My spy diary

Chapter 337: A Dangerous Case (asking for monthly ticket)

In the quiet room at Room 76, the phone rang suddenly.

Li Shijun stood up suddenly and took the phone:

"Hey."

Qingqi Qingyin's angry voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Mr. Li, why didn't you come to the scene today? Did you know that the anti-Japanese elements assassinated General Xiaoshan?"

Li Shijun expressed deep regret and said:

“This happened too suddenly.”

"This was a planned, organized, premeditated, and highly targeted attack. The Military Control Commission and the Red Party actually joined forces. While they were assassinating General Xiaoshan, they also set off explosions everywhere, killing people indiscriminately, and acting recklessly and lawlessly."

The clear air on the other end of the phone seemed very angry because of the excitement.

"Is the damage serious?"

"Very serious, the Empire lost dozens of warriors."

"This matter is really too weird. How could the Red Party join forces with the Military Control Commission?"

"Mr. Li, they came here to target you, but now that General Xiaoshan is dead, how is the Mei Agency going to explain this to the Special High Section and the military?"

"Well, Qingqi-kun, don't blame yourself too much. I don't want to say anything to shirk responsibility. No. 76 will definitely assist the Mei Agency in tracking down anti-Japanese elements and will never let the culprit go unpunished."

"Yoshi. But, Li Sang, if there is any emergency, you must communicate with me in time. We need to concentrate our strength and fight back."

After hearing Qingqi's meaningful words, Li Shijun was silent for a while and said:

"Yes, Haruki-kun, I understand."

On this end, after hanging up the phone, Qingqi Qingyin fell silent.

After thinking for a while, he called one of his men with a gloomy face:
"Call the military police stationed at No. 76 right away and ask them what Li Shijun is doing today?"

"Major, do you suspect him?"

"The instinct of being a spy is to doubt everything."

Qingqi Qingyin had a gloomy face. The plan was made by him and Li Shijun, but Li Shijun did not show up at the scene. What was he hiding from him?
On this side, Li Shijun also had a gloomy face and remained silent.

Wan Lilang knocked on the door and came in, saying, "Director, the person is here."

As soon as he finished speaking, a middle-aged man came in and said with a grin:
"Brother Shijun, what's so urgent that it makes me unable to get a good night's sleep?"

He was handsome and dressed fashionably, like a playboy, and followed by a slightly nervous pretty lady, who was his wife.

Li Shijun frowned and said nothing. He stared at him for a few seconds, then winked at Wanlilang.

Wanlilang soon came in from the next room with another woman.

The middle-aged man realized that something was wrong. He had a bad feeling since Wan Lilang came to pick him up.

Wan Lilang was usually very respectful to him, but today he had a completely gloomy face and a tough attitude. He also brought his wife's female secretary and radio operator with him. It must be that No. 76 discovered the fact that they were in contact with Shanghai District .

Although the middle-aged man was nervous, he pretended to be calm and asked with a stern face:
"Brother Shijun, what do you mean? Why are you arresting my people?"

Li Shijun sneered: "Tang Jili, Chen Gongshu, the head of the Military Control Commission's Shanghai District 1, has been arrested. Why didn't you tell me that you had contact with him?"

The middle-aged man was Tang Jili, a famous playboy in the Republic of China. He was from Dong'an, Hunan Province. He was the younger brother of the famous Hunan Army general Tang Mouzhi. Because he was the fourth child in the family, he was called Tang Laosi.

Unlike Dai Chunfeng's so-called "Double Phoenixes Facing the Sun" fate, he is truly a lucky person who was born into the world with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Boss Dai spent many years before he got the position of director, while Tang was a lucky man who did not have to work too hard and could enjoy the shade under a big tree.

Tang Laosi was recommended by his brother to enter the fourth term of Whampoa Military Academy. As soon as he graduated, he became the deputy captain of the student team, and then served as the regiment commander and deputy division commander.

In 31, when Boss Dai just set up the Secret Service in Ji'e Lane, the 25-year-old Tang Laosi was already a senior senator in the Military Senate.

He was then sent to study at the Army University by the Standing Committee Chairman, and after graduation he was promoted to senior senator of the Military Commission.

Of course, what made this man famous was not his prominent background or early success, but a remarkable marriage.

