My spy diary

Chapter 334 No Choice (asking for monthly ticket)

"Meet me at the entrance of the Golden Gate Theater at nine o'clock. I have something important to discuss. Be careful."

"Clap"

Seeing Chen Gongshu hang up the phone, Li Shijun's smile became even more intense, and he clapped his hands and said:
"Brother Gong Shu is smart, as expected. He is cunning and sly. He asked Gui Difei, the former assistant secretary of Shanghai District 1, to do it without anyone noticing. Others would not even think that you have been arrested. This also buys us time to search for other people."

Chen Gongshu also smiled, with a slightly bitter smile, and a hint of flattery and fawning.

Chen Gongshu "walked into a trap" and immediately turned against the enemy after being arrested. The speed of his betrayal was even faster than the speed at which he escaped from Peking to Nanjing. His eagerness to gain merit and win favor made all the traitors who had fallen into the trap ashamed.

He had his reasons for choosing to call former assistant secretary Gui Difei.

Firstly, this person has received a transfer order to the Shancheng Bureau headquarters and no longer belongs to Shanghai District 1.

Secondly, he gets along well with Gui Difei, who is a weak and obedient person.

As a district chief, he naturally could not openly lead the Japanese military police and 76 people to search the district headquarters. After luring Gui Difei, he would just let him act as a "guide."

In this way, even if the news spreads, others will think that it was Gui Difei who betrayed and it has nothing to do with him, Chen Gongshu.

"Where is the confidential secretary Wang Shaoqian? You just said that he was Dai Yunong's secretary and had connections with the Second District of Shanghai. Can you trick him out as well?"

Chen Gongshu frowned and said, "He lives outside and won't go to the district office unless necessary. We can only wait and see. By the way, he lives at my aunt's house, but I don't know where exactly."

"What's his alias?"

"Zhang Qian, there is another one called Jiang Shao."

Li Shijun immediately called Wu Sibao and asked him to bribe the people in the police station and mobilize the Green Gang disciples to look for him.

Just like that, an hour later, the former assistant secretary Gui Difei was arrested.

Under Chen Gongshu's persuasion, Gui Difei also turned against the party.

He returned to the district headquarters with the Japanese military police and agents from No. 76, arrested district clerk Sun Yizi, and confiscated two sacks of documents.

In order to conceal their tracks, Gui Difei's wife and maid continued to live here, and a few people were left behind to keep an eye on Wang Shaoqian.

A few hours later, the Qing Gang disciples successfully found Wang Shaoqian's aunt's house, but it was already deserted.

Apparently Wang Shaoqian had received the news and moved away long ago.

"Mr. Wang has run away. What should we do now?" Li Shijun handed over a cup of tea and asked with a gloomy face.

"Thank you, Director Li."

Chen Gongshu habitually raised his nose slightly and smelled that it was top-grade West Lake Longjing tea. However, he was not in the mood to taste the tea at the moment. His heart skipped a beat and his hand trembled slightly as he stood up to take the tea.

Even though he usually thinks highly of himself, he is now "living under someone else's roof" and is overwhelmed by Li Shijun's strong aura, so it is inevitable that he feels uneasy.

He racked his brains to ask for credit and reward in order to gain Li Shijun's trust and hope to have a seat at No. 76, but now...
If I can't provide any more valuable information, what if Li Shijun turns against me?
Chen Gongshu thought anxiously, half of his butt sat down, his brows furrowed.

"Why don't you say something? Are you unwilling to say it, or do you really not know? Do you want me to give you a hint?" Li Shijun's words seemed to have complicated implications.

Chen Gongshu was stunned and quickly explained:

"I've told you everything I know"

"is it?"

Li Shijun's expression suddenly became serious. He knocked on the table and asked:
"What about the call you received in the middle of the night?"

"Ah?" Chen Gongshu opened his mouth wide. He didn't expect Li Shijun to have mastered this. He said hurriedly:
"It was Zhang Yi. He got the news of the arrest of the district accountant from somewhere and notified me to take measures. Director Li, I didn't mean to conceal it. I just didn't think of it at the time."

"Zhang Yi?" Li Shijun's face became solemn. This name was too familiar.

