Diplomacy is a science of taking advantage of legitimate opportunities, but our cause has been private from the beginning, and if we are to try to avoid attacks by the State Department, if we are to consult with the military on our operational measures, those people will emphasize coordination and subordination to rectify us, and the task of the army is to openly raid and conquer territory, and our cause has nothing in common with this theory.

We must know everything that is happening in the world, and we must not only understand the situation, but also conform to the development trends of Nanking or Madrid, and we must also take advantage of these trends to train people, to create public opinion, and to foster some parties and prime ministers in advance for later use, so that the State Council can cooperate with them, that is, with our cadres, and if necessary, with the military. For the sake of America, we are prepared to stay in the shadows, and let those who pose with reporters wear the laurels of victory; The big business run by the United States does not like to advertise, and prefers to throw off its arms and do a great job in order to accomplish a great cause. Money, what we have is that we have to spend money in order to work, and Americans know this best on Wall Street, so we can't just do trivial things, you should support adventures, and our staff should let go of the big work, and this kind of big work is guaranteed only in this situation, we can build a secret newspaper that will always be needed by everyone from now on. You have to be, we should not think about today, not even tomorrow: it is doomed to fail, and any power fighting on two fronts is doomed to be unwinnable, and our task is to think now about the future world in which the United States will live. ”

That American redneck was a brilliant orator: he had been nominated twice as Republican lieutenant governor and governor of New York, and he was good at persuading people and even persuading Roosevelt. He was a brave man who had fought on the front lines, so he was not afraid to take responsibility, and he was very close to the people in the United States who were willing to pay for it, so he was able to carry out his work in a wide range of ways.

"Don't be afraid to make the most suspicious contact," the Yankees repeated to their colleagues from time to time.

As long as you can find people, you have to look for them everywhere; If I am convinced that it would be good for my career to invite someone from Yan'an to be the deputy director of the Strategy Bureau, I will not hesitate to ask him to occupy the room opposite my office, and to maintain the best relations with him until the day and hour when Mr. Wang is finished. ”

The Research, Reconnaissance and Analysis Service is the main department of the Strategic Bureau, which houses not only bankers, Whampoa graduates, and jurists, but also some of the best of the American press, from Camp Joseph Eersel to Walter Rostou. The work is presided over by their newspaper office and a few professors.

However, the establishment of the Workers' Movement Division, which was second in size and role to the Strategic Bureau, caused a storm in Washington. The first person to sound the alarm was FBI Director John Edgar Hufu. He had been watching with jealousy the political reconnaissance work of his colleagues in the world; Hoover, who was accustomed to acting as the emperor of the country's secret department, was not mentally prepared for the fact that all of his foreign activities would be snatched up by millionaires from Wall Street.

"Even if it were not his idea to set up a workers' office, but the idea of Colonel Hebel Brandinhorst, who was not only in the army but also in New York Senator Wagner Robert," FBI Director Hoover argued to his patron, Senator Truman, "that would not work anyway, you just have to think that he invited people associated with the labor movement to join the organs of the American state." But he appointed a jurist, Arthur Goldberg, as head of the department. His ancestors came to us from Russia. ”

According to the information I received, Truman, who was close to Congress, listened to Hoover without saying a word, without giving a clear answer, and from time to time he made a joke or two, but wrote down some of his names on small pieces of paper.

In short, there is a question worth pondering: Duovan got Goldberg to join the Bureau a few participants in the "Lincoln Battalion" who had fought alongside the Russians in Spain against Marshal Franco and Ben Pilots, and he also hired some trade unionists who had earlier been active in opposing the monopolies and had presided over strikes.

