“You’re not listening!”

Lin Fan's tone was very sincere!

Filled with the disappointment of an elder towards a junior!

Zhang Xiaolin's heart, however, sank as if into the bottom of the sea.

He had never imagined that,

the one who came to assassinate him,

would be this person from the Dragon Group he'd met only once.

"Was it you who assassinated me on the streets of Shanghai?"

Zhang Xiaolin would not get an answer to this question—

he would die with lingering resentment.

"No! We never miss," Lin Fan satisfied his request.

But it still left Zhang Xiaolin clueless as to who had made the attempt.

He still died with the same lingering resentment!

Lin Fan hadn't expected to capture Zhang Xiaolin alive.

He took him back to the living room.

"Were you all having a meeting together today?

What was it about?"

Lin Fan asked casually.

It wasn't that he was nosy, but it was hard not to suspect such a group of people gathered together

were conspiring to do something bad.

Zhang Xiaolin stubbornly refused to open his mouth.

Mei Youde, seeing Zhang Xiaolin being dragged into the living room with his legs dangling,

was already trembling violently like a sieve.

All the merchants in the living room were shivering.

In their minds, this group of people today

dared to attack the most powerful gang boss in Shanghai.

What wouldn't they dare to do?

Zhang Xiaolin wasn't talking because he'd been shot.

And being a gangster, he wanted to maintain his last bit of dignity in front of everyone.

These merchants were different; they just wanted to live.

Money was meaningless without life.

Of course, life without money had no soul.

Zhen Youcai quickly said,

"This sir, we were just discussing how to provide relief to the disaster victims.

Currently, there are many refugees in the Yellow River flood area, and grain prices are soaring.

We were discussing grain prices."

Zhen Youcai thought to himself, "If I can give these people twenty percent of the profits after monopolizing the grain,

it would be good to get their help.

That way, I can kill two birds with one stone,

both gaining an ally and extricating myself from today's predicament."

Thinking of this, his eyes lit up.

For merchants like them, cooperation was cooperation, no matter who it was with.

Why cling to Zhang Xiaolin's dead tree?

Everyone present could see what was happening today:

Even if Zhang Xiaolin didn't die, he would lose a layer of skin.

It would be appropriate to give these ruthless people thirty percent of the six percent they had agreed to give Zhang Xiaolin.

A dozen grain merchants looked at each other.

Mei Youde finally spoke,

"Hero! We were just discussing unifying the grain prices;

they should be able to rise further.

If the hero is interested

in helping us remove some obstacles,

we can take out thirty percent of the profits to show our respect."

Lin Fan looked at Zhang Xiaolin, then at the grain merchants.

His heart flared with anger.

He was trying to stabilize grain prices,

but these bastards were actually holding a meeting to raise them.

Lin Fan sneered, "How much of a cut did you give Zhang Xiaolin?"

"Thirty percent!" Mei Youde said decisively, without the slightest hesitation.

Lin Fan looked at Zhang Xiaolin and asked with a sneer,

"Last time, you took out two hundred thousand, and I let you off.

This time, take out five million."

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaolin's eyes lit up immediately.

He remembered that the last time this person left after receiving the money and was indeed trustworthy.

He had the energy to speak: "I will have someone get the money immediately."

Lin Fan said with a smile, "As long as you write the check, I'll go get it myself!"

Zhang Xiaolin looked at the merchants present:

"You all first hand over this year's profit share that you owe me, one hundred thousand each."

He quickly filled out another check for 3.5 million.

Zhen Youcai immediately started complaining about poverty: "Mr. Zhang! I…

I don’t have it!”

Zhang Xiaolin was sitting on the ground at this moment.

He felt that he wouldn't die.

His momentum suddenly rose:

"What did you say?

Letting you each take out one hundred thousand today

is considered me owing you all a favor.

If you cause my death because you can't come up with the money,

let alone the one hundred thousand disciples under my command,

my wives are still alive.

