"Captain Qu, who are you? He said no on the phone and asked you to come to me."

Lai Gang, director of the Guangxi Provincial Security Department, who was reviewing documents, asked with a strong Cantonese accent.

"Aren't I afraid that I can't explain clearly on the phone?"

Qu Sili closed the door and found a stool to sit down:

"I won't hide it from you. I'm not a businessman, but a big shot wants to see you."

"I knew he wasn't a businessman." Lai Gang put down his pen: "Yeah, what's your background?"

Qu Sili said mysteriously: "Have you heard of this man, Meng Shaoyuan?"

"Who is that? Meng Shaoyuan?" Lai Gang frowned: "I remember, he is from the military commander, right?"

"Yes, that's him."

"I think I'm some big shot, just a little spy." Lai Gang dismissed it: "Even Dai Li, they have to be polite when they see me, who is he?"

"Director Lai, don't worry, just listen to what I have to say."

Qu Sili continued: "I don't know if you have heard of it, but Miss Kong has a close relationship with him."

Lai Gang nodded: "I heard that they knew each other when they were in Nanjing. It seems that they have a good relationship."

Qu Sili came closer and whispered: "I have news here. The eldest lady does not call Meng Shaoyuan by his name every time, but calls him, this scoundrel, stinking scoundrel."

"really?"

"Absolutely true!"

Lai Gang fell silent.

This scoundrel, stinking scoundrel, sounds like a curse word, but most of the time it is not.

Especially, when a woman says these words to a man, the meaning is profound.

"Did Meng Shaoyuan say what he would do when he saw me?" Lai Gang finally asked.

"I didn't say anything. I just said that there is a top-secret situation related to Team Leader Wan. Moreover, he repeatedly told me to keep it secret and not let Team Leader Wan know about it. Otherwise, I'm afraid it will hinder your future."

Is it harmful to your future?

Lai Gang thought about it for a while: "Go right away and arrange to meet at my house on Yinxiu Road in three hours."

"yes."

Qu Sili quickly stood up and left.

The reason why Lai Gang agreed to meet Meng Shaoyuan was that he wanted to hear what happened that would hinder his future.

Secondly, he is a flatterer himself.

The secret of being a flatterer is that you may not have the opportunity to please a big shot, but you must not offend that big shot.

Since the relationship between Meng Shaoyuan and the eldest lady was extraordinary, he had to meet her once he came to Guilin no matter what.

…

Lai Gang owns several properties in Guilin.

Yinxiu Road is just one of them.

Arranging to meet here can not only increase confidentiality, but also make both parties appear affectionate.

We all met at home.

This is something Lai Gang has carefully considered.

When he first met Meng Shaoyuan, although he was mentally prepared, he did not expect that this legendary agent of the Military Command Bureau would be so young.

When the two met for the first time, it was nothing more than polite greetings.

For the sake of the eldest lady, Lai Gang was quite polite to Meng Shaoyuan.

After chatting for a while, Lai Gang gradually brought the topic to the main topic: "Director Meng came all the way to Guilin and was so anxious to see me. He must have some advice."

"In front of Director Lai, how can you dare to talk about advice?" Meng Shaoyuan said humbly: "Director Lai is the director. Although I am also the director, I am not the same as the director of Director Lai.

You must never call me Director Meng again, otherwise others will think we are equals. You can call me Xiao Meng or Shao Yuan."

Such a low profile made Lai Gang very fond of him: "Okay, okay, it's up to you. Calling you Xiao Meng will make us feel closer."

"That's right, Director Lai." Meng Shaoyuan continued: "Since Director Lai asked, I won't beat around the bush. Director Lai, do you still remember the Lin Shiliang smuggling case?"

Lai Gang nodded slightly.

Such a major case happened not long ago, so how could he, Lai Gang, not remember it?

Lin Shiliang was Kong Xiangxi's man. He had won Kong Xiangxi's trust and held great power.

This person went on a large scale smuggling and was eventually caught by Dai Li.

Originally, he was only sentenced to life imprisonment, but it turned out that he was sentenced to death!

So just a few months ago, Lin Shiliang was executed.

Later, Dai Li was dismissed from the position of director of the Anti-Smuggling Administration, probably to protect Kong Xiangxi's face.

However, this incident caused great shock within the Kuomintang Party.

Even Lin Shiliang was killed, who else could not be killed?

As soon as he heard about Lin Shiliang, Lai Gang was immediately fascinated.

"Although Lin Shiliang was shot, the smuggling trend has not been curbed at all." Meng Shaoyuan looked solemn:

"It has become a common phenomenon for all group armies and war zones to harbor smuggling and trafficking in Japanese goods. In the northwest, the national army harbored traitorous businessmen, purchasing furs in Yulin and other places and smuggling them to the Japanese army, and taking a cut of the profits.

The National Army in Hubei set up checkpoints on both sides of the Yangtze River. They were called inspections, but they were actually plucking hair from smuggled goods: grain smuggled from south to north into occupied areas cost 3-5 yuan per load, and cotton cost 20-5 yuan per load.

30 yuan, tung oil is 50 yuan per barrel.

Do you think the government really doesn’t know about the Japanese goods smuggled from the enemy-occupied areas from north to south to the Kuomintang-controlled areas? Soap costs 15 yuan per box, and cigarettes cost 5 yuan per carton. Are you really blind?"

Lai Gang didn't respond. He guessed that something big was going to happen. He just listened to Meng Shaoyuan's words:

"This is still a small place, but now in some places, there is simply no law. The Pacific War broke out, the US military had the upper hand, and Japan suffered from a serious shortage of supplies.

A large number of Japanese cargo ships were sunk. In order to make up for the lost tonnage, the Japanese army set up wooden ship manufacturing plants in Shantou, Xiamen, Putuo Mountain and other places to build flat-bottomed sailing ships on a large scale.

The high-quality wood for making large sailing ships was mainly in the rear area. The Japanese army decided to take out the stored cotton cloth and use barter to lure the purchase of wood in the rear area. After receiving this information, the U.S. Navy asked the government to immediately ban the outflow of wood.

However, our national army officers are not like the Yankees: cotton cloth is a scarce commodity in the rear area, and you can make several times the profit immediately by smuggling it in.

The national army began to forcibly requisition or purchase timber in the defense zone at low prices. The local office handed it over to gangs and sold it to traitor merchants. The merchants then passed it on to the Japanese army, and the Japanese army used cotton cloth to settle accounts with the merchants.

In this way, the national army, local offices, gangs, profiteers, and the Japanese army formed a complete closed loop of the industrial chain.

In AH Jing County, the local garrison smuggled more than 600 large fir logs to the Japanese and puppet troops at one time. In the Qingge River and Qinchuan River sections alone, the local garrison smuggled more than 40,000 large logs in a few months, and the garrison itself

Even those who are responsible for the blockade along the river are the only ones who can smuggle large timber in such a big way and guard and steal it, so of course they are very handy."

Speaking of this, after a brief pause, Meng Shaoyuan's tone suddenly became stern:
Chapter completed!