In fact, if you think about it carefully, you can think of this. The first time he heard Zhao Shirui's name, he felt very familiar, and when he caught Xuan Ku later, he thought of what Xuan Ku might be plotting, and when he reminded Gu Zhenlong, what he thought of was actually this incident.

At that time, he even vaguely remembered that something big had happened recently, and it was related to Chen Chao and Zhao Shirui.

The reason why he didn't expect it now was just that he was scared of himself, scared to the point of suffering from gains and losses, and even interfered with normal thinking and reasoning ability.

This is the thousand thoughts of the wise man, and there must be a mistake!

This matter is inconsistent with the previous life, it is indeed because of him, but it is not the so-called messy effect that he suspects, just because of the bitterness of the previous life that single-handedly planned this matter, and Feng Zhiyuan, who specifically carried out the assassination of the consul, was arrested by Fang Buwei before he had time to play a role in this incident in this life.

The Japanese military headquarters could not find a suitable candidate in a hurry, fearing that they would fall into the trap and could not send their own people to do it, so in desperation, they had to retreat and ask the consul to commit suicide by going up the mountain.

But who would have thought that the consul, who had always been extremely loyal to the emperor, would be greedy for life and afraid of death at the last moment?

And the real situation in the previous life was that when Feng Zhiyuan rushed to the Purple Mountain to assassinate the consul in accordance with Xuan Ku's instructions, the consul who was unwilling to die took the lead and killed Feng Zhiyuan first.

After that, the consul suffered from gains and losses, and he was afraid of affecting his family in Japan, so he thought of committing suicide, but in the end, because he was afraid of death, he couldn't do it.

The Japanese are at a loss, and they are even more disgraced, so they naturally keep silent about this matter.

The Nationalist Government did not mention it because of the relationship between Feng Zhiyuan and the chairman of the National Committee. If it really wants to break out, this matter is a huge scandal, so later generations did not see Feng Zhiyuan appear in the relevant historical records, and the insiders never mentioned it, only when this person did not exist.

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Chen Chao was not at ease, and personally rushed to the management office of the Prime Minister Cemetery of Purple Mountain to take command. Zhao Shirui led all the personnel of the 12 bureaus of the Capital Police Department, as well as nearly 10,000 people, including the three garrison regiments of the Military Police Headquarters, to surround the Purple Mountain.

The search moved forward almost inch by inch, and after three hours, when it was nearly dark, someone finally found traces of human activity.

On the ground there were leaves that had been chewed up and then spit out, and branches that had withered after being picked. Walking further, I found a few branches that had been stripped of their tender skin.

Through the bite marks on these branches and leaves, it can be seen at a glance that this is a human bite.

Looking at the footprints again, there was only one trace of one person, and it was a man.

After Zhao Shirui arrived, he carefully observed the scene, and when everyone was notified, act carefully, and try not to make too much movement.

Then he personally took the criminal experts of the Investigation Bureau, followed the traces, and searched forward little by little.

The further he went, the more and more traces there became, and when he tracked down to the mouth of a cave, Zhao Shirui raised his hand sharply and made his subordinates stop.

Zhao Shirui listened quietly for a few minutes with his ears sideways, but he couldn't hear any sound.

He took the first step and waved his hand again, signaling his men behind him to try not to make a movement.

didn't know that one of his subordinates would be wrong, and thought it was Zhao Shirui's intention to let them be careful. With a "whoosh", he pulled out the pistol from his waist and loaded it with a "click".

Zhao Shirui almost slapped his subordinates in the face.

He's here to find people, not to arrest them.

Zhao Shirui simply let everyone's subordinates stay outside, and tiptoed into the cave alone.

He didn't dare to take out the flashlight, and only when his gaze was slightly used to it, did he take a closer look.

The cave is not deep, at most about ten meters. And five or six meters away from Zhao Shirui, who had just entered the cave, Huo Ran was lying alone.

He slowly walked a few steps forward, and through the light at the entrance of the cave, he could clearly see that the person lying down was indeed a man.

He was wearing a suit, which had been scratched and tattered, and was stained with a lot of mud. The hair is not long, the beard is long, and the facial features are haggard, but they are the same as the consul in the photo.

