The true biography of Yaqiao, the first chivalrous king of the Republic of China

Chapter 39 Japanese secret agents have another plan
At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Zheng Baozhen, Yu Likui and others were drinking tea and chatting in the living room. There is something urgent." Jin Shixin is Yu Likui's concubine, a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province, who once lost her education because of her poor family, and lived on Firework Lane, becoming a prostitute.Last year, she was ransomed by Yu Likui and became his concubine.In order to show her ambition, she also named her "Wan Jun" after her husband's surname.

Who is it?
Zheng Baozhen and Yu Likui muttered something and waved their hands. Hua Kezhi and Zhang Siming understood, went into the back room and drew their pistols.Zheng Baozhen immediately poured out the two teacups on the table, put them away, wiped off the water stains with a rag, and said, "Sister-in-law, let him in."

After a while, "Little Loach" stepped into the gate while wiping his sweat, held Zheng Baozhen's hand, and said eagerly: "Boss Zheng, it's not good, something big is going to happen!"

"Ah, 'Little Loach', don't worry, drink some water before talking..."

"Little Loach" took the teacup, drank it dry in one gulp, wiped his lips with the sleeve of his clothes, collected himself, and told the whole story——

That day, he sent 800 yuan to a Japanese ronin, and when he went into the warehouse to get the smoke bombs, he accidentally found that there was another one that was exactly the same.Who else ordered smoke bombs?What is it for?He put a question mark in his mind.Back at Heping Rice Store, he handed over the tightly wrapped smoke bombs to Zheng Baozhen.

"Is the quality guaranteed?" Zheng Baozhen carefully checked the smoke bomb and asked.

"It shouldn't be a problem. If there is a problem, I will settle the score with Chang Yuqing's apprentice."

Having been in Shanghai for many years, Zheng Baozhen knew something about Chang Yuqing.This guy is from Jingzhou, Hubei. He was born in 1888. He is tall and big, but his face looks like a black donkey, and he has many pockmarks.He used to be a barber and worked in Dalian for a period of time. Because of the low income and difficulty in making ends meet, he took the train and came to Shanghai to make a living.Soon after, he worshiped Cao Youshan, a "big" generation, as his teacher, and joined the Youth Gang, and the times turned around; in 1922, he began to recruit more apprentices, and his feathers gradually became richer. After the "April [-]" coup, he served as the director of the investigation department of the Shanghai Workers' Unified Committee and the executive member of the Shanghai Ship Terminal Business Trade Union.Later, he had a heated fight with Japanese ronin, and helped them sell arms and opium in the black market, earning a lot of money.

"I'm going to Nanjing to carry out a mission. Hurry up and figure out the purpose of that smoke bomb. In case of special circumstances, come to Nanjing Xianhe Street to find me. Remember, don't startle the snake!" Zheng Baozhen instructed.

After Zheng Baozhen left, "Little Loach" went to Chang Yuqing's stronghold to play when he was free.Those people saw that he was a child and belonged to friends on the same path, so they didn't pay much attention to him.The speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention.After going back and forth, he finally figured out the purpose of the smoke bomb.It turned out that this smoke bomb was prepared by Chang Yuqing himself. The young Japanese faction asked him to assassinate Shigemitsu Aoi who opposed the intensification of Japan-China conflicts at the Shanghai North Railway Station. After he succeeded, he planted it on the head of the "axe gang". Aircraft bombarded and occupied Shanghai...

After spying on the information, "Little Loach" felt that the matter was serious, so he violated the discipline and found Mrs. Wang Yaqiao's house by relying on his memory. Wang Shuying said, "Yaqiao hasn't come back for many days, and I don't know where he is now."

In desperation, "Little Loach" remembered Boss Zheng's explanation, hurriedly bought a train ticket, and came to the door.

After listening to the report of "Little Loach", it was already dark.Zheng Baozhen took out a few dollars and asked "Little Loach" to take a bath in a nearby bath and rest.

Zheng Baozhen called Hua Kezhi and Zhang Siming out.The four of them discussed and discussed, and they all felt that the situation was serious.

For a period of time, Sino-Japanese relations have been very tense with constant friction. On June 1931, 6, a group of four retired Japanese captain Shintaro Nakamura went to Wangye Temple (now Ulanhot) to collect intelligence in the name of "Member of the Tokyo Agricultural Society of the Japanese Empire" and was captured by Chinese soldiers.Two days later, Nakamura and others were executed by the Northeast Army.The Japanese ruling and opposition parties were outraged. Some militarists openly clamored for war with China. The Kwantung Army in the Northeast stepped up its drills. On the Huangpu River in Shanghai, many Japanese warships were assembled. Counselor and Consul General in Shanghai Shigemitsu Aoi traveled between Nanjing and Shanghai to conduct diplomatic mediation.He agreed with Gu Zhengyu, the director of the Asian Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the time. Although he supported Japan's aggressive plan, out of strategic considerations, he believed that under the circumstances at the time, it was not appropriate to provoke a war in Shanghai, because it might lead to Japan's invasion. The isolation of the international environment.Therefore, the main combat faction of the Japanese army regarded him as a stumbling block on the way to invade China.Later, in "Diplomatic Memoirs", Shigemitsu Aoi wrote: "(At that time) some people from the Japanese Sakurakai military officer group continued to instigate in Shanghai, trying to provoke troubles between Japan and China...the then ambassador to China Lieutenant Takashi Tanaka, Assistant Military Attaché of the Embassy, ​​was also one of them."

The assassination of Song Ziwen was an internal contradiction; if the assassination of Song Ziwen provided a cover for the Japanese army's assassination of Shigemitsu Aoi, and gave people a excuse to give Japan an excuse to invade China, causing the Chinese nation to suffer from the flames of war and make people miserable, then they are eternal sinners!Who can bear this responsibility?
After a heated discussion, everyone felt that if they sent a telegram to Brother Jiu overnight, no one would deliver it at night. Song Ziwen would arrive in Shanghai early tomorrow morning. He and Shigemitsu Kui are good friends. Acting according to the plan, and the number of words in the report is too small to be clear, and the secret of the operation may be exposed if it is too many... The only feasible way is to catch the 55th express train, arrive in Shanghai at the same time as Song Ziwen, and find that he is walking with Mamoru Shigemitsu. The warning shot disrupted Chang Yuqing's assassination steps...

Therefore, Zheng Baozhen, Yu Likui and the others didn't feel like eating dinner, so they hurried out of Yu Zhai, hailed a taxi, rushed to the train station, bought platform tickets, and squeezed into ordinary cars...

(End of this chapter)