"Is he still in Shanghai?"

"Yes, he is in charge of the special liaison station."

Chen Gongshu told him everything about Zhang Yi's phone call, and gave a detailed introduction to some of the tasks that the special liaison station had performed, and then sighed:

"This guy is as cunning as a fox. I don't know where he is hiding. I suspect he has been monitoring me."

At the same time, he thought that if it weren't for Zhang Yi's call, he would not have gone out last night, and if he hadn't gone out, he would not have become a prisoner.

At this moment, he also began to hate Zhang Yi.

Li Shijun turned the teacup in his hand, pondering Chen Gongshu's words:
"That's a public phone. When he suddenly gets the information, he's eager to inform you, so he will definitely choose the nearest telephone booth.

On the other hand, he must be living near the telephone booth. It's dark, and even though no passers-by have seen him, we just need to take his portrait and send people to search every street nearby. We'll definitely find something, don't you think?"

Chen Gongshu shook his head: "I have never dealt with him and I don't know him."

Li Shijun interrupted him: "You don't know him, and neither do I, but the Special High Section must have a portrait of him."

"What if he's in disguise and he's different than he used to be?"

Li Shijun hesitated for a long time before speaking, as if he was talking to Chen Gongshu, or as if he was talking to himself:

"Makeup is just a trick, not plastic surgery. It can change your appearance, but it can't change your body shape. As long as we do our job carefully, he won't be able to escape."

Seeing Li Shijun so confident, Chen Gongshu forced a smile:
"Then I would like to congratulate Director Li in advance."

Li Shijun smiled harmlessly.

The sun had set and the light was fading.

The market was bustling with people, surrounded by vegetable and meat vendors shouting their wares, and men, women, and children picking and choosing. The red, orange, yellow, and green vegetables were dazzling.

The shoe repairman was mending his shoes, the noodle stall owner was pounding and stretching noodles, there were also used book stalls, pawn shops, barber shops, and so on.

At this moment, Zhang Yi was sitting on the side of the road at a noodle stall, eating a bowl of steaming noodles, dressed like a coolie.

The monkey was eating noodles in silence, while Qian Xiaosan said angrily:

"That Chen guy is really a piece of shit. Luckily the webmaster moved quickly."

No. 76 acted quickly and started looking for Zhang Yi everywhere with his photo from noon.

Zhang Yi never looked up from beginning to end, eating noodles in big mouthfuls, as if trying to block something.

Qian Xiaosan still muttered in dissatisfaction:

"It's over, it's all over. Wang Shaoqian has also been arrested. I really don't know what Boss Dai is thinking."

The beginning and the end of this statement do not make sense. They are two different things, yet they are also one thing.

With the arrest of Chen Gongshu and others, the only person in charge of Shanghai District 1 was the confidential secretary Wang Shaoqian.

In a time of crisis, without the need for appointment, he took the initiative to undertake the resettlement work after the destruction of the first district of Shanghai.

He found a temporary office space and immediately began to make arrangements for the aftermath, while also comforting and caring for the families of the arrested comrades.

However, because he was delivering living expenses to the families of Chen Gongshu, District Secretary Qi Qingbin, and Radio Inspector Zhang Zuoxing, the courier was secretly followed by Agent No. 76 who was lying in ambush and waiting for him. The agent directly found Wang Shaoqian's office and Wang Shaoqian was arrested immediately.

At this point, coupled with the betrayal and capture of people from Shanghai District 1 by Chen Gongshu, Qi Qingbin, Zhang Zuoxing and others, Shanghai District 1 was like a domino that had been pushed down and immediately suffered a landslide.

It was at this moment that Zhang Yi learned that after the former district secretary Zheng Xiuyuan reported Chen Gongshu's corruption to Dai Chunfeng, the reason why Boss Dai did not take action was actually to plan another thing - to incite Li Shijun to rebel. Boss Dai saw that Li Shijun was undoubtedly in a passive position in the confrontation with Zhou Mouhai, so he thought this was an opportunity to pull Li Shijun over and use him.