Zhao Shirui's heart jumped uncontrollably, as if he was about to jump out of his throat.

Before, Chen Chao asked him to quickly lead people to search the mountain, and he also doubted, where did Chen Chao get the information?

But he just asked, and Chen Chao's big foot kicked over, and scolded himself for being a shameful fool.

Zhao Shirui couldn't figure it out, where did he lose his chief?

Thinking about this at this time, it really shouldn't be, Yue Shirui shook his head vigorously, held his breath, and slowly took two steps forward, and then a tiger pounced, pounced on the consul's body, and cut his hands upside down.

But until Zhao Shirui controlled the consul, the consul still did not move.

He's dead?

Zhao Shirui panicked in his heart, turned over, and when he saw that the consul's neck and wrists were full of knife wounds?

With a fierce spirit, Zhao Shirui subconsciously reached out and put it under the consul's nose to probe.

Fortunately, there was breathing, and it seemed that he was just unconscious.

A closer look shows that there are many knife wounds on the consul's body, but all of them are shallow killings, and there is not even much blood coming out of small wounds.

Zhao Shirui breathed a sigh of relief.

He put his hand on the consul's forehead, touched his skin, and felt the hot sensation on his hand, which was obviously hot.

Zhao Shirui guessed that after being hungry for so many days, coupled with the heavy humidity on the mountain and the cold night, the consul should have fallen ill.

"Doctor......" Zhao Shirui yelled.

When I thought that there might be a variety of situations, Chen Chao not only brought doctors, but also several, both Chinese and Western doctors.

After some examination, it was determined that the consul had just fainted and there was no major problem, so Yue Shirui led his cronies and personally carried the consul down the mountain.

The rest of the irrelevant personnel who saw the consul's face were all taken care of by Zhao Shirui, including those doctors.

Zhao Shirui was afraid that the news would be leaked.

An hour later, under Chen Chao's personal escort, the consul was secretly sent to the Nanjing Central Hospital.

Gu Zhenlong and the others, who learned the news, almost jumped up with excitement.

Gu Zhenlong kept spinning around the office, and kept muttering a sentence in his mouth: "Good boy...... Good boy......"

Chen Zuyan clapped her hands again and again, eager to sing a song to express the excitement in her heart.

Ma Chunfeng had already left, and the secret service was responsible for monitoring the movements of the Japanese army, and he had a heavy responsibility, so he did not dare to leave the headquarters for a long time.

But Qi Zhenjiang was left behind by him.

This was specially requested by Gu Zhenlong, because he was afraid that Fang would not send another telegram.

At this time, Qi Zhenjiang's heart was amazed, like the water of the Yangtze River outside Nanjing, endless.

He had always thought that it was a joke to win a victory thousands of miles away in the midst of strategizing, but this time, he saw it with his own eyes.

Qi Zhenjiang couldn't figure out how Fang Buwei's brain was long, and why he deduced the truth of the matter from some small to untraceable traces.

And this time, there was almost no trace, just because the target's behavior was somewhat abnormal, Fang Buwei deduced the earth-shattering situation carefully planned by the Japanese based on speculation.

Qi Zhenjiang can't be convinced.

After waiting for more than half an hour, Chen Chao personally called and made sure that the consul was not in serious trouble, and then Gu Zhenlong personally sent a telegram to the chairman to report the matter.

At this time, the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee was still in Jiangxi, and Wang Zhaoming was temporarily substituted for all affairs of the Nationalist Government.

But for the sake of safety, Gu Zhenlong did not dare to report to Dean Wang for the time being.

In fact, part of the reason is that Dean Wang's attitude is unclear, and Gu Zhenlong wants to keep a hand first, just in case. Another part of the reason is that because of this incident and because of Wang Zhaoming, Gu Zhenlong suffered a lot of wretchedness.

Since the disappearance of the consul, the party and the state have danced the most happily is President Wang. When the Japanese warship sailed to Shimonoseki, he was even more furious, personally called Gu Zhenlong and Chen Chao for being extremely incompetent, and even said that they were the main battle faction, and the reason why they did not find the consul was intentional and passive. The aim is to undermine the friendly relations between China and Japan and get the two countries to go to war as soon as possible. and scolded them as national thieves, shameless to the extreme.