Tang Laosi fell in love at first sight with Xu Lai, a movie star who was all the rage in Shanghai at the time. He immediately launched a mad pursuit and eventually won her heart.

For a long time, the two's romantic scandals were on the front page of newspapers in Beijing and Shanghai.

Tang Laosi, who married a beautiful woman, was still not satisfied after marriage. He flirted with other women and was constantly involved in gossips. He was clearly an outlier among the high-ranking officials of the Nationalist government.

After the establishment of the Second District of the Military Control Commission in Shanghai, it was mainly responsible for the work of instigating rebellion. However, there had been no improvement in the work for half a year, which made Chang very dissatisfied.

He felt that although Boss Dai's classmate and fellow villager Jiang Shaomo, who was in charge of Shanghai District 2, graduated from Peking University, his family background, qualifications and experience were too shallow.

The only connections they could make were middle and lower-level cadres in the Wang Puppet Organization. Even if these people were willing to provide intelligence, their weight was too insignificant, so he asked Boss Dai to find a heavyweight figure to infiltrate the top leadership of the Wang Puppet Organization.

The person Boss Dai was thinking of was none other than Tang Laosi.

This person's family background, status and position are impeccable. Not only can he talk to the niang Wang and his wife, but he also has a good relationship with them. It is just right to let him go.

So, under the instigation of Boss Dai, this young man whose primary needs were eating, drinking and having fun, received training in a crash course for special agents, went deep into the tiger's den, and infiltrated the Wang Puppet regime.

He first got to know Li Shijun, and then established a relationship with his fellow Hunanese Zhou Mouhai. Accompanied by the two of them, he went to Nanjing to pay a visit to Wang Tianhai.

Wang Tianhai was quite suspicious of Tang Laosi's surrender, so he set up the "Hongmen Banquet" to test him.

The two sides interacted back and forth and luckily it started off well. After all, this rookie agent had seen the world and was able to fool people in every way he could. With the cooperation of the mountain city government, he finally managed to fool people and successfully took up the fake position.

Although he was "tricked into joining the pirate ship" by Boss Dai, Tang Laosi has experienced a lot of ups and downs since becoming an undercover agent and is no longer an incompetent man.

Although he was nervous at the moment, he saw that Li Shijun had only arrested his wife's secretary and had not caught the liaison officer of the Military Control Commission's Shanghai District 1, so he refused to admit it and asked with his neck stiff:

"When did I have any contact with him?"

"Still pretending?"

Li Shijun pointed at the female secretary and said, "Do you dare to say that the grocery store near your home is not a secret meeting point with Shanghai District 1?"

"What grocery store? What are you talking about? My people go to the grocery store to contact the Military Control Commission?

I told you a long time ago that Dai Chunfeng and I are good friends, but friends are friends, and I don’t work for him.”

"You won't cry until you see the coffin, right?" Li Shijun snorted coldly, "Okay, then we'll confront Chen Gongshu in person."

"Let's confront each other, who's afraid of who?" Tang Lao Si said indignantly.

Having said that, it would be a lie to say that he wasn't nervous. If Chen Gongshu pointed the finger, at best he would be arrested alone, or at worst his wife Xu Lai and secretary Zhang Suzhen would also be detained.

But at this moment, the situation was no longer under his control. He could only adapt to the circumstances and leave everything to fate.

Thinking of this, he became calmer.

"What evidence does Chen Gongshu have?"

Just as Tang Laosi was thinking, Chen Gongshu was brought in.

Li Shijun did not let the two confront each other, but he asked questions and Chen Gongshu answered.

Seeing that the two men's conversation was all about a telegram, and that Li Shijun was staring at him while asking questions, Tang Laosi became more certain that Li Shijun was just suspicious and had no real evidence, so he became calmer.

Seeing that Tang Laosi had no flaws, Li Shijun waved Chen Gongshu away, put on a friendly face, and said with a smile:
"Brother Ji Li, I'm scared, haha.

In fact, it doesn't matter if you have connections with the Military Control Commission. I just have telegraphic exchanges with Dai Yunong. I treat you as a friend. As long as you don't avoid me, I will cover you up if there are any problems."

When intimidation failed, he tried to persuade her to surrender. Tang Lao Si became more and more confident:

"What connection? Even if you kill me, I will only admit that I am friends with Dai Chunfeng. I don't work for the Military Control Commission."

