Chapter 155 Contact person

The Kuomintang's smuggling activities relied on a complex network of more than 20 major import and export merchants in Chun'an behind enemy lines. From 1942 to 1943, these companies jointly formed the "Importers and Exporters Association", with Zhao Zhiyou, the former mayor of Hangzhou, as the director, and Wang Lieyan, who was in charge of many businesses of the Sino-American Cooperation Institute, as the deputy director.This association has monopolized rice, soybeans, tung oil, bristle, rosin, ramie, moso bamboo and wood in the form of joint ventures, and cooperated with the "Lingnan Company" (belonging to the Japanese Plum Blossom Agency) and "Jiji" organized by Japan and Wang's pseudo-secret agency. "Zhuang" (another Japanese secret service agency), "Liancheng Company" (belonging to the Wang Puppet Political Security Bureau) and "Southeast Trading Company" (belonging to the Wang Puppet Secret Service Headquarters) colluded in trade, exchanging western medicine, cotton cloth, cigarettes, rubber tires, hardware and other daily necessities.

The KMT company worked closely with Dai Li's traffic auditors.For example, "Meifeng Company" was actually established by Zhang Xingbai, director of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui Border District Management Office. "Company" (manager Wang Lieyan, funded by Bank of Zhejiang) in a joint venture with a private investment of 1 million yuan (total investment 11 million yuan) to monopolize the trade in ramie, rosin and tung oil. The same is true for Zhao Shirui, director of Zhejiang East Freight Management Office.Together with the deputy directors in charge of local supervision, he organized "Xinglongzhuang", using timber, rosin, bristles, rice, soybeans, tung oil, asphalt, etc. The Japanese and counterfeit companies exchanged cigarettes, faucets, hardware, western medicine, and rubber tires.These goods were transported back and forth to the Kuomintang-controlled area by the Pudong Area Operation Corps led by the "Loyalty and Nation Salvation Army" Zhang Huifang and his brother Zhang Junliang (sound), and Lu Anshi's East Zhejiang Coastal Force.

Zhao Shirui made a fortune in smuggling in Zhejiang, until Dai Li's subordinates informed Dai Li of his private profiteering.General Dai was so angry that he arrested Zhao in 1945 and locked him in the US military guest house in Huilongsi (Fujian) in Jianyang. He used 14 Dodge trucks to transport away the materials confiscated from Zhao with a value of 40 million yuan at that time. .Zhao himself was sentenced to five years in prison by a military court, but he did not complete his sentence because Dai Li's successor, Mao Renfeng, released Zhao from prison in 1946.