After getting off the steamer, Wang Zhenyu's mood could not be calmed down for a long time, and there were secret letters written by Cai Ye to Gu Pinzhen, Luo Peijin, and Liu Xianshi respectively in his arms. Wang Zhenyu thought about it, and still asked someone to call He Jian over, and it was naturally better for MeSign to hand it over to this spy leader to deal with.

Recently, in order to integrate intelligence resources, the Military Intelligence Bureau established the Navy's Military Intelligence Department, and Liu Junqiang served as the colonel. At the same time, a semi-open southwest station was set up in Chengdu, and Gong Peng served as the head of the major general. In fact, the intelligence work against the southwest began in May last year, and this is the benefit of knowing the direction of history.

Wang Zhenyu looked back at the steamer again, and Cai Ye probably couldn't come back after he went. Let's work hard and fulfill the wish of this peerless talent!

When he returned to his official residence, his secretary Chen Bui came to report: "Chairman of the National People's Congress, the Japanese side has proposed to meet you in Wuhan through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government. ”

Japanese? Hehe, these arrogant Orientals finally realized their existence. Wang Zhenyu laughed secretly in his heart for a while and said: "I remember that the Japanese seem to have always refused to recognize the tariff autonomy agreement of the nine southern provinces, as well as our national government, why do you think about it now that you want to talk to us." Hehe, arrange it, not only to meet, but also to let people see it at ease, such as letting them visit the training of our expeditionary force or something! ”

As a matter of fact, the controversy over the China issue of the Japanese Government this time is quite large, and this is mainly due to the intensifying struggle between political factions in Japan at present.

When it comes to Japanese politics in this era, we have to mention the famous Taisho era.

In 1912, Emperor Meiji, who had been repeatedly mythologized by the Japanese, finally had his hair braided. Then his son, who suffered from encephalopathy, became Emperor Taisho, who was said to have suffered from meningitis and cerebral thrombosis at the age of 40, turning into a mental illness. When the illness hits, the emperor often behaves in a ridiculous manner before the public. For example, when watching a military exercise, he would suddenly run down the review stand, open the soldier's backpack and rummage through it. Once, when he attended the opening ceremony of the National Assembly, on a whim, he giggled while rolling the speech into a cylinder, putting it on his eyes, and shining a random picture at the foreign envoys.

In fact, for the ** system, it is not necessarily a bad thing for the ** person to have a problem with his brain, look at the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is to know, there are businessmen, there are carpenters, and there are those who want to be generals, but they are not willing to be emperors. So there was a peculiar phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty, even if the emperor did not show his head for decades, the whole country could still operate as usual, until the Donglin Party and the gang of people came out to engage in party struggle in order to give priority to the power of prostitutes.

The Japanese are now facing this problem, although the previous Meiji Emperor was great, but the common people did not benefit from his great achievements, the poor were still poor, and the rich were richer. And now the biggest advantage of the emperor, who is said to be not very easy to use, is that the ** person doesn't care about anything, and the political atmosphere is actually ** overnight. This is Taisho**, which has been repeatedly praised by later historians, and is also called the "Taisho era" by the Japanese people (meaning very beautiful and punctual).

In terms of politics alone, the "Katsura Period" finally faced collapse in the early Taisho period. First of all, the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang was forced to step down by the feudal lord and became the last patriarch. Later, Katsura Taro stepped down due to the Taisho coup (the first constitutional movement) and died a few days ago.

In the Taisho period, it was a golden age of active party politics, and in the middle period, there was a cabinet of civilian parties formed by Keihara and in the later period, there was a cabinet of three factions of political parties to protect the constitution. This can also be regarded as related to the fact that Emperor Taisho was seriously ill and appointed the crown prince Prince Hirohito as regent. Since the beginning of the Meiji era, the senator could nominate the prime minister. While Emperor Taisho was seriously ill, Hirohito was immature and respected under the elders. The senator nominates the prime minister, almost certainly wins. In the Taisho period, the party politics caused by the ** movement and ideological trend changed the term "Taisho Demomurasi (**)". It is worth mentioning that the Choshu faction clan Shili gradually declined, and the tyranny of Yamaguyama declined after the crown prince Prince Hirohito married King Kuya Miyayoko (i.e., a major event in the palace) related to the Satsuma faction Shili.

However, now the two old guys of Saionji Gongwang and Yama Prefecture Aritomo are still alive and healthy, and under their influence, in recent years, the Japanese cabinet has also taken turns to sit in the village, and the military and the members of the Constitutional Political Friends Association have taken turns to come to power. The current one is Shigenobu Okuma from the Constitutional Friends Association, and this is his second time as prime minister or prime minister. However, the countdown to his term of office can begin, because the most important characteristic of the Japanese is that they are always full of endless desires, and the endless wishes of the chaebol and the people cannot be satisfied no matter who becomes the prime minister.

