"Mingxiang, I know that this matter has developed to this extent. It was not your original intention to kick Su Chengde out of the officialdom. This was your purpose. It was just that Li Shiqun took advantage of the conflict between you and Su Chengde.
, I also used your energy to take the opportunity to attack him."
"But through this incident, you should be more careful with your words and deeds in the future, and don't be implicated by others. Chairman Wang is very unhappy about Su Chengde's matter, and he also has a lot of complaints about Li Shiqun."
"Chairman Wang said that he doesn't know the general situation. As a high-level government official, he only engages in intrigues and eradicates dissidents, and behaves in a domineering manner. Do you ever see him in your eyes?"
"In any case, Su Chengde is also a political councilor of our Jinling government. He has ended up like this just a few days after he became the leader. How do the people under his administration view the image of our government?" Chen Gongbo called Chen Mingxiang to his office and said, "Serious words.
" said.
Chen Gongbo absolutely does not believe the theory of committing suicide out of fear of crime, and no one will believe it either!
People like Su Chengde, who has Lin Baisheng's support behind his back, are also traitors and senior agents of the Central Bureau of Statistics. The things he did, such as extortion, overt and covert robbery, seeking wealth and killing, and disregarding human life, are bad in nature, but it is ugly to say that
If so, this phenomenon can be seen all over the Jinling government’s territory.
Su Chengde committed suicide because of fear of these things? What a strange news!
The reason why Chen Gongbo made this judgment was that although Chen Mingxiang also had part-time jobs in the Investigation and Statistics Department and the Special Agent Headquarters, he had never been indifferent to the work of these two departments. To put it more clearly, he was not Li Shiqun at all.
people.
How should I put it? Chen Mingxiang is the most accurate person from the Japanese Military Police Headquarters in Shanghai, followed by the city government itself. This is also a recognized fact!
Ma Xiaotian is the director of the Political Police General Administration, and Chen Mingxiang is the inspector of the Investigation and Statistics Department. It is true that the two have a superior-subordinate relationship, but Chen Mingxiang cannot command Ma Xiaotian, and the only man behind the scenes is Li Shiqun.
"I originally just wanted to take advantage of the Supervisory Council's impeachment of Su Chengde and ask the Jinling Court to sentence him to several years in prison and make him suffer. But I didn't expect that Minister Li hated him so much. He didn't even wait to go to court, but he was sentenced to death that day.
I killed Su Chengde!" Chen Mingxiang muttered.
"Brother, even though you are very smart, you still don't know how deep the water is in the officialdom. With me and the Japanese side protecting you in Shanghai, everything has always been smooth sailing. Without opportunities to practice, some of your ideas are still immature."
"Su Chengde is not an important person. If you die, you will die. You must learn from the lesson in the future. I am calling you this time. There is another matter. The Huazhong Grain and Rice Ration Association of the Japanese businessman has sent a request to the city government. Security Commander
The ministry must cooperate with the Japanese army to strengthen the security of the blockade."
"As you know, the Shanghai Municipality has just begun to implement the system of food distribution per ration in the two major concession areas. Citizens have indeed encountered temporary difficulties in food rationing. Some people violated the regulations, crossed the blockade, and secretly brought grain and rice from the suburbs to the concession.
Sell for huge profits.”
"What the Huazhong Grain and Rice Distribution Association means is to require the security team to patrol in shifts, and to severely punish those who dare to undermine the quota system. If necessary, they can be shot without trial." Chen Gongbo said with a serious expression.
I greet your eighteenth generation ancestors!
Of course Chen Mingxiang knew about the matter of food distribution by mouth. The Japanese army stipulated that in public concessions, French concessions and Chinese concessions, each person could purchase 0.6 liters of rice per day with a food purchase certificate, and half the amount for children. But starting from July 6th,
The first ration was only one liter of rice and half a liter of broken rice per week.
One liter is one and a half pounds. According to this calculation, how much is 1.5 liters?
Note that this is the prescribed food ration for a person for seven days a week. With just this amount of rice, let alone a full meal, he would starve to death if he cooked porridge.
What should I do if I don’t have enough food? The only option is to buy high-priced rice, which is black market rice. After all, food is nothing else. This is a matter of survival.
Some people really had no choice but to sew the grain into their clothes when they went out, or put it in their own burdens, baskets or boxes, and secretly brought some rice back to Shanghai.
The price of grain on the black market in Shanghai is 800 Central Reserve Certificates per kilo of rice. If you sell part of it, you can subsidize your family's expenses. You always have to spend money. At least you have to buy salt, right?
But this kind of move actually stimulated the Japanese and puppets to strengthen the control of the blockade. To put it bluntly, they did not give the people a way to survive. They were so heartless and crazy that they were worse than animals.
"Your Excellency, Mayor, I think Japan has gone too far in this matter. I have no objection to the ration system, but the minimum survival needs must be guaranteed. You Japanese people eat rice and ration enough for the Shanghai market.
Flour and grains are also acceptable.”
"After all, food is irreplaceable. It doesn't matter if you don't eat salt for a few days, but people will starve to death if they don't eat for a few days. This will cause trouble sooner or later and cause huge hidden dangers to the social order of the Shanghai Stock Exchange."
"You want to use Shanghai's industry and commerce to support the war, but you don't want to give the people food. People are not machines. How can hungry workers still work? Aren't they shooting themselves in the foot?" Chen Mingxiang shook his head and said.
He has no ability to change this situation now, but struggle is necessary. The Japanese have seized so many factories in Shanghai to serve their war. The workers are all original workers in Shanghai. The number of Japanese workers is not large.
Most of them are management and small bosses.
This is the weakness of the Japanese army. In order to ensure the smooth operation of the factory, they have to make certain concessions. At this stage, the Japanese army will never dare to use force to deal with this matter.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange is an important material base for the Japanese army to launch the war. The Japanese government will not allow chaos here to affect the guarantee of the war.
The Military Control Bureau is powerless to do this kind of thing, but the underground party in Shanghai can do it. The reason why Chen Mingxiang said these words was to prepare Chen Gongbo mentally in advance.
"I also know that this kind of food rationing standard is really set too low, but to tell you the truth, it is a luxury to be able to maintain it like this. It won't be long before the standard will have to be lowered, but our city government can't do anything about it. Everything is
It’s the Japanese who have the final say.”
"Most of the traditional grain-producing areas in Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces were occupied by the Japanese army. All the best local rice was shipped to Japan for food rationing, as well as for the garrisons in central, southern and northern China.
Military rations, where else can food be transported to Shanghai?"
"Fortunately, the personnel of government agencies, security headquarters and police stations can still receive food protection. You are the general affairs director of the security headquarters. Take the time to write the food ration application, get the rice as soon as possible and distribute it, and patrol the blockade.