Chapter 12 Misfortune Leads to the East
"What do you say? Say it again? ”
"It is true, it was Goering's butler Berkman who said to me personally, after the German army successfully captured Warsaw, Goering held a drinking party in his home, and many people who attended the drinking party saw a Chinese invited by Goering into his study, but at present we do not know the identity of that Chinese, but it is certain that the Chinese should be a soldier, and Goering's butler Berkman said that the Chinese has the taste of a soldier"
There are only two people in the gloomy room, Nomura and Ono Miji, Ono Miji who has returned from going out to collect information, is reporting to Nomura about his harvest today, and the diplomatic note from the German side stipulates the time for the Japanese to leave Germany, and Nomura wants to use the last bit of time to figure out what is really going on between Germany and Japan. The Japanese ambassador in Berlin was forcibly sent on a ship to return to the Japanese mainland yesterday, and only a group of special high school agents led by Nomura and a few German miscellaneous servants were left in the Japanese embassy.
"Chinese?" Nomura's fingers rubbed the table, and his mind quickly analyzed what Ono Miji said just now, no, this matter will not have anything to do with China, Germany broke off relations with China when it formed an alliance with Japan, and the Chinese government has no time to deal with the imperial army, and they simply have no spare strength to do such a trick.
"Any other news?"
"No, Goering's butler has a very tight mouth, and the information just now also cost a lot of money" Ono Miji, who was standing opposite Nomura, secretly pinched his shriveled pockets, and was a little afraid to raise his eyes to look at Nomura. In order to get the information he wanted from Goering's butler, Ono spent all the 500 marks that Nomura had just given him in the morning, which was a week's worth of activity for his group.
"Well done" Ono Miji's self-contained and obscure actions had long fallen into Nomura's eyes, but he did not reprimand Ono Miji, at this time, intelligence is more important than money. "You want to find a way to ask Goering's butler to come out at night, you must find out the identity of the Chinese, he can enter Goering's study, I think he is not a simple person" Nomura took out a thick stack of banknotes from the drawer and handed it to Ono Miji, what can be done with money is not called a thing, Nomura took out the banknotes with the appearance of 3000 marks, he believes that such a price will definitely receive equivalent information.
While Nomura and Ono Miji are plotting to obtain information in the Japanese embassy, there are also two whispering heads in Goering's study, one is Goering, and the other is Berkman the butler who just knocked Ono Miji in the morning. "Sir, I have only revealed a little bit of information to the nasty Japanese as you have told, and this is the 500 marks they gave me" The white-haired butler took out the 500 marks that Ono Miji had given him and placed them on Goering's desk. Berkman was the old butler brought by Göring's wife, and Berkman, who had fought in World War I, was also a fanatical hawk, and Göring trusted him more than his own men.
"Did the Japanese say anything else?" Goering rubbed the money on the table, with a hint of inquiry in his eyes, the reason for the severance of relations with Japan, Zhao Zhi had already explained and analyzed to Hitler and Goering, but why Zhao Zhi spread his identity to the Japanese through himself, Goering has never been able to figure out the reason.
"The Japanese didn't say it explicitly, but they just called and said that they wanted to talk to me in the evening, I guess they should be very interested in Zhao's situation" Berkman had a smile on his face, and it could be seen that he was also very satisfied with the young Chinese from the East, and he was very happy to help Zhao Zhi deceive the Japanese.
"Then you go, as we have said, lead all the clues to the Americans, the empire cannot go to war with so many countries at the same time, we need time to digest Britain and France, we need to use the Japanese to drag the Americans to win time" Goering pushed the money on the table to Berkman and motioned to the loyal steward to put away all the money, since it was the money that the Japanese were willing to send to the door, it would not be spent in vain.
Since Nomura, who has lived in China for many years, has been transferred to the Berlin embassy to preside over intelligence work, he has put the object of intelligence collection on the butlers and mistresses of those high-ranking German officials, and Goering's old butler Berkman is the object of their attention. Nomura's calculations were good, but unfortunately he got the wrong object, he used the same way to deal with the Chinese against the Germans, what he did not expect was the loyalty and fanaticism of those who were the target of their attention to the German Empire. While Nomura was secretly glad to have obtained information from them, the German intelligence agencies also regarded Nomura as a source of information.
