The Spy

Chapter 352 No Way to Check
Yamada was detained in the police station for three days before being released.

The main reason is that no one paid to redeem him. Yamada has nothing left, is usually a stingy person, and has no real friends at all. Now that something has happened, everyone stays away from him.

The one who paid to get him out was a loan shark.

Yamada borrowed money from two loan sharks, each loaning him $40,000. The Japanese loan sharks took the money, including the principal and interest. This group of people only got $10,000, and they still lost $30,000 on their principal. How could they be willing to let Yamada go?

Yamada cannot die, at least not now. He must be allowed to come out and pay his debts.

As for Yamada's guards, they had been redeemed by their relatives and friends. These people learned about the situation. All of Yamada's properties had been confiscated by the bank, and he had even lost his home, so it was impossible for them to pay their salaries.

The guards could only blame themselves for their bad luck.

In particular, the ten guards who stayed behind in the warehouse. When it was almost dawn, a group of people, about fifty or sixty in number, suddenly came. They were armed, forced open the warehouse, and took away everything inside.

All the guards were tied up inside the warehouse and were rescued only after they were discovered in the morning.

Not only did they not get paid for this mission, but they also suffered such a great injustice that the guards wanted to beat Yamada up.

"Is it you?"

Yamada walked out of the police station jail in a dejected manner. When he noticed the person who came to pick him up, he was suddenly shocked.

In front of me is a loan shark.

"take away."

The loan shark leader glanced at him and then frowned.

At this time, Yamada was wearing thin clothes, shivering from the cold, and his clothes were torn.

When he entered the police station, he was wearing a thick and warm leather coat. However, he could not get any food inside and was so hungry that he had to exchange his clothes for food with the jailer.

Now Yamada has nothing left.

"Where are you taking me?"

After getting in the car, Yamada began to feel a little scared. Three days was enough time for him to think about a lot of things, and he had come to his senses.

This was indeed a trap, but unfortunately he fell into it.

After all, it was all because of his greed.

If he had not been so greedy and had not targeted Xu's business, this disaster would never have happened.

The loan shark leader didn't say anything and directly dragged him into an empty factory building.

"You owe us $60,000, including principal and interest. How are you going to pay us back?"

The reason why usury is called usury is that the interest rate is very high. The original agreement was for three months, and the $40,000 would be repaid in full at the end of the term, $60,000.

Three months is 50%, which is 200% based on the annualized interest rate of later generations.

In fact, the interest is not calculated in this way. Usury always compounds interest. If you cannot pay it back after three months, it will be calculated based on 60,000 yuan, or it will be calculated on a daily basis. If you really wait for a year, 1,000% is not considered high.

Usury has existed since ancient times. Even though it is strictly managed now, there are still people doing this business, which has forced many people to death.

"Let me go back. Once I sell the goods, I will return them to you immediately."

Yamada didn't know at this time that all his belongings were gone.

"Sell?"

The loan shark leader laughed. Yamada was locked up and became stupid. He didn't know his current situation, or was he pretending to be stupid in front of him?
"Your goods have been sold, and your house and shop are all gone. What do you have to sell?"

The loan shark leader's words were like a thunderbolt, leaving Yamada stunned.

Out of stock?
The house and the shop are gone too?
"Send a message to your family in China and ask them to send you money."

The reason why the loan shark leader redeemed Yamada was that he wanted to get the money from his relatives in China. Yamada's business was so big that it was impossible for him to keep it all in China.

He must have a lot of property in the country, so it’s no problem to pay him back.

As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. After all, Yamada once had assets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and was a wealthy man.

It shouldn't be difficult to ask my hometown to give me tens of thousands of dollars.

When borrowing high-interest loans, Yamada asked for U.S. dollars. This group of people were in the concession and they had currencies from various countries. They gave them U.S. dollars. However, they did not expect to be so unlucky this time. They acted a step too late and only got back 10,000 U.S. dollars.

The ten thousand yuan was given by my colleagues out of respect, otherwise I wouldn’t get a single cent back.

People who can lend so much money at high interest rates are all very powerful. Generally speaking, they will not fight against each other and will give some face.

“My family back home has no money.”

Yamada shook his head, the loan shark leader narrowed his eyes and winked at the younger brother next to him.

The two men immediately stepped forward and started fighting without any explanation.

They have seen many people who are unwilling to pay back the money, so they will beat them first. If they still don't pay back, they will chop off their hands or feet. If the money is really valued rather than their life, they will help them.

