Battle of the Third Reich

These things can’t be concealed. There are a lot of news media in the concession with different backgrounds. Due to the special nature of the concession, they like to attack Wang Pseudo and Japan without any problems. Some scholars have a bad temper and even bad temperament. The assassinations did not scare the pen in their hands. The resolutions of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau never pay attention to how to keep secrets. These news must have spread throughout Shanghai at the moment.

What made Hori Kangan even more troublesome was that the Japanese army and navy stationed in Shanghai must have been aware of these things. These expelled officers and special staff all have a background in the landing army intelligence department, not under the Mei agency. That is to say, in the Shanghai Gendarmerie, if this problem is not handled well, these **** filled with gun oil might be able to do things that are unmanageable.

The newly appointed Director General of the Ministry of Industry and Administration, Ziwei Wei, has been very cooperative since he took office in April, and has never made any action against Japan's demands. So this time he suddenly turned his face, making the Ministry of Foreign Affairs extremely surprised. Japan's situation in the public concession became quite passive, and the entire situation reversed 180 degrees.

Japan has been trying every means to penetrate the management of the public concession since the beginning of the three or eight years, but now it seems that all the efforts may be lost. The heads of the Japanese secret service in Shanghai must be scratching in the office. Let's scold Bagua against the wall.

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

[The Morimoto Brigade Incident] exposed the army’s serious tendency to surrender, and in order to prevent this kind of behavior, the Minister of the Army of Tojo has used a vicious and fierce means to deal with the incident afterwards. The miserable end of the people involved in the Morimoto incident made the army's young men understand the determination of the army's upper ranks. The kind of behavior that ignored the superior army's arbitrary actions, the Tokyo base camp will no longer tolerate indulgence.

But the saying goes, this time the situation is a bit different from the past. It is the Japanese side that usually makes provocative gestures. There have never been any cases where the concession management has sent trouble to Japan.

What the public concession was most worried about was that Japan used public security or political reasons to send troops to take over the territory of the public concession because they did not have the strength to stop the Japanese from doing so.

In history, the management of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce was mainly in the hands of the British. Even the Americans could only serve as a foil. If it was not for Japan to sell its lives for Britain in World War I, it would not even be possible to occupy a place in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Speaking of Japanese qualifications for directors, they were received from the Germans after World War I.

In the 40th year, there were two Japanese directors in this session of the Ministry of Industry, Kaohsiung Taro and Okamoto. The former claimed to be the manager of the Mitsui Property Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch, and actually had a background in the Japanese Army Intelligence Department.

The latter worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a long time, once served in the Japanese embassy in the United Kingdom and the United States, served as the consul general of Japan in Singapore, retired to live in Shanghai, and participated in the work as a director of the Japan Textile Industry Association The ministry elections replaced Tian Cheng, vice president of Japan Donghuazhong Railway Company, who resigned in April.

This time, it was Okamoto who was kicked out of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The reason was that this person had participated in the previous election of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The vote at that time was confirmed to have been lost, so he did not qualify as a substitute to enter the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The seat left by Japan because of Tian Cheng's resignation can only be used as a vacant seat before the next election of the Ministry of Industry.

So at this time, the proportion of directors of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce became five in the United Kingdom, two in the United States, and one in Japan, and 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.

Horai Kaneshiro hurriedly sent a telegram to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tokyo. As a minister and consul general, he was duty-bound on this issue. He asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send him a request to the cabinet on his behalf. In any case, please give him some time as much as possible. Use diplomatic means to resolve current disputes.

Horiuchi immediately rushed to Shanghai after sending the telegram. Immediately after getting off the plane, he went directly to the Shanghai Army Command of the China Dispatch Army on Desway Road. He met with the 13th Army Commander Lieutenant General Ze Tianze in an emergency. The top commander of the Shanghai Garrison immediately ordered the actions of his subordinates to be restrained.

