novelAbuy Chapter 1778 Block 6
Chapter 1778 Block 6
Chapter 1778 Six of Diamonds
Germany formally accepted the surrender of France, and the Pétain government submitted a letter of surrender to Germany.
This was like the second boot from upstairs falling to the floor, and the frightened people in the French Concession actually breathed a sigh of relief.
At this point, it was not a bad thing that the French Concession had a German emperor.
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chongqing.
Yang Erbao stood at the door of the rice shop with a bag of rice in his hand and a sad look on his face.
After hesitating for a long time, he gritted his teeth, went to the pawnshop next door, pawned his pen, and then went back to the rice shop to buy rice.
Yang Erbao's family lives on Gele Mountain. They only have one house, and the five members of the family are squeezed into such a small space. They eat, drink, defecate, urinate and sleep in the house.
Coupled with the scorching summer heat in Chongqing, it is truly unbearable.
In addition, in order to avoid the bombing of Japanese planes, Yang Erbao had to grit his teeth and raise money with his neighbors to dig a small air-raid shelter.
He returned home carrying the bag of rice and handed it to his wife. When the three children saw their mother going to cook porridge, they cheered immediately.
"I'm going to go out and take a look if there's any employer looking to hire someone." Yang Erbao said to his wife.
Half an hour later, Yang Erbao, who had run into obstacles everywhere, looked worried. He found a roadside tea stall and ordered a bowl of tea.
"Mr. Yang hasn't started work yet?" The stall owner wiped the sweat off his face with a yellowed towel and sat down to talk to Yang Erbao.
"It's not easy to live in Chongqing." Yang Erbao gulped down a few sips of rough tea and said with a sigh.
"Take your time. Life has to go on," said the stall owner. He looked around and asked in a low voice, "Have you checked it out?"
"Confirmed." Yang Erbao nodded, "That man really did escape from Jiangshan, so he shouldn't be bragging."
"Very good." The stall owner said, "This person is a rare commodity. It would be great if you could successfully get into Luojia Bay through him."
"From what that man said, he should be from the Jiangshan Mao family. With this relationship, it should be useful." Yang Erbao said.
Mao Fulin, his neighbor who had partnered with him to invest in digging the air-raid shelter, fled to Chongqing from Jiangshan with his family. He learned from Mao Fulin that this man was likely to be of the same clan as Qi Wu of the Military Control Commission. These days, he has been thinking about inducing Mao Fulin to find Qi Wu to become his relative.
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"What's this guy's character like?" asked the stall owner.
"Although he likes to brag, he is an honest man by nature and he cares about his reputation." Yang Erbao said with a smile.
Although Mao Fulin boasted that his distant relative was a high-ranking official in Chongqing, he was too ashamed to associate with him because of his own poverty.
"If you want to save face, it's because you haven't reached the end of the road yet." A hint of ferocity flashed in the stall owner's eyes, "Then let's help him."
"Okay." Yang Erbao nodded.
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That night.
There was a sudden fire in Mao Fulin's house. If Yang Erbao had not discovered the situation in his neighbor's house in time and helped to put out the fire and save people, the Mao family might have been burned to death in their home.
Looking at the house that was half burned, Mao Fulin sat on the ground, smoking and sighing.
"Brother Mao, we are lucky that no one is hurt. We can always find a way to deal with the rest." Yang Erbao comforted him.
"What can we do?" Mao Fulin said bitterly, "We might starve to death on the streets."
"Didn't Brother Mao say he had relatives in Chongqing?" Yang Erbao said, "Now that things have come to this, why not go and seek refuge with your relatives?"
Mao Fulin was obviously interested, but he just sighed and said nothing.
"Brother Mao, you are just too proud. You have such a good relative to rely on. Others can't even dream of it." Yang Erbao said, "Brother Mao, if you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your family."
As he spoke, he picked up Mao Fulin's little girl. The girl's face was covered with dust, and her hair was burnt by fire, making her look like a curly-haired puppy. She looked very pitiful.
"Forget it, forget it." Mao Fulin threw the cigarette butt on the ground, picked it up again with regret, took a puff, and then threw it away again, "I'll sacrifice my face and go to live with my relatives."
"That's right." Yang Erbao said happily, "Brother Mao and I are of similar size. I'll get some clean clothes to change into later. I know Chongqing better than you do. I'll go with you tomorrow."
"How can this be so embarrassing?" Mao Fulin said.
"You and I are brothers, that's a bit too formal." Yang Erbao said with a smile, "Besides, if you become successful, I'll still rely on you to help me."
As he spoke, he handed a cigarette to Mao Fulin and said, "To be honest, I'm also facing setbacks everywhere. My family can barely make ends meet."
Hearing what Yang Erbao said, Mao Fulin nodded.
Yang Erbao is a good neighbor and, most importantly, he is an honest person. These frank words actually put him at ease and made him feel much better.
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a few days later.
"Director, there is intelligence coming back from Europe," Qi Wu said to Dai Chunfeng, "The Vichy regime in France seems to be interested in forming an alliance with the Germans."
