Feng Chen returned to No. 23 Happiness Lane, An Zhida was digging a tunnel below, and Zhao Shouyi was waiting outside.

"Teacher Zhao, call Comrade Zhida quickly, I have something to report."

"Okay."

Zhao Shouyi agreed, and pulled a rope at the entrance of the tunnel, which was a signal for the people above to notify the people below to come up.

After a while, An Zhida crawled out of the tunnel, although it was winter, An Zhida was still sweating profusely, and his body was covered with yellow soil.

"Comrade Zhida, don't dig the tunnel, let's dig slowly." Feng Chen looked at An Zhida, who was panting, and said with concern.

"Hehe, it's okay, the activity is beneficial, Comrade Feng Chen, I carefully checked the surrounding environment today, we can rent the silk shop on Hankou Road, and let this tunnel exit lead directly there." An Zhida suggested.

"I also had this plan for a long time, and before you arrived in Shanghai, I had already talked to the owner of the silk shop twice, but his asking price was very high, so I put it aside for the time being and did not rent it." Feng Chen replied.

In fact, the silk shop on Hankou Road turned out to be a secret contact point for Hua Yinghao, and later, after Wang Yaqiao left Shanghai, Hua Yinghao transferred the silk shop to someone else.

"If the price is high, the price will be high, or rent it as soon as possible, I am thinking, after renting, Mr. Zhao's bookstore can also be moved over, our silk shop will be opened, and then another bookstore will be opened next to the silk shop, and we will take care of each other."

An Zhida is particularly satisfied with the stronghold of No. 23 Happiness Lane, and all his arrangements are to prepare for the cruel struggle in the future.

"Comrade Zhida, the person from Chongqing is really Gao Zongwu, but you will never think of another person." Feng Chen began to get to the point.

"Who?"

"Mesping."

"Oh? Wang Jingwei's main member of the low-key club, in what capacity did he come? ”

"Wang Jingwei's secret envoy."

"What did you talk about at the wine table today?"

"It's all polite words, nothing substantial, but tomorrow there will be a formal meeting at the Chongguang Hall in Tsuchihara, and Tsuchihara asked me to act as an interpreter for him."

"Very good, the matter is important, Comrade Feng Chen, we must immediately send this information to Yan'an, you should immediately go to the underground telecommunications room of the Military Command on Aidoya Road, and send the same information to the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau."

"Good!"

Feng Chen agreed and walked out.

……

At seven o'clock the next morning, Feng Chen came to the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai.

Ryuichi Hiraoka had just had breakfast and was taking a walk in the courtyard of the consulate.

"Feng Sang, it's a pity that the osmanthus has already bloomed, if it weren't for that, we could break a branch of osmanthus today and give it to Gao Zongwu and Mei Siping."

Hiraoka Ryuichi stroked the thick osmanthus tree and looked at it, this osmanthus tree, during the Qiqi riot, was blown through the bark by two grenades, but it survived tenaciously.

"Hehe, teacher, even if there is a branch of osmanthus given to those two, they may not understand the meaning of the allusion, and even if they understand the meaning of the allusion, they will not understand the meaning of the teacher." Feng Chen smiled slightly, and said something like a tongue twister.

"Haha, Feng Sang, the teacher just likes you, I know what the teacher is thinking, let's go, let's go to Chongguang Hall." Hiraoka Ryuyi smiled and pointed at Feng Chen.

Hiraoka Ryuyi and his entourage arrived at Chongguang Hall, and after getting out of the car, Feng Chen looked around and found that it was heavily guarded.

Since the last time, when Tu Fei Yuan almost died under Chen Baohua's sniper rifle, Tu Fei Yuan asked the Japanese military police to be on duty 24 hours a day at the commanding heights around Chongguang Hall, and additional sentry posts were set up around the courtyard.

Sato Shaosa led everyone to a small conference room on the second floor and poured a cup of tea for each of them.

Sato Shaosa's name is Yasuo Sato, because he was meritorious in protecting Tohihara Kenji during the 77 Riot, he was actually promoted by Tohihara to three levels in a row, and was directly promoted from second lieutenant to Shaozo, specializing in protecting Tufeiyuan.

Ryuichi Hiraoka had just sat down at the round table when Kenji Dohihara walked in with a smile.

"Hiraoka-kun, how about you preside over today's negotiations?" Kenji Dohihara said.

