Chen Keqing is the president of the Jinhua Chamber of Commerce in the sixth special district east of Quzhou, and owns a large commercial house, a money bank, two hotels, two restaurants and a large fluorite mine in Wuyi.

The geographical location of Jinhua is more advantageous than that of Quzhou, the products are richer, and the transportation is more convenient.

Among the major regions in Zhejiang, the grain output is second only to Jiaxing, and it is known as the "second granary" in Zhejiang. In the past two years, due to the rapid economic development of Quzhou, coupled with the convenient railway, highway and waterway transportation between the two places, Chen Keqing often went to Quzhou to do business, and on weekdays, he was as happy as Maitreya Buddha with a lovely smile, amiable and fair, and his reputation in Jinhua and Quzhou was good.

The intelligence department of the new Second Division has long been eyeing Chen Keqing, but out of various concerns, it has not moved him. At present, a beacon fire is about to be ignited in Songhu, and Wu Ming can't care about anything else, so he instructed that it must be taken down and made into an iron case.

Jiang Jingguo stared at Chen Keqing with blazing eyes, and asked coldly: "Chen Keqing, as a Chinese citizen, you collected military intelligence for the Japanese and betrayed the interests of the country and the nation, do you admit your guilt?" ”

"Nonsense"

Chen Keqing snorted coldly, raised his head and said: "I am not guilty, it is all your accusations, I am innocent." Speaking of this, Chen Keqing turned around and said to the audience: "Fellow villagers, please believe me, I am innocent and framed by them." ”

"Chen Keqing, the Anti-Japanese War is imminent, but you colluded with foreign enemies, and the evidence is conclusive, do you want to admit it?" Chiang Ching-kuo's face was pale, and he glared angrily at the triumphant prisoners in the hall.

The Chinese nation is a nation full of disasters and difficulties, and since the Tang and Song dynasties, there has always been no shortage of traitors and traitors.

In the Song Dynasty, there were Zhang Bangchang, Liu Yu, Zhang Yuan, Qin Hui, Liu Quan, Xia Gui, Lu Wenhuan, Fan Wenhu, Zhang Hongfan, etc., who betrayed the country and sought glory, and aided in abuse; In the Ming Dynasty, there were Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanme, Li Yongfang, Hong Chengchou, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, Wu Sangui, Ruan Dacheng, Sun Degong, Qian Qianyi, and other culprits who assisted the Qing soldiers to enter the Han Dynasty. This Chen Keqing is also hateful, the evidence is conclusive, and he still refuses to admit it when he is arrested and brought to justice.

Chen Keqing turned around and shouted at Jiang Jingguo: "Two official words, I am in your hands now, and the so-called crime of wanting to add is useless...... You evil warlords, when you see that our businessmen are rich, you try to fabricate accusations, I can't let you get your way, I want to complain to the Jinhua Agency, to the Zhejiang Provincial Government and the Central Government, and someone will clean you up."

"It's ridiculous, the thief shouts to catch the thief" Jiang Jingguo laughed angrily, waved his hand, and ordered the guards: "Bring a witness"

The guy from the Dade Hotel in Quzhou City was brought up, and Chiang Ching-kuo was very kind to ordinary people, first telling the guy not to be nervous, and then asking him to tell him about Zhilu Dao.

The guy was at the bottom of society, and under the gaze of everyone, a black face turned red. He coughed nervously, and tremblingly told the situation of Zhilu Dao:

"My name is Sun Fang, I grew up in Quzhou since I was a child, and everyone who lives in the eastern part of the city should know me On the evening of May 16, President Chen went to Quzhou to do business and stayed at our hotel. At about nine o'clock in the evening, I saw two suspicious people enter President Chen's room, worried that something would happen, so I walked over, and heard the news about the second division coming back from Yushan, the situation at Quzhou Airport, and so on, and I didn't know what was going on, and suddenly several people rushed out of the house, and surrounded me, one of them spoke Japanese, and I looked at their eyes, and I wanted to kill them on the spot, but fortunately, there were police officers in the hotel at that time, and they stopped the perpetrators, otherwise I would have died......"

