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Chapter 107 New Identity
Teacher Chen arrived in Hujiang with his wife and two children, and the family took a rickshaw to the International Settlement.
He didn't know whether Ye Minghao had arrived, so his family stayed in a hotel in the International Settlement.
I still have $5000 on me, so I'm not worried.
Before leaving, he had agreed with Ye Minghao on a secret code. Ye Minghao said that his third brother would prepare a villa for him in the International Settlement.
You just need to pay attention to the villa.
After resting in the hotel for one night, Teacher Chen went out alone the next day, ostensibly to look at houses.
Unexpectedly, in the villa area of the International Settlement, I saw a secret code on the wall at the gate of Villa No. 198 after running for a while.
This is something that other people don’t care about, but the secret code is very particular and will definitely not be mistaken.
Teacher Chen took the initiative to ring the doorbell.
When Ye Minghao heard the doorbell, he guessed that his teacher and his family had arrived in Hujiang.
When I opened the door, it was indeed Teacher Chen. Teacher Chen was dressed differently today than before.
Wearing a black long gown, sunglasses and a black top hat, Ye Minghao's dressing style is naturally very different from his previous one.
After the two met, there was no communication at all.
Teacher Chen took off his hat, bent down and said sorry, saying he had recognized the wrong person.
Then he turned around and left, without seeming abrupt.
At seven o'clock in the evening, Teacher Chen came again. Ye Minghao was already upstairs watching to see if there was anyone following Teacher Chen.
Teacher Chen pushed open the gate and quickly closed it after coming in.
He walked to the front door, pushed it open and walked in, closing the door behind him.
Ye Minghao led Teacher Chen to the basement. The situation in Hujiang was complicated now, so they had to be careful.
"Teacher! You've worked hard on this journey!"
"How many days earlier did you arrive than me?"
"I arrived in Hujiang the day before yesterday. Did the teacher and his family arrive in Hujiang today?"
"Our family arrived yesterday afternoon. It took a month, and it was thanks to the help of our comrades."
"I paid to pass the border by myself, and my new ID shows that I am Japanese."
"Have you met your third brother?"
"Well, we talked about it that night, and he agreed with my idea that if we want to do business, we should do it on a larger scale to be safe.
I plan to open a company that specializes in smuggling materials controlled by both sides, so that they can all become my community of interests.
If I make more money, I can bribe people at higher levels, and my own status will naturally rise.
By then, more valuable intelligence can be obtained.”
"That's a good idea. I don't think there are any comrades in the Communist Party who have infiltrated the Japanese high-ranking officials yet."
“Teacher, buy three houses first, two of which will be used as safe houses. If you don’t have enough money, tell me.
Please wait for my company's recruitment information, I will publish the recruitment information in Hujiang Daily.
Then you can apply for the finance position. I'll feel more at ease if you manage the company's money."
"I used half of the money you gave me when I came here. I went to see the house during the day today, and there is no problem for the time being."
"My junior students still need to go to school, and studying in Hujiang must be quite expensive."
"There's no rush. It's better to stabilize it."
The two people communicated for an hour, and Teacher Chen quietly left Villa No. 198.
After returning home, Teacher Chen felt relieved, but he still had a heavy heart.
I contacted the person sent by the organization. I don’t know if he has arrived yet. I will take care of the house issue tomorrow.
His family lived in the International Settlement, so if anything happened, Ye Minghao could ask his third brother for help.
Given Ye Xiaoyang's personality, he might send someone to protect Ye Minghao nearby.
The house is ready, but it’s a pity that I don’t know how to send telegrams, otherwise I wouldn’t have to meet with anyone.
In Hujiang, except for two concessions, all other places are controlled by the Japanese devils.
There are two safe houses, one is located in the French Concession, and the other can only be placed in the area under the jurisdiction of the Japanese devils.
Ye Minghao acted quickly and established his own Hujiang Haoyunlai Trading Company within a week.
We bought a two-story building in Hongkou, Hujiang as our office, and the company license was issued by the Hujiang Municipal Government.
Next, we placed an advertisement in the Hujiang Daily to recruit staff: a manager, a financial manager, a warehouse manager, and two purchasing staff.
Ye Minghao now has experience in running a company, except for the financial management personnel who are just going through the motions.
The other four positions are carefully selected.
Ye Minghao himself didn't know that the warehouse manager Jiang Dalin and manager Ma Donghua were both sent by the Communist Party organization.
Of course, the three of them didn't know each other, and Teacher Chen didn't know that Jiang Dalin and Ma Donghua were Communists.
