In the secret service agency of the Japanese Concession in Shanghai, seven officers from the Army and Navy Intelligence Department of the Communist Party of China gritted their teeth in front of the neatly arranged playing cards on the table.
Many generals loudly accused the Shanghai secret service and the Shanghai Consulate General of being stupid and incompetent. The abominable playing cards had been circulating on the market for a long time without being noticed, and the negative impact it caused was really incalculable.
Sitting in the middle, the section chief of the Japanese Army Staff Department, Okamura Neiji, looked gloomy and said nothing. He had just arrived in Shanghai from Dalian when he encountered the "playing card incident" that extremely insulted the Japanese spiritual idol, the Emperor and the Imperial Army.
"When I learned that playing cards were flowing out of southern Sichuan, I immediately realized that this matter was unusual and could not be satisfactorily handled through diplomatic means.
Okamura Neiji knew very well who was behind this incident, and he knew even more clearly that the weak and incompetent Wang Jingwei central government had no way to do anything about it.
Judging from all the intelligence combined, Okamura Neiji believed that this was a powerful counterattack by An Yi, the head coach of the Anjia Army, against the ban on anti-Japanese textbooks in North China and Shanghai, and also a cunning method to retaliate against the pro-Japanese Wang Jingwei group in the government. Wang Jingwei
Under the tremendous pressure exerted by the Communist government, through mutual compromise with Chiang Kai-shek and in accordance with organizational procedures, the Security Council was revoked.
Yi's post as Deputy Chief of Staff, the Central Committee meeting was held as expected the day before yesterday, and the Central Committee meeting was successfully abolished, which was an important organ in charge of the party, government and military power in southern Sichuan. The blow to An Yi and his group was not small, but Okamura
Ning Ci could not have imagined that An Yi's revenge would come so quickly. He was convinced that An Yi's power had been weakened as he wished, and even Wang Jingwei, who was so satisfied with his ambition, could not have expected it.
The generals in the conference room sternly proposed various means of retaliation. This statement could never forgive the heinous crimes of the Anyi Group, and a large number of secret agents were to be dispatched into the southern Sichuan area to carry out assassinations and sabotage. The other statement said that the navy should take active action.
They rose up and seized every opportunity to seize and sink the cargo ships belonging to the Anyi Group. Some people even viciously suggested that the Kwantung Army immediately go south to North China to attack the 17th Army and the 2nd Army stationed in Jizhong and South Hebei.
The Fourteenth Army launched a fierce attack.
Only Okamura Neiji understood that these were irrational and angry words. If North China could be fought, it would have started long ago. Now the Northeast and Mongolia are facing huge military pressure from the Soviet Union. The Kwantung Army, which was already stretched thin,
There was no time to go south. Last time, Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek had not compromised blindly and said that the empire would not necessarily survive in peace.
Tianjin’s rights and interests will be completely lost. As for dispatching spies to southern Sichuan, that is even more wishful thinking. Most of the spies jointly dispatched by the secret service agencies in China and the puppet Manchukuo government to enter southern Sichuan have disappeared and have no news at all. Some of them have escaped back here and there.
Several of them still have lingering fears, fearing that they will be hunted down by Anjiajun agents in the next minute.
It is even more difficult to seize and sink the Anjiajun transport ship. Not only are the Anyi Group's ocean-going fleets becoming smaller and smaller, but they are all flying the flags of Germany and the United States. In this case, who can
Dare you order such an action that would cause huge diplomatic disputes?
Germany and the United States are not weak China. Their protection of their own citizens and enterprises is by no means worse than that of Japan. Not to mention sinking these transport ships, as long as one of them is detained, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and agencies in China will be punished.
It will cause huge trouble. European and American countries, which have already suffered heavy losses due to Japan's rapid and strong economic expansion in China, will never give up any opportunity to attack Japan economically and diplomatically.
Furthermore, all the intelligence shows that most of the Anyi Group’s import and export commodities are traded through the trade routes connecting southeastern Yunnan, southern Yunnan and French Annan. Recently, the intelligence continuously fed back from strongholds all over Myanmar shows that
, Anyi Group reached an understanding with the British colonial government as early as last year and built a strategic highway connecting Kunming to Yangon, and there are more than one. As a result, China will obtain Myanmar's sea access with excellent conditions.
