My spy diary

Chapter 354: Thoughtful (asking for monthly ticket)
An hour later, the female cadre walked quickly through the corridor with a serious look on her face and came to Deputy Director Ye's office.

Wang Naiqi, who was sitting on the chair, stood up immediately and looked at her with hope in his eyes:
"How about it?"

The female cadre looked at him and Deputy Director Ye and said, "The guerrilla team of the Sichuan-Kang Special Committee has been safely withdrawn. A total of seven comrades, including Luo Wenjian, have been rescued."

Hearing this news, Wang Naiqi felt relieved instantly, but the female cadre looked unhappy. He thought of something and asked hurriedly:

"Where are Lao Hu and Lao Dong?"

The female cadre shook her head: "The Sichuan-Kang Special Committee did not encounter them."

Deputy Director Ye looked at her with a frown, while Wang Naiqi was anxiously waiting for her next words.

"Perhaps the car broke down. We will send people out of town to look for them at daybreak."

This is the best possible outcome, but what if? If they run into the Military Control Commission...

Deputy Director Ye shook his head and looked at Wang Naiqi: "Go back immediately and see if there is any new information from the Mermaid."

Wang Naiqi nodded solemnly, turned and left.

Deputy Director Ye looked at the female cadre again: "If they are arrested, where will they be detained?"

The female cadre blurted out: "Wanglongmen Detention Center."

Deputy Director Ye thought for a moment and said, "Send the message to Lao Dao and ask him to find out."

"Yes."

Cold night.

Under the cold moonlight, Dai Chunfeng stood in front of the bedroom window with a gloomy face and asked aggressively:

"How did the Red Party know the identity of the civet cat? And how was Secretary Wang discovered?"

He Shangyou, director of the Military Intelligence Department, stood by with a frustrated look on his face.

Zhang Yi answered seriously, sincerely, and frankly:
"There are all kinds of people in the detention center. Maybe there are spies from the Red Party, or maybe others are motivated by profit. After all, there are too many people willing to pay a lot of money for information now."

At this point, Zhang Yi sighed and said, "Director, although I have only been in Shancheng for a short time, I have heard some things. Now many brothers of the Military Control Commission have secretly joined the gangs, and one person is getting two salaries. Who knows whether the person who pays the salary behind the scenes is surnamed Hong or surnamed Guo?"

These words made Dai Chunfeng's face even darker.

Since the Anti-Japanese War, many leading figures of gangs have been unable to gain a foothold and have flocked to inland cities such as Chengdu and Shancheng, forming gangs and factions and making a comeback.

These secret social organizations are not under the control of the Military Control Commission and they would stir up trouble from time to time. Even with Boss Dai's current power, he was unable to cope with some things because he could not focus on one thing while focusing on another.

For example, the "National Self-Strengthening Society" incident.

In 39, Shi Xiaoxian, a student of the third term of Whampoa Military Academy, joined forces with the local Pao-ge organization to set up a "National Self-Strengthening Society" and actively recruited members.

Dai Chunfeng knew that this man was ambitious and was worried that he would become too powerful to be checked, so he warned him repeatedly, but Shi Xiaoxian just didn't buy his account.

Dai Chunfeng could no longer tolerate this and finally ordered his arrest and the dissolution of the "National Self-Strengthening Society".

But just a few days later, Shi Xiaoxian was released so easily that he continued to organize the Pao brothers to set up a "Blue Society" and politically interacted with senior spies from the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Military Bureau of Investigation.

Many Military Intelligence Bureau spies were secretly recruited as capable cadres, and the number of members increased to more than 30,000 in a short period of time, most of whom were military, police, and special agents.

At this point, even Boss Dai found it difficult to take action and could only let the situation develop.

Then, not long after this incident, a "third party" was secretly set up within the Communist Party and carried out abnormal activities.