Every single one of you will be murderers!"

Zhang Xiaolin threatened; he didn't bring up his wives to scare people.

Rather, he believed that if he died,

his wives would have the ability to deal with these businessmen.

Lin Fan said with a smile:

"I can guarantee this,

Zhang Xiaolin! Whether you live or die,

I can tell Lou Yuqin exactly what happened today.

If she wants to avenge you, let her come!"

Whether Zhang Xiaolin could live today

was unknown to the merchants in the living room.

But this ruthless person who just spoke

would definitely survive.

If Zhang Xiaolin's wives really found out that they didn't help,

their families would be ruined.

Thinking of this,

the merchants had no choice but to write checks with heartache.

Lin Fan took the checks, not afraid of not getting the money at all.

Looking at the merchants present,

he said with a sneer, "You said you would give me thirty percent profit,

but verbal promises are worthless; let's put it in writing!"

After collecting these slips of paper, Lin Fan then said,

"I only have one last sentence, and then you can leave.

Grain prices are not allowed to rise this year; they will remain stable at today's price.

And you must guarantee that you will open your doors to sell grain every day."

Lin Fan's request stunned the grain merchants.

They wanted to raise prices, to double the prices.

They were merchants, grain merchants, not conscientious merchants.

In the current situation, they wouldn't be satisfied with just a slight increase in grain prices.

This person actually wanted no price increase at all.

Mei Youde mustered his courage, "Hero!

Why?"

Lin Fan sneered, "Because there is no shortage of grain in the first place.

It's just being artificially hoarded.

If the price continues to rise, ordinary people will have an even harder time."

Zhen Youcai stuttered anxiously,

"He-Hero!

You- you got so much money from us,

you're not short of money! Besides, the more we earn,

the more profit you'll get!"

These grain merchants had just taken out one hundred thousand each.

If the price didn't rise, wouldn't that hundred thousand be like a meat bun thrown to a dog,

given away for nothing?

Lin Fan sneered:

"I've said what I needed to say.

You can leave now.

If you treat my words as a joke,

you'll end up like him."

After speaking, the gun in his hand fired.

Zhang Xiaolin still had a look of watching a show on his face.

He never expected Lin Fan to suddenly give him a shot.

This shot hit Zhang Xiaolin right in the middle of his forehead.

Mei Youde, Zhen Youcai, and the other merchants

dared not say anything more.

Zhang Xiaolin was dead!

This was a major event that would cause a huge stir.

If they didn't leave Hangzhou quickly,

they probably wouldn't leave Hangzhou for the rest of their lives.

The merchants scrambled out of Zhang Xiaolin's villa.

Among them,

those with cars ran the fastest.

A few miles away from Zhang Xiaolin's villa,

they heard an explosion ahead.

"What's going on today?

I must not have looked at the calendar when I went out.

There's no peace wherever I go!"

Less than a thousand meters further ahead,

they saw many Japanese soldiers lying on the road.

A group of heroes were finishing off the Japanese soldiers.

Further away, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were running away.

It was clear that those Japanese soldiers were running very fast.

They were about to run to the end of the road.

"This… what's going on?"

Jia Youde, looking at the scene before him,

wondered why the heroes today were all attacking people they couldn't afford to offend.

Whether it was Zhang Xiaolin or the Japanese soldiers,

these were usually untouchable existences.

For some reason, Jia Youde had a feeling:

The people who killed the Japanese soldiers were the same group as the ones who killed Zhang Xiaolin.

Thinking of the person's words, maintaining the current grain price,

not raising the price.

Jia Youde regretted wanting to chop off his own feet.

If he had stayed at home honestly,

without thinking about making this wartime fortune,

he wouldn't have lost one hundred thousand and thirty percent of the profit for nothing.

Zhang Xiaolin was already dead.

The sixty percent profit didn't have to be given,

but this person who Zhang Xiaolin called the Dragon Group’s Divine Dragon

had a contract signed and sealed by him in his hand.

