Li Guangyuan continued to think, "Actually, they are not like the rams painted by the painter. I think that's the key to solving this puzzle. When I have studied the figures at the highest levels of the Nanking government, I should take a closer look at Chen Gongbo, who, though in charge of the country's industry, was not only a talented engineer; Nine times out of ten, he's still a politician with brains; However, I have not seriously studied this figure who could be connected with Western business leaders."

Li Guangyuan stopped the car by the lake. He didn't see the lake in the dark, but he knew it was behind the pine trees. In the summer, he often likes to visit this place, where the sky smells of pine resin is like the background of a picture, on which the yellow trunks of trees are painted, and the white sunlight shines through the thick coniferous canopy.

Each time he always went deep into the dense forest, lay in the thick grass, and remained motionless for hours. At first he thought that he liked to come here because it was quiet and there was no noise nearby, but there were tall yellow and blue pine trees and white sand on the shore of a black lake.

But then Li Guangyuan found several more such sparsely populated and quiet places near Berlin: small oak forests near Zhujiajiao, and large forests near Xujing, where the trees look blue, especially in the spring when the snow melts and the brown earth is revealed. So Li Guangyuan understood the real reason why he only liked to come to this small lake. It turned out that he spent a summer near the Three Gorges in the Yangtze River basin, and it was this yellow-green pine tree that he saw there, such a white sandy land, and some small black lakes with green grass in the dense forest. He thought that this little lake had become a subconscious, mechanical wish, and sometimes Li Guangyuan felt a little frightened by this enduring wish, because when he left there, he always felt exhausted and sleepy, and longed to drink a few glasses of wine, and the more time passed, the stronger this feeling became that in 1922, he carried out the task assigned by his superiors, left Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo with the remnants of the bandit army, and at first carried out the work of dividing the Japanese from the inside in Japan, Manchuria and North China; He didn't find it so difficult at that time, because there was nothing in those places that could arouse his nostalgia. The nature there is more beautiful and elegant, small and delicate, neat and chic, and a little too delicate. Later, however, he accepted the new task of being transferred by the intelligence center to fight against the Japanese puppeteers, and for this purpose he was to go to Chongqing and to the Chongqing Embassy in the United States to declare that he was Li Guangyuan, who had been robbed in Shanghai. It was on his way from Chongqing to Jiangsu that he felt the onset of nostalgia for the first time.

The car passed through a large forest, and he felt as if he was driving somewhere in Yichang. The car traveled seventy-eight miles and stopped near a hotel; His traveling companions got out of the car to eat beef hot pot, and he wandered around the neighborhood alone; It was then that he realized that the woods here were very different from those there, that there were branches of trees that gave off a special spicy aroma, a refreshing smell, but the smell of a strange foreign land. After getting his new credentials, Li Guangyuan worked for a year in a German-owned hotel in Shanghai, after which he was entrusted by the hotel owner to New York, where he found a job at the Japanese embassy and joined the CCP there, where he completed several tasks assigned by the confidential department. Later, he was officially transferred to the Japanese headquarters as an officer of the Security Division. He worked in a trade mission until the outbreak of the military rebellion. Subsequently, for the first time in his life, he appeared in Nanjing in the uniform of the security department of the Guards. Since then he has lived in Shanghai for most of his life, with occasional short business trips abroad: he has been to Zagreb in Yugoslavia, Tokyo in Japan, and Bern in Switzerland. But wherever he went, the only place he fascinated was this small lake in the pine forest. This small world in Shanghai is his hometown, and he is like his hometown here, where he can lie on the grass and look up at the floating clouds for hours. Li Guangyuan, who is accustomed to analyzing things, people, and extremely subtle changes in his own heart, has come to the conclusion that his yearning for this pine forest is completely logical, and there is nothing mysterious and inexplicable. He understood this only when he had spent the whole day here. That day, he brought with him the breakfast prepared by the housekeeper: a few slices of homemade steamed buns sandwiched with sausages and vegetables, and a thermos of hot tea. He also brought two common fishing rods with him, which was the time when crucian carp were gluttonous after spawning. Li Guangyuan used half a steamed bun as bait for carp fishing, because he knew that there were many carp in such a small lake. Li Guangyuan twisted some steamed buns and scattered them near the reeds, then returned to the forest and laid out breakfast neatly packed in cellophane bags on a blanket, much like a sample made in a steamed bun shop. When he poured the hot tea into the cup, he suddenly felt that the sample-like steamed buns made by the housekeeper in front of him were so boring that people were upset when they saw them, so he broke the steamed buns into several pieces and ate them in a big gulp, chewing the steamed buns while drinking the hot tea. At this time, he felt a sweet, but a little sad, happy mixed with some unease. The past came back to him: the same grass, the green woods, and the nanny's hands, no, he only remembered her slender and gentle fingers, and the steamed buns, and the hot tea in a coarse porcelain cup, and the wasps that stung his cheeks, and the white sand, and he remembered the scene of himself roaring towards the lake, and the laughter of the nanny, and the screeching of swarms of mosquitoes in the sky before sunset

