Tokyo has reason to look with great interest at the growing enthusiasm of intelligence agencies in other countries. This was not only due to the fact that the nobles of this organization were mortal enemies of the Bolsheviks, but also because his brother had declared himself an enemy of President Roosevelt, and that this was not in peacetime, but in the autumn of severe war, before the Japanese attack on the Pacific was crushed. At that time, the Japanese army also occupied Singapore, Burma, Khmer, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, and fought a bloody battle against the invaders in Burma.

The intelligence of the intelligence agencies comes from those who fight the enemy on the most dangerous fronts where the real invisible dwelling is the most dangerous, not from those who talk about it. The analysis of this intelligence was the basis for casting doubt on the enthusiasm of all anti-Japanese elements and their colleagues.

As for the Strategic Intelligence Bureau, there are two facts that give Yan'an reason to expect worse about it. These facts are not directly related to the activities of the spy station, but through research it is possible to uncover strategic intelligence on the activities of the European allies.

One of the facts of serious concern is the secret strategic views of the Allied defense spy services in the Far East.

At the same time, the intelligence services of all countries are aware of the second fact that the American secret services carry out activities against the patriots who fought for France, led by Charles de Gaulle.

Convinced that Li Guangyuan had a connection with Yan'an, Chang Kaishen understood what he should do, because he divided the plan of action against that side into several stages, and although there was no direct connection with each other, they were all subordinated to a unified overall concept.

Therefore, after seeing Li Guangyuan, he said: "Good friend, go to your own residence and change your clothes." You have evening dresses in your cupboard, right"

"Your man took the pillows apart. They also saw if I had hidden anything in the cotton shoulder pads," replied Li Guangyuan, "and you have to warn them to sew them with thread." I'm very alert, squad leader, and I'm used to spotting clues. “

"They are undisciplined," Chang Kaishen sighed, "I will punish them." I instructed them personally. ”

"What to do in an evening dress"

"Listen to the concert," Chang Kaishen said, "During the war, the Minister of Economic Affairs, Song Dawen, ordered the power station to ensure the lighting of the concert hall, and the band he particularly liked even quarreled with the Minister of Propaganda because of this: the Minister of Propaganda ordered all bands to be incorporated into the reservists, and he liked music." Tonight will be a concert of that person's work. ”

"Oh my God, I've forgotten his name, it's the deaf and blind old man."

"A Bing," Li Guangyuan said. He looked at Chang Kaishen sadly, "When he was about the same age as you, he was already dead, you don't call yourself an old man." ”

"Don't be angry, Li Guangyuan, this is called sentimentality, and it hinders our work."

"I'll wear a tuxedo in the evening, but we'll die if I don't wear an overcoat in the concert hall, captain."

"How do you know"

"I go there a lot, twice a month, you forget"

"Don't always think I'm always on guard for you, Li Guangyuan. Only in the right place at the right time will someone spy on you. ”

Chang Kaishen put the coat into the storage room. Standing next to the hanger was a crippled man who had just been discharged from the hospital, and an old man in a black uniform decorated with a gold belt that was familiar to Nanjing people had died of hunger and cold. The crippled man was not good at work, knocked over the number plate, and touched himself, and his mouth was so painful that he snorted. They frowned, picked up the sign, and muttered curses. There were thirty people who took off their coats, and there were a number of people who wore short leather jackets over their jackets and tuxedos to attend the concert.

Chang Kaishen sat cautiously in the circle chair. Li Guangyuan looked at his sitting posture and felt very uncomfortable. He tried to restrain himself and wanted to hide to the side to demonstrate to him.

Chang Kaishen seemed to understand Stirlitz's thoughts, and said with a smile: "You are really patient, I will shout if I change it." ”

At the beginning of the performance, Li Guangyuan immediately recalled that in 1941 at the "Jinkelai" Hotel in Shanghai, he adjusted the frequency of the "Comintern" radio in Moscow and listened to the broadcast in the auditorium of the Conservatory, in which Vasily Ivanovich Kacharov was performing a recitation in the musical, directed by Samoil Samosud.

