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Chapter 858 New arrival
Beiping, Xizhimen.

This gate is one of the nine city gates in the inner city. It has been an important gate of Gyeonggi since the Yuan Dynasty, and it was also the gate that the waterwheels that delivered water from Yuquan Mountain to the imperial palace in the Ming and Qing dynasties must pass through, so it is called "Water Gate".

After the Japanese occupied Beiping, they set up checkpoints here to check pedestrians and vehicles entering and leaving the city, and those caught with questionable identities were sent directly to the gendarmerie headquarters at Beiping University.

On this day, a long-distance passenger bus from Hebei Province stopped outside the city gate. At the driver's request, dozens of passengers got off the bus and lined up one by one, and handed over their "good citizen certificates" to the Japanese.

One of them was a young man in a coarse cotton-padded jacket, a dog-skin hat, and carrying a bundle in the middle. When it was his turn, he passed his ID with both hands and bowed to the devil with a rifle.

Contrary to what most people think, it was not the Japanese who first used the Good Citizen Certificate on a large scale, but the Guo Party who "suppressed bandits" in the southwest a few years ago.

The material of the certificate is mostly cloth, and the content includes information such as name, age, place of origin, address, etc. Ordinary people need to find a shop guarantee or a local senior gentry as a guarantee before they can go to the issuing authority to apply for it.

Now this kind of tool to imprison the people is further carried forward by the Japanese, the system is stricter than that of the Guo party, and the content of the certificate of good citizenship is becoming more and more detailed.

Applicants need to go through the household registration screening of the Gendarmerie and Baojia Chief to investigate the name, age, work unit, occupation, original address, reason for moving in or out, friendship relationship, living conditions, etc. of the certificate holder.

If there are discrepancies in the file information, false declarations, intentional or unintentional omissions and concealment, and concealment of changes in family members and employees, the Japanese Gendarmerie will be the focus of investigation.

On top of this, there are so-called special investigation objects, mainly for those people who are suspected of resisting the Japanese. Once they are included in these two lists, there is often only one ending, that is, to choose between prison cells and execution grounds.

After these procedures are completed, photos and fingerprints are required. The Japanese stipulate that, except for those under the age of 12, no photo must be pasted, even the disabled, as long as they can move, and even the blind must paste photos on their documents.

Moreover, this type of photo needs to be taken at a photo studio designated by the pseudo-city government. When taking the photo, the pseudo-insurer must investigate the bottom book according to the household registration and check the appearance to prevent someone from impersonating.

Needless to say, fingerprints, even the facial features of the bearer will be marked on the certificate, such as round face, long face, square face, triangular face, as well as physical features, such as moles, spots, squint, flat nose, Six fingers and so on.

Under such a strict household registration policy, it is difficult to move a single step without a good citizen certificate, and many intelligence personnel of the Guo Party and the underground party have suffered from this.

Besides, the Japanese soldier took the young man's ID and looked it over carefully, looked him up and down, and asked a few simple questions in not-so-fluent Chinese.

For example, what are you doing in Beiping and where do you live? These questions are easy to verify and cannot be faked. The Japanese can verify them by making a few phone calls.

"My (our) Anqiu City was hit by a disaster, and my family has no food. I want to come to Beiping City to find a job."

After listening to the young man, he timidly replied, he kept tugging the burden on his shoulders while speaking, looking very nervous, like a poor boy from the country heading back to the city.

The Japanese soldiers didn't see anything suspicious about this person, the good citizen's certificate was genuine, and there was no sign of modification or obliteration, and the seals of the Anqiu Gendarmerie and the police station were also fine.

Looking at his forehead and tiger's mouth, no traces of wearing a military cap or shooting for a long time were found. He looks like an ordinary Chinese citizen.

Then he beckoned to the distance, and another Japanese soldier came over with a ferocious wolfhound, circled the young man a few times and sniffed it for a long time, and finally let it go.

The devil's action was very fast. It didn't take long for all the passengers to pass the inspection. The coach continued to drive into the city. The young man from Anqiu looked up at the city gate.

On the gate tower, a few Japanese soldiers with half-uncovered military uniforms were squatting on the battlements, leaning on their guns, grinning with thick lips and crooked teeth, looking down and laughing maniacally.

Seeing this, the young man was so frightened that he quickly retracted his head and lowered his head deeply. This made the devils on the city gate even more proud, and the rampant laughter was extremely ear-piercing.

Passing through the city gate smoothly, the bus drove along Xizhimen Street for a while, and finally stopped at the gate of Qianzhang Park.

Before the car was stable, a group of laborers and rickshaw pullers surrounded them, shouting to go to a certain place, but there were very few responders.

There is an old saying in Beiping that the east is rich and the west is rich, and the south is cheap and the north is poor. This refers to the attributes of the main population of Beiping.

In the past, all those who did business in Beiping were willing to go to Dongcheng, so there were many rich people. There were many houses of former nobles in Xicheng, and there were several royal palaces alone, so the east was rich and the west was noble.

