Cheng Qianfan translated Peter's words to Li Baibai in a low voice in Shanghainese.
"So we're frozen now." Li Baibai glanced at Peter and whispered to Cheng Qianfan, "What I mean is to communicate with the other side and try not to fall out if possible. Lieutenant Peter's attitude is more tough. "
His voice became lower and lower, "Lieutenant Pitt is French. He doesn't know the power of No. 76. How can we not know it?"
"Deputy Chief Inspector Li, I can understand what you are saying." Pete said unhappily from the side.
Li Baibai smiled coquettishly, he had deliberately told Peter this way.
Cheng Qianfan glanced at Li Baibai, took a puff of his cigarette, and frowned, "This matter is a dispute between the Political Department, the Fuxi District Patrol Room, the Secret Service Headquarters, and the Japanese. It has nothing to do with our Central District."
As he spoke, Cheng Qianfan put out his cigarette butt in the ashtray on the table, "Brother Centenary, I still have important business to deal with over there. I'll first..."
Seeing that he was about to slip away, Li Baibai quickly grabbed Cheng Qianfan and said, "Brother, brother Qianfan, wait a minute."
"Brother Centenary, what are you doing?" Cheng Qianfan said anxiously, "Brother Centenary, let go, let go."
Li Baibai didn't let go.
Cheng Qianfan was very happy, "Brother Bai Bai, let go, let go, I won't run, I won't run, it's okay."
"Are you sure you don't want to run?"
"Don't run." Cheng Qianfan smiled helplessly.
Only then did Li Baibai let go.
"There's nothing I can do about this matter if I stay." Cheng Qianfan said helplessly. He picked up the red wine on Peter's table, uncorked it, then picked up a goblet, poured the wine, and slowly shook it. He held the wine glass and took a sip. After closing his eyes and savoring it, he opened his eyes and looked at Li Baibai, complaining and saying, "Brother Baibai, why did you ask me to do this?"
"Brother Qianfan, how have I, Li Baidai, treated you?" Li Baibai said.
"Brother Centenary has nothing to say to me." Cheng Qianfan nodded, sighed and said helplessly, "It's just Brother Centenary, I really don't know how I can help you with this matter."
Peter couldn't stand it any longer, and suddenly said coldly, "Deputy Chief Inspector Li thinks you are close to the Japanese, and you have a good relationship with Li Cuiqun, so I ask you to help mediate."
Cheng Qianfan and Li Baibai glanced at Peter with resentment and embarrassment. This foreign devil really had no eyesight. These few words made the atmosphere extremely awkward.
Cheng Qianfan cleared his throat.
"Brother Bai Bai, if there is anything you need my help with, please tell me first." He didn't look at Peter, but looked at Li Bai Bai seriously and said, "If I can help, brother, I will naturally be obliged to do so. If I can't help, please help me." Please forgive me, Brother Centenary."
"Brother, if you take action, we will definitely succeed." Li Baibai quickly said, "Brother, I would like to thank you first."
"Brother Centenary is trying to block me with words." Cheng Qianfan said with a bitter smile. "Please." Li Baibai was moved and said with clasped fists. He stopped beating around the bush and told Cheng Qianfan his plan.
No. 76, Jisfield Road.
"On the French Bastille Day, what is Cheng Qianfan doing with him?" Su Chende couldn't help complaining.
For the arrest of Che Luwang, Su Chende, Wang Zhimu, and Chen Mingchu had carefully planned it. The reason why they chose the Frankfurter Sausage Shop in Fuxi District was because it was quite quiet and police officers seldom stayed nearby. .
However, he did not expect that the so-called "Celebrating the 147th Anniversary of the French Republic" and the "Street Cleaning Operation in the Central District of the French Concession" initiated by Cheng Qianfan, Deputy Chief Inspector of the Central District Patrol Office, would subsequently be followed by this "street cleaning operation" throughout the entire French Concession. The French Concession developed vigorously.
Because of this street cleaning operation, the intensity of patrols near the Frankfurter Sausage Shop in Fuxi District suddenly increased. Most importantly, the patrol office issued an order that during the French National Day, the patrol must respond quickly to citizens' requests for help. It is a random unannounced visit from the Political Department.
In this way, the trap of Che Luwang that should have been relatively smooth ended due to the unexpected intervention of the patrol.
fold.
Now, Che Luwang is in the hands of the patrol house, and the French refuse to extradite him. This directly affected the subsequent arrest arrangements and plans of the Secret Service Headquarters.
According to their original idea, the most successful situation is that after trapping Che Luwang, the person can surrender immediately, or they can pry open the person's mouth relatively quickly:
Che Luwang should know the exact addresses of Shanghai District Inspector General Li Wanmao, District Chief Zheng Lijun, District Secretary Cheng Xuyuan, Action Brigade Captain Yu Zhengze and other high-level officials, so that he can catch all the high-level officials in Shanghai District.
