Although the expedition to Wencheng was frightened, the military police captain of the Songjiagou comfort women camp, Hirai Teriichi, still made a lot of gains.

With regard to Wencheng, a large city on the Nantongpu railway line, the confidence of the military police captain is now very strong, at least much more than when the brigade commander and major general convened a meeting last time. In the streets and alleys of Wencheng, he saw a large number of young women, and some of them accounted for a large proportion of their charming appearance. He came to the preliminary conclusion that as long as he had the details of the household registration of these young women in Wencheng, he could further analyze and screen them from their large lists, and then find out those who met the conditions for secret recruitment.

At the brigade headquarters of the head of the Hagiwara Brigade, Hirai Teriichi not only fiercely sued the head of the secret service, Masao Kojima, but also cautiously revealed his confidence to Major General Hagiwara. Of course, this was to the latter's relief, and the brigade commander, Major General General himself, promised that no one would be able to put Hirai Nakasa in such a dangerous situation in the future.

Hirai Teriichi has always emphasized that the recruitment of comfort women should first of all be carried out in a gentle way of deception and abduction, and only by not attracting attention can they be kept secret; Only when this is unworkable or ineffective can we turn to more aggressive and risky methods of kidnapping and hijacking.

Hagiwara agreed in principle to the suggestion of the captain of the Songjiagou gendarmerie. Of course, his first consideration was not the question of moderation or radicalism, but the necessity of a quick -- Major General Suzuki, who was in charge of the "Wind Plan" at the North China Front Headquarters, had already called again to inquire about the progress of the new batch of comfort women.

Therefore, the brigade commander, Major General General Kojima, urged Masao Kojima to set up and operate the city hall as soon as possible: the first major event after the establishment of the city hall was to carry out a thorough registration of the city's registered population, in addition to distributing good citizen certificates, and more importantly, to provide assistance for the secret recruitment of comfort women.

Ending this communication with Hirai Teriichi, Major General Hagiwara ordered him to return to Songjiagou as soon as possible and stay incognito for some time: Hagiwara Akira was shocked by the sudden encounter of the military police captain in the area of Wencheng Railway Station, and if this tracking incident against Hirai was indeed committed by the Kuomintang Blue Coat Society, even if it was really caused by the other party's mistake, everyone must be 120,000 careful.

At this time, there was a new movement in Taiyuan.

The division headquarters of the Shangang Division stationed in Tuntaiyuan sent a secret telegram that the new head of the Taiyuan secret service, Tani Ogi Nakasa, had been in place to take over all the affairs that Kojima Masao was originally responsible for; Among them, the top priority is to hang up the tablet of the Shanxi Provincial Public Office as soon as possible. Before the establishment and operation of the provincial office, the cities and counties in Shanxi that had already been occupied by the imperial army should temporarily retain the administrative structure of the "public security maintenance committee" and should not elect the city and county governments in advance.

This is tantamount to pouring cold water on the head of the Hagiwara brigade commander. His plan to use Yang Yaozu, the current president of the Wencheng Maintenance Association, to form a city hall as soon as possible was ruthlessly shelved!

At the beginning of this year, the "Provisional Government of the Republic of China," supported by the North China Front Army and controlled by Kita Seiichi, head of the Peiping secret service, was established in Peiping, and Wang Kemin was elected chairman of the Executive Committee of the Provisional Government. The Provisional Government owned most of the four provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan, including the two special cities of Beiping and Tianjin. However, more than two months have passed, and the municipal offices of Beiping and Tianjin, as well as the Hebei Provincial Public Office, have barely been established, while the provincial offices of Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan are still in difficult labor.

The North China Front Command hopes that the candidates for the provincial office will be presiding over the provincial office, all of whom are local celebrities of considerable prestige, preferably those who have studied abroad (mainly in Japan) and are willing to serve the emperor; They also had to serve in the Kuomintang regime and have certain management skills. However, it is quite difficult to find such an ideal candidate among the provincial security maintenance committees at present. Most of the old ministries of the national government who were stranded in the local area were reluctant to come forward; And those who actively moved closer to the imperial army were often unable to catch up with their popularity and reputation.

The preparations of the Shanxi Provincial Office are currently in such an embarrassing situation. At the beginning of the year, the commander of the Hagiwara Akira Brigade, who was also stationed in the Taiyuan area with the Sena Division, had heard a little about this, but since the army in charge of the Taiyuan garrison was the Yamaoka Division, Major General Hagiwara had never cared about it. Now that the Sena Division has gone south, Masao Kojima, who has been in the Taiyuan secret service for a long time, has also been transferred to Wencheng in order to cooperate with the implementation of the "Wind Plan", and everything that happened in Taiyuan has become very alienated for them since then. Unexpectedly, this latest secret order from Taiyuan directly affected Wencheng, the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters and the Wencheng secret service, and the "Wind Plan".

Hagiwara hurriedly summoned Masao Kojima to discuss countermeasures.

The head of the island office who heard the news was not very surprised by this. The experience of serving as the head of the secret service of several cities in the Manchurian Empire made him deeply understand that the people of China cared about and even feared the title of "traitor". Since ancient times, Shanxi has been known as a place with outstanding people and celebrities, but it is still quite difficult to find out a large number of people who are willing to serve the imperial army. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Shanxi Provincial Office has been preparing so far, and it is still difficult to match the candidates for the heads of various institutions.

