But there's still a bloody contest ahead, and if he guesses what I'm thinking, and senses that I know something about him but doesn't say it, it will be a mistake that can't be compensated."

"Okay, the captain's matter is really a bit strange, Li Guangyuan, have you agreed with the teacher in advance on the method of contact?"

"Yes"

"Is it a bilateral connection?"

"Yes"

"Can you give me his address?"

"Absolutely."

"Now there's another border post reporting that you didn't cross the border alone, and one is too big, right?"

"No, it wasn't just Mrs. Huang who I brought across the border, but also her two children."

"Who is she?"

"It's a refugee. Her husband used to work in our factory and was a watchmaking expert, but he died in battle. As soon as the air raid ended, she was standing on the road. ”

"How old are the two children?"

"It's all breastfeeding babies. Alas, I can't figure out their age either. They cried so much."

"Where did she walk over there?"

"Xi'an."

"Is it near a hostel?"

"Yes"

"What's your name?"

"'It looks like a cyclamen.' ”

Chang Kaishen shrugged his shoulders and said,

"Why are we so keen on using such a name?"

"I think it won't be long before all of our hotels here will have so-called trendy names, contrary to what we do now. Everyone is always particularly interested in what they don't have. “

"Yes, it's very likely. At that time, there will probably be some hotels in Nanjing, such as 'East Palace', 'Venus', 'Maria', etc."

"In Shanghai, there will be hostels like 'New York', Little Paris, and 'Musikverein,'" Li added.

Chang Kaishen nodded, stretched his waist, and asked, "Have you ever looked for someone in the hostel over there?" ”

"You've been staring at me over there?"

"I covered you."

"In that case, I'll answer that it's a professor that you have a connection with over there with a teacher."

"Why doesn't the teacher go to the hotel?"

"Because I instructed him to take precautions, I couldn't remember his name. He did not come to meet with the priest, he was very well informed, he represented a very secret group within the body, and for some reason he had committed suicide. ”

Chang Kaishen lazily and slowly took out a small piece of paper from his pocket, put it on the table in front of Li Guangyuan, and said, "It was he who sent this code to our secret residence, remember, and showed it to you when I had to let you go to prison?" It's bizarre, isn't it? This code is exactly the same as that of the charming young mother who worked as a newspaper collector."

"It would be bad if he asked me to write with my left hand." Li Guangyuan looked at his password carefully and thought for a while, "You should be mentally prepared in advance." Is it sufficient? Was it a coincidence? Or is he playing a trick? If Chang Kaishen had informed Wu Sibao of his suspicions, then Wu Sibao might not have talked to me as he had done in the past."

"Do you have doubts about me? Detachment Leader"

"There's a little bit"

"How many?";

"I suspect you're making a joke, do you know the game of 'Pai Gow', why not? From a human point of view, I can understand that in our 'big family' country, everyone now only cares about themselves. ”

"What if I'm acting?" Li Guangyuan asked slowly. "If I say to you that I am making a joke, it is because I do not think I can trust you, though your plan to flee as soon as the Allied guns are heard here is appropriate to me; And also because until now you haven't told me who we're going to run away with? Where exactly do you go? And how to move? You want to be a business owner, but it's not money that I'm investing in your business, it's life. That's why I'm so honest and serious about teachers. ”

"Where did you have the audacity to hide his sister and cubs? The man who made us almost didn't hang himself. Where is she? ”

"In Chongqing."

"Don't lie."

"Then please don't ask any more questions."

"If I find her, will the teacher accept me into your gang?"

"If you can approve me to work with him, he will definitely accept you. It's a work of continuity, exactly."

"What is the job?"

"Let him, not Zhan Guoqiang, be the representative of actual power."

"Do you think the top is determined to change horses? Do you think my name is more enticing to him than others? Whether it is Zhan Guoqiang, the General Staff and diplomatic officials, they will let me get involved, and the fool who goes to use him knows that I am a person who is afraid of getting involved. ”

"But you can gather materials from those in the military command, force them to despair, and force them to join us, regardless of regrettable defeat, and make sure that you can still sit down with them at the table."

"When are you going to meet over there?"

"What else do you know?"

"We haven't heard his call yet."

