Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 2: Magic Capital (1)

You can’t hide these things. There are a lot of news media with different backgrounds in the concession. Because of the special nature of the concession, they like to criticize Wang Puppet and Japan. Some people have stinky and hard tempers. , Even the assassination could not scare the pen in their hands. ..om Romance was first published in the Ministry of Industry’s resolutions and never paid attention to how to keep it secret. These news must have spread throughout Shanghai at this moment.

What makes Horiuchi Kanjo even more troublesome is that the Japanese army and navy stationed in Shanghai must have been aware of these things. The expelled inspectors and special service personnel all have the background of the army intelligence department, not the plum agency. His subordinates are named in the Shanghai Gendarmerie. If this problem is not handled well, these **** with their brains filled with gun oil may come up with some things that people can't handle.

Dong Kai, the newly appointed Director-General of the Ministry of Industry and Development, has been very cooperative since taking office in April, and has never taken any action against Japanese demands. So this time his sudden face change made the Ministry of Foreign Affairs feel extremely surprised. Japan's situation in the public concession has become quite passive, and the whole situation has been reversed 180 degrees.

Japan has been trying every means to infiltrate the management of the public concession since March 8th, but now it seems that all efforts may be in vain. The heads of the Japanese spy agency in Shanghai must be Scratch the wall in the office and scold it.

If the army’s ticket horse dung had already yelled "Noano" or "How can it be repaired" half a year ago, he drew his saber and rushed into the concession. However, after the [Morimoto Brigade Incident], the Tokyo base camp used a harsh example to pour a pot of ice water on the smoking heads of the horse dung.

[Morimoto Battalion Incident] exposed the serious tendency of the army to go down and up. In order to put an end to this kind of behavior, the Minister of the Tojo Army resorted to frightening and cruel methods in the aftermath of the incident. The miserable end of the people involved in the Morimoto incident has made the young men of the army recognize the determination of the upper ranks of the army. The Tokyo Base Camp will no longer tolerate indulgences for the arbitrary behavior that ignores the orders of the upper ranks.

But that's how it is said. This time the situation is a little different from the past. It is the Japanese who usually make provocative gestures. There has never been a case where the concession management has attacked Japan.

Previously, the most worried thing about the public concession was that Japan sent troops to take over the territory of the public concession for public security or political reasons, because they did not have the strength to prevent the Japanese from doing this.

In history, the management of the Ministry of Industry Bureau was mainly in the hands of the British, and even the Americans could only serve as a foil in it. If it were not for Japan to work for Britain in World War I, it would not even be possible to be in the Bureau of Industry. To have a role to play. Speaking of Japan's directorship qualifications, it was received from the Germans after the First World War.

In 1940, there were two Japanese directors in the Ministry of Industry Bureau, Takao Taro and Ichisaku Okamoto. The former claims to be the manager of the Shanghai branch of Mitsui Property Co., Ltd., but he actually has a background in the intelligence department of the Japanese Army.

The latter has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a long time, has served in the Japanese embassies in the United Kingdom and the United States, served as the consul general of Japan in Singapore, and lived in Shanghai after retirement, as a director of the Japan Textile Industry Association Participated in the election of the Ministry of Industry Bureau and replaced Tian Cheng, the vice president of Japan Donghua China Railway Company who resigned in April.

This time it was Kazsaku Okamoto who was kicked out of the Ministry of Industry Bureau. The reason was that this person had participated in the previous election of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, and the votes at that time had been confirmed to lose the election, so he was not eligible to enter the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry as a replacement. The seat left by Japan because of Tian Makoto's resignation can only be used as a vacancy before the next election of the Bureau of Industry and Engineering.

So at this time, the ratio of directors of the Ministry of Industry and Engineering became five British members, two American members, and one Japanese member. The remaining six seats were all Chinese.

This means that the Japanese have been completely marginalized in the management of the public concession, which is obviously a very dangerous message for Japan.

Horiuchi Kanjo hurriedly sent a telegram to the Tokyo Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As plenipotentiary and consul-general, he was duty-bound on this issue. He asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue a request to the cabinet for him. Please give him some time anyway. Use diplomacy as much as possible to resolve current disputes.

After Horiuchi sent the telegram, he rushed to Shanghai. As soon as he got off the plane, he went directly to the Shanghai Army Headquarters of the China Dispatching Army on Deswell Road, and urgently met with Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Army. Request the highest commander of the Shanghai Garrison to immediately order the restraint of his subordinates' actions.

