Only seven days before the Spring Festival, Zheng Yi finally finished many things at hand, and with the latest instructions quietly sent by the liaison officer, he and Xu Maofu and his eldest brother Zheng Heng boarded the luxury passenger ship of the British company and rushed back to Hong Kong. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The period when Zheng Yi left Huhai was a sensitive period when the four emerging warlords in China broke up unhappily because of the uneven distribution of spoils at the "National Conference on the Deployment of the Army," and it was also the most critical period for President Chiang, who held the central power of the KMT, to make up his mind to eradicate the Gui faction that was a thorn in the flesh.

The deceit and separatist outcome of the four major warlords had long been in Zheng Yi's grasp, but Zheng Yi never imagined that when he made up his mind to plot against President Jiang and the Nanjing government, he was already the target of President Jiang's strict monitoring.

On the afternoon of February 4, the 29th year of the new calendar, the day after Zheng Yi left Huhai, Chen Lifu, who was in charge of the Central Intelligence Agency of the Kuomintang, took a long-faced man of medium stature to Sanyuan Lane and led him directly through the heavily guarded front yard, hurried past the quiet front hall, and entered President Jiang's study.

Chen Lifu saw that Principal Jiang was still holding a brush and burying his head in writing, and immediately signaled the respectful and solemn long-faced man not to come forward to report, and then quietly stepped forward and quietly put a stack of top-secret documents prepared in advance on the table in front of Principal Jiang.

"It's coming very quickly, don't be restrained, pour your own tea."

Principal Jiang, who was wearing a dark blue cotton robe, kindly instructed, and only after writing the last line did he put down the brush in his hand, slowly raised his head, and looked at the long-faced man behind Chen Lifu: "Yunong is back." ”

The long-faced man hurriedly stepped forward to report: "I have seen the principal, the student just returned to Nanjing at noon." ”

Chen Lifu explained with a smile: "Yunong's trip to Hong Kong was quite fruitful, not only vigorously rectifying the leaderless Hong Kong office to keep it on the right track, but also bringing back a lot of important information, especially the information about Zheng Yi, which is more precious than the existing information of our investigation department. ”

Principal Jiang nodded with satisfaction: "Yunong, you have worked hard, sit down and report." ”

The attendant officer standing by the door immediately moved two chairs, and after setting them up, he returned to the original place again, Chen Lifu quietly gestured, politely invited Dai Yunong to sit down, and sat down on the other chair silently.

Dai Yunong nodded humbly, took half a step forward, and continued to report to President Jiang, just about to open his mouth, he saw Principal Jiang pointing to the chair in front of him with a smile, and thanked him gratefully before sitting down half of his buttocks, straightening his waist, and starting to report with a respectful face:

"Although the students' trip to Hong Kong has gained a little, there has been no progress in the investigation of Tan Ligong's murder case, the British only showed the results of the investigation of the murder scene, and the rest did not cooperate, and the students still couldn't figure it out with all their efforts, which disappointed the expectations of the principal and Minister Chen!"

Principal Jiang waved his hand generously: "The responsibility for this matter is not on you, the purpose of sending you here is mainly to show the British the attitude of our national government, and it is a great credit that you can reorganize the scattered office in Hong Kong." ”

Dai Yunong nodded gratefully, and when he heard Chen Lifu's whispered prompt, he hurriedly concentrated and continued to report:

"According to the repeated investigation of the students, it has been determined that Zheng Yi appeared in Hong Kong in late August last year, and the information obtained in southern Gan shows that Zheng Yi suddenly disappeared around August 10, and it is completely reasonable to infer from the time ......."

"However, the students are not sure whether Zheng Yi was expelled from the top ranks of the Communist Party or because he voluntarily returned to the field after losing the power to lead the troops, so I can only investigate what he did after he arrived in Hong Kong......

"I'll add to that."

Chen Lifu interrupted Dai Yunong's report and explained to President Jiang in detail: "According to the information we have obtained from the Communist Party's renegades, the top central leadership organ of the Communist Party hidden in Shanghai held an important meeting at the end of July last year, and one of the important topics was to severely punish Zheng Yi for ignoring the instructions of his superiors and rapidly expanding his troops. ”

"The content of the punishment includes: dismissing Zheng Yi from his post as commander-in-chief of the former enemy in the Jiangxi-Fujian border area, ordering Zheng Yi to immediately hand over his military power and go to Huhai to make a profound review of the Central Committee of the Communist Party!"

"It is a pity that on the morning of August 12 last year, our investigators and the military and police of various ministries launched a unified operation against the underground Communist Party organizations in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and other places, alarming the important members of the Communist Party Central Committee hidden in the depths, and then all the important targets scattered and fled, so it was impossible to know Zheng Yi's whereabouts after leaving the Jiangxi-Fujian border area."

Principal Jiang raised his eyebrows: "Are the words of the Communist Party renegades reliable?" ”

"Very reliable! The confessions of the two high-ranking renegades were numerous, and after verification, they were all confirmed, and the Communist Party Central Committee's decision to punish Zheng Yi was only one of the clues. Chen Lifu replied with great certainty.

"Okay, I see!"

Principal Jiang nodded slightly, then waved his hand and said, "Yunong, you continue." ”

"Yes!"

Dai Yunong responded respectfully and continued to report to President Jiang: "After Zheng Yi returned to Hong Kong, he lived in the Zheng family mansion in the mid-levels of Hong Kong Island, and it didn't take long for him to officially change his name to Paul Zheng, and began to gradually take over the Zheng family's business, and frequently published economic articles in Hong Kong's largest Chinese newspaper "Oriental Daily", which soon attracted the attention of the governor of Hong Kong, and then began to appear at rallies held by the upper class. ”

"According to various verifications, Zheng Yi began to take over the family's Kowloon Terminal and Warehousing Company in September, and then assisted his father, Mr. Zheng Lanting, in the acquisition of Hong Kong's Swire Shipyard, and invested huge sums of money in a series of renovations and expansions, the first to be produced is the famous M1929 submachine gun and imitation Colt military pistol."

"After the rectification, the Far East Machinery Manufacturing Company is actually a technologically advanced arsenal, just the remaining and newly recruited skilled technicians up to more than 300 people, and then in Guangzhou and Hong Kong in batches recruited more than 700 technicians, if you add senior engineers and management personnel from Europe and the United States, the number of employees in this arsenal has exceeded 1,500 people, and it also has a number of patents filed by the British government, and its strength is far above our estimates."

"What!?"

Principal Jiang gasped and said, "This scale has already surpassed our Jinling Arsenal!" ”

Dai Yunong nodded solemnly: "During the whole investigation, the most incomprehensible thing for students is not the Far East Machinery Manufacturing Company and the Kowloon Wharf managed by Zheng Yi, but the Huafeng Trading Company located next to the Kowloon Warehousing Company. ”

"Wait! I seem to have heard the name Huafeng Trading Company somewhere......" Principal Jiang immediately fell into some kind of memory.

Chen Lifu reminded in a low voice: "It is the company that specializes in selling arms on Xiafei Road in the Shanghai-Hai-French Concession, and the entire building is the property of the Feng family, and it has close contacts with the German Lu Phosphorus Foreign Company and the British Anglo-Chinese Foreign Company. ”

At this moment, Principal Jiang finally remembered, he nodded thoughtfully, and then raised his hand again to signal Dai Yunong to continue.