Disway Road (today's Liyang Road, Shanghai) has always been the core area of the Japanese military and police intelligence agencies in Hongkou, and on the short one-kilometer fork at the intersection of Sichuan Road, there are densely packed with the intelligence team of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the intelligence department of the Army General Staff Headquarters in Shanghai, the headquarters of the 13th Army of the Army, and the intelligence liaison office.

Across the street from Eirakukan is an izakaya called Mukdenya, owned by a Japanese veteran in his forties named Kenta Nogawa.

Nogawa once served in the Kwantung Army, the rank is the special agent Cao Chang (warrant officer), commanding a heavy machine gun detachment, in a "bandit" operation, he was broken by the bullet of the Anti-United Nations thigh bone, because the medical conditions in the battlefield are limited, and when he was sent to the Shenyang Army Hospital, the wound had been infected, and the Japanese military doctor was stunned to cut off more than four taels of rotten meat, which finally saved his leg.

It's just that Nogawa can no longer go to the battlefield to rush and kill, according to the practice of the Japanese army, after his injuries are stabilized, Nogawa Kenta Cao Chang will be honorably retired from the imperial army, and at the same time can get half a year's salary and a disability allowance.

Nogawa was unwilling to drag a stump leg like this and return to the poor and backward mountain village in his hometown, and he had no relatives at home in Japan at this time. Nogawa joined the Imperial Army after graduating from junior high school at the age of sixteen, and at this time he was already thirty-seven years old, and he knew almost nothing but to lead soldiers to fight, and a disabled person like him with no work skills could be said to be quite difficult to survive in Japanese society at that time.

He had received letters of help from veterans more than once, and many former imperial soldiers were now able to earn a living by helping people around with odd jobs due to the economic downturn in Japan.

Just when Nogawa was helpless about the future, he met a fellow villager who was working in the Fengtian branch of the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army.

In the summer of 1935, Nokawa arrived alone in Shanghai with a simple luggage and a check for yen, and he opened a Japanese-style restaurant on Sichuan Road in Hongkou, selling sake and Japanese food.

The chefs are hired from the Japanese expatriates in Shanghai, and the sake is an authentic Japanese product, and the business of the restaurant is very good because of the cheap and good quality and the friendly owner.

The owner of Nogawa treats any customer equally, and even if it is a Chinese guest, he always greets him with a smile, so the hotel quickly gained a lot of popularity in Hongkou, where Chinese literati gathered. It's just that what others don't know is that the owner of this hotel is actually a Japanese military spy, and this hotel on East Sichuan Road is simply a hidden intelligence station.

Before the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, Nokawa's hotel had been a secret point of contact between the Japanese Mei Agency and the internal agents of the national government. It was not until 37 years that the military commander inadvertently uncovered the identity of a Japanese spy who worked for the Japanese Army, Kenta Nogawa, and finally exposed. However, before the military commander could make a move, in the second month, the tragic Battle of Songhu broke out, and then the mountains and rivers were broken and Jinling was bloody, and the military commander did not have the energy to come to Yechuan again.

Nogawa was also tired of spy work at that time, so he simply retired from the army, and then closed the hotel on Sichuan Road, ran to Disway Road to open this Fengtian House, and became a hotel owner wholeheartedly.

As mentioned earlier, at that time, there were a bunch of various intelligence agencies on Disway Road, and any tile could be smashed into a Japanese agent spy, and there was no identity background to open a store here, so it was obviously impossible to pass the customs safely. Nogawa happened to be a "man of his own" with a "reliable background", and the store was opened opposite the comfort station, so it attracted a large number of military and police agents to patronize, and business can be said to be unusually prosperous.

As a result, Nogawa made a fortune and amassed a number of connections and connections, which are sometimes more important than money in today's Shanghai.

"Nogawa, go get some more bottles of wine." Major General Maeda shouted as he shook the white porcelain bottle in his hand.

"Huh! Please wait, it will be delivered immediately. Nogawa nodded respectfully in agreement, placed the plate containing the yakitori in front of Maeda, and after bowing to the guests, he picked up the tray and limped out of the room.

"Nogawa is a reliable man, and you should know him well." Maeda picked up the flask in front of him and filled Li Shiqun's cup with sake.

"Thank you very much, General." Li Shiqun looked flattered and held the small sake cup with both hands.

"Don't be so polite, Li Sang, you must have fun today. By the way, and you Ding Sang, you have worked hard about this matter. Maeda turned his face and poured sake into the cup of Ding Mo Estate.

"You have won the award, Your Excellency, for the sake of the common cause of our two countries, I have done everything as it should be." Ding Mocun bowed slightly to Xiang Tian in a restrained manner.

"Well said, Dingsan. You are one of the best Chinese I have ever met. You can rest assured that the Great Japanese Empire will not treat its true friends badly. Maeda put down the flask, then picked up the glass in front of him.

"Both, let's first wish His Majesty the Emperor and His Royal Highness the Empress good health, cheers." Maeda threw his head back and drank it all.

"Cheers!" The two traitors hurriedly raised their glasses and drank them.

"Hello, come again." Maeda just wanted to pick up the flask on the side, but Ding Mo Chuen quickly took it first.

"General, I should fill this cup for you." Ding Mo Chun held the flask steadily and poured sake for Maeda.

"Nani? Ding Sang, why do you say that? Maeda reached out and picked up a string of chicken from his plate.

"What happened on the Bund this time, fortunately, you are in the military headquarters to help us cover it up, otherwise we would not have been able to evade the investigation of the gendarmerie headquarters this time." Ding Mo Chuen's attitude is respectful and sincere.

"Oh, it's nothing, if it weren't for the big trouble that Commander Sawada caused this time, I wouldn't have been able to secretly suppress the matter." Maeda tore a bite of the chicken and chewed it, and Ding Mochun hurriedly nodded yes with a smile, so that he didn't notice the chill that flashed in Maeda's eyes.

"Your Excellency, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your promotion to the post of commander of the 13th Army. Li Shiqun smiled and picked up his wine glass and snatched the topic away from Ding Mo Estate.

"Well, I'm just acting commander now, temporarily acting commander, according to the rules of our Japanese Army, the military department will appoint another army commander in a few weeks." Maeda picked up his glass, raised his head and drank it all.

"Your Excellency, you called us here this time, not just to invite us to a meal, if there is anything you need us to do, you can tell us directly." Seeing Li Shiqun's fart slapped on the horse's feet, Ding Mocun's heart was secretly refreshed, but the atmosphere at the scene became a little awkward, and he quickly diverted the topic and raised his own questions by the way.

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