The man's voice trembled, and he continued: "In the early hours of the morning, the hotel was closed, and it was not my night duty that day, so I had to go home for the night, but I met a few people in the alley less than two hundred meters away from the door of my house and beat me with a stick, if it wasn't for my life, my brother-in-law's family was a guest at my house that day, and when they saw that I had not returned, they came out with my wife to find me, and scared the thugs away, I would definitely be beaten to death." I-"

Speaking of this, Sun Fang shed tears of immortality, and the eyes of the people in the audience were also filled with tears, and sympathy arose.

Chiang Ching-kuo asked Sun Fang to control his emotions, and then asked, "Do you know who is going to kill you?" ”

Sun Fang wiped his tears while pointing at Chen Keqing and said loudly: "It's him, the person who commanded and beat me is his entourage Chen Dagou, although they intentionally changed their accents, I can still distinguish it, and I won't forget it if I turn into a ghost."

The audience was in an uproar, and the discussion was buzzing.

"Silence"

Jiang Jingguo shouted, and slapped the wood in his hand to stop the uproar.

Chen Keqing was still very arrogant, pointed to the guy who spoke, and sneered: "How easy it is for the government to find witnesses, plus the army is involved, who dares to disobey orders... Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know this witness at all, don't believe it, he was found by the officials to frame me, I was wronged......"

has reached this point, Chen Keqing is still resisting stubbornly, and there is no performance of introspection at all, Jiang Jingguo slapped the hall again, and said: "Bring the next witness to the court." ”

Seeing the new witness being escorted up, Chen Keqing almost collapsed to the ground, thanks to the guards next to him who helped him up. Jiang Jingguo snorted coldly, and didn't care whether he lived or died, and directly asked about the situation of the person who came.

The witness who was escorted up was none other than Maeda Shinka, who bowed deeply to Chiang Ching-kuo, and then told his story:

"My name is Maeda Shinka, a native of Nagoya, Japan, who came to Quzhou in western Zhejiang at the beginning of the year, and his brother Maeda Akio used business as a cover to collect intelligence on the Chinese army for the Japanese military department...... Mr. Chen Keqing was an intelligence officer developed by my elder brother, and he provided us with intelligence more than ten times, most of which was vital military intelligence. The military department was very satisfied with his performance, and had already conferred on him the title of Honorary National of Japan, and promised to appoint him as the president of the Jinhua Maintenance Association after the empire occupied the whole territory of Zhejiang."

Everyone looked at Chen Keqing, who was paralyzed on the ground, his face was full of disdain, and suddenly someone in the crowd stood up and raised his arms and shouted: "Down with the traitors and traitors, down with Chen Keqing"

Some people took the lead in angrily denouncing, and the rest of the people suddenly came to their senses, stood up one after another, raised their arms and roared: "Down with the traitors and traitors, down with Chen Keqing"

For a while, the crowd in the auditorium was furious, and many people even began to throw sundries at Chen Keqing.

Chiang Ching-kuo hurriedly asked the officers and soldiers on duty to stop the angry crowd who tried to chase Chen Keqing over the railing from the audience, and loudly announced the court discipline, and then announced Chen Keqing's crime in public:

"As a citizen of the Republic of China, Chen Keqing disregarded the laws and regulations of the state...... Chen Keqing is hereby sentenced to death, with immediate execution, and all his family property confiscated, and the results of the trial are hereby announced to prove the public. ”

The auditorium was full of cheers, and the audience shouted for the eradication of the internal mole and the humiliation of the country.

Wu Ming and Fang Youchun heard the sound from the radio and looked at each other and smiled. Fang Zhichun said angrily: "A traitor like Chen Keqing is to be eliminated, because he pretends to be a humble gentleman on weekdays, and he also ordered clothes from my garment factory and sent them to Jinhua and Ningbo, I thought he was a patriotic gentry, but I never thought he would be such a person...... I don't know my heart."

Fang Youchun stood up excitedly and took a few steps back and forth: "The people's hearts can be used, the people's hearts can be used."

