Spy Wars: I have space, but I choose to work alone

Ma Liang was not angry at Inaba Shiro's pretense of being confused, but said, half threateningly, half remindingly:

"Manager Wang, for the benefit of the company, risked his life to go deep into the areas where law and order has not been completely restored. He has made great contributions. The company can't just stand by and watch him die, right? After all, most of the company's supplies are provided by Manager Wang, don't you think? Mr. Inaba?"

Hearing what Ma Liang said, Inaba Shiro, who had been prepared, relaxed and fell on the huge sofa chair, pretending to take a deep puff of the cigar and said awkwardly this time:

"Manager Wu, this time it wasn't our Japanese people who arrested him, it was the people from the newly established Wang government's secret service headquarters who arrested him. You also know that Manager Wang has been in and out of the red zone for a long time and is indeed suspected of colluding with the Communists. The Empire and the Wang government are in a cooperative relationship. We are not in the same system as the secret service headquarters and we can't communicate with them. We have passed on the message that as long as they give us 15% of the dry shares, they will be willing to release Manager Wang."

"Manager Wang has indeed made great contributions to our BAT company. I spent a lot of effort to convince the higher-ups to give out 5% of the shares. I just have to ask Manager Wu to persuade another major shareholder to give out % of the shares. In this way, the people from the main agent headquarters will also be included as shareholders of our company. This business can only last long, right?"

So you were waiting for me here!

Ma Liang smiled. Others might not know what the Wang government’s secret service headquarters was, but wouldn’t Ma Liang, a professional intelligence officer, know it?

The secret agent headquarters is No. 76, which must appear in spy war dramas. Because its location is No. 76, Jessfield Road in the west of Shanghai, it is abbreviated as "No. 76".

At first, the Japanese intelligence organization could not stand the mutual assassination with the killers of the Military Control Commission, so Doi Yuan took the lead in instructing the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Military Control Commission spies who surrendered to the enemy to establish a traitor spy organization to directly deal with the Military Control Commission who liked to play assassinations.

Anyway, those who died were all Chinese people, so the Japanese army didn't care.

Later, during the time when Ma Liang was training the high-level special agent class, the famous erotic telegram was still issued, and those who wanted to surrender to the enemy had to surrender to the enemy.

The Japanese army was overjoyed at the fact that the second-in-command of the National Government openly surrendered to the enemy. The Japanese army was already extremely resistant to the direct rule of the Chinese people in the occupied areas.

After being assassinated by Yaksha, the Japanese army was afraid that Yaksha would kill this precious baby, so they mobilized a large number of troops and flew Wang directly to the mainland.

Then they immediately used Wang's influence to establish the Wang regime to rule the Japanese-occupied areas and reduce the resistance sentiment in the occupied areas.

In order to strengthen the newly established weak Wang regime, the Japanese army assigned No. 76 to the Wang regime. The weak Wang government immediately regarded this spy organization as one of the pillars of its puppet rule and established a spy headquarters together with its own spy organization. (The fictional timeline speeds up this process, don't bring it into reality)

Although this spy headquarters claimed to receive direct command from the Wang regime, its actual owner was still the Xiaorizi intelligence agency.

There is a military police detachment led by Warrant Officer Shibuya stationed in "No. 76". Its duty is to monitor the traitors and spies in "No. 76".

Even though the Japanese army only sent a warrant officer to No. 76, the leader of No. 76 had to bow and nod when he saw this warrant officer.

Before "No. 76" took any major action, it not only had to inform the Japanese military secret service, but also had to send personnel from the Japanese military secret service to supervise the implementation.

How dare dog No. 76 steal meat from the Japanese Expeditionary Force Headquarters and the Iwai Mansion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?

In other words, Inaba Shiro's words might be able to fool others, but it would be wishful thinking to fool Ma Liang. He just wanted to get the shares in Ma Liang's hands.

It is said to be given to No. 76, but in fact it will return to the hands of the Japanese army.

Ma Liang did not express his opinion immediately, but used Wang Xingyun's supply as a bargaining chip again and continued:

"I can report this problem to the major shareholder. I can't guarantee the specific result, but it will take time for me to contact the major shareholder. Without the supply from Manager Wang, how will the company's business be managed during this period?"

Although he didn't hear the answer he wanted to hear, Inaba Shiro still pretended to be relaxed and said:

"Manager Wu has been away from the company for too long and doesn't know that we have opened up a new source of goods. The uncle of Sanmu, who you just had beaten up, is our company's second largest supplier. Combined with our inventory, there will be no shortage of goods in the short term."

Inaba Shiro blocked Ma Liang's words.

"Good! Good! Good!"

Ma Liang was also very angry. After saying three good things, he found an excuse to leave BAT company, but he took Tang Bin with him.

After Ma Liang left, Inaba Shiro made a phone call and respectfully reported to the other end:

"Sir, I have already told Manager Wu, but I don't understand why you don't just ask him for it. After all, we are the masters now. I don't think he and the people behind him dare to say anything. Letting him hold a few points of shares is already a blessing, but it's unnecessary."

A voice that sounded very familiar to Ma Liang replied:

"This is confidential, please don't ask about it. While controlling BAT, you must also respect this man named Wu. Don't make things too difficult for him. You must give him the money he deserves. He will be of great use to the empire!"

Walking on the road and listening to the monitored conversation coming from the miniature earphones in his ears, Ma Liang was also very surprised and thought:

"Iwai is such a jerk, I never thought he had the guts to do this!"

After chatting with Tang Bin, who was familiar with the business of BAT companies, in a cafe for an hour, Ma Liang had a general understanding of the current situation of BAT companies.

Now it is the 39th year. With Hans's frantic expansion of armaments in Europe, the demand for strategic materials such as tung oil and red bristle, which are special products of the Celestial Empire, has skyrocketed, and the prices have naturally risen.

BAT's trade volume has been rising rapidly like a rocket. It used to take several months to reach a trade volume of one million, but now it can reach a trade volume of more than one million in a month.

From the initial promise of Ma Liang to provide at least US$50,000 in net profit per month, now he can make more than US$700,000 in net profit per month.

Money moves people's hearts!

The Japanese military's pay is notoriously low, and their desire for money is something that others cannot understand.

The largest group in the Japanese army were ordinary soldiers. Their monthly salaries were 3 yen per month for an indoctrination soldier, 6 yen per month for a private, 9 yen per month for a private first class, and 13.5 yen per month for a sergeant.

It's not intuitive to look at it this way, so let's compare it with the prices during the Showa period.

At that time, a pound of beef cost 2.3 yen, a large bottle of beer was 2 yen, and a chicken was 3.6 yen.

In other words, a lowest-level Japanese soldier’s monthly salary could not afford to buy a chicken.