He had really lost big this time.

From the beginning, Lin Fan had no intention of sparing Zhang Xiaolin's life.

Since such a big traitor had fallen into his hands,

he would use him as much as possible.

He would take the money and the life!

As for the check for three hundred and fifty thousand written by Zhang Xiaolin himself,

Lin Fan wasn't worried about not being able to cash it.

Lin Fan shot Zhang Xiaolin dead.

Without stopping, Lin Fan immediately left with his men.

Feng Junya, who was intercepting the Japanese soldiers, retreated immediately after receiving the news.

They no longer paid attention to those who were rushing over from all directions.

Zhang Xiaolin's power in Hangzhou could be said to be all-powerful.

The distress calls he ordered to be made

were responded to the fastest by the Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers were, after all, a fighting force.

They were the quickest to respond in the face of emergencies.

Therefore, they were the first team to be blown back by Feng Junya.

By the time Zhang Xiaolin's gang members returned,

Lin Fan and his men had long disappeared without a trace.

In fact, Lin Fan and his men had only been gone for less than five minutes

when Zhang Xiaolin's subordinates who had been hiding appeared.

They discovered Zhang Xiaolin's body

and慌里慌张 notified Zhang Xiaolin's wives.

Then they didn't know what to do.

However, the news that Zhang Xiaolin's villa had been stormed and that he had been publicly executed

spread like wildfire.

Du Yuesheng, who was far away in Hong Kong, received the news

with mixed feelings. His feelings for Zhang Xiaolin were somewhat complicated.

They had the friendship of sworn brothers,

but also the hatred of the past six months,

during which his territory had been repeatedly seized,

and his followers had become fewer and fewer.

Hearing that the Dragon Group had taken action,

Du Yuesheng immediately thought of Lin Fan,

and the words he had said to Zhang Xiaolin when they first met at the Great World.

He was clear: Lin Fan was the Divine Dragon in the Dragon Group.

He couldn't help but become vigilant: This man kept his word!

He wondered if he had promised Lin Fan anything that he hadn't done.

After thinking for a while, Du Yuesheng was relieved.

This Lin Fan had done business with him twice,

and they had gotten along quite well.

Especially the last time he came to Hong Kong,

he was able to find him, which was a kind of recognition!

Since he hadn't done anything wrong,

then with Zhang Xiaolin's death, many businesses in Shanghai would be vacated.

His men could also develop vigorously.

A fool wouldn't make money!

Associating Zhang Xiaolin's death with Zhang Lu's death in Nanjing a few days ago,

there might be some connection between the two!

In the past, these kinds of things were done by Dai Li's men.

Du Yuesheng was clear that Dai Li's men had failed many times.

Lin Fan was probably taking over these matters from Dai Li.

Although he was in Hong Kong, Du Yuesheng had been keeping an eye on the entire war situation.

He also knew that Lin Fan's Special Forces Brigade had developed a team of nearly 20,000 people in southern Shandong.

He also knew that in Jurong, Lin Fan actually had more than 100,000 armed forces in his hands.

Those local security regiments could be sent to the battlefield in minutes if needed.

Not to mention, Lin Fan's security regiments often had live-fire drills.

This was much stronger than the security regiments in other places.

He could only befriend Lin Fan and the Special Forces Brigade; he couldn't afford to offend them!

Once again confirming his policy towards Lin Fan, Du Yuesheng warned his disciples in Shanghai.

Dai Li knew about this news no later than Du Yuesheng.

Hearing that Zhang Xiaolin was dead, a big stone fell from Dai Li's heart.

This Zhang Xiaolin had more than 100,000 men in Shanghai,

and these men were all over every corner of Shanghai.

Zhang Xiaolin became a big traitor, and these more than 100,000 men became small traitors.

It made it very difficult for Dai Li's men to operate in Shanghai.

