Chapter 380
Suzuki Saburo found himself caught in the middle between Mr. Yamamoto and Su Chunjun,and he couldn’t refuse yet.
It was a great shock to him, and he couldn’t figure out how it happened.
Mr. Yamamoto hinted that he could “provide some convenience” for Su Chunjun, such as food, medicine, weapons, etc. that he needed.
At first, this startled Suzuki Saburo. He thought that Mr. Yamamoto had discovered his dealings with Su Chunjun, and that Mr. Yamamoto was warning him.
But following that, he realized that Mr. Yamamoto was really giving him the green light.
Several of his smuggling convoys had recently been let off lightly when they entered the harbor, and the Japanese soldiers who boarded and inspected the ships almost just took a casual look and went down, not caring at all about what he was actually carrying on board.
The side belonging to the businessman excited Suzuki Saburo!
Although he guessed that Mr. Yamamoto had some unspeakable dealings with Su Chunjun, the big Chinese official in private, and he even guessed that Mr. Yamamoto was not betraying Japan, or Su Chunjun betrayed his Chinese country – but did it have anything to do with him as a businessman?
It didn’t.
As early as when he left Japan, the Japanese military had secretly instructed him to smuggle arms and weapons, as well as gold and jewelry, U.S. dollars, tobacco and tea, and other materials.
This was a tacit agreement between him and the Japanese military.
He did the dirty work for the Japanese military, enriched himself for them, secretly purchased weapons for them that Japan could not buy or own under the agreement, and cut through the American-German blockade for them.
He was not the only Japanese businessman who smuggled, and he took risks not to repay his country, but to hold on to more power, to accumulate more wealth, to become a man of honor!
The war gave him the opportunity. Japan used to belong to the Shogunate, now Japan belongs to the Royal family, will Japan belong to the merchants in the future? Just like America now.
Money is power.
He wasn’t the only businessman who thought that way, and after he held the power of money, he attracted people who were asking for it, and by bartering, he gained the power that he shouldn’t have been able to hope for in the first place.
Why can’t the common people, without nobility or a noble family name, be a foot in the door to support Japan?
Why not?
He was different from people like Mr. Yamamoto and Su Chunjun, who were born to stand on the high ground, who were originally nobles who ruled over the common people, so to help their country was to help themselves.
He’s just a businessman ah, from ancient times, where is the country where a businessman can get power.
Suzuki Saburo was well aware that his ambitions would be hard to succeed in times of peace, but this was a time of war and anything could happen. The military kept expanding their power, didn’t they want to become a second Shogunate.
He was just like the military, neither of them were truly loyal to the Emperor.
The Emperor had his own ambitions, he wanted to gain the most exalted position of God and man.
So if someone fails, then don’t hold a grudge.
After giving their ambitions, all the results they got were what they deserved.
So Mr. Yamamoto shouldn’t be resentful either.
After Suzuki Saburo thought about it, he readily sold Mr. Yamamoto’s words to Su Chunjun as information, and sighed that Mrs. Su was really thick-headed and powerful, and actually managed to get involved with Mr. Yamamoto’s side as well.
Su Chunjun had already worked with him many times, and both of them had a tacit understanding.
This time, since Mr. Yamamoto gave the green light, the two were even more generous frantic smuggling, for a moment, the city seemed to revitalize, many rare commodities suddenly appeared again.
For example, tobacco.
The whole city’s cigarette stalls have disappeared for a long time, the people even take fake tobacco leaves rolled up as cigarettes.
So when tobacco appeared, everyone knew it was the thing to get rich and competed to bid for it.
Su Chunjun and Suzuki Saburo both took the opportunity to make a fortune.
At this time, Zhu Yuyan realized that some of the medicines in the warehouse had disappeared.
This warehouse was known only to Su Chunjun and her, and was a secret warehouse run by the two.
She didn’t move and ruled out thieves and insiders first, then leveled the books and put them back again.
She didn’t bother to ask Su Chunjun, since he didn’t say anything, she didn’t have to ask. And she trusted him.
If even he couldn’t be trusted, who else could she trust.
No matter who these medicines were given to, as long as it wasn’t the Japanese, it was all right.
Su Chunjun was moving the tobacco into the warehouse when he realized that he had forgotten to make the account even last time, he hurriedly took out the account to redo it, but after checking it, he found that the account had been redone, and the disappeared medicines could no longer be seen on it.
