As soon as I got up, someone shouted in my ear, 'Hi! Chang Kaishen', Major Li Kongrong suddenly felt that the world was a little distorted. In his impression yesterday, only the brown-shirted puppets and German soldiers shouted slogans like this, and he didn't want to stay with German army officers to follow the example of the Germans. He hesitated for two seconds before deciding to return the salute and say, "Come in." ”

"Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong, I came on the orders of Colonel Xu...... Yes, sir! Zhong Qiangong is introducing himself, although he is a second lieutenant with a low rank, he is not young. Looking at the beard on his mouth, Li Kongrong first handed him a cigarette, and then said, "...... Zhong, what should I call you?" ”

"Sir, just call me Depei." Zhong Qiangong hurriedly replied, and put down the cigarette in his hand.

"Brother Debe, don't be formal." Major Li Kongrong said, "Can you understand my Chinese?" Even if the major speaks Chinese, it is Fuzhou Mandarin, and he is worried that the other party will not understand.

"Understood, sir." Zhong Qiangong said. "The lower official is also a southerner, and the Chinese is not as good as the chief."

"Where is Deppi from?" Major Li Kongrong asked. "I used to be a ......, how long have you been in Germany?"

"Xia Guan was a native of Xianning, Hubei, and worked in the German Foreign Company in Hankou before joining the revolution. This is the year I came to Germany. "Zhong Qian Gong.

"It only arrived this year." The major was a little dignified, he wanted someone who knew German and was familiar with Germany, since this second lieutenant Zhong Qiangong had worked in a foreign firm in Germany earlier, his German was naturally not bad, but he only came to Germany this year, this is April, where can he be familiar? With such a question, the major continued: "What is Depei's main job in the military attaché's office?" ”

"The subordinate is mainly to translate some materials of the German army, as well as German factories and weapons." Zhong Qiangong said simply, not much.

"Is the submarine familiar?" The Major nodded slightly, then asked.

"Submarines?" Zhong Qiangong didn't expect to send himself here for the submarine, he sneered and said: "Xiaguan is not familiar with it, Xiaguan has only seen warships, but they are all foreigners." ”

After being silent for a while, Li Kongrong reluctantly changed the question, "Then are you familiar with the situation of the Japanese in Germany?" ”

"Report sir, familiarize yourself with it." Zhong Qiangong replied, and when he saw Li Kongrong motioning for him to continue, he said specifically: "The former Japanese ambassador to Germany is Takeshi Koji Gong, and the current ambassador is Togo Shigetoku. The Military Attache Division consists of military attachés stationed in Germany from the Japanese Army and Navy, Oshima for the Army, and Ojima for the Navy. The Japanese Army has always admired Germany, and Hiroshi Oshima, the military attache of the army, was extremely close to important members of the German National Socialist Party, and even heard that many foreign affairs were directly negotiated with Hiroshi Oshima by bypassing the ambassador; Naval attache Hideo Kojima did not have a close relationship with Germany, probably because the German navy was not strong......"

It took about half an hour for Zhong Qiangong to tell everything he knew about the situation of the Japanese in Germany, and when he finished speaking, Li Kongrong said: "Then what is our situation?" How many overseas Chinese students are there in Germany? ”

"Report sir, it is said that there are more than 3,000 overseas Chinese in Germany in China, and about 600 international students." Bell front Gongdao.

"Last night I heard from Colonel Xu that many sons of important party-state figures are studying in Germany," Li Kongrong said of a topic he was quite concerned about, "When we were having dinner at the Tianjin Hotel, we also met the second son of the chairman, and I want to know how many other sons of dignitaries are in Berlin?" ”

"Report to the chief, the lower officials only know the second son, as well as Mr. Dai's son-in-law Anguo, and Mr. Ju Meichuan's son-in-law Boqiang......" Zhong Qiangong seems to have not been in Germany for a long time, and he doesn't know much about these dignitaries.

Seeing that he couldn't say anything new, Major Li Kongrong gave up and said, "Let's not talk about this." Our official business has nothing to do with them, as long as we don't offend anyone. After he finished speaking, he opened a map of Germany and said: "As far as I know, the main construction plants of German submarines are in Kiel, Bremen, and Hamburg. We're going to these three places too. But I don't know where the training camp of the German Navy's submarine forces is, and all I know now is the naval anti-submarine school in Kiel......"

The major said the information in the diary, and then looked at Zhong Qiangong, who was looking at the map: "What do you know?" ”

"Xiaguan...... The Lower Officers did not know about the situation in the German Navy. "Zhong Qian Gongdao." The Military Attaché's Office is primarily responsible for Army affairs. ”

"Okay." The major had to nod, and he asked again: "Then where in Germany is there the most Chinese?" ”

"Report sir, Berlin has the largest number of Chinese." Zhong Qiangong replied with a nonsense.

