Area occupied by Japanese troops.
In major counties such as Yangquan, Shouyang, Tanxian, and Heyuan.
over time……
Due to the Japanese army's defeat in the Autumn Harvest Defense War, a team secretly mobilized its main force to bypass the enemy's major counties and took the opportunity to seize the enemy's crops.
Knowing that this year's autumn harvest crops had been basically robbed by the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese and puppet soldiers couldn't help but worry about whether they could fill their stomachs.
Coupled with the deliberate propaganda of a team's propaganda department.
It also pushed the Japanese and puppet troops' fear to the top that the Japanese army's insufficient food reserves would even cause the soldiers to freeze and starve this winter.
Although the Japanese commander Yoshio Shinozuka immediately issued a number of response policies.
Stop the rumors spread by Eighth Route Army propagandists.
He also specifically instructed officers at all levels to do a good job in ideological work with the soldiers and not to worry about food shortages.
It's a pity that what the Japanese military government says is better than what it sings.
In the end, the Japanese and puppet troops stationed in major counties did not receive any actual benefits.
What is visible instead?
The purchasing power of the military pay-daily tickets issued in my hands is decreasing day by day.
In the past, a daily ticket could buy a pound of rice, but now I'm afraid I can't even buy half a pound of rice.
In order to stabilize military morale, although the salaries of Japanese and puppet soldiers were raised several times in succession, they could not outlast the rapidly rising prices.
Some attentive Japanese soldiers even discovered that canned beef turned into canned meat at some point. Now even the canned meat seems to be gone, and what they are eating recently is canned grains!
Many Japanese soldiers spent part of their previous military pay, and saved part of it to send back to their relatives back home from time to time.
Now, the monthly military pay is not enough for me, let alone sending it back to my family.
The Japanese soldiers were like this, let alone the puppet soldiers who followed the little devils just to earn a living and get military pay.
There are few complaints in private.
Yangquan County.
In a private room of a teahouse.
As November approaches, the weather in Shanxi gradually turns from chilly to freezing.
Many farmers who have the conditions have begun to burn hot bricks to ward off the cold.
Those who have no conditions are suffering in shivering, hoping that this winter will pass soon.
When the Japanese commander Zuo Chuandao rubbed his hands and got into the private room, the Japanese squadron leader Miki Ichiro and the puppet company commander Qian Dekai had been waiting in the private room for a long time.
"Money, Miki-kun!" Kawashima, who closed the private room door casually, said hello.
These three were Kong Jie's "outstanding representatives" in various business cooperation in the Japanese-occupied areas.
Thanks to various business cooperation with Kong Jie in private.
At present, the morale of the Japanese and puppet troops is gradually falling into a slump, and the soldiers' pockets are extremely deflated due to the recent soaring prices.
This money has to be spent, but the pockets of Kawashima, Mimoto Ichiro and others are still bulging.
After Kawashima sat down, the three of them officially entered the topic.
The first person to speak was Qian Dekai. As a puppet army officer who had direct contact with the contact person sent by Kong Jie, this guy had gained a lot of benefits from Kong Jie.
As the saying goes, you are short-tongued and soft-handed.
You have to take the money to do practical things.
"Kawashima-kun, Miki-kun, I recently contacted the Eighth Route Army again, and Kong Jie expressed the hope to conduct several more transactions with us before this winter."
"It will be winter completely in the future, and the weather will become colder and colder. There will be fewer people coming and going, and it will be easy to be exposed. It will also be difficult for caravans to move due to the severe cold."
"After these few trips are completed, we will prepare to spend this winter comfortably and wait until spring next year."
Secretly remembering Kong Jie's explanation, Qian Dekai opened his mouth and asked again: "I wonder what the two princes think?"
Kawashima was the first to speak. He tightened his clothes. It was an expensive leather jacket he had just bought recently.
"I agree. This Eighth Route Army is really not easy to mess with. A few days ago, they even plundered all the crops grown by the Imperial Army in the suburbs of Yangquan.
You have also received the news in the past two days. It is estimated that our army's rations for the winter this year will be problematic.
In addition, the daily tickets we have on hand are becoming less and less valuable. With the military pay we get every month, we will starve to death sooner or later!
