The material is very solid, and the confession of this population is very detailed. Obviously, the material in Pu Su's hand came from within the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry.

"I then complained that I really didn't know about it, so I was taken up by the Japanese and tied to a bench, and they poured water into my nose. After about 20 minutes, they let me go and asked again if I knew (a neighbor suspect). At first, I denied that I knew, but when they pulled out a large knife and threatened to cut off my head, I confessed that I knew the man. During this time, the Chinese agent was always present. I was escorted downstairs again. —Shao Fusheng (from transcribed confession)

On the fourth day, Shao Fusheng was interrogated again, but he was not tortured. On the afternoon of his last day, he moved from the dungeon to the upper floor, where a Japanese threatened to shoot him with a pistol if he did not confess.

I told him that I had nothing more to say, and if he wanted to kill me, kill me. He smiled and said I could go back to the police department of the Ministry of Industry. I returned to the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry at 5 p.m. on March 25, 1939."

When Shao Fusheng was returned to the police department's city branch on March 25, officers from the Ministry of Industry found him "seriously injured in his left eye" and wounded to his body and legs. Officers in the Secret Service Unit soon realized that Shao had been falsely accused, and that the torture had caused him to be "psychologically unbalanced" and suicidal.

Therefore, now, four months later, it is difficult for the Ministry of Industry to extradite the two new assassination suspects, Tan Baoyi and Pingfuchang, to Kaden Tian Cao Chang and his subordinates without hesitation. Ten days after Kadentian's formal request, the police department of the Ministry of Industry told the Japanese military police that they could interrogate Tan Baoyi and Pingfuchang for five days, but that they could not extend it any longer.

However, the Japanese, believing that the period until July 13 was not enough for them to conduct a lengthy interrogation by "experts" in the bridge building, rejected the offer.

However, two days later, the Police Division of the Ministry of Industry Bureau helped the Japanese consular police conduct a surprise search of No. 17, Lane 317, Fuluri Road. Here they found a report from You Heqing (also known as Zhao Guangyi) to his superiors, which talked about the "successful assassination of Chen Zheng, and the report listed the names of the five men who had made great contributions to this national victory: Xu Guoqi, You Pinshan, Zhu Shanping, Ping Fuchang, and Tan Baoyi."

It is not known whether the Ministry of Works, Bureau of Police, recognized the importance of the report at the time. However, what can be seen clearly afterwards is that the police of the Ministry of Industry and the Japanese military police began to link the suspect in the Chen Zheng case with the new plot of the military commander to assassinate Wang Weiwei.

In the late summer and autumn of 1939, there were many rumors that the Kuomintang was plotting to assassinate Wang Jingwei, and it seems that it was no accident that Ping Fuchang and Tan Baoyi, who were suspected of being agents of the military command, appeared in Shanghai now. Concerned about this issue and fully acknowledging the importance of the report, the Japanese military police finally agreed to "lend the two prisoners to the Japanese military police for interrogation" when the Japanese military police formally requested the extradition of Ping and Tan on October 6.

At 4:30 p.m. on October 18, Ping Fuchang and Tan Baoyi were "extradited to the Japanese military police......

During the four months they were detained by the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry, Ping Fuchang and Tan Baoyi refused to confess. However, it took only six days of interrogation for the Japanese to collapse them. By October 24, the two experienced agents, graduates of the military reunification training course, had revealed a large number of secrets.

These include the organizational structure and recruitment procedures of the military command, the names of the 10 senior graduates of the Linli special training course that served as secret agents in Shanghai; The military commander once planned the assassination of Zhou Jitang, Tang Shaoyi and several other major bomb cases; a list of other members of the assassination team; and a secret transceiver in the Public Concession that maintained daily contact with Kunming, Chongqing, Tianjin, and Hong Kong.

The Japanese interrogators were more interested in learning about better methods of "sweeping" agents of the Navy, details about Daley personally, other terrorist organizations in the city, and other graduates of the Linli special training school who "pretended to be pro-Japanese and entered the government of the Restoration."

It's just that Ping and Tan answered these questions more vaguely, although they didn't deliberately avoid them. Stating that there is no way to "completely sweep" the agents of the military command unless they are "bribed". He also gave advice, first bribing junior members, and then "using their intelligence to arrest senior members".

