Li Guangyuan knew that his son was now in Yan'an, and knew that his son's task now was to protect the base area and prevent the enemy from blowing it up, just as he and other comrades protected Shanghai from being destroyed.

He knew that his son was completing a complex and difficult task, but at the same time he knew that although it was not too far from Shanghai to Yan'an, he could not meet his son because it would put him in a very dangerous position

In 1938, on the outskirts of Shanghai, Li Guangyuan's driver was killed in an air raid by himself. The driver's name is Luo Tubao. A docile lad who always had a smile on his face. He was a man of great integrity, and Li Guangyuan knew that he had refused to be a newspaper man for Bente High-Tech, and that he had not written a single report on himself, despite the fact that the Fourth Division of the Central Security Bureau had repeatedly asked him to provide reports on himself.

After Li Guangyuan recovered from his injuries, he drove to Luo Tubao's widow's house on the outskirts of the city. There was no fire in the room, and Luo Tubao's wife was lying on it talking nonsense. His son, Raleigh, who was only one and a half years old, crawled up and down on the ground, crying weakly: the child's throat was hoarse and he could no longer scream. Li Guangyuan hurriedly called in a doctor. The patient was taken to the hospital with asthma pneumonia. Li Guangyuan took the child home. His housekeeper, an old and kind old woman, bathed the child, fed the cow to her heart's content, and was about to put him in her room.

"Please lay out the futon for him in my bedroom," Li Guangyuan told her, "let him sleep with me."

"The children are very noisy at night"

"Maybe that's what I like," Li replied softly, "maybe I'd love to hear how the doll cries at night."

The old woman laughed and said, "What's so nice about a child crying?" I think that's just suffering."

But she didn't dare to argue with her master. She was woken up at about two o'clock in the night. The boy in the master bedroom crumbled and cried endlessly.

The old woman put on her amorous robe, hurriedly combed her hair, and went downstairs. She saw that there was still a light on in the bedroom. Li Guangyuan held the child wrapped in a woolen blanket tightly in his arms, walked around the room, and hummed a song to the child in a low voice.

The old woman had never seen her master's face like this, and it became so unrecognizable that at first the old woman even wondered, "Is this him?" ”

Usually Li Guangyuan's facial appearance is very stern and young, but now he is very old, but quite gentle.

The next morning, the housekeeper walked to the door of the master bedroom and hesitated for a long time whether to knock on the door. Usually, Li Guangyuan always sits down to have breakfast at seven o'clock. He likes to eat freshly fried steamed bread slices, so the housekeeper did not prepare them for him until half past six, and she also knew that the master always drank a cup of tea at a regular time, then dipped some soy sauce on the steamed bread slices before eating, and finally drank a bowl of polenta.

The housekeeper has worked in Li Guangyuan's house for four years, and Li Guangyuan has been eating on time for four years, and he has never been late. But it was already eight o'clock, and there was still silence in the bedroom. She opened a little crack in the door and saw Li Guangyuan and the child sleeping on the wide one. The child was lying on it, with two little feet against Li Guangyuan's back, but Li Guangyuan was reluctantly lying close to the side. Probably hearing the sound of the housekeeper opening the door, he immediately opened his eyes, smiled slightly, put his finger to his lips, and signaled the housekeeper not to make a sound. Even when he came to the kitchen to ask the housekeeper what she was going to feed the child, his voice was soft.

"My nephew told me," said the housekeeper with a smile, "that only Shanghainese put their children on their own"

"Really?" Li Guangyuan asked in surprise, "Why is this?" ”

"It's because of their habits"

"So, you think I'm from Shanghai?" Li Guangyuan laughed as he spoke.

The housekeeper was very embarrassed, and said with a flushed face: "Oh, sir, how can you say that, you put the child on top of him, in order to replace his parents, and this behavior is out of noble character and good intentions..."

Li Guangyuan made a phone call to the hospital. The hospital told him that Luo Tubao's wife had died an hour earlier. Li Guangyuan inquired about the addresses of the relatives of the deceased driver. But his mother told him that she was now living on her own, seriously ill and unable to support her grandchildren, and that her daughter-in-law's relatives had all been killed in the airstrike. Li Guangyuan himself also felt strange, why he was happy in his heart after knowing these circumstances, it turned out that now he could adopt this orphan as a righteous son. If it weren't for worrying about Raleigh's future, he really did. But he knew the fate of those children: they went to an orphanage, then went to prison, and then they were cremated

In the end, Li Guangyuan sent the child to the mountainous area of Zhejiang and placed it in the housekeeper's house.

