Cheng Qianfan put down the newspaper and came to the window. He pressed the blinds gently with his fingers, and then saw a figure turning around and leaving.
Zhao Shuli.
He frowned slightly.
Zhao Shuli is a confidant of Qin Detai and a plainclothes inspector in the Central District of the French Concession.
Cheng Qianfan couldn't see through this person.
He had a intuition that Zhao Shuli had been observing him secretly.
This is intuition without any evidence.
For agents, this intuition is often more alert to the evidence seen by the eyes and heard by the ears.
Cheng Qianfan simply pulled up the blinds directly, lit a cigarette, and admired the "view" outside the window.
Chief Inspector Qin Detai was unwell and did not come to work today.
This aroused Cheng Qianfan's interest.
He remembered the night before, when he saw General Qin's car going out late at night at Tianya Photo Studio.
Qin Detai’s driver Hao Xiaowei said that Qin Detai was unwell at night and went to invite Qin Detai’s personal doctor Dr. Mu.
Cheng Qianfan always remembered this matter in his heart, and he concluded that something must be strange about it.
According to convention, in late August every year, the police station will arrange a physical examination, and Cheng Qianfan began to have a prototype of a plan in his mind.
Lafeifang.
Qin Detai's villa.
A rickshaw was parked at the door of the villa, and the private doctor Dr. Mu walked quickly to the door with a medicine box.
"Doctor Mu, please go upstairs. Lao Tan takes a nap upstairs and wait for you to check his health." Mrs. Qin said.
"I know, my wife, please be content. It's just a routine physical examination." Dr. Mu said.
"Okay, check carefully." Mrs. Qin said.
Dr. Mu carried the medicine box to the second floor.
"Doctor Mu is here." Qin Detai's voice came from above, and then the sound of closing the door.
"District." Dr. Mu opened the medicine box, took out a document from the interlayer, and respectfully handed it to Qin Detai. "This is a confidential document transferred from Nanjing. It was just submitted by the Red Party. They are preparing to establish a list of the so-called Eighth Route Army Office in Shanghai."
Qin Detai had a serious expression and took the document and read it carefully.
The leader of the Shanghai Eighth Office of the Red Party was Pan Yixing, the famous leader of the Red Party.
Under Pan Yixing, there are many Red Party members.
Qin Detai noticed that most of these people were the Red Party that had already started their activities in public.
However, there was a name that caught his attention.
Zhou Hongsu.
This person has not made any public activities before and should have been engaged in underground work of the Red Party. This is the first time that the identity of the Red Party has been revealed.
The reason why Zhou Hongsu attracted his interest and attention was because—
Qin Detai took out a secret document from the study safe. This was a document secretly submitted to him by Wang Kangnian, head of the third group of the Operations Section of the Party Investigation Department.
According to the document, He Huan, the political director of the Hangzhou Party Investigation Office, discovered a suspected Red Party at Bethel Hospital. Wang Kangnian arranged for his subordinates to monitor the person. The hospital's hospitalization data showed that the person's name was Zhou Hongsu.
As he expected, Zhou Hongsu, who was on the list of the Eighth Office of the Red Party in Shanghai, was the hospitalized patient at Bethel Hospital.
In this way, the Red Party monitored by Wang Kangnian and others is not of great value.
Qin Detai shook his head. His luck was too bad. He finally secretly captured the traces of an important Red Party. This person had already disclosed his identity.
However, immediately, he fell into thought.
The Red Party made Zhou Hongsu’s identity public at this time, which seemed to be nothing suspicious, but it was too coincidental.
Qin Detai had two speculations, one was indeed just a coincidence, and the Red Party had long been interested in arranging this public event in Zhou Hongsu.
Another possibility is that the Red Party discovered that Zhou Hongsu was under surveillance, so in desperation, he could only arrange for Zhou Hongsu to open his identity activities.
If it is the latter, it is worth investigating.
"I told me to order Yu Wang Kangnian to carefully check Zhou Hongsu, especially during our surveillance period, whether there are suspicious things, and focus on whether there are suspicious people in contact with him." Qin Detai said one after another.
"I understand."
"Is there any progress in the traces of Luo Tao, the Red Party's 'bandit leader," Qin Detai asked.
"No progress yet." Dr. Mu replied, "We investigated from multiple sources, but there was no trace of Luo Tao. My subordinates doubted that the other party had heard some news and had fled Shanghai?"
