Not long after the Dongbao Song and Dance Troupe left Shanghai, the person in charge of the Mei organ of the Japanese intelligence system in Shanghai quietly changed generals, and Ying Zuo was transferred back to the mainland, and half a year later he was transferred to Manchuria as the commander of the Seventh Artillery Corps, and his military rank was also promoted to lieutenant general.

He was replaced by Lieutenant General Matsui Taikuro, a native of Fukuoka, Japan, who came to China after graduating from the Japanese Army University at the age of 23, and has been in China for 30 years. In the past 30 years, he has been promoted from Zhongzuo to lieutenant general, from squad leader to head of the Beiping secret service, and the top military adviser to the puppet Mongolian Xinjiang Autonomous Government, the puppet Manchukuo government, and Wang Jingwei government.

Facts have proved that Fang Hongji's guess is not wrong, after Matsui is familiar with the work of the whole Shanghai, the first thing he does is to get rid of Kagezo, the former henchman.

Because he was very familiar with Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun, he directly found Wang Jingwei and said to him: "Mr. Wang, Mrs. Wang, I am here to sue today." ”

"Whose case is it sued? Chief! Wang Jingwei was stunned, took a cup of tea from Chen Bijun's hand, and turned around and sent it to Matsui.

"Your Excellency Chairman Wang is a very important person." Matsui blows the tea leaves floating on the water and takes a sip of tea.

"Who the hell are you suing? My old friend! Wang Jingwei asked with a smile.

"Li Shiqun." Matsui said word by word, "As early as August last year, the Nanjing Nationalist Government and the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army in China issued instructions to prohibit the export of grain and cotton, but you, a high-ranking official, dared to violate this ban!"

Yesterday afternoon, the Japanese troops stationed in Zhenhai, Zhejiang, seized 28 million catties of grain and 500,000 catties of cotton that Li Shiqun had shipped to Ningbo for resale. It is no wonder that the imperial army's plan to requisition grain in Qingxiang District, Jiangsu, was only 21 percent complete, and cotton was only 18 percent complete! You, Senior Officer Li, are too lawless and empty-eyed! At this, his face became extremely ugly.

"This is indeed lawlessness, and it is indeed empty-sightedness, and it is a repeat offense! Yesterday, someone revealed to me that Li Shiqun had transported 8 million catties of grain to Jiangxi last year for resale! Wang Jingwei was very annoyed, "We must deal with this matter seriously!" ”

"What do you intend to do, Your Excellency?" Matsui asked.

"Remove him from his position as a high-ranking official!" Wang Jingwei said it rightly.

"It's so applieving!" Matsui shook his head again and again, "Sabotaging the imperial army's requisition of military rations and military cotton, and the number is so large, just now Chairman Wang also said that he is a repeat offender, and it is too lenient to only remove him from his position as a senior official!" ”

"And what about your opinion?" Wang Jingwei asked.

"It should be punished with death!" Matsui said, "This is also the opinion of the commander-in-chief of Hata. ”

"Is it a public sentence or a secret execution?" Chen Bijun asked on the side.

Matsui replied, "Let Chairman Wang decide!" ”

Wang Jingwei pondered for a while and said, "I agree with the commander-in-chief's opinion!" I'm afraid this is also Li Shiqun's day. However, from a strategic point of view, it is better to execute him secretly. ”

The reason why Wang Jingwei said this is because he also found that the current Li Shiqun has a tendency to become a big one, and the official positions on his bright face include such important posts as director of the secret service headquarters, minister of the Central Committee, secretary general of the Qingxiang Committee, chairman and commander of the security department of Jiangsu Province, and member of the Central Executive Committee.

And in private, he relied on his own credit for preparing for the establishment of the secret service headquarters and welcoming Wang Jingwei back to Shanghai from Hanoi and the protection of Ying Zuo, and acted extremely arrogantly, which had already aroused the dissatisfaction of Zhou Fohai, Chen Gongbo, Lin Baisheng, Ding Mocun and others, so Wang Jingwei had long wanted to clean him up, but he couldn't be ruthless for a while, and now since the Japanese want to kill him, then simply push the boat down.

After getting Wang Jingwei's permission, Matsui quickly invited the two to dinner at home on the grounds of reconciling the contradictions between Li Shiqun and Xiong Jiandong.

Li Shiqun didn't feel anything wrong after eating, but on the third day, when Li Shiqun was reading a book in the bedroom, suddenly, he was sweating profusely as if he was sitting in a steamer, and he felt hot all over. He raised his hand and looked at his watch, and it was 8:50 a.m. on the 7th. He calculated, he ate the half of the beef patty at 8:50 the night before, and it was exactly thirty-six hours now, and his heart suddenly went up! He never imagined that he and Ikeda Lin poisoned Wu Sibao with septicemia toadstools, and he was about to be poisoned to death by Xiong Jiandong and Matsui with the same toadstools!

"Oops, I'm poisoned, Ji Qing!" Li Shiqun shouted in despair, "I'm like Wu Sibao, there is no cure, Ji Qing!" ”

"You ate at Matsui's house the night before yesterday?" Ye Jiqing's face turned pale with fright, and she looked at her husband in a panic, holding her breath and waiting for his answer.

"Yes, half a beef patty." Li Shiqun turned over and sat on the bed, beating his chest with both hands, full of regret.

Ye Jiqing dragged her husband's two hands, sat on the bed, and held him in her arms. "The day before yesterday, you were wary of the fruit and snacks Matsui sent and suspected that he had injected poison into them! Why did you lose your vigilance and eat his beef patty? "And why didn't you come back and tell me?" ”

"I thought that even if Matsui had bad intentions, he would put ordinary poison in the beef patty. Since I came back, I have been fine, thinking that it is okay. Li Shiqun was grief-stricken, "Ikeda Lin told me that in the Japanese military police in China, he was the sole owner of the toadstool, and his only toadstool was used on Wu Sibao!" I never thought that Matsui, which was raised by the dog mother-in-law, also had this kind of toadstool! ”

"Tell the Central Committee and Chairman Wang about Matsui!" Ye Jiqing wiped her husband's tears and wiped her own tears.

"In vain, all in vain!" Li Shiqun's mind is still very clear, "There is no evidence and physical signs, who will be reasoned by you!" Xiong Jiandong and Matsui also ate beef patties, they are all fine, who will testify to you! ”

Ye Jiqing sighed. Her heart turned into a stone, into a piece of ice. "I'll ask someone to send you to Guangji Hospital immediately for rescue." As she spoke, she changed her husband's sweat-soaked clothes.

"None of the doctors here are reliable." Li Shiqun felt the horror of isolation for the first time, "You want Xia Zhongming to call Dr. Chu Linsun to invite him, and then ask Liu Nina to invite Fang Hongjian to study the treatment plan together." ”

PS: Chu Linsun was the president of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital at the time, and the provincial hospital was located in Shanghai at that time.