The military convinced the President that none of the military commanders were involved in contact with the enemy. At the same time, the bodies that were busy holding the joint congress day and night also submitted a summary to the above. It can be seen that, in principle, it is appropriate to have exploratory contact with the enemy, even if it is a criminal like Tojo Emergency. But diplomats insisted that American representatives in Europe should not attract attention when approaching them, "and we cannot rule out the possibility of some neutral scholars and industrialists taking the initiative to do so," the minutes noted, "who were concerned about the situation in postwar Europe, especially when the red flag was about to fly." This personal temptation was carried out precisely out of unease about American interests in Europe. ”

Noticing the word "industrialist", he immediately thought of rumors about the legendary rich brother. The president changed his intention to invite them to the gala. He asked the adjutant to prepare a detailed dossier of the active station "Now, the head of the intelligence bureau knows everything, and the president is unheard of." This situation is not necessarily favorable. ”

After hearing this indignant remark, the following people immediately agreed with his old friend and had dinner at the restaurant at seven o'clock in the evening.

There he briefed a friend.

"Well, then," said the old blue as he spread his napkin over his skinny knees, "I understand that the situation is not optimistic, but his actions are not even on the edge of the law. ”

"Let him break the law," he interrupted Blue, "so that the information about this matter doesn't fall into their hands." From the fact that he is bound to the moral code of a righteous man, I can't imagine how our ministry will end now. ”

"It cannot but end in our best interests, and you know very well that if they agree over there to the entry of these barbarians into Nanking, and thus the title of the main victor decades ahead of schedule, if he approves the establishment of a **China, which will be formed by **men, then who in this country can seriously consider our future, and after we have established our contacts with the Japanese, I have been given practical assurances that from now on all the ports can be assigned to our company. In addition, the location of mines in parts of the area, where tens of millions of dollars worth of resources are concentrated, is reported. ”

"Worth nine hundred and seventy million dollars," he corrected with a gloomy face, "it has already been estimated." There are my people in this area. ”

"Yes, congratulations. However, as far as we know, local guerrillas are becoming more and more active in this area. ”

"There is no legal government in remote areas, and those places are not yet under control." He interrupted.

"Alas, literally, and not in essence, the current Wang puppet regime is, after all, the embodiment of the legitimate government, after all, they are elected."

"You know what the election is going on over there, just like me."

"Yes. However, our country maintained diplomatic relations with such an elected regime, held a reception in Nanjing, and sent a birthday message to Wang Wei. ”

"In that case," he said, frowning, "think about how I should talk to that side, it's a difficult errand. Before I go to him, I want to try it with you. ”

"Please, give it a try."

"By all indications, the Yan'an side is aware of the actions there, although we have carefully and carefully camouflaged the deal. I can't guarantee that the decision-makers in the cave won't have access to information about our redeployment through others. ”

"Don't you think it's wonderful"

"What do you mean?"

"Let them quarrel with each other. Friends, let them go and argue. It would be nice to even let them know more about each other. ”

"It's a common opinion, friend, and it's right not to get in the way. When someone in our department offers to help, smart opponents will be aware of our interests and yours. The only thing that really bothered me was that if they learned of your current contact with them, their eyes would turn black with anger. If someone had put a push on his desk to prove that it was they themselves who had been the chairman of the group since 1933, and that the spies still had a friendship with him. ”

"That's bad," said Old Blue, "to be washed." We can't let them get in our way all the time. All the talk that his health is not suitable for him to go anywhere is precisely his means of appeasing those who perceive that he is playing games with **, dragging the country into the abyss. ”

He shook his head: "There's no need, friend. Once the document used his warmth and gentlemanly means to win something for the country, but the gain outweighed the loss. We want to do that, but in our own way, and the results must go to us, not them. He is in good health at the moment. ”

"Is the message accurate?"

"Exactly. I spoke to his doctor through a Mingyou. ”

Lao Lan took a sip of water, shrugged his shoulders, and his face suddenly became much older: "Friend, every decision is a manifestation of fate. Fate is a word used to express intrinsic credibility. Here the future is connected to life, and necessity is connected to death. ”

He leaned off the back of his chair and whispered, "You're crazy."

