"Teacher, the Cheng Qianfan the student pretends to have studied at Dongya Tongwen College and has always been close to the empire. This is the Cheng Qianfan in the eyes of outsiders." Cheng Qianfan said thoughtfully.
He paused and continued, "As for the actual situation, I have been using my identity as the deputy chief inspector of the French Concession Central Patrol Room to secretly provide help to the empire."
He frowned slightly and said to Hyōtaro Imamura, "So, from my point of view, I really can't find a reason why I would be targeted by the Inoue Mansion."
Imamura Hyōtaro touched his chin, "So, you mean, Yamazaki Shuichi arranged for someone to follow you, which is very strange."
"It's very strange." Cheng Qianfan nodded, "Because it's completely unnecessary."
With a serious expression on his face, he continued to think, "It is unlikely that Yamazaki Shuichi knows the true identity of Kentaro Miyazaki. There is no need for him to offend a powerful figure in the patrol house of the French Concession who is friendly to the empire."
"Of course, even if Shuichi Yamazaki knew that I was Kentaro Miyazaki, he would have no reason to follow me." Cheng Qianfan shook his head and said.
"You think it's incomprehensible that Yamazaki Shuichi sent people to follow you," Hyoutarou Imamura said, "So, you think they are here for me?"
"I'm not sure, but the more I think about it, the more I think it's a possibility," Cheng Qianfan said.
"Absurd." Hyōtaro Imamura shook his head, "You mean Yamazaki Shuichi is secretly spying on a counselor from the Consulate General of the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Shanghai?"
"I don't know." Cheng Qianfan shook his head, "Teacher, students just subconsciously feel that the possibility of Yamazaki Shuichi sending people to follow Cheng Qianfan is very small, and the possibility of him sending people to monitor Imamura Residence is also very small."
He looked like he was thinking, as if he was a little puzzled, and seemed to have thought of something. In short, he was very entangled, "It is also an impossible thing. Compared with the teacher, my value is far inferior."
Hyōtaro Imamura's face darkened. He understood what Kentaro Imamura meant.
Let’s not talk about why Yamazaki Shuichi sent people to follow or monitor him. In terms of the value of the target alone, his value as the counselor of the Imperial Consulate General in Shanghai is naturally far greater than that of Cheng Qianfan, the ‘little Mr. Cheng’ of the French Concession.
Miyazaki Kentaro's words seem to be confusing, but if you think about it carefully, it seems that they are not completely unreasonable.
"It's very strange." Kogoro Imamura, who had been listening on the sidelines, said, "The whole thing is very strange."
He added water to Hyotaro Imamura and Kentaro Miyazaki's teacups, and the latter quickly thanked them.
"Why did Yamazaki Shuichi do this?" Imamura Kogoro said.
Cheng Qianfan and Imamura Hyoutarou both nodded:
Yes, it's very strange.
Whether it's following Cheng Qianfan, a pro-Japanese faction.
Or, as Kentaro Miyazaki feared, the other party came for the Imamura residence.
This is all very strange.
"Unless..." Hyōtaro Imamura's frown suddenly dispersed, "unless this person is lying!"
Cheng Qianfan was stunned for a moment, showing a thoughtful expression, and then under the expectant gaze of Imamura Hyoutarou, his eyes suddenly lit up, "What the teacher means is that this person said that he was from the Inoue Mansion and was under the orders of Yamazaki Shuichi.
It's all lies." Hyōtaro Imamura nodded slightly and motioned for his students to continue.
"This person speaks Japanese very fluently. He doesn't look like a Chinese pretending to be Chinese." Cheng Qianfan suddenly frowned and said, "Students have an intuition. Regardless of whether Shinji Kojima's name is real, this person may be real.
are citizens of the Empire."
Hyōtaro Imamura's face suddenly became very serious, and his eyes were a little fierce. "Did I say something wrong? Teacher." Cheng Qianfan asked respectfully and cautiously.
"No." Hyōtaro Imamura shook his head and said, "You don't need to pay attention to this matter. I will personally see and arrange the investigation."
"Yes." Miyazaki Kentaro was a little surprised and a little reluctant. He didn't understand why the teacher gave such an order. However, out of trust and obedience to the teacher, he finally nodded and agreed.
"Kentaro seems a little reluctant." Kogoro Imamura said after sending Kentaro Miyazaki away, he returned to the study.
"Kentaro respects and cares about me very much, and he also attaches great importance to his own safety." Hyoutaro Imamura said, "Whether this person is monitoring the mansion or going after Kentaro, Kentaro will not let him go."
He chuckled, "So, I ordered him not to get involved in this matter anymore. It's understandable that he is a little reluctant."
"Counsellor, do you have some idea about this matter?" Imamura Kogoro asked.
"I suspect that the people behind this incident are related to the red traitors within the empire." Imamura Hyōtaro snorted coldly and said.
