Chapter 123 British Coffee Tea House (please collect and recommend tickets)
Hearing Cheng Qianfan's order to bring weapons.
Haozi nodded, took out a cloth bag from under the bed, opened it, and it was a Mauser C96 mullet gun, and then took a spare magazine and put it in his pocket.
Cheng Qianfan took a look and found that the advantage of Mauser's pistol is that this gun is relatively common, and it is almost impossible to detect people with a gun, and it also has the characteristics of strong firepower.
The disadvantage is that the gun body is wide and it is not conducive to hiding with you.
In fact, the most suitable agents to use is a relatively small revolver, but this gun is more difficult to get.
However, in Shanghai, as long as you want and have money, you can get anything from the black market.
The United Kingdom and the Commonwealth countries are widely equipped with the Weberley.455in revolver and the Weberley.38in revolver.
The British army was very dissatisfied with the range of the two guns, and the saying circulated among the British: "If you can shoot a target of 50 yards with a damn Webley revolver, I promise you can shoot a target of 800 yards with Lee Enfield."
In Cheng Qianfan's view, the British are just pretentious. Of course, the British are still the world's largest country at present. The military industry is strong, so there is indeed a pretentious capital.
He plans to find ways to get a few Webley revolvers from the black market in the British and American public concessions in the future.
The Indian policemen rented by Britain and the United States are quite weird. They will "scrap" their revolvers for various reasons, and then these brand new revolvers will soon flow into the black market.
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French Concession, Xiafei District, No. 34 Xiafei Road.
This is a beautiful Western-style building facing the street. The owner has a very idea and divides the store into two, one with a cafe on one side and the other with a tea shop on the other.
The bronze sign engraved with: British coffee and tea.
It's clear from the signboard.
It not only meets the needs of Bourgeois, who pursues Western-style life, but also attracts Chinese people who are passionate about traditional teahouses.
Eguchi Hideya's confession mentioned a detail.
Before being sent to Hangzhou for a mission, Inoue Mansion arranged for him to apply for a mate in this tea shop and learn how to be a new-style tea shop.
In fact, the Hengrun Teahouse in Hangzhou is a new-style teahouse, aiming to attract the favor of some officials and wives who pursue Western life.
Cheng Qianfan secretly wanted to discuss, and there were two possibilities.
This British tea shop has nothing to do with Japanese, and Eguchi Eki is just here to "apprentice to learn from his master".
However, this possibility is extremely low. The biggest possibility is that there is a shadow of Japanese people behind this new-style tea shop that boasts British style.
Before leaving Hangzhou, Yu Ping'an handed over the task of investigating the tea shop in Shanghai to Cheng Qianfan's lurking team.
This is also the first task that Cheng Qianfan’s team actually received.
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"How is it?" Cheng Qianfan asked, he was exploring the wealthy boy.
He took Haozai to walk around the teahouse carefully.
"It's not right." Haozai said.
"Tell me, look."
"Two more side doors."
Cheng Qianfan nodded. Haozai was indeed very clever and had a keen observation.
Generally speaking, the conventional configuration is a main door and a back door is enough.
However, this British coffee and tea shop has two small and even hidden side doors on both sides of the back street. Without careful observation, people rarely notice this.
After one of the side doors comes out, turn left and see an alley. When you pass through this alley, you will see a small river.
Of course, it is not ruled out that the owner of the store has quirks.
However, this situation is more intriguing in the eyes of the agent:
The biggest advantage of this pattern is that it is easy to evacuate.
"Retreat!" Cheng Qianfan saw a team of policemen patrolling the streets coming from afar. He whispered to Haozai, and the two of them walked into an alley and quickly disappeared into the night.
Cheng Qianfan took Haozai back to the safe house.
"From tomorrow, stare at this tea shop." Cheng Qianfan ordered, "Find out who the owner of this tea shop is, where he often goes, and who he comes into contact with."
"clear."
"Don't bring weapons." Cheng Qianfan glanced at Haozai, "I will send you a certificate of identity tomorrow."
The reason I brought weapons today is because the night inspection is unclear. If an unexpected situation occurs, for example, the other party happens to take action and suddenly encounter a battle, it will be more troublesome.
Fortunately, this did not happen.
In the daytime, there is no need for secret surveillance.
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Cheng Qianfan always felt that this tea shop was a little strange, not just because of Eguchi Hideya's confession.
Tea shop.
A flash of inspiration flashed through his mind.
The Japanese Huang San confessed by Lao Mo was running a medicine shop. The name of the medicine shop was "Baicao Medicine Shop", and its location was also on Xiafei Road.
Is there a secret connection between this "Bai Herbal Medicine Shop" and this British coffee and tea shop?
The token found from Lao Mo, as expected, was the identity nameplate issued by Inoue Mansion to the traitor.
Endo Hiroshi's group is affiliated with Inoue Mansion.
Two stores that seemed to have nothing to do with each other, after such analysis, had a hidden connection line.
Although I have always had the information about Huang San’s “Baicao Medicine Shop” and the Huichang Teahouse in Chenghuang Temple.
However, for security reasons, Cheng Qianfan has never found an opportunity to put intelligence on the table.
Because he can't explain the source of the intelligence.
Now, there seems to be such an opportunity.
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Masi South Road.
Peng and Ou are not asleep yet.
As a senior official of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Red Party, the pressure on his shoulders was too great.
Especially the previous rebellion of Zhuang Ze and was almost arranged by the Party Investigation Office to get involved in the Red Party, Peng and Ou were shocked and sweated.
Fortunately, Comrade Xinghuo promptly warned, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
Now, the reason why he has been unable to sleep is still the same comrade "Spark".
More than a month has passed since that warning, and Comrade "Spark" has not contacted the organization again.
This made Peng and Ou extremely worried.
The organization has tried its best to cover up and cited Zhuang Ze as a "traitor" to protect this source of information.
Could it be that the organization's concealment was discovered by the enemy?
Comrade ‘Spark’ is in danger?
Peng Yuou had some guesses about the identity of "Star Fire". His intuition told him that this "Star Fire" comrade should be Lao Liao's online, and the ace agent who invaded the enemy before the "Zhulin" noticed his death.
It is not easy for the organization to train such a trump card agent.
If this comrade was lost or sacrificed because of this incident, Peng and Ou would be extremely sad, and he would not be able to forgive himself.
If he does not protect himself, he will feel that he is dereliction of duty.
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The next day, the morning sun shone on the earth.
Cheng Qianfan changed into a clean and tidy police uniform and looked carefully in the mirror. The handsome young man.
I ate Liu Ada's wontons.
He greeted the neighbors and prepared to go to the Central Police Station at No. 22 Xuehuali Road.
"Brother Fan, save me." Half-year-old boy ran back from the entrance of the alley and threw himself on Cheng Qianfan.
Cheng Qianfan skillfully put half of his eldest son to the ground and walked away with a smile.
A half-best cry came from behind: Brother Fan, you hurt me again.