Chapter 11: Joy and sorrow
Without any suspense, Chen Zikun's car was released, and he wrote down Lin Huaibu's name, this young man has a sharp spirit and is a talent that can be created.
Back at the residence, Xiaoqing had been full of worries, Chen Zikun saw that she seemed to have something to say, so he said: "If you have something to say, there is anything difficult to talk about between you and me." β
Xia Xiaoqing said: "Do you know what the ancestors of the Yan family in Cangzhou did. β
This is a question, Chen Zikun naturally didn't know the origin of the Yan family, he just quietly listened to Xia Xiaoqing continue to say.
"I heard my mother tell the story of the Yan family, during the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, an ancestor of the Yan family, as a commander in Jinyiwei, was responsible for those secret agents placed in the minister's house, these people all have unique skills, responsible for monitoring all the whereabouts of the master, what the master ate the night before, and what pillow words the concubine said at night, can be sent to the palace Bingbi eunuch the next day."
"And then?" Chan was thoughtful.
"Later, Wei Zhongxian ambushed him, and many officials from the Fusi Department of Jinyi Wei Town went to prison to ask about it, and my ancestors avoided disaster and went to the countryside and stayed incognito until now."
Chen Zikun nodded: "No wonder the martial arts of the Yan family in Cangzhou are different from those of other families, and they are good at light skills and secret weapons, so there is this allusion." β
Xia Xiaoqing said: "In fact, the Yan family's unique skills are not only light skills, but also disguise techniques and bone shrinking techniques, but they are passed on to men and women, my mother didn't learn it, I say this today, not to introduce the origin of the Yan family, but to tell you that the ancestors have a very good set of spies, although the times are different, but there are still things to learn from." β
Chen Zikun is a smart man, a little bit thorough, said: "I understand, my method is wrong, fighting and killing in the occupied area is equivalent to hitting a stone with an egg, right in the hands of the enemy, even if I find two truckloads of men and horses to rush in with machine guns, it is better to find a powerful Japanese to say a word, intelligence work does not emphasize brute force, but ingenuity, Shanghai Beach is a quagmire, if you want to mix here, you have to use all your strength." β
Xia Xiaoqing smiled with relief: "It's good that you understand." β
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The next day, Chen Zikun convened a meeting of the main subordinates in Shanghai, arranged the focus of the next step, and asked Li Yaoting to stop the training of the troops.
"What, don't you kill Zhang Xiaolin and Lin Zhijiang?" Li Yaoting was puzzled.
"Kill, but we have to kill in a different way, under the noses of the Japanese, although it can boost morale, but it will also bring unnecessary losses, our strength is not so strong, we can't do things that kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800." Chan explains.
Then he arranged a task for Mu Yichen: "The business of the foreign bank has stopped, and people can't stop it, there are business opportunities everywhere, you have to find something to do, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and money is the most important." β
Mu Yichen thought so, and said: "Now there are two most profitable businesses in Shanghai, one is to sell rice, the other is to sell drugs, southern Jiangsu is fighting guerrillas everywhere, the grain in the countryside cannot be harvested, the price of rice is soaring, if you can import Siamese rice from Indochina, a million profits, drug trafficking is also the truth, Shanghai smokers hundreds of thousands, even if they don't eat, every day is indispensable to a mouthful of smoke, Sichuan Yunnan tobacco soil can not come in, now the best-selling on the market is Rehe soil, if you can take down the distribution rights, than the profit of selling rice, but these two, You have to have an extremely tough backstage. β
Li Yaoting interjected: "Is Wu Sibao okay? β
Mu Yichen shook his head: "No. 76 is just a lackey of the Japanese, this kind of high-level thing, even if Li Shiqun comes forward, it is not easy to handle, as far as I know, many people are grabbing the distribution rights of tobacco and soil, involving the interests of the Central China Dispatch Army and the Navy, the water is too deep." β
Everyone is at a loss, and now it is the world of the Japanese, and it is difficult to move an inch except to take refuge in the Japanese.
Chen Zikun is very confident: "Don't worry, there will be a way slowly." β
He said that there was a way, but in fact, his heart was also a mess, and he could not rely on good courage and ruthlessness to engage in underground intelligence work, it was a long-term, complicated and meticulous work, and there was a long way to go, so let's take our time.
The heavy responsibility of the underground work in Shanghai was entrusted to Su Qingyan, the secretary general of the Three Guns Society, Qingfeng stayed in Shanghai to assist, Li Yaoting and Mu Yichen were mainly responsible for raising money, and Yan Qingyu, the nail ambushed in the enemy, was personally controlled by Chen Zikun.
He is a general of the national government, can not stay in Shanghai for a long time, after everything is arranged, with his family to Hong Kong, now the little cabbage is eight months old, but because of premature birth, still extremely weak, Chen Zikun named his little daughter, called Chen Jiao.
Before leaving, in addition to the front page number published in Shanghai's "New Declaration", Wang Jingwei arrived in Shanghai from Annan, and senior generals of the Japanese army, diplomats stationed in Shanghai, and senior officials of the Restoration government and social elites all went to the wharf to greet them, and there was the name of the movie star Yan Qingyu on the welcome list.
The French cruise ship whistled for a long time and left Shanghai Tang, Lin Wenjing hugged her daughter and snuggled up to her husband, looked at the Huangpu River in the mist, and muttered: "I don't know when I will be back." β
"It won't take ten years to drive the Japanese out completely." Chan said.