After all, with Zhang Xiaolin's more than 100,000 eyes,

it was impossible for the KMT agents to defend against them.

However, Dai Li had organized several assassinations against Zhang Xiaolin, and they had all failed.

The closest they came to success was once in Shanghai,

when Zhang Xiaolin came out of Huang Jinrong's Great World,

and was intercepted by KMT agents on the way home. Several machine guns fired together.

Everyone in the convoy died.

As a result, that old man Zhang Xiaolin

didn't sit in the car because he had something to do temporarily.

This not only foiled Dai Li's plan

but also made Zhang Xiaolin think that the Japanese soldiers wanted to kill him.

He simply returned to Hangzhou to hide, making it even more impossible for the KMT to act.

But even though Zhang Xiaolin was in Hangzhou,

his men were still constantly providing intelligence to the Japanese soldiers,

and the attacks on the KMT continued.

But now, Zhang Xiaolin was dead.

Dai Li would naturally find a way to get Zhang Xiaolin's Four Great Kongs to fight for the greatest power.

So as to achieve the purpose of divide and conquer.

In any case, Lin Fan's actions this time had helped Dai Li a lot.

However, Lin Fan's completely unconventional approach

made Dai Li envious while also feeling that it was too simple and crude.

No matter what, just thinking about how Lin Fan was in the territory of the Japanese soldiers,

in Hangzhou, where Zhang Xiaolin could do whatever he wanted,

and was actually able to storm in with his men,

and even drove back the Japanese soldiers who came to support them from the city.

As long as a man was a man, he would always have a heroic complex.

Dai Li was no exception. He imagined Lin Fan leading a group of people,

directly killing their way into Zhang Xiaolin's villa.

How majestic was that!

Especially since Lin Fan had already killed back and forth twice in large cities like Nanjing before this.

Chiang Kai-shek and Huang Jinrong were sworn brothers.

So, in that sense, Zhang Xiaolin was also a brother.

Since Zhang Xiaolin had defected to the Japanese,

Chiang Kai-shek hated that this brother hadn't died sooner.

When he heard that Zhang Xiaolin was dead,

he didn't feel the sadness of a brother dying.

He only felt the pleasure of punishing a traitor.

Chiang Kai-shek was a man with many ideas.

While he was happy, he was also thinking:

Lin Fan's team was so powerful.

If the situation changed in the future, and he wasn't one of his own,

this would be a threat to him!

At this time, Lin Fan was leading his team towards Deqing.

To the men of the Special Forces Brigade,

Deqing was very familiar.

Especially to the soldiers of Xiao Dongbei's regiment,

the mountains and rivers around Deqing

had long been traversed by the soldiers of the entire regiment.

This was the basic operation of the Special Forces Brigade whenever they arrived in a place: familiarize themselves with the surrounding environment.

Now that the Hangzhou matter was settled, Lin Fan would go to Shanghai next.

The main task in Shanghai was to attack the Japanese banks.

In the past six months,

the Japanese soldiers had been advancing triumphantly on the battlefield,

greatly enhancing their international status.

Various countries had never stopped verbally condemning the Japanese soldiers,

but they hadn't reduced the business they should be doing with the Japanese soldiers at all.

In the international arena, among countries, verbal condemnation was morality,

representing the direction of the entire country.

Doing business was a practical example, and this was the most real benefit.

No matter how morally correct a country was, if it didn't have the strength,

it would be like water without a source, a tree without roots, and it definitely wouldn't last long.

From the current point of view, the Japanese soldiers' momentum was strong.

Although their domestic economy was on the verge of collapse,

as long as they conquered this big country on the battlefield,

the situation would immediately reverse.

Therefore, in terms of economics, many speculative merchants were willing to bet on the Japanese soldiers.

Lin Fan didn't understand economics; he only had force.

Dai Li hoped that the Special Forces Brigade would just do something to the Japanese banks,

giving the impression that there were some problems with the Japanese banks,

so that Chiang Kai-shek's central bank could catch its breath.