All these situations involve complex issues such as the strategic security and economic development between China and Japan, the accumulation of war capabilities and foreign relations between the two countries, and they worry Okamura Ningji far more than a few playing cards.
The generals in the conference room were agitated and cursed endlessly, and their actions in anger became more and more unsightly. Okamura Neji couldn't bear it anymore, so he stood up and shouted "Baga", which suddenly woke up the generals.
Everyone shut their mouths and returned to the conference table, bowing their heads respectfully to apologize to Okamura Neji.
Okamura Neiji was silent for a moment, then said with an extremely serious face: "The foreign affairs department has exerted tremendous pressure on the central government of China. The police and military police in Shanghai and Nanjing have taken action to confiscate all playing cards circulating in the market and
More than 100 shop owners were arrested and interrogated, and President Wang Jingwei also personally apologized to our diplomatic envoy and promised
Immediately arrest the manufacturers in southern Sichuan that produce and sell playing cards. Under such circumstances, what reason do you have for talking about war? And what guarantee is there to win the war? The top priority is to calm down and use a hundredfold wisdom and efforts to fight against the war.
Anyi Group has launched various attacks and retaliations, so what we need is not yelling and abuse, but reason and wisdom, do you understand?"
"Hey Yi——"
All the generals answered in unison.
Okamura Neiji's face looked a little better: "According to the latest information, the scale and capabilities of the Fourth Department of the China Army's General Staff Headquarters are much greater than we expected. Not only do they have an extremely secret intelligence station in the Northeast,
They even have their intelligence station in Hong Kong
, more than ten Chinese pro-Japanese officials and celebrities have been assassinated in succession in the past six months, which is very likely to be directly related to the Fourth Department. If we cannot investigate the situation of this agency in time and completely eliminate the security risks, it will be a big blow to us.
**The army will be a huge threat.
"Shanghai is the largest and most prosperous international trading city in China, and it is also the place with the most embassies and consulates from all over the world. Two-thirds of China's import and export goods must go through Shanghai. Therefore, Shanghai must be the fourth department.
The most important intelligence base.
"The Shanghai intelligence agency of our Great *** Empire must take action immediately to find out the various intelligence agencies hidden in Shanghai by the Anyi Group as soon as possible and carry out covert and violent attacks. This is the best revenge against the enemy. As for the
Let's leave the war of words to the personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and embassies and consulates.
"Gentlemen, tomorrow I will go to Nanjing to put pressure on the Chinese military on behalf of the Imperial General Staff Headquarters. Then I will go to Taiyuan, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Nanning and other places to visit various princes in China. After I come back, I hope to hear
Good news for you all."
"Hey Yi——"
On the morning of the next day, Wang Jingwei made an impassioned speech at the special meeting of the Executive Yuan convened for the "Poker Incident", severely criticizing An Yi and the governments at all levels in southern Sichuan for doing so again under the good situation that Sino-Japanese relations have just overcome the crisis and achieved promising prospects.
made bad actions that seriously undermined the overall situation between China and Japan, and listed Anyi Group regardless of national security.
, failing to understand the difficulties of the central government, failing to implement the instructions of the central government, and disobeying the management of the central government, etc., the five major crimes were against all opinions and an immediate decision was made: to dispatch an Executive Yuan investigation team to fly to southern Sichuan, immediately remove the mayor of Xufu City, Dong Fuchuan, and dissolve the Xufu City
The municipal government, based on the investigation results, will reorganize Xufu City and governments at all levels in southern Sichuan.
Kong Xiangxi, Vice President of the Executive Yuan, was so anxious that he immediately sent a secret telegram to Chiang Kai-shek in Chengdu as soon as the meeting ended.
Chiang Kai-shek was shocked when he received the secret report from Kong Xiangxi. However, when he thought about it carefully, these were matters within the jurisdiction of Wang Jingwei and the Executive Yuan, and he could not publicly intervene to stop them. After pondering, Chiang Kai-shek drafted a telegram to Wang Jingwei,
After I finished writing, I read it again and felt it was unnecessary, so I called Deng Wenyi and gave some instructions in a low voice. Deng Wenyi immediately rushed to the confidential room and called An Yi.