"What alliance?" Dai Chunfeng snorted coldly, "It's just Wang Tianhai's puppet regime in France."
"That's true," Qi Wu said. "But it's not without its benefits. It will be more difficult for the Japanese to occupy the French Concession."
Dai Chunfeng nodded.
The Japanese almost entered the French Concession last time. Although they temporarily stopped due to opposition from the great powers, everyone knows that the Japanese covet the French Concession, and there is no telling when the French Concession will fall into the hands of the enemy.
Now, if the French puppet regime formally allies with the Germans, then the Japanese, who are also allied with the Germans, will lose the moral right to seek territorial claims on the French Concession from a legal perspective, which may not be a bad thing.
Just at this time, Mao Shun came hurriedly.
"Director, urgent telegram from Tianjin."
Qi Wu took the telegram, waved his hand, and Mao immediately retreated.
"Commander." Qi Wu lowered his head to read the telegram, his face was shocked, and a trace of sadness appeared on his face, "Che Che, died for his country."
Dai Chunfeng snatched the telegram and read it, then let out a long sigh.
Tianjin District Mayor Che Che was arrested last year. He was tortured but remained steadfast and unyielding.
Dai Chunfeng once sent someone to secretly convey a message to Che Che, allowing him to pretend to surrender to the Japanese in order to preserve his usefulness.
Che Che flatly refused and sent back a message:
I am aware of the kindness shown by the Director General and am deeply grateful for it. However, since I have been ordered to go north, I am determined to serve my country with my death. I will not return south until the enemy is destroyed. How can I, a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, surrender to the Japanese invaders? I am willing to serve my country with my five-foot-tall body and my passionate blood!
Afterwards, Che Che was tortured by the Japanese for more than half a year, but he remained steadfast and unyielding.
The telegram showed that just three days ago, Che Che was killed by Japanese troops in the Tianjin gendarmerie.
"In just half a month, three of my generals were killed!" Dai Chunfeng said in a sad tone.
Half a month before Che Che was murdered, Jiao Jiemin, a special commissioner of Tianjin Station, was escorted from Tianjin to Beijing by the Japanese army and died heroically.
Jiao Jiemin was arrested together with Che Che. After his arrest, he was tortured. It was said that two of the Japanese army's torture rods were broken. However, he remained steadfast and unyielding, and was eventually brutally murdered.
Also killed along with Jiao Jiemin was Zeng Zhiyi, the stationmaster of Tianjin Station.
After Zeng Zhiyi was arrested, he managed to bribe the jailer to pass on two secret letters, which were also posthumous telegrams.
One is for Tianjin Station——
I have been engaged in the revolution for more than 20 years. Unfortunately, I have been captured by the enemy. I must repay my country with my life. The station has urgently sent a telegram to the central government to send a replacement to avoid slackness and further increase my blame.
The second is a suicide note to Dai Chunfeng:
Please ask the director to assign someone to take charge of the work at Tianjin Station as soon as possible. Now that our unit has fallen into the hands of the enemy, we know it is difficult to survive. We have already made the utmost determination and are ready to make sacrifices. We only hope that our Chinese civilization will continue and that the war of resistance will be victorious.
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"It hurts so much!" Dai Chunfeng punched the desk.
Qi Wu also remained silent. Che Che, Jiao Jiemin and Zeng Zhiyi were all generals under Dai Chunfeng whom he trusted very much. After these three died for their country, the Tianjin Station was almost completely abandoned.
"Is there any news about Chi Bochao?" Dai Chunfeng asked coldly.
Che Che and others were arrested because of betrayal by Chi Bochao, an old subordinate of Wang Tiemu. Previously, he was the chief of the First Section of the General Affairs Office of Tianjin District. He had also worked in the Peking War. It can be said that this person was the culprit for the incidents in Tianjin and Peking.
"The Tianjin area is almost abandoned. The Peking side did call back earlier. They bribed a puppet officer and learned that Chi Bochao had returned to his hometown in Shanghai in order to avoid our sanctions." Qi Wu said.
"Have you returned to your hometown in Shanghai? Is the news confirmed?" Dai Chunfeng asked.
"Unconfirmed." Qi Wu shook his head.
"Call Xiao Mian and ask him to find out Chi Bochao's whereabouts." Dai Chunfeng said murderously, "If this scum is really in Shanghai, have the Special Affairs Department sanction him at all costs!"
"Understood." Qi Wu nodded. He knew that Dai Chunfeng hated Chi Bochao so much that he rarely issued this "at all costs" sanction order to the Shanghai Special Affairs Department instead of the Shanghai District.
"What's the current situation in Tianjin?" Dai Chunfeng asked again.
"The situation is not optimistic. The Shanghai area was previously captured by the enemy and suffered heavy losses. Now there are only less than ten people holding on, barely maintaining basic work." Qi Wu said.
"Dispatch capable personnel to Tianjin." Dai Chunfeng said in a deep voice, "Tianjin Station is our military's anti-Japanese fortress, it must be rebuilt!"
