(I will update this for all the readers who gave me tips)

As Tang Yan, she acted as a matchmaker for Comrade "Magpie" Zhang Jianglin, and Cheng gained the favor and trust of Kazuo Shimazaki.

Chen Yutang gradually withdrew from the construction of the warehouse at the Hongqiaokou checkpoint.

As Tang Yan's agent, she often cooperates with the Special High Section to carry out investigations on anti-Japanese figures.

She couldn't stay at the Hongqiao checkpoint all day long.

Well, Zhang Jianglin is now quite familiar with Shimazaki Kazuo.

Moreover, since both of them were men, it would be more convenient for them to eat and drink together and find some singing girls to entertain them.

When he was with Shen Yutang, Tang Yan's uncle, Shimazaki Kazuo had to flatter her frequently, for fear of offending her and incurring the blame from Chief Fujin.

In comparison, Shimazaki Kazuo prefers to stay with the big boss Zhang Jianglin.

When the two of them were together, Shimazaki Kazuo didn't have to flatter the other all the time, but Zhang Jianglin had to curry favor with him all the time.

From time to time, he would receive small gifts, and when he went out to eat, drink and treat the singers, it was Boss Zhang who took the initiative to pay the bill.

This kind of life was so comfortable that after a while, Shimazaki Kazuo and Zhang Jianglin really became brothers.

After the relationship between the two became really familiar, Shimazaki Kazuo would tell Zhang Jianglin about his younger brother in Japan when he was drunk.

His younger brother, Jiro Shimazaki, was just a small businessman, his family had no capital, and he was still unmarried.

Most of the money Shimazaki Kazuo made at the Hongqiaoguchi checkpoint was sent back to Japan, hoping to use the money to find a wife for his younger brother.

However, Shimazaki Jiro, who had average business talent, lost all the money he sent to the company.

Shimazaki Kazuo was depressed for a long time, and he didn't know where the way out for his younger brother would be.

Seeing that Zhang Jianglin's business was so big and he was so rich, Shimazaki Kazuo wanted Zhang Jianglin to teach his younger brother how to do business when he got drunk one day.

So, at Zhang Jianglin's suggestion, Kazuo Shimazaki wrote a family letter to Jiro Shimazaki, persuading him to come to Shanghai to do business.

In the letter, according to Zhang Jianglin's suggestion, Shimazaki Kazuo asked Shimazaki Jiro to purchase enough Japanese cigarettes and sake in Japan, and transport them all to Shanghai to sell to Japanese soldiers.

For this purpose, Zhang Jianglin also lent 10,000 yen to Shimazaki Kazuo as the starting capital for his brother Shimazaki Jiro's business.

A whole suitcase filled with Japanese cigarettes and a box of Japanese sake sailed across the ocean to Shanghai.

With the help of his brother, Jiro Shimazaki sold all the Japanese cigarettes and sake at twice the profit in Shimazaki Kazuo's regiment.

After tasting the sweetness, Jiro Shimazaki seemed to have come to his senses.

It was just a bit more hard work, so he started a business of reselling daily necessities between Japan and Shanghai.

During the construction of the warehouse at Hongqiaokou Checkpoint, Shimazaki Jiro traveled back and forth between Japan and Shanghai.

They actually slowly earned 100,000 yen from the 10,000 yen that Zhang Jianglin had lent them.

After returning the 10,000 yen principal borrowed from Zhang Jianglin, Shimazaki Kazuo suggested that his younger brother Shimazaki Jiro become Zhang Jianglin's disciple.

In the future, I will follow him to learn how to do business, so that I can avoid staying in my hometown all the time and being drafted to the battlefield by the military.

Shimazaki Kazuo didn't know whether he would stay in Shanghai forever, nor did he know when he would have to follow the regiment to the front battlefield.

Let me learn how to do business from Zhang Jianglin. Maybe I can become a big businessman in Japan after I become an apprentice.

This is what Kazuo Shimazaki planned for his younger brother Jiro Shimazaki. Jiro Shimazaki also didn't want to be a soldier and just wanted to focus on business.

Therefore, under the strong request of Shimazaki Kazuo and Shimazaki Jiro, Zhang Jianglin had no choice but to accept Shimazaki Jiro, a native of Osaka, as his apprentice.