"Nineteen:30."

"You take a chance to ask him, 'Who did you know from Yan'an that negotiations were going on?' ’”

"Do you have any material for this?"

"Li Guangyuan, I want you to ask Zhan Guoqiang questions and listen to his answers. That's it. ”

"Do you believe I'll make it out of his office alive?"

"I believe it. What I don't believe is if you'll wake up in your apartment tomorrow morning, that's what I really don't believe. Because of this, I am going to assign my driver to follow your left and right Yes, yes, send a driver, your right wrist hurts, it is inconvenient to drive, you inform Zhan Guoqiang about this. ”

Chang Kaishen pressed the button on the control board, and that hateful duplicity immediately appeared next to the door.

"Where is the secretary?"

"He's on standby"

"Ask him to come"

The driver walked in.

"You Guo, from today onwards, you will be the nanny of this person." Müller said. "His life was at stake. You spend the night on the first floor of his house, and no matter who it is, no matter what living thing it is, don't open the door; My friend has no right to risk his life, and you ought to follow him as you did to me and my unfortunate child. Do you understand? ”

"Understood, squad leader"

The idea of establishing this secret organization was come up with by Chang Kaishen. He knew that it would be a tricky and practically unworkable thing to come to the rescue of the cadres of the Guard when the country had collapsed, if now, that is, in March 1939, if an enterprise had not been set up. As soon as this idea is approved, funds could be allocated for the construction of a reliable route for the evacuation of team members elsewhere. In order to build a base for the guards there, it is necessary to entrust people to buy private houses, cars, and small hotels along the Yangtze River, and it is necessary to recruit a group of people to work for the organization, and to prepare for the establishment of some reliable intelligence agencies in sensitive areas, police offices, railways, and companies.

Chang Kaishen had a group of intelligence officers who maintained close relations with that side, and he also knew that Wu Sibao's child, the twenty-year-old boss, had recently been given some positions, which was a violation of the creed. But he did not deviate from the scriptures, but took this action without Wang's approval. Chang Kaishen guessed that the vice president must have used a soft grinding method to convince Mr. Wang that the child had sacrificed his 'secular future' for the sake of the country's ideology and entered the class over there, and it was by no means a betrayal of this idea.

It was only at the end of March that Chang Kaishen received information that convinced him that Wu Sibao was planning to build a secret channel for the transfer of members of the state who were particularly loyal to him, because he believed that for this purpose he could take advantage of some of the special relations of the foreign affairs departments with whom Wang had been in contact with Nanking since he first came to power.

Chang Kaishen has always wanted to figure out how Wu Sibao built a secret transfer channel. But the vice president has been tight-lipped all the time. But Chang Kaishen eventually managed to obtain some materials that could prove that many of the embassies of neutral countries were stationed in neutral countries, and he was doing his best to secretly transfer all those who might be convicted of war criminals to various places.

So Chang Kaishen hinted to Wu Sibao that he still knew more about the situation.

"What's that?" Wang Wei didn't even raise his eyelids and asked, "Even if my subordinates did this, do you suspect that any of them are plotting against each other?" Selfish? Hiding the truth from me? Or is it a lie? ”

"When will he speak the truth to me?" Chang Kaishen thought, "He is always half-swallowing and half-vomiting, worried that something will happen, no one can believe it, so why invite me to participate in all the fame he has done?" And for what reason, after meeting with Li Guangyuan, he said that he must cooperate regularly in order to coordinate his actions? When did he understand that it is not okay not to trust each other? When will we be able to tell the truth? ”

"Vice President, I have no doubt about anyone, especially when it comes to your subordinates. I'm just thinking that you shouldn't be left to work on general technical issues. This is true even on issues as important as the fate of the country. It is the duty of a technician like me to engage in technology, not a matter of a politician, and if the people who are disgruntled with you know about it, they will immediately denounce you as a defeatist, and they will emphasize that now there is a secret organization headed by Wu Sibao, why is there a need to set up a dual organization? The Communist Party is about to be wiped out, victory is imminent, and so on and so forth, and so on and so forth, and I have the right to apply for the establishment of a secret backup center. If the situation is unfavorable, hundreds of thousands of national fighters can be saved. I will argue the necessity of such a work in this way, namely, that now that many of our diplomats and soldiers consider it possible to make peace alone, that such traitors have no right to do as they please, and that they should immediately send my men abroad to spy on these scum in all corners of the world, and to thwart all their evil attempts to this end, and I even intend to ask Zhan Guoqiang for material that the seeds of the anti-Yankee uprising in Latin America are ripe; I think it will certainly interest Wang Wei, because this is an offensive point of view, and now it is like putting a painkiller on his wound

