What made Zhou Kuirong and Wang Shihao angry was that Shi Jianming didn't even take them seriously. He suddenly passed them and directly toasted to the two generals, followed by the Super High Section Chief and Second Lieutenant Ando.
Second Lieutenant Ando originally didn't take Shi Jianming seriously and always ignored him. However, when he saw that these senior Japanese military officials were very polite to Shi Jianming, his attitude also changed a lot, and he also treated Shi Jianming. Welcome with a smile.
The banquet was lively. The islanders were joking and chatting there. Even Wang Shuhuai and Shi Jianming could talk. Only Zhou Kuirong and Wang Shihao sat aside like fools. The islanders didn't even look at them. one time.
Zhou Kuirong and Wang Shihao looked at each other, feeling that this was not the way to go. Seeing that the conversation among the islanders finally stopped, Zhou Kuirong stood up quickly, raised his glass and toasted to General Asano.
Asano knew Zhou Kuirong, and Zhou Kuirong had always been in this private room. Asano seemed to have just seen him at this moment. His attitude was very cold. He just picked up the wine glass, touched it to his mouth, and then put the glass down. He quickly turned his gaze to the side, showing no intention of talking to him.
Zhou Kuirong felt very embarrassed, but out of etiquette on this occasion, he could only bite the bullet and put aside his face. Then he picked up the wine glass to toast the Japanese major general. The Japanese major general didn't even hold the wine glass and frowned. Brows asked: "Who are you?"
The most ideal situation at this time would be for someone to introduce the identity of Director Zhou Kuirong, but Second Lieutenant Ando did not say anything. Wang Shihao's identity was inappropriate and he did not dare to say anything.
Zhou Kuirong was extremely embarrassed, so he had no choice but to introduce himself: "Your Excellency General, my humble position is Zhou Kuirong, deputy director of the TJ City Police Department. This is our first meeting. Please take care of me."
Major General Tanaka nodded very coldly. He saw Zhou Kuirong holding the wine glass in both hands. He hesitated for a moment, then picked up the wine glass, waved it in front of his eyes, touched it to his mouth, and then put it down without any intention of talking to him. .
Zhou Kuirong could only drink the wine in one gulp. He was so embarrassed that his face felt burning. He continued to toast to the Super High Section Chief and Second Lieutenant Ando. Due to their work relationship, these two people were quite polite to him.
Wang Shihao saw Zhou Kuirong's embarrassed look and knew that he had no status here, so he simply sat aside without saying a word.
In fact, others had already regarded him as nothing, and no one paid any attention to him.
The banquet continued. In order to curry favor with the two generals, Kurihara, the head of the special high school department, kept courting them.
After Asano drank a lot, he remembered Deputy Director Zhou Kuirong and said: "Zhou Sang, Shi Jianming is a friend of General Tianzhong, which is also my friend of Asano. From now on, you have to give more to him in his work in the police station." Cooperate."
Zhou Kuirong felt even more embarrassed when he heard these words. Shi Jianming was obviously his subordinate, but Asano actually said that he should cooperate with his work. This was too outrageous. But he only dared to think about this in his heart, how could he dare to say it out loud?
He could only say with a smile: "Of course, Director Shi is also a good friend of mine. I will definitely support him in his affairs."
At this point, Zhou Kuirong took the initiative to toast Shi Jianming with a very cordial attitude, saying that if there was anything in the bureau in the future, Shi Jianming should come to him, and as long as he could do it, he would definitely support him.
Wang Shihao is a villain, good at changing the situation. Although he despises Shi Jianming from the bottom of his heart, he can see clearly now that this Shi Jianming has a great background. He must never dare to offend such a person. . So he also toasted to Shi Jianming with a smile on his face.
Wang Shihao was really depressed. He spent a lot of money to prepare this banquet and was very angry.
This was not even worse. What happened next made him depressed almost to the point of being extremely depressed.
Shortly after the banquet, personnel changes occurred in the police station. Deputy Director Zhou Kuirong was transferred to the police school as the principal, and Shi Jianming took over the position of deputy director and became Wang Shihao's immediate boss.
Regarding the affairs of Taiping Trading Company, Wang Shihao no longer dared to get involved, and asked someone to go over and apologize to Zhu Guangzhao and Ge Ailing.
After the train unloaded coal in Tianjin, Wang Shuhuai loaded various in-demand materials purchased by East Asia Shanxi Commercial Co., Ltd. on the train. Zhu Guangzhao and Ge Ailing also loaded the purchased materials on the train. Under the protection of the Japanese army, this batch of supplies returned to Shanxi unimpeded, and was all transferred to the hands of the Eighth Route Army.
Next, Zhu Guangming and Ge Ailing purchased a large amount of various materials needed by the Eighth Route Army in Tianjin, including machine tools, cloth, medicine, and even seamless steel pipes for weapons manufacturing. The Japanese army ignored the special higher education courses, and Wang Shihao's special higher education courses did not even dare to open a single one. In this way, a large amount of urgently needed combat readiness resources needed by the Eighth Route Army were continuously transported to the base area.
After listening to the report of Commander Sling, the comrade in charge in northern Shaanxi said with emotion: "The same thing, handled by different people, will have different results. Xu Dalong has a big approach to work and has many ideas, and the results are beyond expectations." Exceeded my expectations. After you return, you must commend Comrade Xu Dalong and encourage him to make persistent efforts and make new contributions to the cause of anti-Japanese war."
In a secret liaison station of the Tianjin underground party, Captain Yan Fusheng said: "Comrade No. 3, there have been so many incidents against Japanese and puppet personnel in Tianjin, and they have all been successful, but the Hoe Team has not been able to participate. Which is really a bit regretful.”
