Chapter 728: Reappearance of Courage (seeking a monthly ticket)
After Ning Zhiheng returned to his residence from Chunping Uehara's official residence, he locked the door of the study and immediately took the paper and pen.
Among the guests today, there are several intelligence officers under Junkai Uehara. The images of these people are very important and may be used on one day in the future.
He has a super memory. He carefully recalls his faces in his mind and slowly outlines them in his pen.
Fortunately, these faces were seen with his own eyes, and he didn't have to listen to other people's descriptions like before, and repeatedly revised them back and forth, so he started writing very quickly, until two o'clock in the morning to outline all four portraits, and the last one was the portrait of Shigetsu Takasaki Takasaki.
The reason why Ning Zhiheng wanted to draw was to memorize it repeatedly. No matter how strong a person's memory was, it would gradually become blurred or even forgotten after a period of time. After being described in his pen, he would have a very clear image in his mind, which would not be easily forgotten for a long time.
After painting the four portraits, he memorized them again, then took the camera and took them all, took them down and put them away.
Finally, he lit the matches and burned the four paintings, and saw them burning them to ashes with his own eyes, and then he cleaned them up.
In the next few days, because of the busy official business before the war, Junpei Uehara had no time to spend more time with Ning Zhiheng, so Ning Zhiheng had occasional conversations with Junpei Uehara, and other time, he traveled around Wuhan City.
Wuhan is located in the eastern part of the Jianghan Plain. The Yangtze River and its Han River run across the city center. It divides Wuhan’s central urban area into three, forming a pattern of three towns across the river. The city is full of rivers and rivers, and the lakes and ports are intertwined, and the scenery is quite distinctive.
Ning Zhiheng had only stayed in Wuhan for three months. During this period, due to the tight time of preparations for the second department of the operation, he had no time to visit the scenery. This time he had no sidelines for the time being, so he calmed down and came to visit everywhere.
At the same time, I investigated the situation of Wuhan's commercial market. Wuhan City is an important town in central China and one of the most important metropolises in the Republic of China. Especially Hankou Town, the economy is very prosperous. Many foreign banks have semicolons in Hankou, and Citibank is one of them. Intelligence dealer Miller once worked in this bank.
However, because of the Japanese, many businesses are barely maintaining it, and the entire market is not prosperous.
Ning Zhiheng took advantage of the tour and returned to his former official residence and office space, but unfortunately, things have changed.
At the same time, in another corner of Wuhan City, a young man wearing a police cap and black police uniform was walking quickly on the street. Soon, he came to the door of a Chinese medicine shop with a very small storefront.
From the corner of his eyes, he glanced around and saw that there was nothing unusual, so he stepped in.
There was a customer in the Chinese medicine shop who was taking medicine. The thin old man behind the counter saw the young man walking in and nodded slightly. He didn't stop, and he quickly finished taking medicine for the customer and sent him out. Seeing that there was no one in the store, he turned around and whispered to the young man: "Let's talk later!"
The young policeman nodded, and the two of them quickly entered the back hall of the store and sat opposite each other in the room.
The young policeman first asked, "Uncle Quan, I saw the meeting mark. I'm so anxious to find me. What's the important thing?"
This young policeman has been lurking in Wuhan City, Miao Yongyi, the captain of the Wuhan Station Operations of the Military Intelligence Bureau.
At that time, Miao Yongyi was transferred to Wuhan Station. It was just when Wuhan was about to fall. All members of the Wuhan Station took off their military uniforms, forged their files and changed their identities, and lurked on the spot.
Miao Yongyi was appointed as Zhang Xinli and was arranged by the Military Intelligence Bureau to enter the police station and become a small sheriff. After the Japanese army occupied Wuhan, they did not make any changes to the original police system. Anyway, they also needed some Chinese people to help them maintain the place, so Miao Yongyi lurked smoothly.
Uncle Quan was his contact with the underground party. Because of his special status and high confidentiality level, Miao Yongyi was an intelligence officer directly managed by the headquarters, so he was directly led by Uncle Quan, who has a high status in the underground party organization in Wuhan.
Uncle Quan nodded and said, "There is indeed an important thing to come to you. Did the police arrest Chai Guoan, the owner of the Chuwenbao Pavilion, yesterday afternoon, as well as two editors and four staff members?"
Miao Yongyi nodded and replied: "I know this."
"Do you know what the specific reason is?"
Although Miao Yongyi is just a sheriff in the police station, he is very enthusiastic because of his cheerful personality and likes to make friends. He has some energy inside the police station and cannot hide many things from him.
"The cause of the matter is very simple. The main reason is that the newspaper owner Chai Guoan offended Ma Yaowu, the director of the Wuhan Police General Administration, and was then attacked by someone."