If everyone has an impression of the name Shigeru Sawada, he is the undersecretary of staff who followed Tojo to the Indochina border to deal with the issue of the Morimoto Battalion. His signature is on the Morimoto Battalion’s disposal order because of this. In fact, Lieutenant General Sawada won the favor of Tojo, and as a reward he won the commander of the 13th Army as a fat man.

The Thirteenth Army is responsible for operations and defenses around Shanghai. Basically, there is no chance to be dispatched. Sitting in Shanghai, the magic capital of feasting, the work is easy, simple and not dangerous, and you can make a large amount of gray income. The Japanese army is a beautiful mission second only to the Kwantung Army.

Since the day Shanghai turned into an isolated island, the smuggling business between it and the Kuomintang Control Area has never been interrupted. In order to open up the joint, Chinese businessmen openly bribed the Japanese army, and the garrison under the 13th Army was all up and down. Eating an intestinal fat and brain full.

Of course, eating alone in this kind of thing is a life-threatening thing, so paying tribute to your boss is the easiest way to keep your head. As a military commander at the top of the food chain, of course you will get a generous portion. In Shanghai, Within a month, Sawada bought an elegant house in the center of Tokyo.

Sawada personally participated in the handling of the parties involved in the Morimoto incident. How could he allow similar things to happen to him? He immediately ordered the entire army to conduct a major inspection, and all the officers and soldiers who went out immediately returned to the barracks, and the headquarters must check Weapon maintenance, and inventory of ordnance and supplies of various units. The headquarters of the Thirteenth Army will dispatch the subordinate units of each division and regiment for inspection at any time, so no one is allowed to leave the area of ​​the station until the inspection task is over.

At the same time, Sawada called Osaka Miura Saburo of the Shanghai Gendarmerie and ordered him to immediately send the gendarmerie to the streets to supervise all Japanese soldiers on the street returning to the barracks and garrisons. Violators were immediately arrested and dared to stab them. He was beaten to death, and he would personally deal with it afterwards.

Sawada's reaction made Horiuchi Kanjo overjoyed. He had never seen such a reasonable army general, and his favor with the commander of the army skyrocketed.

Because of the timely intervention of the headquarters of the 13th Army, the situation in the Japanese-occupied area of ​​the public concession did not fluctuate too much. The telegram sent from Tokyo later proved that Horiuchi and Sawada had made a fairly correct decision.

Not only did the Tokyo Cabinet fully agree to Horiuchi Kanjo's request, but it also showed more tolerance for humiliation. It was like breaking a tooth and swallowing it in the stomach.

Tokyo Basecamp issued a series of orders to various military and political departments in Shanghai. First, all Japanese garrisons and puppet troops in Shanghai must not act rashly, and officers and soldiers are not allowed to make any provocative actions against the concession within the urban area.

At the same time, the Shanghai Consulate was ordered to cooperate with the police officers of the special high-tech to strictly restrict the behavior of Japanese expatriates in Hongkou Little Tokyo. Without the permission of the authorities, they must not provoke provocations on the streets. Those who violate the order are non-nationals.

The special agencies of the China Dispatch Army must temporarily stop all sabotage and assassination operations within the urban area, and strictly restrict the spies of the subordinate Wang and puppet agencies, and are not allowed to step into the concession. Anyone who violates the above orders, regardless of their status or rank, shall be punished severely by military discipline and national laws.

Finally, I also pointed out that this is not only a decision made by the Tokyo Cabinet and Base Camp, but also the imperial intention of His Majesty the Emperor, which means that His Majesty has nodded his head on this matter, and you must be sober in your minds.

Sawada’s order is issued to the army ~IndoMTL.com~ I believe the navy will get the same order.

Because of the strict confidentiality of the Japanese side, the outside world does not know the reasons for these orders, only that Japan and the Wang Puppet side have suddenly converged a lot, and Shanghai has become unexpectedly stable.

In fact, the reason is very simple, because the German mission proposed to visit the concession in Shanghai and take a look at the real situation of the Japanese occupation area.

During this period, Japan has to leave a good impression on the Germans no matter what, so maintaining peace and tranquility in Shanghai is currently the most concerned thing for the Japanese government. As for the public concession, this is just a small problem of scabies, and it is not worth talking about compared with the great cause of the Empire's eight hung and one universe.

ps: Thank you for your support. The new year has a good start.

ps2: In the chapter yesterday, the director of the Ministry of Industry and Technology was written as Fan Keling. In fact, the director of the Ministry of Industry and Technology was replaced by Kai Ziwei in 1940. This person was a director of Jardine Matheson. Modified.

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