"You're right," he said to the housekeeper with a smile as he ate breakfast, "and raising children is indeed too much of a burden for a single man."

The housekeeper didn't answer anything, just smiled unnaturally. At that time she really wanted to say to him: this is too cruel, and it is immoral, and in these three weeks the child has just gotten used to you, but you send him to the mountains, to some stranger, which means that the child has to get used to the new environment again, and slowly get acquainted with the person who slept next to him at night, whispered to him, and put him to sleep.

"I understand," Mr. Li added, "that you think it's too ruthless." But what can I do? Could it be better to make this child an orphan again? ”

Li Guangyuan guessed the housekeeper's mind, which surprised her.

"Oh, no," said the housekeeper, "I don't think you're too harsh at all. Sir, your actions are reasonable and very wise."

She didn't even know whether she was telling the truth just now, or lying to him because she was afraid that Li Guangyuan would guess her thoughts again.

Li Guangyuan stood up, took the candle, and walked to the table. He took out a few pieces of paper and spread them out in front of him, as if he were playing cards for divination. On a piece of paper, he drew a tall man with a fat body. On the other side, he wanted to write "Li Shiqun", but he didn't. On the second sheet of paper he drew the face of Ding Mocun, and on the third sheet he drew a very strong face with a scar: this is Wu Sibao. After thinking for a moment, he wrote a few words on the fourth piece of paper: "No. 76 newspaper head of the headquarters". This is the official title of his boss, Zhan Guoqiang.

A scout, when he is in the midst of many important events one after another, should be a person with extremely rich feelings, and even be as sentimental as an actor, but the sense of the moment must ultimately obey the harsh, clear and unambiguous logic.

Li Guangyuan can only feel that he is Yuan En at night, no, even at night, only occasionally, and can think about "what does it mean to be a real scout?" ". Is it to collect newspapers, sort out objective materials, and then transfer them to the central authorities for the leaders to refer to when making political summaries and making decisions? Or do you make your own, completely personal conclusions, briefly state your own vision of the future and come up with your own estimates?

Yuan En believes that if the reconnaissance department also cares about policy planning, the result will be too many suggestions and too few reports. He also believes that it would be very bad if the reconnaissance department was completely subordinated to a predetermined political line. Wang Wei is like this, and he is undoubtedly convinced of the "weakness" of Chongqing. I simply did not listen to the cautious advice of the people who marched into the army: "It is not as weak as imagined". Yuan En believes that if the reconnaissance department always wants to subordinate politics to itself, it is also not advisable. Ideally, a scout should be well aware of the prospects for events and be able to provide politicians with a list of decisions that he or she deems most reasonable. Yuan En believes that a scout can feel less confident in whether his predictions are absolutely correct, but he should not have the slightest doubt about the sufficiency and objectivity of his predictions, but should be sure of them.

Now, when he sets out for the last time to study the materials he has collected over the past few years, Li Guangyuan should all the more carefully consider all his opinions for and against, because this is a major issue involving the fate of the entire nation, and there must be no room for the slightest mistake in his analysis.

Zhan Guoqiang joined the Air Force in World War I, happened to be in the United Kingdom, became a combat pilot, and received the Medal of Hero. After the failure of the First Northern Expedition, Zhan Guoqiang fled to Ben, where he became an airplane pilot. Once, when he was flying in a terrible storm, he miraculously landed his single-engine plane safely at the mansion of a nobleman in Kyoto, where he befriended the daughter of Colonel Fusantai, who was the third prince, and quickly snatched her away from her husband, and then left Ben and returned to China. In China, he met with Wang Wei again and joined the march organized by the members of the National Revolution. He was seriously injured during the march, but surprisingly was not arrested. Soon he moved to Wuhan, where his wife was waiting for him. At that time, they were empty, but the owner of the big hotel where they lived was also a member of the Kuomintang, and he was in the same party as Zhan Guoqiang, and provided them with free food and lodging. Later, the innkeeper invited the Goerings to Beiping, where they stayed until 1927, when the political amnesty was announced.

About half a year later, Zhan Guoqiang and eleven other Kuomintang members were elected to the National Assembly. Wang Wei was unable to enter the National Assembly because he was a literati.

His wife once wrote to his mother, who lived in Ben, saying: "In Congress, Zhan Guoqiang sat with the generals of Hunan. There were also some Red Guard criminals and the like sitting next to them, and they wore "practice and blowing", in fact, whether they practiced or blown, it was the same thing. At that time, Wang Wei sent a telegram to Zhan Guoqiang, which read: 'Only a dignified person like you is the representative of our Kuomintang.'"

