The first thousand and twenty-four chapters enter the post-period
The various divisions and local stations of the Military Command Bureau are the backbone of the entire framework. Their status is very special. The power and identity of the station chiefs are, in a sense, much stronger than those of the division chiefs at the headquarters. They are feudal officials with great powers.
High autonomy.
Other station directors and district directors use their own resources to control the entire local station, and their role is to sit in command, and specific matters are handled by their subordinates, playing a decisive role, but the direct situation is exactly the opposite.
The nature of this station was originally relatively simple. It was a local station specially reserved by Boss Dai to assist Chen Mingxiang. Its core mission was to serve Chen Mingxiang's mission. It was not until the military-tonghu District 1 was destroyed that the directly affiliated station truly became a local executive agency in practical terms.
In the past two years, the direct station has expanded rapidly in central China, becoming two intelligence offices at once, and even extended its influence to outside the customs and North China.
The bureau headquarters provides personnel and equipment for these four intelligence offices, and the directly affiliated stations handle the funding and staffing. Strictly speaking, these four branches rely heavily on the directly affiliated stations, or Chen Mingxiang, to achieve their current scale and status. It is thanks to Chen Mingxiang
of light.
"As the webmaster of a directly affiliated station, I have the responsibility to provide such an environment for my subordinates to increase loyalty and cohesion. Besides, I have not benefited from it. We all rely on each other to survive together."
"Of course, what you said makes sense. During the period of the Secret Service Headquarters, they relied on my resources to develop. In the later period, that is, during the period of the Political Security Bureau, they must provide me with corresponding rewards and show their own abilities and achievements.
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"The Foreign Intelligence Office and the North China Intelligence Office are restricted by the severe local situation. Especially outside the Customs, they need to be implemented step by step and slowly, and they cannot be too strict. Even I can't quickly open up the situation in a new place. Don't
Underestimating the enemy's threat level."
"But the First Intelligence Office and the Second Intelligence Office will have to speed up in the future. I have matched them with enough resources, and the time for them to settle is not short. The bureau headquarters also provides oblique support. In the work of the Political Security Bureau,
On the other hand, I hope to see bright spots." Chen Mingxiang said.
The Gendarmerie Headquarters had no doubts about Chen Mingxiang taking an Army Aviation transport plane to Anhui Province. In Anhui Province, there were not only Huatong Trading Company’s purchasing station, but also Chen Mingxiang’s cigarette factory, especially the Jieshou office, which was also a smuggler.
An important channel for supplies.
The tobacco leaves from the Shanghai Tobacco Factory are transported from Henan Province through Jieshou and then transferred to Shanghai City, as well as a large amount of tea, tung oil, etc. In addition, Anhui Province is also an important coal and iron ore producing area.
"General Kinoshita has made an agreement with the airport. You can take the transport plane to Luzhou tonight. He wants me to tell you that the matter of Southeast Trading Company must be handled quickly. The household registration rice in Shanghai is seriously insufficient, while Suzhou and Zhejiang
Other places cannot come up with food to relieve the Shanghai market. Chen Gongbo has issued an emergency notice to the Consulate General in Shanghai. If the situation is not alleviated, something big will happen to the Shanghai market."
"The tens of thousands of tons of rice plundered by the Southeast Trading Company are the only way to alleviate the situation at present. Due to the unfavorable military grain collection, the Japanese businessmen of the Huazhong Grain and Rice Purchasing Group also focused on this batch of grain and requested the military police several times to allocate
They, you meet with Chen Gongbo in the afternoon to finalize this matter. As for the price of rice, you make your own decision!" Okamura Shizo said.
It's not that the gendarmerie headquarters in Shanghai only sees money and ignores the threat of food shortages for the dispatched troops, but the food shortage situation in Shanghai is serious. The food speculators were knocked out last time, but it only lasted until the end of July.
In August, the household registration food supply was in short supply again, and in September it was almost unsustainable.
A batch of rice from Su Province was smuggled by Li Shiqun, a batch was bought by grain speculators, a batch was purchased by the Wang Puppet Government's Food Department, and a batch was forcibly conscripted by the Japanese army. There was no ability to support the household rice in the Shanghai market.
Everyone knows the importance of food. The turmoil in the Shanghai market caused by hunger is obviously something that the Japanese army does not want to see. The war in the Pacific is not going well, and even the most basic military operations of the dispatched troops are prohibited.
Faced with the powerful industrial production capacity of the United States, an old capitalist country, the Japanese cabinet and military knew that it was impossible to launch a strategic offensive against the U.S. military and concentrated all their efforts on defense in the hope of defeating the U.S. military. This is
fundamental strategy.
To this end, the Japanese cabinet and military ministry continued to recruit soldiers domestically and formulated plans for the Kwantung Army to go south. The need for military supplies was increasing day by day, which also determined the importance of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The Consulate General in Shanghai rejected the request of the Huazhong Grain and Rice Purchase Group and sent a letter to the Military Police Headquarters, requesting that the confiscated and sealed grain be transported to Shanghai as soon as possible to alleviate the crisis.
"Mingxiang, your Huatong Trading Company must use all its transportation power as quickly as possible to transport Southeast Trading Company's grain stocks back to Shanghai. Now is the most dangerous time."
"The report from the grain department said that because the food shortage problem has not been solved for a long time, 80% of the people in Shanghai no longer have overnight rice at home, and the household registration rice from the Grain Administration Bureau cannot last more than a few days.
If this continues, within less than half a month, the Shanghai Stock Exchange will be starved to death!"
"I reported this problem to Chairman Wang and mobilized some from the Ministry of Food, but the quantity was too small. Therefore, priority must be given to ensuring the rationing of government agencies and police. Tell me the truth, how much food does Southeast Trading Company have?"
Chen Gongbo frowned and said.
"The people I have sent to various places have not been counted yet, and there is no accurate number to report now, but according to my estimate, it is about 16,000 to 7,000 tons. According to the lowest standards, it can last until the end of the year at most. If it continues
Without food, there will be an unprecedented famine in Shanghai," Chen Mingxiang said.
The actual number is more than 10,000 tons more than what he said, but it is not all rice, but also more than 3,000 tons of coarse grains. Chen Mingxiang plans to use the channels of the underground party to provide these grains to the people of Shanghai as a symbolic representation.
He wanted to collect some money. Although he would lose more than 20 million in China Reserve Bonds at one time, he really had no choice.
Based on Chen Mingxiang's understanding of the bureaucrats in the municipal government, when the grain reaches the distribution agency in Shanghai, 25,000 tons of the 30,000 tons can be used for household registration rice, which is already very good.
Although the people in Shanghai are about to starve to death, there must be many people who want to reach out for food. He still has to hang around in Shanghai and not offend this huge interest group.
"The quantity is really too small. It's hard to say when the Ministry of Food will be able to transfer food to Shanghai. I think 6,000 tons of rice can be left as a food reserve for the municipal government itself, its subordinate yamen, and various regions.
Yamen, security headquarters and police stations are also in great demand, which is the basis for maintaining operations." Mo Guokang said on the side.
