After being elected as the governor of Tokyo, he will debut as a band!

Yokohama is part of Kanagawa Prefecture, and local security incidents are handled by the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Headquarters.

If the Metropolitan Police Department wants to get involved in cases in Yokohama, it needs to consult with the Kanagawa Police Headquarters and establish a joint investigation headquarters to work together on cases.

Given the history of the Metropolitan Police Department having "hidden command" over local police headquarters, local police headquarters often resist the Metropolitan Police Department's involvement in local cases. Therefore, unless it is a major case with huge influence and sufficient evidence, it is very difficult to establish an investigation headquarters.

Aoyama also had the contact information for the head of the Kanagawa Police Headquarters.

However, he couldn't give orders directly to the other party. Even if he gave them information about the existence of a counterfeit currency gang, they would verify it through their own channels first out of caution.

After all, Aoyama couldn't explain the exact source of this information. He couldn't very well say, "I'm right here at the entrance of the counterfeit money workshop. If you don't come right away, I'll be killed in half an hour at most." That would at least get the Kanagawa Prefectural Police to come quickly.

But if that happens, Aoyama will lose his position as Governor of Tokyo. The Shigure Party might use the excuse, "We didn't realize you were so brave. Why don't you go somewhere where you can better utilize your talents?" to send Aoyama to Ukraine as ambassador.

But it's different if you go to Chief Prosecutor Yujian.

As one of Mi Lijian's power tentacles in Japan, Japanese prosecutors wield considerable power. In theory, prosecutors can investigate any crime when they deem it necessary, whether it's a case brought in by judicial police or an independent investigation of any case from the moment it occurred.

At the same time, although the prosecutor's office and the Metropolitan Police Department/local police headquarters are independent investigative agencies, they are not equal and cooperative in actual investigations. Prosecutors have certain authority to instruct and command the police, and the police must obey the prosecutor's instructions and commands. If the police do not obey the commands, the prosecutor general, inspector general, or inspector general can request the dismissal of the judicial police when necessary.

Therefore, if Aoyama wants to gather enough police officers to investigate the Long Valley Stream in the shortest amount of time, seeking out Chief Prosecutor Mikami is the most effective solution.

In addition to their work-related relationship, Aoyama and Mitsurugi also have a personal friendship.

Chief Prosecutor Mitsurugi's full name is Mitsurugi Reiji. In his youth, he was known as a genius prosecutor. He gained the favor of certain forces by solving many high-profile cases and personally arresting several criminals hiding in the upper echelons of the judiciary. A few years ago, he was promoted rapidly and last year became the deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office.

Before entering politics, Aoyama worked as a human rights lawyer for a period of time to build his reputation. During that time, he clashed with Reiji Mitsurugi, and the two also worked together in the "Moon Shadow Island Incident" to finally crack a major drug smuggling case that had been concealed for twenty years.

Aoyama believed that after hearing his description, Mitsurugi Reiji would arrive as quickly as possible with a sufficient number of Kanagawa Prefectural Police officers.

Two tall men wearing masks and hoods nimbly moved among containers, trucks, and warehouses, eventually arriving at a large warehouse with several extended semi-trailer trucks parked next to it.

"Is this the main base of Changgu Logistics?" Hiding behind a corner and watching the workers still busy late at night, Aoyama asked Suzumiya Takumi in a low voice.

Ryoumiya Takumi nodded. "That's right, those Vietnamese people lost contact after entering this warehouse."

The Cao Cao mask that Qingshan prepared was a size smaller than the craftsman's head, which made him look somewhat comical.

"But they didn't seem flustered at all, and were even carrying out the loading, unloading and registration of goods in and out of the warehouse in an orderly manner... Could it be that those Vietnamese people were too gangster-like, not like police or prosecutors at all, so they didn't arouse their suspicion?"