He asked the waiter to bring a pack of cigarettes, tore the seal of the cigarette case for a long time, then gasped for breath and took a puff of cigarette, repeating his own words: "You are crazy, friend." I want to figure out how we can protect my family more reliably, but if we withdraw him from there, then our losses will be too great, and this will not work anyway. ”

"If you know about the contact with them now, you know, then we won't be able to keep your wife. So I want you to consider whether you should let the word out there get some information about what the people we're watching are doing."

He snorted heavily: "What a good idea, this method is really clever, I think that those businessmen abroad have a reliable way to organize foreign trade with the Red Elements, and they can leak information to Moscow." This is the matter of the gods fighting, and it has nothing to do with us. I don't think that our bombing of Japan will arouse any special interest, but he will first wonder why we are hiding from him that the United States is developing weapons that can destroy any country. Okay, friend, that's a great idea."

But when parting, Lao Lan said again: "I am honored. Friend, you are in favor of the method of diverting gaze as attractive. But after all, this is only a painkiller, and it should be solved once and for all."

They broke up with this thought.

Lao Lan mentioned the incident again and again, and he was not allowed to think about the "top-secret documents" and accurately formulate the tactics of talking to the president. Yes, contacts with the Japanese side in Bern are real, and this is a choice that must be made. After their agents were imprisoned, several were sent to heaven by Wang Wei, and those who betrayed him were either hanged or imprisoned, especially in the final days of the collapse of Wang Wei's puppet regime, and it was necessary to know exactly who opposed their main ideology.

The outline of the conversation was accurate and highly praised. Wang Wei made this request to all his assistants: "First of all, character, which contains such concepts as consistency of ideals and deeds, humor, kindness, purposefulness, etc.", so if Wang had not delved into Mei Sipin's affairs, he would have learned about the cover given to them in salvaging the government's assets around the world, and at the same time he would have learned everything about a terrible person who was connected to the lives of all people.

The next day, after receiving a brief summary from his subordinates, Wang Wei asked him to send a secret telegram to the other side, ordering that all negotiations with the Japanese should be stopped indefinitely from now on.

At the same time, he forwarded a copy of the letter to the Soviet top brass to the head of the intelligence service, and warned him through his adjutant: "The letter to that side is based on the intelligence of the intelligence service, for which he is responsible for it, and of course it is difficult to bear the moral responsibility, and if such a situation arises, he will share it with all of him."

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My ambassador informed me that he had received a letter from him concerning the possibility of the surrender of some or some of the Japanese forces in the north-east. In view of the fact that there were no Soviet officers in this work, we requested that the inspection to be carried out in the interior should be stopped immediately.

I believe that, due to misunderstandings, you have not been properly reported some of the facts relating to this. The fact is that a few days ago, unconfirmed information from Yan'an said that, based on the claims of certain officers, the Japanese troops in the Northeast Resistance Coalition Resistance Coalition were likely to surrender to the vanguard of the Soviet side.

After you have received the information, the General has been ordered to send one or more staff officers to check the accuracy of the information. If the information is conclusive, contact will be made with the officer in charge of the Japanese army, and negotiations will be held in the general's base camp to discuss the details of the surrender. If the matter of this consultation is settled, the Soviet representatives will naturally be welcome to participate.

The relevant verifications carried out in Yan'an will be communicated to the Soviet government in a timely manner. Once it was finally agreed that a similar meeting would be held somewhere in the northeast to discuss the details of the surrender, the responsible government would be notified, and then the Soviet officers would be allowed to participate in the consultations with the Japanese at General Wang's office.

So far, attempts by our representatives to meet with Japanese officers have not been successful, but the possibility of a meeting will still exist.

As you know, the government should be able to assist the Allied officers. Because they believe that the enemy forces in their area may be forced to surrender. If, as a result of the position I have taken, the delay in time and the loss of the United States armed forces have been caused, knowing that this could have been avoided, it would be a sign of unwise conduct on my part. As a soldier, you understand that you have to act quickly to avoid losing time. The same is true for enemy troops in the northeast who come to your general with a white flag.