It is time to prepare for new parliamentary elections. According to Mr. Wang's decision, Zhan Guoqiang left the party and only held the post of a member of parliament. At that time, his task was to establish contact with the powerful dignitaries of the society at that time. Because a party that seeks to seize power must have broad social ties. According to the party's decision, he rented a luxurious residence on Xiafei Road, where he received some of the declining princes of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Geqin, as well as some capital magnates and wealthy tycoons.

The central character of the mansion is naturally his wife, who is charming and charming, and everyone likes it when they see it; She was the daughter of a noble minister, and her husband was a wartime Invid, a soldier who had gone into exile in a foreign land because he could not resist the barbarism of the Bolsheviks, so she was deeply respected.

Before each reception, Ding Mocun, the leader of the East China Guoming Party Organization, came here early in the morning and was the liaison between the party and Zhan Guoqiang. Li Shiqun sat at the piano to accompaniment, and Zhan Guoqiang, his wife, and her son with her ex-husband sang folk songs: Mr. Wang's home could not tolerate the uninhibited melodies of American or French jazz.

On January 5, 1931, Wang Wei, Zhou Huhai and Mei Sipin came to the mansion rented with party funds. It was here that the workers of the country, who had called on the workers of the country to "smash the shackles of Comintern Bolshevism and decadent imperialism and turn the Chinese nation into a people's state," secretly colluded with the financial tycoons and industrial magnates.

After the rebellion of some old party members against Wang Wei was put down, some people began to talk about it like this: "Zhan Guoqiang is no longer the person who participated in the Northern Expedition in the past, he has become the president, he no longer receives party comrades casually, and people in the party have to line up in his office in turn to wait for him to receive him... Zhan Guoqiang has completely indulged in a life of drinking and drinking..."

At first, it was just a private discussion among some ordinary party members. However, in 1935, Zhan Guoqiang built a gorgeous mansion "Zhan Mansion" on the outskirts of Nanjing, and at this time, it was no longer ordinary Kuomintang members who complained to Wang Weiwei, but the party's leading figures Zhou Huhai and Chen Gongbo. Zhou Huhai believes that Zhan Guoqiang has already begun to corrupt when he was still living in the previous house.

"The luxurious and luxurious life has gradually made him unambitious," Zhou Huhai said, "we should help Zhan Guoqiang, he is too precious to all of us."

So Wang Wei came to the "Zhan Mansion" in person, and after carefully inspecting the mansion, he said: "Don't disturb Zhan Guoqiang. In the end, he is the only one who knows best how to receive those diplomats. Let's just think of it as an official residence for foreign guests. That's it, Zhan Guoqiang has merit and deserves this. We think that the "Zhan Mansion" belongs to the people, but he lives there now."

ZGQ sometimes spends all day in this luxurious mansion and reads Yuli repeatedly. Weyn and Carl May's work: "Sometimes during the day he would go to the sparrows in the trees, and at night he would sit in the screening room for hours, and he would watch five thrilling films in a row in one go, and during the screening he would constantly comfort the invited guests, saying, "Don't be in a hurry. The ending is good."

After watching the thrilling film, he took a special train from the mansion to Shanghai to inspect the work, then went to Hangzhou to supervise, and then went to northern Jiangsu to draw up a plan for elimination

In April 1940, this bomber attacked northern Jiangsu, and many villages and towns in northern Jiangsu were razed to the ground. After the bombing, Zhan Guoqiang reported to Wang that more than 30 planes had taken part in the air raid. However, the commander of this flying squadron, Rokh Shaw, who had been exhausted and his hair had turned gray for several days, refuted Zhan Guoqiang's lies with evidence. The truth is: 80 bombers took part in the air raids, and Ben's air force was very incompetent, doing nothing but blowing up some villages and towns.

Wang Wei stared at Zhan Guoqiang intently, without saying a word, only to see a disgusted look pass over his face, and then he was furious: "'More than 30 planes, not a single Communist Party was killed'? ”

He turned his face and said nervously, "Who declared this to the whole nation?" And who assured the party that it would be able to do this? I've read a few books dedicated to risky gambling, and I know what scam speculation is. The Guoming government is not the green side of the folding square table used for playing cards and gambling.

Zhan Guoqiang, you are now full of food, poor and extravagant. In these war years, you live exactly like the emperor or those Middle Eastern plutocrats, you shoot bows and arrows and reindeer, but the planes fire machine guns to bombard some hillbillies, it is useless, a leader's vocation is to represent the majesty of the country, a great leader's talent is to be modest and simple, the profession of a leader is to match his words with deeds, and to live up to his words."

