Chapter 398

After Zhu Yuyan heard the rumor, she said to Su Chunjun, “Let’s wait.”

Wait for the rumor to fester.

Suzuki Jiazi is different from Zhu Yuyan, she is very virtuous, she organized tea party and flower arrangement in her home, socializing with the same Japanese nationality, Japanese wives and daughters, and they are all families that she thinks are worth socializing with, these families are either rich or powerful, and there is no lack of wives of Japanese military officers.

The Japanese military recommends that officers bring their wives with them to their posts, a privilege that only high-ranking officers can enjoy, but not ordinary soldiers.

The wives and concubines of senior officers did not live in the barracks, most of them lived in the city, in places like the French Concession and the British Concession. There were also many in the Japanese Concession.

The senior officers were not allowed to leave the barracks and most of them could only come home once every few months. The wives and concubines were not restricted by the officers from going out to socialize – and there was a fair amount of cheating among them.

Although Japanese women were determined to be good wives and mothers before marriage, and were taught to be happy to be maids for their families after marriage, there were grievances, and when grievances built up, they were bound to find a place to vent them.

Cheating and having children out of wedlock are all too common in Japanese families.

Although Yoshiko Suzuki’s flower-arranging and tea parties seemed very elegant, the ladies drank fragrant tea, admired the beautiful flowers, and chatted about similar news and interesting stories.

So, when Suzuki Yoshiko showed off that she had visited Mr. Yamamoto’s adopted daughter, Miss Takako, by chance, accidentally bumped into Miss Takako is lying in bed to recuperate, and then by chance, accidentally through a well-informed person, got a dishonorable news.

Ms. Takako has been sick for a long time.

Suzuki Yoshiko said meaningfully, “Although she has been ill for a long time, she is still unable to get up.”

“She seems to be looking okay, just a little weak.”

“I don’t know what kind of illness it is, but it seems to be serious.”

A few plausible “hints” were enough for these shrewd wives to conjure up a shocking news.

Besides, Suzuki Yoshiko had hinted enough.

Among them, there were many cases of “having to go to the countryside to recuperate because of her weak health”.

Because it was an unspoken rumor, it spread quite quickly.

It took only ten days for the rumors to spread from the wives’ ears to the officers’ ears.

The officers knew about it when they received letters and clothes from home.

This caused a little fluctuation in the military camp.

Su Chunjun waited another ten days for someone to try to visit Yamamoto.

According to intelligence, these people were officers.

Su Chunjun immediately told Zhu Yuyan the good news!

The two of them celebrated the matter in their study and even hugged each other and danced half a song of “Night Shanghai”.

The two of them were waiting for this.

Why was Yamamoto able to fool the two of them before.

It was because whether it was illness or stepping down, this would touch a person’s fundamental interests.

They both believed that interests moved people.

But even if Yamamoto was a special person, never everyone among his subordinates would be Yamamoto and be able to forget about his own gains and losses and remember only the interests of Japan, as he did.

Japan had a very unique political ecology. Although the Meiji Restoration overthrew the Shogun, power was not vested in the hands of the people, but the forces led by the new gatekeepers and warlords who had newly come to power ascended to the political arena. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the present emperor was a warlord’s mannequin.

The samurai spirit that Japan talks so much about is in fact the brainwashing of the warlords. Japan is likewise a colonial regime, and likewise a military government supported by the United States, except that it appears to be a modernized country, unlike the chaotic countries in Africa that look so unlikeable.

Under this premise, Yamamoto represents not his interests alone, but those of the interest groups he belongs to.

Nor is it a family name within the warlords.

When he stepped down, what it represented was that everyone in the interest group he belonged to had to step aside, and it was up to the subordinates of the new person who had come in to replace Yamamoto to snatch away the original power and positions in the hands of these people.

Now, Zhu Yuyan and Su Chunjun guessed that Yamamoto might be lying to them, but it was by no means possible for all of his subordinates to be of one mind with him.

First of all, Yamamoto could not have told too many people about his plan, and there must be some of his subordinates who did not know about his plan.

Su Chunjun and Zhu Yuyan want to pry this part of the people.

Yamamoto is not just pretending in front of them, the image he presents to the outside world is that he is going to be ousted from power because of his serious illness, and he does not trust the Japanese.

Su Chunjun’s intelligence has been monitoring Yamamoto, and the intelligence also believes that Yamamoto is really seriously ill, otherwise the box of medicine would not have been delivered to Zhu Yuyan.

Intelligence believes that Yamamoto is in conflict with the Japanese military, as their surveillance found that Yamamoto refused all visits from Japanese people, including the Japanese military, and even kicked out most of the guards assigned to him by the military, and hired a large number of Chinese □□□□□□ fighters.

Yamamoto was “forced” to shrink his power. Someone in his sphere of influence must have already suffered a loss, such as being dismissed, transferred, or temporarily relieved of his duties.

This part of the information is difficult to investigate because it is all in the Japanese military barracks.

But one thing can be confirmed, that is, among the Japanese senior officers, there must be quite a number of people who believe that Yamamoto was forced to leave.

First deceived their own people, in order to deceive outsiders.

This reasoning, the Japanese also understand.

Zhu Yuyan wants to know how many Japanese officers believe that Yamamoto was forced to leave and are not happy with the result.

Su Chunjun hugged her and spun around, saying happily, “If there’s one we’ll attack one, if there’s ten we can attack five!”