Since you can't be satisfied, let's take turns sitting in the bank, keep throwing hope to the people, and try to make the chaebols richer, so that the balance is balanced, and the Japanese are really geniuses in politics.

However, as a result of such a fierce struggle, when they suddenly stopped to take a breath, they found that in just a few months, China, which they regarded as a lifeline, was different. This fat pig was actually divided into two, and it seems that the southern half is still very good, and it actually quietly made a tariff autonomy.

In addition to seizing the time to punish those spies who spy on unfavorable intelligence, the most important thing is to come up with new countermeasures, so a new round of quarrels began, and many old ministers began to miss Emperor Meiji. If the old emperor Bixia is still there, it won't be everyone's turn to quarrel, he will rule directly, and everyone will implement it, anyway, it is God's will will not be wrong, and if it is wrong, the person who executes it is not powerful, blaspheming the great Amaterasu.

And now, the one in the palace doesn't seem to worry about these things at all, I'm a god!

The Nationalist Government was a local government in any case, and strictly speaking the Empire of Japan did not recognize this local government, so there was no consulate in Nanjing. However, this did not prevent them from communicating with the Nationalist Government, at least from the people's level, the nominal heads of the Nationalist Government, Huang Xing, Sun Yat-sen, and others were good friends with the Japanese side. Especially Sun Yat-sen, there is also a Japanese wife.

But the Japanese are not fools, and they will be able to figure out who is the real power of the Nationalist Government with a little try, so they must come to Wuhan. Because Japan's intelligence network, which had been laid out in the south for more than ten years, had been completely destroyed due to various reasons, the Japanese side now urgently needs to clarify a few things:

The first is information on the internal affairs of the Youth Army, especially key data on the army's combat effectiveness, equipment, and major military generals, which the military department has repeatedly stressed the need.

The second is the personal information about Wang Zhenyu, the more detailed the better, because the Japanese suddenly found that they did not have any useful information about this powerful person in South China.

The third thing is to find out the scale and purpose of the army currently being trained by the Nationalist Government, whether it is really going to Europe to die, or is it like Duan Qirui in Beiyang who is dreaming of military reunification under the guise of participating in the war, which directly determines the strength of the Japanese Empire's support for Beiyang and its actions in northern China.

The first was an additional target attached to Japan, which suffered a heavy blow to Japan's commercial investment and export of goods in South China due to the establishment of the customs territory, but fortunately this share was not large in terms of the interests of the empire as a whole in China. But no matter how small a fly is, it is still meat, and from that point of view, it is also a great harm to the empire, so this time the diplomats sent to South China also shoulder the mission of communicating with the Nationalist Government on this issue, and at the same time to obtain as much data as possible about the economic construction of South China.

As a minister, Koban Youyoshi is naturally not suitable for this diplomatic activity, after all, the national government is only a local government, so the Japanese side Zuihou chose a strange four-person combination, the first counselor of the Legation in China, Shigemitsu Aoi, the head of the Foreign Affairs Division of the Japanese Governor's Office in the Kanto Prefecture, Matsuoka Yoyou, it is said that this person is a China expert, the deputy military attache of the Japanese Legation in China, Isoya Ryosuke, it is said that this person is also a China expert, and has just been directly appointed by the Japanese military department as the head of the Shanghai secret service (historically known as the Mei organ, Twenty-three years earlier than in history, the organization was called the "Meihua Hall" in Japan because it was located in a small building called the "Plum Blossom Hall" in the Japanese expatriate gathering area in Hongkou, Shanghai. Kenji Dohihara, this is still a China expert (it seems that Japan's China is a bit overflowing), and his public identity is the military attache of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.

Obviously, their trip to Nanjing did not gain much, and the Nationalist Government seemed to be very large-scale, with many institutions and personnel, and indeed had money to do things, but when it came to the economic construction data of South China, even the ministers of the Executive Yuan had to look embarrassed. After a further in-depth exchange, we learned that the economic construction of South China was not entirely under the control of the Nationalist Government, but was actually in charge of the Armaments Department of the Military Commission and an enterprise called the Zhonghe Development Corporation, and the relevant data were in the hands of these two departments, and all that the Nationalist Government could manage was some investment.

Matsuoka Yoyo was very surprised to hear the news and asked rhetorically: "The economic construction has been assigned to the Military Commission and the Development Corporation, so what is your national government mainly responsible for?" ”

Wang Zhengting, who was in charge of the reception, said with a wry smile: "The government's current work is to carry out patriotic health campaigns, build a new life, and carry out education, medical care, urban construction and transportation construction (only roads and railways have also been taken away by the Development Corporation). ”

Shigemitsu Aoi, who was sitting on the side, immediately became stunned when he heard this, isn't this the service-oriented government in the United States? No, the U.S. government at least has the power to fight foreign wars, while this national government is completely a service, and there is no key power.