Later, from the diagnosis of the personal doctor of the presidential palace, everyone learned that after listening to this reprimand, Zhan Guoqiang fell ill when he went back: high fever and neurotic attack.

In short, in 1940, Zhan Guoqiang, the "No. 2 person", Wang Wei's official heir, was reprimanded for such a humiliation for the first time, and in front of his staff. This was quickly written into the project file of the document. The next day, garrison commander Tang Hu gave instructions without Wang's consent: listen to all the phone calls of the Führer's closest comrades-in-arms.

In fact, it was not the first time that Tang Hu had eavesdropped on Wang Wei's conversation, and after the scandal of Zhan Guoqiang's younger brother Zhan Guoqing was exposed, he organized a week's eavesdropping. At that time, Li Dan was the head of the factories owned by the "Shikeda Company", a man known for protecting those who had been wronged. On one occasion he wrote a letter to the warden at No. 76 using his brother's official paper: "Please release Professor Wang immediately, because there is no important evidence of the crime" and then signed only one surname: "Zhan Guoqiang", without his name. The frightened camp warden released two people with the surname Wang at the same time, one a professor and the other an underground worker. In order to save his younger brother, Zhan Guoqiang spent a lot of effort, and he told the incident like a winning joke in front of Mr. Wang, so that his younger brother was spared.

Despite this, Wang Wei still often said to Ding Mocun: "Except for Zhan Guoqiang, no one can be my heir." Because, first, he never wanted to engage in any independent policy; secondly, he enjoyed prestige among the people, and thirdly, he was the main object of the satirical vilification of the enemy newspapers"

This is Wang Weiwei's view and evaluation of Zhan Guoqiang. It was none other than Zhan Guoqiang who took on all the practical work of seizing power, and it was he who once said very sincerely and frankly, not to others, but to his wife, not to others, but at night, lying on it:

"It's not me who lives, but Mr. Wang, who is attached to me"

Excerpt from the identification of party members by Miao Guoming, director of the Fourth Division of the Central Security Bureau and senior captain:

"In 1938 he joined the Kuomintang. A native of Jiangshan, Zhejiang. Grid is unwavering in the northern grid. Sociable and approachable to colleagues. Leave nothing to the enemies of the nation. Loyal to the family and noble in character; Social relations are innocent and undefiled. He is a good organizer at work."

Lu Dafang, director of the Security Department and director of the National Security Bureau, spoke with a strong Shandong accent. He knew that this made Wang Wei and Zhou Huhai very annoyed, so he had consulted a language expert to learn pure Mandarin. But the result was fruitless, because he liked Shandong, and Shandong was his lifeline, so even if he only spoke "official dialect" for one hour a day, he couldn't do it without saying the Shandongfang dialect, which was a bit vulgar but sounded very comfortable. In the end, Lu Dafang simply stopped imitating the official dialect of Beiping, and he treated anyone equally, speaking Shandongfang dialect, saying what he wanted. He was more casual when talking to his subordinates, sometimes he even spoke in Jiaodong tone, the fishermen there spoke very specially, his subordinates often couldn't understand, but they didn't dare to ask again, they felt very embarrassed and embarrassed, Lu Dafang saw them cramped and uneasy, and his heart was proud.

He glanced at Senior Captain Miao Guoming and said: "I don't want you to be suspicious of your comrades and comrades-in-arms in the party, but the facts show the following points: First, although Li Guangyuan is indirect, it is related to the failure of the operation in northern Jiangsu after all. At that time, he was in northern Jiangsu, and his base was supposed to fly into the sky, but due to some strange coincidences of chance, it was unharmed. Second, he was in charge of looking for the missing traitor, but he didn't find it, and his whereabouts are still unknown. Thirdly, he is now responsible for a series of issues related to the development of weapons of retaliation, and there are no obvious failures, but we have not seen achievements, breakthroughs and obvious successes either. By being responsible, it's not just about arresting and putting people in jail who don't want to cooperate with us. Being responsible also means helping those who are precise in their thinking and have a vision.

Fourthly, there is the wandering radio station, which, according to the cipher used, is in the service of the Communist Party's strategic reconnaissance department, and which is still delivering reports in several urban and suburban areas. And the work of cracking this radio station was also in charge of Li Guangyuan.

If you, Miao Guoming, can immediately refute my suspicions, then I will be very happy. I have a good impression of Li Guangyuan, so I hope you can come up with credentials to refute these suspicions that have popped up in my mind."