The core members were all old-timers who were not valued. They successively won over Yang Laohu, the former commander of the Songhu Garrison District who was frustrated in the mountain city, and gang leaders such as Du Yuesheng.

Dai Chunfeng saw that the situation was not good, so he immediately reported to Chang and decided to control the gang's power.

Chang had once joined the Hongmen organization and Huang Jinrong's Green Gang, and had a deeper understanding of the role and use of gangs than Dai Chunfeng.

Therefore, he warned Dai Chunfeng that he should try to use soft methods to deal with gangs, and not to confront them head-on, so as to avoid pushing the gang's power to the opposite side and being used by other parties to shake the rear.

What are the soft tactics? Naturally, it is to grant official positions and make wishes.

It happened that at this time, a Hongmen disciple named Wei Zuomin founded the Hongmen "Lihua Mountain" branch in the mountain city, and actively contacted Hongmen mountain masters across the country, preparing to establish a national Hongmen headquarters, which brought inspiration to Boss Dai.

He immediately found his sworn brother Du Yuesheng to discuss the matter, hoping to organize the leaders and chiefs of the Qinghong Gang, Pao Ge and other gangs across the country, name it the "Chinese People's Mobilization Committee", let the main leaders of the major gangs serve as members, and the secondary leaders serve as design members of the committee, so as to win them over and control them.

The plan was prepared smoothly, but there were also objections. For example, Zhang Shusheng, the leader of the "Changbai Mountain" of the Hongmen and a big shot of the Qing Gang, strongly opposed it.

This person is an old general of the Northwest Army. Many of his disciples include politicians and military personnel, such as the commander-in-chief of the group army, Song Mouyuan, etc. Many of the attendants and adjutants of Chang Moumou and Minister Kong are his disciples.

But most people were intimidated by the power of Chang and Dai and had to express their agreement.

In this way, the preparatory meeting was held smoothly.

The purpose of the mobilization committee is to "unite gangs across the country to fight the war and build the country", and all members are required to "obey the Three, democracy, and justice, and support President Chang."

Mr. Dai represents the president in leading everyone, and everyone unanimously supports Dai Chunfeng to be the "chief mountain master".

In order to justify his actions, Boss Dai urgently set up a gang called "Golden Dragon Mountain", proclaimed himself the leader of the Golden Dragon Mountain, and was recognized by the leaders of various gangs present at the meeting.

In this way, gang organizations across the country were indirectly controlled by Dai Chunfeng, and through the continuous infiltration of the Military Control Commission, a situation of "you are in me and I am in you" was formed.

But gangsters are gangsters after all. They have no strict organizational records and their actions are loose and ostentatious. It's okay to ask them to collect protection fees, but it's a bit difficult to ask them to keep secrets.

Seeing Zhang Yi helping him out, He Shangyou, who was sitting on pins and needles nearby, breathed a sigh of relief and said in a somewhat disappointed tone:
"Commander, I am willing to accept the investigation."

Dai Chunfeng snorted coldly: "You don't need to explain to me now, just think about how to explain it to the chairman when he asks you to hold him accountable!"

While comforting He Shangyou, Zhang Yi continued to advise Dai Chunfeng:
"Since Secretary Wang is also dead, we can just say that he was a spy lurking in the Military Intelligence Bureau, and he leaked the identity of the civet cat to the Red Party. Director He had originally planned very carefully, but he didn't realize this in advance."

Dai Chunfeng was silent for a while, and finally concluded the matter in frustration and annoyance:
"This is the only way. If I had known earlier, I would have just executed these people in secret. It's not like we made such a fuss, but in the end we were made a fool of ourselves!"

He Shangyou looked embarrassed: "Boss, we still have Nirvana"

Dai Chunfeng sniffed and was about to say something when the phone in the living room suddenly rang.

He walked over and picked up the phone. After listening to a few words, he suddenly straightened his body and said, "The student must find out the truth and give an explanation to the principal immediately."