However, Redneck smiled: "I can imagine how Hoover would have felt when he learned that I had invited the Travelers to join the Research, Scouting, and Analysis Division; Hoover was good at catching robbers and spies at home, but he knew nothing about international affairs: I could not use the underground trade unions without the help of radicals in the hostile Tu family, and no one could make a correct judgment about the internal situation as Li Shiqun; When the time comes; Naturally, they're going to clean up our old guys, but only after they've done all this to defeat the bad guys for us and solidify our Asian position in the event of a vacuum in Asia. ”

But he was still summoned to the Congress to testify, and Hoover, of course, "made a small report." He smiled as he had done and said, "If we want to have an organization of people as pure as crystal, that is, Hoover standards, from our point of view, there will only be one baby who dies at birth, because it is the man who does the work, not his mind; Please give my staff a chance to take the plunge and bring in people they think will be useful. Remember, the strategic bureau's counter-intrigues are led by a jurist like Li Shiqun, who is familiar to you, who has always defended the interests of our joint enterprises, and it is for this reason that he has established relations with the trade union organizations, especially the pro-communist trade unions, in order to understand what is happening in the enemy's stronghold. ”

In the days leading up to his testimony, we heard that the first press briefings from the Strategy Bureau were starting to reach the White House. The briefing was prepared by a group of young people in the Strategy Bureau; The report is interesting and objective; People no longer hold on to our man, and he has just achieved his goal; Hands and feet were freed, and newspapers were sent to London, Africa, and we in China and India, and the real long-term work began.

They then set up a Mental Operations Division, the Psychological Warfare Staff, where they prepared an outline of German, Italian and radio broadcasts, printed leaflets for the European and Asian resistance, prepared newspaper propaganda bulletpoints for underground activities, and sought future editors, commentators and leading journalists, i.e. liaison with the international intellectual community.

Since the Psychic Operations Service should include a group of radicals, who always have a good feeling for some violent tendencies in their hearts, the Secret Reconnaissance Service and the Special Operations Service were established in order to maintain a skillful balance. In this way he arranged the work of all the key departments so that philosophers could often hand over their analysis to billionaires or greedy predators who were engaged in finance. These men have all served as his superiors, and all are known for being radical and resolutely anti-Russian.

Our bank vice presidents control underground activities in other regions. It seems that one of the largest advertising agencies in the United States nominates our own people as directors; They gave this agency leadership positions such as the Spiritual Operations Office in Shanghai, the Tokyo Group of the Strategy Bureau, and the 'Black Propaganda' Division in Chongqing. The oil companies demanded that they be given leadership positions in Chongqing and Ruiyanan in order to establish links with the underground movement in the west and to organize a surveillance network throughout the country.

The largest film company, the Overseas Chinese Film Company, is now asking for the leadership of the spy organization stationed around Yan'an, because it is through it that we can win a huge market for the promotion of our products among the neutral countries that have good relations with Europe.

The banking organization has now invested $20,000 in the Strategy Bureau to help them set up underground groups in North America; Before the war, these bankers had made significant gains in the region; In order to spend money in the future, capital is invested in advance.

The Hu syndicate requested key positions in the Strategy Bureau's overseas offices in Singapore and Jakarta; An agreement was also signed whereby the Allies would also appoint a few designated persons to the leadership of the Bureau of Strategy in France after the liberation of Paris. The third lady of the Shaw Brothers, the richest woman in Shanghai, is married to the millionaire David, the son of a U.S. senator, who is a member of the staff of the Bureau of Strategy and the head of the office in London, a key position in the American newspaper.

Because the Strategy Bureau was created for the purpose of the so-called "anti-violent tendencies of the United States", because the Russians were the main force against the German Wehrmacht, because the left-wing and the Socialist underground played a leading role in the guerrilla struggle against Germany, and finally because the relationship between the White House and the Kremlin became more trusting than at any time before, the guilds demanded the organization of countermeasures, so the "top-secret documents" entangled internally with a "military unit" that relied mainly on the diaspora. ”

Hoover was always at peace because he didn't know what the leaders of American Power knew; When, in January 1938, two young staff members of the Strategy Bureau bribed the embassy's guards to infiltrate the room of the most sacred diplomatic mission codewriter named "Protected" and were about to take a picture of the codebook, Hoover's secretary woke Hoover. The stakes are high for the "perfidy" news of these people meddling in the affairs of the FBI; Hoover telegraphed his lieutenant and said:

"This action against the 'top secret document' is simply going too far, you guys are really carried away and carried away!"

