During the time that Zheng Pingru was arrested, Feng Chen had been secretly busy stealing the documents of the "Riwang Secret Talk" and purchasing medicines.

The first task assigned by An Zhida was to obtain the contents of the documents of Wang Jingwei's talks with the Japanese, which was much easier for Feng Chen.

Because the signing of all the documents of the talks between the Japanese side and the Wang Jingwei Group was led by the Xingya Academy, Feng Chen was a member of the Shanghai Xingya Academy, so he had the opportunity to get in touch with the content of the talks.

Winning Japan's support was the most important prerequisite for Wang Ching-wei to establish political power.

As far as Wang Jingwei and others were concerned, they could not do anything without Japan's permission, so they actively begged for mercy from Japan in exchange for the possibility of organizing a puppet regime.

In May, Wang Jingwei led Zhou Fohai and other traitors to Japan to negotiate the conditions for the establishment of a puppet regime.

Although Japan's various organs with direct interests in China, such as the Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Rejuvenation Yuan, are unanimous on the issue of helping Wang Ching-wei establish a unified traitorous government, there are great differences on some details, such as how to ensure the leading power of this organ in future decision-making on China and how to use this opportunity to force Wang Ching-wei to sell more of China's rights and interests.

In order to unify their views, the Japanese Government, in the presence of Wang Jingwei and others, convened a "five-phase meeting" presided over by Prime Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma, and agreed to adopt the "Guidelines for the Establishment of a New Central Government" as the basis for negotiations with Wang Jingwei.

The guidelines stipulate that the future "central government" must be composed of Wang Jingwei, Wu Peifu, other renegade elements of the Chongqing regime, and the existing two traitor regimes, the Provisional and the Restoration.

This regime must first fully accept the "Principles for Adjusting Japan-China New Relations" put forward by Japan, and at the same time put forward many "special demands" from Japan in China.

During the negotiations, Wang Jingwei was also quite disappointed in the face of Japan's harsh demands, and was unwilling to be a puppet with no real power, and he demanded that Japan abide by its promise of "respecting China's territorial sovereignty and integrity" and help him form a unified, powerful, and "independent" "central government" to a certain extent, and made a limited struggle.

However, under Japan's combination of soft and hard measures, Wang Jingwei finally had to give up his idea, "did not reach a substantive agreement", and almost returned empty-handed.

Before the establishment of the puppet regime, the Japanese took advantage of the traitors' eagerness to appear on the scene and carried out blackmail again.

Under the pretext that Wang and Japan wanted to "conclude a treaty and lay the foundation," the Xingya Yuan formulated the "Outline for the Adjustment of New Japan-China Relations" and other documents as harsh conditions that Wang Ching-wei had to accept.

The contents of the "Outline for the Adjustment of New Japan-China Relations" include that Japan has control over everything in China, and even Takeo Imai and other Japanese personnel feel that the conditions are too strict and violate the secret agreement between Japan and China.

This outline, which goes beyond the spirit of the Third Konoe Declaration, is nothing more than a naked exposure of the requirements conceived by Japanese imperialism.

In November, when negotiations between Japan and Wang were held again on the basis of the terms of the Shohingya Yuan, Wang Ching-wei and others were shocked by the insatiable greed of the Japanese side, and he reminded Japan that the conditions proposed "seem to be quite different from the purpose of the Konoe Statement." Some people were bitterly disappointed by this and had left the "peace camp."

In the course of the negotiations, Wang Jingwei hoped to get more "independence and autonomy" in order to decorate the façade, but the Japanese side forced Wang Jingwei to accept it in its entirety, and a fierce argument broke out for a time, causing the talks to be interrupted.

The negotiations lasted for nearly two months, and the Japanese side only made slight concessions on the details, and Wang Jingwei was forced to sign a secret agreement called a "deed of sale" under the coercion of both soft and hard forces by Japan.

Wang Jingwei accepted Japan's harsh conditions in exchange for Japan's support for organizing a traitorous regime.

Japan obtained various political, economic, and military privileges in China in accordance with the secret treaty, and because the treaty was too harsh and exposed Japan's ambition to destroy China, the two sides agreed to "never make public the contents" of the treaty.

Wang Jingwei and others originally looked down on the traitor organizations such as the Provisional Government and the Restoration Government established under the Japanese bayonet, believing that their reputation was too bad and they were unwilling to cooperate with them.

