But it doesn't end there. Although Chen Kaiguang told the police in the French Concession and the Public Concession the address of Zhao Guangyi's apartment on Notre-Dame Road, the detectives only obtained information that the suspect was a "student-type person". As a result, the main leader, Zhao Guangyi, escaped, and is likely to continue to lead other special forces in the coming months.

Eventually, Xu told the police: "There are far more assassinations against traitors initiated by Zhao Guangyi than he commanded, and Zhao Guangyi did not know about many of the attacks." From this point of view, there is more than one assassination organization in Shanghai that is active like us. I don't know about them because we are acting independently".

The Ministry of Industry had no choice but to agree to his confession. There is no doubt that it is still the large and small organizations under the Chinese Nationalist Government that carry out underground activities in Shanghai. They can only wait for the right moment before striking at them. These underground organizations were able to hold all sorts of wartime commemorations, giving Shanghai a complex situation of various "armed battalions."

Before these resistors from all sides gathered and prepared for a fiercer struggle, the two concessions on the beach and the four parts of the Japanese and puppet governments could only wait.

The following information is composed of all the information collected by the newspapers and periodicals of the time and two senior political cadres. The real intention of these two cadres sent to him by his superiors is this: to map out the political ecology of Shanghai and the various organizations and factions through the organization and collection of desk materials.

Over the years, although the intelligence work in Shanghai has been repeatedly hit hard by traitors and traitors. However, the intelligence system, which has been in operation for many years, has indeed collected a large number of documents and provided them to the border area before. Therefore, these two senior cadres are not only political workers, but also two experienced experts in intelligence collation and analysis.

In combination with confessions and public reports, plus a summary of all the information originally gathered through intelligence channels. They presented Pu Su with a bizarre circle of political struggle in Shanghai. These materials can only be read here and cannot be taken away. At this time, a soup and a meal were brought from the room, and Pu Su was eating and watching at the desk.

Although bombings and assassinations were carried out on both sides, the Chinese loyalist, or Kuomintang resistance, prevailed during periods of relative decline in activity in the autumn and early winter. Chen Yun, a 32-year-old lawyer who was the president of the Nanshi Maintenance Association, was shot dead on August 30, 1938, after being thought to be in charge of the puppet Nan District Court, which became the finale of a month of intense tension and collapse.

During this period, there were two pro-Japanese societies in Shanghai, both of which were founded around January 1938. One of the more famous ones is the China Renaissance Public Welfare Association. Its stated goals were to promote the restoration of peace between China and Japan, the establishment of a new order in the East, and the promotion of China's revival and public welfare. Revival usually devotes itself to propaganda work, especially in the press. Another major pro-Japanese group, the Chinese Imperial Daohui (中国東道会), is more engaged in "special work" and terrorist activities.

The Society was financed by the Japanese military and controlled by a Japanese spy named Kimura. The association's puppet president, Liu Song, and its vice president are each paid 500 yuan a month, while the heads of the five ministries (the Secretariat, the Special Service, the General Affairs, the Social Affairs, and the Economic Reconstruction Department) receive 360 yuan a month.

As its members receive $180 per month, plus additional costs such as servants, rent, petrol, etc., the total monthly allowance is $23 000.

The constitution of the Revival Society was drawn up by a less reliable man named Yang Jiache. Known as "Colonel Walter Yang," he worked for an American law firm after graduating from St. John's University.

He was charged with embezzlement, tried for setting fire to his office and its books, and served as an English interpreter for the northeastern warlord Zhang Zuowu after serving his sentence at Huade Road Prison.

Colonel Yang also served as an intelligence officer in the infamous Zhang Zongchang's Shandong Army, after which he headed the Japanese intelligence service in the Kuomintang's spy department. Later, he was fired for unknown reasons. Mr. Yang started working at a foreign detective agency in Shanghai, but was again charged with embezzlement.

When the Sino-Japanese War broke out, he happened to be unemployed. Because of his background as a lawyer, the Japanese hired him to draft the constitution of the Revival Society, and he was immediately promoted to the head of the General Affairs Department.

If Colonel Walter Yang's background is not clear, then the leader of the Chinese Emperor (Huang) Daohui, a "notorious Jiangbei tramp Chang Yuqing", is an obvious evildoer.

He was a 315-pound deformed gangster, known as "Two Tons Chang," who had previously been a butcher and dock worker, like many hooligans from northern Jiangsu, who owned baths and theaters around Shanghai's Huajie.