The person who knew all this was the head of the Hujiang Red Party organization.
The head of the Hujiang Red Party organization learned from Teacher Chen’s report that Good Luck Trading Company belonged to Ye Minghao.
He wanted to arrange for people to come for the interview through the normal process.
When he learned that Ye Minghao's Good Luck Trading Company was planning to smuggle controlled materials, he felt that this was a good opportunity.
In the future, you can smuggle goods for the Communist Party organization.
Mr. Li, the head of the Communist Party’s intelligence center, was not confident that anyone else would be in charge of Hujiang’s work, so he sent Lao Liao to Hujiang.
It is to ensure the purity of Ye Minghao's line, this line is of too great value.
Ye Minghao himself represents great value, coupled with Hujiang's current political status.
Soon, Hujiang will be the most active place for intelligence in the entire Far East, and all kinds of gods will gather here.
Ye Minghao understood that it was best not to get close to intelligence when obtaining it, as that would be very risky.
The best way is to aggregate information from multiple channels.
Relying on his excellent analytical ability, he was able to deduce the actions of the Japanese devils.
This intelligence is obtained safely and effectively. It is not easy to obtain false intelligence, and it is even less likely to be tricked.
He knew that in order to smuggle, it would be best to establish good relations with the Japanese military police stationed in China.
Every city in China was occupied, and the city was managed by the Japanese devils' gendarmerie.
The place you should never get close to is the Special High Section. If you can avoid entering the office area of the Special High Section, try not to do so.
He had already done these homeworks and knew what he was doing, so he could remain calm in times of crisis.
Sometimes what people think comes true. Look at Ye Minghao, he wants to establish connections with the Jiang Military Police stationed in Shanghai.
I had a drink with a Japanese guy at the Paramount Nightclub. After a few casual exchanges, we didn't have any deep conversation.
Unexpectedly, I met this Japanese man again while drinking in a pub run by a Japanese in Hujiang.
Ye Minghao was very surprised to see the other party again. The other party was also very surprised. Ye Minghao took the initiative to greet him:
"Hello! My name is Watanabe Ichiro, may I ask..."
"Watanabe-kun, it's an honor to meet you again. My name is Tanaka Jiro."
"Tanaka-kun, we are destined to meet. Please sit down and I will treat you to a drink today."
After a few glasses of sake, the two began to talk more.
Ye Minghao naturally did it on purpose. After half an hour, Ye Minghao found out the other party's background.
Jiro Tanaka, a major of the gendarmerie stationed in Shanghai.
Jiro Tanaka didn't expect that the newly opened Good Luck Trading Company was owned by Ichiro Watanabe.
The two people exchanged contact numbers and agreed to meet at Hujiang Haoyunlai Trading Company at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
The next morning at ten o'clock, Jiro Tanaka arrived as scheduled and Ye Minghao received him grandly.
Ye Minghao greeted in standard Tokyo Japanese:
"Welcome, Tanaka-kun! It's an honor!"
"Watanabe-kun, you're welcome!"
"Tanaka-kun, we hit it off right away!"
"Watanabe-kun is from Tokyo?"
"I don't want to reveal my background. Watanabe is my mother's surname. I am an illegitimate child of the Ito family in Japan.
My father goes to the United States at most twice a year to give my mother and me some living expenses.
This time I came to Hua Xia Hu Jiang to do business, just to completely get rid of my father's control, anyway my mother has passed away.
From the moment I knew I was an illegitimate child, I started trying to find ways to make money and rely on myself in the future.
As soon as I graduated from university, I used my connections with some classmates in the United States to start some profitable businesses.
Let’s not talk about these unpleasant things. Tanaka-kun and I met by chance in Hujiang, and we should visit each other more often in the future.”
Jiro Tanaka didn't expect that Ichiro Watanabe would be the illegitimate son of the Ito family.
However, Watanabe-kun doesn't seem to care about the Ito family.
In the Japanese Empire, the hierarchy is strict, and the nobles are the nobles, and they are not comparable to ordinary people.
Even the illegitimate children of nobles have much nobler status and bloodline than ordinary people.
"Watanabe-kun! From now on, we are friends. Everyone's family is bound to have some troubles."
"Mr. Tanaka is right. You are the first friend I met in Hujiang. Please take care of me in the future."
"You're welcome, Watanabe-kun. I'll definitely help you if I have the chance.
In a foreign country, meeting each other in such a vast sea of people is a kind of fate."
The two of them got along better and better as they talked. Before Tanaka Jiro left, Ye Minghao gave him a red envelope.