"Why did I stop the car?" Li Guangyuan paced slowly on the dark highway, and suddenly asked himself, "By the way, I originally wanted to rest and rest, haven't I already rested?" When you go to your subordinate's house tomorrow to get a call back from your superior, don't forget to bring a few canned milk. Hmph, I'm sure I'm going to forget. That's why it's going to put the milk in the car today, and it's going to be in the front seat."

Zhan Guoqiang got up from the circle chair and walked to the window: the woods in winter were unusually beautiful, the snow-covered conifer treetops sparkled in the moonlight, and the earth was silent.

Suddenly, Zhan Guoqiang remembered that he had begun to launch activities against Chang Kaishen, Wang Wei's closest figure. Indeed, at that time, he almost lost his life, because Wang Wei was a person who often made some unusual decisions. Zhan Guoqiang received a roll of film from his subordinates, and the film showed a bad shot of the open in the toilet. Zhan Guoqiang was like a treasure, and immediately drove to see Wang Wei with the film and screened the film again. Wang Wei was furious. Wang Wei didn't care that it was the middle of the night at the time, and ordered to summon Ding Mocun and Li Shiqun, and called Mei Sipin to wait in the reception room. The first to arrive was Dingmo Village, but his face was pale and very panicked. Zhan Guoqiang knew why the spy leader was so uneasy, it turned out that his affair with a Kunqu opera actor in Wuhan was at a climax. Wang didn't invite these two friends to watch "Chang Kaishen's ugly behavior". Ding Mocun laughed after reading it. Wang Wei yelled at him: "You shouldn't be so ruthless"

After Wang Wei invited the open to the office, he ran to him and shouted: "You dirty, smelly scoundrel, you have a bad habit and you are creating evil"

Mei Sipin, Ding Mocun, and Li Shiqun, who were present, knew very well that the party's second-in-command in front of them was about to collapse.

But to their surprise, Chang Kaishen replied very calmly: "Yes, I don't want to hide this, but why do I want to do such a thing? Why don't I go and sleep with some actresses? With that, he glanced at Dingmo Village. Ding Mocun tightened his body in the circle chair.

"Why don't I go to Shanghai to see Peking Opera and spend the night there? Because I only live for the party, and the party and you, Mr. Wang, are the same thing for me, I don't have time to take care of my personal life, I'm a lonely bachelor"

After hearing these words, Wang Wei softened, he walked up to Chang Kaishen, hugged him embarrassedly, and patted the back of his head with his hand. Chang Kaishen won this battle. Zhan Guoqiang had a knot in his heart, because he knew that Chang Kaishen was good at revenge. After Chang Kaishen left, Wang Wei said: "Zhan Guoqiang, you can find him a wife." I know him very well, he's a lovely guy, a guy who is loyal to our movement. Show me the picture of the candidate woman and he will definitely accept my recommendation"

Zhan Guoqiang seemed to have taken a reassuring pill, he understood that any problem could be solved at this moment.

After Li Shiqun and Ding Mocun went back, Zhan Guoqiang said: "My teacher, you have saved a loyal soldier for the country. We all cherish Chang Kaishen's selfless dedication. No one could decide his fate so wisely. So allow me to send you a few more materials right away. Some of your warriors need help, just as you did when you helped Chang Kaishen."

So he sent Wang Wei special materials about Chen Gongbo, the leader of the Labor Front. This person is addicted to alcohol, except for Wang Wei, his alcoholism and trouble are already well known. Zhan Guoqiang also threw out special case materials about "Chen Gongbo's violation of discipline: he messed with some women of unknown origin uninhibitedly, and lost the face of the real national name party. That night, a document that damaged Fu Lei's reputation and suspected him of messing with a document was placed on Wang Wei's table again.