Now, Che Luwang accidentally fell into the hands of the patrol room, which naturally disappointed everyone including Li Cuiqun, Su Chende, Chen Mingchu, and Wang Tiemu.
"The biggest fear of failing to capture Che Luwang is that we have already alerted the enemy," Chen Mingchu said.
"It's certain to alert the snake in the grass." Su Chende said, "The only thing worth looking forward to now is that the military commander only knows that Che Luwang was arrested by the police station and does not know that we are involved, so that it will not have too much impact. to our follow-up plan." Su Chende's suggestion is that the Secret Service Headquarters puts pressure on the Patrol Room, and can even ask the Japanese to come forward and ask the Patrol Room to extradite Che Luwang to the Secret Service Headquarters immediately, and then quickly pry open the person's mouth. Seize every moment to round up Shanghai District’s top executives.
"It's too late." Li Cuiqun shook his head, "Although there may be suspicions over there in Shanghai and they don't know why Che Luwang was arrested, but the patrol room is a mixed bag, and it's impossible for the military commander to not have someone hiding in it. It should be very We can get further information soon."
As he said that, he looked at Chen Mingchu and said, "I will write Naito and ask the military police to cooperate with us in applying to the public arrest house for assistance in entering the French Concession to search."
Chen Mingchu used to be the section chief of the Personnel Department of the Juntong Shanghai Station, and he had the organizational address and personnel list of the entire Juntong Shanghai District in his hands.
Chen Mingchu was ostracized after Zheng Lijun took up the post of Shanghai District Mayor and stayed away from the high-level center. He is now not sure whether the Shanghai District high-level officials still live at the organizational address he controls.
As for the grassroots personnel, Chen Mingchu analyzed that they still live in the residence arranged when he was the chief of the personnel department. The military commander's funds are also very tight, and there is no money left for the grassroots to change their residences on a large scale in the short term. It is not necessary. After all, he is only employed. Exclusion has not been done before.
The first consideration before was to round up high-level officials in Shanghai District. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, the grassroots in Shanghai District were not touched for the time being.
Now, Li Cuiqun decisively decided to take action.
As for the possible addresses of high-level executives in Shanghai, Chen Mingchu and Wang Tiemu analyzed together and listed five addresses that were highly suspected to be hiding places. Together with the addresses of organizations that Chen Mingchu knew, there were a total of sixteen locations.
These sixteen locations are all in the French Concession.
The secret service headquarters usually secretly sends a team of people into the French Concession to kidnap people, which is possible. Now it wants to arrest people at sixteen locations in the French Concession at the same time. Without the consent and cooperation of the French Concession Patrol Office, this is impossible.
The French Concession authorities actually do not recognize the Shanghai Special Municipal Government, let alone the Secret Service Headquarters. Therefore, they have to request the French Concession Patrol Room to help arrest Chongqing violent elements through official channels. The Secret Service Headquarters does not have the ability and qualifications to do so, and can only apply for public service. For the assistance of the arresting house, the public arresting house will come forward to submit an arrest request to the French Concession patrol house.
Peter gave up his office to Cheng Qianfan and Li Baibai, while he himself temporarily avoided them.
"Brother Bai Bai, do you mean to hand this Che Luwang over to Li Cuiqun?" Cheng Qianfan glanced at Li Bai Bai.
"Everything is negotiable." Li Baibai chuckled, "If you don't agree to the handover or extradition now, it doesn't mean you won't agree to it in the future."
He winked at Cheng Qianfan, "The important thing is to ease the relationship between the two parties and not to cause tensions."
"A conflict occurred?" Cheng Qianfan asked in surprise.
"Not yet, it will be hard to say in the future." Li Baibai said with a solemn expression.
Previously, a police officer from the Security Section of the Public Concession Patrol House prevented No. 76 from arresting Chongqing anti-Japanese elements. Later, the police officer's only son accidentally fell into the water and died, although there was no evidence that the child was dead.
The death is related to No. 76, but many people feel that this matter is inseparable from No. 76.
This incident also caused great repercussions within the public concession patrol house and even the French concession patrol house.
Many police officers are filled with righteous indignation, but they have to admit that the bloody persecution of No. 76 still had an effect. This makes many police officers subconsciously timid when it comes to cases related to No. 76.
"Brother Centenary, you and I are the only two brothers in this room now. We might as well speak frankly." Cheng Qianfan frowned and said, "Do you think Li Cuiqun would recognize and accept what you just said?"
Li Baibai smiled sarcastically.
"We all know how to handle cases. Soldiers need speed." Cheng Qianfan took out a cigarette and Li Baibai lit it for him.
He glanced at Li Baibai and said, "The plan you just mentioned is just delaying time in Li Cuiqun's eyes and has no sincerity."