Even if the goal of killing Wang Tianhai could not be achieved by inciting Li Shijun to defect, bringing Li Shijun over could greatly reduce the pressure on the Military Control Commission's agents in Shanghai and better protect their undercover personnel.

Once Li Shijun was instigated to rebel, even if Chen Gongshu was unreliable, he would not take the initiative to surrender to the enemy and repeat Wang Tianlin's mistake.

However, Boss Dai was totally wrong this time.

Mistake one: since it was determined that Chen Gongshu was unreliable, he was not transferred directly, which resulted in the entire Shanghai District 1 being wiped out.

The second mistake was that he used the middleman Yu Xiangqin, a non-agent, to incite rebellion, and he was used by Li Shijun.

Mistake three: he underestimated Li Shijun, or misjudged Li Shijun's situation.

Since Li Shijun dared to make enemies everywhere within the Wang Puppet regime and openly opposed Zhou Mouhai, it was naturally because he had the Japanese as his backer.

Zhou Mouhai turned the tables and removed Li Shijun from his position as police minister.

However, Li Shijun had done enough groundwork by flattering Wang's wife, Mrs. Chen, and with the help of the Japanese, he immediately created a position for himself as the director of the Investigation and Statistics Department, and also grabbed the lucrative job of presiding over the cleanup campaign.

But Li Shijun was still not satisfied, and he set his sights on a higher position - Chairman of the Jiangsu Government.

It was under such circumstances that Yu Xiangqin walked into Li Shijun's private residence on Yuyuan Road as promised.

Yu Xiangqin was a well-known lawyer in the French Concession. He was not close friends with Li Shijun, but he was indebted to him.

In 34, Li Shijun infiltrated Ding Mocun's group as a member of the Red Party and worked on a magazine.

Because he published articles involving the Japanese Emperor in a magazine, the Japanese Embassy sent a letter to the French Concession Municipal Council to arrest Li Shijun.

It was thanks to Yu Xiangqin's defense in court that Li Shijun was acquitted.

Li Shijun was naturally very grateful to me and used public funds to reward me.

Yu Xiangqin refused the offer, saying that Li Shijun was sued out of patriotic enthusiasm, so how could he accept the reward?

Li Shijun was deeply moved and said that he would reward him handsomely in the future.

How can I give a generous reward?
After No. 76 was established, Li Shijun paid a visit to Yu Xiangqin, hoping to recruit her into his organization.

Because Yu Xiangqin had been a lawyer in Shanghai for many years, he was familiar with all kinds of relationships. In particular, he was rooted in the French Concession and was very familiar with the concession police and all levels of society. He could help him enter the concession to arrest and extradite anti-Japanese elements.

Of course, he would not say openly that he was a traitor. He only said that Nanjing fell and he retreated to Wuhan and Hong Kong in a panic. This time he returned to Shanghai to shoulder the heavy responsibility.

But after a few years, Yu Xiangqin had forgotten that he had rescued Li Shijun. Even if he remembered it, he regarded it as his job responsibility and did not ask for any reward from Li Shijun.

Especially seeing that Li Shijun's words were evasive and vague, he had no idea what he did, so he just responded politely.

However, a few years passed and things and people had changed. Yu Xiangqin once again came to Li Shijun for help.

The reason why I said again is because a month ago, Yu Xiangqin rescued someone from Li Shijun.

Chen and Yu, two people who stayed behind in Shanghai from the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Finance, were arrested one after another by No. 76. Minister Kong personally rescued them and used his connections to find Huang Jinrong, who introduced Yu Xiangqin to him.

Yu Xiangqin served as the Secretary-General of the Refugee Committee during the Battle of Shanghai. He always put morality first in his work, and after receiving the commission, he did not hesitate to visit Li Shijun immediately.

Li Shijun took their old friendship into consideration and released Chen and Yu directly.

After Boss Dai learned about this, he got to know Yu Xiangqin through Du Yuesheng, hoping to use him to persuade Li Shijun to rebel.

"Lawyer Yu, you never come to my temple for no reason. Tell me, who are you here to save?"

Li Shijun invited Yu Xiangqin to sit on the sofa and spoke to her in a friendly manner.