A few months later, their subordinates infiltrated another embassy, and several Bureau of Investigation vehicles surrounded the building on Hoover's orders and sounded the siren; Several spies from the Strategy Bureau were arrested. A code-breaking scheme that was significant for the political tactics of the United States in the Asian region went bankrupt.

In the morning, furious politicians came to the president's office.

Hoover was invited, and he said with a friendly look: "Dear Director, if only I had known in advance that it was your people in the embassy." I can't think of our partners going to do that kind of mission there. But as long as you say a word, how can such a thing happen? But alas, he completely forgot about his faithful old friend......"

A few months later, he went to great lengths to get Hoover inside out of a diplomatic operation, and the Strategy Bureau launched a campaign abroad. After that, the "two sides" were reconciled. The purpose of this operation was to find out whether Roosevelt and Churchill had focused their attention on whether Franco had allowed the Germans to pass through Spain and let Germany strike at the belly of the attacking Anglo-Saxons, cut off them from the northern coast of Africa, and prevent them from receiving any support at sea, or whether Franco would remain neutral. It is evident that, although Franco, as always, was identical to Germany, he was faced with a dilemma: if the Wehrmacht were allowed to pass, he might lose his position' his mighty power would be reduced to occupied territory, and in spite of what the Führer had done, not a single German soldier would remain on Spanish soil; He also understood that if he refused Berlin, he would somehow win the favor of London, and would be able to force the British and the Britishmen to cease their boycott and recognize him Franco as the only legitimate representative of the Spanish national interest.

But the pressure continues to be exerted by other sectors, and the fact that the future of the world can only be the National Socialist family, so the forces that hate Western democracy remain very strong.

Therefore, it is a complex matter to predict which path these people will ultimately choose, but predicting it in advance may be the right thing to do.

So they decided to get ahead of the events: he made a decision, not only to find out and estimate the various prospects that might arise, but also to order the spy agents to force the authorities to take a course of action in their favor.

In fact, he played his usual "confrontation" card, stationing his personal representative as a diplomat in the name of a "cover" in those target countries, and this person was the millionaire Donald of Chicago, who immediately made a wide circle of contacts in the international upper echelons and took the trouble to confess that he was a determined man who had fought in the American Expeditionary Corps stationed in Russia to aid the White Army.

After gaining a reliable relationship with his predecessor, he was replaced by his subordinate, one of the heads of a spice syndicate. Gifts to the ladies of high society were not new to him, and perfume was not a bribe, but a sign of concern. On our side of Asia, there is nothing more cherished than a manifestation of concern. Perfume is the key to the hearts of those who report to their owners and to report to their superiors what they deem necessary.

The head of the Bureau of Strategy, who later met with them in London, said that if anyone dared to follow the three countries of Germany, Ben and Italy, and if the army of Hüchchjler passed through Spain, there might be a civil war in the country, and that "a great guerrilla movement was inevitable, to put it mildly."

With no basis for guerrilla struggle in Spain, all of Dounes' men were arrested and transported to the basement of Puet Jerry Soli in Madrid, where they were tortured. Several people could not stand it and confessed that they were sent from Morocco by the Americans.

Ben's Foreign Minister summoned the ambassador: "This is an unprecedented interference in our internal affairs, this incident can be interpreted as an unprovoked act of aggression, and your statement is planning a bloodshed......"

At this time, the officers of the Strategy Bureau in Tokyo sent boxes of perfume to the private residences and spread the well-thought-out false message: "This is just the beginning; The infiltration will continue because the White House fears that it would have opened the door to northeastern China for the Wehrmacht. ”

Finally, fearing guerrilla struggle, the other side sought an opportunity to inform Washington through a complex channel of contact that he would never allow any troops to cross the border.

When the news reached the United States, the State Department instructed Haiyes to publicly assure that the dispatch of the "terrorist cell" was not the work of the US military or a secret newspaper, but the adventure of Spanish fighters and Americans. Those who had given them some financial support "have been expelled from the State sector"

It was true that someone was removed from his post in the Strategy Bureau, but two full months later he was appointed special operations adviser to General Eisenhower's command.