It turns out that Miao Yongyi is really clear about the whole story of this incident. Chai Guoan, the owner of the newspaper office, is a wealthy businessman in Wuhan. He has many industries under his name, and the Chuwen Daily is just one of them.
Chai Guoan has a rich family and is quite cautious in nature. It has nothing to do with Ma Yaowu, but he did not expect that the problem lies with his son.
Ma Yaowu married the third concubine, who had a relationship with Chai Guoan's son at some point. In the end, the matter was exposed and he was cuckolded. How could Ma Yaowu stop?
As a result, Chai Guoan's son ignored him and took the third concubine to run away, which made him poke the beehive's nest.
Ma Yaowu is the director of the General Police Bureau. Not only is he powerful, but someone has a gun, so he immediately hit the door. Chai Guoan had no choice but to wipe his son's butt, and paid a lot of money to Ma Yaowu, and promised to find the third concubine back and leave it to Ma Yaowu for treatment. Finally, he made excuses for this matter.
However, the aftermath of this matter was not over. Ma Yaowu got a lot of money, but the tone in his heart did not pass. In addition, the money was easy to come, so he set his sights on Chai Guoan and went to blackmail him several times. Chai Guoan couldn't bear it. In the end, the two of them broke up and parted in disagreement.
Ma Yaowu wanted to deal with a business without too many methods. He immediately used all kinds of tricks, threatening and inducing the typesetting and printing workers of the Chuwen Daily Museum, and tampered with the Chuwen Daily the next day and published a front-page anti-Japanese article.
When the newspapers found out, a lot of newspapers had already spread out. As a result, Ma Yaowu reported to the Wuhan Special High School in Japan with the newspaper, saying that Chai Guoan's Chuwen Daily's propaganda against Japanese remarks was a hidden anti-Japanese element.
The Japanese had a strict control over Wuhan City, especially the public's anti-Japanese public opinion. After occupying Wuhan, they killed many Chinese people for this reason. Now that this problem has occurred, the Special High School quickly ordered Ma Yaowu to arrest relevant people from Chuwen Daily.
So Ma Yaowu, who had already prepared, directly led his people into the Chuwen Daily Museum and arrested Chai Guoan, the two editors of the newspaper, as well as four employees who worked in the newspaper at that time.
Not only that, Ma Yaowu also sealed all industries under Chai Guoan's name and began to embezzle the property of the Chai family.
When Uncle Quan heard this, he couldn't help but punch his hands and palms, and said in annoyance: "It turns out that it's the reason. This is really a disaster!"
Miao Yongyi looked at Uncle Quan in surprise and asked softly: "What, this matter has something to do with us?"
Uncle Quan nodded and said helplessly: "Chai Guoan has nothing to do with us, but Pei Wenrui, the editor-in-chief of Chuwen Daily, is ours. This time he was suddenly arrested, and all the personnel on his work line are not safe. We urgently need to find out his situation and rescue him as soon as possible."
After hearing Uncle Quan’s narrative, Miao Yongyi quickly realized that the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Pei Wenrui, must be not simple in the party status, otherwise he would not have made senior officials like Uncle Quan so nervous.
"Uncle Quan, is Pei Wenrui's identity very important?" Miao Yongyi asked.
Uncle Quan sighed and replied: "It's very important!"
He did not explain much. In fact, Pei Wenrui's real identity is one of the members of the Standing Committee of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee. This is the absolute top management of the Wuhan underground party organization. He knows too many secrets. This time the problem is really serious.
"This is a bit troublesome. This incident has informed the Japanese Special High School. The Japanese have always regarded us Chinese as grass. They are likely to shoot everyone in order to kill one and warn them. They can do this kind of thing."
Miao Yongyi's analysis is not an exaggeration. In fact, the Central China dispatched troops have always been fierce and brutal in their attitude towards the Chinese. Since the landing in Shanghai, they have committed countless tragedies in central China. The Nanjing Massacre is just one of them. After occupying Wuhan, they have also killed and plundered. Under the pressure of the Japanese, citizens are trembling in their lives.
Now that Pei Wenrui is arrested, even if it does not endanger the underground party organization, such senior officials who died inexplicably under the guns of the Japanese will also cause great losses to the entire organization.
Uncle Quan also said anxiously: "I am worried about this. Our organization does not have a strong relationship in the city of Wuhan. It's really troublesome now!"
Originally, the underground party organizations were lurking in Wuhan for many years, but they still had some relationships at the upper level. Unfortunately, the Wuhan Battle started, and those powerful officials fled to Chongqing and the southwest. The forces in Wuhan were reshuffled. Now the people in charge were all traitors who defected to the Japanese. The underground party organizations had no way to clear the relationship for a while.
On the contrary, Miao Yongyi was in the police station because of the arrangements of the Military Intelligence Bureau. Uncle Quan asked Miao Yongyi in order to find out the real reason why Pei Wenrui was arrested.
Chapter completed!