Chapter 838: Wisdom arises out of urgency

An Wan has always kept in mind what Comrade Wu Zhiwen of the Central Special Branch, whom she calls "uncle", said to her.

 That was the only meeting between her and Wu Zhiwen.

“Uncle” told her the basic principles of the party’s secret intelligence work:

For example, the first thing is to strictly keep confidentiality!

Obey the rules!

 Except for the liaison comrades designated by the leadership and direct superiors and subordinates, no one will be told anything related to secret work.

In addition, we should always keep the revolution in mind, but we should not expose progressive ideas. On the surface, we should say that we support the Kuomintang Party and do what the Kuomintang Party should do.

Even if you see or hear the death of your revolutionary comrades with your own eyes or hear the sad news about it, you must hold back, smile as usual, and don't do anything unusual!

 This is the iron discipline of a "lurker".

 …

After dinner, An Wan returned to the Central Party Headquarters and happened to meet Chu Jiaxian walking in the yard to eat.

 “The chairman is taking a walk.” An Wan greeted the old chief Chu Jiaxian.

 The two of them were walking and chatting.

 “Xiao’an, what did Mingxin do on the dam a few days ago?” Chu Jiaxian suddenly asked.

An Wan's heart tightened. Her husband Huai Mingxin went to Bashang. In fact, he was secretly communicating with the organization to deliver an extremely secret information.

Fortunately, she was quick to wit, and there was no trace of panic on her face, "I met a few folks from Hangzhou a few days ago. Chairman, you are also aware of the current situation. Everyone's life is very tight. Mingxin later heard me talk about this. I have something to do, so I thought I would help anyway."

“Yes, the national crisis is looming, and life is difficult for everyone.” Chu Jiaxian nodded and said happily, “You and your wife can think of helping the countryside. It’s right and well done.”

With that said, he took out his wallet from his pocket and handed all the banknotes in it to An Wan. "It's not much money. You Xiao An has helped me generously. It's natural for me, the chairman, to just watch."

 He put the banknotes into An Wan's hand and sighed, "My hometown has fallen and the people are scattered. I, the provincial chairman, feel ashamed."

"Chairman." An Wan quickly comforted her, "In fact, everyone is very grateful to you. They all say that you saved Hangzhou at the critical moment."

Hearing this, Chu Jiaxian felt a little relieved, but then he sighed, "I saved it, but...after all, I still fell under the iron heel of the Japanese invaders. I am ashamed of my father and fellow countrymen."

As he spoke, he shook his head and left with his hands behind his back.

 …

An Wan looked at Chu Jiaxian's leaving figure and felt relieved. Fortunately, she quickly diverted Chu Jiaxian's attention. Otherwise, if Chu Jiaxian broke the casserole and asked the truth, it would be troublesome.

 In fact, the reason An Wan found in an emergency was a perfect one!

 It not only provided an excuse for her husband Huai Mingxin to go to the dam, but also successfully extended the topic to a new topic and successfully diverted Chu Jiaxian's attention.

 All this is naturally attributed to An Wan's very good understanding of Chu Jiaxian.

 One and a half years ago, the Kuomintang troops withdrew from Jiaxing.

 The Japanese troops are approaching.

Hangzhou is in chaos.

Staff from the Central Bank, the China Bank, the Communications Bank, and the Farmers Bank left three to four million silver dollars unattended and fled for their lives.

Chu Jiaxian was furious after hearing the news and strictly ordered the staff of the Fourth Bank to return to Hangzhou to prepare for the retreat. He immediately prepared transportation for the retreat of the Fourth Bank and sent police to **** it.

 In this way, the reserves of the four banks can be withdrawn from Hangzhou intact.

Afterwards, the Military and Political Ministry sent personnel to bring two tons of explosives and ordered the Qiantang River Bridge to be blown up.

 The Qiantang River Bridge is the main channel for the evacuation of materials and people. Once it is blown up, the objects that have not been evacuated and the lives and property of the people will suffer serious losses.

Chu Jiaxian told the visitors: “When this bridge was built, the place for installing explosives had indeed been prepared and could be blown up at any time.

I have no objection to blowing up the bridge. However, this is now the main channel for evacuating supplies and people. The bridge cannot be blown up until the last moment. All responsibilities rest with me as the chairman. "

Chu Jiaxian then sent a telegram to the Ministry of Military Affairs and requested that the bombing of the bridge be postponed.

In this way, the Qiantang River Bridge was blown up only after the troops and civilians in Hangzhou had completed their retreat, and a lot of supplies, people, and wounded soldiers were transported out in a few days.

 …

On the eve of the Japanese occupation of Hangzhou, the headquarters ordered preparations to burn Hangzhou to carry out the "scorched earth war of resistance."

 For this reason, Chu Jiaxian strongly opposed and fought.