Who did it.
It is self-evident.
Things have been over ten days, now it is too late to cover up.
Su Chunjun back out of a layer of cold sweat.
This warehouse is the warehouse used by the former Charity Foundation General Association, located in the French Concession, formerly a bank warehouse, with high security.
He knew that Zhu Yuyan had more than once hidden food here and shipped it out afterwards.
Because the Charity General Association had a lot of goods that came in and out frequently, from complex sources, and after shipping them out they would disappear into the city, making it difficult to trace, and it was more secure than the warehouses he had found on his own, he had started borrowing this place.
Yan Yan never refused.
He started off with the excuse of storing wages and food for the police and escorts, then she never checked the source of the supplies in the warehouse, only keeping an eye on the number of entries and exits, and as she never had a single doubt about him, he became more and more relaxed.
By now, the two of them were mixing things in the warehouse, and had long since stopped distinguishing who sent them in.
After he had borrowed the power of Suzuki Saburo, the amount of smuggling had increased. Because there are several factories run by Japanese businessmen as a cover, he is in and out of the Japanese people’s power, has not been suspected by all parties.
I didn’t expect that the first mistake would be discovered by her.
Su Chunjun sat on the changing stool in the locker room and did not get up until the sweat fell off his body.
For ten days, Yan Yan did not ask a single question, but only helped him to level the accounts.
What did she discover? Guessed what?
When did she find out? When did she guess?
In fact, he had long had an idea, but had not been able to get permission from above, and as a result, he had not been able to declare it to her.
But in their daily dealings, Yan Yan seemed to have always shared his thoughts.
She refused to join the Kuomintang and always ridiculed and despised it, but after he joined it, she did not despise him, and she seemed to think that he did not join it sincerely either.
She always believed in his patriotism, just as she also loved her country.
She was the only one who believed he had a heart of gold when everyone thought he was a corrupt official.
And he believed that her heart must be like gold too.
Although she had much interaction with the Japanese, she had always hated them deeply in her heart, and she had once said that she would kill all the Japanese, that there was not a single innocent Japanese, and that the best Japanese were the ones who were already dead.
Although there were many foreigners in the city, she just hated the Japanese the most. But when she looked into her past, no Japanese seemed to have offended her. He once asked, and she said it was because the Japanese were too close to China.
Zhu Yuyan: “If you sleep on the side of the couch, how can you allow others to snore? These countries that are too close to China will do the most harm to China once they commit a bad offense, and such enemies must not be tolerated.”
He has been applying to his superiors to develop her, but they say that he may be disturbed by his feelings and tell him not to get emotionally involved. He was afraid that it would hinder her future development, so he didn’t dare to mention it more.
But because of the necessity to keep this secret, it became the biggest shadow between the couple. Had it been peacetime, there might not have been so much danger between the two. But now that the outside world was full of dangers, and there were tired killing machines everywhere, it would be a shame to have another secret between him and Yan Yan, in case the two of them developed a grudge because of it.
Now that Yan Yan didn’t say or ask, he couldn’t help but think more.
But she asked and said, how could he answer.
For the first time, Su Chunjun did not dare to go upstairs.
Zhu Yuyan found Mr. Su sitting in meditation in the locker room, never imagining that it was because of an incident ten days ago. She had wanted not to disturb his practice, but she had to make another trip to Yamamoto’s house tomorrow, so she had to come and be the one to pull him down to the red earth.
She knocked on the dressing room door and walked in saying, “Are you having trouble finding your socks? I’m going to see Ms. Jin tomorrow, do you have any instructions?”
Su Chunjun hurriedly stood up and bounded to his feet, desperately pulling his brain out of a muddle to think, “Meet her? There’s nothing going on lately, there’s no need to go, the more you go the more dangerous it is.”
Zhu Yuyan sighed, “It’s precisely because there’s nothing going on that I need to go, to keep in touch. After all, from Yamamoto’s point of view, I want to borrow Ms. Jin’s power.”
Su Chunjun knew this couldn’t be stopped, especially since his and Suzuki Saburo’s smuggling had been getting more and more prosperous under Yamamoto’s water release recently.
But it gave him a feeling of betraying Zhu Yuyan, so he had been very uncomfortable lately.
Zhu Yuyan: “Don’t worry, I’ll be fine.”