Li Qinglin took the letter handed over by Pan Kewei and smiled and said, "You can read it after reading it. Anyway, this is not a secret. You also know the relationship between Nokawa and I, it's just that."

Li Qinglin didn't say this casually, he deliberately said it to Pan Kewei.

Nokawa is a Japanese spy and he dates him as "Junji Kobayashi". Although this is with Pan Kewei's consent, it is best to let Pan Kewei know the truth about any contact with him, including such letters. Otherwise, a suspect of colluding with the enemy may fall on his head immediately. Li Qinglin can die in battle on the battlefield, but he must not be suspected by his side because of being wronged.

Opening the envelope and unfolding the letter paper, Li Qinglin read it carefully. The letter brought by Pan Ke can only be regarded as a letter from Nokawa, which is about business matters, and this business is also related to the arrival of Sun Dianying's troops.

The Military Commission gave Sun Dianying the number of the new Fifth Army, and the food and salary supply were also issued according to the posts of a B-type army. However, at present, Sun Dianying's troops were rapidly expanded, and Sun Dianying's new Fifth Army had a serious shortage of food and salary.

When Sun Dianying was young, he had done everything in smuggling and selling drugs. In order to raise military funds, he even exploded the tombs of Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi and openly stole the funeral objects inside. Now that his troops lack food and salary, his eyes once again focused on drugs, which was to start selling opium.

Since the British imported opium into China with their strong ships, powerful guns, opium poisoning has endangered Chinese people for more than one day or two. Although the National Government and the Japanese and puppets strictly prohibited the cultivation and sale of opium, it is all official articles. At present, a large amount of opium has been planted on both sides of the Kuomintang-controlled and occupied areas. Especially in Japan, for the sake of the selfishness of the country, their own interests, to achieve the spiritual and physical harm of the people, they used the secret service agencies to control some so-called trading companies and conduct a large number of opium transactions on China.

As early as before September 18, Japanese merchants entered Northeast China and North China. At that time, Japan exported some goods to China, but these were far from satisfying the desires of militarists. They began to open jiyuan and tobacco shops in Northeast China and North China in an organized manner to obtain a large amount of profits from it.

In addition to various trading companies controlled by the Japanese and puppet secret agencies in the early days, the most famous one during the Anti-Japanese War was the so-called Central China Hongji Shantang controlled by the Japanese and puppets. The boss of Hongji Shantang was Sheng Wenyi, a son of a noble family, and the actual control of them was the Japanese secret agencies "Ri Mi Agency", and its leader was the Japanese spy agent Ri Mi Agency.

Riki Mizuki, a native of Fukuoka, Japan, became a senior spy in the fourth lesson of the Japanese Kwantung Army Staff (Manchuria Policy Section) in 1931. He pretended to be the first editor-in-chief of the Manchuria Communications Agency, "Manchuria News Agency", and has been engaged in collecting intelligence, propaganda and disintegration.

After the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance, in order to meet the Japanese military's demand for huge military expenditures, Rimifu conspired with the Japanese major spy Masahiko Kamba and Satoshi Kyosaki, who set up a very special secret agency in Shanghai - Rimifu. After the establishment of the Rimifu agency, he immediately controlled the so-called Central China Hongji Shantang to specialize in the crime opium transactions against China.

After the establishment of Hongji Shantang, there was no sign, but it was rampant in the occupied areas of the Japanese and puppets. Because with the special force of the Lijian Agency, the special force behind it, the wooden box for transporting opium was pasted with the seal of the "Hongji Shantang", the Japanese and puppet troops, police, Xian, and others along the way did not even dare to touch it.

Including Hongji Shantang, companies, trading companies and companies controlled by all Japanese people, large and small, set up tobacco shops in the Japanese and puppet-occupied areas and established so-called "local business", using means of transportation, sales, collection and quarrel, monopolizing most of the opium business in the occupied areas. The Japanese secret service agencies took severe punishment measures for the Japanese people to smoke opium, and the Chinese people to smoke opium, which encouraged and provided convenience. Therefore, these opium-selling agencies have made extensive money, directly providing a large amount of war money for the Japanese and puppets.

In the opium industry, various opiums also have differences in quality and price. Yuntu from Yunnan is recognized as the best product, Sichuan from Sichuan is second, and opium produced in other regions is the second.

At this time, due to the influence of the war, two opiums in the Central Plains were rarely seen on the market. The addicts had to settle for the second best and sucked red soil from the Northeast and Rehe River. However, because of the poor quality and heavy toxins, addicts generally did not like it. The Japanese ronin in China refined them and made white flour and red* pills for the poor tobacco to suck.

The war has made it impossible to traffic in large quantities from Yunnan and Sichuan. For a period of time, only red clay was provided in the market in the occupied areas, and sometimes the supply of goods was in short supply. After Sun Dianying's troops arrived in Lin County, they immediately used their own arms to sell opium from northwest regions such as Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi and other places.

Although the quality of opium produced in these areas is not good, it is still one level higher than red clay, and it is comparable to red clay in price. Therefore, the opium sales business of Sun Dianying's troops is becoming increasingly prosperous, which not only raised a large amount of military expenditure for his troops, but also had a serious impact on the opium business of the Japanese and puppets in northern Henan.

As a Japanese spy, Nokawa naturally did not want to see this situation. This time he personally wrote to the Asia Trading Company to do an opium sales business. On the one hand, it was because of the strategic needs of the Japanese army. He wanted to use the Asia Trading Company's business to curb Sun Dianying's business; on the other hand, it was for himself, because such a huge profit would also bring him a lot of money to the shareholder.

After reading the letter, Li Qinglin smiled and said, "It seems that it's impossible not to do this business. Brother Pan, we are all opium dealers soon. This is a violation of the regulations of the National Government. If I, a national army officer, become a tobacco dealer, if I know about it, I will be beheaded."

Pan Ke curled his lips and said, "The National Government has issued many regulations, but which one has been implemented without any compromise? Let's talk about our Military Control Commission. Boss Dai has checkpoints in various places in the Kuomintang-controlled District. On which day did not release all kinds of prohibited materials?"

"Brother Pan, you have experience in this kind of business. I think you should do it. We just need to make a profit." Li Qinglin really didn't want to be a drug dealer, so he threw this hot potato to Pan Kewei...
Chapter completed!