Wu Ming was also very satisfied with today's live broadcast. The Chinese nation is an indomitable and excellent nation with thousands of years of heritage, and it will never easily succumb to foreign enemies. However, if the masses of the people cannot be fully mobilized, then the people's will will no longer be used, and it will only be a flower in the mirror. Only by publicizing with such fanfare and mobilizing the participation of the whole people can there be hope for victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon after listening to the live broadcast of the whole trial, Wu Ming's family accompanied Fang Youchun to lunch, and after Wu Ming personally sent Fang Youchun to the boat, he also got into the car and went straight to the Phoenix Mountain base.

As soon as he got out of the car, Wu Ming saw a group of people surrounding him, crying and mourning one by one. Wu Ming froze down, beckoned Zhang Dongning, who was coming up, to the side, and asked what was going on.

Zhang Dongning leaned over and whispered softly in Wu Ming's ear.

It turned out that most of these people were family members of the arrested criminals, who bought high-priced communication cards from the New Second Division, and then lived in the guest house in front of the gate of the base in accordance with the regulations, waiting for news. Today, when I heard the live broadcast of the trial on Phoenix Radio, Chen Keqing was sentenced to death, and finally became anxious and asked to see Wu Ming.

There is probably only one person who is not in a hurry, that is, Xu Zhixiang, president of the Quzhou Chamber of Commerce, whose main business is construction, and over the years has cooperated with the Maoliangwu Chamber of Commerce to open a flour mill, a textile factory, a cement factory, and a shareholding in automobile transportation and shipping companies, and the business is becoming more and more prosperous, and has irreplaceable prestige and influence in the minds of the Quzhou gentry.

Such a figure came, of course Zhang Dongning didn't dare to slack off, and invited him to the division for tea.

Wu Ming felt a little strange, Xu Zhixiang had a close relationship with the Maoliangwu Chamber of Commerce, and he was the leader of the Quzhou Chamber of Commerce, why would he come to him? Could it be that there were his relatives among the captors?

Let Zhang Dongning greet the families of those criminals, and come to the division headquarters living room, an old man in his fifties sat on the Taishi chair in the center of the hall, closed his eyes and rested.

"Old man Xu is really sorry for keeping you waiting" As soon as he entered the door, Wu Ming apologized to Xu Zhixiang.

Xu Zhixiang hurriedly stood up and bowed deeply: "I took the liberty to disturb the general today, please forgive Xu for being rude."

"Old man Xu is polite, you are always the Dinghai Shenshen needle in our Quzhou business community, if there is anything, as long as you inform it, the younger generation will definitely come to visit" Wu Ming has a lot of etiquette to Xu Zhixiang, a picture of a later generation.

The guest and host sat down, Xu Zhixiang didn't say much nonsense, and went straight to the point: "The general's public trial of the traitor is a very happy move, but there is a question, please explain the general's doubts." ”

Wu Ming nodded and gestured, "Please speak."

Xu Zhixiang was also not polite, gently stroked his beard, and said to Wu Ming: "General Wu, this operation to arrest traitors and traitors has a great impact on our Quzhou and the surrounding areas...... I wonder when this turmoil will end? ”

Wu Ming pondered for a moment and asked, "What about President Xu's opinion?" ”

Xu Zhixiang gritted his teeth and said: "General, it can be seen from the radio and newspaper news that it is only a matter of time before the Japanese invaders are approaching step by step, and the war will affect us in Zhejiang...... After all, Quzhou is the headquarters of General Wu, and its stability is crucial...... In the old man's opinion, it is better to be still than to be still, after all, a large rear area with a prosperous economy and social stability is good for General Wu."

Xu Zhixiang's words made Wu Ming deeply convinced, and he sincerely asked Xu Zhixiang for advice: "I don't know what kind of solution President Xu has?" If the traitors are not eliminated, there will be no stability, and the officers and men of our department will not be at ease when they go to the front

Xu Zhixiang said: "General Wu is right, traitors and traitors must be eradicated from Yu Jing, but we must pay attention to one degree. If it is dug deep and investigated without restrictions, everyone will be in danger, which is extremely detrimental to the prosperity and stability of Quzhou. From the old man's point of view, if he can open the net and impose a huge fine on the person who committed the less serious crime, he can achieve the effect of punishing future generations. Of course, if it is a person who has committed the most heinous crimes, just like Chen Keqing and others, he must be severely punished."