Needless to say, the call was from someone named Chang.

After hanging up the phone, Dai Chunfeng stared at Zhang Yi and He Shangyou with a gloomy face.

"Commander, what happened?" He Shangyou looked worried.

Dai Chunfeng's face was as gloomy as water. He paused and said, "A secretary of the Red Party Office was shot dead in the car when he was coming into the city from Xiaolongkan."

Zhang Yi and He Shangyou looked at him in shock.

"Who on earth did this? To stir up trouble at this time, do you have any political sense at all? If he is one of ours, I will skin him alive."

He frowned, paced on the ground, and kept saying:

"The chairman is urgently preparing to convene a national political consultation meeting and invite the Red Party to attend, so as to show the outside world that we have no intention of suppressing the Reds and hope to cover up the incident in southern Anhui...

Such a thing actually happened at this time, and in the mountain city. The Red Party will definitely not agree to it. If it was done by our people, I really don’t know how to explain it to the chairman.”

As he spoke, he stepped forward, pointed at Zhang Yi and said:
"Go check immediately to see if it was one of our people who did it. If it was, no matter who it was, immediately bring him to the bureau headquarters for interrogation."

"Yes."

Zhang Yi saluted and quickly went to the secretariat next door. He made more than a dozen phone calls to various secret service agencies to inquire, but they all said it was not them who did it.

Zhang Yi had no choice but to report to Dai Chunfeng and lead his men to the scene of the accident.

There was a checkpoint at the city gate, and two wooden fences were placed on both sides of the road, so that only one car could pass through the middle of the road. In the cold wind, four Kuomintang soldiers with submachine guns stood around the fence, and another soldier leading the team was also armed with live ammunition.

It was well past curfew and there were no vehicles passing by. A few people were lazily smoking and chatting.

As soon as Zhang Yi's car arrived, the soldier leading the team immediately came over with a cigarette in his mouth and looked at him, Monkey, and Qian Xiaosan from the car window: "Where are you going?"

The monkey took out his ID and handed it over.

The soldier saw it and quickly threw away his cigarette and stomped it out, saluting:
"Sir."

Zhang Yi asked through the car window: "Who shot and killed someone before?"

"People are dead?"

The soldier pointed outside the city gate with a look of gloating on his face.

"There was a company of new recruits before."

After listening to his explanation, Zhang Yi finally understood the general situation.

It turned out that a company of new recruits had walked to Xiaolongkan and were lying down on the road to rest. One of the new recruits was stabbed in the foot by a car from the Red Party Office, but the driver of the car did not notice and continued to drive forward.

The squad leader who was escorting the new recruits was so angry that he raised his rifle and fired a shot at the car.

He didn't know that he had beaten someone to death. Seeing the car driving away, he continued on his way with his team in indignation.

"Where did they go?" Zhang Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that it was not done by the Military Control Commission.

"It seems to be in the direction of Bishan."

The soldier recalled and added: "They also arrested two strong men, who were said to be drivers. They probably wanted to do some quick work, so they can't go far."

Nowadays, officials are bandits and bandits are officials. It is hard to tell the difference between an army without discipline and bandits. Zhang Yi is not surprised at all.

"Chase." After thinking about it, Zhang Yi borrowed the phone at the checkpoint and reported to Dai Chunfeng while asking Monkey to call the bureau for support.

Although they are from the Military Control Commission, sometimes soldiers don't care about that. In times of war, it is impossible to reason with soldiers, especially a group of daring new recruits.

In a dilapidated temple a few kilometers away, a group of soldiers were huddled under a leeward earthen wall to rest.

Not far away, several bonfires swayed in the cold wind, making crackling sounds, adding a faint warmth to the dilapidated temple.

Some soldiers stood back to back to keep each other warm, while others closed their eyes to rest.

The two leading soldiers were listlessly roasting themselves by the fire and drinking wine beside the campfire, occasionally glancing at the two middle-aged men who were tied together in the corner.