"What?" Chang Kaishen scratched his earlobe, "Good advice." It is up to you to draft a memorandum, and I will try to convince the above that the proposal is reasonable. Do you have a preliminary idea? ”

"I have arranged for the secret evacuation of useful people from Obien to the An area. In the small countries of Southeast Asia, there are hotels that you can get at no cost, and there are ownerless speedboats that you can buy from distant relatives at half the price of American ports. Everything is in place, and I ask for approval for action. You also know that Zhan Guoqiang's spy chiefs stationed abroad will immediately detect the frequent activities of my subordinates abroad, so they will ask me what my intentions are? For whom? Who approved it? ”

"Okay, what if I ask you the first two questions you already mentioned?"

"I answer you like this, and now I have 70,000 important documents, including passports, driver's licenses, notarized documents from Egypt, Singapore, Chile and other countries, and I have talked to 7,000 team members who are useful for our future work, who are active and intelligent, young and smart. In order to conduct an experiment with some of the evacuation channels, I made a game of sending a colleague who was ordered to cross the border with a fake passport, secretly crossed our border with Burma, and then went to Thailand to infiltrate the United States, where he exchanged the glulam board I had issued for a real passport. ”

"Who are your subordinates in the United States?" Wu Sibao asked embarrassedly.

"I'm going to give you a list, I can't figure out the last name over there."

"Thank you. I'd love to see it, I don't know anything about it," Mr. Wu said.

(So Chang Kaishen thought, why do you have to lie all the time?) What are the benefits? Does your son know nothing about that side too? )

"Go on," Wu Sibao pleaded, "I'm listening to you." ”

"I have greeted this person beforehand," Chang Kaishen said with a sigh of relief, "and if the matter is revealed, I will not rescue him at home or abroad, and then I will deny it and betray him, and everything should be as if it were in wartime."

Chang Kaishen fumbled in a few pockets for a while, took out a crumpled international telegraph from it, and reached out and handed it to Wu Sibao.

"What is this?" He asked.

"Look at it, this is a message from him from outside, you don't need to look at the translation of the telegram, it is written like this, and I am now working as an advertising agent for the Spanish 'Cuella' comptoir. Two houses can be found in the desolate area near Puntarenas, where medium-sized ships and submarines can be repaired. It costs $40,000. It is proposed to install three colleagues. Getting a document at the Vatican is ideal. ”

"Do you think that new foreign spy agencies can be organized everywhere like this?"

"It's not necessarily possible at home," Chang snorted, "but it's possible in Latin America, where our roots are very strong and it works." ”

"How long did your colleague go there and how long did it take?"

"Five months".

"That is, back in November last year, you were thinking about how to save your subordinates after the defeat? You're too early to get started, right? ”

"I have long understood," Chang replied bluntly, "that the funeral awaited us after February 1938." ”

"How dare you say such a thing to me?"

"But, Vice President, your subordinates will do the same work a little earlier."

"My subordinates were, are, and will always be loyal to leaders who are convinced that victory is in sight."

Chang Kaishen covered his mouth with the palm of his hand and coughed, "Often when I feel untrusted, I can't hold my breath, I see, the era of not treating each other with sincerity is over, it's time to meet with sincerity."

Wu Sibao stood up and paced around the office, then stopped in front of the window, pressed his forehead against the glass, and said without moving, "You talk to me about the structure of the organization." What branches does it consist of, and through whom do it keep in touch with foreigners? The number of current and future members who are recruited in. The principles for the selection of members, who determines the candidates, what regulations are in place for their families, the form of communication between members of organizations around the world, and where the headquarters will be located. The structure of the command, by whom the order was issued, the form of the order "

Chang Kaishen coughed again, he thought that the main question about the headquarters and its composition was to use standard language, that is, who would be the head of the secret organization. Wu Sibao didn't raise this question until the end, and he said it incidentally as a secondary matter, and it was obvious that nothing really interested him was this matter.

