." Liao Litang made the final decision.

"Then how much money do you think we should give as a gift after this matter is settled?" Ma Sihai asked about the business.

Liao Litang frowned. This was indeed a problem and needed to be discussed.

Gu Yansheng returned to the office, sat in his seat, and leaned back to relax.

In fact, dealing with matters in the department can be considered a waste of time and pure internal friction.

Whether in business or politics, as long as it is internal, it is internal consumption.

To him, the people and things in the department were like rotten meat in the pot, which could be dealt with at any time. Originally, the time should have been set a little later, such as when implementing reforms. If someone jumped out, then it would be enough to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys depending on the situation.

There is no available candidate like Wen Yan at hand now, so it would be a waste to make internal changes.

Otherwise, for a position like the warden's, he could arrange his own people to take up the position today, and then if he wanted to release someone in the future, it would just be a simple and easy thing to do.

Reporting a death due to illness does not require any release letter process, and the person can disappear without a trace.

However, he has to face and deal with the unexpected. At least for now, as long as he can remain calm, Liao Litang and Ma Sihai should be able to be used by him.

The two major departments, General Affairs and Prison Management, are under our control, and we have made good gains today. As today's events have been spread privately within the department, no one should stir up trouble in the short term.

We should learn from Chiang Kai-shek: before we can resist foreign aggression, we must first stabilize the country.

There is no need to worry about internal affairs now, and the report to Fu Xiaoan will be given tomorrow. Gu Yansheng leaned back in his chair and thought about the organization's tasks.

According to Lu Bowen, the organization told them to prepare money or cotton yarn, and they would send someone to pick it up at the appropriate time.

That is, the organization has its own shipping channels out of Shanghai.

This is actually a difficult point, but since the organization can solve it themselves, Gu Yansheng no longer cares about it. He just needs to prepare a safe warehouse so that they can pick up the goods at any time.

As for the cotton yarn part, Lu Bowen and He Yun have already collected comprehensive information. Now Gu Yansheng will summarize it all himself and find the three difficulties of the cotton yarn task.

The first is who to buy from, the second is who will buy it, and the third is where this safe warehouse is placed.

Those who have large quantities of goods are factories or big merchants.

The Japanese have purchase restrictions, so factories in urban areas should have receipts for bulk purchases. One piece of cotton yarn weighs 181 kilograms. If you buy directly from the factory, even if it's just one piece, you must have a chamber of commerce or buy it in the name of the store's own use to avoid suspicion.

The latter is not difficult to deal with, and the former is actually not difficult to deal with if you think of a way. Simply put, both are forged.

Find out which shops or chambers of commerce are purchasing cotton yarn on a daily basis, pick a few with strong connections, forge Japanese approval documents, pretend to be their people, and go directly to the factory to pick up the goods.

This approach works conceptually.

But there is a problem. Ten pieces weigh 1,800 kilograms, and one hundred pieces weigh 18,000 kilograms. If we take this route, we must prepare large trucks for transporting the goods in advance.

This thing was too obvious. Once the factory reacted and reported the case a day or two later, the Japanese tracked down the trucks and the warehouse where they finally unloaded the goods.

Unless the timing can be fixed, that is, the goods are delivered and stored on the same day, and picked up by the organization the next day, leaving an empty warehouse, the Japanese who are tracking them will be completely disappointed.

Otherwise the whole thing might fail.

Gu Yansheng thought about it and felt that coordinating the timing might not be so easy, mainly because he had no way of predicting the organization's shipping method.

They can arrange the purchase on time with careful planning, but if the people organizing the shipment need more time to arrange, for example, they can pick up the goods from Shanghai two days later, then not only will the cotton yarn be shipped out of the city, but the people who connect the goods will have to pack them up and send them to the Japanese.

There is no way to communicate, and the risk is a bit high.

Who will buy it and where will it be stored in the safe warehouse? These two problems have not been solved yet.

Gu Yansheng thought about it and decided to change his thinking.

There are places where the Japanese will not or cannot check, and no approval is required for selling, and the goods can be picked up at any time, eliminating these three problems at the source.

There really is such a place, a place that is safer than the black market.

Fu Xiaoan’s warehouse, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce’s warehouse, and his own source factory.

(End of this chapter)