"Red International?" Imamura Kogoro thought for a while and said.
Hyōtaro Imamura nodded with a serious expression.
Kentaro Miyazaki is right when he says that in terms of target value, his value as the counselor of the Imperial Consulate General in Shanghai is much greater than that of Cheng Qianfan, the deputy chief inspector of the Central Patrol Room of the French Concession.
Kentaro Miyazaki said that there was a high possibility that the captured stalker was Japanese, which made Hyōtaro Imamura immediately think of the red traitors in the country.
Alternatively, these people are the Red International Japanese Red Party.
After careful consideration, Imamura Hyōtaro vaguely guessed why the Red International was targeting him.
The Imperial Kwantung Army is engaged in a fierce battle with the Soviet army at Nomonkan. The Soviet intelligence agency has also been very active recently, trying to obtain relevant information about the Empire's attitude towards the Nomonkan front and the Empire's attitude towards Japan-Soviet relations.
And he, Hyōtaro Imamura, was not only a senior diplomat of the empire, but also had close contacts with the Kwantung Army because of Jun Imamura's relationship.
Moreover, within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hyōtaro Imamura, who is familiar with the situation in Manchuria and an expert on Soviet Russia, has spoken out frequently recently.
All these things actually attracted the attention of the Red International spies in Shanghai? Imamura Hyoutaro thought about it again and again, and he could not rule out this possibility.
"Interrogate Kojima Shinji strictly." Hyōtaro Imamura said solemnly.
"yes!"
"In addition, you call Inoue Yan." He said coldly, "ask him to bring Yamazaki Shuichi. I need him to give me a reasonable explanation for this matter."
Cheng Mansion.
"Where's Xiaobao?" Cheng Qianfan asked after eating and drinking.
"Sister Yuman is here." Bai Ruolan asked the little maid Lizi to bring the fruit after dinner, and continued, "Xiaobao went out to play with Sister Yuman and said he would bring it back early tomorrow morning."
Cheng Qianfan nodded with some helplessness in his heart. He was really worried that Xiaobao would be influenced by Sister Yuman and have a subtle anti-Japanese or even red tendency.
However, deep down in my heart, there seems to be an emotional voice. If this is true, it is worth gratifying.
"Teacher Shibasaki from the school was arrested." Bai Ruolan said.
"I know about this." Cheng Qianfan ate a piece of ice pear and said, "Don't pay attention to it, the water is a bit deep."
Someone from Shibazaki is a Japanese who works as an art teacher at the elementary school where Xiaobao goes to school.
This person recently held a personal photography exhibition.
In the works shot by someone in Shibasaki, the audience was surprised to see photos of the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai after the fall. They could see the eager Japanese troops holding machine guns and shooting in the streets to intimidate innocent citizens.
Especially in Hongkou, Japanese military vehicles are speeding on the road, and Japanese soldiers are standing guard. Japanese primary school students go to Japanese schools, just like a Japanese colony. Plaster flags are flying everywhere. In the background, you can see Chinese people bowing to Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers are arrogant.
laughing out loud.
On the second day of the exhibition, someone from Shibazaki was arrested by the Japanese military. He was accused of defaming the imperial Japanese, undermining the goodwill between Japan and China, and having anti-war sentiments.
Hearing what Cheng Qianfan said, Bai Ruolan nodded.
She said this just to help her husband silently.
Bai Ruolan was very attentive. Once she saw Cheng Qianfan reading "Jing Bao" and she smiled and asked her husband why he still read such gossip newspapers.
Cheng Qianfan smiled and said, don't underestimate the usefulness of these after-dinner conversations. After that, she will tell her husband some of the news she has learned. Especially some chats and trivial matters involving the Japanese, in order to objectively
In an impersonal way, it can be used as a source of conversation after dinner.
She didn't know whether these conversations would be helpful to her husband, so she just did it silently.
Even if there is no help, it is great for two people to just talk.
Cheng Qianfan suddenly felt something in his heart.
Ruolan's casual words were like fireflies in the dark, seeming to clear up the confusion he had been thinking about just now.
"I'm going to the study, I have some official business to deal with." Cheng Qianfan picked up the handkerchief and wiped the corners of his mouth and said.
"Go." Bai Ruolan nodded.
When Cheng Qianfan stood up, he suddenly bent down and kissed his wife on the cheek, "Thank you for your hard work, madam."
"You are seeking death." Bai Ruolan was angry.
In the study room.
Cheng Qianfan leaned on the back of his chair.
There is a lonely figure holding a cigar on the snow-white wall.
The stalker turned out to be from the Inoue Mansion, and was assigned by Yamazaki Shuichi, the deputy director of the Inoue Mansion.
This surprised Cheng Qianfan.
Zuokami Umezu from the Military Police Headquarters, Shuichi Yamazaki from the Inoue Mansion, and Tsubasa Naito who he highly suspected were involved and more likely to be the mastermind.