As for the poor in the south and the poor in the north, beggars who go to Beiping to beg for food, Liba who do manual labor, and even disaster victims from other places all gather in the alleys in the north to make a living.

Nanjian is an industry problem. Artists such as storytelling, singing, opera and juggling are almost all active in the Tianqiao and Hufang Bridge outside the Qianmen of Nancheng.

It is conceivable that some of these passengers living in Beicheng were willing to spend money to take a car or have their luggage carried. They ignored the shouts to attract customers, and nimbly squeezed out of the crowd and slipped into the alley.

Only the young man stood there at a loss, but looking at the tattered cloth shoes under his feet and the old clothes on his body, the driver and the laborers turned and left decisively.

The other party looked like a poor ghost, and wasting time on such a person might as well go to other places to try their luck. The park that was originally crowded with people quickly became empty.

The young man scratched his head when he saw this, and wandered around the North City with his burden on his back. He walked into one shop after another and asked if he needed a buddy, but the answer he got was no.

Not to mention that it is difficult to do business in times of war and chaos. Shops don’t need to recruit people. Even if they do, they are willing to recruit people who know the basics. Hiring a foreigner is easy to cause trouble.

After searching for a long time, the young man who found nothing squatted on the side of the road, took out a cold steamed bun from his bag and took a bite, which almost broke his front teeth.

"Bah~"

Under the contemptuous gazes of passers-by, he spit, stuffed the cornbread into his neckline and covered it with his body temperature for a while, and finally ate the cornbout, his throat felt as if a blade had been slashed.

As the last crumbs were thrown into his mouth, the young man looked around, got up and mixed into the crowd, came to the sedan chair alley not far away, and knocked on the courtyard door of one of the houses.

"Dengdengdeng..."

Before the knock on the door fell, a woman opened the courtyard door from the inside. She glanced at the other party without saying anything. She turned around and stepped aside. The young man walked in, and the door was gently closed.

After entering the courtyard, the two came to the main room one after the other. Zuo Zhong, who had arrived in Beiping a few days earlier, was sitting cross-legged on the kang reading a book.

"Chunyang, did the journey go smoothly?"

"Report to the deputy director. It went well, but I was interrogated by the devil once at the gate of the city. Just in case, I specially created some activity tracks to make sure no one was following me before I came to connect with you."

The rustic young man is naturally Wu Chunyang. He answered while observing the house in front of him. Compared with the previous safe house, this place is a bit too simple.

The low roof, dim light, mottled walls, and outdated furniture all showed that this room was quite old. Why did the deputy director live in such a place.

This mission is to detect the movement of the Japanese North China Front Army and provide information to the Guojun in Xucheng. To complete this mission, they must break into the top of the Japanese military.

A person who lives in a slum area is not qualified to go to those high-end places. It can be explained once or twice once in a while. If there are too many times, even a fool knows the problem.

Zuo Zhong noticed his actions and patted Kang Yan with a smile: "Sit down, isn't it a little strange why I live here? Then let me ask you, from Jiangcheng to Beiping, you left in the enemy-occupied area Take a lap, what do you think?"

Wu Chunyang was stunned for a moment, and said honestly: "The rich people are still feasting and feasting, and the life of the common people is more difficult, but the city's public security is more orderly and stricter than that of the state management period.

In just a few months, they registered all the population. This kind of mobilization ability is really frightening. If this continues, it will become more and more difficult to carry out work behind the enemy lines. "

Speaking of this, he seemed to understand why the deputy director lived here. To perform tasks in Beiping, where there are eyeliners everywhere, the first thing to do is to perfectly integrate into the city.

There is nothing more complicated than the source of residents, and Beicheng, which is full of three religions and nine streams, is more suitable for lurking, but this will inevitably affect the mission, after all, the circle of contacts of the bottom personnel is limited.

Without waiting for Wu Chunyang to speak, Zuo Zhong continued what he said just now: "This time I came to Beiping, I only picked you and He Yijun, and I didn't choose Gui Youguang, who is better at action, do you know why?

In the past, when we performed similar missions, we either opened a breakthrough from the enemy's high-level, used lust and wealth to buy and instigate key personnel, or used force to seize them.

But the Japanese intelligence agencies are not the crap of the Secret Service Headquarters. They will definitely protect the intelligence before the war starts. If we still use the old ways, it is easy to hit the gun.

I want to see if I can use a different method to get the information I want at the least cost, preferably without the Japanese knowing about it, you understand now.

The reason why I live here is also the need of this plan, well, Chunyang, hurry up and rest, go out to work with me tomorrow morning, and tell the outside world that you are my distant cousin. "

"Yes, cousin."

Wu Chunyang replied seriously when he heard the words, secretly guessing in his heart what kind of job it is to obtain such high-level information on military (separated) deployment, could it be a servant of the headquarters?

(End of this chapter)