The Spy

Chapter 349 Someone is doing something wrong

As soon as he finished speaking, Kamei suddenly thought of something and immediately asked, "You tortured him, won't the Chinese find out?"

"Don't worry, Section Chief. I only tortured his body. I didn't touch his hands and face. Others won't notice it. Besides, his next payment will be in half a month. This period of time is enough for him to recover from his injuries. No one will notice anything unusual."

"That's good, you decide."

Kamei was in a good mood. He didn't have much hope for the man caught by the intelligence team before, so he mainly depended on the action team.

The middleman found by the action team was more like an intelligence officer in disguise. He didn't expect that the intelligence team gave him such great news.

Even if he is a peripheral, he is a useful peripheral. If the action team gives him good news again, he will be able to explain to the chief this time.

After seeing Arai off, Kamei hummed a little tune.

We should have done this a long time ago, but we were delayed by the intelligence from the Special High Police. It's all that damn Ishida's fault.

No, Ishida is dead.

The intelligence they left behind earlier misled them, otherwise they wouldn't have wasted so much time.

If Ishida hadn't died, he would have protested his innocence, saying that those photos were obtained by his predecessor Ouchi and had nothing to do with him.

The next day, the action team arranged for a secret arrest.

The second-hand dealer was captured by the Japanese as expected.

Every move of the Japanese is under the eyes of the Shanghai Station. Now the intelligence group and the action group all have their spies. It can be said that Xu Qingyun knows everything that the Special High Section does.

Not surprisingly, the middleman confessed.

Kamei compared his confession with that of Zhuzi, and asked the two to secretly identify each other, proving that they were indeed recruited by Shanghai Station as peripheral personnel.

It's a bit of a pity that there are no official team members and only two peripheral players, but as long as there are peripheral players, there is hope of finding Xu Qingyun.

Kamei did not hesitate any longer and reported the latest progress to Tsuchihara on the last day of the deadline.

Nanjing, this thousand-year-old capital, is crying.

Although Xu Qingyun has made a lot of efforts, he underestimated these beasts. Nanjing is still a river of blood and countless compatriots are in trouble.

When the news came out, the whole country was shocked.

There was condemnation from all over the country.

Xu Zhanjie, who had retreated to Wuhan, looked at the latest telegram in silence.

Xu Qingyun had said before that the Japanese are inhumane and that one should never hold out hope in the Japanese. Xu Qingyun came true again, but it was too late for him to regret.

Before retreating, he left behind some agents to act as undercover agents.

I don’t know how many of these people could have escaped. Fortunately, at the last moment, he listened to Xu Qingyun’s advice. Although he kept some people, he tried his best not to let them stay in the city.

He deployed half of them outside the city.

Now he didn't know the specific situation in Nanjing, and the undercover personnel had not sent back any information, so he could only wait.

"Section Chief."

The office door was knocked open and Liao Gongping, the director of the Intelligence Department's office, walked in.

"All of our rickshaws have arrived in Wuhan, but there are only 800 of them. Now only 706 are usable. The rest have some problems, and 30 are beyond repair."

Liao Gongping reported in a low voice that Xu Zhanjie had ordered rickshaw drivers to rush to Wuhan with their rickshaws long before the fall of Nanjing.

But not every driver was willing to come, and in the end only half of them were willing to retreat with them.

Xu Zhanjie had no choice. The people didn't want to leave, and he couldn't force them to go with him. In the end, he asked each of them to take two cars and rush to Wuhan.

They left early and had a relatively safe journey.

However, some problems still occurred on the way and they encountered bandits several times. Fortunately, Xu Zhanjie was very attentive to the intelligence industry. He let them travel as a group and asked the army to help escort them. Only a dozen cars were lost on the way and no car was stolen.

But the journey was bumpy, and people were in panic at the time, so we suffered a lot of losses when we arrived in Wuhan.

"Throw away those that cannot be repaired, and immediately find a ship to send the usable ones to Chongqing."