"Except for Berlin?" Major Li Kongrong asked again - according to the plan, the work will start from the Chinese circle.

"Burger!" Zhong Qiangong replied. "There's also a consulate general in Hamburg, where there are the most Chinese diaspora, oh yes, there's a Chinatown in Hamburg."

"Chinatown?!" The Major smiled, he liked Chinatown, which would be a good place to ask for news. He asked, "Where are the overseas Chinese over there?" Cantonese or Hokkien? ”

"No, sir. Most of them are from Zhejiang. The second lieutenant said what he knew, "And almost all of them are Qingtian." ”

"All Qingtian people?" Li Kongrong never seemed to have heard of this place. He suddenly felt that it would be better for the embassy to inquire again, after all, the embassy in Germany was the most familiar with the situation.

"Then let's plan for that." The Major thought for a moment, then made up his mind, and said, "We'll go to Hamburg tomorrow and inquire about the situation before we go to Kiel, which is a good way anyway." In the afternoon, you go to the newspapers, magazines, and government gazette to collect information about the German shipyards, mainly to see which shipbuilders built the submarines, and I go to the embassy to inquire about the situation in Hamburg. ”

Zhong Qiangong didn't know what he was going to do before he came, but after he came, he realized that he was going to do intelligence gathering work, but the major only arranged for him to collect information from newspapers, magazines, and bulletins, and he said with some puzzlement: "Sir, many of the information in newspapers, magazines, and bulletins are false, and this is a propaganda trick of the National Socialist Party. ”

"Ninety-five percent of the information can be found on open sources." The Major said a sentence specially noted in his diary, "The other four percent can be deduced from these ninety-five percent, and the remaining one percent is top secret." If it is false news, then there must be contradictions in the fake news released by different departments, and contradictions are loopholes, and we can better understand the truth of the matter if there are loopholes. Do you understand? ”

"Understood. Sir! The major's words were categorical, and Zhong Qiangong suddenly had a sense of mission.

"Okay. Official business is roughly arranged like this, I opened a room for you next door, you have a good rest, eat together at noon, and act separately after eating. Major Li Kongrong commanded. He felt that he was not fully drunk, and he had to go and eat something first, then take a rest, and then go to the embassy in the afternoon to inquire about some news, and at least get a letter of introduction so that Hamburg could help.

The chief said that it was disbanded, and Zhong Qiangong, the pawn, of course said goodbye, and when he left, he said "Hi! When Chang Kaishen was in charge, Major Li Kongrong replied and asked, "Why do you want to salute like this?" ”

"Report sir, most of the German soldiers and SS salute like this." Zhong Qiangong said, "When they met us, they also performed this salute, but later the chief simply changed all of them, and asked us to perform the Nazi salute, and the slogan shouted was changed to 'Chang Kaishen'." ”

"Just call him by his first name?" Major Li Kongrong is still a little difficult to accept, 'Chang Kaishen' is not something that ordinary people can call, isn't this the same generation as the chairman of the committee.

"Yes, sir." Zhong Qiangong has obviously changed from being uncomfortable to adapting, he said: "The German soldiers thought that calling 'Hitler' was a sign of affection for the leader. Yu Shangguan thinks that it is enough not to call 'Zhongzheng', and it is not disrespectful to shout 'Chang Kaishen'. ”

"Okay, I got it." Li Kongrong finally nodded and closed the door. After walking a few steps in the room, he inexplicably raised his hand forward and gave a Nazi salute, but after doing so, he felt that it didn't look very similar to those brown puppets, and he finally scolded 'crazy' and gave up.

After eating, sleeping, going to the embassy to inquire about Hamburg and Kiel, and then meeting in the evening to discuss the next day's itinerary and matters, the two went back to their rooms to sleep. Before dawn the next day, the two went out - the room was not returned directly, only the embassy was arranged to help return it. After several laps around the city of Berlin and the joy of the taxi driver, the two arrived at the train station, and after several more chaotic circles around the train station, the two finally stepped on the train bound for Hamburg.

Major Li Kongrong's face was full of seriousness, and Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong, who was panting with his bags on his back, was at a loss. Although he knew that this was to prevent being followed by the Japanese, was this Shangguan too afraid of the Japanese? Why bother going around in circles in the heart of Berlin, which has four train stations, but as soon as the two of you show your face in Hamburg's Chinatown, maybe the Japanese will know.