Killing someone doesn’t mean they don’t want the money anymore. After killing someone, they will also go after the family of the person who owes the money to ask for it back.

Unfortunately, Yamada is Japanese and his family is in Japan, which is not their sphere of influence.

"My family really didn't have much money. I took all the money to China to do business."

Yamada was beaten and kept begging for mercy. He was telling the truth. Yamada was a stingy and selfish person. He didn't leave much money even for his family.

However, the family does have some assets, but it is not enough to pay off the debts.

"It was Xu's Company that harmed me this time. If you let me go, I can go to Xu's Company to ask for it, or you can go directly. They have money."

Unable to bear the beating, Yamada suddenly shouted. The loan shark leader was stunned for a moment, then became angry and said, "Take off one of his fingers first."

He lives in the concession and is a powerful man behind him.

He was well aware of the power of Xu's firm.

People are not afraid of him.

Wouldn't it be harming him to ask Xu's Company for money?
As for Yamada going to ask for it himself, not to mention that he has no evidence at all, even if he had evidence, he would be unable to do anything to Xu's Company now.

There is absolutely no point in saying this.

"I'll send a message."

After having a finger chopped off, Yamada finally couldn't bear it anymore and wailed as he agreed to send a telegram and asked his family to send money.

The loan shark leader shook his head. Many people were like this. They would not cry until they saw the coffin. If he had agreed before, he would still have to suffer like this.

His money was not recovered and Yamada could not die for the time being, so he was soon sent to the hospital. The loan shark helped Yamada send a telegram to notify his family to send money.

Xu Fuzhong knew everything that happened to Yamada.

This time Yamada was completely finished. As for Xu's Trading Company, in addition to the 68,000 paid to Smith, it also paid a cost of 200,000 US dollars.

It was mainly the batch of stockings and the expenses for bribing the employees of Yamada Trading Company.

After deducting all the above, Xu's Company made a net profit of more than 400,000 yuan this time.

Yamada not only owed money to loan sharks, but he also hadn't paid off the bank. The bank had taken away his property, so it was impossible for them to estimate his value based on the normal price. It had to be at least 30% lower.

This time the bank went even further. Knowing that Yamada had no chance of recovery, they simply calculated the amount in half.

In other words, in addition to usury, Yamada also owed a lot of money to the bank.

Even if he didn't fall into the hands of loan sharks, if he was found by the bank, Yamada would still be in trouble. Xu Fuzhong summarized the situation and sent it to the young master.

Even though they were in the same concession, Xu Qingyun would not contact Xu's Trading Company directly. There were still Japanese spies hiding near Xu's Trading Company, waiting for him to come.

After reading the telegram, Xu Qingyun smiled slightly and burned it.

It is easy to deal with Yamada. Once you know all about him, you can take targeted action.

Yamada has so many weaknesses that the success of his plan is inevitable.

Yamada is now in the hands of a loan shark, and Xu Qingyun also knows that evil will be punished by evil. If Yamada cannot repay his debts, his final fate will be extremely miserable.

There are many smart people who know that Yamada Trading Company was destroyed by Xu Trading Company.

Those who could think of this would naturally understand that it was Yamada Trading Company that took the initiative to provoke the Xu family, and the Xu family was just fighting back in retaliation.

Xu Qingyun didn't pay much attention to Yamada's affairs, as the Special High Police were being played a trick on them.

After several days, Takeda finally verified the more than one hundred lists.

"You mean, there are quite a few people inside who are definitely not from the outskirts of Shanghai Station?"

After hearing the five-day report, Arai was a little dazed. Takeda carefully verified the situations of more than one hundred people and had determined that at least forty of them had nothing to do with the Shanghai station.

Originally, Arai thought that these people were all outside the Shanghai station, and even if there were some who were not, they were a minority.

In his mind, how could so many people give out money in this way?
"Yes, Captain, they can't be."

Takeda bowed his head and responded. Arai thought for a moment and continued to ask, "What about the rest? Can you confirm whether it is or not?"

“It’s not certain yet.”

Takeda spoke in a low voice. This was the truth, he didn't dare to lie, and there was no need to lie.

"After so much time and so many investigations, you tell me now that you haven't found a single outskirts of Shanghai Station?"

Arai's eyes widened and he shouted in disbelief that there must be an outskirts of Shanghai Station inside, and he might even be able to find it by asking Zhuzi to identify it, but Takeda told him that there was no such thing.

When did Takeda become so incompetent?
"Team leader, I have verified it in detail. Zhuzi only said that there are two statues, but I dare not confirm it."