If everyone is impressed with the name of Shida Shigeru, he is the Deputy Chief of Staff who followed Tojo to the Indo-Chinese border to deal with the issue of the Morimoto Group. The Morimoto Group’s disposal order has his signature on it, because he is working on this matter. Effectively, Lieutenant Zetian won the favor of Tojo, as a reward he won the fatal commander of the Thirteenth Army.

The Thirteenth Army is responsible for combat and defense around Shanghai. Basically, there is no opportunity to be dispatched. Sitting in Shanghai’s bright and colorful magic capital, it is easy and simple to work without danger, and it can also earn a large gray income. Second only to the Kanto Army's beauty difference

Since the day when Shanghai became an island, the smuggling business between it and the Kuomintang has never stopped. In order to open up the joints, the Chinese merchants openly bribed the Japanese army, and the defense forces of the 13th Army ate all of them. Intestinal fat and brain full.

Of course, eating single food on this kind of thing is a life-threatening thing, so paying tribute to the boss is the easiest way to keep your head. As the military commander at the top of the food chain, of course, you will also get a generous share. Before he arrived, Sawada bought an elegant house in the center of Tokyo.

Ze Tian personally participated in the disposal of the parties involved in the Morimoto incident. How did he let a similar thing happen to him? Immediately he ordered the whole army to conduct a major inspection. All officers and soldiers who went out immediately returned to the barracks immediately. The headquarters should check the maintenance of the weapons. , Inventory the military ordnance of all troops. The Thirteenth Army Command will dispatch troops under each division for inspection at any time, so no one will be allowed to leave the station until the checkpoint is over.

At the same time, Zetian called Misaburo Sasuke of the Shanghai Gendarmerie, and ordered him to immediately dispatch the Gendarmerie to the street to supervise the return of all Japanese officers and soldiers on the street to the barracks and station. The violators were arrested immediately, and those who dared to pierce died. Li beat, and he personally disposed afterwards.

Zetian’s reaction made Hori Neikan very overjoyed. He had never seen such a reasonable army general. His sympathy for the army commander skyrocketed.

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

The Tokyo Cabinet not only agreed to Hori Kangan's request, but also showed more humiliating weight-bearing behavior, almost like breaking teeth and swallowing in the stomach.

The Tokyo base camp issued a series of orders to Shanghai’s military and political departments. First, it strictly stipulated that all Japanese garrisons and Wang Puppet troops in Shanghai should not act rashly, and that no officers or soldiers should make any provocative acts against the concession within the city limits.

At the same time, the Shanghai Consulate was ordered to cooperate with the police officers of Tegao to strictly restrict the behavior of the Japanese nationals in Hongkou Little Tokyo. Without the permission of the authorities, they were not allowed to seek provocation on the streets, and the offenders were all non-nationals.

The spy agencies of the China sent troops must temporarily stop all sabotage and assassination operations in the urban area, and they must strictly restrict the subordinate agents of the Wang Puppet agency and are not allowed to step into the concession area. Anyone who violates the above orders, regardless of his or her official rank, will be severely punished by military discipline and national laws.

Finally, I pointed out that this was not only a decision made by the Tokyo Cabinet and Base Camp, but also the imperial intention of His Majesty the Emperor. This means that His Majesty the Emperor has already nodded his head. You must be sober.

Zetian's order was issued to the army, and I believe the navy would get the same order.

Because the Japanese side is strictly confidential, the outside world does not know the reasons for these orders. It is only known that Japan and Wang Pseudo suddenly converged a lot, and the Shanghai city became 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 occupied area.

During this period, the Japanese side must leave a good impression on the Germans anyway, so maintaining peace and tranquility in Shanghai is the most concern of the Japanese government. As for the public concession or something, this is only a small problem of ringworm. Compared with the great cause of the imperial empire, it is not worth talking about.

ps: Thank you for your support, and the new year has a good start.

ps2: In that chapter yesterday, the director of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce was written as Fan Keling. In fact, in 40 years, the director of the Ministry of Industry and Administration has been replaced by Kai Ziwei. This person was a director of Jardine Yangxing, which has been revised in the original text. .

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