Xu Zhanjie waved his hand, and Liao Gongping was stunned. This was not what the section chief had said before. Instead, he wanted to transport the rickshaw company to Wuhan to continue operating.

Fortunately, Wuhan is relatively safe. Unlike the time when they retreated from Nanjing, the waterways were blocked and it was impossible to transport so many vehicles by ship. Otherwise, so many rickshaws would not have been lost.

"Chief, why send it to Chongqing?"

"No reason, this is an order."

Xu Zhanjie glared at him. He would not tell Liao Gongping that it was Xu Qingyun who gave him the advice.

After the fall of Nanjing, the new capital has been decided, which is Chongqing. Although the old man does not want to give up Wuhan, it is obvious that Wuhan may not be able to be defended, and he will have to retreat to Chongqing in the future.

Xu Qingyun had already set up shop in Chongqing very early on, and also advised him not to keep any industry in Wuhan.

This time he decided to follow Xu Qingyun's advice completely.

"Yes, section chief."

Liao Gongping was startled and responded hastily, not daring to say anything more.

"Go ahead and get it done as soon as possible."

Xu Zhanjie waved his hands. No one knew how long Wuhan could hold out. It would be better to move the rickshaw company there as soon as possible. Although he couldn't go to Chongqing recently, Wuhan didn't need so many people, so he let Liao Gongping go back to look after it.

He decided that if Xu Qingyun had any suggestions in the future, he would listen carefully.

At this time in Chongqing, housing prices change every day.

Before Chongqing was designated as the temporary capital, well-informed people came to buy houses in large quantities. After it was designated, housing prices soared even more.

Good locations and good houses are now priced sky-high.

It is even priceless.

All the properties that Xu Qingyun had bought before have now increased several times, some even ten times.

Ma Xiangshun was here and knew the latest housing prices. He was the one who bought these houses in the first place. After doing some calculations quietly, Ma Xiangshun secretly shook his head.

The behavior that he couldn't understand at the time now has an answer.

I really didn't expect that the young master was so perceptive and good at fortune-telling that he had calculated this day several years ago.

Xu Qingshi was in Chongqing and had already told his family about his conversation with Xu Qingyun two years ago.

At the beginning, Xu Qingyun was worried that Nanjing could not be defended.

Both brothers agreed that there would be a war between China and Japan, but they disagreed on the timing.

Xu Qingshi didn't believe that the war would break out in a short period of time, but Xu Qingyun insisted that it would only be in the next few years, and he judged in advance that Chongqing would most likely be designated as the new capital.

The reason is very simple. If Nanjing cannot be defended, other coastal cities will be even less likely to be defended, which eliminates places like Beijing.

Needless to say, the Central Plains has always been a battleground for military strategists.

There are not many options left, including Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Kunming and other places.

Among them, Xi'an is the most likely.

However, the terrain of Xi'an is not as good as that of Chongqing. It is mountainous here and easier to defend. Faced with several choices, Xu Qingyun finally chose Chongqing and made arrangements here in advance.

After the war, the two old men of the Xu family once sent a telegram to ask him why he chose Chongqing.

Xu Qingyun’s explanation to them was very simple.

Chongqing is safer. Even if the capital is not located here, the safety of my family will be guaranteed, so I chose here.

That was over a year ago, and he hadn't thought much about it.

The Xu family believed this explanation.

In comparison, Chongqing does have many advantages, and its transportation is slightly better. At least it has developed water transportation and can use water transportation to go to many places.

The current Fruit Party government has even fewer options.

Taiyuan fell, and Xi'an was too close to Taiyuan, so Chongqing was the only option.

In addition, there are many other reasons.

Ma Xiangshun was full of admiration for the young master and had no choice but to admit defeat.

How much money did those industries alone make?

When he bought it, he borrowed money from the bank and invested a huge amount of money, otherwise how could they have the title of Xu Bancheng.

