Pine chamber mechanism.

Matsumuro Yoshitaka looked at the thank-you letter sent from the Nanjing secret service and looked thoughtful.

The Nanjing secret service was very grateful for the help provided by the Matsumuro agency, which allowed them to capture and kill more than fifty resistance elements within two days. In addition to the undercover resistance elements who evacuated voluntarily, they proudly said at the end of the letter that from then on, all the resistance elements in Nanjing had been eliminated.

Feeling sad inside, Matsumuro Yoshitaka put down the letter, and two questions emerged in his mind.

First: After the district chief of the Military Control Commission’s Nanjing District was captured, why were there fewer than sixty resistance elements killed or captured when he surrendered completely?
Second: The Nanjing District of the Military Control Commission, which basically did not do anything major, experienced two rounds of attacks and captured and killed more than 170 resistance elements. How many people did the Shanghai District of the Military Control Commission, which caused headaches for the empire, have?
He thought for a long time and gave an answer to the first question:

The reason why Li Weigong fled to Shanghai was because the Nanjing District suffered heavy losses and he was protected by the Shanghai District when he was arrested. Even though he gave up everything after his arrest, the Shanghai District of the Military Control Commission warned the Nanjing District in advance, so he was unable to complete his mission.

After repeated consideration, Matsumuro Yoshitaka "passed" this issue in his mind - this also meant that he no longer had any doubts about Li Weigong.

He wants to reuse Li Weigong!
The reason is very simple. Li Weigong is the first district chief to surrender since the establishment of the Military Control Commission and since the Battle of Shanghai. He must be paid a huge sum of money to buy his bones.

And considering the Military Control Commission's love of assassination, Li Weigong, Chen Mingchu and Tan Wenzhi must be eliminated as soon as possible. Reusing Li Weigong can force the Shanghai Division to act as soon as possible, and at the same time, it can severely damage the other side.

After confirming this, Matsumuro Yoshitaka began to think about the second question.

How powerful is the unfathomable Shanghai branch of the Military Control Commission in Shanghai?

The Nanjing District of the Military Control Commission had basically not carried out any major operations in Nanjing since the fall of Nanjing. The occupation of Jiangning, which was very close to Nanjing City, and the Nanjing poisoned wine case that caused a major reshuffle of the Central China Expeditionary Army were also accomplished with the intervention of Zhang Xiao and Dai Chunfeng's personal visit to Nanjing.

Such a terrible district-level organization has more than 200 hidden personnel in Nanjing, including more than a dozen undercover agents who have infiltrated the Reform Government agencies. What about the Shanghai district?

After the occupation of Shanghai, the Military Intelligence Bureau's organizations in Shanghai included the Special Group commanded by Zhang Shihao, Special District One commanded by Xu Baichuan, and the Shanghai Station commanded by Zheng Yaoxian. Later, the Special Group to which the cruel and cunning Zhang Shihao belonged was upgraded to Special District Two, and then the three stations were merged into the Shanghai District. Finally, the multiple direct groups headed by Dai Chunfeng were merged. How many people were there in such a huge Shanghai District?

Take the Nanjing District of the Military Control Commission as an example. In the more than ten months since April last year, not counting the two "great victories", they have arrested and killed more than 30 hidden personnel and three undercover agents.

What about the Shanghai area?
Since the fall of Shanghai, the secret service agency has only experienced two major victories. The people who were arrested in the first round were eventually rescued. The second major victory was due to the discovery of Lin Nansheng, a line composed mainly of undercover agents. The number and level of undercover agents in the Reform Government are appalling!

Such a high-level and large-scale undercover group is unknown in the Shanghai District, because the most powerful force in the Shanghai District is its operational force - but the powerful operational force is complementary to the undercover personnel and undercover forces!
one thousand?
After careful consideration for a long time, Matsumuro Yoshitaka tentatively gave a number.

Does the Shanghai District have more than a thousand undercover agents, lurking personnel, and operational forces?

This number made Matsumuro Yoshitaka feel suffocated, but his reason told him that this number might be an underestimate.