Counterfeit currency groups are most afraid of official investigators, because their presence means that the official organizations behind them must have some evidence, and these organizations aim to shut down counterfeit currency workshops and send their members to jail, making the conflict between the two sides irreconcilable.

If it were just an individual coming to the door, it wouldn't matter. Even if the group or employer behind these people had some information, their purpose in coming to the door was to get a share of the profits or extort money. And would a counterfeit currency group be short of money? They can just print more. If all else fails, throwing them into the sea to feed the fish wouldn't be a big deal. After all, so many people commit suicide in Japan every year; they can just attribute these people's deaths to suicide.

However, the line between individual actions and official actions is not clear-cut. Individual actions may be hired or assigned by officials. Therefore, from a security perspective, it is necessary to increase vigilance and take precautions to destroy evidence before it is completely determined that individual investigations are unrelated to official organizations.

“That’s possible, but in any case, if they find out someone is investigating them, they should increase their patrols and security. But judging from their current behavior, it’s as if nothing happened tonight,” Ryoumiya Takumi judged from his years of experience that the current situation was unusual. “The Changgu Valley is strangely calm.”

“There is another possibility,” Aoyama recalled the past actions of the Neon Purification Group in “possessing” some companies by controlling the labor supply. “These workers and the work they are doing are just the ‘shell’ of the long grain flow, while the people who actually know about and are involved in counterfeiting are now doing the work of destroying evidence and relocating equipment.”

"Young Master, what should we do next?"

“The printing press will definitely need vehicles to move, Uncle Jiang, could you please go and damage all the vehicles around the warehouse?”

"No problem, what about you, young master?"

“I,” Aoyama looked at the floor plan of the warehouse that Reiji had sent him on his phone, “I’ll go take a look on the second floor of the warehouse.”

After discussing their plan, the two immediately split up and took action.

According to the structural diagram, this warehouse has two floors, but there is no staircase leading to the second floor, either from the outside of the building or by looking through the warehouse door. There is only one elevator leading to the second floor, and you need to use a special IC card to take that elevator.

But now the warehouse is full of workers, and there isn't even a supervisor. Aoyama can't tell who has the elevator card, so he has to take another route.

Climb up along the drainage pipe.

As a fierce warrior capable of defeating dozens of yakuza masters single-handedly, Aoyama was extremely skilled. In just a few seconds, he climbed to a window on the second floor of the warehouse, smashed the window with a window breaker, and then kicked it inside.

Make way for me: 039 Toyokawa Kei

The man smoking with his back to the window was kicked in the face by Aoyama, sending him flying. His head hit the cabinet, and he immediately passed out.

"who is it?"

The loud noise immediately attracted the attention of those outside. After a brief commotion, the door was opened, and five burly men with full-arm tattoos rushed in.

"How did you get here?!"

"Big brother, it's a window! This guy climbed up the outer wall!"

"What? What was Da Tian, ​​who's in charge of the monitoring room, doing?! Didn't he notice someone climbing up and down the outer wall?"

"Daejeon just saw someone acting suspiciously next to our car on the surveillance footage, and we don't know what they were doing, so we led them over."

"Looks like that sneaky kid is also this guy's accomplice!"

The burly man at the head of the group pulled a stun gun out of his pocket, half-raised it in front of him, and pressed the power button, producing a buzzing sound.

"Let's beat this guy up first, then force him to tell us why they came here!"

"Fuck me!"

The battle is about to break out.

But it ended very quickly.

Although the five tattooed burly men were all carrying weapons, they were nothing more than baseball bats and stun guns. Aoyama used Jackie Chan's fighting style, wielding a pair of office chairs with great force, and knocked the tattooed burly men to the ground in less than five minutes. Aoyama himself didn't even lose his breathing.

This is what Aoyama learned from the drum kit.

The dual-wielding combat technique he learned involves knocking someone to the ground and then stomping on them, a skill he gleaned from the use of a stomping hammer.

After dealing with these people, Aoyama found elevator cards and several keys on them.