The surrender of the enemy's armed forces is in no way contrary to the principle of unconditional surrender that we have decided, and does not contain any political element.

In discussing the details of the enemy's surrender, I will be pleased to see that the commander of the U.S. forces has listened to the advice of your officers who have participated in the discussion, but I cannot agree with any objection and prohibition on the possibility of enemy surrender for reasons that I do not understand.

It has been argued that the possibilities that have already been talked about will not bring much benefit. However, in order to avoid misunderstanding, I would like to ask you to explain to the Soviet leaders concerned the purpose and necessity of our prompt and effective action without delay in order to achieve the acceptance of the surrender of American troops by the enemy.

I am sure that if such a possibility arose on the battlefield of the Soviet army, you would have treated it with the same attitude and would have acted in the same way.

Another reason why Colonel Ma Mowei of the intelligence agency was sent from Yan'an to Nanjing was to learn about the strange actions taken by the Allies against some famous scientists.

Detailed inquiries by researchers working for intelligence agencies caused discontent among French scientists who studied the possibility of using nuclear fission as a basis to create new weapons.

In particular, it is the physics that is the most inquired about. He regarded the British and Americans as allies against the war, and was therefore happy to discuss issues with them, but when he naturally raised his own questions, the Americans remained silent.

"It's immoral," the physicist immediately noted, "and conversation becomes a means of interrogation." But I am Chinese, a member of the anti-war group, not a prisoner. As a Chinese, a patriot, I cannot let my homeland fall behind in scientific progress. If you can't explain why you're interested in my work, then it's clear that you're working on your own project and don't want to work with us. It can be seen that you intend to prevent China from taking the world status it deserves. In that case, China has no other way but to count on Russia. Our generals will agree with me and my peers. ”

The Americans will not discuss issues related to this aspect with other countries in any way. It's a puzzle. It is difficult to say whether the Americans were afraid of the Germans or more afraid of the USSR as an ally. Obviously, this cannot but alarm the Kremlin. Moscow, however, is more concerned with the mysterious operations of American intelligence elsewhere.

After dinner with political friends, he returned home. During the meal, Lan came up with a bold plan to warn the allies: leak information about the design of the new weapon to that side. He kept weighing the pros and cons in his mind. He was ready to take his friend's advice.

Yes, he did think carefully that if the intelligence agency that helped the other side knew more than it knew, it would create a very cold relationship between those who could make decisions. Any conflict between them would be advantageous for the future scenarios proposed by their peers and their colleagues. In fact, both of them are fickle people. He was well aware that one side would ask straightforward questions about the plan: "for what purpose, for whom, and when", he speculated, and that the other side would reply. Naturally, the people around the president will find some pretty slick words. It is clear that the head of the program, General Wang, can pull all his powerful backers, from small soldiers to commander-in-chief. The teams of millionaires who put most of their capital into the nuclear industry may also exert necessary pressure on those close to the top.

Let me know that the American army had just attacked Sicily, and then sent spies and scientists to set off with the vanguard. He knew that many physicists had been shipped back to the United States, where they were imprisoned and interrogated. He knew that his men were almost the first to rush into Paris. He knew that from the end of February, the general's squad had infiltrated the territory of other countries and began to carry out plans to hunt physicists and their materials, books and attack ore warehouses, "heavy water" storage depots.

Someone from the intelligence bureau who broke into the department told him that in recent weeks the head of the program had become increasingly worried about the fate of the refining and the factory. The areas where these factories are located are definitely going to fall into the hands of the Russians.

He gave a certain assessment of the general's courage. This general Wang took bold and extraordinary action against those factories that were destined to fall into the hands of the Russians. Promising research was being carried out at this plant, and sodium and thorium had already been refined. It was for this reason that General Wang approached the commander of the U.S. Air Force and, together with his intelligence officers, carefully worked out a plan that attracted attention; In order to make the Russians let their guard down, they launched a fierce attack on two targets on the same day and at the same time, with air strikes on the staff and factories near the targets. The bombing of that side was meant to distract others and reassure the allies, and the six hundred "flying fortresses" were enough to wipe off the face of the earth the factories that could get the Russians, which was the main purpose.