Matsumuro Yoshitaka, who had re-realized the Military Control Commission's Shanghai District, paced back and forth uneasily. If the Shanghai District really had such a powerful force, then he, as the head of the secret agency, would be like sitting on dozens of tons of explosives!

If there is even a spark, Matsumuro Yoshitaka will definitely follow in the footsteps of Fujita Yoshimasa!
[I absolutely cannot hang around in Okamoto Heiji's house like Fujita Yoshimasa! ]

Matsumuro Yoshitaka's expression couldn't help but become ferocious and terrifying.

In the past, he was obsessed with making great achievements and expanding the Matsumuro family, but now that he has a wealthy family, he has realized the wonderful use of money. With a huge fortune, he does not want to be forced to have his head chopped off by an kaishakunin - he has money, he has a lot of money, and if he dies, he will have nothing!

"Shanghai District, we must strike hard! My head can only grow on my neck!"

After muttering to himself viciously, Matsumuro Yoshitaka decided to let go of all his prejudices.

He is going to find Kagesa Tadaaki and he is going to engage in all-round cooperation on behalf of the Matsumuro Agency and the Kagesa Agency.

We must defeat the Shanghai district!
……

When Matsumuro Yoshitaka put aside his pride to meet Kagesa Tadayoshi, Jiang Sian delivered a very important piece of information.

Kakuei Imura, with the military rank of lieutenant colonel, inexplicably appeared in the officer system of the Matsumuro Agency. The affairs he was in charge of were kept confidential, and he was suspected to have been transferred from the Kwantung Army.

The reason why Jiang Si'an sent the information about the Japanese lieutenant colonel was because Zhang Anping had personally given him an order not long ago:
Pay close attention to information and intelligence about the Japanese military's "epidemic prevention and water supply" troops and institutions.

Through observation, Jiang Sian discovered that the suddenly appearing Lieutenant Colonel Kakuei Imura was suspected to be related to the "epidemic prevention and water supply". Although this person appeared in the ranks of officers of the Matsumuro Agency, he had no intersection with the officers of the Matsumuro Agency, and did not produce any intersection. Even the officers kept their distance from him and had no intersection with him.

You have to know that all the intelligence-gathering groups and organizations of the Matsushiro Agency will use the channels of the Gangben Company. If Jiang Sian's top priority was not to ensure his own safety, the Matsushiro Agency would easily become transparent to him.

But Kakuei Imura kept his distance from him and was obviously not a special agent officer who was responsible for intelligence gathering and investigation.

That's why he passed the information to Zhang Anping, asking Zhang Anping to investigate this person carefully to see if he had any connection with the "epidemic prevention and water supply agency or troops."

After receiving the information, Zhang Anping ordered Li Bohan to investigate this person.

This investigation made Zhang Anping even more interested in this person——

Because according to Li Bohan's investigation, Kakuei Imura went to work at the Special Higher Section on time every day, and there was nothing unusual except that. But this was the biggest anomaly.

The original head of the Special High Police had the rank of lieutenant colonel. It was because Tsukamoto Seiji sent someone to successfully "shoot" Zhang Shihao that Tsukamoto was promoted to colonel. Because of Tsukamoto's promotion, the standards of the Special High Police were improved. But even so, there were only three lieutenant colonels within the Special High Police.

The Special High Section is adjacent to Unit 76, and under it there is a working group dispatched by Zhang Anping conducting 24-hour non-stop physical monitoring. Among the three lieutenant colonels with real power, there is definitely no one named Kakuei Imura!
But Kakuei Imura is still "working" in the Special Higher Police!
There must be something fishy going on here!
Zhang Anping ordered Li Bohan to continue to send people to closely monitor Kakuei Imura and try to contact him in other ways. Li Bohan's intelligence team started in Hongkou, which was the actual concession of the Japanese at that time. Therefore, his intelligence team tended to have relationships and ties with the Japanese, which was just right for investigation.

The arrangements were completed, and Li Weiguang was just in time to be "free".

Li Weigong, who was a big seller in Nanjing area, finally got the appointment after waiting for a while.

He was appointed as a member of the Special Affairs Committee of the Reform Government, deputy director of the Shanghai Special Agent Headquarters and head of the counterintelligence group.