Daley was the most "senior" head of the military command, but he remained in Hong Kong and they "knew very little about him." Since Tan Baoyi "had no horizontal connections," he was unable to tell the Japanese about the situation of other military command organizations in Shanghai.

Both Tan and Ping believe that the military commander Qualin "maybe" dug a hole in the ground within the Restoration government, but neither of them knows any names.

In short, the Japanese were very concerned about the plot to assassinate Wang Wei, and both Ping Fuchang and Tan Baoyi admitted that this was their main task. However, they also confessed that they have not yet been informed of the specific implementation measures. They didn't know the progress of the plan, the details of the guards, or even Wang's address.

In other words, the assassination was only conceived, "in the concrete implementation phase".

Of course, Ping Fuchang and Tan Baoyi also admitted that they were involved in the assassination of Chen Zheng. On October 26, Gadentian, who had recently been promoted to second lieutenant, informed the police department of the Ministry of Industry that Tan and Ping had confessed to the murder. He will take them to the scene of the crime to reconstruct that assassination.

The officers of the Secret Service Unit then went to Chen Zheng's mansion together and watched the re-enactment of the incident and found it very credible. Two days later, Tan Baoyi and Ping Fuchang were "returned" to the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry. It is only in the eyes of the Special Service Unit that their crimes have now been confirmed.

So, at 11 a.m. on November 8, Tan Baoyi and Pingfuchang were sent back to Second Lieutenant Kadentian. He was also taken to the Japanese military police and imprisoned. Subsequently, the two military commanders were sentenced to death by the military court of the Japanese military police headquarters.

Cracking the murder case of Chen Wei and stopping Wang Weiwei from being hacked were victories for Japan's counterespionage work. This victory was also reflected in the fact that in early October 1939, pseudo-secret agents at 76 Extreme Fil Road rounded up several other military command agents.

On October 5, newspapers in Shanghai reported that after months of investigation, Japanese consular police had arrested more than 20 terrorists, including Tan Baoyi and Heap Fuchang, as well as more than 10 other military agents accused of involvement in multiple assassinations, including the poisoning of the Japanese consul general on June 18, 1939.

At that time, the Japanese and their Chinese collaborators won the war of terror in the land.

The end of the murder of Chen Zheng and the bankruptcy of Wang Jingwei's conspiracy were also victories for 76 Jisfeier Road. As a result of the arrest of many people, including another group of secret agents sent by Chongqing to kill Wang Wei. Japanese newspapers, such as the Tokyo Daily Shimbun, expressed their trust in Ding Mocun, Li Shiqun, and others, who were in charge of the agents of the new government.

Therefore, when Li Shiqun later visited Tokyo in the autumn, he was able to boast that he had destroyed or completely destroyed the entire military command apparatus in Shanghai, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui. "We eliminated the Blue Coat with our left hand and knocked out the department with our right hand......

However, according to the report of the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry, "No. 76" itself was responsible for some of the assassinations.

These include the brutal murder of Miss Mao Liying, president of the Chinese Women's Professional Association, on December 12, 1939. Five of the killers of Miss Mao exchanged gunfire with the police and were driven to 76 Jisfeier Road.

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Felipe, the head of the ministry, had himself been shot, and he felt that he had no choice but to turn to the consular authorities for help, so he wrote to Commander L. Neyrone, the Italian consul general who was then the head of the foreign consular corps in Shanghai. In the letter, he expressed great concern about the activities of the headquarters of the secret services of the Chinese Kuomintang with "No. 76" as the main headquarters.

He said that this organization has built a terrifying demon cave and threatened the peace and order of Shanghai. It consisted of 500 agents and armed guards, with seven divisions spread throughout the city, each with 10 to 20 members.

Felipe believes that this organization should not be constrained. It is doubtful that the newly envisaged Huxi police force will be able to bring new rule of law and order to the bad land.

One of the problems with terrorist activities is that they are indiscriminate, and the Japanese authorities have always expressed concern about the "rampant" attacks on "the lives of Chinese people who have a connection with Japanese affairs." However, it was the "brawl" on December 10, 1939, provoked by their "No. 76" elements, that exacerbated the situation.

At 6 o'clock that evening, several men armed with rifles tried to intercept a car on the Bund. However, the car contained 170,000 yuan received by the customs that was about to be sent to the Yokohama Zhijin Bank, which was a fund issued to Zhou Fohai by the Japanese secret services.

