Chapter 13 Q&A
According to the agreed time, Tang Cheng rushed to the tea house to meet with Boss Yu, but before entering the tea house, Tang Cheng repeatedly searched around the tea house and made sure that there were no suspicious people around the tea house, so he entered the tea house. Boss Yu had been waiting for Tang Cheng for a long time, seeing that the appointed time was about to pass, although Boss Yu couldn't see anything unusual on his face, he was actually secretly nervous in his heart, he was worried that Tang Cheng might have something wrong.
Tang Cheng deliberately pinched the point and walked into the tea house, and the fleeting look of ease in Boss Yu's eyes behind the counter was looked at by Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng, who judged that Boss Yu had no problem, immediately relaxed, and went directly to the warehouse behind the tea house according to Boss Yu's instructions. "I thought you wouldn't come!" Closing the door of the warehouse, Boss Yu made a gesture of looking at Tang Cheng.
"I went to see the clinic and there was a little accident, so I was delayed." Tang Cheng didn't answer the question, but it immediately attracted the attention of Boss Yu. Tang Cheng, who took the initiative to mention the clinic, didn't intend to hide it from the other party, and then told Boss Yu everything he saw and thought. "You are only responsible for me alone now, and the matter of the clinic, you had better convey it to Shanghai Station through other channels, I don't want you to implicate me in an accident here."
Tang Cheng's words sounded very unreasonable, but Boss Yu's face did not see the slightest impatience, but showed a little relaxation. "Don't worry, I will notify them through the dead mail, and I will never directly associate with them." As he spoke, Boss Yu leaned over a piece of the floor and took out a bag from the hole in the floor under the floor, looking at the weight of the bag, the weight of the contents was not light.
"Here are the two pistols and a hundred pistol rounds you want!" Boss Yu opened the bag in front of Tang Cheng and took out two new pistols that still smelled of gun oil, and a hundred pistol bullets were also heavily wrapped in a cloth bag. At this time, it was not the time to show reserve, Tang Cheng immediately reached out and took the two pistols, and soon disassembled the two pistols into a bunch of parts in front of Boss Yu.
"That's right, it's all new guns!" After some disassembly and assembly, Tang Cheng finally gave a comment, as for the hundred pistol bullets, Tang Cheng just opened the cloth bag and glanced at it casually. "I may need more time to plan for the specific time of action, as for the details of the action, I will not report to you, as long as the timing is right, I can do it at any time." Boss Yu prepared two Browning pistols for Tang Cheng, although he was not very satisfied with the lethality of the Browning pistol, but Tang Cheng did not bring it up in front of Boss Yu.
Tang Cheng did not stay at the tea house for too long, and he came and walked quickly, but after leaving the tea house, Tang Cheng did not return to his residence immediately, but went to Hans's restaurant. "Get me two M1911s, a hundred bullets, I'll be useful." Tang Cheng and Hans don't need to be polite, after all, the other party knows a lot of their own things, so in Hans's office, they directly ask each other.
Tang Cheng suddenly came to Shanghai, there was a trace of weirdness, Hans asked several times, but Tang Cheng did not say the purpose of Shanghai. Tang Cheng suddenly asked for weapons and ammunition from him at this moment, and Hans could guess even if he didn't know what Tang Cheng's purpose was. "There is no problem with guns and bullets, and I don't ask you what to do with them, but in return, you have to do something for me." Since Tang Cheng was unwilling to say his purpose, Hans chose to face Tang Cheng with the attitude of a merchant.
"No problem, as long as you don't poke a hole in the sky!" Tang Cheng knew that although Hans was interested in interests, he was not a brainless person, and it was impossible to make excessive demands. So he didn't even ask, but nodded his head in agreement, which was somewhat beyond Hans's expectations. Seeing Hans's surprised expression, Tang Cheng immediately smiled and said, "I believe that you are a smart person, and we have worked together before, I don't think you should force me to do those impractical things." ”
Tang Cheng's explanation made Hans smile bitterly in his heart, and said that he had already seen through the person in front of him. "You're right, I'm not going to force you to do something that doesn't make sense! The Japanese are now in the limelight, and my superiors have received a new order from me to investigate the relationship between the Japanese and the British, and there is speculation in Berlin that the Japanese may have a secret agreement with the British. The news revealed by Hans confused Tang Cheng, how could the Japanese get involved with the British?
What he thought in his heart was one thing, but what he said was another, so Tang Cheng took Hans's words and asked with concern. "You mean to say that the Japanese are playing the trick of left and right?" Hans has been in China for many years, and Tang Cheng knows that the other party is a China expert, so in the words just now, Tang Cheng used the word left and right. Strictly speaking, the word left and right is not a derogatory term, but if it is used by the Japanese, the word immediately takes on the flavor of a derogatory term.