Lin Fan thought much more simply:

None of the Japanese banks were good banks.

Only by emptying their banks

would they become good banks.

In order to achieve this goal,

Lin Fan not only sent people to wait in Nanjing,

but also left people in Hangzhou, and sent people to Suzhou.

Shanghai was the most important, so Lin Fan came in person.

Lin Fan entered Shanghai three days after Zhang Xiaolin's death.

Shanghai was a bit chaotic at this time.

Zhang Xiaolin's wives tried hard but were unable to subdue all of the Four Great Kongs.

The gang leaders officially staged the infighting scenes that should have been the part of struggle for the boss' inheritance.

This made Shanghai's already chaotic security even more chaotic.

What's more, Du Yuesheng and Huang Jinrong were secretly sending people to fight for territory at this time.

Shanghai was a place where there was money everywhere.

More territory meant more income every day, and no one was willing to give it up easily.

Lin Fan came to Shanghai and first transferred the money from the checks opened by those grain merchants to his account.

Then he went to transfer Zhang Xiaolin's 3.5 million check.

Contrary to what he had imagined, the bank did not refuse to cash the check.

That was good; Lin Fan didn't like trouble.

If Zhang Xiaolin's wives continued to be so honest and law-abiding,

and no longer did things for the Japanese soldiers,

Lin Fan had decided not to bother her anymore; goodbye forever!

Now, Lin Fan would start preparing to do serious business.

A hero needs three helpers; Lin Fan also had helpers he could use in Shanghai.

Although that person was far away in Hong Kong, he could know everything that was happening in Shanghai.

Lin Fan called Du Yuesheng. In the phone call, Lin Fan only made one request:

"I want to know the recent number of Japanese troops and their defense situation in Shanghai."

This was definitely top-secret military intelligence.

Du Yuesheng was shocked. His first reaction was:

Did the Special Forces Brigade want to attack Shanghai?

On second thought, this was impossible.

The Japanese soldiers' momentum was strong. They had just occupied Xuzhou last month

and were now approaching Wuhan.

He thought for a while, weighed the pros and cons, and finally said:

"I can only do my best. After all, this thing is too important.

Ordinary people can't get access to it at all."

Lin Fan settled for second best: "I only want the locations of the Japanese troops stationed in the Shanghai urban area,

and approximately how many people they have in each place."

It was hard to find something like a defense map.

It was easier to find out how many strongholds and men the Japanese soldiers had in the Shanghai urban area.

After all, the strongholds were fixed and public.

The number of people could be inferred from the Japanese soldiers' daily consumption of vegetables and food.

And among those who bought and sold vegetables, at least three out of ten were Green Gang members.

These people could all be Du Yuesheng's eyes.

It was because of this that the three Shanghai gang bosses were able to rise to power,

attracting all parties to win them over.

This was also a special situation that occurred during a special period:

At this time, Shanghai had several countries' concessions.

The masters in each concession were different.

Only by being able to thrive in all the concessions

could Du Yuesheng and the others achieve success.

Now that he had a source of information, the next step was to scout things out.

This time in Shanghai,

Lin Fan was planning to attack thirteen Japanese banks at once.

It wasn't that Lin Fan was greedy,

but that the Japanese soldiers were too greedy.

After they occupied Shanghai and Suzhou,

a large number of Japanese companies immediately followed behind their troops.

The Japanese troops were fighting in the front,

and their companies were plundering in the back.

From minerals to roads, aquatic products, grain, and cloth, they invested in everything.

If a national enterprise blocked their path to making money,

these Japanese entrepreneurs would directly unleash their ultimate weapon,

asking the Japanese army to take action.

Their methods had always been effective in the occupied areas.

This was no different from outright robbery.

It was just a layer of corporate management on top of the army's robbery.

These Japanese companies certainly didn't just rob these things.

