The public's gold had vanished, and small-scale riots broke out across Japan. However, with the government and military applying pressure together, the matter was quickly suppressed, and the newspapers carried no reports of it.
Japan deployed large numbers of police and soldiers to conduct an extensive, intensive search, yet they still found no trace of the robbers. They could not even determine which unit the robbers dressed in Japanese military uniforms had come from.
Jiang Hao walked down the street and occasionally saw Japanese police officers hurrying past. Whenever they spotted someone suspicious, they would step forward to interrogate them, making the public extremely nervous.
From time to time, he could also see trucks packed with Japanese Army soldiers roaring past.
Jiang Hao had returned to his original appearance. Dressed in a sharply tailored suit, he looked exceptionally handsome.
When he arrived on Embassy Street, the area was noticeably quieter. He entered an English-style café and ordered a coffee and a plate of desserts. The waitress who brought them over on a tray was a Japanese woman. She was fairly pretty, and anyone who could work at a British café had surely been carefully selected.
Jiang Hao took out a two-Japanese Yen bill and handed it to her.
"A tip."
The girl's eyes immediately lit up.
At that time, a Second Lieutenant earned only seventy Japanese Yen a month, while an ordinary Japanese worker earned merely thirty or forty Japanese Yen. A waitress could make only around twenty Japanese Yen a month.
However, prices in Japan were also very low at the time.
First-grade rice cost 0.6 Japanese Yen per liter, third-grade rice cost 0.5 Japanese Yen per liter, pork cost 0.6 Japanese Yen per catty, and chicken cost 0.5 Japanese Yen per catty.
A serving of ramen cost 0.2