Gu Zhenlong almost scolded his mother on the spot.

Are you fucking blind? The Japanese warships all drove to the city of Nanjing, and they fired a few shots into the air, and they almost bombarded the presidential palace, and they were still friendly? My friend, you have a hammer?

He never thought that there would be such a shameless party head in the world?

Wang Zhaoming said these words to himself.

After Wang Zhaoming hung up the phone, Gu Zhenlong angrily picked up the phone in Chen Chao's office and threw it to the ground, and stepped on a lot of feet.

Then, he began to greet Wang's upper eight generations to the lower eight generations several times......

It wasn't until the chairman of the committee called back that he stopped.

The chairman of the committee instructed that before the Japanese received the news, they must find a way to ask the consul for the detailed reason.

Then, Gu Zhenlong and Chen Zuyan chased them to the Central Hospital.

The consul's problem was not big, mainly because he was weak and suffered from the cold, so he fainted.

The injuries on the body, although they seem to be many, are only scratches on the skin, and they have no effect at all.

When the consul woke up, he saw that he was lying in the hospital, and the first thing he did was cry bitterly.

Before he fell unconscious, he was actually conscious.

The strong desire to survive kept urging him to cheer up as soon as possible, hurry down the mountain, and maybe there will be a glimmer of life.

But the faith in his heart, as well as the deep concern for his family, made him realize that only by dying can he be worthy of the emperor and protect his family.

But at this moment, he found that he was still alive, and the consul's heart was only left with joy and regret.

I am glad that I didn't die, and I regret that when the military department found me and asked me to act like this, why did I agree without the slightest hesitation?

Ants still spare their lives, let alone people?

When the consul had eaten something and his mental state was a little better, Chen Chao asked the reason.

He was already familiar with the consul, and the case was sponsored by the National Police Agency, so it was most appropriate for him to ask questions.

The consul only said that he was too stressed and didn't want to survive, so he thought of suicide.

But when he thought of his family in Japan, he hesitated again, and finally he didn't do it.

Looking at the dense wounds on the consul's body and a knife found on his body, no one doubted that he wanted to commit suicide.

However, when we think that the Japanese military and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since the second day of his disappearance, have baselessly accused people of being murdered by the Nationalist Government, and have even tried to provoke an incident and directly start a war, we can see that Fang Buwei's inference will never be false.

This incident was planned by the Japanese.

At this time, whether it was Gu Zhenlong, Chen Zuyan and Chen Chao, they were all shocked into a cold sweat.

If it weren't for Fang Buwei, if it was a day or two later, Zhao Shirui would have found only one corpse.

The situation after that was even more unimaginable......

When Chen Chao asked again why he tried to break off many times instead of going down the mountain immediately since he had the idea of surviving, the consul stopped talking.

Gu Zhenlong and others naturally knew the reason.

No matter how stupid the consul is, no matter how strong his desire to survive is, he will not dare to tell the truth of the matter.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything more, Gu Zhenlong made a report to the chairman again. The chairman of the NPC National Committee immediately gave instructions, and Wang Zhaoming, the premier and minister of foreign affairs, had full authority to handle the matter.

At this time, Gu Zhenlong asked Chen Chao to report to Wang Zhaoming.

Gu Zhenlong was still angry, and he didn't want to say a word to such a person.

Wang Zhaoming was not at ease with Gu Zhenlong, and he was also quite suspicious of Chen Chao, who was nominally his subordinate, but was actually the chairman of the committee. Therefore, he kept an eye on it and did not report to the Japanese immediately, but first sent one of his confidants, the secretary general of the Executive Yuan, to secretly go to the hospital to find out the details.

The things found are naturally exactly the same as those reported by Chen Chao.

Wang Zhaoming was really right. Just as he reported to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as if it was good news, Gu Zhenlong, Chen Chao, and Chen Zuyan took the lead in notifying the consulates general of various countries in Nanjing, as well as reporters from major Chinese and foreign newspapers, and held a press conference overnight.