Gao Rui felt even more depressed. He didn't know why. The task of purchasing supplies assigned by his superiors to the Tianjin underground party was never arranged again. Although it was against organizational discipline to ask about relevant matters, he couldn't help but be curious. He made some inquiries and learned that the underground party in Tianjin had established a new secret transportation station, which could successfully complete secret transportation. line tasks.
He has now guessed that this must be related to Xu Dalong. Although he was working for the underground party and the Eighth Route Army, he still felt a little sour in his heart.
Gao Rui went to college and participated in the underground party for a long time. He went to Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow for further studies and received Cheka agent training. He far surpassed Xu Dalong in terms of qualifications. He had heard about Xu Dalong's deeds and admired him very much. But when he saw Xu Dalong last time, he saw that he was so young and had made such a big name, while he was quietly engaged in underground work here. While working, some jealousy inevitably arose, which was why he had such a cold attitude towards Xu Dalong.
Xu Dalong and the others stopped contacting him. They had made so many big moves in Tianjin and achieved great achievements. It was obvious that their superiors were very satisfied. This made him feel even more uncomfortable.
After listening to Yan Fusheng's words, he remained silent and looked out the window with dull eyes, silently thinking about his own thoughts.
After establishing the secret transportation station, Xu Dalong was not satisfied. Although Taiping Trading Company's purchase of various materials has been very smooth, there is still a shortcoming, that is, it does not have its own terminal. The underground party transported the materials to Tianjin Port through various methods. When receiving this batch of materials, they still had to accept inspection by the Japanese and puppet parties. Although Zhu Guangzhao and others have opened the joints, there are still risks after all. Not only that, after the goods arrive at the terminal, they have to rent a warehouse at the terminal before being transshipped. This is expensive and risky.
If you can control a dock in your own hands, you will save a lot of trouble, and the loading, unloading, storage and transfer of materials will be safer. For this reason, Xu Dalong formulated another plan.
There are more than a dozen wharves of various sizes in Tianjin. The main wharves are controlled by the Japanese Navy and the Puppet Tianjin Shipping Bureau, and there are also some private wharves. Among them, Pier 7 is controlled by a gang called the Haijiao Gang.
At first, the Haijiao Gang was composed of porters and local fishermen. At the beginning, everyone formed this gang because of the pressure of life. The purpose of doing things was also to benefit the dock workers and fishermen. It was considered relatively powerful among the gangs in the world. Decent. In particular, the original gang leader Yang Hailong was forthright and righteous, and had a high reputation in the world.
Under his leadership, the Haijiao Gang was mainly engaged in various illegal activities, and also secretly helped the underground party and the Eighth Route Army. Last year, Yang Hailong was assassinated and died unexpectedly. The Haijiao Gang was controlled by others and became a puppet of the Japanese puppets.
In the conference room of Taiping Trading Company, Shi Jianming introduced in detail to Zhu Guangzhao, Ge Ailing, and Ma Zhixin what he knew about the Haijiao Gang.
Currently, there are about 260 members of the Haijiao Gang, including more than 30 key members, who possess a small number of weapons. The leader of the gang, Liu Zishan, is cunning, vicious, possesses good kung fu, and has good marksmanship.
He is a brother-in-law with Ma Laosan, the captain of the Japanese Special High School Detective Team, and he also has a deep friendship with Zhou Kuirong, the former deputy director of the puppet police station. It is not easy to deal with them.
Zhu Guangzhao said disdainfully: "What's so difficult about this? Isn't it just a gang leader? Killing him is a piece of cake. There are also the two Han backers behind him. If they dare to cause trouble, get rid of them together. Lose."
Shi Jianming felt that Zhu Guangzhao's method of solving problems was a bit too simple, and gang affairs were not so easy to deal with. He was thinking about how to tell Zhu Guangguang to avoid hurting his self-esteem. At this moment, Ma Zhixin spoke first.
Ma Zhixin had been engaged in business activities before joining the Eighth Route Army. When he was in Chengde, he had dealt with gangs. When he arrived in Taiyuan, he engaged in business activities with Zhou Mingde, and inevitably had to deal with gangs. He had rich experience in dealing with related matters.
He said: "The method Captain Zhu mentioned to solve the Haijiao Gang is also a solution. However, the organization of the gang is somewhat special. If it is not handled well, you will not be able to control the gang even if you kill the gang leader."
After all, Zhu Guangzhao is young. Although he is an absolute master in skills and tactics, he still lacks social experience in other aspects.
He asked with some confusion: "Let's kill the leader of the Haijiao Gang, and then also get rid of several of his thugs. Will the other people still dare to disobey us?"
Ma Zhixin said: "It would be great if things were so simple. The situation of local gangs is very complicated. The survival of Haijiao Gang is not just as simple as relying on gang members to load and unload goods at the dock. They also have their own secret tricks. Channels, and these secret channels are in the hands of the gang leaders and main leaders, and other gang members depend on them for survival. In this case, only killing their leaders will not control the secret channels in their hands. Doing this will It's meaningless. Not only that, it will also anger the ordinary members of the Haijiao Gang and make them our enemies.
Although these gangs only have more than 200 people, they still have families and various relatives and friends behind them. If they only kill their leaders and cannot provide these gangs with daily help, they will completely offend these people, and The various relationships behind them.
Even if you replace all the people on the dock with your own people, you still can't expect to live in peace. Besides, our underground party is for the benefit of the people, and we cannot cut off the livelihood of all members of the Haijiao Gang just because we control Pier 7. If so, how should these gang members and their families live? This is definitely not what we underground party members should do. "(End of chapter)