After the robbery attempt was thwarted, one of the robbers tried to take the Jiujiang Road. He opened fire on the guards of Mitsui Bank, only to be knocked out himself. Another tried to seize a taxi on Sichuan Road and engaged in a shootout outside the Peace Hotel, only to be subdued and captured.

In the battle, an Indian patrol officer from the Ministry of Industry and Bureau's police department, two Chinese, a Swiss newspaper employee, and two Japanese bank employees were all wounded.

At 0:40 a.m. on the 11th, Major General Miura, commander of the Japanese military police, accompanied by two uniformed Japanese officials, came to the police department of the Ministry of Industry Bureau and met with Director Bao Wen. The meeting, which included Consul Batrick, lasted until 4 a.m.

Speaking "in good spirits," General Miura said that if the police department of the Ministry of Works did not suppress pro-Chongqing militant activities next month, the Japanese army might take drastic measures. Director Bao Wen immediately asked the blue-faced commander of the Japanese military police whether this was a warning to US and British defense officials.

At this moment, the deputy chief of the police department of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, Akagi (of course, he was appointed to this position to represent the interests of the Japanese empire in the police department of the Ministry of Industry) carefully interrupted their conversation. He explained that the Japanese gendarmerie did not want to take offensive action, but they were under strong pressure from the military authorities to do something.

At this time, General Miura, who had calmed down a little, told Bao Wendao with certainty that Tokyo had instructed him to ask Wang Wei to give up his anti-Chongqing assassination campaign in Shanghai. Consul Batrick suggested that in response, it was an opportunity to join the U.S. ambassador in recommending that the Chinese government in Chongqing put an end to terrorist activities in Shanghai in order to maintain peace and order.

The US ambassador in Tokyo also drew the attention of the Japanese Government to the matter and advised them to eliminate the gangsters at the headquarters of the secret agents of "No. 76" under the command of Wang. Commenting on the incident, Director Bao Wen pointed out that the criminals who tried to rob the customs money were related to a casino on Jisfil Road that was sheltered by the Japanese.

I would like to stress this fact in particular that over the past year and a half, I have repeatedly warned the Japanese gendarmerie in advance about the dangers of professional killers in casinos, opium parlors, as well as at 76 Jalan Jisfil, No. 22 Rue Sing Kapo, No. 35 Jalan Yidingpan, and elsewhere.

Regardless, Ambassador Johnson expressed the concern of the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai to the Chinese Foreign Minister in Chongqing on May 14. He said he hoped the central government "would use its influence over the patriots to avoid a recurrence of similar incidents, which would only upset the situation in Shanghai and the minister's promise to negotiate with the military."

The next day, the Directorate of Works adopted a resolution calling on the Consular Corps to take all possible measures to suppress the illegal gangs of the Locals, and drew special attention to 76 Rue de la Polefil, which had played a disgraceful role in the assassination and kidnapping.

However, the Italian Consul General, Neilong, with the support of the Japanese Consul General, refused to support interference in this. The reason is that the Ministry of Industry has already signed a de facto agreement with Mayor Fu Xiao'an on February 16. The British and American consuls expressed doubts about whether the establishment of the Huxi Special Police Force in accordance with the February 16 agreement would be able to effectively restore order in the land or concessions.

However, although time proved that the predictions of British and American officials were very correct, the consuls remained deadlocked, and the consular corps took no further steps.

At least in the short term, terrorist incidents have been largely reduced. From June 1939 to the beginning of 1940, it was the period when terrorist activities occurred the least in the entire period of "Shanghai Island". On January 18, 1940, the Japan Alliance Shimbun noted that anti-Japanese terrorist activities had dropped sharply, with only four assassinations in the month and 14 in March. (This is the latest news in the newspapers.) ）

However, the worst happened. Just last month, pro-Chongqing elements assassinated Mu Shiying, one of Wang's most important propagandists, in the public concession; Then, the Nanjing puppet government personnel retaliated by killing Shao Xubai, a journalist for the pro-Kuomintang government, and terrorist activities increased suddenly.

Even the strangulation of traitors and the expropriation of tobacco shops in western Huxi, as well as the looting of docks and hospital pharmacies, were even counted on the head of Chongqing.

(Tomorrow is the last chapter of this big chapter, and then the next one)

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