However, Chang Kaishen still took the card played by the vice president (be careful, you can't take it), and began to answer in turn according to Wu Sibao's questions.

"In my opinion, the structure of the organization should be better two-tiered. From the outset we created the atmosphere that it was a clandestine banking group that, if necessary, was tasked with ensuring that all those officers in the Rescue Guard who had served in the Security Administration and the army were considered war criminals according to the declaration. Because it is impossible for my subordinates to be hidden, for they are all men of the forefront, and we know that betrayal is always rampant after the defeat of the state, the problem should be, and must be, to send the most valuable fighters of the guard abroad. But the second, the real organizational structure, is that we should establish our strongholds in all regions of the world now in order to continue our struggle in the future. the strengthening of ties with our loyal foreigners by our immediate redeployment of officers; Mei Sipin's propaganda work is excellent, and what he sees from a distance is completely different from what he sees up close. Besides, fortunately, there are not many literate people. People tend to believe the rumors, so it is now possible to work in extremely favorable environments in countries such as Argentina, Paraguay, Spain and Portugal; We have not yet taken full advantage of the conditions of our Japanese allies in the vicinity of Singapore, India, Burma and Kalimantan. However, it is a good route into Europe and the United States, and I think you will forgive me for acting without approval, precisely because it is traditionally home to a number of large trading hubs with London and Canada. I've talked to my friends in our automotive and chemical monopolies about some of the issues in our vision of establishing branches in those parts of Asia. Of course, the allies will never give up their ruthless approach to you at first, and may have to impose sanctions on our industrialists, but after all, the economy is more powerful than emotions, and the West can do it without China? ”

"Has the monopoly submitted a written opinion to you?"

Chang Kaishen smiled: "Can they do this?" Vice President. ”

"Why not?"

"Because they are afraid of your representatives on the governing board; If they do get it, that's a big deal, and a more detailed proposal will be prepared within a week. ”，

"Then again, the allies will also know about these proposals, and they will wonder why a person named Chang Kaishen is so interested in such a draft vision, and the situation will always be better anyway,"

"Okay, I'm done," Chang Kaishen let out a long breath.

"Vice President, although you are right now, that is, I did not take into account the possibility of intelligence leaking out, but this is not the case."

In other words, Wu Sibao is not always wrong? Aren't some of his ideas always unproductive? Please keep talking," the vice president sneered.

"As for the purpose, the number of members of the secret organization of the Guard, it is difficult for me to say an accurate number at this time, but according to my preliminary estimate, it is about 30,000."

"What are the principles of preliminary estimates?"

"This is an afterthought, and if I had dared to honestly say that a year or two ago we should have done a serious statistics, and that we could have made it a definite rule to allow not only success but also failure in doing something, I would have come up with a solution. And, as you may be aware, it is a pretty good method, and I am now resigned to a very primitive method, and my first thought is that one hundred and fifty men in my organs must be saved, and my group of heads of departments in charge of other state affairs, and all those who supervise industry and banking, preside over the work of ideas, churches and youth organizations, and lead the affairs of the concentration camps. Of course, if you agree with my idea, it is now necessary to deploy personnel to the centers that have been established in advance, and I will be responsible for setting up bases in other countries. ”

Wu Sibao looked at the world map and said, "It's a very specific route, not bad." ”

As for the principle of selection, then, of course, there may be certain trade-offs due to time factors. The leaders of the secret police departments are far from all my men, and the village of Dingmo often appoints men who are under his protection and who rely on him, so that I cannot expect my subordinates to exercise their jurisdiction in the districts. But in East China and Jianghuai, Southern Jiangsu and Northern Jiangsu, my subordinates are completely reliable, I absolutely believe them, they think the same as me.

If you have your permission, I will entrust them with drawing up the list". Chang Kaishen snorted. "Of course, it is made orally, and in any case it cannot be included in the documents for the approval of the candidates, so I would ask you to entrust me with the preliminary selection work, and then you will give final approval.

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