These industries have brought huge benefits to the Xu family.

Moreover, the Xu family has strong connections. If someone wants to buy, they have to come to discuss it properly. The two old men of the Xu family don't make the decision. No matter who comes, they will deal with it first and send a message to Xu Qingyun to let him make the decision. If it can be sold, then sell it. If it can't be sold, don't try to force a sale on them.

It’s not that no one has thought of using force, but the consequences were disastrous and several people have died.

The Xu family has indeed sold a lot of houses recently.

The money they earned from the sale of these houses alone has already recovered half of the money they originally spent on purchasing these properties.

According to Ma Xiangshun's calculations, less than 10% of the original amount has been sold so far, which shows how successful Xu Qingyun's investment was.

The main reason is that the bigger the house, the more expensive it is. Those who came early were powerful and wealthy and didn’t care about money. They knew better that prices would go up in the future, so the earlier they bought, the better.

Xu Qingyun doesn’t sell his house to just anyone.

Most people will not sell now no matter how much money they are offered. After the fall of Wuhan, Chongqing's housing prices will rise sharply, and will then rise slightly after Chongqing stabilizes.

However, he will not wait until then. He will sell most of his properties as soon as Wuhan falls.

I won’t sell them all, I’ll keep some for future use.

The skyrocketing housing prices in Chongqing are not important to Xu Qingyun. The price of sulfa drugs has risen even more sharply. If he can make money using sulfa drugs during the war, he can earn a huge fortune.

But that is national wealth, and Xu Qingyun will not take it.

It was not safe to spend that kind of money, and his sulfa drug did save many veterans. Some of the numbers Xu Qingyun knew were different from what he knew later.

That was enough for him.

In Shanghai, Kamei finally received a call back from Tsuchihara.

Tsuchihara praised his work and asked him to continue investigating and try to find the Chinese agent.

However, he was not as optimistic as Kamei. He warned Kamei not to underestimate Xu Qingyun and not to be careless at any time. As long as the Shanghai station agent was discovered, he should be arrested as soon as possible, no matter who he was.

Tsuchihara dealt with Xu Qingyun the most. Kamei was not a professional agent, so it was impossible for him to find Xu Qingyun layer by layer and capture or kill him.

If he could capture the Shanghai station agent, Kamei would have achieved the greatest success, so he would keep Kamei in Shanghai temporarily.

The main reason is that he doesn't have a suitable candidate now.

Instead of sending someone who is not a match for Xu Qingyun, it is better to keep the more stable Kamei.

"Arai, Kuroki, you did a great job. The headquarters has commended you."

Kamei called the two of them to the office and said with a smile.

He understood his situation and knew that he mainly relied on these two people for business matters, so he was quite nice to them.

If there is a chance in the future, it would be nice to make them his confidants. If he wants to be promoted to general, he must make enough achievements.

He is very optimistic about promotion. The Special High Section is not the Military Intelligence Department. What is the rank of the director of the Military Intelligence Department?
It is difficult for people in the Military Intelligence Department to get promoted.

But their chief has a high rank, and there are many generals in the Special High Section. Shanghai's geographical location is so important, and now that the Empire has occupied it, will the Shanghai Special High Section be upgraded?

Then he would be able to get promoted naturally, and this was his biggest goal.

"Thank you, Section Chief." The two of them bowed their heads in thanks.

"The chief section chief did not agree with us to play the long game. He said Xu Qingyun is not as easy to catch as we thought. If we can catch him, that would be the best. If we can't, as long as we can catch an agent from the Shanghai station, we will win a big victory."

Kamei continued to say that he was a rather honest person, otherwise he would not have been chosen by Tsuchihara.

Whatever Tsuchihara said, he would do.

"Section Chief, isn't this too wasteful?"

Arai spoke first. Kuroki didn't say anything, but he also looked at Kamei.

"The chief section chief's orders are the most important. You guys should do your job well."