At that time, Shi Li Guangyuan thought that the level of Russian directors far surpassed that of Japan and the United States. But the artistic appreciation of the way it was handled, the fear of individuality on the stage, and the desire to bring everyone together and under whose leadership it was a sinful joke: under the rule of some, huge highways were built, powerful tanks and airplanes were produced, but not a book beyond its borders, no films, operas, symphonies, paintings and sculptures that could arouse the interest of the globe. National socialist egalitarianism, the call for the study of tradition, and the hatred of the search for new forms, led the people of this country, where many thinkers and poets had emerged, to spiritual impoverishment. Only some people who have been able to become different because of Wang's favor. His conducting style surpassed everyone else. When Mei Sipin pointed out that this unconventional phenomenon should be ended, which divides musicians and pushes them to the state of self-expression, Wang did not refute:

"The conductors were imitating the way I spoke to my men. Please don't hinder his freedom, in the final analysis, he is only propagating the great Chinese. As far as I know, he has never conducted a solo concert with the music of another country. ”

In occupied Shanghai, Li Guangyuan felt the highest pride when he heard the music played by his own people. His throat grinned. It was his revolution, his comrades, who proclaimed to the world a leap in artistic exploration that had never been seen before in the history of mankind. There was such a leap in China's ancient and splendid civilization

"Is it possible to compromise with the enemy?"

"I will accept the executioner's suggestion immediately," Chang Kaishen whispered, giving Li Guangyuan a strange look.

The concert was interrupted for ten minutes. The air raid over the city passively began, and everyone in Nanjing immediately recognized the roar of the Japanese "Zero" bombers.

They walked back to Zhongshanmen Street.

Chang Kaishen walked silently for a long time before he said: "Listen, my comrade-in-arms, you are a smart person and understand everything accurately, including my attempts to unite with those who think about the world war, and the new relationship between me and your superiors, but the main thing you don't understand, and it doesn't seem to be a big problem. I don't understand the main thing, so I pulled you in to listen to the hungry choir members shouting on stage. I've worked in that office that you know so well for many years, and I don't trust anyone anymore, Li Guangyuan. I don't even believe in myself, understand no, no, it's true, don't think so, I'm not playing games with you right now, your interrupted negotiations are resuming it all for"

"Obviously to keep the negotiations going."

Chang Kaishen waved his hand in annoyance: "The negotiations have been going on, Li Guangyuan, and there has been no interruption for a minute." As early as 1940, Zhan Guoqiang flew to Tokyo, and at the President Hotel, he discussed the issue of separate peace with Hutt, an American. He arranged for neutral party figures to meet with Zhan Guoqiang. It didn't happen yesterday, it didn't happen through other intermediaries and people who surrendered, it happened five months ago, when we were striking at **. Just as the guerrilla forces were retreating, they reached an agreement. Zhan Guoqiang allowed the removal of rich underground parties and reputable spies from our prisons. You see, they made a gentleman's agreement. After Zhan Guoqiang called, someone came to me and got permission from me to release two filthy spies. But then our army began to counterattack, and those guerrillas scattered in all directions, so Zhan Guoqiang cut off all contact with that side, and only his men were still on the move. There is a ministry of material on this matter in my case file. In January, Stalin began the offensive on Krakow, saving the lives of the Americans. The Germans could only bring back troops from the Western Front against Konev. It was at this time that the Japanese met again with the contact, which was in Mt. Akina, near Hokkaido. On February 12, before you left for Yan'an, a new agreement was signed. Do you understand that according to the agreement, 1,200 communists will be released every two weeks and they will be sent to Yan'an? To this end, the bankers promised to stop anti-Wang propaganda in the newspapers they controlled. Alas, if only Mr. Wang had made an agreement with them that year ago. If these bankers are going to pay the International Red Cross gold through the bank, they will naturally use the money to buy us gasoline, cars and medical equipment. These things have been transported to China, so our plane has taken to the sky again, Li Guangyuan, so we can still drive our own cars now. In addition, Zhan Guoqiang also signed agreements with banking tycoons. The agreement granted Zhan the right of asylum. As for the results of the investigation, this is because he, a high-ranking official of the puppet government, has saved many unfortunate people who are about to be eliminated, so let them intercede on his behalf. And they are interceding now, please believe it. ”

Li Guangyuan shook his head: "Don't think that the world is forgetful. ”