Gu Zhenlong and the others really didn't have a good impression of Wang Zhaoming's capitulationism, and they were afraid that he would make a demon moth, so they could only take the first step to confirm the matter.

By the time Wang Zhaoming personally arrived at the venue, the press conference was nearing its end.

Although he was as angry as five thunderbolts, in front of so many foreign dignitaries and reporters, he had to squeeze out a smile.

The consul only claimed that he was under great pressure and thought of committing suicide, but when asked why, he did not answer.

Whether it is a foreign dignitary or a journalist, he is not a fool, but from Chen Chao's statement of finding the consul, as well as the examination report issued by the hospital, and the hundreds of knives that the consul tried to commit suicide on his body, he can guess that he is not only the cause of excessive psychological pressure.

The Japanese warships parked at Shimonoseki did not come under the guise of this. By all indications, the Japanese were ready for a direct war. The consul definitely accepted the order of his boss and wanted to commit suicide to create trouble, but in the end, because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, he caused such a farce.

By the time the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Japanese Consulate, had strictly ordered the Nationalist Government to hand over the personnel, the major consulates and newspapers had already kept silent about everything at the press conference, and even the Japanese consul, but everyone could guess the general contents, and sent them back to the headquarters of various countries.

The headquarters of each country either canceled the typeset newspapers overnight, or added additional issues, and all of them invariably published the incident on the front page the next day. Even the reporters and diplomats of the embassy speculated in their hearts, and even scolded the Japanese government and military for their shameless words, but they did not change a single word and went straight to the post.

The Third Fleet also received orders from the Japanese military headquarters and withdrew to Shanghai overnight, and at this point, a crisis, which can also be called a farce, finally came to an end.

By the time Wang Zhaoming finished dealing with the reporters and wanted to ask Gu Zhenlong and others for questioning, these people had already left.

It was originally the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or even Wang Zhaoming's opportunity to be in the limelight, but Gu Zhenlong and others took the lead.

These three people are all steady and cautious, otherwise they would not be in charge of the party-state's largest secret service.

The reason why he did this was not to steal Wang Zhaoming's limelight, nor to be angry, and it had nothing to do with partisan disputes, but Gu Zhenlong and others were afraid that Wang Zhaoming would have some kind of demon moth in the middle and let the situation change again.

For this reason, they did not even ask the chairman for instructions.

Of course, with such a big credit, even if it is Wang Zhaoming, at most he can only give them a beating.

After the press conference ended, it was already early in the morning. On the way back by car, Gu Zhenlong's laughter never stopped, and he also learned the tone of the chairman, "Niang is thin...... Mother is skinny" and scolded non-stop.

He thought of Wang Zhaoming's face as blue as the bottom of a pot when he stood at the door of the auditorium and looked at the densely packed number of diplomats and reporters from various countries seated.

Not to mention Gu Zhenlong, even Chen Chao felt too damn relieved.

Chen Zuyan didn't laugh, he has been pondering since he got into the car. Although he didn't make a sound, the expression on his face was rich and abnormal.

One moment gritting teeth, another frowning, and a moment later, nervous teeth baring again.

Gu Zhenlong, who was sitting with him, was only discovered when he was about to arrive at the gate of the Capital Police Department.

"Crazy?" Seeing Chen Zuyan like this, Gu Zhenlong was taken aback.

Chen Zuyan has always been erudite, elegant, and unsmiling, even Gu Zhenlong rarely sees him happy and angry.

"Nope!" Chen Zuyan's expression instantly returned to normal, "I'm thinking of a way!" ”

"Haha, I'll just say it......" Gu Zhenlong raised his head proudly, "When I praised this kid, you still said that I blew too much?" And now......"

While speaking, the car stopped in front of the building of the police department, and a guard came to open the door, and Gu Zhenlong took the initiative to stop talking.

Fang Buwei has indeed done a lot of great things, but only a few people know it. Even within the major secret agencies, people with insufficient levels have never even heard of Fang Buwei's name.

"Let's talk about it when we go up...... Kongru, call Yu Nong over too, let's have a good drink of two......"

The reason why they came to Chen Chao so late was Gu Zhenlong's idea. He proposed to celebrate well, and even Chen Zuyan, who has never liked to drink and feast, did not object.