Kamei shook his head. Arai was still a little unwilling and continued, "Section Chief, if, if we find the Shanghai station agent, can we keep an eye on him for a few days? If there is no harvest, we can arrest him. If there is harvest, we can expand the results."

"How many days will you keep an eye on me?"

Kamei's eyebrows twitched. It was not impossible to keep an eye on them for a few days, but the chief section chief required that the person be arrested as soon as he was discovered.

If I do this, will it violate the orders of the chief section chief?
"Section Chief, three days. If we find someone, we will keep an eye on him for three days. If there is nothing else, we will arrest him. Three days is not a long time. If we keep a good eye on him, there is no way the Chinese can escape."

Seeing Kamei hesitating, Arai tried to persuade him again. After thinking for a while, Kamei finally nodded and said, "Three days is not enough. One day, at most 24 hours. If there is no follow-up harvest, arrest him immediately."

Kamei wanted to make a contribution, but he didn't dare to disobey the order of the chief.

In his opinion, one day is the most appropriate time. After discovering the problem, he takes action within one day and it does not count as violating the order of the chief section chief.

You always have to be prepared to arrest someone, and one day is very suitable.

"Section Chief, one day is too short."

"This is an order."

Kamei's face changed, and Arai immediately lowered his head and did not dare to continue persuading him.

But they felt secretly bitter in their hearts. Having a section chief who didn't understand anything, their intelligence work would probably be more difficult in the future.

Kuroki didn't say anything. Kamei conveyed the chief's order and quickly sent the two away.

"Takeda, the chief section chief really recognizes your contribution this time."

Back in the office, Arai called Takeda over. It was Takeda who found the person and all the clues. Now Takeda is telling Zhuzi about it and is going to release him and wait for the person who will give him the money.

"It's all the team leader's cultivation."

Takeda lowered his head, and Arai finally smiled and said slowly: "The chief has ordered that if you find a formal agent of the Shanghai station, no matter who it is, you must arrest him immediately. You keep a close eye on him. If you find him..."

Arai's voice became smaller. Just because Kamei was obedient didn't mean he would be obedient too.

His order to Takeda was not to report if he found anyone, but to keep an eye on them for two days to see if he could find anyone else. Regardless of whether he could find anyone or not, he had to report after two days.

This, plus the one day given by the teacher, still amounts to three days.

In fact, what Arai wanted to do most was to keep an eye on it until there were other gains, but this time the order was given by the chief himself, so he didn't dare to go too far.

But he will prove with his actions and achievements that his suggestions are correct.

He was the head of the intelligence team. The Special High Section had no deputy chief. Kamei was not an agent, and the chief could not have kept him in Shanghai forever.

If he could achieve better results, the chief section chief would most likely promote Kamei and transfer him away, and there was a great chance that the position of chief of the Shanghai Special High Section would fall on him.

Kamei has ambition, and so does Arai.

His ambition was to replace Kamei and become the new head of Shanghai Special High Section.

He holds the rank of lieutenant colonel, and normally would not be able to serve as the head of the Shanghai Special High Section, but the chief section chief has set an example, as the previous section chief, Ishida, was a lieutenant colonel.

If Ishida can do it, why can't he?

Moreover, after making meritorious service, he is fully qualified to be promoted to colonel, and taking over as section chief is a natural thing for him.

He said these words to no one.

They were all people selected by Kamei from various places. They were not Kamei's confidants, so Kamei naturally would not allow them to bring their confidants to office.

Kamei tried to avoid being sidelined.

"Stationmaster, Tsuchihara gave the order to arrest our people if they find them. He did not agree to monitor and expand the harvest."

When Takeda received the news, he informed the liaison behind him that he was already on board.

Yingzi was kept by him in the concession. Keeping a woman requires money, a lot of money. He could not touch his salary casually, so Yingzi's existence could not be known to anyone for the time being.

Only by doing more for the Chinese can he earn more rewards.

"Tsuchihara is a smart man. He knows Kamei is no match for us."

