The Battle of Jiangcheng ended in mid-November, lasting more than 20 days than before, and millions of Jinling government troops fought bloody battles, inflicting heavy casualties on the Japanese army of about 100,000 people.

According to comprehensive statistics, the total number of casualties and sick of the Japanese army in this battle exceeded 250,000, which is equivalent to 60 percent of the loss of combat effectiveness, and it has no ability to continue fighting.

On the eve of the fall of Jiangcheng, the military command center and other military command centers and the organs of the major departments of the Executive Yuan in Jiangcheng were officially relocated to Shancheng.

Beginning on 14 July, Gao Zongwu and Mei Siping first held talks on the draft agreement with Takeo Imai, squad leader of the Chinese squad of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, and assistant Yoshio Ito at Shigemudo Hall, where the Tohihara office is located. The content is similar to what Mei Siping and Gao Zongwu discussed many times with the Japanese side during their stay in the port city.

On 15 July, Takeo Imai returned to Tokyo with the draft agreement to report to the Ministry of War, and after negotiations between the Ministry of War and the General Staff Headquarters, it was decided to use the draft agreement as the basis for forming and supporting Wang's puppet government, and appointed Akira Kagesa and Takeo Imai to complete the negotiations on behalf of the Ministry of War and the General Staff Headquarters respectively.

On the 18th, Akira Kagesa and Takeo Imai, who were interviewed by military bigwigs in Tokyo, returned to Shanghai, and Yoshiaki Nishi, Yoshio Ito, and Ken Inukai also arrived.

Negotiations continued on 20 July, and at 7 p.m., the two sides signed two documents, the "Record of the Agreement" and the "Matters of Understanding in the Record of the Agreement," while the other "Record of the Secret Agreement" was not signed for the time being.

After the talks, Mei Siping, Gao Zongwu, Kagesa-Zhenzhao, and Imai Takeo drew up a set of detailed plans and schedules for Wang Jingwei's departure abroad and the issuance of a declaration by the Japanese cabinet.

The secret residence of Liao Yaquan in the French Concession.

"You called to see me, but you were preoccupied, what happened?" Han Lin looked at the hesitant Liao Yaquan and asked.

Of course, he knew what was going on with this female spy, and in this secret meeting at Chongguangtang, the Ministry of War and the General Staff Headquarters put aside the Dohihara organs, and Kagesa Showa and Imai Takeo were responsible for the rebellion against Wang Jingwei, and it has now entered a critical stage of implementation.

Because of the killing of Tang Shaochuan, Wu Peifu refused to be co-opted by Japan, and there has been no progress, and the initiative to support the puppet government has been slowly transferred from the hands of Kenji Tohihara to the hands of Kagezo Zhenzhao, which also indicates that the prospects of the advisory department of the special high school are not very optimistic.

"There's something that is highly secret to the Empire, and I don't know if I should tell you or not." Liao Yaquan said.

"I don't have any desire to learn about the high secrets of Japan, I know very well the way you Japanese do things, once I become an insider, if something goes wrong, you will first suspect me, maybe you will kill me, I don't need to make trouble for myself." Han Lin shook his head and said.

"Do you know that the representative of a big man in your Jinling government and the representative of the Imperial Military Department have held a series of talks in the near future?" Liao Yaquan asked.

"Are you underestimating me, I'm the police chief of the Central Military Police Command of the Jinling government, and I'm just doing spy work, or the chief of the inspection department of the Shancheng Garrison Command, if there is a stir inside, I'm not alert at all, can I mix up with my current position? Isn't it Gao Zongwu and Mei Siping! Han Lin had a disdainful smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he was laughing at Liao Yaquan.

"You actually know that Gao Zongwu and Mei Siping are secretly in contact and negotiating with the empire?" Liao Yaquan was dumbfounded.

The secret she thought was like a trick in Han Lin's eyes, which felt very bad, but the question was, how did Han Lin know?

"Originally, Gao Zongwu, the director of the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was ordered by the president to go to the port city to collect information on the Japanese side, and he could also have some contact, but he had the audacity to go to Japan to meet your Minister of War Seishiro Itagaki and Minister of the Navy Mitsumasa Yonechi and other cabinet members, as well as Deputy Chief of Staff Tada Jun, Diet Councilor Ken Inuyo, and Akira Akira and Imai Takeo."

"Back in Hong Kong City, Gao Zongwu didn't dare to go directly to Wuchang to see President Jiang, so he sent someone to send the record of the meeting, and the Japanese side proposed to ask President Jiang to go to the field and let Wang Jingwei clean up the situation, which almost made President Jiang angry to death, and removed Gao Zongwu's director of Asia." Han Lin said with a smile.

"Do you know they represent Wang Jingwei?" Liao Yaquan asked.

"Nonsense, fools know this, that is, you are about to grow hair when you cover it as a baby, I thought it was some top secret!" Han Lin pursed his lips and said.

"I know that you have a channel at the top and can meet President Jiang, why didn't you expose their actions?" Liao Yaquan asked very strangely.

"I have no evidence, Wang Jingwei is still the vice president of the Jinling government, and he has a status second only to President Jiang in the government, and the identification without evidence is a disaster for me, and at the same time, I also have a little selfishness." Han Lin said.

"Your own selfishness? I'll hear it! "Liao Yaquan is interested.

"The situation has come to this point, both sides have paid an almost unbearable price, our price is far more painful than Japan, when Jinling City fell, the fact of the massacre was bloody in front of us, therefore, whether it is the Jinling government or the Japanese government, there is no possibility of retreating, and the end of the war can be described as far away."

"Since Wang Jingwei wants to negotiate with Japan and wants to end the war and seek development, I also want to see what Japan wants to achieve through this matter, and if it can really help Wang Jingwei's government carry out many reforms in accordance with the strategy of the Meiji Restoration, as promised before, and withdraw troops from China, such cooperation is also an acceptable new way."

"You know, I have a great appreciation for Japan's development history, and I also want China to become rich and strong, which is the basis of my cooperation with you. The reason why I am still in China is because this ideal supports me, otherwise I would have run away a long time ago. Han Lin said.

Of course, he knew that Wang Jingwei, a group of traitors, was afraid of Japan's powerful force, and was not only pessimistic about the future, but also out of his own interests and desire for power, and wanted to be a puppet by betraying the interests of the country and the nation.

The reason why he seems to be very "naïve" to say such things to Liao Yaquan is the role he has always played, and it is also because of his "naïve" thoughts that he has made the best explanation for his ambivalence of standing still.

In order to penetrate into the enemy's interior and carry out their work, intelligence officers say something against their conscience, which is a show, and there is no ideological burden.

(End of chapter)