"Hehe, Your Excellency General, I'll listen to it, the matter of the negotiation will be presided over by Kagesa Showa and Takeo Imai, I only wish that this negotiation will be successful as soon as possible."

Hiraoka Ryuichi knew that Tsuchihara was polite, so he invited him to host, if he really let himself preside, why didn't he hand over his hole cards earlier?

At nearly nine o'clock, Gao Zongwu and Mei Siping arrived, and after a few brief greetings, they sat down at the round table in the conference room on the second floor and officially started the talks.

"Your Excellency General Tu Feiyuan, first of all, I would like to greet you on behalf of Mr. Wang Zhaoming and Mr. Zhou Fohai, Mr. Wang and Mr. Zhou, and I would like to express my deep gratitude to Your Excellency General for your dedication to promoting peace between China and Japan." Gao Zongwu first came to an opening remark.

"Thank you, Mr. Wang! At the same time, Mr. Gao and Mr. Mei are very welcome to come to Shanghai without tirelessly wading through mountains and rivers to do their best to promote peaceful coexistence between China and Japan. Tu Feiyuan also replied to Gao Zongwu in diplomatic terms.

Test!

This is a mutual probing before the two sides negotiate.

"Mr. Mei, since you are a secret envoy sent by Mr. Wang Zhaoming, we would like to know what aspects of Mr. Wang Zhaoming's peace movement are in?" After the opening remarks, Takeo Imai asked bluntly.

"Mr. Imai, our peace campaign plan can be implemented in five phases:

First, Mr. Wang Zhaoming left Chongqing and announced his resignation from the Nationalist Government in other places. Then you, the Japanese government, immediately issued a statement proposing no territory, no reparations, conditions for the withdrawal of troops within two years, and proposed peace talks with China.

Second, in his personal capacity, Mr. Wang Zhaoming issued a "peace initiative" in response to your Japanese government, suggesting that the Nationalist Government accept Japan's conditions and a peaceful armistice.

Third, the local powerful factions in Yunnan and other places responded to Mr. Wang Zhaoming's "call for peace" by telegram and established a new independent government in Yunnan and other areas not occupied by the Japanese army to compete with the Chiang Kai-shek government in Chongqing.

Fourth, the Japanese government recognized the new government and entered into "peace talks" with the new government, and the Japanese army withdrew back to the north of the Great Wall, transferring the Japanese-occupied areas to the new government.

Fifth, after the new government reunifies the whole country, it will realize real "peace" between China and Japan. ”

Mei Siping took out a document from the document bag in front of him and read out the five points that he had discussed and discussed in advance with Wang Jingwei, Chen Gongbo, Zhou Fohai, and others in Chongqing.

"Haha, Mr. Gao and Mr. Mei, your five opinions are too harsh, and the Sino-Japanese peace movement must be based on the "Fundamental Principles for Handling the China Incident" adopted by our Imperial Council at the beginning of the year, and only in this way can we continue to talk, and there is no need to talk about it."

Ying Zuozhen smiled unscrupulously, looked back and forth on the faces of Gao Zongwu and Mei Siping, and said toughly.

"Mr. Kagesa, our five-stage plan does not contradict the 'Fundamental Guidelines for Handling the China Incident' adopted by your Imperial Council, and we have carefully studied this policy of your country, and we very much agree with it."

Gao Zongwu took the words of Kage Satsuaki and retorted.

"Mr. Gao, the new government that we want to support in Greater Japan must be able to maintain friendship with Greater Japan for generations to come, and it must be able to serve our Greater Japan!" Kagesa Akira nakedly put forward the conditions of the Japanese.

"Mr. Kagesa, you obviously want to support a puppet government of your Japanese government!" Gao Zongwu said.

"Haha, Mr. Gao's understanding is good! I admire! Kagesa laughed and gave a thumbs up.

"Then there's no need for us to talk about it!" Gao Zongwu's face turned blue with anger, and he stood up, preparing to leave.

The first round of negotiations ended in a hurry, and this negotiation once again proved that without strength and strong backing, negotiations are!

There is no diplomacy for a weak country!

In the first round of negotiations, none of the two high-ranking Japanese officials, Kenji Dohihara and Ryuichi Hiraoka, spoke, and only Takeo Imai and Yoshiaki Kagesa were talking with Taka Sotakeshi and Mei Siping.

On the same day, after Feng Chen reported the negotiation situation to An Zhida, he sent it to Yan'an and Chongqing at the same time.