Spy Wars: I am the Captain of the Military Police

The fundamental reason why Japan launched an aggressive war against China was to plunder resources and land.

The army attacked cities and seized territories at the front, and when it came to plundering resources, direct violent plunder was only one of the means.

Larger-scale resource plundering is achieved by establishing so-called "national policy companies" and using "soft warfare" such as economic aggression to achieve the goal of fully controlling strategic resources.

Take Manchuria for example. Through more than 200 "national policy companies" such as "Manchuria Railway", "Manchuria Coal" and "Manchuria Industry", Japan, like a greedy wolf, directly controlled the coal, iron ore, oil and other precious resources in Northeast and North China.

It can be said that these large-scale Japanese companies are the front-line combat tools for resource plundering.

In contrast, the predatory resource appropriation in which the military participates has become a superficial phenomenon, behind which it is the big Japanese companies that actually control everything.

These Japanese companies plundered China's wealth as much as possible through a series of insidious means, such as monopolizing the market, manipulating finance, implementing forced savings policies, and compressing people's consumption capacity.

Moreover, the plundering of China's resources by these Japanese companies is not a simple commercial act, but a total war economic system backed by military force, based on national policies and using businessmen as execution tools.

In this huge aggressive economic system, the merchant network deeply embedded resource plundering into the invasion chain through monopoly operations, smuggling activities, financial manipulation and other means, becoming the core support for Japan to achieve its goal of "using China to support Japan".

During this process, the lives of ordinary Chinese people fell into dire straits, local industry and commerce suffered a devastating blow, and natural resources were plundered.

In this series of aggressive acts, the military police, who would later become the "emperor" of the occupied areas, were undoubtedly the most solid backing for these Japanese companies. They would be responsible for suppressing all opposition voices and safeguarding the interests of those major Japanese companies in China.

At this moment, Zhou Zhengqing really felt like he had suddenly realized something!

He kept thinking, who was he? He was the commander of the military police! The Emperor had reached an agreement with the military. Basically, the military police had been separated from the military and was directly responsible only to the Emperor.

Moreover, most of the big companies in Japan have the shadow of aristocracy.

If I could bring all these people together, it would surely form an incomparably powerful force! Thinking of this, Zhou Zhengqing's thoughts ran wildly like a wild horse, as if he had already seen the scene of controlling everything in the future.

But soon, Zhou Zhengqing interrupted his thoughts forcibly, thinking that he was thinking too far.

He patted his cheeks gently, trying to calm himself down.

But although Zhou Zhengqing tried hard to remain calm, his violently beating heart betrayed his inner excitement.

It took a long time for Zhou Zhengqing to calm down.

"Reiko, I think it is necessary to send a telegram to Matsuoka Yosuke of the Manchurian Railway." Zhou Zhengqing said, frowning slightly and lost in thought, "Just say... uh... just say..." He tried hard to organize his words, trying to find a suitable wording.

Lingzi gently covered the corner of her mouth and said with a smile: "Master, you want to see Matsuoka Yosuke, right? Matsuoka Yosuke was born in the old shogunate family of Choshu Tsukuro. He was once a samurai family, but after the Meiji Restoration, the family had declined.

He himself is actually a representative of the bureaucratic system that emerged after the Meiji Restoration."

Lingzi paused slightly and continued, "Master, you don't need to find any excuses or reasons for asking him to come to Tianjin. He will just feel honored and will come to see you as soon as possible.

Just like when you were injured in Harbin, he needed General Tojo’s introduction to come visit you, otherwise he wouldn’t even be qualified to talk to you.”

"Well, after all, he is the president of the South Manchuria Railway. We should give him some face. Just say that I invite him to visit Tianjin." Zhou Zhengqing thought for a while and finally said.

After Lingzi nodded in agreement, Zhou Zhengqing continued, "When the person arrives, you accompany me to have a good talk with him. We want to intercept Manchukuo's export trade, and this matter cannot be done without the Manchurian Railway. Oh, by the way, call Shen Xilin as well."

"Hi! Matsuoka Yosuke will definitely be happy to cooperate with the young master." Reiko nodded slightly and agreed confidently.

Then, Lingzi seemed to be suddenly struck by some inspiration, her eyes sparkling, and her tone full of excitement: "Master, I almost forgot, this time I brought back something good for you."

"Good stuff?" Zhou Zhengqing raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced at the suitcase on the ground, and asked casually, "What's in the suitcase?"

"Yes." Lingzi answered crisply, with a proud look on her face.

She walked lightly to the suitcase, placed her slender fingers lightly on the handle of the suitcase, and with a little force, she lifted the suitcase steadily, and then carefully placed it on the desk.

The slender fingers pressed lightly on the lock of the suitcase, and with a "click", the lock was unlocked.

After opening the lid of the suitcase, Lingzi turned the suitcase and pushed it in front of Zhou Zhengqing.

When Lingzi was taking the suitcase, Zhou Zhengqing couldn't help but have wild thoughts in his mind.

He was still thinking, could it be that Lingzi brought him a box of money? After all, with Lingzi's status and ability, it wouldn't be difficult for her to get some money.

However, when the box was opened and he saw what was inside, he couldn't help but be stunned, and a hint of disappointment flashed in his eyes.

But then, his pupils contracted sharply, and his eyes were instantly attracted by the items in the box.

He reached into the box and took out a vial of syringe as thick as a thumb.

The vial of penicillin looked ordinary, with a simple label on it that clearly read "Penicillin" in Japanese and English.

Despite this, these simple words seemed to carry a mysterious power that instantly made Zhou Zhengqing's heart beat wildly.

Zhou Zhengqing's eyes passed over the vial of Syringe in his hand and slowly looked inside the suitcase.

Inside the suitcase, rows of neatly stacked vials, more than a hundred in number, glowed softly under the soft light, as if to convey their extraordinary significance.

This is 1937! Penicillin from 1937!!!

At this moment, Lingzi's voice sounded at the right time: "Master, this is the penicillin newly extracted by the family's pharmaceutical laboratory in Okinawa.

At your request, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, pathologist Howard Florey, and biochemist Ernst Chain have begun further testing and extraction of penicillin in the Okinawa laboratory.

With the strong support of family funds, their research progress has been greatly improved.

Thanks to the original strain that Fleming had carefully preserved, they successfully cultivated it and extracted penicillin crystals using freeze-drying.

Although there are still certain difficulties in achieving large-scale mass production at present, there is no problem in extracting small amounts.

The contents of this suitcase are all the current products of the laboratory.

What several experts mean is that they want you to conduct clinical trials to see the specific effects of penicillin on the human body.

I happened to be on the Takazaki family's cargo ship when I ran into someone from the family who was escorting medicine to China, so I brought it to you on the way."

Zhou Zhengqing held the small glass bottle in both hands, his eyes flashing with excitement, as if what he held in his hands was not a potion, but some rare treasure.

His fingers gently stroked the bottle, his mind full of thoughts and his face full of surprise.