As a close friend of Gu Zhuxuan, the leader of the Northern Jiangsu Gang in the Youth Gang, Chang Yuqing became the president of the Northern Jiangsu Association after the Japanese occupied Zhabei in January 1932. Six years ago, during the four months of Japanese occupation, the Japanese gendarmerie saw the "two tons of tsunene" as a candidate for the head of the Chinese police. After the Japanese finally evacuated Zhabei in May 1932, Chang Yuqing had to leave them and flee to Dalian in the northeast.

In 1937, after the Japanese army returned to Shanghai, he also returned by car, established the Zodiac Society, recruited members of the Qing Gang, and engaged in special activities under the protection of the Japanese Special Service headed by the spy Xu Fei.

The Zodiac Society and the Revival Society worked closely together in the guest rooms of the New Asia Restaurant, where the puppet mayor Fu Xiaoan was also protected by the Japanese military police. The Zodiac also developed members in Dong Youxian's (an agent of the Japanese Special Service Force) in the Shanghai Seamen's Union and Shen Wenyuan's Shanghai Dock Workers' Union. (Shi Genbao, whom Lao Ren knew, had been following Sanyu Qing as early as the early 1930s, but he had long been dissatisfied with his traitorous behavior.) ）

Shortly after the establishment of the Renaissance Society, Cai Yutu, the manager of the Evening Society, became acquainted with Colonel Walter Young through a friend. Cai Angler's newspaper was blocked by the Ministry of Industry. According to his complaint, it was blocked because of the protests of the Japanese. He hoped to establish a friendship with the powerful Colonel Young, in the hope that he would persuade the Japanese backstage to eliminate their hostility towards the Evening News.

The two became sworn brothers and often went in and out of restaurants and tea shops together. However, the spy Kimura told Colonel Yang that the Cai Diaoyu was actually a spy for the Hankow government. In order to show his innocence, Cai Yutuan showed Liu Song, the president of the Fuxing Association, an order for Yang Hu, the former commander of the Wusong garrison, to suspend the operation of the "Social Evening News".

However, this move had the opposite effect, and the wording of the order made Cai even more suspicious. On February 5, 1938, Walter Yang invited Cai Diaoyu to the New Asia Hotel to attend a banquet hosted by Liu Song and Xu Fei, the spy in charge of the Zodiac Society.

Towards the end of the feast, Walter and Xu Fei asked Cai to go to a room on the sixth floor to make a report, where Chang Yuqing's Zodiac members were waiting. Two days later, on the sidewalk near the French General Patrol House on Xue Huali Road, people found the head of the Cai Angler who had just been washed.

The Zodiac also orchestrated other terrorist activities, including the June 12 bombing of a Chinese travel agency and two radio stations. However, it was the beheading of the Cai fishermen and the uproar provoked by the Japanese on August 13 that led to the disrepute of the Zodiac Society and its subsequent dissolution.

On August 13, there was little anti-Japanese activity. Instead, there were incidents against the nationalists in various parts of the city, instigated by members of the Japanese army's special service or the Zodiac Society.

Leaflets against Europe and the United States and against Chang Kaishen were dropped from cars or airplanes with "(Japan) Self-Defense Corps" license plates, shop assistants flying the Chinese flag were threatened or attacked with pistols, and Chinese officials from the police department of the Ministry of Industry and Industry in charge of counter-terrorism activities were murdered by gunmen with ties to the Zodiac Society. (Only the patrol of the French Concession was safe and sound, this is what Shi Genbao did when they carried it out)

A total of 16 Japanese were arrested in Huxi, most of them wearing Chinese-style clothes and carrying weapons. In the area where the U.S. Marines were approaching, three plainclothes policemen from the Caojiadu branch of the Japanese secret service forced a Chinese shopkeeper to pull down a Kuomintang flag.

The Japanese ran to a small car and tried to escape. Police officer "Slacker" Marvin (ARV), a former decorated soldier, jumped into the driving car. When one of them put a gun to his neck, his own gun was also aimed at the driver's head.

The driver had to stop the car and drove to the Putuo patrol house instead, but refused to get out of the car. When the Marines dragged them out of the car, one of the Japanese agents, Hiroshi Yoshizaki, received a heavy blow to the head. This, as well as similar incidents in other parts of the city, led to mutual protests between the Japanese military authorities and the Ministry of Industry.

Finally, the Japanese Consul General only acknowledged responsibility for the incidents committed by the Japanese military secret services who were captured in the area of the foreign garrison, and denied any involvement in any other terrorist activities. However, judging from the confessions of several members of the Zodiac Society, it is unlikely that the Japanese had nothing to do with those terrorist activities.