On September 26, Tada Shun, the new commander of the Tianjin Garrison Army of the Communist Party of China, delivered a public speech in Tianjin. He will decide to implement the second step policy for North China and promote the establishment of autonomous groups on a large scale in the five northern provinces to achieve regional autonomy and enable
Economically and politically, it was completely separated from the control of the Nanjing government.
Wang Jingwei issued a statement in Nanjing on the same day, denying any negotiations between the central government of Japan and the Communist Party of China on the subject of terrorism, and once again made it clear to the world that Japan would not live in harmony and progress with the Communist Party of China.
position.
On this same day, Huang Jun, Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan General Office, led 11 Executive Yuan investigators, proudly boarded a Southwest Airlines flight and headed towards the Syrian government with confidence.
Before the plane took off in Nanjing, An Yi, who was in Simao, had already received detailed information. He opened the report secretly sent by the Intelligence Bureau and carefully read Huang Jun's information.
Huang Jun, courtesy name Qiuyue, is a thirty-five-year-old Fujian native. He was born into a scholarly family. His father, Huang Yanhong, was a scholar in the Hanlin Academy of the Qing Dynasty. He inherited court training at a young age and became literate at the age of four. He was able to write poems at the age of seven. He was able to make a nest by hanging his wrist at the age of nine.
Big character, known as the "child prodigy". He is only fourteen years old.
At the age of 18, he studied at the Translation Institute of the Beijing Normal University. Because of his reputation for poetry, he was favored by literary leaders Chen Baochen, Yan Fu, Lin Shu, Chen Yan, and Zheng Xiaoxu during his stay in Beijing. Liang Qichao was astonished when he read his article, thinking that it must have been written by someone from heaven.
Lao Su's hand and seeing,
He was actually a weak young man, so he was rewarded more and more and was appointed as his secretary. In the early years of the Republic of China, he studied at Waseda University and worked in the Beiyang Government after returning to China. After the collapse of the Beiyang Government, he transferred to the Executive Yuan of the National Government in Nanjing and became the dean.
Wang Jingwei's
Appreciated and trusted, he was appointed as the Confidential Secretary of the Executive Yuan and was promoted to Deputy Director of the General Office in March this year. This person is young and ambitious, high-spirited, has misbehavior and is a womanizer.
Good at eloquence...
An Yi shook his head and smiled. He put down the secret message and thought about it for a moment. He picked up the brush, dipped it lightly in ink, turned it a few times, and wrote a big word on the draft of the message - Catch!
Shen Fengdao couldn't help but feel happy, and walked aside to pick up the newspaper.
Confidential Secretary Zhao Bohan was shocked when he saw the big word "catch" written on the message sent by An Yi:
"Commander, I'm afraid this will have a bad impact, right? The relationship between the commander and the central government is already very tense. If Huang Jun and others are arrested again, there will be an earthquake in Nanjing."
An Yi was unmoved, pointing to the handwriting that smelled of ink and asked: "Bohan, what do you think of this handwriting I wrote?"
Zhao Bohan answered truthfully: "The pen is strong and can penetrate the back of the paper. The commander's calligraphy has improved again."
"Haha! Okay, just know that you can see through the back of the paper and send it back to the headquarters immediately."
"yes……"
As soon as Zhao Bohan left, An Yi asked Shen Fengdao in a low voice: "Old Shen, what do you think of me putting Bohan in the southern Yunnan garrison for training for a year or two?"
Shen Fengdao was quite surprised, thought for a while and nodded: "Bohan has been with the commander for more than a year, and it's time to go to the army to train. However, I'm afraid the conditions here in southern Yunnan are more difficult. With Bohan's talent, it's time to go to the army to train." It’s probably better to stay in Yichang or in southern Sichuan.”
An Yi waved his hand, and a strange look flashed across his face: "I always feel that Bohan is too introverted. Many times I can't see through him. After thinking about it, I still think he should be trained in the army in southern Yunnan. It's better, this may be more suitable for his growth. Besides, isn't Ziyan doing a good job here? I believe Bohan will not let me down."
Shen Fengdao smiled, said nothing, and continued to pick up the newspaper and read it.