Lu Ming later learned that this incident was originally initiated by the commander of the Shanghai-Ning garrison, General Chen Mingshu.
Because the 19th Route Army suffered heavy casualties in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, General Chen, who was upright and had a bad temper, could not think about food and drink and vowed to launch a revenge operation against the Japanese.
For this reason, he specifically asked the Military Commission for instructions and gave him a chance to act. The commission approved that he could execute it.
Then a branch emerges from here.
One of them, Mr. Chiang's head guard, called Lu Ming and asked him to take full responsibility for the retaliation against the Japanese in Shanghai.
The operation must be successful and must not leave any clues, let alone implicate the Republic of China government. It is best to use the hands of the Koreans to complete the task.
The chairman knew that Lu Ming had a special operations brigade, all of whom were Koreans, so he assigned this task to him.
The Chairman made it clear that if this retaliation was successful, he would personally award Lu Ming a Medal of Blue Sky and White Sun as a commendation.
However, this operation must be kept absolutely confidential, and no one except Lu Ming and the operating personnel must know or detect it.
Now in the Shanghai branch of Fuxing Society, only Lu Ming knows about this operation, and even Weng Bailing does not know about it.
The other group, General Chen Mingshu, met with Wang Yaqiao, the leader of the Ax Gang, and wanted Wang Yaqiao to be responsible for this revenge operation.
Wang Yaqiao promised fully, but after a few days of investigation, he found that it was impossible for him to enter Hongqiao Park and that his men were unable to carry out the mission.
After much deliberation, Wang Yaqiao had only one solution: to ask the Koreans to take action, so he introduced Jin Jiu, the head of the provisional government of the Republic of Korea, to Chen Mingshu.
Chen Mingshu immediately made an appointment with Jin Jiu, hoping that the Koreans in Shanghai could take charge of this operation, and Chen Mingshu would be responsible for providing funds and modifying bombs and other backup work.
Jin Jiu agreed without hesitation. Even without General Chen Mingshu's request, he would carry out such an operation.
Two months ago, his men assassinated the emperor in Japan. Although the operation failed, it caused a great shock to Japanese society. This time the Japanese wanted to hold a celebration event in Shanghai, and of course they would not miss the opportunity.
The slowest person here is Lu Ming.
Lu Ming was neither hesitant nor timid. He had drawn up several plans, but they were all suicidal actions. He could not think of any way to allow those who carried out the action to safely evacuate after throwing bombs.
This is completely contrary to his philosophy. He believes that everyone's life belongs to him and others have no right to take it away in any name.
And sending people to carry out such suicidal actions is actually depriving others of their lives.
Lu Ming personally went to Hongqiao Park to conduct on-site inspections many times, hoping to find a route that would allow the enforcement personnel to safely evacuate afterwards.
Before finding the evacuation route, Lu Ming did not come up with a plan, nor did he rush to discuss the action plan with An Gonggen.
However, after repeated deliberation, Lu Ming could not find a way to retreat.
Now the problem was before him, firstly he couldn't get in, and secondly he couldn't get out.
On the day of the celebration event, only Japanese can enter Hongqiao Park.
So what about pretending to be Japanese and entering?
How to prove that you are Japanese? Passport! Oh, passport!
Lu Ming suddenly thought of the Japanese blank passport he purchased from Qian Tian. That was the most convincing proof.
Lu Ming immediately called Qiantian and asked him to take time to go out to the park tomorrow.
Qian Tian smiled after receiving his call: "I forgot what I owe you. I will bring it to you tomorrow."
The two made an appointment to meet at the entrance of Hongqiao Park at nine o'clock the next morning.
The next morning, Lu Ming drove to Hongqiao Park. Qiantian was already waiting here, holding a leather bag in his hand.
The two met and smiled, without saying anything, and walked into the park side by side. After walking inside, they found a bench and sat down.
"This is what I should give you. Maybe it will come in handy someday." Qian Tian handed the leather bag in his hand to Lu Ming.
Lu Ming opened his wallet and saw that there were more than forty blank passports inside. He was shocked: "There are so many, can you get a discount on your passports?"