Takeda replied carefully, the Chinese were indeed cunning, no wonder they gave the pillar to him, it turned out that through the pillar, he couldn't even find the other peripheries.

"Hay."

Takeda didn't dare to refute and could only arrest people according to Arai's request.

Arai had high hopes for this mission, but he didn't expect that after investigating for such a long time, there was no progress at all, which made him very dissatisfied.

He must find more people outside Shanghai Station so that it will be easier to catch people from Shanghai Station.

As long as he can catch the real members of the Shanghai station, he will have a chance to catch Xu Qingyun and be promoted to section chief.

Who doesn’t want to be a military commander and command others?
If he became the team leader, he would no longer have to serve Kamei, a layman.

The arrest went smoothly. One of the two men was in the concession and the other was in the city.

After being arrested, the two were very panicked and kept asking what they had done wrong and why they were arrested.
Arai personally interrogated the case, starting with the first one, who lived in the city.

“Why would someone give you three bucks a month?”

Arai got straight to the point and asked directly. The arrested man was stunned for a moment and immediately replied: "That's my reward."

"What's the reward?"

"I can fix things. A factory hired me to fix things whenever there was a problem. They paid me three dollars a month."

This is the interrogation room. The people who were captured are very honest. They answer whatever you ask and dare not hide anything.

What he does is similar to a part-time job. He does not have to be in the factory every day. He can only go to fix it when there is a problem, so the salary is not high. However, since it is a part-time job, it does not affect his normal work, and he is very happy to earn an extra three dollars a month.

"Call me."

After asking, Arai suddenly gave an order. The man was stunned for a moment, and before he could ask the reason for the beating, the whip was whipped.

The man was beaten so hard that he screamed and begged for mercy.

Arai took the opportunity to ask again, but he refused to say that he was an outsider of the Shanghai station and insisted on what he had just said.

The man was knocked unconscious twice, but he did not mention the Shanghai station.

In desperation, Arai could only ask, and the man immediately admitted that he was scared after being beaten. If he didn't say so, these Japanese would dare to beat him to death.

But when asked about the Shanghai Station, he spoke nonsense. He didn't even know where the Shanghai Station was and gave the wrong address.

"Team leader, he doesn't seem to be pretending."

After the man was knocked unconscious again, Takeda whispered, Arai's face was gloomy. He naturally saw that the man in front of him seemed to have been tortured into confessing.

What he wants is the periphery of Shanghai Station, not a fake one.

There is no need to falsify information on the periphery, and if the chief section chief finds out, he will be in big trouble.

"Try the other one."

This person could not be beaten anymore, so Arai immediately interrogated the second person, who was secretly arrested and brought back in the concession.

Just like before, he was also working a part-time job, so when we gave him money, no matter how we beat him, he just begged for mercy or said something else, and never mentioned the Shanghai station at all.

When Arai asked, he immediately admitted his identity.

Just like the person just now, he said nothing right and was forced to confess under torture.

"Takeda, go check how many people there are in Shanghai who are paid like this."

Arai gave orders, and the two did not seem to be acting. If they were, we could only say that their acting skills were too good. Anyone who could have such acting skills must be an ace agent.

He was catching the periphery of Shanghai Station, and it was impossible for these peripheries to do it.

"Hay."

Takeda took the order and left. This time the investigation was easier and faster, and it was almost finished after a day.

"Tens of thousands of people, why so many?"

After getting the result, Arai opened his mouth wide. According to their preliminary statistics, there were more than ten thousand people receiving money in this way in Shanghai.

The amount varies, the smallest amount may be one dollar, and the largest amount may be more than ten dollars.

No more than that.

"Team leader, more than a year ago, Xu's firm recruited temporary workers or part-time workers using this method. They found companies that paid them and saved their energy. Later, many companies and firms followed Xu's firm's example. As a result, many such financial companies were born in Shanghai, specializing in their business."

Takeda said softly that Xu's Trading Company belonged to Xu Qingyun, no wonder he dared to release these two people. They knew that after the two were exposed, they would not be able to affect other people.

There are more than 10,000 people, and it would take a long time to check them carefully.

Their intelligence team has only more than 40 people, which means one person has to investigate more than 20 people.

Even if we check those who earn three dollars, the workload is still considerable.

Before, he investigated those more than one hundred people, mobilizing the entire intelligence team and spending so much time. According to his statistics, the most people who received three yuan were those who received more than four thousand yuan, and they could not finish investigating them even in a year.

(End of this chapter)