Kitaoka Ryoko quickly bowed and replied loudly, "Yes, thank you for your support. I will do my best to complete this plan!"
"Alright, don't take this failure to heart. Failure is the mother of success. The growth of an intelligence officer is naturally accompanied by bloodshed and lessons. However, I still hope you can be more cautious, after all, the loss is of an excellent agent of the Empire," Taro Sagawa encouraged gently.
"Hi!"
"Oh, right, there's one more thing!" Sagawa Taro coughed lightly, carefully choosing his words. "I heard that a few days ago, when you went to receive the legal tender, you had a conflict with customs officers at the customs dock, and even pointed a gun at the manager of Fujiwara Company. Is that true?"
As expected, the matter was brought to Section Chief Sagawa's attention. Kitaoka Ryoko was secretly annoyed. Several days had passed, and she thought that these people had all given up, but now it seemed that she had overestimated their magnanimity.
Kitaoka Ryoko bowed and replied, "That is indeed the case, but it was not our fault. There was something else going on between the customs and the Fujiwara Company that affected our reception mission, which is why I had a conflict with them."
Kitaoka Ryoko recounted the events of that day in detail and then asked again, "Section Chief, did Chairman Fujiwara raise objections to you? I can apologize to him in person."
Sagawa Taro chuckled, waved his hand, and explained gently, "You're overthinking it. Chairman Fujiwara is a gentle and polite person. Despite his prominent position, he has always maintained sufficient respect for our military. Actually, the Customs filed a complaint with the Military Police Headquarters. They said that you used the privileges of the Special Higher Police to forcibly interfere with their normal work arrangements. For this, Colonel Katsuta Takashi, the Commander of the Military Police, was very dissatisfied. I've seen you busy with the Eclipse Project these past few days, so I haven't bothered you. Team Leader Kitaoka, you've just arrived in Shanghai and don't understand many things yet. In Shanghai, there are many intelligence agencies of the Empire, and their powers and functions often conflict. You should be more careful when you take action and not make things too difficult for me!"
At this point, Taro Sagawa felt he was dampening his subordinates' enthusiasm, so he added, "Of course, I'm just reminding you, you don't need to take it too seriously!"
After all, Kitaoka Ryoko still has the formidable figure of Tsuchihara Keiji behind her, so Sagawa Taro still needs to take good care of her.
Kitaoka Ryoko, however, felt somewhat unwilling. She said, "Please rest assured, I will pay more attention in the future. However, there is something else I would like to report to you."
"What's going on?"
"It is about the Fujiwara Company, Section Chief. I have already sent people to investigate the Fujiwara Company in secret. The chairman, Fujiwara Tomohito, although he runs a normal business on the surface, he is secretly engaged in a large amount of smuggling activities. The volume of smuggled goods is huge, involving all kinds of controlled items. What's more, they not only carry out smuggling activities themselves, but also use their powerful background to forcibly acquire smuggled goods from other Japanese chambers of commerce. They have also swallowed up several smuggling chambers, attempting to control the price of controlled items and unify the Shanghai underground market. Their power is growing more and more."
According to the reports I gave to the personnel in the Detective Division, the four largest smuggling companies in Shanghai are, in addition to the British company Plint, the American company Fleisher, and the French company Doyle. On the Japanese side, Fujiwara Company is the only dominant player, and they also transport the largest volume of goods.
The other three foreign companies, all headquartered in the French Concession and the International Settlement, were actually representatives of various consulates, making them difficult for us to trace at the moment. However, the Fujiwara Company was located in downtown Shanghai, so if we…”
"Enough!" Sagawa Taro slammed his hand on the table and shouted angrily.
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