They also robbed all kinds of valuable things that had been passed down in this country,

such as all kinds of antiques, cultural relics, and various medicinal secrets.

In short, they immediately asked for anything they could get their hands on.

If they couldn't ask for it, they would rob it.

If they couldn't rob things like secret recipes, they would detain people,

threatening them with the lives of one person or the whole family.

In any case, they wouldn't give up until they achieved their goal.

This also allowed their traditional medicine to develop rapidly.

Once this advantage was established,

it would last forever!

It was because of this

that countless Japanese people who could no longer survive in their own country

came here in droves.

Here, they enjoyed the treatment of being superior to others.

As the number of Japanese soldiers increased, their banking industry also developed greatly.

The setbacks their banks suffered last year

had long been forgotten by the Japanese soldiers.

Now, they were only thinking about how to suck blood from this land as much as possible.

Lin Fan and his men also began their scouting trip in Shanghai.

Thirteen targets, of course, meant thirteen action teams.

Each team paid attention to observing its respective target,

and also had to follow Lin Fan's request:

Familiarize themselves with the situation in the surrounding alleys.

Those members of the Special Forces Brigade who had arrived in Shanghai

were asked by Lin Fan to recognize the roads on the map every day.

Lin Fan asked them to memorize all the alleys around the target.

When the time came to take action, if they encountered an unexpected situation,

they could change the route and retreat.

Those dense, spiderweb-like alleys

were impossible for the Japanese soldiers or the police to fully control.

And they also had to record the locations of the sewer openings near these alleys.

Lin Fan was taking action!

Three days later, Pan Hannian gave Lin Fan the confirmation.

The escape route was still through the sewers.

Lin Fan already had a map of this before,

and he had brought it with him this time.

He had already asked people to prepare.

According to the last operation, the most difficult thing was still transporting the goods.

Money,

while said to be valuable, was really heavy.

Pulling money out of the bank,

whether it was cash or gold,

was not easy to take away.

They were all too heavy.

Last time, they used cars to transport it,

but this time it was impossible.

The reason was that last time, when they rushed out of the Japanese concession,

the outside was still a battlefield.

It was a scene of ruins, and there was no one there.

Now it was different. If they wanted to drive the car to a deserted place,

they would have to drive at least ten miles away.

The retreat route provided by Pan Hannian was to take the money from the sewers.

According to this idea,

the entire operation would come out of the sewers,

and then retreat from the sewers.

This was very good.

Transportation could be arranged in advance in the sewers.

If that was the case,

preventive measures against the Japanese troops could be avoided.

However, Lin Fan didn't take it lightly.

He specifically took his men to walk around in the sewers at night

to determine the route and prepare the materials.

Now was the time to take action.

This operation was a major operation even for the Special Forces Brigade.

This time, it was a four-city operation, and it wasn't guaranteed that it would only be in Shanghai.

Lin Fan issued the order to take action in two days via telegram.

Two days later, the Special Forces Brigade in Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai had a total of forty-nine action teams,

which would begin operations on the same night.

In fact, except for Shanghai, the action plans for the other places had already been made.

These teams had been preparing all along, just waiting for the order to start work.

Now they had finally received the news that they were going to take action.

Everyone began to get excited.

Two days passed quickly.

Lin Fan and his men waited until 11:30 p.m.

before quietly钻出来 from the sewers

and began to act according to plan.

The Special Forces Brigade's actions against the bank guards were never merciful.

When the people of Shanghai knew that what had happened last year

had happened again,

these ordinary citizens were stunned:

Who were these people?

Even if you were shearing wool, you shouldn't just shear the same sheep all the time!

The Shanghai citizens only knew what they could see.

They only knew that thirteen Japanese banks in Shanghai had been emptied again overnight.

The citizens who had deposited money in these banks were panicked.

The citizens who had not deposited money in these banks

could now use their prescient tone to give advice.

Only those who were well-informed knew the secrets that the Japanese soldiers had strictly kept:

Overnight, forty-nine Japanese banks in central China had been emptied.

