Spy Wars: Return of the Red Luan

Chapter 79 Reopening Aoki Pharmacy

From the time the Emperor got the film to the time he finally confirmed the validity of the formula, he kept it secret and didn't announce it because he was afraid that it might be fake. What if?

I can't afford to take the risk. A delay of a dozen days is harmless, but if there is a mistake, the title is conferred, the military rank is promoted, the marriage is granted, but it turns out to be fake, that would be a scandal.

Aoki Qiao got the formulas of the two medicines as soon as possible. Without any delay, he rushed back to the country after going through untold hardships and handed them over to the Emperor. No, he took a small detour, it was harmless. Whoever falsely accuses Aoki Qiao of being a spy for the Republic of China will be a spy!
Shimazu God of War, Imperial God of Medicine!
After the banquet, Okamura Yasuji quietly found Aoki Takashi. Following Okamura Yasuji was his classmate from the Army University, Miyazaki Shuichi. This time, Aoki Takashi immediately recognized this classmate. After talking to Okamura Yasuji first, he greeted his classmate in time. What happened in Berlin last time must not happen again.

We are very straightforward. We hope you can reopen the Qingmu Pharmacy chain! You have experience.

Okamura's purpose is easy to guess. The Great Depression has caused the royal family to be short of money, and the headquarters is also short of money. Selling medicines is a profitable business, not to mention that two life-saving drugs are about to be released. There will definitely be a shortage of supply in the market. We must seize the market first and make money!
"Uncle, I'm a little scared. The profits from this drug are indeed huge. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been targeted in the Northeast after just six months of operation, right?"

They hit it off immediately. Chen Jiehua was actually so happy that he was about to burst out laughing. He was just worrying about what excuse to make, but now that Okamura Neiji spoke directly, there was no need for excuses. He had the backing, the royal family and the Army Ministry background. If he could also bring the Navy Ministry into the picture, it would be even more perfect.

"We understand what you're trying to say. No one will dare to try this again! You two students, talk more!"

Okamura Neiji left, leaving Miyazaki Shuichi and Aoki Qiao to catch up. Actually, there wasn't much to catch up on; they'd barely exchanged a single word at school. But Aoki Qiao just happened to want to know how the other students at Luda were doing, and Miyazaki Shuichi was at headquarters, working on personnel changes with Okamura, so he was a ready source of intelligence.

After graduating from Army University, Miyazaki Shuichi was chosen by Okamura to join the General Staff. He had always been with Okamura Neiji, so he naturally knew the importance of Aoki Takashi. After this major incident, his importance had intensified, and he wanted to talk more about him, but he had no topics to talk about. What did classmates talk about when they had no topics to talk about? They talked about other classmates, and the two of them soon became very excited.

After the second banquet, Qing Mu Qiao successfully obtained the information he wanted.

At the time, Tokyo already had several pharmaceutical companies, including Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Sankyo Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and Tokyo Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The Shimadzu family, which also had Shimadzu Corporation, also wanted to get a piece of the pie, hoping to use this opportunity to switch to the pharmaceutical industry. Shimadzu Tadahiro sought out his nephew, Aoki Takashi, for this very reason.

The Shimazu family's factory originally manufactured and sold Buddhist incense. However, due to the anti-Buddhist movement, fewer and fewer people worshipped Buddha in Japan, and the incense could no longer be sold. Coupled with the Shimazu family's growing population, insufficient income to make ends meet, and the impact of the Great Depression, the family's financial crisis became increasingly apparent.

Therefore, who to make these two recipes for and how to distribute the cakes was another headache. My mother's second uncle came to me personally, and someone else must have gone to find the seventh concubine, Empress Kōjun's mother.

The distribution of drug production rights was originally a matter of discussion between the House of Peers and the Emperor, but now it is conceivable that the profits from these two drugs are too huge, and the Ministry of the Army and the Ministry of the Navy are all keeping an eye on them, arguing with each other every day. For some reason, this anger was directed at Aoki Qiao. How about you give me some advice on the formula you brought back?

Chen Jiehua is no longer the naive Qingmu Qingxuan of the past, and of course he will not be fooled into sharing the firepower. I only want the global agency sales rights of the drugs, and I don’t care about anything else.

In fact, there is no need to quarrel. Okamura Yasuji represents the interests of the Army Department, and the Shimazu family's roots are in the navy, so of course they have to take the interests of the navy into consideration. Since the two cannot be separated, they can just play together. There is no need to quarrel between the army and the navy. Just make money together.

In the end, a consensus was reached on how to divide the sales profits among the Emperor, the Shimazu family, the Army Ministry, the Navy Ministry, and the Fujiwara family. Of course, Aoki Qiao was the mastermind. Chen Jiehua simply needed a legitimate reason to return to Shanghai.

In October 1929 (Showa 4), after finishing his wedding and many trivial matters in Japan, Chen Jiehua returned to Shanghai with his wife Fujiwara Mio.

In the second half of 1929 (the 18th year of the Republic of China), the global situation became confusing because of two drugs. First, the Polish Second Bureau could not withstand the successive attacks of agents from all over the world, and after collecting a large fee, it sold the formulas of the two drugs to Italy and England.

America bought the formula for Prontocil from England, and Germany, not to be outdone, obtained the formula for penicillin from Italy.

The whole world is working at full capacity to build factories and produce two life-saving drugs, which has caused the prices of raw materials to soar, and chemists around the world are being fought over by various countries.

Chen Jiehua and Fujiwara Mio returned to their home at No. 73 Jessfield Road. They first checked inside and out for any eavesdropping devices and checked whether the hair on the doors and windows of the secret room was intact. They were careful not to make any big mistakes and only after the inspection did they feel at ease to move in and rest.

Considering that Shanghai from 1929 to 1931 was already a place of decadence and debauchery, and that the Kuomintang Police Department, the police stations of various foreign concessions, and Japanese spies had begun to appear on the stage, he and Fujiwara Mio could no longer do as they pleased as before.

The first step is to abide by organizational discipline and the "three major tasks and one prohibition principle", insist on single-line contact, and have your own single-line contact person. The only person online is Zhao Shiyu.

In the second step, Chen Jiehua considered setting up a firewall for himself, contacting and reporting to No. 5 through Zhao Shiyu, secretly destroying Lin Meixu's archival materials, withdrawing from the Red Team, and becoming his own radio operator and performing special tasks.

The organization specifically transferred Zhao Shiyu back to Shanghai to cooperate with Chen Jiehua and Fujiwara Mio's work.

Chen Jiehua explained the final strategic arrangement of the drug formula clearly through Zhao Shiyu. The organization expressed great understanding and fully affirmed the strategy and results of the last attempt to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

On October 18, 10, Zhao Shiyu came to apply for the position of pharmacy manager at the new location of the first "Qingmu Chain Pharmacy" in Shanghai, which was finally selected by Chen Jiehua, next to the Hao Garden on Jing'an Temple Road.

"Qingmu, some unfortunate news. In August, due to betrayal by a traitor, four comrades from the Party organization were arrested and sacrificed. Number Five has issued a kill order to the Special Operations Group's Red Team, demanding that we punish the traitor Bai Xin as soon as possible!"

"Where does this guy live now? What do you need me to do?"

"According to an insider, Bai Xin is in a state of panic and has been hiding in the Fan Mansion at 43 Hehefang, Xiafei Road. The security there is tight. The organization currently has insufficient manpower available in Shanghai, and needs your and Mio's support."

　Back to Shanghai!
　
(End of this chapter)