"No, no," Wang Wei said in defense of his father, "he is a man full of children. This is pure slander"

Although Zhan Guoqiang did not want to persuade Wang Wei to change his opinion, he saw that Wang Wei was so extremely curious to read these materials, and repeatedly read the reports written by the agents several times, Zhan Guoqiang knew that he had completely won Wang Weiwei's trust.

Later, Wang Wei ordered the whole country to celebrate the 50th birthday of the spy leader Zhan Guoqiang. From that day on, all the local governors and provincial party leaders believed that Zhan Guoqiang was the only person under Wang Wei who held all the power. All the party's local organizations began to send important information to two separate places: one to the party's headquarters to Chang Kaishen, and the other to Zhan Guoqiang's office. The materials written to Zhan Guoqiang by a special trust secret service team can be sent directly to Zhan Guoqiang's personal archives without going through the upper reaches of the various levels of organization, which are intelligence materials that have tarnished the reputation of the party leaders. And in 1939, Zhan Guoqiang put the first batch of documents that ruined Wang's reputation into his safe.

In 1938, after the Battle of Husong, he made up his mind to show the documents to a close friend of his close friend, Dr. Li, the nation's leading physician and masseuse. He locked the door and took out a copy of Wang's medical records from the safe. From the medical records, it is clear that Wang Wei has never suffered from very severe syphilis. This unexpected situation caused Dr. Lee to sit down on the couch in shock.

Dr. Lee flipped through all 70 pages of material and whispered, "Now that his condition is in the early stages of progressive paralysis, he is no longer mentally normal."

"Maybe you'll agree to treat him?" Zhan Guoqiang asked.

"Chairman Wang's condition is very dangerous, and he cannot change doctors. Only those who wish him dead will change him to a doctor"

It was at that time that Zhan Guoqiang acquiesced to Shi Dong, the director of his political intelligence department and the head of the guard detachment, to test the willingness of the Western allies to conclude a decent peace treaty with Japan. He kept an eye on the conspirators among the generals who took opposing positions in collusion with the representative of American intelligence in Bern, Allen Dulles. He spent a long time studying the report of a conspirator, which said: "The representatives of the West were motivated by fear of Bolshevism. They would readily agree to negotiate and conclude a peace treaty with the Empire, but they expressed concern about Chairman Wang's capricious 'genius', so they considered the Führer to be an unworthy negotiator worthy of their trust. They are looking for a few people of insight, people who are clear-headed, people who can be trusted, people like the National Commander of the Guard."

"I was such a contemptible coward at that time," Zhan Guoqiang continued to think, still listening to the silent pine forest by the window, "On July 20, 1938, five hours after the assassination of Wang Wei, I could have become the chairman of the party. At that time, it was entirely possible for me to take advantage of the panic and confusion to take all the power in the party into my own hands. I can not send those communists to prison, but send them to the border areas to meet their leaders and make proposals for peace. Shoot Wang Wei, Ding Mocun, and Li Shiqun, just as he did when Song Furen was killed in 1934. Let them circle around the room in horror, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, that would also be good, but Wang Wei would never beg for mercy. Even Dingmo Village will not beg for mercy. It is Li Shiqun who will beg for mercy. He is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he looks at everything in the world most clearly... And my will was very weak at that time, I recalled the good times spent by Wang Wei's side, I was really a wreck, and my personal emotions overcame me..."

In fact, Zhan Guoqiang did everything in his power to get the most out of the July incident. Nanking destroyed the worst-case scenario, but Zhan Guoqiang took the victory away from him. He knows what means to use to achieve his goals. Wu Sibao, a fanatic, could only surrender his victory when he was dazed by the beautiful rhetoric commonly used in the party, because these terms were coined by him, and therefore he liked to hear them the most.

Zhan Guoqiang explained to Wu Sibao at that time that he must immediately praise the role played by the guards in the destruction: "We must make it clear to the people," he said to Wu Sibao, "except for our country, which has heroes and heroes of the guards, no country can so resolutely get rid of those murderous gangs that have sold themselves to the enemy."

So newspapers and radio began to publicize the campaign of "Kuomintang merits". At that time, Wang Wei was particularly friendly and close to Zhan Guoqiang. There was even a time when Zhan Guoqiang felt that the overall defeat was turning into a victory, especially on November 9, when Wang Weiwei entrusted him for the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China to deliver a holiday speech at the Presidential Palace in Nanjing on behalf of the head of state.

