The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 355 "Meeting"

After saying this, Jiang Cheng winked at Ye Hai and Xu Fushan who were standing by the door, took the suit jacket on the hanger and went out.

Knocking on the door of the Zhang brothers across the street, Jiang Cheng looked around and asked, "Have you finished your studies?"

Zhang Tinglan shrugged: "Where else can we go?"

Jiang Cheng only found out later that the three guys were stranded in Shanghai not because of the weather or any other reasons...

It's because this guy, after seeing the glamorous world of Shanghai, wants to spend all the money he has before going back.

"Let him be, let's do our own thing - Feilan, what was that Huang thinking that he actually asked you out?"

When talking about this "useless" Xue Cheng, even Zhang Tingshu just laughed it off. "But then again, why don't you meet your business partner in person but go meet the boss of a guild?"

Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "My two civil servants will take care of the business matters. Professional matters should be handled by professionals."

"You two take a look at what this is."

As he said that, he asked Ye Hai to take out the pistol he had searched earlier. When the Zhang brothers saw it, they said in unison: "Isn't this a turtle box?"

As expected of someone from a military family, Zhang Tingshu turned his surprised gaze towards Jiang Cheng: "Feilan, do you mean that it was the Japanese who did this?"

Needless to say?
As he spoke, he took out the cigarette box that he had copied earlier. The three cigarettes mixed inside showed that these two killers had direct contact with the Japanese.

Along the way, we had to deal with the Japanese a lot: in their eyes, even the Chinese who cooperated were so-called "inferior races";
In other words, in their overly arrogant eyes, the Chinese are not considered human beings and very few of them can do things like sharing cigarettes.

"The devils have always looked down on us, and there are not many Japanese supplies that can be provided to China—"

Jiang Cheng picked up a Japanese cigarette and analyzed, "The Japanese who can get this kind of high-end goods are not ordinary people."

"Plus, they came all the way to Shanghai to assassinate me, Jiang Cheng, and they even knew the exact hotel and room number where I was staying... This group of devils must be quite powerful."

Both of them nodded, but Zhang Tinglan, who was usually taciturn, spoke first: "From what you said, meeting that Boss Huang is indeed more important than discussing business."

It is easy to talk to smart people. Jiang Cheng smiled at him and said, "I became enemies with the devils because of our Jilin railway..."

He roughly talked about the previous battle with Gao Shibin and the negotiation with the Japanese consul to provoke the "Kuanchengzi Incident", and then added:
"The Japanese are probably going to hate me, but both my father-in-law and the commander-in-chief have issued strict orders not to agree to the Japanese building of the railway."

Zhang Tingshu was very happy now. He stood up, put his hands in his trouser pockets, paced around twice and said with a smile: "Ha, what happened... If I were a Japanese, I would hate you to death!"

"You caused such a big incident in Kuanchengzi, and almost caused a diplomatic incident, right?"

On the contrary, Jiang Cheng was proud of being asked in such a cunning way: "That's not the case...but such an incident involving the death of many Japanese officers and soldiers ended in a relatively peaceful way."

"I think it must have been Machino Takema and Okawa Masao who assured the Japanese high-level officials that they could obtain the authority to open the South Manchuria Railway and the Chinese Eastern Railway, thus calming the anger from top to bottom."

Zhang Tinglan was worried: "But according to what you said, they have done a useless trick, how can the Japanese just let it go?"

His younger brother raised his smooth chin, and his thin lips formed a smile that was either mocking or sympathetic: "Hey, brother, you should understand now, right?"

"Fei Lan has really fooled these little Japanese this time: Ben worked hard but people died. If he wants to appease the anger of the top leaders... I'm afraid he can only rely on agreeing to such a profitable thing." Jiang Cheng sat firmly on the chair, raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Tingshu indifferently——

He looks exactly like Cai Yuanming, but in terms of intelligence and ability, he is probably more than two or three levels higher than the two boys from the Cai family.

When Jiang Cheng heard that he was coming back to join his camp, he was more or less wary of him.

But after these series of things going on together, Jiang Cheng began to admire him from the bottom of his heart.

Judging from Zhang Zuoxiang and his two daughters, these two brothers’ character is far superior to that of the Cai brothers.

Intent on praising them, Jiang Cheng briefly organized his words and briefly talked about the conflicts between the Japanese political arena, the military and the General Staff, and then added:

"The consulate used to be on the side of the military - but the military supported the Mongolian bandits, the Zongshe Party, and Feng Delin and even Meng Enyuan all failed one after another. The top brass was quite dissatisfied with them."

"So it was Okawa from the consulate who first initiated the Kuanchengzi incident... Now that I have delayed the construction of the railway indefinitely, the old guys will inevitably be bitten back by the military. It is impossible for them not to be furious."

The whole story was finally figured out, and both Zhang Tinglan and Zhang Tingshu understood what Jiang Cheng meant.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go and meet this Boss Huang and explain to him clearly that is he the one who should get involved in the mess of the Japanese outside the Great Wall?"

Jiang Cheng smiled indifferently and looked at Zhang Tinglan again.

In fact, before his brother spoke, he had already turned his solemn gaze towards him.

After staring at each other calmly for a few seconds, the governor's eldest son also nodded solemnly.

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When the car turned towards Du Mansion, Jiang Cheng was not surprised.

After all, his surname is Huang, and he was the "Emperor of Jianghu" in Shanghai during the Republic of China period, a well-known leader.

Whatever the reason, he had to find an intermediary to meet this distinguished guest who came from afar.

Du Yuesheng.

The three young men got out of the car surrounded by guards. Jiang Cheng buttoned his suit while silently squinting at the Western-style building in front of him.

In 1902, he joined the Green Gang's Huang Jinrong Mansion and was responsible for running the "Gongxing Club" casino;
It was not until 1925 that he founded the Sanxin Company with Huang Jinrong and Zhang Xiaolin, and they were collectively known as the "Three Tycoons of Shanghai."

At the beginning of 1918, he was still just a rising star in the Green Gang.

Looking at the building in the rain again, it still looked very new, and Jiang Cheng confirmed his guess - as the gatekeeper of the Qing Gang pushed the door open for them, a thin man who looked to be about thirty years old, wearing a dark blue robe, trotted forward.

Standing in front of Jiang Cheng, he first looked him over before making a gesture of a man of the underworld, and said with a smile, "I guess this must be Mr. Jiang from Jilin?"

"Nice to meet you! I've heard of your name in Shanghai... Haha, I didn't expect that at your age, Mr. Jiang, you can make such a name for yourself. I really admire you!"

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