The Air Force Commander organized the air raid with great care, as the general gave the order that "General Wang's request must be met immediately."

In March 1940, a small detachment under General Wang parachuted into the vicinity of the target, surrounded the place, and captured a group of German physicists.

During the interrogation, the physicist confessed that his unique materials were stored in the tunnels of the salt mines.

General Wang's men gathered in front of the map and found that the Russian ** team was only three kilometers away from this location. In a secret telegram sent to Washington, General Wang's men demanded that a rapid airborne landing be carried out in that area.

General Wang brought the report. General Ma supported his proposal, but the State Department rejected it, citing the possibility of political entanglement on the grounds that such an overtly unfriendly move would not be tolerated.

General Wang was furious, "You must understand that once the plan becomes a reality, it will be a thousand times easier for us to resolve all political entanglements, and if we have a guy in our hands, they will not dare to quarrel with us." In the final analysis, only strength can guarantee stability. ”

"By the time you have that thing, you'll probably have a new way of evaluating political possibilities," he replied, "and now we must follow the principles of gunpowder diplomacy and not anything else." ”

The night after breaking up with Lao Lan, he was always undecided, not knowing what to do.

The idea has always revolved around the question of who to inform to execute. He'll look for an opportunity to let the wind out, and then he'll get over there right away.

"But what would that guy do?" he asked himself more than once. "If that guy is open and honest with that side, what should we do, how to deal with it, is Lao Lan right, we only have one way out, the most important way to carry out surgery, can't politics compromise on cruelty as the main means of removing obstacles?"

He replied unequivocally: Yes. It is indeed impossible to compromise with that side. He was an idealist, like a child, believing that kindness could solve everything, and that childlike man would have four years under the law to convince others to believe in mediation, to make people think, not to get angry.

"Hoover," he finally said to himself, "I need Hoover." I don't know how to talk to him, and I haven't figured out how to talk to him. But I understand that I have to ask him: what do you do if someone recommends you to be a leadership assistant"

He knew the man. He knew how his "fraternal rival" would react. It is only necessary to make up your mind and tell him very clearly: "It is not so much to lead us to victory over the enemy as to surrender to that side." ”

Li Guangyuan stepped into Chang Kaishen's room, Chang Kaishen shook his head sadly, and then sneered suspiciously and said, "What have you gained, you deceived the poor orderly." How many times have you spent the night at home three times or five times, what happened, you found a vault of millions of fiat currency, got a passport from another country, and can travel all over the world without inspection"

Li Guangyuan sighed and reached for his cigarette: "I have a suggestion, team leader." ”

"Let's talk about it."

Once again, the air raid sirens sounded horribly.

Chang Kaishen said: "Go to the basement." ”

"Look at what you said, I don't care."

"Only a fool is not afraid, but you are not a fool."

"I'm a fatalist, that's one thing."

"Then we'll stay. Hey, what do you suggest."

"Put me in the prison where I stayed, where my room was. I went out to work in the morning and came back in the evening to go to jail. But do it according to the decision of your department, so as not to settle the account on my head after being arrested by the Red Army or the American Army. ”

"Do you want to live?" Chang Kaishen asked, "Yes." ”

Chang Kaishen controlled himself several times and did not blurt out questions, if he Chang Kaishen began to help Li Guangyuan work for the enemy's intelligence agency, what else would he have to wait for He finally didn't say this, because he felt a sense of missing an opportunity from time to time in his heart. He felt like opportunity was flowing through a sand leak timer. If the poet had had felt these feelings, understood this peculiar cruelty, he would never have written such verses: "Stop, instantly." What a terrible phrase it is, it creates an illusion, and yet time cannot be stopped. On the surface it is possible, but nothing is more terrible than what is on the surface. Chang Kaishen once wanted to carefully study Li Guangyuan's personal file in order to find out when he first came into contact with him, in which aspect, and in what matter he controlled him. But the cities in which Li Guangyuan carried out his activities were occupied, and his archives were kept in the department in charge of foreign organizations, because he was participating in the movement abroad. There is no point in digging through these pieces of paper in the case files of the warehouse, and the information it provides is only trivial things that say: "self-control, northerners, noteworthy", do not count as materials.