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Outside the 16th Shop Wharf, one hand picked up the newspaper thrown by Chen Zikun from the ground, and when he saw the news of Wang Jingwei's arrival in Shanghai, he quickly folded the newspaper and put it in his suit pocket.
This is the former intelligence officer of the Central Command Xu Er, who is engaged in intelligence work is very meticulous and suspicious, although Xu Er is quite effective, but he always makes his boss Xu En feel that something is wrong, and he makes every effort to check, and sure enough, he finds that this person is pretending to be Xu Shuzheng's nephew, and his college diploma is fake.
This incident alone may not make Xu Enzeng angry, but it happened that Xu Er used his power to blackmail again, and he also returned the female secretary in the newspaper room, and finally annoyed Shangfeng and fired him.
Xu Er has been a spy for many years, accumulating some family funds, after the fall of Shanghai, he was thinking about how to make a fortune, but even if he wanted to be a traitor, it was not so easy, he had already become a middle-level cadre in the Central Union, Li Shiqun Ding Mocun did not dare to use him, and he couldn't pull his face down when he was a little traitor, so he had to sit and eat empty, and he was about to run out.
Wang Jingwei arrived in Shanghai, this is an excellent opportunity, although Wang someone took refuge in Japan late, but the status is high, famous, must form their own set of people, now cast in the past, it is the snow to send charcoal, still worried about the future underdeveloped, what Li Shiqun Ding Mo Village Wu Sibao, all to Lao Tzu side to rest, in the future Shanghai beach is my Xu Er, oh no, Xu Tingge's world.
The more Xu Er thought about it, the more excited he became, immersed in a beautiful vision, and when he passed by the concession gate, he forgot to bow to the Japanese military police standing guard, and smashed the butt of a gun, and immediately his mouth and nose were bloody, and he hurriedly bowed, and scolded in his heart, Little Japan, when Lao Tzu has a plan, he will ...... It seems that even if Wang Jingwei is mixed up, he can't treat the Japanese soldiers like this, forget it, don't think about unpleasant things for the time being.
As Xu Er thought, after Wang Jingwei arrived in Shanghai, he really began to recruit troops with great fanfare, whether it was Liang Hongzhi, Fu Xiao'an, or Su Xiwen, they were all third-rate figures in the political circles, and they couldn't form a climate, Wang Jingwei was the proud protΓ©gΓ© of the former prime minister, and he wrote about the ancestors of the revolutionary party who led the knife into a fast and lived up to the head of the youth, and he was also extremely talented, and he could say a set of absurd theories, which was very demagogic, so as soon as Wang blew the whistle, the people who were originally dormant everywhere and wanted to be traitors all jumped out.
The Japanese valued Wang Ching-wei very much, allocated him a large amount of money, and rented an apartment on Weihai Road, which was called the "Zhaoxian Hall" to accommodate frustrated politicians from all walks of life, and especially welcomed those who had served as executive committee members of the Kuomintang and those who had work experience in secret services.
Xu Tingge took advantage of the excitement and returned disappointed, because under the coordination of the Japanese, the No. 76 agent headquarters was completely devoted to Wang Jingwei, in order to avoid the suspicion of the Japanese, Wang Jingwei no longer formed his own agent force, Xu Tingge only received a small allowance, and his life was almost the same as before.
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Chen Zikun returned to Chongqing via Hong Kong, and the authorities did not seem to notice that he had been missing for a month, and General Chen seemed to have become a dispensable role for the officialdom of the capital.
Liu Ting told him one thing, Qi Jiaban was about to leave Chongqing, Chen Zikun hurriedly went to the dock to see him off, and hurriedly came to Chaotianmen Pier.
A car rushed to the scene, Chen Zikun jumped out of the car and went straight to the boat, no one stopped him, Qi Xiu wanted to say something, but he still didn't say anything, and quietly retreated to the side.
In the face of Bai Yufang, Chen Zikun seems to have a thousand words, but he can't say a word, if he didn't go to Beijing when he was eighteen years old, maybe the trajectory of his life is different, maybe today, he can follow the Qi family class to the rivers and lakes without hesitation, maybe that's his life.
Fate can't be assumed, everything is already doomed, Bai Yufang understands his inner entanglement very well, smiled faintly, and said to the wind: "Children of the rivers and lakes, if you love, you love, if you hate, you hate, you don't owe me." β
Everyone is so free and easy, Chen Zikun is also relieved, hugging his fists and saying: "Bai Ban Master, there will be a period later!" β
The boat opened, Chen Zikun stood on the dock and watched them leave, Bai Yufang looked at the figure farther and farther away, and chanted in a low voice: "Jun asked about the return date, the night rain in Bashan rose in the autumn pool, why should he cut the candles in the west window together, but when it rained at night in Bashan." β
When she returned home with a melancholy mood, but seeing that everyone was full of joy, Liu Ting handed over a copy of the "Central Daily" and said: "Japan and the Soviet Union are at war!" β
Chen Zikun was overjoyed, and at a glance, the newspaper said that the Soviet army and the Japanese Kwantung Army fought fiercely in Nomenhan, on the border between Mongolia and the puppet state of Manchukuo, and the two sides dispatched cavalry, aircraft, and motorized troops, and the Japanese and Manchurian forces were defeated.