Later, Hangzhou gentleman Jin Runquan and others reported to Chu Jiaxian that someone had marked the area on the streets of Hangzhou, attached labels, and prepared kerosene, wood and other arson materials to burn Hangzhou.

Chu Jiaxian immediately deployed his personnel to conduct inspections in the city. In the areas designated by the Rangers, the prepared arson materials such as kerosene, wood, and other arson materials were labeled and strictly controlled.

 As the chairman and security commander of Zhejiang Province, he repeatedly strictly stopped the arson of the Einsatzgruppe.

 In the end, due to Chu Jiaxian’s strong opposition and protest, the Rangers did not set fire to the fire, and the city of Hangzhou was ultimately preserved intact.

 Hangzhou citizens are grateful to Chu Jiaxian for all these reasons.

 However, Chu Jiaxian, who was responsible for defending the territory, failed to organize the retreat from Hangzhou well.

Before the Japanese army captured Hangzhou, important officials from various provincial and municipal agencies abandoned their duties and became chaotic. In order to protect their family, some people even contacted the traitors in Shanghai and defected to the enemy. The political situation in Zhejiang was in chaos.

 This also led to Chu Jiaxian’s eventual resignation as chairman of Zhejiang Province.

Before leaving office, the committee members and directors of the Zhejiang Provincial Government made a resolution to send Chu Jiaxian 50,000 yuan in government expenses.

It was said that this was the case for previous presidents who left office, but was ultimately rejected by Chu Jiaxian.

Chu Jiaxian said that Hangzhou fell into his hands after all. At this time of national crisis, it would make the world laugh if he publicly charged 50,000 yuan in "resignation fees."

 In fact, Chu Jiaxian felt that he was shameless in taking the money.

 An Wan knows all this very well. She is very clear about Chairman Chu’s complicated emotions towards the elders of Hangzhou:

 While he was pleased that he had saved Hangzhou from the fire, he was also responsible for the terrible and chaotic situation before the fall of Hangzhou.

Therefore, An Wan wittily said that she met the villagers and elders from Hangzhou who came to Chongqing to seek refuge and were displaced. This will inevitably arouse Chu Jiaxian's emotion and successfully change the topic.

At the same time, although he felt guilty for the folks in Hangzhou, Chu Jiaxian had nothing to do with the current situation.

Based on An Wan's understanding of him, Chu Jiaxian would probably spend a sum of money "within his power" and then stop asking about the matter. This would also prevent Chu Jiaxian from asking about the matter again in the future. To put it bluntly, Chairman Chu's actions —

 This is just a matter of "just asking for peace of mind"!

 …

 The roundup came very suddenly.

 After many days of interrogation, the ‘chief officer’ finally spoke. He told the Japanese Military Police Headquarters about a secret transportation station of the Central Command in the French Concession in Shanghai.

The Japanese military made very harsh representations to the French Concession.

The Japanese troops on Baidu Bridge suddenly aimed their guns at the concession.

Face the bullying from Japan, the French Concession authorities once again gave in.

Major Sagami Umezu of the Military Police Headquarters led a group of Japanese military police into the French Concession with great force.

The French Concession authorities ordered the Central Patrol Office to cooperate with the Japanese military police in launching an arrest operation.

 ‘Mr. Xiao Cheng’ took the initiative and asked him to personally lead the team to cooperate with the Japanese.

Jin Kemu refused, and President Jin decided to personally lead the operation.

Cheng Qianfan understood that Jin Kemu was "uneasy" because he was extremely close to the Japanese. Mr. Jin was hoping that he would have the opportunity to save one or two people for legitimate reasons.

Of course, all of this was within Cheng Qianfan's calculations. He took the initiative because of his identity as 'Kentaro Miyazaki'. He calculated that the more he behaved like this, the more likely Jin Kemu would stand up and do things that were inconvenient for him to do. Jin Kemu can find a way to do things.

In addition, Cheng Qianfan does not think that the arrest of Umezu Sagami will achieve anything.

It has been several days since the 'chief mate' was arrested. Unless the Central Command was a fool, all transportation points and personnel related to the 'chief mate' should have been transferred long ago.

 …

However, Cheng Qianfan soon realized that he was wrong.

He didn’t understand the specific situation of the Zhongtong Transportation Station explained by the ‘Chief Officer’, let alone why Zhongtong did not arrange an emergency evacuation of the transportation station. The actual situation was:

When the Japanese military police and patrolmen came to arrest him, the commander-in-chief at the traffic station was put in a urn to catch a turtle.

 Gunshots rang out.

 Zhongtong's resistance was fierce but extremely weak.

 After two Central Command officers were shot dead and one of them had his head exploded like a watermelon, the other Central Command officers inside fell into chaos and many were captured alive by the Japanese army and patrols.

 According to the action ‘agreement’ between the French Concession and Japan:

 The bodies of the killed Central Command personnel were handed over to the French Concession for collection.