Xu Qingyun replied with a smile that although he had never fought with Tsuchihara directly, many heads of the Special High Police had stepped down or died because of him, so Tsuchihara had long known his strength.

Kamei isn't even a professional agent.

If Kamei reported it this time, he would have directly found the agent in Shanghai Station. I am afraid that Tsuchiya's first reaction would be disbelief.

It’s good that they found the periphery. After all, their method is effective, the people they found are real people, and the chain of evidence can match.

Xu Qingyun's guess was correct. Tu Yuan did have some suspicions and had asked the Shanghai Special High Section to send a detailed report of the case to the headquarters. He wanted to check it out personally.

Xu Qingyun was not afraid of him seeing that none of the peripheral officers had fake identities. If the Special High Police were given enough time to look for them, they would find these peripheral officers sooner or later.

It is true and is not afraid of being checked.

"Stationmaster, what should we do next?"

Yan Ming took the initiative to report that it was he who instigated Takeda to rebel, and he was responsible for the liaison.

Zhao San is in charge of Hasegawa's side.

"Don't do anything, just let them check."

Xu Qingyun shook his head. His goal was to keep Kamei and prevent the Special High Section from causing trouble for him, but it was impossible to keep Kamei in Shanghai forever.

Let's wait for a while, at least they will be safe during this time.

Soon after the fall of Nanjing, many people openly supported the Japanese and spoke on their behalf.

These traitors are very active, and the director has already ordered them to punish a group of them.

It is up to Xu Qingyun to decide who to sanction.

"Yes."

Yan Ming took the order, and Xu Qingyun immediately asked him about the traitors he was investigating.

There are many active traitors recently. We are only looking for the most active and influential ones. There are also many people among the people who have voluntarily surrendered to Japan, including some Japan fans.

These people really became traitors.

Fortunately, Xu Qingyun had eliminated a lot of them before, otherwise there would be even more traitors now.

"Find ten of them, mainly those who are old and have a certain prestige, and let Wen Zheng cooperate to get rid of them first."

After listening to Yan Ming's report, Xu Qingyun immediately ordered to kill ten traitors first, to punish them and let the other traitors know the consequences of shouting nonsense.

As long as China has not perished, these people are eager to show off in front of their new masters.

They can only jump around in these few years, and sooner or later we will deal with them.

But some older traitors will escape punishment.

But it doesn’t matter. As long as Xu Qingyun has the ability to eliminate them, he will start from Shanghai.

"Yes."

Yan Ming was a little confused as to why the older ones were killed first.

However, he always obeyed the stationmaster's orders without asking any further questions.

Yan Ming left, and Xu Qingyun stood up and looked out the window.

This winter is a bit cold, and there are still many poor people in the concession. Fortunately, the situation is better than during the war.

After the Japanese occupied Shanghai, many people stayed in the concession and did not go back.

Xu's Company is still recruiting a large number of workers, but the number of these workers will gradually decrease. It is not that Xu's Company fires them, but some people will leave on their own.

Recently, some people have been criticizing Xu's Company, saying that the workers they recruited had heavy work but no income and could only eat pig food.

Unless one really cannot make a living, no one would go to work at Xu's Company.

There were even people in the newspapers cursing Xu's firm.

But there were also people who spoke up for Xu’s business. There were also many smart people. Some people saw that Xu’s business was saving people and had saved many people.

Some people refuted in the newspapers and spoke well of Xu's company, but were scolded as the capitalists' running dogs.

Everyone knows that Xu's company is very large and rich.

Xu Qingyun doesn't care whether others praise or insult him. He always does things according to his heart, but that doesn't mean he won't ask any questions.

What does he do?

He is a famous spy chief. If someone wants to play tricks under his nose, he wants to see who is behind it.

"Stationmaster, I found it."

Two days later, Zhao Sanxian came to report. After instigating Hasegawa to rebel, Xu Qingyun asked him to secretly investigate who was constantly cursing Xu's Company.

