With the arrival of Iwabuchi three times, for his so-called fortress plan, Manila ushered in the darkest moment before liberation.
A large number of wooden houses that were considered dangerous to defense were demolished. Countless Filipinos were evicted from their homes.
Then I watched the home that had lived in it for generations being demolished. They cried and cried, but it didn't help.
The Japanese will not sympathize with any of their tears. Meng Shaoyuan also took this opportunity to take action again.
The secret service and the gendarmerie also have a mission to find any building that can be used for defensive operations.
As long as there are qualified buildings, no matter who lives in them, even members of Manila's puppet government, they will be evicted.
In order to survive, these Filipinos, who did not hesitate to act as traitors to the Philippines, finally encountered backlash from their masters.
They want to cry but have no tears. But now, what else can they do? Pasha Basharm had been a well-known local doctor before the arrival of the Japanese.
He studied in the United States, and after returning to the Philippines, he quickly became re-employed. However, when Manila fell, he was the first to act as a Filipino traitor.
With his loyalty to his new master, he also immediately gained the favor of the Japanese. When the puppet government in Manila was established, he immediately became director of the Bureau of Health and Medicine.
And not only that, he also conspired with Migu Yuu, the Japanese consultant of the Medical Bureau, to control the drug black market in Manila.
After the fall of the Philippines, cities have been facing shortages of medicines. Therefore, this makes it difficult to obtain necessary drugs in regular hospitals, and you can only find them on the black market.
The Japanese authorities in Manila certainly knew about this, but mostly turned a blind eye. It was not until later that the wife of a Japanese official was unable to get medicine even in the hospital, which made the Japanese official furious, that the Japanese authorities in Manila reluctantly took action.
The method they adopted was nothing more than to transfer Miguchi out of Manila. Then they pretended to rectify the black market.
As for Pasha, such a Filipino, he was not punished in any way. This is relatively rare.
After all, although Bashar was a traitor, he had superb medical skills and could diagnose and treat patients better than many Japanese. The Japanese needed his presence.
In particular, the then commander Masaharu Honma was full of praise for his medical skills. So under the protection of Masaharu Honma, Bashar has been able to sit back and relax.
But things are different now. Masaharu Honma lost power, and the war maniac Iwabuchi Sanji was in charge of the military and political power in Manila.
For Iwabuchi Sanji, no one or thing is more important than defending Manila. On this basis, everyone is expendable.
This right was completely handed over to the gendarmerie and the secret service. Ever since Li Zhifeng was infected with malaria, Meng Shaoyuan had actually set his sights on Bashar in order to obtain medicines for emergencies.
It was just that Bashar had the support of Masaharu Honma at that time, and Meng Shaoyuan was helpless against him for a while. But it's different now.
Masaharu Honma is gone, and the person who succeeds him is a madman who can't tolerate anything else except war!
Therefore, in this situation, Meng Shaoyuan knew that it was time for him to take action! early in the morning,
The "bang bang bang" knock on the door makes people's hearts tremble! Since Masaharu Honma resigned, most of the functional departments of the entire Manila puppet government have nothing to do.
Iwabuchi even ordered three times that all men under the age of fifty in various functional departments should be incorporated into the so-called
In "Philippine Government Forces". Therefore, in order to avoid serving as cannon fodder in future wars, most Filipinos in functional departments have chosen to leave their jobs.
But even so, they still can't escape the fate of being captured. Bashar is fifty-one years old this year. Although he has exceeded Iwabuchi's recruitment line three times, he is still worried.
And now the Health Bureau has basically nothing to do, so Bashar simply stayed at home. But so early in the morning, Japanese voices came from outside again, which had to make Bashar nervous.
As soon as I opened the door, several Japanese people barged in. And the person in the lead, whom Pasha knows, is the head of the Manila intelligence agency.
"Taniguchi Shibu".
"Your Excellency Taniguchi, why are you here?" When he saw that the person he saw was not a soldier, Bashar felt somewhat relieved.
"Mr. Bashar." Meng Shaoyuan said with a straight face, "I'm here to investigate some situations. I hope you can cooperate."
"Ah, yes, yes." Bashar said quickly.
"During your cooperation with Miguchi, someone reported you for stealing medicines and controlling the black market. What excuse do you have for this?" As soon as Meng Shaoyuan spoke, Bashar knew the other party's true purpose of coming here today: "Your Excellency Taniguchi, This is completely nonsense. This is the slander against me by those people. I can guarantee that there is absolutely no such thing. Commander Honma has also asked about this matter before, but after investigation, both Migu and I are innocent. If you work loyally for the Japanese Empire, you will inevitably be jealous of some people."
"Really?" Meng Shaoyuan said coldly: "As the largest city in the Philippines, the Americans have put a lot of effort into building this city here. As the liberator of the Philippines, the Japanese Empire drove away the country for you. Americans, at that time, after taking over Manila, you were immediately appointed as the director of the Manila Health and Drug Bureau, with Miguli as a consultant. The first task of you and Miguli was to quickly take over Manila's hospitals and pharmacies. The United States Before retreating, the people left a large amount of medicines. However, after completely controlling the situation in the Philippines, we discovered that the amount of medicines reported was pitifully small. Can you tell me what is going on?" Americans are here Before the defeat, they paid more attention to weapons and equipment, which were distributed in large quantities to the Philippine guerrillas.
But even so, a large number of weapons were still left behind. With weapons like this, how can Americans have time to think about those medicines?
Manila does have a large amount of medicine left behind by the Americans. When Bashar and Miyajiuru saw these medicines, they both had the same thought: take them for themselves!
When the two sides began to test each other, they found that they both had the same idea. The two hit it off immediately.
Manila itself was in chaos at that time, and not many people knew how many medicines there were.
With just a little manipulation, most of the medicines fell into the hands of Bashar and Miyajiuru.
With these drugs, the two men will soon be able to dominate the drug black market in Manila.
"There are not that many medicines." Bashar said: "The actual situation is that a large number of medicines have been transferred!"