 The women and children among the arrested persons will be handed over to the French Concession for detention. If the Japanese side wants to interrogate the woman, it needs to send personnel from the French Concession Patrol Room to inspect to protect the basic rights of women and children.

 “Ce Na Niang!” Su Zhe stood beside Jin Kemu and couldn’t help but curse.

 This agreement between the French Concession authorities and the Japanese seems to maximize the protection of the human rights of the suspects:

 The corpses were protected, as were the women and children!

 In fact, there were a total of eight people at this secret traffic station in Zhongtong, all of whom were adult men, and two of the eight were beaten to death!

According to the 'agreement', the Japanese arrested and took away the other six people, leaving only two corpses beaten into sieves in the patrol room! !

The Japanese were dissatisfied that the body had to be handed over to the patrol house. Some Japanese soldiers re-shot the body!

In this way, the French "deceived themselves" as if they were victorious, and the Japanese arrogantly captured people and left.

 …

The policemen who participated in the operation also looked extremely embarrassed.

Although the policemen are not usually considered good people, as people who eat the food of the foreign emperors and consciously rely on the French, they also have some "backbone" and "arrogance".

Now being trampled on by the Japanese, and most importantly, watching my compatriots being beaten to death like pigs and sheep, **** with ropes and taken away, whoever still has a trace of Chinese humanity in his heart will feel better. It will be less uncomfortable and uncomfortable.

 …

"Brother Fan, these two corpses..." Lu Jiu turned over and asked Cheng Qianfan for instructions.

 “Mr. Jin is here.” Cheng Qianfan said with a gloomy face and angrily.

Lu Jiufan ran to ask Jin Kemu again.

“It’s a big deal if a person dies, let’s bury him.” Jin Kemu glanced at the anti-Japanese comrade who had just died tragically, sighed and said.

"yes!"

“Here, come on, rush to the ground.” Cheng Qianfan covered his nose with his white-gloved hand, pointed at the blood on the ground, and said with a serious face.

“Jin Tou, if it’s nothing, I’ll go back to the patrol room first.” Then, he walked over and said hello to Jin Kemu and left.

Getting into the car and closing the curtain, Cheng Qianfan's face became increasingly gloomy and his fists were clenched tightly.

 Among the two Central Command officers who were killed, he saw a familiar face.

To be precise, we can’t say we are familiar with each other, it can only be said to be a one-time relationship.

One day after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, he went to National Tongji University to find Peng Yuou. On the way, he encountered students demonstrating in support of the Anti-Japanese War.

He reprimanded Tang Xiaoye, who participated in the demonstration, and received a cross-eyed look from Tang Xiaoye's classmates.

One of the petite female classmates was accompanied by an indignant male classmate.

 Cheng Qianfan saw from the eyes of these passionate young people their contempt and contempt for him!

The Central Command officer who was killed by the Japanese army today was the male classmate.

The male classmate raised a gun to resist and was shot dead by the Japanese soldiers. Finally, the Japanese soldiers fired multiple shots at the corpse, and his abdomen was almost broken.

 In my impression, the school emblem on the chest of this male student at that time was the school emblem of Zhijiang University.

In peaceful times, this college student from Zhijiang University might have been a doctor, architect, mathematician, or engineer. Now, he bravely resisted the invaders, and then lay on the cold ground like this. A grass root about to rot in the soil...

Rotten grass roots, soaked in blood, nourished by:

 The splendid and brilliant civilization of five thousand years—

The land that has never surrendered to foreign enemies!

 …

“Brother Fan.” Li Hao, who was driving, asked, “The ‘first officer’ has been taken away for several days. Why has this traffic station in Zhongtong still not been evacuated?”

Haozi felt unable to understand.

If the disciplines of the Shanghai Special Intelligence Group are followed, once important personnel are arrested, the Special Intelligence Group will immediately initiate a first-level emergency response, and all relevant personnel and units will immediately evacuate and enter a state of silence.

 “So stupid.” Cheng Qianfan said these three words almost through gritted teeth.

 As an independent leader of a special service unit, he was even more unable to understand what happened today than Li Hao.

 In Cheng Qianfan’s eyes, the performance of the ‘first officer’ actually made him admire him with admiration.

　　Previously, he listened to Hao Zai’s report and judged that the ‘first mate’ did not have the courage to die in battle or commit suicide for his country. After this person was extradited by the Japanese, he might soon betray the country and surrender to the enemy—

 In view of Wu Shanyue's three whips, Cheng Qianfan was extremely pessimistic about the performance of the Central Command personnel in facing severe torture after being caught.

However, I didn’t expect that he seemed to have made a mistake this time. Although the ‘chief officer’ was afraid of death, he actually endured several days of severe torture by the Japanese military police before speaking!

With these few days, Zhongtong should have successfully evacuated even if it was like ants moving!

  It’s simply incomprehensible!

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