Japan, however, insisted that the new "central government" include all the old and new traitor regimes, and forced Wang Ching-wei to immediately begin negotiations with them about merging.

Wang Ching-wei first tried to contact Wu Peifu, who Japan was courting, but the two men had different views on the connotation of "Sino-Japanese peace," and their positions were not without differences, and they also had their own plans for the distribution of power in the new regime in the future.

At the same time, Wu Peifu also had a lot of contempt for Wang Jingwei's personality and behaved coldly, and he even teased Wang Jingwei, writing in a letter sent by Wang Jingwei inviting him to join the puppet regime:

"When I left Chongqing, I lost my support. If the tiger goes out of the mountain and enters the sheng, there is no value of conspiracy! If you can go back to Chongqing. Electricity is also available. ”

Although Wu Peifu was a frustrated warlord, he finally did not fall into the water and became a traitor.

After that, under the arrangement of the Japanese army, Wang Jingwei began to negotiate with Wang Kemin, chairman of the Administrative Committee of the "Provisional Government" in North China, and Liang Hongzhi, President of the Executive Yuan of the "Restoration Government" in Central China, on the establishment of a "central government."

Wang Kemin and others believed that they had taken refuge in Japan first, and they refused to give in easily, and they competed with Wang Jingwei for "independent status" and a position in the future regime.

After several rounds of bargaining, the "Provisional Government" was finally changed to the "North China Autonomy Committee," which was extremely independent, and the appointment of important officials to the "Restoration Government" was brought to an end.

The old and new traitors have finally merged.

Feng Chen had long been clear about these inside stories, and now what he wanted to obtain was the official document of the "Wang Ri Secret Talk" that was inconvenient to make public, and there was a copy of this document in Hiraoka Ryuichi's safe.

What Feng Chen needs is an opportunity!

Feng Chen sat alone in the office of the magazine "Current Affairs Weekly", thinking about countermeasures, when Fang Xiaoman knocked on the door and walked in.

Since Wang Tianmu was imprisoned by Li Shiqun, Feng Chen recalled Fang Xiaoman and others to Shanghai, and he wanted to use the Shanghai Intelligence Group of the Military Command to secretly complete the task assigned to him by An Zhida.

"Team leader, according to the internal report of Agent 76 Headquarters, Ding Mo Estate intends to secretly execute Zheng Pingru on Chinese New Year's Eve." Fang Xiaoman sat down on the sofa and said.

"What? Didn't Qingqi Qingyin come forward to intercede? Ding Mo Estate dare not buy it?! Feng Chen was a little surprised.

"The main thing is that Ding Mocun's wife instigated a group of wives to make noise all day long, and Zheng Pingru must be executed, which is also mixed with the jealousy of the women." Fang Xiaoman analyzed.

"Have you contacted Chen Baohua?" Feng Chen asked.

"Not yet, I feel like Chen Baohua is planning a big move recently." Fang Xiaoman replied.

"Assassinate Zhang Ruijing?" Feng Chen asked.

"Not really." Fang Xiaoman shook his head.

"In this way, you inform Chen Mo's action team to find out the law of Zhang Ruijing's activities within three days, and we will come forward to clean up the portal for them." Feng Chen made a decision and gave Fang Xiaoman an order.

Feng Chen planned to assassinate Zhang Ruijing and Wang Jingwei at the same time, so as to cause chaos to the Japanese and the No. 76 gang, and take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

"Okay, I'll go and set it up now."

Fang Xiaoman got up and left Feng Chen's office, and then, Wang Tiemin walked in.

"President, the boss of the pharmaceutical company Fang Jin Kangfang that you asked me to make an appointment agreed to meet at the restaurant of the Chinachem Hotel in the evening." Wang Tiemin reported.

"Okay, you book a box at the Chinachem Hotel in advance, and I'll go over when I'm done."

Feng Chen took out the pocket watch on his body and looked at it, it was still early, he planned to go to the Pinggang Mansion on North Sichuan Road to meet Pinggang Ryuichi first, and pick up Fang Jinkang, the owner of the pharmaceutical factory, for dinner in the evening, it was best to let Pinggang Ryuichi also participate.

The procurement of medicines was made up by Ryuichi Hiraoka, and if there was any problem in the future, Feng Chen would wash himself up from the Japanese.

After going downstairs, Feng Chen got into his car and drove towards the Pinggang Mansion on North Sichuan Road.