Spy Wars: Red Shopkeeper

Chapter 69 Recruitment
In the evening, Wu Sibao arrived on time.

"Hey, $2000. I gave you every penny you paid me. Don't call me stingy."

Wu Sibao took out stacks of ten-yuan US dollars from his briefcase and placed them on Gu Yansheng's desk, looking very confident.

He decided to give it a try, as people in the martial arts world cannot be looked down upon.

"Okay, this is the Green Gang boss Wu Sibao that I know."

"Don't talk nonsense, tell me what business you have this time."

"Sit down, what's the rush?"

Gu Yansheng came out, made a cup of coffee, sat on the sofa and drank it slowly.

"You know the recent price increases, right?"

Wu Sibao nodded and said, "I heard it's extremely expensive."

"He's hoarding goods at a high price, let's rip him off." Gu Yansheng gave him a look.

Wu Sibao understood immediately, his eyes brightening. "But I have no official background. We are the secret service headquarters, catching spies. Hoarding goods at high prices is not our responsibility?"

Gu Yansheng laughed playfully, "The right to interpret the action is yours, and the right to interpret the law is mine. You arrested the Military Control Commission a while ago, so there must be quite a few people on the run, right? So he couldn't have escaped into the warehouse, right?"

"Oh~ Military Control Commission's warehouse!"

Wu Sibao was awakened, and suddenly realized something. He slapped his thigh and laughed out loud: "Interesting, this is interesting, very interesting."

"You have to pick your targets, and there are some people you can't touch."

Gu Yansheng reminded him, "You have to cooperate with me on this matter. Don't act recklessly. My goal here is to complete Mr. Hase's mission and strike at the concessions. Only if we complete the mission and make a profit will Hase support us."

"Don't worry about this. How could I not know this?" Wu Sibao moved his butt forward a little. "Just tell me how to do this in detail. I'll do whatever you say. Okay?"

Gu Yansheng also moved closer. "Are you busy recently? Can you spare some time?"

"It's okay. We can always recruit people whenever we want." Wu Sibao talked about the Military Control Commission. In his eyes, Gu Yansheng was definitely not from the Military Control Commission, so it didn't matter.

Gu Yansheng hummed, "Then get ready and gather some people. I need to set up a trap. Once I have it set up, I will notify you. In the next two days, send your trusted men to find out where the warehouses where the stored goods are hidden. You are good at this, right?"

"Don't worry, I can't find out anything so trivial. I'd rather die than not. You continue talking."

"We've chosen two targets this time: rice and cotton yarn. Vegetables spoil easily, and the others are troublesome to sell. We'll definitely sell out these two if we get them this winter."

"Okay, then I'll just go to the warehouse where these two things are hidden."

"There's nothing else to do. Just be prepared and tell your men to keep their mouths shut and not leak any information."

"Don't worry, what are we doing? I'll go back and prepare first."

"Is that good enough?" Gu Yansheng leaned back and smiled, "How much money do you think we can make by bringing you along this time?"

"Hahahaha." Wu Sibao said attentively: "I knew you were a good person and would never let me suffer in vain."

Gu Yansheng laughed disdainfully, "Promising, this is only the first step. There is also the second step, and that is the opportunity to make a lot of money."

"There is a second step? How do we do it?" Wu Sibao came closer again with a serious look on his face.

Gu Yansheng patted his shoulder and said, "I'm keeping you in suspense. The time has not come yet. Hurry up and prepare. Don't delay my work."

"Can you reveal a little bit? Please? I'm itchy."

"Just a little?"

"Just a little!"

"Okay, let me remind you. Prepare some money, cash. The more the better. By then, the situation might change, and it might be too late to borrow."

"So exaggerated? The problem is that I have no money."

"Then I have no choice. Okay, let's go. Dawdling will only delay things."

Wu Sibao looked unhappy, but he had no choice but to leave.

Gu Yansheng saw him off. Although Wu Sibao was a bad person, he was willing to do any job as long as he was paid.

We have the manpower to do the work. As we all know, if you want to make the stock fall, you only need one piece of negative news. If you want to make the stock plummet, it has to be a very heavy negative news.

There is no negative news about cotton yarn for the time being. The colder the winter, the more expensive it becomes.

But others have the funds to push up the price, while Gu Yansheng has the power and can create cards out of thin air.

He wanted to create a piece of news that would cause the price of cotton yarn futures to plummet.

He is still short of manpower and needs some new faces.

After returning to the office, Gu Yansheng called Ma Sihai from the Prison Management Department.

"Has Gu Zhuxuan been transferred to Shanghai? Okay, I understand."

Picking up his coat, Gu Yansheng drove to Caohejing Prison.

The warden naturally greeted him personally and introduced him with a smile, but Gu Yansheng was not interested in him.

"Gu Zhuxuan is here with you, right?"

"Yes."

"Find a room and bring him here. Bring me his files as well."

"Ok."

The warden arranged a visiting room and brought the files. Gu Yansheng flipped through the records.

According to the verdict, Gu Zhuxuan was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for murdering a fellow member of the Qing Gang.

In his personal file, it was clearly recorded that the Japanese suspected him of having secret dealings with the Military Control Commission. This was the main reason why a tycoon like him was sentenced. Otherwise, with his status, even if he really killed someone, he could just find a younger brother to take the blame.

The Japanese did not suspect him out of thin air. After reading the information, Gu Yansheng discovered that Gu Zhuxuan actually had a prominent family background. He had a brother of the same clan, Gu Zhutong, the commander-in-chief of the Third War Zone of the National Government Army.