The tired dog-like Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong sat on the train for hours with resentment, and when he was about to get to Hamburg, he was shocked again by an order from the commander - he actually had to go to the toilet to change his clothes. Now he finally understood what the pile of dead things was, it turned out to be the Chinese clothes that Shangguan had asked for from the embassy, and these were probably left by overseas Chinese in the past.

In Germany, soldiers are respected, the two of them didn't talk all the way, the Germans next to them thought they were Japanese, and they were courteous all the way, and now they actually want to change into civilian clothes, Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong is a little unwilling, but he is just unwilling, the officials have already gone to change, how can he, a subordinate, not change. However, while changing clothes can help you hide your whereabouts, it can be a hassle.

"Dogs. Excrement! "Outside the Hamburg train station, the taxi driver saw two Chinese waving for the first time, and they immediately honked their horns and cursed." Bastard, fuck! Get out of the way! ”

Major Lee Kong Rong, who has been 'cordially greeted' by several taxi drivers, is full of black lines, and he vows to teach his other self a good lesson in his diary at night, this. What a bad idea! When the major was slandering, Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong, who had been lectured by the Germans several times, suddenly took out a bill with a face value of 100 marks and held it in his hand, and then the taxi finally stopped.

"St. Pauli's Jewellery Street." Zhong Qiangong was still holding the large banknote in his hand, and the German driver's eyes swept him and Li Kongrong, and finally fell on the 100 mark banknote, he finally nodded and bowed to the back row.

"Or you have a way." Major Li Kongrong, who was sweating profusely, had to praise his subordinates.

"The status of the Chinese in Germany is low." Bell front Gongdao. "It's okay if the Germans in Western clothes think it's Japanese, but if it's ......"

"Well, we're going to ...... next," the major smiled wryly, anyway, he was the one who made things so complicated.

"Sir, according to the plan, we are going to Zhonghua Building to find Mr. Hu Lijian." Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong replied, and after saying that, he was a little uneasy, since the morning until now he was indescribably grateful to his chief, and he was worried that he would come up with some bad idea to embarrass the two of them.

"Then let's go to the China Building." Major Li Kongrong, who had been tossing for a day, didn't want to toss anymore. According to yesterday's inquiry, this Hu Lijian is the owner of the Zhonghua House restaurant - originally he had a letter of introduction from the embassy, and he could go directly to Zhang Gengnian, the consul of the Hamburg Consulate General, but the other himself heard that this Zhang Gengnian was from Fenghua, so he changed his plan in his diary and asked him to find Hu Lijian, who was actually a businessman, but his background was a member of the Kuomintang and a member of the executive committee of the Kuomintang Hamburg Party Department.

The Zhonghua Building where Li Kongrong is going is on the jewelry street, a four-story house covered with red Chinese lanterns. As soon as he got out of the car, Li Kongrong heard the shouts of drinking and punching inside, although it was not Chinese or Hokkien, he still felt very cordial. Of course, there are those who are kind and those who are unhappy, and when the evening breeze blows, he actually smells opium.

"Let's go up." Major Li Kongrong snorted a few times in his nose, and then said to his subordinates. I don't want the two of them to be stopped in front of the door. The two guys in Western clothes in front of the Zhonghua Building had been looking at the two of them for a long time, and now when they saw them entering, one of them immediately stepped forward to stop: "Stop!" ……”

Li Kongrong was wearing an old Chinese-style blue cloth shirt with a row of cloth buttons diagonally and two patches on his shoulders; Zhong Qiangong's work is even worse, not to mention clothes, he still wears straw sandals - I really don't know what era and which overseas Chinese lost it in the embassy. Just dressed up like this to enter the Zhonghua Building, no wonder the guy would stop him.

"I'm looking for Mr. Hu Lijian. I'm coming from Berlin......" Major Li Kongrong was not annoyed, and smiled.

"Get out! Get out! The other party looked stunned, he didn't care where these two country leopards came from.

In desperation, Li Kongrong had to take out his military ID, and he faced the two of them with the blue sky and white sun printed on it: "Brother was sent by Colonel Xu of the Berlin Military Attaché, if the two insist on stopping them, it will be difficult to explain the matter if they delay it." ”

Sure enough, it was a good Dafa of the blue sky and the white sun, and when he saw this mark, another guy immediately spoke, and he smiled and said, "Two of you, please wait here for a while, and I will report to the master immediately." ”

It's dusk, and Hu Lijian, the owner of Zhonghua Building, is playing mahjong hard, he is in a bad position today, and his luck is also back, and he has lost a lot. Originally, he would not have dealt with his subordinates, but when he heard that the other party said that he was sent by Colonel Xu of the Berlin Military Attaché, he didn't dare to slack off.