"3000 marks, you are really willing to spend money" Berkman, who sneered in his heart, counted the banknotes in his hand, put them in his pocket, and took out a folded document bag from the other pocket and handed it to Ono Miji, "I can only get these materials, but I know that there is another person who knows more, if you want to know more, 3000 marks is not enough, he is much more expensive than me" Berkman took a sip of coffee, and the eyes hidden behind the glasses carefully observed Ono Miji on the other side, The document bag contained materials that had been reviewed by the German secret police, and the inside did not reveal Zhao Zhi's actual identity, and if the Japanese wanted more information, they had to get acquainted with the secret police's pretended insider through Berkman if they wanted more information.
Ono didn't wait as Berkman imagined, he just looked through the materials that Berkman had brought, then hurriedly said goodbye to Berkman and returned to the Japanese embassy with them. Berkman has always been an informant who provided information to Ono Miji, and Ono Miji, who was driven crazy by Nomura, did not doubt the authenticity of these materials, he just wanted to quickly reply to Nomura with information, and there were two days left to the deadline given by the German government, and Ono Miji did not want to be escorted on the ship back to China like the ambassador.
"Do you think this information is true?" After Nomura finished reading the information that Berkman gave to Miji Ono, his face did not show joy, on the contrary, the coldness deepened a little. The document shows that it was indeed a Chinese who entered Goering's study, but this Chinese did not work for the Chinese government, on the contrary, this Chinese was from the United States, and he met with Goering to discuss a weapons export plan. Nomura, who is good at analysis, can clearly see between the lines of the information that the Chinese are trying to persuade Goering on behalf of the Americans, and they want to persuade Hitler to buy American-made weapons to fight the war.
In the hearts of the Japanese, the United States is also their ally, and if it were not for the United States exporting a large amount of materials and resources to them, the Japanese army would not have been able to rise so quickly and quickly occupy most of China. But at a time when the Imperial Army was about to occupy all of China and Southeast Asia, how could the Americans sell weapons to the Germans? Didn't they ban the export of weapons all the time? Could it be that the severance of diplomatic relations between Germany and Japan was also the intention of the Americans, because the occupation of Southeast Asia by the imperial army might also harm their interests?
No, it can't be like this, Nomura doesn't believe that there will be a shadow of Americans in the severance of diplomatic relations between Germany and Japan, but the information in hand clearly shows that when the German army attacked Poland, it did use new equipment produced in the United States. Nomura's mind was confused, he could no longer distinguish the authenticity of this information, and he never admitted the possible role of the Americans in this matter, but the words recorded in the information pointed the finger at the United States.
"Berkman said, there is another person who may know more information, but the price of that person is high, I don't know if it's worth going to him" Ono's legs were shaking, and the gloom on Nomura's face scared him. This boss transferred from Shina is not a good person, once a self-possessed agent with some qualifications provoked Nomura, and in less than three days that arrogant guy turned into a floating corpse soaked in the river, Ono Miji didn't want to get that kind of ending.
"Forget it, that's all there is to it, let's take these materials back to the headquarters, as for what the guys in the base camp will think, that's their business" Nomura walked to the window and reached out to pick up the corner of the curtain and looked out, under the street lamp on the corner stood two guys in leather coats and top hats, Nomura knew that it was the secret police of the Germans, who had come to spy on those of them who had not left Berlin yet. Nomura suddenly had a sense of powerlessness in his heart, so be it, maybe what this information says is true, the severance of diplomatic relations between Germany and Japan is really the hands and feet of the Americans, only in this way to show goodwill to the Germans, their weapons piled up in the treasury can be turned into money, support to the coalition forces can not get money, the Americans are all interests of the first guys.
The radio waves flew across the night sky to distant Tokyo, Nomura sent the information that Berkman had brought to Tokyo in the form of a telegram, he had already received a warrant to be transferred to Burma, everything about Germany had nothing to do with him anymore, as for how Tokyo would analyze this information, it was not his business, he had already booked a ticket to the United States tomorrow, and he would take a merchant ship in the United States to Burma directly.
It must have been the hands and feet of the Americans, or why the Americans would have suddenly cut off the supplies destined for the Japanese mainland, it must have been them. Can't these greedy Americans, who exchange a lot of money from Japan for supplies that the Americans don't want, and hurt Japan's interests on the other, can't they see the strength of the empire? After carefully analyzing the materials played by Nomura from Berlin, the staff officers of the radical base camp have completely regarded Zhao Zhi as a trick for the Americans, and the cunning Americans want to use this inexplicable Chinese to divert Japan's attention, they want to bring trouble to the east, and they want to transfer Japan's anger to China.