However, Matsumoto's expression was not as positive as Gao Zongwu expected. Instead, he stared at him with a calm look, as if he did not believe that his plan would succeed!
Matsumoto said: "Aren't you going to meet with Shigeru Kawagata tomorrow? Talk to him about your idea and see what he says. Mr. Gao, no matter how much we talk, it's useless!"
Gao Zongwu and Matsumoto Shigeharu talked for an entire afternoon, but they got this result!
He walked around the room several times and looked at his watch. It was already past ten o'clock at night.
He quietly left the room.
9-17
Gao Zongwu first went downstairs to the bakery on the west side of the lobby.
The pastries of this bakery are famous all over Shanghai and are very delicious. He asked the waiter for a plate of Songhua cakes and a cup of coffee, and sat at the table to taste them slowly.
Ten minutes later, he saw his assistant appear at the door of the bakery and nodded to him.
He knew that the time had come. He must report the results of this afternoon's meeting to the Chairman of the Committee as soon as possible.
He glanced around, then quietly stood up and walked out the door.
9-18
As soon as he walked out of the gate of the International Hotel, a black car stopped in front of him. Without thinking, he opened the door and got in. The car immediately sped forward.
The car was driving very fast. Gao Zongwu looked back and saw that there was indeed a car following him. He knew without thinking that the Japanese were following him!
The car was speeding down the street, suddenly turned into a side street, and braked suddenly.
Someone outside rushed to the car, opened the door violently, and dragged Gao Zongwu out in one fell swoop.
As soon as the door closed, the car sped forward again.
In the darkness, two people carried Gao Zongwu and quickly hid in a corner by the wall. As soon as they stood up, they saw the following car speeding past their eyes and continued to follow.
They stood in the dark for about five minutes when another black car drove over and stopped in front of them.
Like a puppet, Gao Zongwu was forced into the car, the door was slammed shut, and he drove away.
As soon as he stopped being frightened, he looked at the night scene outside the car window.
He was relatively familiar with Shanghai, and could vaguely see that the car was heading south along Tibet Road. He noticed that the journey was quite far. According to his understanding of Shanghai, the last place the car arrived seemed to be outside the Old West Gate of Nanshi.
When the car stopped and he was pulled out again, he hurriedly glanced around and realized that this was indeed Gele Road outside Laoximen of Nanshi.
9-19
Gao Zongwu was quickly sent to the secret room on Jile Road, where he was greeted by Luo Jiang and Gong Binsheng.
He can only report to the Chairman of the Committee on the status of his talks with Mr. Matsumoto this afternoon through the Secret Service's secret radio station in Shanghai. What he needs to do now is to give Luo Jiang and Gong Binsheng a brief summary of the afternoon talks.
He sighed with emotion as soon as he opened his mouth, "Brother Luo, do you still remember that I told you before the war started in Shanghai, don't start a war! Don't start a war! Once a war starts, it cannot be ended! Look, is it like this now!
Now even people like Shigeharu Matsumoto are telling me that they occupied Shanghai and Nanjing, and the whole of Japan has gone crazy! Do you hear it? It is very difficult to negotiate peace now! Our defeat is certain! They are even more arrogant and domineering!
How can we talk about it if you ask me!"
Gao Zongwu wowed with emotion, and then turned to the topic, introducing the situation of his talks with Matsumoto Shigeharu.
However, he did not mention a word about the peace plan he proposed to Matsumoto.
He feels that this plan will only be valuable when he talks with Kawahara Shigeru. He believes that Kawahara Shigeru must be interested in his peace plan. After everything is discussed, he will report to the Chairman of the Committee in person. Then
That’s the best!
After Gao Zongwu finished talking about his talks with Matsumoto, Luo Jiang sent someone to quietly send him back to the International Hotel.
Next, he and Gong Binsheng stood head to head, carefully considering the message to be reported to the superior.
After the telegram was drafted and handed over to the telegraph operator for dispatch, they sat together and looked at each other with more doubtful eyes.
They are all experienced agents! Good at analyzing various situations!
Experienced agents like them all have an important characteristic: they are very familiar with the political forces of all parties at home and abroad! If you don’t understand, you may do bad things with good intentions! Or even be thankless for your efforts! That is called injustice!
Within the party, within the government, and within the army, it can almost be said that there are many hills and complex factions! But the biggest hill, the biggest faction, is actually only two. One is the faction that leads the war, and the other is the faction that advocates peace.
Mr. Wang’s group!
The opposition between Jiang and Wang is no longer a secret! Both Luo Jiang and Gong Binsheng know this very well!
The problem is that Gao Zongwu is obviously a member of the Wang faction and is very close to Mr. Wang. His political views are almost the same as those of Mr. Wang! But the first committee chairman sent Gao Zongwu to Shanghai to negotiate with the Japanese! This is
No matter how you look at it, it looks like you are getting married! How could such a shrewd person as a committee member do such a thing!