Qiantian smiled: "This is because what you gave is not silver coins, but gold bars, and the gold bars you gave are of extremely high quality and are rarely seen on the market anymore, so the Consul General gave you some more. In fact, these were free of charge."
It can be done, but the situation is too tense now."
Inside the leather bag were forty blank Japanese passports, as well as three staff passports of the Japanese Consulate in Brazil. What surprised Lu Ming the most was that there were also two Japanese consulate driving licenses.
Qiantian explained: "The three passports from the Brazilian Consulate are a special discount for you. I got the two driving licenses for you. I am in charge of this at the consulate. I don't know if you can use them. Anyway, now
If I can get it, I’ll get you two, but it will be difficult to get them in the future.”
"Thank you." Lu Ming said sincerely.
"Actually, I should thank you. I only gave fifteen of the twenty gold bars you gave me to the Consul General, leaving five gold bars for me to keep." Qian Tian blushed and said.
"You don't need to tell me this. Even if you buy these with twenty gold bars, you will make a lot of money. If you can buy them with less money, that's your ability." Lu Ming said with a smile.
Lu Ming knew that it was easy to say that the two consulate driving licenses were in the name of the Japanese Consulate. Giving him two was equivalent to occupying the consulate's driving license quota.
"Lu Sang, I know you have a way in Shanghai. In the future, you can buy more gold and save it. The world is not peaceful." Qiantian advised.
"I'll keep an eye on it. If Mr. Qiantian wants to buy gold bars, just let me know." Lu Ming said.
Of course he won't actually buy any gold bars to keep. If he needs gold bars, he can tell Sheng Youde and get them directly from Sheng Youde's bank.
He doesn't need to think about making money. It's a virtuous thing. He just wants to spend the money wisely.
"Well, I also have some yen on hand. One day I will give it to you and you can help me buy some gold bars." Kenta said with a wry smile.
"No problem, anytime." Lu Ming agreed readily.
Lu Ming wanted to give him another twenty gold bars, but he knew that Qiantian would not accept it. If Qiantian wanted to buy gold bars with Japanese yen, he would just buy them for him at the lowest price when the time comes.
If you don't use something like a passport, it's just a piece of white paper and worthless. But for those who need it, it's like real gold and silver, dollars and pounds. Even if you don't have certain connections, you can't buy it at all.
These passports are not fake, but are officially issued by the consulate, which means they are officially recognized by the Japanese government. All you need to do is sign your name on them, paste your photo, and then you are a Japanese citizen.
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Each embassy and consulate has a nationality management office of its own country. These passports come from the nationality management office. Of course, the nationality management office is also under the leadership of the ambassador and consul general.
The two people were talking when they suddenly saw three trucks driving into the park, with Japanese sun flags planted on the fronts of the trucks.
Lu Ming immediately realized that these cars must be related to Japan's victory celebration activities.
Lu Ming pretended not to know and said deliberately: "Mr. Qiantian, your car has arrived at the park. What is it doing? Is it here to pick you up?"
Kenta stood up, took two steps forward, and said, "I didn't want to tell you originally because I was afraid you would be unhappy. The military was going to hold a celebration event here on the Emperor's birthday. The consulate thought this was an attempt to irritate the Chinese authorities. No.
We are willing to host it, but now the military itself is hosting it, and we are just assisting."
"Does your military think you have won? Why don't I know? Even if you are thick-skinned, why bother showing off?" Lu Ming deliberately teased.
"The military is asking for credit from the emperor. It has always been this way, so no Chinese will be invited to this event. Japanese expats are welcome to participate," Kenda explained.
Lu Ming said angrily: "When is the Emperor's birthday? Why don't we place the memorial tablets of the Japanese soldiers killed in action now?"
"The Emperor's birthday is April 29, which is half a month away. They are going to build an observation tower. Normally, they will build two in the park to observe the surrounding situation." Kenta told the Japanese army.
Fang's actions are well understood.
"Oh, the military wants big shots to come." Lu Ming said calmly.
"Well, it is said that a general is coming..." Qiantian sighed.
Lu Ming didn't say anything else. He knew that the Japanese army had entered the scene early, so they had to take strict precautions, which would further increase the difficulty of the assassination operation.