Chapter 34

Many banks in Beiping City had already closed, especially after the Japanese and the United States went to war, following which foreign banks were mostly forced to shut down by the Japanese. The banks still open were mostly larger ones: the Japanese Yokohama Specie Bank, the Yokohama-Hui Bank, and Zhonglian Bank, which was established by the puppet government. Qin Shuli looked down on Zhonglian Bank of the puppet government; this bank mainly issued worthless paper like Federal Reserve notes, and its vault likely held very little. If he wanted to cause trouble, he had to target the Japanese Yokohama Specie Bank. He had heard that the Japanese military paid salaries through this bank. True or the other, busting it was all that mattered. The last time Qin Shuli went to Dongbaojiao, he had deliberately passed through East Legation Quarter to observe the Kenpeitai Headquarters, and from the street corner, he had spotted the Yokohama Specie Bank building. The bank was in a straight line less than one kilometer away from the Kenpeitai Headquarters. Once anything happened at the bank, the men from the Kenpeitai Headquarters could provide immediate backup.