It was the kind where they were completely empty.

Even the account books had been taken away.

This was very annoying.

Account books were useless to anyone except the bank itself!

This time, commander in chief of the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Army, Yan Junliu, was so angry that he was spitting fire.

The bank theft case last year was not during his term.

He wasn't clear. This time, the bank theft case

happened when the army was pressing down on the border and was in the middle of fighting the Wuhan battle with the KMT.

This forced him to take his eyes off the battlefield

and start paying attention to the security within his jurisdiction.

This time, Liang Hongzhi was embarrassed.

In theory, the deteriorating security was clearly because the puppet government he had formed was not effective.

In fact, the puppet government formed by Yan Junliu didn't have much credibility.

From its establishment until now, this puppet government had only done things according to the Japanese soldiers' instructions.

It had never done anything else.

Even when collecting taxes, this puppet government only dared to collect them in the city.

They didn't dare to go to the countryside.

The countryside in the entire central China area was full of bandits.

Yan Junliu had to consider replacing the puppet government.

He believed that the people in the current puppet government didn't have enough prestige and weren't beneficial to the Japanese soldiers.

When something like this happened, no news had been leaked in advance.

This was too incredible.

At this time, he began to miss Zhang Xiaolin.

If Zhang Xiaolin was in Shanghai,

he would definitely be able to know something in advance.

At least,

he could always provide some intelligence afterwards!

But now, thirteen banks in Shanghai had been looted,

and no useful information had been found.

Only those ignorant citizens were spreading rumors: Yanzi Li San had reappeared in the martial world.

He had run from Beiping to Shanghai.

Some people also said that Yanzi Li San's disciple had completed his training.

These groundless rumors could not help the investigation in the slightest.

Yan Junliu had no choice but to send someone to Hong Kong

to meet with Du Yuesheng.

He wanted to invite Du Yuesheng to come out of retirement, return to Shanghai, and preside over Shanghai's affairs.

He agreed to let him be the mayor of Shanghai

and asked him to find out the people behind the thirteen banks.

It would be best to find the lost things back.

The people behind the scenes?

Du Yuesheng smiled:

"I haven't been in the martial world for many years.

There are only legends about me in Shanghai,

but I no longer have the strength.

Now I'm just eking out a living in Hong Kong.

How can I go back to be the mayor?"

Just kidding!

I myself am one of the masterminds behind the scenes.

Lin Fan did not treat Du Yuesheng unfairly.

He gave Du Yuesheng all the account books, receipts, and loans that he had taken from the Japanese banks.

These things were just waste paper in the hands of Lin Fan or Pan Hannian.

Only in the hands of Du Yuesheng were they money. Those receipts and loans were all money, all money!

With one of the only two gang bosses in Shanghai coming to collect debts,

who would dare not pay?

What's more, it was indeed the debt that they had borrowed.

Du Yuesheng had given Lin Fan 20% of the debts he had recovered last time.

This was not Lin Fan's original intention. He had originally just thought that he had no use for them.

He might as well do a favor, but he didn't expect that Du Yuesheng, who knew how to behave, would actually return 20% of the profits to him.

Du Yuesheng had also said this time, the same old rules!

Thinking that he had actually become Lin Fan's debt collector,

he felt a little emotional.

But thinking about his expenses in Hong Kong,

and then thinking about the 49 banks, such a large number,

I'll endure it!

Chiang Kai-shek praised Dai Li greatly when he learned that the Japanese soldiers' 49 banks in the Central China region had been robbed at the same time overnight

, praising him for being good at using people.

Although he knew that this was done by the Special Forces Brigade, such an action

could cut off the Japanese soldiers' economic power in the Central China region at once.

Indeed, after knowing that these banks had been robbed,

people who had deposited money immediately ran to the banks to withdraw it.

The banks were so empty that if a mouse ran in, it would cry.