Yu Xiangqin looked at him and went straight to the point:

"I was invited by Mr. Dai from the Military Intelligence Bureau to visit Shancheng. I stayed there for three days and had a long conversation with Mr. Dai for two nights. I came here today on orders."

Li Shijun's face remained calm and he motioned for him to continue.

"Mr. Dai expressed his gratitude for your care for Liu Geqing. He said that in order to grasp the victory of the war of resistance and recover the lost territory, we must eradicate Wang the traitor. To eradicate Wang the traitor, we must first eliminate the puppet organization. He asked me to contact you secretly."

"Finished?"

"I have brought my message home. Whether you are hostile to me or detain or execute me, I have no complaints."

"If you don't participate in the military's operations, I can be responsible for your safety."

Seeing that he did not give a direct answer, Yu Xiangqin sighed and continued:
"Mr. Dai said that if you can accept his request and become a figure, he can guarantee you on behalf of the chairman that you will be given a better position and more generous rewards, or if you assist the comrades of the Military Control Commission to complete the task of sanctioning Wang the traitor, he can give you a bonus of 300 million."

"What does he want me to do?"

"Kill Wang Tianhai and return to Shancheng with glory."

Li Shijun sneered in his heart. Does Dai really think he is a three-year-old child?
So childish.

The words he said were exactly the same as those of Mr. Pan, another Red Party representative who instigated him to defect.

Do these people really think that Li Shijun is easy to talk to, or do they think that he can no longer survive in the Wang Puppet regime?

300 million French francs exchanged for 20 US dollars is indeed a huge fortune.

But now he was in charge of the rural clean-up work, and he was plundering the people's wealth everywhere. This little money had no appeal to him anymore.

No matter how disdainful he felt in his heart, he was too cunning to show it. Instead, he pretended to be interested and thought about it. After a while, he said:
"Brother Xiangqin, you have done me a favor, I cannot repay you with evil.

Likewise, Mr. Wang has done me a favor, so morally speaking, I cannot do anything to him.
Except this, I can agree to other things.

How about this, you tell Mr. Dai that I am willing to cooperate with Brother Yunong privately in order to cooperate with the future development of the situation. "

Yu Xiangqin didn't know it was a trick. Seeing that Li Shijun spoke so frankly, he immediately reported the truth to Dai Chunfeng. This was enough to show that the work of subversion had taken a gratifying step forward.

But this was just a delaying tactic by Li Shijun. He used the olive branch extended by Boss Dai to stabilize the other party and then calmly eliminate the Military Control Commission's Shanghai District 1 and even all the Kuomintang organizations in Shanghai.

After that, the two sides exchanged intelligence. Li Shijun used some Red Party intelligence to not only make Dai Chunfeng pay more attention to the work of subversion, but also disrupt his control over the situation in Shanghai.

Therefore, the information sent by Zhang Yi about Liu Yuanshen's arrest was not taken seriously.

It was not until he received another telegram from Zhang Yi - District Secretary Qi Qingbin and District Chief Chen Gongshu were arrested - that Boss Dai woke up from his dream and realized that Li Shijun was a sinister and two-faced person.

But when I sent a telegram to Li Shijun again, the communication was cut off.

Boss Dai had no choice but to send Yu Xiangqin to find Li Shijun again.

But Li Shijun said as if nothing had happened:
"Brother, this matter has nothing to do with me. In fact, before you came to me, the Japanese had already obtained clues about the Military Control Commission's Shanghai District 1, and there was nothing I could do.

However, the people are now in No. 76. Please tell Brother Yunong that this matter will not affect our cooperation. To show my sincerity, I will do my best to save their lives. "

When Boss Dai heard these rogue words, such as "he arrested your people but still acted innocent and reluctant, and tried to show off his achievements", he was so angry that he immediately issued a sanction order against Li Shijun.

At this moment, the monkey finished his noodles, put the bowl heavily on the table, and sighed:
"Is Li Shijun so easy to kill?"

Zhang Yi was not good at comforting others. He looked at the two of them silently for a moment, then looked into the distance.

After a while, he smiled and sighed:
"We have to kill even if it's not easy. We have no choice now."

(End of this chapter)