They previously put the target on Yamamoto, the result of this big fish is likely to catch not up, there is a possibility of dragging the net, the boat overturned, then catch a few small fish to try good, small fish caught, may not not be unable to use it.

Yamamoto rightfully did not see those who came to see the Japanese officers, there is a count one, the gift was thrown to the steps down, people were also driven out, a few also made a pretty ugly.

Did these insulted Japanese officers just give up?

Of course not.

Zhu Yuyan, the Chinese woman, had been out of their sight, or she had been in and out of Yamamoto’s house several times, and not a single Japanese officer had come up to take up with her.

As for Suzuki Yoshiko, a purebred Japanese with red roots, her family is also a resounding landowner and businessman in Japan, and the husband she married is also a resounding original Japanese, so the two of them don’t have any identity problems.

After she showed off her ability to get into the Yamamoto family and make close friends with them at tea parties and flower arranging, the Japanese officer’s wife, with gifts, paid a visit.

The officer’s wife, to the merchant’s wife, condescendingly offered to greet her for a visit, and there were several others.

Suzuki Yoshiko was so excited that she was about to faint.

She immediately went to ask Suzuki Saburo what she could do to not be rude, to better receive these officers’ wives, as well as, to form deep friendships with them, to help her husband better his career.

Suzuki Saburo was silent for a long time.

Only now did he understand why Zhu Yuyan had used Suzuki Yoshiko, why he had brought her to Yamamoto Residence.

–Because no Japanese would believe anything Yanji said!

As for Suzuki Yoshiko, her personality, character, and morals all made her words extraordinarily believable. Even her stupidity became her virtue.

No one thought she could lie.

No one thought she could keep a secret either.

The fact that she had seen the secret of Miss Takako’s pregnancy in the Yamamoto Residence showed something – it showed that she was trusted by Mr. Yamamoto.

As stupid as she was, those Japanese officers didn’t suspect Yoshiko of conspiracy. Yoshiko’s origin, her family were all vouching for her.

But …… he is a bit dangerous as a husband.

After this matter, must face the American ambassador as soon as possible.

Suzuki Saburo made up his mind, must meet with the American ambassador on the ship as soon as possible, he has a fleet of ships, avoiding the Japanese fleet and the United States Navy to meet at sea is still relatively easy. As soon as he completed the swearing-in ceremony, he could become an American and would not be Japanese, so that he would be safe as long as he escaped to wherever the United States belonged.

Envisioning once again the happy future of escaping and opening a company in the United States to earn dollars, Saburo Suzuki smiled and allowed Yoshiko Suzuki to receive the wives of the Japanese officers at his home.

Saburo Suzuki: “Receive them well, Yoshiko.”

Yoshiko Suzuki: “I will!”

Suzuki Saburo: “If they have any requests, you can agree to them before you come back and tell me.”

Suzuki Yoshiko hurriedly asked, “Can I agree first?”

Suzuki Saburo smiled and said, “Of course you can. If there is a lady of higher status, please be sure to invite Mister to come to the house as well, and I’ll step in to receive them as well.”

Suzuki Yoshiko immediately understood, so Saburo was seeing senior officers through the officers’ wives.

“I see, I’ll definitely do it!” Suzuki Yoshiko said firmly.

Suzuki Yoshiko wasn’t a woman who knew to take things as they came, and Suzuki Saburo understood that very well. With his support, Suzuki Yoshiko exaggerated her relationship with Guizi in front of the officers’ wives, and completely skipped over Zhu Yuyan, talking only about her own close friendship with Mr. Yamamoto in the Yamamoto Residence, and with Guizi.

The officers’ wives took it at face value-mostly because they didn’t think anyone would lie to their faces, and because Mr. Yamamoto was in town, and Suzuki-Saburo and Suzuki-Jako weren’t just little people from nowhere, they were both famous.

Suzuki Yoshiko’s friendship with the officers’ wives was on fire.

The officers’ wives dutifully conveyed the Suzuki family’s close friendship with the Yamamoto family to their own husbands.

As a result, the high-ranking officers who had been shut out at the door of the Yamamoto residence boarded the Suzuki family’s door, hoping that he would pull strings so that they could meet Mr. Yamamoto.

Meeting Mr. Yamamoto – it was impossible.

How could Suzuki Saburo be capable of that.

But he also knew that Mr. Yamamoto refused to meet these people, so he rejected them without any psychological pressure, and then extracted information from among them and sold it to other countries such as the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, as well as, Su Chunjun.

Although Suzuki Saburo intended to be an American, he felt that in this world, it was safer to obtain the identities of a few more countries, and the more countries that showed him goodwill, the greater the possibility that he would live in the future, and the more money he could make.

Now, Saburo Suzuki could no longer look at honestly opening companies and factories and making hard money, he felt that he could only get rich by being a war monger, traveling between countries and selling intelligence, supplies, gold, dollars, pounds, etc.

He used to have to look so many people in the eye that he couldn’t even refuse the increasingly excessive amortization by the Japanese military. Now, he had made friends in so many countries through intelligence, and a phone call from them, or a telegram, could solve his dilemma.

In this day and age, the bolder one is, the more money one can make, and it is the honest businessman who is the real fool.

Suzuki Saburo realized that he had discovered the code of wealth, he did not need to be encouraged by Su Chunjun, nor did he need to be poured oil by Zhu Yuyan, he just ran towards the front by himself.