"The possibility is not high." Qin Detai shook his head, "Luo Tao is seriously injured and is inconvenient to transfer. He must undergo surgery in Shanghai."
"If so, based on time, Luo Tao should have completed the operation and should now hide somewhere to recuperate from his injuries." Dr. Mu said, "It's more difficult to find out."
Qin Detai nodded. If Luo Tao had not undergone surgery yet, then he would stare at major hospitals and private clinics, or have gained something. However, the surgery has been completed, so there are more places to recover from the injury. If you want to find this person in a haystack, it is no less than looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Do your job and leave it to fate." Qin Detai shook his head. The reorganization negotiations of the so-called red guerrilla zone of the Red Army that remained in eight southern provinces are underway. Once the two sides reach a negotiation, Luo Tao will be "transformed" into a general of the National Army, and it will be difficult to arrest him any more.
...
Huangpu Road.
A private house near the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.
Cheng Qianfan met with Imamura Hitaro here.
"A warehouse robbery case occurred in the French Concession a few days ago. Do you have any clues here?" asked Hitotaro Imamura.
"Isn't the empire's move?" Cheng Qianfan asked in surprise.
"No." Hitotaro Imamura shook his head. He asked several departments, including the Imperial Military, all of which said they did not do it.
Cheng Qianfan breathed a sigh of relief.
"What?" asked Hitaro Imamura.
"I feel more comfortable if it wasn't for the Empire." Cheng Qianfan said with a wry smile, "The warehouse of Baffin Foreign Company is actually my goods."
Imamura Hitaro was surprised and unexpectedly, the robbed warehouse included Kentaro Miyazaki.
"Is the loss big?" Imamura Hitotaro asked with concern. Strictly speaking, he also has a "shareholder" in Miyazaki's black market business, and Miyazaki's monthly filial piety is delivered on time.
"The warehouse was emptied, and the mouse would starve to death when he entered." Cheng Qianfan said with a wry smile, "Fortunately, he only paid a part of the deposit, and the biggest loss was Baffin Foreign Company."
"Has I found anything in the French Concession?" Imamura Hitotaro nodded and asked.
"The French Concession still insists that the Eastern District was done by the National Army, and the Mailan District was done by the Empire." Cheng Qianfan shook his head, "In my opinion, the French Concession did not really want to find out the results. He insisted that it was done by both Japan and China so that they could ask for compensation."
Imamura Hitaro nodded. The Empire's analysis on this matter was similar to what Cheng Qianfan said. The French Concession only cared about compensation, so that he could give the merchant an explanation.
"Sir, I heard that the empire announced the blockade of the Chinese coast?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"This is indeed happening." Imamura Hitaro nodded.
The Consulate General also received a letter from the Imperial Navy military, knowing this matter more in detail.
The 3rd Fleet of Lieutenant General Hasegawa, the Imperial Navy stationed in Shanghai, will blockade the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea south of Lianyungang in China, and the coastal sea area at the Beilun River mouth in Dongxing County, Guangxi Province.
The second fleet of Lieutenant General Yoshida Seongo, stationed in Qingdao, blocked the sea north of Lianyungang and Shanhaiguan.
This move will result in most of the direct foreign trade and transportation in China's coastal areas being forced to interrupt, blocking the national government's foreign aid to the greatest extent.
"Sir, this move of the Empire will greatly attack the foreign aid channels of the National Government to the greatest extent. I agree with it." Cheng Qianfan sighed and said carefully, "However, the materials we shipped from France may be affected."
"Miyazaki, you must always remember that you are an agent of the Great Japanese Empire, and don't always think about your business in your mind." Imamura Hitaro scolded him.
"Yes, Miyazaki is so shallow." Cheng Qianfan apologized, gritted his teeth, and said, "It's just a matter of losing about a hundred big yellow croaker in a batch of goods. I should put the empire first."
Imamura Hitaro was silent. He had more than one hundred big yellow croakers, including him.
Cheng Qianfan looked heartbroken.
"You only have money in your eyes, which is very bad." Imura Hitotaro scolded him with a stern face. He looked at Cheng Qianfan. Imura Hitotaro picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. "If your cargo ship is seized, come to me and I will help you clear it up."
"Ah." Cheng Qianfan was very surprised, "Thank you, sir, thank you."
"No more examples." Imamura Hitotaro snorted coldly.
"Yes, my subordinates understand."
Chapter completed!