The assassination of Cai Yulu by members of the Zodiac led to a judicial prosecution. The trial took place on 17 September 1938. Colonel Walter Young was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Zheng Bing, who was implicated with the Japanese spy Xu Fei, and Qin Xigong, who had his severed head in the French Concession, were sentenced to three years in prison. And all three of them have a relationship with the Revival.

The fourth man, Xu Deling, said that he did not know about the Zodiac Society or the Fuxing Society, but was just a gatekeeper at the New Asia Restaurant, and that he was forced to wash the bloody head of Cai Diaoji against his will. Regardless, he was sentenced to four years in prison.

At the same time, the obese Sanyuqing left Shanghai, and the Zodiac Society was in a state of semi-dissolution. His plan was to rely on the support of the Japanese and under the guidance of the spy Qingshui (the former head of the Nanjing Consulate Police) to organize the Youth Gang Federation in Anhui, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, under the banner of the "Anqing League", that is, to borrow the name of the 18th-century "Anqing Gang" (composed of boatmen who transported grain in the Grand Canal).

In fact, Sanyuqing did not set up branches along the Grand Canal, but branches of the Anqing Association along the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, and its headquarters were located in Nanjing, the official residence of the former Mongolian Tibetan Affairs Committee.

On December 6, 1938, Chang Yuqing founded the Anqing Society in Nanjing. 300 disciples gathered in front of a smoke-filled altar with a portrait of Weng Dehui, the leader of the Qing Gang in the late Ming Dynasty and said to be one of the founders of the Qing Gang. Above the altar are the Japanese flag and the five-color flag.

Members take an oath at the altar. Chang Yuqing and several others told the history of the gang, the meaning of its full name, "Anguo Qingmin", and the purpose of its creation. At the end of the ceremony, the crowd cheered for Greater East Asia Peace, the Imperial Government of Japan, the Republic of China, the Restoration Government, and the Anqing Society.

On the same day, the gang members of the Shanghai branch held a meeting at No. 31, Lane 1136, Yuyuan Road, ostensibly in a residence in Huaye, a Japanese person. In the report, the police described the participants as former members of the Zodiac Society, led by Fu Shaotang and Zhao Wanyi, "both well-known hooligans in the Gordon Road and Putuo Road areas."

Pu Su saw another report estimating that in February 1939, the Anqing Society had 700 disciples in Shanghai. Their primary task was to "counter the influence of the Kuomintang and in Shanghai," and their main means were to create terrorist activities, under the general command of Chang Yuqing in Nanjing.

However, they are very inefficient in this regard. Between December 1938 and February 1939, all the assassinations and bombings were carried out by pro-Chongqing elements, so much so that Chang Yuqing felt the need to go to Shanghai to promote the work of the Shanghai branch of the Anqing Society.

Sanyu Qing then secretly came to Hongkou on February 10. He dismissed Fu Shaotang and Zhao Wanyi and promoted five new leaders, one of his relatives and the other two as his deputies at the Zodiac Society, who he believed would be effective in advancing their work.

The new religious "master" of the Anqing Society is Sect Chief Feng. Chang Yuqing's relative Zhang Jisheng served as the head of the General Affairs Department, running finance; Dong Youxian, Shen Wenyuan and Sun Shuzong served as the helmsmen of the central, southern (French Concession) and western (Huxi) respectively. Sun Shuzong, a former detective with the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, owned three casinos on Jisfeier Road, in the heart of the Bad Grounds.

After completing his plot, Chang Yuqing had to flee Shanghai, because the District Court of the First Special District, at the request of the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry, issued an arrest warrant for him on the charge of "commander of terrorist activities in the concession".

However, Chang Yuqing left instructions to step up the fight against the Kuomintang. It also promised monetary rewards for members who "succeeded in learning about the whereabouts and activities of activists from both parties, especially the leading members of their Shanghai assassination squad and propaganda department."

Nearly June, the first pro-Nanjing terrorist incident occurred, which may have contributed to the Nationalist government's retaliation, a terrorist campaign on August 13, 1939 (the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war in Shanghai), perhaps organized by Daley. Just as Chang Yuqing was strolling down a street in Nanjing, escorted by bodyguards, he was suddenly knocked down by seven gunmen.

Although the bodyguards wounded or killed the assassin, they were unable to revive the fat scoundrel, and Sanyuqing died of his injuries. (So, within this group, Ishigenbao, who has always been a mediocre performer, is now also excluded.) It's not so convenient to get a pass. ）

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