The Shanghai Special Agent Headquarters was No. 76, and the Counterintelligence Group was a leadership group led by the Japanese. Its members came from the Shanghai Puppet Police Department, No. 76 and other armed agencies. In addition to having priority inspection powers, the agency was also approved to establish a counterintelligence detective team of more than people.

None of the members of the Counterintelligence Detective Team were from Shanghai. More than 40 of them were former members of the Nanjing District of the Military Control Commission, and the other dozen were also members of the Military Control Commission and the Central Control Commission who had defected from various places.

The establishment of the counterintelligence team meant that Yoshitaka Matsumuro's trust in No. 76 was greatly reduced, and it also meant that Yoshitaka Matsumuro changed his strategy for the Shanghai area.

Zhang Anping, who had been paying attention to the Matsushiro Agency, of course took this very seriously. So, on the night when the counter-espionage team was established, he showed up at the home of the team leader in a swaggering manner...

In the counterintelligence team that Matsumuro Yoshitaka has high hopes for, the counterintelligence detective team is really the kind that is impenetrable. With more than 50 members, all of them are traitors and collaborators. But as for the counterintelligence team, there is no place that is not leaky, from top to bottom, left to right, front to back!
Because the team leader is Li Weigong, the deputy team leaders are Gu Shenyan and Ming Lou, and the team members are Qu Yuanmu and Ming Cheng...

……

Li Weigong's house was "found" by himself. Not only was it close to No. 76, he also specially requested three detective teams of twelve people from No. 76 as a guard force, responsible for protecting him in three shifts 24 hours a day.

These are all normal behaviors. After all, as a big traitor who was eliminated by the Military Control Commission as soon as possible, it is important to pay attention to his own safety.

But who would have thought that this house was actually a safe house of the Military Control Commission?

Setting up the safe house right under the nose of No. 76 would actually make it darkest place under the lamp.

Li Weigong went straight back to his new home after the banquet celebrating the establishment of the counter-espionage group. After his drunken subordinates left, he climbed out of bed with a clear face, went to the living room, poured himself a pot of tea, and then looked around his new home.

It was very ordinary, several times different from where he lived in Nanjing!
After taking a sip of tea, Li Weigong closed his eyes and began to think.

Zhang Anping asked him to buy this house, so there must be something wrong with it.

But he had to agree. If he couldn't gain Zhang Anping's trust, he would really become a traitor - he couldn't help but think of the time when he was almost poisoned at No. 76. Although it had been a week, he would dream about it every night.

If I really was a traitor, I could have avoided that poisoning, but I would never be able to avoid the subsequent poisonings!

He thought:
[I don’t know if Zhang Anping still has doubts about my identity, and I don’t know if Boss Dai will forgive me. I really have no choice this time!]

As he was sighing with emotion, he suddenly felt something was wrong. After opening his eyes, he was almost frightened to death - because there was a person sitting next to him, and the other person was looking at him with a smile.

Li Weigong was almost frightened and cried out.

Fortunately, he was an agent after all, and he controlled his instinct to shout at the top of his lungs.

The mysterious man then joked with a smile:
"Lao Li, that's good. You didn't piss yourself!"

Zhang Anping's voice!

Li Weigong breathed a sigh of relief. Zhang Anping came to see him, which meant that he was accepted by Boss Dai again, and that Zhang Anping also accepted him.

Li Weigong said in a flattering tone:
"Brother Anping, you are really elusive!"

At first, he called him Xiao Zhang at Zhang Anping's request;

Later, he called Anping "brother";

Now, Brother Anping!

Zhang Anping smiled and said, "Brother Weigong, you should still call me Brother Anping. You have suffered this time, but you have always been concerned about the Party and the country even when you were in danger. You have not become a sinner of the Party and the country, or a sinner of the nation. I would like to congratulate you for making the right choice!"

Zhang Anping called him "old brother" with great enthusiasm, so much so that he himself felt a little embarrassed. Of the old brother Zhang Anping was referring to, perhaps only Old Xu was lucky enough to take it on, and it seemed that the others were all doomed. (End of this chapter)

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