Cheng Qianfan was on high alert. No matter which one of these three parties they were, it would be difficult to deal with them. If these three parties colluded to attack him, it would be very troublesome.
Therefore, Cheng Qianfan immediately decided:
Make this matter a big deal.
His method was to drag this matter towards Imamura Hyoutarou. Almost at the moment he made this decision, Cheng Qianfan had an idea in his mind.
Strictly speaking, there is no evidence, but it sounds like a reasonable analysis.
This is what he does best.
In front of Imamura Hyōtaro, he must not mention Naito Tsubasa even half a word. What he has to do is to mention the value of Imamura Teacher in the name of caring for the teacher without any trace (praise), which will make Imamura Hyōtaro
Taro subconsciously took on this self-alertness.
What he had to do was to urge Imamura Hyoutarou to pay attention to this matter, investigate it personally, and reveal the true face of this matter.
It is the best way to deal with it by Hyoutaro Imamura personally discovering the answer and uncovering Naito Tsubasa and others.
The whole plan had one, two, three, and three steps. However, what Cheng Qianfan didn't expect was that before his subsequent rhetoric was used, Imamura Hyoutarou seemed to have gained something:
Cheng Qianfan, who has a sense of smell as sharp as a fox, immediately realized that Hyōtaro Imamura had some kind of wonderful misunderstanding under his guidance, and that this misunderstanding involved a certain secret. His intuition told him that Hyōtaro Imamura had thought of something, but maybe
Some secrets were involved, so Imamura chose to conduct the investigation in person and secretly, and directly excluded him from the investigators for the sake of confidentiality.
Cheng Qianfan was naturally very interested in being able to make Hyōtaro Imamura face such a secret that even a student who had passed the test was so cautious about.
However, even as he thought about it, he couldn't figure out what aspects of Hyoutarou Imamura's cautious secrets would be involved.
Now, the story Ruolan told made his heart move.
Cheng Qianfan recalled carefully, and he remembered a detail:
He said that he suspected that Shinji Kojima was indeed Japanese.
Just with these words, Imamura Hyoutarou's face suddenly became very serious, and his eyes became a little fierce.
Japanese.
Anti-war...
Cheng Qianfan fell into deep thought.
No. 19, Luojiawan, Chongqing.
"The bureau, Shanghai district is temporarily unable to contact us." Qi Wu reported to Dai Chunfeng.
Dai Chunfeng's expression changed. His first reaction was that something big had happened in Shanghai, and was the enemy taking over?
"It doesn't seem like something happened." Qi Wu quickly explained, "They should be evacuating Sali, and the radio station is temporarily silent."
"Yes." Dai Chunfeng nodded.
"Have you received a call back from Tianjin Station?" he asked again.
"Che Che and Jiao Jiemin have called back. All internal and external service units at Tianjin Station have stepped up vigilance and are ready to evacuate at any time. In addition, addresses and personnel related to Wang Tiemu have begun to evacuate and hide." Qi Wu said.
"I'm still at ease with Che Che's work," Dai Chunfeng said.
"Jiao Jiemin suggested that Che Che should evacuate Tianjin temporarily, but Che Che refused to evacuate." Qi Wu said, "Jiao Jiemin meant to ask the bureau chief to call Che Che personally and ask him to hide temporarily."
With that said, Qi Wu handed the message to Dai Chunfeng.
When Dai Chunfeng saw that Jiao Jie reported that Che Che refused to evacuate, he said, "Since I was ordered to go north, I am determined to serve the country with my death. The enemy and puppets will not be destroyed, and I vow not to return south." His eyes were also red, "What is the Party-state Gancheng?"
What does it mean to be a loyal person, Che Cheye!"
"Yes, every word is full of tears and blood, and it is filled with the determination of our army to unite Gancheng, loyal to the party and the country, and fight to the death against Japan." Qi Wu also sighed.
"Call Tianjin." Dai Chunfeng said in a deep voice, "Let the car return to Chongqing as soon as possible." "Yes."
"Also, continue to call Shanghai District." Dai Chunfeng said with a serious expression.
He still couldn't worry about Shanghai District.
…………
The secret service headquarters completed a beautiful capture operation.
All five members of the first group of the Shanghai District Telecommunications Section of the Military Command were arrested.
In addition, one transceiver and one radio were also seized at the scene.
Most importantly, the code book of the Shanghai District Telecommunications Section of the Military Command was seized.
Both Ding Mu Tun and Li Cuiqun were overjoyed at the success of the arrest operation. That night, three of the five telecommunications agents arrested were arrested without being subjected to violence.
The other two people also chose to surrender to No. 76 after a little interrogation.
"Turn on the radio." Su Chende smiled proudly and ordered the first team of the Shanghai District Telecommunications Section of the Military Command, "I will listen to the Chongqing order."