"I'll arrange it right away." Qi Wu nodded.
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"I heard that Mao Shun arranged people to enter Luojia Bay?" Dai Chunfeng suddenly asked.
"That's true." Qi Wu nodded. "It's the relative Mao Fulin I mentioned to you before. He is from Daxi and came to Chongqing with his family."
"Have you conducted an investigation? Is the person okay?" Dai Chunfeng asked.
"We've investigated, there's no problem. Mao Shun met this man and had some vague impression of him. He asked him questions and found that he matches." Qi Wu said.
"Since he is a relative and a fellow villager, take good care of him." Dai Chunfeng nodded, "If he has the ability, give him a chance. If he doesn't have the ability, give him a bowl of rice to eat."
"He is an honest man. He has been in Chongqing for nearly half a year, but has never come to visit relatives. This time his house caught fire, and he had no other choice but to come here." Qi Wu said.
"I'm at ease when you do the job." Dai Chunfeng nodded slightly.
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Shanghai.
Extraordinary courses.
Arao Chihiro returned to the office with a gloomy face.
He took the towel from Yoshimura Shinpachi and wiped the blood off his hands.
The Special High Police captured a member of the Red Party underground party and used all kinds of torture on him, but this person never spoke.
Arao Tomohiro had even gone to the interrogation room to watch the torture in person, and the man spat out a large mouthful of blood. Seeing that the man was stubborn and unyielding, Arao Tomohiro added the man's name to the execution list and signed it.
"Section Chief." Yoshimura Shinchi knocked on the door and came in. "The Telecommunications Research Laboratory just received a secret message."
He handed the telegram to Arao Chihiro, "A secret message from the Six of Diamonds."
Tomohiro Arao took the telegram, looked at it carefully, and a smile flashed in the corner of his eyes.
Yes, this poisonous weed that has been carefully cultivated is finally about to blossom and bear fruit.
……
"I heard that you are going to Nanjing?" Pete came to the deputy chief inspector's office and asked.
"I still have work to do in Nanjing, so I took some time out to go back to Shanghai this time." Cheng Qianfan said helplessly, "Look, there are several telegrams from Nanjing, urging me to go back to Nanjing."
"What should we do in Shanghai?" Pete said with a frown.
"What should we do? Don't you have me here? I have nothing to worry about with you in charge." Cheng Qianfan handed a cigarette to Peter. "I was worried that the war in Europe would affect our business, but now it seems that we can still maintain it."
The goods of Jiujiu Trading were shipped from the port of Marseille. Although France had surrendered, Marshal Pétain's government was still in place. Marseille, the most important port city in southern France, was not affected too much by the war.
Peter's father-in-law, Mr. Madiel, is in Marseille at the moment and is working in the Vichy government through old connections. It can be said that although Jiujiu Trade's transportation lines have been affected to a certain extent, it is still able to maintain basic business exchanges.
"I have decided to return home," said Pete.
"Return home?" Cheng Qianfan was shocked and asked, "Are you not confused?"
Before this, Pitt had been talking about returning to his country and joining the army to resist the German invasion. However, before Pitt could do so for a few days, Paris fell, and then the powerful country in Europe surrendered to the Germans.
Cheng Qianfan thought that Pete had accepted the fate and outcome of France's surrender, but he didn't expect Pete to bring up the old matter again, and seemed to be more determined to return home.
"The great France not only has traitors like Wang Tianhai, but also firm resistance leaders like Chiang Kai-shek," said Pitt.
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"Chang Kai-shen?" Cheng Qianfan was stunned for a moment, then he realized who the French Wang Reclamation and Chang Kai-shen mentioned by Pete were referring to.
He asked, "You mean that big man Charles de Gaulle's Free France?"
"Yes, the French traitorous regime has surrendered, but France is still resisting. There is also General Charles de Gaulle's Free France. They are the legitimate regime that can truly represent France," said Pete.
Just last month, after the heroic Marshal Pétain announced France's surrender to Germany, Charles de Gaulle, Deputy Secretary of State for Defense and War and temporary Brigadier General, made a broadcast in London, England, calling on the French people to continue to resist aggression.
Subsequently, Britain publicly announced its recognition of the Free French government led by Charles de Gaulle and supported Free France in continuing to resist the Germans.
"He is not a general now, right?" Cheng Qianfan said.
After Charles de Gaulle announced the establishment of the Free French regime in Britain, this general who sang against the Vichy government was demoted and suspended by the Pétain government. In the absence of Charles de Gaulle, this man was tried, sentenced to death for treason, and a warrant was issued.
"The trial of a traitorous government has no legal effect." Pete said, "Do you think Chongqing will recognize the order issued by Wang Tianhai's pseudo-regime?"
"Peter, my friend." Cheng Qianfan's face immediately darkened. "I said, I am a believer in Mr. Wang's peaceful national salvation program. Please respect Mr. Wang in front of me, otherwise I will really turn hostile!"
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