Chang Kaishen smiled bitterly: "Memory doesn't exist, Li Guangyuan, remember this." Let me go and compile the festival of the newspapers and radio stations, and within a month I will prove to the people that all the previous campaigns have been carried out by Wang Weiwei's orders, and that they are permissible sabotage. Wang Wei has never called for the atrocities that ravage the people, all this is enemy propaganda. The president only hopes; Care about the unfortunate people to get rid of those bad angers. Remember, forget about the word. Yes, old grudges cannot be forgotten, but this has nothing to do with the concept of memory, it is just a painful desire for revenge. That's it. We can break Zhan Guoqiang's agreement. What do we mean by Dingmo Village, not me. In my opinion, it's good to let the person you like be the prime minister, and if you lose, let it be natural. I think Ding Mocun seems to have his own source of intelligence, and he knows about the underground intelligence and what happened around Zhan Guoqiang. In a word, I intercepted a coded telegram sent to Japan and Yan'an, concerning negotiations between the two sides and Zhan Guoqiang. Ding Mocun naturally reported the situation to his superiors, and his superiors ordered: all personalities who help the ** people in the prison should be killed."

"What if it's a criminal who has committed a crime in other things?"

"Li Guangyuan, ask a question, you have to think about it in your mind, and then ask it, what if it is another prisoner, you want to ask this question, the answer is already clear, don't pretend. You're cunning. ”

"It's just some cunning people who do this trick."

Chang Kaishen stopped, took out a piece of paper, and laughed out loud after reading it.

"After the air raid," he said with a smile, "especially in the spring, the city of Nanjing is filled with the smell of autumn, but in previous years it was chestnuts that were roasted, and now we are scorched houses here." Let's continue talking, I want to hear your opinion on the whole thing, Li Guangyuan, the problem is that Zhan Guoqiang instigated the cooperation of our director of supervision and management, the brigade of the guard. They promised to refuse to carry out Mr. Wang's evacuation order, and to put it bluntly, it was an order to execute all the prisoners. And the prison has already learned about it from Zhan Guoqiang. But they didn't just understand the situation, he fulfilled your boss's request, met with the Allied higher-ups, and handed him a map showing the locations of all our prisons. Zhan Guoqiang brought the map with him, and he personally brought it. He was apparently guaranteed a pardon. Now he is trying to free the families of some of the executives. The village of Dingmo forbade me to release these people, so I reported it to your superiors. Zhan Guoqiang is now convincing Mei Sipin. Mei Sipin didn't dare to call the shots, and the fear above intimidated him. That's it, Li Guangyuan. In Yan'an, everything is going well. The telegram to Zhan Guoqiang was intercepted and kept with me for two months, and it was a meeting with Zhan Guoqiang, I know, they asked Zhan Guoqiang what this meant, and of course your boss replied that he knew nothing about it, although it was his people who crowded in front of the enemy and imposed on him the idea of meeting with the leader of the country. The others went to Zhan Guoqiang, and the leader of the country replied to him that Ding Mocun was a powerful person, so let them talk. Zhan Guoqiang personally ordered Ding Mocun to send his men to Mr. Wang, asking for permission to contact Yan'an. Wang Wei finished listening to his brother-in-law, waved his hand and said; It is inconceivable to talk nonsense with people of status during the Great War. But Zhan Guoqiang still asked Ding Mocun to fly to Chongqing without waiting for a reply from his subordinates. There he met with people you don't want to know, and who else do you think else Ding Mocun, and Li Shiqun again asked to meet Zhan Guoqiang, stressing that the fate of other countries unnerved him. So Zhan Guoqiang led Ding Mo Village to his residence in Lushan. They agreed to concentrate all prisoners who had violated Mr. Wang's orders in a prison in the north. For this reason the supply of gasoline to our army and guards began. Even so, I have to ask why Zhan Guoqiang dragged you into this terrible game under the pretext of intending to restore the broken relationship."

Until yesterday, until he met with Zhan Guoqiang, Chang Kaishen did not know the real situation of these negotiations. Of course, he received part of the information, but in order to prepare for a gamble with Li Guangyuan, he did not have a showdown with Zhan Guoqiang, and he asked his dear comrades to explain the situation to him in more detail. Zhan Guoqiang noticed that he had a good relationship with Chang Kaishen, and did not guess that this person had his own special plan of action, so he disclosed to the spy leader what he thought was appropriate to disclose.

At the same time, Zhan Guoqiang did not know that Chang Kaishen had learned about Li Guangyuan's situation. Chang Kaishen cherishes this trump card as much as he cares for his eyeballs, because his actions are closely related to it, and this action is his life-saving medicine in the future. His vision of Russia will be a sensation, and every corner of the world will talk about it. The most powerful man in the West will protect him, the one who designed the clever plan. They are good at judging smart people who are aware of the times and can take the most important actions. Chang Kaishen is capable, and others would never have dreamed of doing this. In a word, because most people are a person who is obsessed with details.