This was the fat fish they "picked up" during the march. One of them was a poor teacher, and the other was the owner of a rice shop, so naturally they wanted to squeeze some money out of it.

The ransom letter has been written. I'll just deliver it tomorrow to collect the money, then tear up the letter and leave.

Anyway, the life of a teacher or a businessman is worthless. Once they die, they are dead, and no one will help them.

"It's better to get some gold. The legal currency is depreciating every day, so it's useless to have that stuff."

"But can his family gather enough gold? What if they call the police?"

"Some of us have guns, so why should we be afraid of a few policemen?"

Hearing the two men's unscrupulous remarks, the two middle-aged men who were tied up in the corner felt their heads buzzing.

These two people were Wang Naiqi's superior Lao Hu and Lao Dong of the Shancheng underground party.

Their car broke down on the way. They were about to abandon the car and rush on to deliver the message, but they were surrounded by a group of soldiers. They couldn't reveal their identities either. They were in a very difficult situation at the moment.

The two old underground workers fought wits and courage with the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Military Bureau of Investigation without any trouble, but they did not expect that they would fall into the hands of a group of rebel soldiers.

Lao Hu carefully moved his body and whispered, "We have to find a way to escape, otherwise..."

Old Dong nodded, glanced at the half-piece of pottery bowl not far away, and said thoughtfully: "Untie the rope first, then..."

As he spoke, he suddenly pricked up his ears and said vigilantly:

"It seems like someone is coming."

In the darkness, after a burst of sporadic noises, a dozen plainclothes officers with guns suddenly jumped out.

"Don't move."

The leading soldier just grabbed the rifle beside him, and a bullet pierced through his arm. He screamed and was kicked to the ground.

In an instant, more than a dozen frightened soldiers were controlled.

"Who are you? Do you want to rebel?" The leading soldier grimaced in pain but still shouted.

"Military Control."

"Why did the Military Control Commission arrest us?"

"You killed members of the Red Party and destroyed the anti-Japanese united front. Is this reason enough?"

The man was stunned, and his face turned pale in an instant.

Lao Hu and Lao Dong also had a drastic change of expression. They had just escaped from the wolf's den, but fell into the tiger's den again.

Did the rescue operation fail, or were their identities exposed?
But no matter whether it was exposed or not, they had to face it calmly and deal with it decisively at this moment. The two looked at each other and understood each other's intentions.

Qian Xiaosan stepped forward to untie the two men and shone the flashlight on their faces:

"Military Intelligence Bureau, did you bring your ID?"

The two men handed over their ID cards. One was called "Hu Zhiyong" and the other was called "Dong Wu". Their occupations were listed as teacher and vendor respectively.

Qian Xiaosan looked at them and said, "A teacher and a vendor, how did you get together? Where did the car come from?"

Old Hu calmly adjusted his clothes and said calmly, "He is my child's teacher. I am treating him to a meal today."

"We have to go out of town to eat? Tell the truth!" Qian Xiaosan flipped through the documents casually and stared at the two of them vigilantly.

Old Hu's face changed, and he quickly said flatteringly: "Sir, you have sharp eyes. Actually, I am going to the countryside to find a prostitute."

"There are so many girls in the city, aren't there enough for you to play with?"

"Well, he's a teacher after all, so he still has to pay attention to the impact." Lao Hu said awkwardly.

"Is that so?" Qian Xiaosan looked at Lao Dong again.

Old Dong had a sullen look on his face, he moved his mouth but said nothing.

Lao Hu smiled flatteringly: "Sir, if you need it, I can introduce it to you."

"Bah, you scum."

Qian Xiaosan spat with disdain, stared at the two of them for a few more seconds, and then returned the document.

"Get lost."

The two men bowed hurriedly and walked away in shame.

Looking at the two people's receding backs, Zhang Yi seemed to be thinking about something.

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(End of this chapter)