This is what Luo Jiang and Gong Binsheng were confused about, but to varying degrees.
Luo Jiang couldn't understand the matter at all. Gong Binsheng guessed that the committee leader had a far-reaching conspiracy, but he couldn't guess the real reason.
Therefore, Gong Binsheng's last sentence expressed this meaning.
He said: "Brother Luo, as long as you believe in the wisdom of the chairman of the committee, there must be something unexpected in this matter that makes you and me strange! Go to bed early, there will be other things tomorrow."
But Luo Jiang was lying on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, always thinking about the mystery of this matter.
9-20
That night, Hong Shankui and several of his brothers didn't sleep all night!
The wooden boxes for packaging the guns have been delivered and are piled up like a mountain outside the warehouse door.
Hong Shankui believed that Brother Liang Mao was right. His guns would always have to be shipped sooner or later, so they should pack them in boxes and wait for the opportunity, and not catch them blind when the opportunity comes!
Secondly, it is really unsafe to keep so many guns at home! Maybe it would be safer to hide the guns in the warehouse!
As soon as it got dark, several of them started packing guns.
The guns that are packaged first are naturally good guns. Those guns with defects can only wait until the future.
The cotton blankets and backpack straps that originally wrapped the guns were still piled in the warehouse. They shook off the soil on them and continued to use them to wrap the guns. Five guns were placed upright, five guns were placed upside down, wrapped in cotton blankets, and then used in backpacks.
The straps are tied tightly and finally put into the wooden box.
Those wooden boxes were all used by other people, and there were various product names posted on the outside, which was a bit confusing.
Mrs. Hong got the news and came too. She folded her arms on her chest and watched them packing.
She quickly saw the problem and said: "Shankui, why don't you pack the gun and bullets separately? When needed, you have a gun but no bullets. It's better to use a fire stick!"
One sentence reminded Hong Shankui. He unpacked several bundles of guns and put a hundred rounds of bullets inside. After thinking about it, he put ten more guns inside and wrapped them again.
He thought it would be best to open a pack of guns and use them!
Mrs. Hong asked: "Who is Ning that I am looking for?"
Hong Shankui said: "He is the foreman of Shiliupu Freight Terminal, and he is in charge of dozens of people. He hides our goods in the cargo yard. Auntie, I really don't trust it at home. The Japanese have been here.
Once, if they come again, they won’t be able to hide so many guns!”
"Ning, can you trust him?"
"I had a fight with him in Luodian. He is a man, no problem!"
"What's his luck?"
"He hid my goods in the British goods. As long as the British goods are on the ship, my goods will also be on the ship!"
"So many, all on board?"
"Let's ship five boxes first. Let's try it first and then talk about it."
Mrs. Hong nodded, still looking at him with some suspicion, "Then, where is the boundary?"
Hong Shankui said: "As soon as the goods are on the ship, Brother Liang Mao will notify me. Wherever the ship is going, I will go there in advance. Once there, I spend some money to bribe a foreman and get my goods out."
Mrs. Hong nodded and said: "I am still the same person. Look at this Ning, is it really reliable?"
"Auntie, that guy stayed with us at Luodian Station for more than a month! He endured a hail of bullets! He and I are friends of life and death! There is absolutely no problem!"
"He went to Luodian to pick up a gun. What was he going to do in Luodian?"
"He was on the stretcher team, going to transport the wounded soldiers. Once the battle started, he was stuck there."
Mrs. Hong is a heroic girl who was born on the beach in Shanghai. She has gone through many trials and tribulations and has gained countless popularity. A member of the stretcher team, but she stayed in the fiercest battlefield in Luodian for a month! He must be a lunatic!
She asked calmly: "What is his name?"
Hong Shankui said: "His name is Liang Mao. Mao means lush Mao. Auntie, what are you worried about?"
Mrs. Hong looked at Hong Shankui and said nothing. However, she did remember the name.
The reason why Mrs. Hong remembers Liang Mao's name is actually very simple, "Whoever ruins the Ala thing must be called Mo De's good fruit!" This is a thought that all gang members will have!
9-21
That night, there was still one person who didn't fall asleep, and naturally it was Xiao Ancheng.
There was no light on in his room. He always sat quietly in front of the window, observing everything in the clinic through a small gap in the curtain.
What he is most concerned about is the three huge warehouse-like houses in the backyard, guessing the secrets inside.
At about ten o'clock at night, he finally discovered that there was movement in one of the three big houses, the one near the small building of the clinic.
The door at one end of the house opened silently, and two Japanese men in white coats, whom he believed to be Japanese, pushed out a flat cart with wheels. There was a person lying on the cart, who was fixed to the flat cart by a belt.
Xiao Ancheng couldn't see clearly the face of the person in the car, but he believed that it should be a Chinese!