"speak."

Xu Qingyun asked directly, and Zhao San quickly reported his findings.

According to his investigation, a total of twelve people had cursed in newspapers and two people had cursed on the radio. They all said that the Xu family's business was rich but unkind, and took advantage of the war to plunder the labor of the people by giving them only pig food instead of money.

They did not mention at all that Xu's company provided food for the whole family.

Not to mention that the work these people do is dispensable, and those who actually work for Xu's Company will get paid.

"They say there are twelve, but there are actually only three. The rest are pseudonyms they changed. These people are all working for the Yamada Trading Company in Japan."

"It's the same with the radio station. It was Yamada Trading Company that bribed them to slander Xu's Trading Company on the radio."

Zhao San finished his report quickly and Xu Qingyun narrowed his eyes.

He knew that the Yamada Trading Company was originally located in the Japanese Concession, but later the business expanded and they had businesses in both the French Concession and the International Settlement.

Some of Yamada Trading Company's businesses overlap with Xu's Trading Company. It seems that a competitor is behind this.

Xu's Company mainly deals in luxury goods and pharmaceutical business. Yamada Company also has luxury goods business, but they are no match for Xu's Company.

Xu Qingyun had the strongest connections in the concession and wanted to start with the upper echelons of the concession. Since Yamada Trading Company couldn't get any advantage, he thought of this despicable method.

"Check the details of Yamada Trading Company."

Xu Qingyun instructed that he knew about Yamada Trading Company, but they posed no threat to him before, so his investigation into them was limited.

Since he knew that they were behind this, Xu Qingyun didn't mind preventing this company from doing business in the concession.

When it comes to business methods, he has plenty of clever ideas after being influenced by short videos of later generations.

Nowadays, people tend to hide their skills for fear that others will learn them. They rely more on their own brains and word of mouth for business means. Xu Qingyun's business outlook is a century ahead of theirs. Even if he uses some tricks that are common in later generations, he can still beat these people in circles.

"Yes, stationmaster."

Zhao San understood that Yamada Trading Company was in trouble because they were so blind as to dare to provoke the stationmaster.

The webmaster has both money and connections. Japan is strong, but they have offended too many Chinese people, and even Westerners don't like them that much.

Yamada Trading Company has many industries in the concession, but the stationmaster has the advantage of time, location and people. How can Yamada compete with the stationmaster?
It would be very easy for Zhao San to leave and investigate Yamada Trading Company.

It only took Zhao San three days to get a clear understanding of the background of Yamada Trading Company.

Yamada Trading Company was headquartered in the Japanese Concession and was established six years ago, just as the First Battle of Shanghai ended.

The founder is Mitsukuma Yamada, who is not very old, only 38 years old this year. Initially, Yamada Trading Company only sold some domestic Japanese goods, mainly to Japanese in Shanghai.

At that time, it was not very large, with only one store located in the Japanese Concession.

Two years later, Yamada Trading Company began to grow, selling high-end products such as watches and cameras. Two years ago, they expanded their first store in the International Settlement and their business was very good.

Before the establishment of Xu's Business, Mitsukima Yamada opened another store in the French Concession, with a total of three stores.

After that, he started to run some other luxury goods, quickly accumulated assets, and made some friends in the Japanese military and political circles.

After Xu's Trading Company was opened, it had a considerable impact on the business of Yamada Trading Company. It's not that Yamada Mitsuo didn't think of some crooked ideas. That's how the Japanese are. If they can't beat you head-on, they will make moves in secret.

Their bad nature has not changed since ancient times.

But his methods were not good enough, and were even more radical than others, and ultimately he was unable to defeat Xu's Company.

Many businesses were affected. Yamada Trading Company's two stores in the concession were still there, but their means were no match for Xu Trading Company.

Although Xu's Company seems to rely on people to introduce customers, in fact it is a system similar to agency sales.