They and their subordinate ambassadors had been very angry at the signing of a "friendly" treaty with them, so that from then on the first assistant of the embassy became an officer of the Strategic Bureau

"How's it going?" Chang Kaishen asked, "Ding Mo Village is doing a good job over there, right?" ”

"Pretty good." Li Guangyuan returned the file to Chang Kaishen, "Is the report on the activities of the strategic newspaper until 1939?" ”

Chang Kaishen snorted: "Li Guangyuan, I am the kind of person who will continue to collect newspapers until he dies." ”

Whether it is Zhan Guoqiang, Chang Kaishen, or outside the party-state, they don't understand that after that, in fact, the position of key figures in the United States has been strongly shaken.

After John, the billionaire and brother of Allen Dulles, head of the Asia Division of the Strategy Bureau, became the leader of the campaign's diplomatic team, he violently attacked Roosevelt, demanding tough measures against "fan documents" that he used to intimidate Americans, and many of his documents were obtained directly from his old friends and comrades-in-arms in the party, and the president demanded that the report be made about who was responsible for inspecting the work of the Strategy Bureau, who financed its activities outside of its vision, and which groups could obtain informal newspapers from the national political newspaper.

After studying some of the collected material, Roosevelt said to his closest aides: "Hahn, don't you think it's time for Dunovan to leave the Strategy Bureau?" ”

"Why?" Kopkins asked. ”

"The reason is obvious," the president replied, tapping a finger at the file in front of him.

The conversation took place at the White House in March 1940, just one and a half hours after Li Guangyuan returned to Nanjing.

In this world, there is an invisible strange connection between the great and the small, the ridiculous and the shameful, the noble and the despicable; At the same time, a certain turn of fate cannot be explained logically, as if it were accidental, but in fact this accident is precisely the basis of invisible development.

The city center was bombed. There were no planes over Chongqing, so the lights on the streets were not turned off, even though all the bulbs were as dim as usual.

"Thank you, please don't bring me sugar," Li Guangyuan said, "I drink beef with saccharin." ”

The servant poked his head out of the kitchen: "You are so thin, Mr. Li, my boss has to pay attention to every loaf of bread, he often walks hungry,"

"Yoga in India believes that hunger is the most beneficial for people," Li Guangyuan said, "so we Chinese live in the most beneficial conditions, because almost everyone is hungry now." ”

There was no response in the kitchen, and the cook would never react to li guangyuan's words Obviously, he remembered Chang Kaishen's instructions and noticed how to act on different occasions.

"Or maybe it's me who is a soldier?" Li Guangyuan thought, "Maybe this little seat is really here to protect me?" This is not a country, but a jar of poisonous insects, and it is practically impossible to figure out the logic of the behavior, it is necessary to rely on self-feeling. But if I can't get rid of my guards and talk to the operator, then what am I doing here? What's the point of going back to Nanjing? I hinted to Chang Kaishen that I might be right to play a special game, let him think about it. By all indications, Chang was pleased with my reply, even though we hadn't really spoken yet. ”

The cow you cook tastes good, cooked the French way. Li Guangyuan asked with interest: "Who taught the cow to cook it so well?" ”

"The son of the detachment leader. He was a child who knew a lot of things, he could speak English and French, and he could spend his days in books. He got the way to cook authentic cows. Do not put it on the stove, keep it away from the stove, and pay attention to the time of foaming. He spoke like a scholar......"

"Where is the captain's son now?"

The maid pushed the roasted steamed bun slices in front of Li Guangyuan: "This is my mother's boil, please, sir." ”

"You haven't answered my question yet."

"I'd also like to give you a taste of our pickles. My father made it the old way, so he put a lot of ingredients in it. Look at it, pretty, right? ”

"Well, yes," Li Guangyuan replied. He understood that she would not say anything. "It was a pleasure to taste the pickles from your hometown. Where are you from? ”

"Wuhu, Anhui, sir. My house is at a fork in the road. Do you remember the place where the Yangtze River turned, or the road sign to Nanjing? A beautiful house, very old, with a big barn. ”