It’s better to seize the time and make a few bucks. "
When Kawashima said these words, he subconsciously touched his comfortable leather jacket.
If he hadn't done business with the Eighth Route Army, where would he have gotten the leather jacket?
Miki Ichiro said: "Kawashima-kun, prices have risen sharply recently, but for the rest of us, Matsuyama-kun, Tsuneichi-kun, Zuo Nao-kun..."
Miki announced a series of names in one breath.
"It's not easy for them!
Relying on the military salary of three melons and two dates every month, he could not even support himself.
You all know the situation at home, and you are just waiting for the little military pay they send back to live on! "
"In our army, there are many officers who are basically in the same situation, and there are even more soldiers. My family thinks that as officers in the army, we will definitely be able to receive a lot of subsidies and military pay."
"But in this situation, we are just superficially glamorous, and we can't even compare to many farmers..."
Miki Ichiro did not continue speaking, his face was full of emotion.
At this time, Kawashima, who looked like a holy mother, expressed his righteousness and awe-inspiring, "Miki-kun, we are both soldiers of the Japanese Empire, how can you and I watch our comrades living in such sadness?
I think we should lend a helping hand to these comrades in need.
At least we should help those in need and support our relatives at home. "
As soon as these words came out, Miki Ichiro seemed to have found the glorious and sacred goal and direction.
He immediately agreed and said: "Kawashima-kun, what you said is very good. Since we have the ability now, why not lend a helping hand to help our colleagues, comrades and soldiers?
This is a great cause, and the private business dealings you and I have with the Eighth Route Army are all for our comrades who are in financial difficulties!
Shouldn't we work harder? "
"Xinxi, Miki-kun, what you said is so good!" Kawashima was convinced of this.
Then, the two old devils exchanged words with each other, as if they had met their close friends in life. They hugged each other with tears in their eyes and confessed their feelings to each other.
There was a Chinese man named Qian Dekai next to him, but he never spoke.
It's just that old, somewhat ugly face that's been twitching uncontrollably.
He really couldn't stop reading...
Qian Dekai cursed secretly in his heart:
His grandma has seen shameless people. I have never seen such shameless Japanese. They secretly do business with the Eighth Route Army, engage in smuggling, and even secretly sell arms to the Eighth Route Army, so that the Eighth Route Army can in turn attack you little devils for their enemy behavior.
For you two, has it become a sacred cause?
It's understandable if you have money to spend.
These two old devils were probably smuggling secretly with the Eighth Route Army. They had some ulterior motives and deliberately used the situation in front of them as an excuse to make themselves feel more at ease.
He is too lazy to care about this. Anyway, we have to pay for it to be done for him by Commander Kong.
In this way, over a cup of tea, the three of them happily reached a plan to strengthen business cooperation with a team before winter.
And in the following time.
Qian Dekai witnessed with his own eyes the truth that money can make little devils grind.
With several business cooperation completed with the first team again, Kawashima and Miki Ichiro secretly purchased a large amount of living supplies in the occupied area, including military supplies, and secretly transported them to the base of the first team.
In exchange, they received a large number of daily tickets, and some were even border area tickets issued by the Eighth Route Army.
This was not a deliberate fraud by Kong Jie, but a special request from Kawashima and Miki Ichiro during the transaction.
The reason is very simple. The purchasing power of the border tickets issued by the Eighth Route Army is stable. I heard that it is directly linked to food. It is also widely favored by a large number of people in the Eighth Route Army base areas and even in the occupied areas.
For example, in Yangquan County now, some people doing business have even made it clear that they do not accept daily tickets, only border tickets.
Who makes the purchasing power of day tickets unstable?
You can buy a pig today, but maybe you won’t be able to buy a pig trotter tomorrow.
Even the Japanese military government, due to the economic crisis and material pressure, simply turned a blind eye to the circulation of border tickets in the occupied areas.
After all, many Japanese officers and soldiers secretly used the border tickets in private, and then secretly sighed: The tickets are so useful!
As for the private transactions, including the communication between representatives from both sides and the subsequent contact with the transportation team, it is certainly impossible to cover up all the traces.
You have to hire someone for the team, right?
Transport team, are you leaving the city?
The direction you are walking in is still the base area of a team, right?