"No wonder." Even if Gu Yansheng knew this news, he would suspect that this person was working for the Military Control Commission.

The jurisdiction of the Third War Zone includes Shanghai and Jiangsu. There is a brother of the same clan as the Green Gang tycoon. Even if Gu Zhutong does not use him, has the Military Control Commission ever thought of using him?

"Director, the man has been brought here," the warden said with a smile. "We're worried he might hurt you, so we've put him in anklets. Should we wait outside?"

Gu Yansheng nodded, took the lunch box he bought on the road, put it on the table and opened it.

A roast chicken, a pot of wine, and a plate of side dishes. The roast chicken is well roasted and the aroma is everywhere.

"My name is Gu Yansheng, Deputy Director of the Judicial Department. Someone asked me to take care of you. Please."

Gu Yansheng made a gesture of invitation, sat down, picked up the wine pot, poured a little into each of the two small cups, and drank by himself.

Gu Zhuxuan has an elegant name, but he looks like a burly man with no hair on his head, and he looks like a gangster.

Perhaps because he heard that Gu Yansheng also had the surname Gu, he walked over with his anklet dragging, looking at him with his eyes, wondering if he was someone from the same clan as him.

"Who asked you to do this?" He sat down.

"She's not your Commander Gu." Gu Yansheng smiled. "Don't get me wrong, we're not relatives. Try it. Roast chicken isn't cheap in Shanghai today."

Since there is food to eat, there is no reason for Gu Zhuxuan to be polite. Even if someone poisoned it, that will happen after the food is eaten.

I picked up the roast chicken, tore half of it and started eating it, taking a bite of meat and a sip of wine. It was a unique enjoyment in this prison.

"For this kind of thing, just send a younger one. Deputy Director Gu came to see me today. It shouldn't be as simple as just delivering some food to me, right?"

"That's right." Gu Yansheng said quickly, "Boss Gu is a member of the Qing Gang's Tong family and is also known as the Jiangbei Tycoon. He should be very familiar with Shanghai. I'm investigating something and would like to use Boss Gu's manpower. I just don't know if Boss Gu has any loyal subordinates."

"Heh." Gu Zhuxuan scoffed and threw the chicken leg onto the plate, looking at him with a squint: "Why do you think I'm here? If I were willing to help the Japanese, would I still come here? Don't dream."

Quite tough. Gu Yansheng shook his head: "We are not helping the Japanese, but helping the Shanghai citizens. Simply put, the situation outside is not normal now. Some profiteers and foreign devils have joined forces to drive up prices and hoard goods. Shanghai people have no food to eat now.

Do you know how much this vegetarian dish in front of you costs today? One dollar."

"That's it? One dollar?" Gu Zhuxuan glanced at the small dish of vegetables on his plate and cursed with laughter: "These damn bastards are really good at making money. They gave birth to sons without anus. But what does this have to do with me?"

Gu Zhuxuan watched coldly, "I won't help you at all. If you starve to death, it's none of my business."

Gu Yansheng chuckled: "It doesn't matter. After all, you are already in jail. The life and death of SH citizens is none of your business, but you have brothers, right?

A former Jiangbei tycoon is now in jail after being framed by a fellow Qing Gang boss. How can his brothers have an easy life?
Even if there were industries, I believe they have been demolished to pieces.

The trees fell and the hozens scattered.

The fence-sitter may have gone to his rival's house and lived a decent life there.

But I am loyal and believe that they will follow your temperament and will not choose to help the Japanese or the enemy. How can we live like this then?
Life is already difficult, and it is probably just barely surviving. Now with the rising prices, it is still uncertain whether we can afford today's meal.

Good people, why do you have to live such a hard life?

Do your loyal brothers deserve this?"

These words obviously touched Gu Zhuxuan's heart. He took a sip of wine and did not refute.

This was also the first time Gu Yansheng met this person. If he wanted to convince him, he had to judge his sentence organization on the spot.

"You are not doing things for the Japanese, you are doing things for me, that's the first point.

Secondly, I can promise you that you can designate a subordinate and I can arrange for you to meet once a week. You can listen to what he says and judge for yourself whether what I ask him to do is helping the Japanese.

If there is anything you don’t understand, you can ask me. For everything, as long as I can’t find a reason to convince you, you can ask them to stop at any time.

In return, I will take care of your men and your wife.

Not to mention your subordinates, just your wife, even if she has some assets, if you really continue to be imprisoned, will no one take action against her?

The conditions are given to you, you choose."

Gu Yansheng didn't worry that he wouldn't agree, so he simply stood up and started flipping through the files.

Because the conditions offered are too generous.

His wife and brothers take care of him, and he can still live a life of luxury in prison. As a prisoner, he can also know what is happening outside. It is like he can command everything remotely, which is no different from being on vacation.

There is no risk of being imprisoned again or even being killed.

As long as people still have the desire, anyone would agree to such conditions.

"Hey, who was it in the Qing Gang who framed you back then?" Gu Yansheng asked curiously.

Gu Zhuxuan was thinking about drinking. Hearing this, he looked up and met Gu Yansheng's gaze and said, "Huang Jinrong."

Oh~ Gu Yansheng nodded. No wonder he got into trouble after offending one of the top three tycoons of the Qing Gang.

"Are you really just trying to gather information?" Gu Zhuxuan obviously figured it out.

"Hmm." Gu Yansheng nodded.

Gu Zhuxuan finished his drink and slammed his glass on the table: "Deal."

(End of this chapter)