Under Xu Rui's careful design, Yingzuo Zhenzhao jumped into the trap without knowing it.
In the following days, no major conflicts broke out between the Broadway Building and the patrol camp. However, the looting of the French Concession and the Public Concession by both sides continued.
After this contest on Henan Road, the patrol battalion seemed to understand that the action against the Broadway Building would inevitably lead to retaliation, so they stopped provoking. The two sides then entered into a tacit understanding, not to engage in direct confrontation with each other, but
They just tacitly ransacked the public concession and the French concession.
In the blink of an eye, seven days passed.
In the past seven days, the entire Shanghai Concession, including the French Concession, has turned into a pot of Northeastern stew, whether it is the North and East Districts of the Concession controlled by the Japanese, the Central District and the Old West Side under the control of the British, or the French Concession.
The concessions, and even the Huajie areas like Zhabei and Longhua, were all ransacked wildly.
Of course, only black industries were looted, and other industries were not affected much.
In particular, the banking industry in the concession was not affected in any way. Xu Rui controlled the pace of the robbery very well, and only dealt with the black industry in the concession, because the black industry was something that could not be seen in the light after all, and the concession authorities did not care.
If you are dissatisfied, you can't express it openly, but you can only eat Coptis chinensis while being dumb, and you can't express your pain.
Although starting from the next day, the Japanese, French and British troops implemented martial law in the areas under their respective control and defended them to the death, it was of no use at all.
Because, whether it is the Japanese army, the British army, the American army or the French army, they all have their own agenda.
The Japanese army, in particular, did not enforce strict martial law at all. Yingzuo Zhenzhao even secretly allowed the people in Broadway Building to attack the black industries in the North and East Districts of the Concession under the control of the Japanese army. Yingzuo Zhenzhao's logic is very simple.
Rather than cheap patrol camp, it would be better to cheap Broadway Building.
Because the benefits went to the Broadway Building, but the bulk had to go to the Japanese army.
Although he knew clearly that this was killing chickens to obtain eggs, Yingzuo Zhenzhao couldn't care less. Otherwise, the chickens would be killed by others. At most, they would raise chickens and re-establish the opium industry after this storm has passed. As long as Shanghai's
With the population size at this level, within a few months, the opium industry will be revived and the old outlook will be restored.
It was precisely because of this consideration that the Japanese army did not seriously intervene at all.
To be honest, Yingzuo Zhenzhao pointed to this extra money to solve the current difficulties.
Otherwise, with the strength of the little devils, if they actually mobilize a brigade or even a division to enter the Japanese concession to implement martial law, they are completely capable of controlling the situation.
But the British, American and French troops really don't have the ability to control the situation, because the Broadway Building and the patrol camp are not only large in numbers, but also well-equipped. The patrols in the concession are no match at all, nor can they call in the garrison, so in addition to
I tried very hard to intervene in the first two days, but then I just pretended to be deaf and dumb.
Anyway, whether it is the Broadway Building or the patrol camp, they are only targeting the black industry!
Although the tax revenue from Shanghai's black industry accounts for more than one-third of the total tax revenue, it is better to lose one-third than to lose all. Westerners can still calculate such a simple account.
Therefore, the concession authorities did not react too violently.
As for the people in Shanghai, they all applauded.
The evil forces have always been the most hated by ordinary people. The evil forces in Shanghai have a long history. Since the establishment of the concession, gangs have begun to dominate the city. Later, they gave birth to century-old gangs such as the Qing Gang, which shrouded the entire Shanghai.
Under the shadow of the epidemic, ordinary people in Shanghai are miserable.
However, now that the evil forces in Shanghai have almost disappeared, how can the people not applaud and cheer?
Among them, those who reacted most violently were those involved in pornography, gambling and drugs, especially the Qinggang, a big gang.
After realizing that they could not get support from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau of the Concession, the pornographic, gambling and drug practitioners represented by the Qinggang also briefly united to try to defend their one-third acre of land. As a result, they were attacked by the Broadway Building and patrolmen.
The camp's tacit joint attack, especially the Qing Gang, was almost uprooted by Xu Rui.
During the looting of the black industry and the attack on the evil forces, the Broadway Building and the patrol camp expanded like a balloon. As of now, the Broadway Building has expanded to more than a thousand people, and the patrol camp has expanded to two people.
More than a thousand officers and soldiers can almost be organized into an A-type regiment.
After seven days, the chaotic situation gradually calmed down.
Because at this time, almost all the fat sheep worth killing have been slaughtered.
By this time, the entire black industry in Shanghai was almost uprooted. No one in the black industry, such as opium dens, casinos, brothels, and underground banks, was spared. Moreover, almost all drug addicts, gamblers, and prostitutes,
The loan sharks were also caught and imprisoned either in the Broadway Building or in the dungeons of the patrol camp.
At this point, Shanghai's black industries, including the opium industry, have suffered a devastating blow!
However, during these seven days of chaos, the patrol camp made a huge harvest, part of which was directly robbed from the public concession and the French Concession, which was stolen from the counters of opium dens, casinos, brothels and underground banks.