These situations can be easily exposed with a little investigation.
But what surprised Qian Dekai was that the two old devils, Kawashima and Miki, were really clever at using money.
Along the way, there were inspections by patrol teams and supervision by city gate guards, including some Japanese military officers responsible for market supervision in the county.
Unexpectedly, everyone turned a blind eye to the secret smuggling operations of Kawashima and Miki Ichiro.
Every time the transport team sets off, there is a green light all the way.
What's more, they simply pulled a large number of transport carriages out of the city in broad daylight.
Qian Dekai was surprised to find out when he returned to the camp and the gendarmerie.
The Japanese soldiers they met along the way, whether they were soldiers or officers, whether they were military police or field troops stationed in the county, were actually quite respectful to Ichiro Miki and Kawashima.
Seeing the look of respect on his face, it doesn't look like he's faking it.
Not long after, the relevant Japanese military supervisors specially dispatched from the direction of Taiyuan City made a secret visit and discovered that Japanese military officers were secretly smuggling with businessmen outside the occupied area.
Then they interrogated Kawashima and Miki Ichiro, and asked Japanese officers and soldiers related to Yangquan about the situation and evidence collection.
A large number of Japanese officers and soldiers came spontaneously and offered to vouch for Kawashima and Miki Ichiro.
They claimed that they were loyal to the Japanese Empire and had never committed any crimes.
The so-called secret smuggling with the Eighth Route Army is even more groundless.
In addition, there is indeed no real evidence on hand, so the supervision department's review of Miki Ichiro and Kawashima just ended like this.
When they met again in a teahouse one time, Qian Dekai couldn't help but asked for the specific reason.
"Kawashima-kun, Miki-kun, and many of the officers and soldiers who were questioned clearly knew that we had secret business and smuggling with a detachment of the Eighth Route Army.
But when the inspectors came last time, why did everyone help us hide the matter?
There are even many soldiers who risked their lives to guarantee us? "
In response, Kawashima Shaozuo smiled calmly: "There are some officers who protect us because they are complicit with us. In your Chinese words, they are grasshoppers tied to a rope and people sitting in a boat.
They have all benefited from our business chain.
Such guys are not only in Yangquan, but also almost everywhere in the surrounding counties.
As for those who want to jump out and testify against us, thinking about the fate of Takagi Yuichi and others, they can only swallow those words in their stomachs. "
As for who Takagi Yuichi is.
That was the one who clamored the most loudly in Yangquan. He clamored every day to destroy the Eighth Route Army and root out the spies. However, not long after he took office, he was killed on the spot during a raid on a team.
Later, many Japanese officers died inexplicably.
In addition, there were many opponents who jumped out, and some were tricked by Shi Dahu and others from a disguised team who deliberately leaked the list.
There were also some die-hard traitors who were eliminated by an anti-rape squad sent by a team and hanged alive in their own homes.
Since then, in the major counties, towns and towns around the first team, there have been almost no Japanese and puppet army officers who dare to oppose the Eighth Route Army.
Kawashima continued: "There are still many soldiers whose families are poor and need to send their military pay back to subsidize their families. This situation occurs a lot in our Imperial Army.
If the family was not poor, which parents would be willing to send their children to the front line?
To help these soldiers in need, we even sent a lot of money to their homes in their names. "
Ichiro Miki added to explain Qian Dekai: "Qian, you can imagine if you are just a soldier at the lowest level, and you are penniless when your family is in urgent need of money.
At this time, your superior helped you send a lot of money back to your home without your knowledge.
If you learned about the situation, what would you do to the commander who loves and helps the soldiers in this way? "
Qian Dekai was stunned for a moment, and then replied in a sudden realization: "If there is such a commander, it will be like a new parent. There is no soldier who does not love him."
"So, this is why so many officers and soldiers protect me and Kawashima-kun!" The smile on Miki Ichiro's face deepened.
Qian Dekai completely understood.
Good guy.
These two old devils not only use money to push the devil around, but they also use money to play the emotional card!
Brilliant, really brilliant!
Qian Dekai, who was filled with admiration, gave a thumbs up to Ichiro Miki and Kawashima, with a look of astonishment on his face.
In the private room of the teahouse, the wanton laughter of the colluding trio came...