Hans really knew what it meant to be left and right, and nodded lightly towards Tang Cheng, "That's right, that's what Berlin means!" Although the Japanese had secretly formed an alliance with the Empire, Japan was in Asia after all, and the bigwigs in Berlin could only give advice, but could not influence the Japanese mind. The upper echelons of the empire originally thought that the Japanese would be able to contain Britain, France, and the United States in Asia, so even if the Japanese had already revealed the idea of fully occupying China, Berlin pretended not to know anything. ”
"It's just that looking at the situation in Shanghai now, the Japanese did not mean to offend Britain, France and the United States, at least the Japanese army in Shanghai did not carry out operations against the Shanghai concession. From this, Berlin deduced that the Japanese were likely to have secretly reached a secret agreement with Britain, France, and the United States, which the Reich absolutely did not want. In front of Tang Cheng, Hans talked a lot about the Japanese trying to occupy China in an all-round way, and if it were someone else, he might have turned his face with Hans and made a fuss, but Tang Cheng did not react at all.
Tang Cheng, who was just bowing his head and smoking, had to suppress the anger in his heart not because he needed help from Hans at this time. He didn't react because Tang Cheng judged that what Hans said just now was actually a temptation from the other party. Seeing that Tang Cheng's expression remained unchanged and he only cared about smoking but did not say a word, Hans showed a trace of disappointment in his eyes, he knew that his temptation had failed. But even so, Hans's tone of speech did not change, because what he had just said was not something he had just made up out of thin air.
Tang Cheng finished smoking a cigarette before he opened his mouth and asked Hans, "What can I do for you?" What you just said, I'm dizzy when I hear it, you might as well just say what you want me to do! You know what I'm best at, the things that use my brain, I'm not good at it! Tang Cheng pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray, and then looked up at Hans, and there was not the slightest wave in his eyes. Hans, who originally planned to continue to test it, had no choice now, and looking at Tang Cheng's appearance, he was not affected by his words at all.
After a little hesitation, Hans was going to tell the truth, "What I just told you really meant from the Berlin side, the current situation in Shanghai looks weird, and most of the insiders I have come into contact with in private have this opinion. Hans said implicitly, but Tang Cheng knew that the insiders Hans just said were talking about the intelligence agents of all parties who were mixed up in the Shanghai Concession, and maybe this included intelligence agents from Britain, France and the United States.
"If you ask me what I think, I don't think the Japanese have any private agreement with the British, and if I were Japanese, I would have avoided making enemies with Britain, France, and the United States at this time, after all, it will take time to end this war." Tang Cheng's view was somewhat new to Hans. "Japan is only an island country, and its own resources are not enough to support them to complete this war, and if they provoke Britain, France, and the United States at this time, their access to resources from the outside will be cut off."
Britain, France, and the United States have been selling so-called scrap materials to Japan, which is not a secret, even Hans, who lived in Shanghai in the last period, knew about it. At this moment, as soon as Tang Cheng reminded him, Hans immediately reacted, and just followed Tang Cheng's train of thought and continued to ponder, and Hans really understood what Tang Cheng wanted to express. "Don, do you mean to say that the attitude of the Japanese is only a stopgap measure?" Hans soon came to an inference, but he was not sure of it.
"That's right, it's expediency!" Tang Cheng nodded in agreement with Hans's reasoning. "The war had just begun, although the Japanese army had already taken control of Shanghai and gathered forces to besiege Nanjing. But the Japanese army also saw the courage and bottom line of China's bloody battle to the end, Japan is too small, China is too big, and Japan is ready to occupy China in an all-round way, that can only be an idea. In this kind of matter, if the Japanese offend the interests of Britain, France, and the United States in China, it will certainly backfire. ”
Tang Cheng's words mentioned that the Japanese were familiar with the Three Kingdoms and Sun Tzu's Art of War, which obviously did not mean anything positive, and Hans thought about Tang Cheng's words carefully, and felt that it was not unreasonable. "How do you think I should reply to Berlin?" Hans, who had not grasped the point, took the initiative to ask Tang Cheng what he meant at this moment, and Tang Cheng did not find it strange, because Hans was more like a businessman than an intelligence agent.
"The Japanese seem to be cruel and cunning on the surface, but in fact they have an inferiority complex in their bones, they worship the strong, but they often have crazy thoughts and actions in the next place. If you want me to say, the Japanese can be used, but they cannot be given complete trust, because once the Japanese go crazy, everyone in the world can be destroyed and sacrificed except for their emperor. Tang Cheng's comments on the Japanese made Hans even more confused, but he also felt that the Japanese were a complex contradiction.