He threw the elevator card out the window and then sent an email to Suzumiya Takumi, telling him to go to a window with a dark blue shirt hanging on it and get the elevator card after seeing the email.

The dark blue clothes were taken from the burly man in the lead. They were similar in color to the warehouse's exterior walls, making them difficult to spot at night, but they could be quickly noticed if one was paying attention.

Aoyama first found an empty monitoring room, cut the power cord of the monitoring console along the root, and then glued the cut part back together so that it would not be easily discovered that someone was sabotaging it. Only then did he continue to explore. After dodging two groups of patrolmen, he came to a wooden door.

He pressed his ear against the door and could hear muffled thuds of hard objects hitting bodies, suppressed groans of pain, and a person's incessant cursing coming from the other side of the door.

"You're such a useless piece of trash. I told you to hand over the 'new money' to Old Ma's men, and you went off to buy concert tickets! And you even said your daughter's favorite band was at the concert..."

"Do you even know what prioritization means, Mr. Toyokawa?!"

"boom!"

The poor wretch in the room was hit hard again. From his "whimpering" sounds, Aoyama could tell that something had been stuffed into his mouth.

But was the person who carried a huge sum of money to buy tickets actually surnamed "Toyokawa"?

Aoyama seemed to know who he was.

No wonder he looked familiar. Last year, he even funded my campaign, but it seems that he suffered a business failure shortly afterward, with the family business he was in charge of losing 168 billion.

This man was originally a son-in-law of the Toyokawa family. He did not have a lot of connections and resources, so he could not shirk responsibility after such a failure. He was directly kicked out of the Toyokawa family and then disappeared without a trace.

"Buying the ticket is one thing, but those two banknotes you used to buy the ticket, were they stolen from a pile of uncounted new banknotes at the factory?"

"Woooo..."

"You say it wasn't? If it wasn't money stolen in a panic, why couldn't you even see such an obvious misprint? Here, look, this screenshot from the video on my phone clearly shows that the banknote you almost gave to that ticket seller had such a long misprint. If this money was given to you by Brother Kawashima, wouldn't you have noticed it at the time? Even if you didn't notice it, someone as shrewd as Brother Kawashima would definitely have noticed it."

"Now, because of your theft and your act of spending money with obvious defects without proper inspection, you have attracted the attention of some people, and the boss has had to find another place to house these equipment and personnel... How will you compensate for the losses incurred in this process?"

"Woo!"

"Here's a good idea... See this IOU? Sign your name on it, and when your family asks for the money, it's only right to pay back debts. If your ex-father-in-law doesn't want to talk to you, go to your parents, your college teachers and classmates—you're a graduate of a prestigious university, after all—call them and say you have a terminal illness, and ask them to lend you money. Oh, and your daughter too. Since you can still think of buying her tickets to her favorite band's concert, she'll definitely be willing to help her father."

"Don't look at me like that. I have no intention of forcing her to do that kind of thing. She's just an unknown little girl. She won't earn much money doing that kind of work. I want you to make her go to her grandfather for money. Whether she kneels down or hurts herself, seeing that her granddaughter can do such a thing, even if the real Chairman Toyokawa despises you from the bottom of his heart, he will feel sorry for her and give her the money, right?"

"Come on, Mr. Toyokawa, sign here obediently."

"Woo..."

The sound of something being kicked over came from inside the room, clearly indicating that the person being forced inside was struggling violently.

But such struggles were futile, and the room soon fell silent.

Qingshan sensed that the person inside was about to come out, so he turned around and hid in the shadows around the corner.

The wooden door opened and closed again, and a man with slicked-back hair came out. As he passed the corner where Qingshan was hiding, Qingshan rushed up to him, covered his mouth with one hand, and stabbed him in the neck with a stun gun turned to maximum power with the other.

"Ughhhhhh!"

After a muffled scream, the slick-back-haired man collapsed to the ground.

Qingshan hid the unconscious man, then used the key on his person to open the wooden door and went inside.

