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No. 6 Chongming Road, the headquarters of the Japanese military police in Shanghai.

Yu Xiaoshu was taken to the office of the special high school on the second floor, and when he pushed the door open, there was a familiar face, Yutaka Uchino, a young man from the Intelligence Department of the Shanghai General Staff of the Japanese Army.

"Mr. Yu, some days are gone." Yutaka Uchino took the initiative to step forward, pull open the chair across from the desk, and make a gesture to sit down.

Yu Xiaoshu nodded and sat down on the chair, for more than half a year, he was first briefly detained by the Intelligence Department of the Central China Front of the Japanese Army in Nanjing, and after the establishment of the Nanjing Autonomous Committee and the overall stability, he was transferred to the Japanese Military Police Headquarters in Shanghai, and he only saw Uchino Yutaka for the first time when he arrived in Shanghai, so as to understand the purpose of the Japanese army to detain him, but not to do trial.

After arriving in Shanghai, Yu Xiaoshu was placed under house arrest in the Japanese overseas Chinese settlement in Hongkou, although there was no freedom of movement, but the Japanese were polite to him, and even allowed him to read local newspapers in Shanghai.

Uchino Feng was very polite on the surface, but Yu Xiaoshu understood that unless he fell into the water and became a traitor, he would not have a chance to get out alive.

In the early days of the occupation, the newspapers and periodicals in Shanghai still maintained great national enthusiasm and high morale, especially in the concessions, which were outside the law of the Japanese side, and the newspapers and periodicals daily encouraged the confidence of the ordinary people in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and published all kinds of news favorable to the national government. Although the newspapers and periodicals were holding high the banner of anti-Japanese patriotism, Yu Xiaoshu still had an unsettling side between the lines; even in the reports of the newspapers in the concession, the Nationalist army was always "shifting positions", "strategic retreat", and "outflanking", and the distance of these combat acts was getting deeper and deeper into the hinterland of China and farther and farther away from Shanghai.

Yu Xiaoshu is very familiar with the methods of the press, and this proves that on the frontal battlefield, the national army has always been in a disadvantageous position, and there is no substantive strategic victory.

Sure enough, as time passed, everyone's national enthusiasm gradually gave way to firewood, rice, oil and salt, and social and livelihood news such as refugee issues, rice prices, rents, assassinations and sabotage gradually overwhelmed the news of the war, and even Yu Xiaoshu, who was isolated from the world, also experienced the depressed taste of public opinion.

One after another, under the strong control of the Japanese, Shanghai's social order was gradually restored, economic development was carried out, and singing and dancing venues were everywhere, restaurants and hotels were opened one after another, and it was overcrowded, which can be said to be explosive prosperity; The Nanjing Restoration Government was established, replacing the previous Nanjing Autonomous Committee; The Dadao Municipal Government in Shanghai was reorganized to supervise the Shanghai Municipal Office, and it is said that an influential figure would come forward to act as the new mayor of Shanghai for the Japanese; In the Battle of Xuzhou, although the Chinese side won a great victory in Taierzhuang, Xuzhou finally fell; The Yellow River burst its bank at Huayuankou, destroying millions of homes and displacing people......

In his heart, he was anxious that the war would not end for a while and a half.

Yu Xiaoshu knew that the Japanese valued his secret service background and intelligence work experience, but there was a limit to his insistence on not cooperating with Uchino Yutaka, and once Uchino found someone more suitable and willing to cooperate with him, his captive career would probably come to an end. And since July, Yutaka Uchino seems to be particularly busy, and he has not come to see him for more than a month, and this time he deliberately brought him from his residence to the military police headquarters to talk, probably, he has lost patience.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Yu, the authorities of the Public Concession have recently agreed to extradite the arrested Japanese terrorists to the gendarmerie, and I am really busy, and I haven't been to your place for a long time."

"Congratulations on making new progress in your work."

"As you know, it is expected that as long as the Imperial Army maintains its occupation of Shanghai, our work will always be cooperated and understood by European and American friends sooner or later."

Uchino smiled, not caring about the irony in Yu Xiaoshu's language.

"Mr. Yu, let me ask you one last time, have you decided not to cooperate with us?"

Yu Xiaoshu did not answer.

"What if I told you that the intelligence agency of the Kuomintang government has undergone a new reorganization, and you scattered personnel who have left the intelligence system are no longer organizationally part of the new intelligence agency, and may even be classified as traitors and traitors?"

"Oh? I look forward to the fact that our intelligence system will be able to open up new working situations under the leadership of the new organization. ”

"Don't you want to know what the situation of the Military Command Bureau is now?"

Uchino Feng did not wait for Yu Xiaoshu to answer, "The first division of the Military Command Bureau has established the Central Investigation and Statistics Bureau, and the work of the third division has been taken over by the General Office of the Military Commission. You have been missing for more than half a year, and you have been on the list of martyrs of the military command, in other words, the new person is replaced by the old one, and in this new system, there is no place for you anymore. In particular, I need to remind you that if you walk out of here unharmed, you are likely to fall into the list of anti-Japanese traitors of the military command. Recently, there has been a lot of dark winds in Shanghai, so please be careful. ”

"What do you mean? Can I be released? ”

"Time is really the best magician, frankly speaking, during this period of time, we have gained the allegiance of more and more professional intelligence personnel, Mr. Yu's status, reputation and business ability in the former Military Command Bureau are all excellent, but now, it is almost negligible."

Yutaka Uchino did not answer this question head-on.

"So, should you reconsider?"

Yu Xiaoshu also stood up and said, "Mr. Uchino should have known my answer since he saw me on the first day, and I was ready, so we didn't have to go around the bend anymore." ”

Uchino Feng laughed out loud and said, "We conducted a detailed investigation of you, just the day before Nanjing was about to be occupied, you also maintained the retreat order of the defenders of Rujiangmen in the process of leaving the city, and you were able to return to Nanjing City for your colleagues who were still in prison, so that you ruined our plan to arrest Liang Liqun, and this time he was captured, facing life and death again, and there was not a word of complaint, not a word of intelligence leakage, such a soldier is indeed respectable." ”

"You've won a prize."

"Therefore, it is not surprising that such a charismatic person has such friends."

"What kind of friends?" Yu Xiaoshu was confused.

"He's been in the gendarmerie headquarters for almost two weeks, and he just wants to see you. When you come back in the evening, we'll end today's conversation. ”

Uchino Yutaka signed the document in his hand, and slowly stamped the seal of the gate.