How could they have money to pay out now?

Most of these depositors

were Japanese soldiers themselves.

If the banks wanted to continue to operate,

they had to pay out the money.

And the Japanese soldiers' domestic economic situation was extremely bad now.

They needed to maintain a good image internationally.

Otherwise, if the creditor nations immediately tightened their loans,

the Japanese soldiers might not even have oil to add to the warships that were attacking Wuhan.

Now they could only borrow money from banks in various countries to cope with the situation.

These Japanese soldiers had temporarily deposited legal currency.

They had to withdraw legal currency.

The Japanese soldiers' 49 banks needed a large amount of legal currency.

For a time, in the entire financial market,

the price of legal currency rose all at once.

There was never a shortage of speculators in the financial market.

The exchange rate of legal currency to US dollars and British pounds began to rise.

The things that Dai Li had asked Lin Fan to do

finally had some clues.

The demand from 49 banks was not small.

Of course, the Central Government Bank of Chiang Kai-shek had the most legal currency.

This time, they could use a large amount of legal currency to exchange for some foreign exchange.

This made Chiang Kai-shek's government chairman, Lin Qu, breathe a sigh of relief.

From the beginning of the Japanese soldiers' invasion, the war between the two sides in the financial market had never stopped.

This time, using tricks outside the game,

they finally allowed the legal currency to win a game.

Speaking of which, hadn't the Japanese soldiers always used tricks outside the game?

According to the Japanese soldiers' current domestic situation,

the currency they issued was even worse than the legal currency.

This attack caused the Japanese soldiers' currency to depreciate a lot in an instant.

This also aroused the vigilance of the big international merchants:

The Japanese soldiers' economy had reached the brink of collapse.

If they continued to develop according to this situation,

the money invested in the Japanese soldiers' country

would probably be wasted.

People who had this idea

immediately began to act.

Especially the Americans,

from the beginning of the Japanese soldiers' invasion,

American financiers had begun to vigorously enter the Japanese soldiers' stock market.

They were optimistic about the Japanese soldiers and believed that they would win the war.

Therefore, they wanted to get a share of the pie.

The war in the past six months had made the Japanese soldiers understand: it was completely a dream to conquer this country in three months.

The article that had just been published this month even pointed out that the failure of the Japanese soldiers was doomed.

The Americans were serious. They seriously studied and analyzed that article.

They had to admit that although this was contrary to their expectations,

it was correct.

Therefore, they had the idea of getting out of the Japanese soldiers' financial market.

Being affected by this crisis in the Japanese soldiers' 49 banks,

American financiers immediately took action.

They sold off in the Japanese soldiers' stock market.

Their actions immediately caused panic throughout the market.

The violent turmoil in the stock market

stunned the Japanese soldiers' cabinet.

Now the Japanese soldiers' cabinet was entirely controlled by the military.

Their ideas were direct, crude, and very effective!

They immediately announced that the Japanese soldiers' stock market was completely closed!

In the stampede in the entire stock market,

everyone wanted to escape, but now everyone couldn't escape.

This made the American financiers angry.

Their anger could affect some of the US government's decisions.

But the same Americans, weapons production trusts, oil production trusts, and ocean transportation companies,

they were making a lot of money from their transactions with the Japanese soldiers.

They wanted to impose sanctions on the Japanese soldiers?

We strongly disagree.

The United States had two completely opposing groups with regard to their views on the Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers' cabinet didn't care much about this.

They cared about the war in Wuhan.

According to the military's idea, as long as they conquered Wuhan,

Chiang Kai-shek's government would collapse.

At that time, they would get a huge amount of war reparations.

At that time, they would reopen the stock market,

let those Americans who only had money in their eyes leave with money,

and those Americans would definitely not say anything.

The plan was very good,

and it would definitely be realized.

After all, the Japanese soldiers' combat effectiveness was still online.

They had greed, confidence, and determination to complete the battle plan.

There was just one thing that