Listening to Chang Kaishen's words, Li Guangyuan suddenly had a strong desire to smoke a cigarette, his fingers were cold, but he restrained himself: "So, my efforts in the past are futile for something very important and unimaginable to me, a disguise."

"I can't imagine it, but you didn't do it in vain over there, you helped me and Wu Sibao figure out the complex structure of the transmission belt. Hi, we still haven't figured out the contents of this complex structure, even though one of the drive belts has been truncated. ”

"What about the other unlucky lurkers"

"They pulled him out of the game for the time being. I think they seem to regard which line as their main reserve, because after all, he controls an army of half a million, which is worth some money. ”

"Then is this the reason why Zhan Guoqiang pulled me to restore what hasn't been destroyed?"

"I'm more interested in this matter than you, Li Guangyuan. In a totalitarian institution on the verge of bankruptcy, the higher the status, the more concerned the whole, not the individual. ”

"Do you want me to ask Zhan Guoqiang?"

"He'll execute you right away, not a second. No, it can't be like this. Think about it, you have an evening of time to think. Then you can come back to me to discuss it together. ”

Three hours later, Chang Kaishen saw Li Guangyuan report to the center the contents of his conversation.

"Wonderful." Chang Kaishen smiled slightly, "Let that side think about it, let him think about those who are now against Zhan Guoqiang in Nanjing, let him think about the Americans, and think about Zhan Guoqiang's upcoming alliance with the Japanese; Let him make a choice, he can choose now, I recommend myself to him, Wu Sibao, like me, is growing stronger in the United States against Roosevelt and openly hostile to the Kremlin.

Like all famous politicians, the President of the United States believes in his home base. In his view, the tiny shadow that appears among those who formulate and revise policies will also cause irreparable damage to the cause of the country.

Therefore, after receiving a strongly worded letter from the Russian leader regarding the contacts between the British and American intelligence agencies and the Japanese in Nanking, the President thought for a long time. A very tactful request must be made to the cronies: it must be ascertained within the State Department, the Pentagon, and the Strategic Intelligence Service of Dunovan what is causing such obvious uneasiness and anger there. The letter from the leader over there reflected this uneasiness and anger.

The president understands that not everyone in Washington will tell him what they think about China's role in the post-war world.

He knew how great some of the traditions in the country were, how old-fashioned the concepts of some were, who went to the same university, went to the same club, read the same books, played golf on the same field, who relished what the press praised, and who were disgusted by the pragmatic and unconvincing attacks on things by the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, or the Post.

So the president tried to figure out what was it that angered such a giant in all the frank and friendly tones of his letters to the leaders.

Having listened to the members of his home base and maintained the best possible relations with those in his circle, Roosevelt made a particularly important decision on his own. If there was a word in the document that seemed to him to be too vague, not clear enough, or unnecessarily strong or, on the contrary, too weak, he would revise it himself. He was obsessed with a writer's book. He felt that causality was necessarily related to the concept of law. Since causality involves the necessity of continuous thinking, and the way in which life is ultimately influenced by language is an expression of the necessity of life, the President twice asked the adjutant to bring him a dossier containing letters about the events in question. He analyzed the things that affected the situation in depth, and a school-educated figure would never take a word casually, and Roosevelt was well aware of that.

After reading his letter very critically, the president felt that the words were finished. As an experienced strategist of political struggle, he knows the value of pre-arranged explosive words in the mouths of state and party activists.

So, he sketched and did not miss a single punctuation, and then set aside the letter with a feeling of self-righteousness and sincerity to his allies, and crossed his fingers together, knowing in his heart that there were questions that he was not able to answer for the time being, perhaps unwilling to answer his own questions, which were tormenting him from time to time. First of all, why is there no mention of dealings with the Japanese? Secondly, why is there so tight-lipped about these negotiations? Finally, how can this be explained by the fact that the Intelligence Agency has not done some analysis of these negotiations so far and has limited itself to the selection and elimination of incomplete documents, which appear to have come from close friends in charge of intelligence

He had to admit in his heart that he could no longer ignore these issues. China suffered terrible losses during the war years, but it also gained great prestige in the world and was seen as a major force in the fight against inhumane hegemony.

A memo handed to him by the military proved that the surrender of hostile elements in various sections of the Western Front could bring practical benefits, but the Chinese did not recognize this possibility, and the responsibility for this lay with the Foreign Affairs Palace.