Shadow Spy

Chapter 138 Zheng Pingru, the hero among women

At noon on Saturday, June 6, the three major chambers of commerce in Shanghai, the United Kingdom, the United States, and China jointly held a business reception at the International Hotel. Of course, Li Junhao, the new police supervisor of the board of directors of the Public Settlement Industry Bureau and the new director of the police department, was solemnly invited.

Originally he didn't want to go, but Ayers called him personally and asked him, Political Counselor Sheehan, and First Secretary of the Commercial Department Hanprey to attend the reception on behalf of the consulate.

When Li Junhao's car arrived at the International Hotel, Franklin Willis, the new director of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and an American businessman, and Berry Weber, the first deputy director of the Police Department and also in charge of the General Affairs Department, were in charge of the Legal Department and the Audit Department. Assistant Director Ovie Fast and others greeted him at the door of the hotel.

At the reception, Sheen, the newly appointed Vice President of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau, was in high spirits and accepted congratulations from all parties; Hanprey, as the first commercial secretary of the consulate, was also highly praised by everyone in the American Chamber of Commerce, not to mention the upstart Li Junhao!

When Li Junhao, dressed in a U.S. Navy uniform, was escorted into the banquet hall, he attracted everyone's attention. Even the British who had a lot of resentment in their hearts had to admit that this upstart from the concession was indeed heroic and majestic, but Is its suppression of British police officers going too far?

Of course, there were also a group of Japanese diplomats and businessmen who also attended the reception. When they looked at Li Junhao, they looked at him not with resentment, but with anger, but there was nothing they could do about it, which made them very depressed!

However, the eyes of many Chinese businessmen shone brightly. Led by Vice Chairman He Fengmin, a group of Chinese businessmen rushed up to greet him.Among these people, Li Junhao only knew He Dongming and said hello from a distance.

He Dongming was very excited. He took a few steps forward and introduced: "Mr. Pan Sen, this is my father..."

"President He, hello!" Li Junhao reached out his hand and said, "I have long admired your name."

"Hello, Mr. Pan Sen, I, He Fengmin, am very happy to meet you." He Fengmin shook hands with him and smiled.

Under the introduction of He and his son, Li Junhao got to know a circle of Chinese businessmen, as well as ladies, young masters and ladies. Everyone was very interested in him, but he noticed a lady named Zheng!

Zheng Pingru, whose ancestral home is Lanxi, Zhejiang, is the daughter of Zheng Yue (Uncle Ying) and Zheng Huajun (Kimura Hanako). She was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1918. She studied at Minguang Middle School and Shanghai Institute of Law and Politics. She is fluent in Japanese and has a well-off family. She was admitted to the university in 1937. She appeared on the cover of "Liangyou Pictorial", the most influential newspaper in Shanghai at that time. She was a socialite in Shanghai's upper-class social circle at that time. She had a great reputation in the business world and among the senior Japanese and puppet officials stationed in Shanghai.In addition, because of her Japanese ancestry, she was trusted by the Japanese side. At this time, she was also serving as a radio announcer in the press review room of the Japanese Military Reporting Department.

Li Junhao looked at Zheng Pingru who had just been introduced by He Dongming. On the one hand, he lamented her youthful beauty, but on the other hand, he deplored her tragic ending - this girl was the prototype of the heroine in the later movie "Lust, Caution"!
In his previous life, Li Junhao had known this woman specifically.In the original history, Zheng Pingru joined the Central Unification Committee after the all-out Anti-Japanese War began in 1937. At that time, she had not graduated from university and was only 19 years old. She devoted herself wholeheartedly to the cause of the Anti-Japanese War.Relying on her mother's relationship, she dealt with the Japanese invaders' senior officials and obtained a large amount of high-level Japanese intelligence. However, the Central Government, which was bent on anti-communism, did not pay attention to it.The only female agent included in the book "Exemplary Intelligence Characters" published internally by the Taiwan Military Intelligence Bureau in later generations is Zheng Pingru, which shows that the Military Intelligence Bureau highly valued her: "In order to successfully carry out the intelligence search mission, Zhenri dealt with high-ranking Japanese invaders officials. During the period, he committed himself to the Japanese invaders, sought pleasure, and sacrificed his personal beauty in exchange for national favors. Not only did he have no fame or fortune, but also because of his association with the Japanese invaders and traitors, his family was spurned and despised by the villagers. The family was humiliated and the lintel of the family was tarnished. To have no regrets and to ignore the short stories and gossips is a sentiment that cannot be achieved by worldly people."

According to records, Zheng Pingru once had a personal relationship with Hayami, the peace negotiation representative sent to Shanghai by Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Fumima, and then met Konoe Fumima's sons Konoe Fumita, Konoe Taduma, and Huazhong through him. Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Expeditionary Forces Takeo Imai and others.During this period, she once wanted to kidnap Konoe Fumitaka and force the Japanese Prime Minister to make armistice concessions.Of course, this idea is too naive, but Zhongtong doesn’t even have the courage to try it!

Zheng Pingru once heard important information about Wang Ni's Jingwei "making changes" in advance and reported it to Chongqing through a secret radio station. However, Zhongtong, Er Chen and others did not pay attention to it until Wang Ni publicly surrendered to the enemy. It was too late!
Later, Chen Baohua, the head of the Shanghai District of the Central Military Commission, was ordered by the Chairman to assassinate Ding Mo Village, but he was unable to complete it. In the end, he made a fool of himself and asked Zheng Pingru to use a beauty trap.

For the great cause of the nation, Zheng Pingru endured the humiliation and approached Dingmo Village as a student (who had been the principal of Minguang Middle School) and charmed him, creating several opportunities for assassination. However, Zhongtong Huhai, who carried out the assassination mission, Station Chen Bin and others were so poor in their ability to act that they wasted all their opportunities...

As a last resort, Zheng Pingru approached Dingmo Village with a pistol and decided to take action herself, but fell into the hands of her enemies. She remained unyielding under torture and was secretly executed by No. 1940 in February 2 at the age of 76.

During Zheng Pingru's arrest, the Japanese used his life to threaten his father Zheng Yue (then the chief prosecutor of the Second Branch of the Suzhou Provincial High Court stationed in the public concession, and previously a professor at Fudan University) to serve as the leader of Wang's puppet government. The Minister of Justice was rejected by Zheng Yue on the grounds of health, so he lost his beloved daughter and died of illness the following year.

Zheng Pingru's brother Zheng Haicheng resolutely returned from Japan after the July 1944th Incident, joined the Kuomintang Air Force, flew planes to fight the Japanese invaders in the sky, and died heroically in the air battle to defend Chongqing on January 1, 19.

Zheng Pingru's fiancé Wang Hanxun is Zheng Haicheng's air force comrade. In the spring of 1939, he wrote twice to ask Zheng Pingru to go to Hong Kong to get married. However, when the national crisis hit, Zheng Pingru repeatedly postponed the engagement. The two made an appointment to get married after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. On August 1944, 8, Wang Hanxun died while performing a military mission in Hengshan. He was a colonel and captain at the time.

In later generations, the names of Zheng Haicheng and Wang Hanxun were engraved on the monument at the Nanjing Aviation Martyrs Cemetery.

The Zheng family is a loyal family, and they deserve it!

If he hadn't met this heroic female hero today, Li Junhao might not have been able to think of this for a while, but now that he has met him, he certainly wouldn't let the tragedy happen again; he didn't even want her to be unreliable in order to execute his superiors. order, which not only stained the innocence, but also wasted the life!
(End of this chapter)