"General, I heard that the Taiyuan side intends to let Su Tiren, the current president of the Shanxi Provincial Maintenance Association, take charge of the future Shanxi Provincial Office and serve as the governor; However, this Su Tiren is said to be nepotistic, and the Shanxi Provincial Office in preparation is now stuffed with all his three relatives and six relatives, fox friends and dog friends, and his ability and virtue are despicable; In this regard, the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Yamaoka, was very troubled. ”

Masao Kojima explained to the anxious brigade commander.

Hagiwara Akira doesn't care if Yamaoka Shigehou has a headache or not, what he has a headache now is how to solve this mess in Wencheng - Yang Yaokang They have already announced the date of the establishment of the city hall with great fanfare, and the walls of the city are covered with notices. A few days later, a solemn ceremony was to be held, but suddenly such an order came!

The head of the secret service smiled slightly, and he advised the brigade commander and major general not to worry too much, a figure like Yang Yaokang is actually in his hands, and he wants to be square and round. This person is now the president of the Wencheng City Security Maintenance Association, and the powers he exercises are no different from those of the future city hall; Maintaining the changing city hall and whether Yang Yaokang will become mayor or not is just a play on words. As for the inhabitants of the city of China, as long as they have food to eat and work to do, they do not care about the titles of the institutions and officials who run them.

"So, is it appropriate for the maintenance committee to come forward in the matter of household registration? Does it cause suspicion? After being comforted by Masao Kojima, Hagiwara Akira's mood calmed down a little, and what he was most worried about was whether there would be hidden dangers in registering the city's registered population so vigorously.

"Whenever the Imperial Army arrives in a place, it should be normal to re-register the local population; It is unlikely that outsiders will see doubts about this. ”

"Kojima-kun, please remember that we are not dealing with ordinary outsiders, as you said, it is very likely that it is the cunning Blue Coat Society. Can you guarantee that they won't find a flaw in it? ”

Kojima Masao pondered for a moment, the brigade commander's concern was justified, not to mention the incident that a mysterious organization had just followed the captain of Hirai Temple.

"General, I think that as long as the bite is for the unified issuance of good citizen certificates to the citizens, this census registration should be able to fool the past. In addition, we do need to establish a system of good citizenship certificates, and in my experience in Manchuria, the good citizenship certificates are very helpful in screening anti-Japanese people. ”

"What about the Blue Coat Society? How are you going to deploy surveillance and strikes against them? I always have an ominous premonition that Project Wind is in danger of leaking. Maybe it was the accusation that Hirai Nakasa came to me that day, which made me a little nervous! ”

The head of the secret service felt a little unnatural - he didn't listen to Hirai Terai's protest at that time, and rashly used it as bait to participate in the arrest of Zhou Yi, and now it seems that there is indeed some Meng Lang. Perhaps, the mysterious organization was just inadvertently eyeing the disguised Hirai Teraichi at first; But after the sensational incident of arresting Zhou Yi, it is really difficult to predict whether the mysterious organization will lock its eyes on the military police captain in Songjiagou and then detect the comfort women camp there.

"Uh, General," Masao Kojima said as calmly as he could, "I have sent letters to the heads of the Army Secret Service in Beiping and Tianjin, requesting them to provide information on the activities of the local Blue Coat Society. It should be able to discover some clues about the Blue Coat Society in Shanxi. ”

Hagiwara looked at the other party and shook his head slightly: "The heads of Beiping and Tianjin, it's unlikely that they will pay attention to you, the head of Wencheng, they have to worry about a lot more messy than we have here." ”

Both fell silent for a moment. Hagiwara Akira picked up an official letter from the table, flipped through it intentionally or unintentionally, and suddenly, he raised his head and looked directly at Masao Kojima, who was silent:

"Perhaps, we can call the Front Command and ask Staff Officer Suzuki to coordinate from it. His words, whether in Beiping or Tianjin, should always have weight.

Masao Kojima's eyes also shine, this is undoubtedly a shortcut! It's just that Major General Suzuki and even the Front Army Command will suspect that the "Wind Plan" is at risk?

"I can't care about that much!" The brigade commander, Major General, waved his hand vigorously and interrupted the other party's doubts: "It is better to be suspected of leaking secrets than to be really leaked!" The General Staff Headquarters and the Front Army Headquarters are now keeping an eye on the implementation of the "Wind Plan", and we are doing this to give Shangfeng a preventive shot. If something really goes wrong in the future, it will be better to reduce your responsibilities and mine. ”

"Yes, yes! Or the general is wise! In fact, in my opinion, "Wind Project" involves such a wide range that it is inevitable that it will be revealed in the future. We have to make sure that the initial leak is not from us! ”

Hagiwara glanced at the head of the secret service with appreciative eyes - this is really a bit embarrassing and unkind to say that it is not the demeanor of a soldier of the Imperial Army, but if it is true, it has to be so.

Major General Brigade, commander of the brigade, immediately ordered the brigade headquarters to send a secret telegram to General Suzuki, a senior staff officer of the North China Front Headquarters, requesting him to come forward and coordinate with the heads of the secret services in Beiping and Tianjin to provide all the materials and intelligence of the Blue Coat Society.

Until this moment, all the high-ranking Japanese military officials who participated in the secret forced recruitment of comfort women still did not know that the Blue Coat Society, the military commander, which they were wary of, was desperately approaching this criminal and secret "wind plan".