"Really? Save this for Chairman Wang."

The lack of evidence did not change Li Shijun's suspicion of him at all. From the moment Tang Laosi was arrested, he had already reported it to Wang Tianhai.

Mrs. Wang, Chen Moujun, had doubts about him and advocated severe punishment. However, Wang Tianhai did not make a clear statement and only asked that Tang Laosi be escorted to Nanjing first.

"What do you mean?"

"It's nothing. I am just following orders. I will escort you and your wife to Jinling."

Li Shijun deliberately emphasized the word "escort" and paused before saying:

"Brother Ji Li, we are friends. We can still talk about some things now. If we get to Jinling..."

"Just go. If you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door. I still say the same thing when I meet Wang Tianhai."

"Okay, go ahead. Don't regret it later." Li Shijun snorted coldly and said nothing more.

In the early hours of the morning, the train carrying Tang Laosi and his group finally arrived at Jinling Railway Station. However, there was a howling wind, barking hounds, and a large number of military police standing on the platform, with strict security.

The bayonets of the Japanese military police were neatly lined up in shiny rows, pointing toward the sky.

As soon as the car door opened, a Japanese military police chief came up.

Li Shijun looked at it depressedly. Why were the people who came to pick him up at the station Japanese?

Where are the people from Branch 76? Where are the people sent by Mr. Wang?
"you are?"

The Japanese military police chief took out his passport and waved it:
"Is the person being escorted in the car Tang Jili?"

Li Shijun listened to the translator beside him and nodded suspiciously.

Military police chief: "We have to take this man away."

"Li Shijun, what's going on? Didn't you say you were going to meet Wang Tianhai?"

Tang Laosi was also panicking at this moment. After meeting Wang Tianhai, there might be room for maneuver. Even if he lost his freedom, his life could be saved. But it would be hard to say if he was captured by the Japanese.

Li Shijun was also confused and quickly signaled his translator to communicate with the Japanese leader.

The second Japanese translator stuffed a gold watch into the hands of the Japanese leader, and the two of them had a furtive conversation for a while.

The translator said helplessly to Li Shijun:

"This is an order from the Nanjing Japanese Army Headquarters. The person must be taken away."

Li Shijun sighed helplessly, looking like he was helpless.

"Brother Ji Li, take care. Luckily, you are the only one arrested. I will ask Chairman Wang for you, my sister-in-law."

"take away."

The gendarmerie chief waved his hand, and two gendarmes with ferocious looks handcuffed Tang Laosi and pushed him into the car.

Seeing his wives Xu Lai and Zhang Suzhen crying and looking back every few steps as they followed Li Shijun away, Tang Laosi hated Chang and Dai Chunfeng to death.

"Fuck you, you have to force me to be a spy."

At the same time, he hated himself. On the one hand, he was too proud to be persuaded by Dai Chunfeng and couldn't save face. On the other hand, he felt that being an undercover agent was exciting, but now he finally regretted it.

Damn it, isn't it good to be a security commander in the rear? Isn't it good to eat, drink and have fun? Why do you have to seek excitement?

Now that he has fallen into the tiger's mouth, he is helpless and can only cry out to heaven and earth for help.

Tang Laosi was brought to the expeditionary force headquarters in a daze and went straight into the office with the words "General Staff" hung on it.

The people who appeared before him were all well-known figures in the Japanese Expeditionary Force Headquarters - Colonel Toko, Lieutenant Colonel Nobuhara, and Lieutenant Colonel Ichikawa.

He was trembling with fear, and because of the language barrier, he didn't know what to say.

But surprisingly, the Japanese soldiers did not come to question him. They chatted with each other for a while, yelled at the escorting military police, then took off Tang Laosi's handcuffs and bowed to him respectfully to apologize.

Then they came forward one by one to greet each other, bowing and shaking hands warmly, which left Tang Laosi dumbfounded and completely confused about what was going on.

Seeing that he could not understand Japanese, the Japanese lieutenant colonel called an interpreter and said in a friendly manner:
"Tang Sang, don't be shy, don't be afraid, we are friends."

Tang Laosi was speechless. How could he not be afraid?