To this day, he can still recall that when he stepped onto the chairman's podium and stood side by side with the chairman, he had an indescribable sweet taste in his heart. And Ding Mocun, Li Shiqun, Wu Sibao, and others were all standing below, and he was also standing there when the chairman was usually present. Ding Mocun and the others applauded him, raised their hands according to his gesture and saluted, and after a short pause, they began to cheer, and then the whole venue also cheered loudly. Even though they were jealous of him, believing him unworthy of this great role, whatever they thought, according to the ethical standards of the Party, they were required to pay him the highest respect in the Party in the presence of the two thousand local leaders present at the meeting.

Chang Kaishen Oh, how much he hates Chang Kaishen! It was this Chang Kaishen, who was uneasy about Zhan Guoqiang's rise to the top, who defeated him.

Chang Kaishen knows Wang Wei better than anyone else, and he knows that if Wang Wei loves and trusts someone, then he must not say anything about this person. Therefore, Chang Kaishen suggested to Wang Wei: "It is very uncertain what the army can expect to do. However, fortunately, we have the Guards, which are the hope of the Party and the country. Only my friend Zhan Guoqiang, the leader of the guards, can shoulder the heavy responsibility of commanding the battle line and commanding the army group. Only the guards and armies under his command could repel and defeat the communist guerrilla tactics"

The next day, Zhan Guoqiang came to the Presidential Palace in Nanjing. He brought with him an order for Wang's approval, which said: All the local governors who were previously under the jurisdiction of Chang Kaishen are now under the dual leadership of the national commander of his guard and Chang Kaishen. He was ready to deal with a fatal blow from Chang Kaishen. And Wang didn't approve the decision very easily, which made him a little strange. But less than a minute after Wang Wei signed the order, it dawned on him.

"I congratulate you, Zhan Guoqiang. You are appointed commander-in-chief of Army Group. Except for you. No one could crush the army of the Bolsheviks. No one but you can choke the neck of the border area and force him to accept my tariff and conditions"

This is tantamount to total collapse. It was January 1939, and there was no hope of victory. To hell with these warm fantasies, the only hope is to make peace with Japan at once, and to join them against the Bolshevik army.

Zhan Guoqiang thanked Wang for not appointing him to such a noble and honorable position, and then returned to his base camp. Immediately, he visited Ding Mo Village, but the two did not speculate.

At this time he woke up from his dream, and could no longer sleep, so he stood at the window and listened to the silence of the pine forest; He wanted to make a call to his abandoned daughter, but he didn't dare, because Bowman might know about it; He also did not dare to call his two sons and their mother for fear of causing trouble: Wang Wei never forgave him for the kind of "moral turpitude" he said. Damn sick guy, morally turpitude. Himmler glanced at the telephone with hatred, and did not expect that the machine, which he had painstakingly built up for eighteen years, was now very bad for him.

"It's over," he said to himself, "I'm going to be done if I don't start fighting for my life right away."

Based on some spy intelligence, Zhan Guoqiang could deduce that the communist leaders stationed in northern Jiangsu did not object to negotiations with Nanjing. This is only known to Ding Mocun and Chang Kaishen. The two spies who provided this information have been eliminated: when they rushed back to Nanking to meet Daley, they deliberately caused a tragic train crash. This is no small matter. This is direct contact with important people, not to mention friends of hostile elements.

Zhan Guoqiang picked up the microphone and said, "Please invite Director Wang immediately."

Director Wang is the director of Zhan Guoqiang's headquarters. Zhan Guoqiang trusts him very much. He was about to negotiate with the British, American, and French people on his behalf.

When the teacher was interrogated for the first time, Li Guangyuan didn't want to make any decisions about him, he just carried out the orders above. But after three days of conversation, the teacher suddenly became interested in this old man with a very dignified but somewhat childish demeanor.

When he talked to the teacher for the first time, and when he was familiar with his project materials, Li Guangyuan thought more and more about how the teacher could learn from his future work.

Li Guangyuan is convinced that the pastor not only hates Japan, but is not only willing to help the existing underground workers, so he wants to assign a role to the teacher in his future work, but he has not yet finally considered how to use him more effectively.

Li Guangyuan never guessed the details of how things would develop in advance. Once, when he crossed the interior from Nanking to Manchuria, he read an anecdote about Pushkin on the train. This anecdote is etched in his mind, and he still remembers it from time to time.