During his struggle, Toyokawa Kei was beaten again by the slick-haired man. He was now in a position with half of his face pressed to the ground, blood, saliva and tears mixed together and flowing onto the floor.

Fortunately, he was still unconscious. When he saw the strangers, he instinctively let out a weak cry for help.

Aoyama quickly untied the ropes binding Toyokawa Kei and removed the rag stuffed in his mouth, then straightened his body.

"You, who are you..."

"Who I am is not important. What matters is that you, Mr. Toyokawa, now only have one way out: becoming a tainted witness for the police."

"Are you with the police?"

Toyokawa Kei looked behind Aoyama Mukata, hoping to see the others from there.

"You're the only one who came?"

His eyes revealed a desperate fear.

"Then you'd better run! They, they must have seen you. If you don't run now, it'll be too late..."

"You mean they can see me through the monitoring room? Don't worry, they probably don't need that right now."

The person in charge of the monitoring room, Ota, has probably been dealt with by Ryoumiya Takumi by now. Even if the people in the long grain stream find someone else to be in charge of monitoring, it will not be easy to solve the problem of the monitoring equipment malfunctioning in a short time. This will at least buy them about ten minutes.

"No, not just the monitoring room, but also those Koreans... They also control the cameras in this building and will notify Kawashima and his people of your whereabouts."

I was a bit busy the past couple of days and didn't have time to write.

Make way for me: 040 The mastermind behind the long grain flow

Korean?

Aoyama knew that there was a secret organization called "Spider Nest" in Yokohama's Ijincho, mainly composed of Korean immigrants.

The reason it is described as a secret organization, rather than a gang or thug, is because Spider Nest does not rely on violence, but rather on spying on others' privacy and trade secrets and engaging in the buying and selling of intelligence as its main means of survival.

However, this organization is not very powerful and can only operate within the town of Ijin. The local yakuza and gangsters can easily overpower them.

Unexpectedly, they now have the resources to expand their influence at Yokohama Port.

Is Kanagawa Prefecture being too lenient with these secret organizations?

If even the spider's nest is on the side of the long grain stream, then the situation becomes a bit complicated.

They could have known about Reiji's movements in advance and reminded Nagaya Logistics to destroy all evidence and transfer equipment before he arrived with the police, thus catching Reiji off guard.

Looks like we need to hurry.

Green mountains yearn for the heart.

I must protect all the objects that can serve as evidence before they do.

"Since time is of the essence, Mr. Toyokawa, could you please tell me as briefly as possible where Nagaya Logistics obtained the counterfeit money manufacturing technology, and where their banknote printing machines, raw materials, and printing plates are located?"

“Nagako Stream? No, it’s not Nagakuri Stream that’s making and using counterfeit money. They’re just a bunch of unlucky scapegoats,” Toyokawa Kei said, panting. “The Neon Purification Group has long since taken control of all of Nagakuri Stream’s labor force through the labor dispatch system. Then they used that to blackmail the president of Nagakuri Stream into protecting their counterfeit money activities.”

"The neon purification group, they really are the masterminds behind it all..."

The green hills seem to understand.

This organization has grown rapidly in recent years, and its expenses have increased. However, the annual operating expenses provided by their financial backers cannot grow as fast, so they have to find ways to raise funds on their own.

Counterfeiting is undoubtedly a highly profitable business, and the Neon Purification Group has sophisticated money laundering channels. The organization's business scope covers many aspects, including urban planning, real estate development, homeless relief, and the repatriation and resettlement of illegal immigrants, all of which can easily transform suspicious funds into legitimate sources of income.

"Were all these counterfeit currency manufacturing devices and technologies brought by the Japanese purification group?"

Qingshan then asked.

“That’s right, but they are not the owners of these devices and technologies either… As far as I know, all the equipment and technicians came from the Ijin Town.”

"The Town of Strange People? Could it be provided by the Spider Nest?"