Although the amount of money and goods per household is not large, it cannot support the large base.
During the seven days of chaos, the patrol battalion robbed a total of 109 opium dens, 68 gambling dens, 58 large brothels and 18 underground banks. From these opium dens and gambling dens,
A total of more than 13 million legal currency, more than 2 million in cash, and jewelry worth 20 million legal currency were robbed from the brothels and underground banks.
Just from the counters of these black industries, a huge sum of more than 30 million French currency was obtained!
This does not include the meat tickets tied up in the patrol camp. As of now, more than 2,000 meat tickets have been redeemed. The average ransom for these two thousand meat tickets is 20,000 yuan in French currency. This alone has brought in 4,500 yuan.
More than one million yuan in legal currency, but the legal currency is now depreciating sharply, and the 45 million legal currency is only worth one million US dollars now!
In other words, adding these two items together, the patrol camp has already earned more than 1.5 million US dollars!
However, these two incomes are nothing compared to the following ones. Among the meat tickets kidnapped from the patrol camp and delivered by Broadway Building through various methods, most of them are not very profitable, but there are also some like
Big fat sheep like Huang Jinrong, Lu Xiaojia and Duan Hongye, these big fat sheep can earn a lot of money.
Not to mention anything else, Huang Jinrong alone contributed nearly five million US dollars in oil and water to the Broadway Building! Among them, a huge sum of one million US dollars was deposited in a Citibank account, and half a million pounds was
There are also stocks and bonds worth one million US dollars in HSBC's account, as well as more than a dozen properties.
There are also two people, Lu Xiaojia and Duan Hongye, who have a combined total of almost 8 million US dollars!
Although the remaining meat tickets are not as plump as those of Huang Jinrong and the others, they are much fatter than those small tickets. The more than one hundred meat tickets that have been donated have contributed a total of more than 50 million US dollars to the patrol camp and the Broadway Building!
It can be seen from this that the local tyrants and evil gentry who fled to the Shanghai Concession at that time were young and old.
By the way, Minister Song was also kidnapped and given a meat ticket.
In the end, the Song family contributed two million U.S. dollars from their Citibank account to the patrol camp before the patrol camp was willing to release him. But then again, the two million U.S. dollars were nothing compared to what Minister Song had gained from the national crisis over the years.
, is really not worth mentioning, and what he will get from the US financial aid in the next few years will be a drop in the ocean.
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Broadway Building.
Wang Husheng was shocked by the numbers calculated by Liu Mei.
After staring blankly at the numbers on the white paper for a long time, Wang Husheng turned around and said to Xu Rui: "Old Xu, am I not dreaming? I have already received a huge sum of nearly 60 million US dollars?"
Sixty million U.S. dollars. According to the current exchange rate, one U.S. dollar is worth fifty French currency, which is 900 million U.S. dollars!
Although it is still 100 million short of Xu Rui’s original estimate of 1 billion, it is already scary!
Xu Rui said: "It's only 60 million US dollars, which is less than half of what I expected. I originally thought that this robbery operation would get more than 100 million US dollars, but I didn't expect that it was only 60 million US dollars."
"Only 60 million US dollars?" Wang Husheng asked, "60 million US dollars is still too little for you?"
In fact, 60 million U.S. dollars is indeed a lot. You must know that the total amount of assistance provided by the Soviet government to the National Government in the form of loans was only 50 million U.S. dollars. But having said that, they almost wiped out all the black industries in Shanghai this time, and
It’s not surprising at all that he collected so many meat tickets and collected 60 million US dollars.
As the saying goes, a broken ship still has 3,000 nails. Although China is poor and weak, there are still a few rich people in such a large population. After the Sino-Japanese war broke out, many rich people hid in the concessions and followed them.
There is not a small amount of wealth that has entered the concession. If Xu Rui really went all out to grab it, he could grab US$500 million.
But it is obviously impossible for Xu Rui to do this. After all, he is not a real bandit. Real bandits can rob without any bottom line, but Xu Rui can only attack the pornographic, gambling, and drug industries!
Fortunately, there are 60 million US dollars, which is enough for Xu Rui to do a lot of things.
Wang Husheng couldn't help but wonder: "Old Xu, what are you going to do with these 60 million US dollars?"
“There is a lot to do,” Xu Rui said. “First of all, we need to purchase weapons and equipment for at least three divisions from the United States, and we also need to purchase enough ammunition to sustain three divisions of troops for at least half a year.
Almost half of the money will be spent, and the remaining money will be used to purchase machinery and equipment, giving priority to purchasing a complete set of equipment for a fine chemical plant."
"Fine chemical factory?" Wang Husheng said blankly, "Didn't you talk about an arsenal before?"
"Arms factories need it, and fine chemical factories also need it." Xu Rui nodded and said, "Because only fine chemical factories can produce artillery fuses. If a fine chemical factory cannot be introduced, once the Japanese navy desperately blocks Shanghai, what we built in Shanghai will
The arsenal and the arsenal in Dameishan must be caught blind."