It is said that when you show kindness to others, you must have something in mind. But he is an insider, an undercover agent. Will the Japanese let him go if they know his identity?
Just as I was feeling anxious, I heard the translator relay Colonel Toka's words:

"We have been unable to find anyone related to Mr. Chang to discuss this for a long time. We are very happy to have found you today by accident, so we specially invite you to come and talk."

'What's the meaning? ’

Tang Laosi became even more depressed. You Japanese forced Chang to sign a humiliating treaty. Because the conditions were harsh, both sides cut off the negotiation channels. This is how Wang Tianhai's puppet government came into being. Why do we still have to negotiate with Chang?
"Are you trying to trick me?"

Not understanding what tricks the Japanese were playing, Tang Laosi remained silent.

But Colonel Dojia kept talking and said a lot.

The general idea is that if they were informed earlier that Tang Laosi was working for the Shancheng government, they would not only not punish him, but would also strongly support him...

They also asked Tang to keep the radio station for contacting the Shancheng government. If there is no dedicated radio station, the Japanese side can provide help...

He also assured that with the Japanese in charge, Wang Tianhai's Nanjing government would never dare to make things difficult for him.

After hearing this, Tang Laosi finally figured out something, that is, the Japanese had something to ask of him and the Yamashiro government.

But he refused to admit that he was an undercover agent in front of Li Shijun, and he could not expose himself in front of the Japanese, so no matter what the devils said, he just dealt with it perfunctorily without giving a direct answer.

The Japanese soldiers tried their best to persuade Tang Laosi, but seeing that they could not persuade him, they had no choice but to take him to see the Chief of Staff of the Expeditionary Army, Kawabe Masamitsu.

The senior Japanese general was more direct:

"Tang Sang, don't be suspicious, we won't do anything bad to you.

To tell you the truth, in order to achieve the goal of fighting to support the war and to quickly stabilize the economy of the occupied areas, we pulled Wang Tianhai out because we couldn't think of any other good way.

But this is a different time. In the future, we hope to get in touch with Mr. Chang’s Shancheng government through you and reach a closer negotiation and cooperation. Please help us complete this task as soon as possible, Tang Sang. "

Kawabe Masamitsu became more and more humble as he spoke. He not only praised Chang for his early years studying in Japan, but also praised Tang Laosi's "heroic feat" of sending a telegram to the Military Control Commission suggesting that individual Japanese should not be assassinated in the occupied areas.

Only then did Tang Laosi suddenly realize.

It turned out that his identity was exposed because of this telegram, but the telegram used a pseudonym, so Li Shijun was just suspicious and had no real evidence.

But how did the Japanese know about this?
Naturally, he could not have imagined that it was the Japanese gendarmerie stationed at No. 76 who discovered Li Shijun's deeds through surveillance and quickly reported to the gendarmerie headquarters, which led to the scene at the train station.

But at this moment, he turned a disaster into a blessing and actually sneaked into the Japanese headquarters.

It was not until this moment that Tang Laosi's extremely nervous mood began to relax.

"Tang Sang, yours is great. I hope you can help us complete the mission. We will send the elite warriors of the empire to protect your safety."

"Yes, I will do my best to complete the task."

When Kawabe Masamitsu saw that he agreed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately took him to meet the commander-in-chief Hata Shunroku.

Hata Shunroku personally accompanied Tang Laosi to have breakfast before sending a car to take him to the place where foreign guests were entertained. He also ordered someone to bring a radio station to him and asked him to start work immediately.

In short, Tang Laosi escaped danger safely. Not only did he regain his freedom, but he also had the Japanese as his backer. Wang Tianhai and his gang no longer dared to mention any sanctions.

But this incident undoubtedly slapped Wang Tianhai in the face. The Japanese racked their brains to contact Chang, and it was obvious that they did not take him, a puppet, seriously at all. How could he have any face in front of a group of traitors, big and small?
Not to mention how angry and humiliated Wang and his gang were, Boss Dai was both surprised and delighted after receiving Tang Laosi's telegram.

But then several questions came to my mind.

Why was Tang Laosi exposed?

Why did he not bring himself to be in danger but instead gained the trust of the Japanese?

He thought about it, gritted his teeth, and wrote down the words "Chen Gongshu".

Then he picked up a document on rebuilding the Shanghai Experimental Zone and stared at the names of Zhang Yi and Mao Qianli, hesitating.

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(End of this chapter)