Before Xu Qingyun could even resort to more extreme methods of recruiting people and using a multi-level commission model, he had already defeated these people.

Every customer who helps them attract customers is equivalent to their salesperson.

There are hundreds of people in each concession who make money from this. How can other shops compete with them?
Even if you want to win these people over, it's impossible.

Xu Qingyun not only gave a high introduction fee, but also later gave rebates based on the volume of business. The money given by others could not attract these people at all.

Moreover, Xu's Company had a requirement for them to pay rebates every three months. If they were found to be doing business with competitors, these rebates would be cancelled.

Rebates are the big deal, and these people won’t pick up sesame seeds and throw away watermelons.

More than one company was squeezed out by Xu’s Company.

Although Yamada Trading Company did not go bankrupt, its business was greatly impacted, as can be seen from the number of their employees.

Originally there were three stores with a total of 180 employees. Now there are still three stores, but the number of employees is only 80.

More than half less.

Currently, Yamada Trading Company mainly deals in products from Japan, as well as some cheaper cameras, watches, etc.

Xu's company has occupied 70% of the market for high-priced phonographs, watches, etc.

Especially for women's products, such as stockings, cosmetics, skin care products, etc., Xu's Company occupies 90% of the market, making it a real giant.

Xu Qingyun was willing to spend money to feed high-ranking officials at all levels in the concession.

They have a good relationship with the police station. There is a patrol booth next to every store of Xu's Business, and there are patrol officers on duty 24 hours a day.

Including their warehouses, there were foreign guards hired at a high price.

Yamada didn't even have a chance to do anything.

This war gave him hope. He could not do anything to Xu's Trading Company in the concession, but Shanghai was already part of the empire at that time and foreigners no longer dared to offend the empire easily.

It just so happened that Xu's Company recruited a large number of cheap workers, which became his point of attack.

No matter what others think, some people who are unaware of the situation will definitely scold Xu's Company as black-hearted capitalists and take the opportunity to influence their reputation.

Then he tried to attract the salesmen from Xu's Company who helped introduce the company to him, maybe he could replace Xu's Company in the future.

Which business wouldn’t be jealous of the high profits earned by Xu’s Business?
"Stationmaster, Yamada is extremely xenophobic. Seventy percent of his employees are Japanese, and the other thirty percent are foreigners. There is not a single Chinese person."

Zhao San quickly reported that Yamada was unwilling to use Chinese people and he looked down on them.

But there are many Chinese among his clients. It can be said that he is slandering China on the one hand, and making money from the Chinese on the other.

"He likes to drink, but he only drinks Japanese sake, and the place he goes to most often is a restaurant in the Japanese Concession."

"Besides, he is lustful, but stingy and unwilling to give more money."

"The employees of Yamada Trading Company didn't like him. He often found excuses to deduct their wages. Both Japanese and Westerners were dissatisfied with this."

Zhao San was about to find out everything about Yamada Mitsukima, what he liked to do and what kind of person he was.

"Also, I found out that he was lobbying the top leaders of the International Settlement and the French Concession, hoping to restrict the development of the Chinese in the concessions. He asked the Japanese garrison to help put pressure on the concessions."

"Several directors in the concession were very angry about this. He didn't give any money, but he kept telling people what to do. Many people were dissatisfied with him."

Yamada Mitsukuma is very stingy. He is unwilling to give more money even to women and even withholds employees' wages. How can such a person get anything done?
The ghostwriter he hired this time was also very cheap. The ghostwriter was only responsible for writing the article, and he helped to publish it.

I didn't look for important newspapers, so I could save money.

Otherwise, Zhao San wouldn't have been able to find out everything so quickly.

"I know. You've worked hard."

Xu Qingyun nodded slightly. Yamada Mitsukima was easier to deal with than he thought. He still wanted the concession to help him?
Don't even look at what you have done.

Even if he gave money, the people in the concession would never do what he asked.

(End of this chapter)