As he spoke, he shook his head, "Even if we hand over Che Luwang in a few days, the value of this person will be greatly reduced."
He said to Li Baiqun with a serious expression, "I can help Brother Baibai convey this greeting to Li Cuiqun. However, in my opinion, it will not achieve anything other than irritating Li Cuiqun."
As he said that, Cheng Qianfan gave Li Baibai a meaningful look, "If I hadn't known Brother Baibai, I would have almost mistakenly thought that Brother Baibai was interested in Chongqing and was deliberately delaying time." Li Baibai was startled by these words, " Hey, hey, brother Qianfan, you don’t have to say this nonsense.”
"You're just kidding, look, I'm scaring Brother Centenary." Cheng Qianfan laughed.
"This is no joke." Li Baibai smiled bitterly, "I was forced to do nothing."
He took a deep drag on his cigarette, "The Political Department has a tough attitude. They are unwilling to extradite Che Luwang. The pressure from No. 76 is coming straight at me. I am also helpless and can only try to ease it. contradiction."
"Is the Hou Bao who took over this matter a member of Centennial Brother?" Cheng Qianfan asked. This is to ask if Hou Bao is Li Baibai's confidant.
"Relatives from the second room's family." Li Baibai said.
Cheng Qianfan nodded and understood.
The method of throwing Hou Bao out to make amends to No. 76 after the incident would not work. "I can make a trip on the 76th for Brother Centenary." Cheng Qianfan said thoughtfully, "I will try my best to say a few nice words for Brother Centenary..."
"Thank you, thank you very much, brother. If I didn't say anything, brother, thank you." Li Baibai said.
"Those people don't let go of hawks when they see rabbits..." Cheng Qianfan said slowly. "Don't worry, brother, I know, I understand." Li Baibai smiled.
The two looked at each other and laughed.
Jingle Bell.
At this moment, the phone on Pete's desk rang.
Cheng Qianfan picked up the phone and said, "Lieutenant Pitt is out. I'm Cheng Qianfan." "Okay, I understand."
Cheng Qianfan hung up the phone and said to Li Baibai, "My subordinates are looking for me, and the calls have all come to Pete."
As he spoke, he took a puff of cigarette and exhaled a stream of smoke from his nose, "Brother, I just said that I had important official business to deal with. I was definitely not lying to my brother Centenary."
"No." Li Baibai quickly said, "Brother Qianfan values friendship the most. I have asked you to come here. You will definitely help me. How could you lie to me?"
Pause, "That thing?"
"Brother Baidu, don't worry. Since I have agreed to the matter, I will naturally do my best to help." Cheng Qianfan said with a sincere expression, "I will go back to the office first and give instructions on the urgent matters at hand. I will go to Jisi Feier Road in a moment. "
Li Baibai was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him.
He was secretly cursing in his heart that this guy was so greedy, and he was the worst kind of guy.
'Mr. Xiao Cheng's pace was neither fast nor slow, and he didn't seem to be busy dealing with urgent business at all.
When a patrolman saluted him in the corridor, he would smile back.
When I meet a female clerk in the clerical office, Mr. Xiao Cheng will stop and ask with concern whether she has any problems in work or life.
difficulty.
Arriving at the door of the office and seeing Haozi waiting, Cheng Qianfan yawned and asked, "Has Haozi come back?"
"Not yet." Haozi said, "There is something wrong with a batch of goods in Warehouse No. 3, and Haozi is taking inventory."
Cheng Qianfan's heart moved.
What Hao Zai meant was that the Shanghai Special Situation Team conducted an internal self-examination and found out that three people were suspected of having problems.
"Check carefully to find out whether it is a problem with the people or the goods themselves." Cheng Qianfan warned.
"Yes!" Haozi said, "Haozi is already investigating."
Entering his office, Cheng Qianfan's face immediately darkened, and his expression was solemn.
"How's it going?" he asked.
"The people are under control and are still investigating," Hao Zai said.
Cheng Qianfan nodded.
He initially arranged for an internal self-examination of the Shanghai special situation team because he suspected that No. 76 was coming for his Shanghai special situation team. However, he did not expect that now it was confirmed that the special agent headquarters was coming for the Shanghai district. Instead, Shanghai It was really discovered that there was something wrong within the special situation team. However, Hao Zai secretly said that the person had been controlled and was still investigating deeply, so Cheng Qianfan felt a little relieved.
And now the biggest situation occurs in the military-controlled Shanghai District...
"Something happened over there in Shanghai District." Cheng Qianfan whispered, "Che Luwang was secretly arrested on the 76th. Che Luwang shouted for help on the street. Fortunately, he was rescued by the Fuxi Patrol Room. He is now being detained in the Fuxi Patrol Room. Special class for the Political Department."
