According to the agreed time, Tang Cheng rushed to the tea house to meet with Boss Yu. However, before entering the tea house, Tang Cheng repeatedly searched the area around the tea house and made sure that there were no suspicious people around the tea house. Only then did he enter the tea house. village. Boss Yu has been waiting for Tang Cheng for a long time. Seeing that the agreed time is about to pass, although there is nothing strange on Boss Yu's face, he is secretly nervous. He is worried that something may have gone wrong in Tang Cheng. .
Tang Cheng walked into the tea house deliberately. The relaxed look in Boss Yu's eyes behind the counter was caught by Tang Cheng. From this, Tang Cheng, who judged that there was no problem with Boss Yu, immediately relaxed and followed Boss Yu's instructions directly to the warehouse behind the tea house. "I thought you wouldn't come!" After closing the warehouse door, Boss Yu gestured to Tang Cheng to look at his watch.
"I went to see that clinic, and there was a little accident, so I was delayed for a while." Tang Cheng answered the question, but it immediately attracted Boss Yu's attention. Tang Cheng, who took the initiative to mention the clinic, had no intention of hiding it from the other party. He immediately told Boss Yu everything he saw and thought. "You are now solely responsible for me. You'd better convey the clinic's matters to Shanghai Station through other channels. I don't want anything to happen to you to involve me."
Tang Cheng's words sounded extremely unreasonable, but there was no trace of impatience on Boss Yu's face, and instead showed a little bit of relief. "Don't worry, I will notify them through the dead mailbox. I will never be directly related to them." As Boss Yu spoke, he leaned over and lifted a piece of floorboard, took out a bag from the hole under the floor, and looked at the bag The weight of the thing inside is not light.
"Here are the two pistols and a hundred rounds of pistol ammunition you want!" Boss Yu opened the bag in front of Tang Cheng and took out two new pistols that still smelled of gun oil. The hundred rounds of pistol ammunition were also Wrapped heavily in a cloth bag. At this time, it was not the time to show restraint. Tang Cheng immediately reached out and took the two pistols, and soon disassembled the two pistols into a pile of parts in front of Boss Yu.
"Yes, they are all new guns!" After some disassembly and assembly, Tang Cheng finally commented. As for the hundred rounds of pistol ammunition, Tang Cheng just opened the cloth bag and glanced at it casually. "I may need more time to plan the specific action time. As for the details of the action, I will not report it to you. As long as the time is right, I can take action at any time." Boss Yu prepared for Tangcheng What he received were two Browning pistols. Although he was not satisfied with the lethality of the Browning pistols, Tang Cheng did not mention them in front of Boss Yu.
Tang Cheng did not stay at the tea house for too long, and he left as quickly as he came. However, after leaving the tea house, Tang Cheng did not return to his residence immediately, but went to Hans' restaurant. "Get me two m1911s with 100 bullets. I'll be useful." Tang Cheng and Hans didn't need to be polite. After all, the other party knew a lot about them, so they made the request directly to the other party in Hans's office.
Tang Cheng suddenly came to Shanghai, which was a bit strange. Hans asked several times, but Tang Cheng did not tell the purpose of Shanghai. At this moment, Tang Cheng suddenly asked for weapons and ammunition from him. Even if Hans didn't know Tang Cheng's purpose, he could guess a rough idea. "There's nothing wrong with the gun or the bullets, and I won't ask you what it's for, but in return, you have to do something for me." Since Tang Cheng was unwilling to reveal his purpose, Hans chose to face it like a businessman. To Tangcheng.
"No problem, as long as it doesn't poke a hole in the sky!" Tang Cheng knew that although Hans was interested in profit, he was not a brainless person and could not make excessive demands. So he didn't even ask, and immediately nodded and agreed, which was somewhat beyond Hans' expectations. Seeing the surprised look on Hans's face, Tang Cheng immediately smiled and said, "I believe you are a smart man, and we have cooperated before. I think you will not force me to do those impractical things."
Tang Cheng's explanation made Hans smile bitterly in his heart, thinking that he had been seen through by the man in front of him. "You are right, I will never force you to do anything uneconomical! The Japanese are very powerful now, and my superior has given me a new order to investigate the relationship between the Japanese and the British. Some people in Berlin speculated that the Japanese might have a secret agreement with the British." The information revealed by Hans made Tangcheng confused. How could the Japanese get involved with the British?
What he was thinking in his heart was one thing, but what he was saying was another thing, so Tang Cheng took Hans's words and asked with seeming concern. "You mean, the Japanese are playing a trick of playing both sides?" Hans has been in China for many years, and Tang Cheng knows that he is a China expert, so in the words just now, Tang Cheng used the word "playing both sides." Strictly speaking, the word "ambitious" is not a derogatory term, but if it is used for Japanese people, the word will immediately take on the flavor of a derogatory term.
Hans really knew what it meant to have both sides. He nodded lightly towards Tangcheng and said, "Yes, that's what Berlin means! Although the Japanese have secretly formed an alliance with the empire, Japan is in Asia after all. The big shot in Berlin They could only give suggestions, but they could not influence the thoughts of the Japanese. The upper echelons of the empire originally thought that the Japanese could contain Britain, France, and the United States in Asia, so even if the Japanese had expressed their intention to fully occupy China, Berlin still pretended to have nothing to do with it. have no idea."
"Looking at the situation in Shanghai now, the Japanese have no intention of offending Britain, France and the United States. At least the Japanese army in Shanghai has not carried out operations against the Shanghai Concession. From this, Berlin can infer that the Japanese may have secretly reached a secret agreement with Britain, France and the United States. This is The empire definitely doesn’t want to see that.” In front of Tang Cheng, Hans talked about the Japanese’s attempt to fully occupy China. If it were anyone else, he might have turned against Hans and started making trouble, but Tang Cheng Nothing happened.
Tang Cheng, who just lowered his head and smoked, had to suppress the anger in his heart because he needed help from Hans at this time. He did not react because Tang Cheng judged that what Hans just said was actually a test by the other party. Seeing that Tang Cheng's expression remained unchanged and he was just smoking without saying a word, Hans showed a trace of disappointment in his eyes. He knew that his experiment had failed. But even so, Hans's style of speaking did not change, because what he just said was not made up by himself.
After Tang Cheng finished smoking a cigarette, he asked Hans, "What can I do for you? What you just said makes me dizzy. Why don't you just tell me what you want me to do? You know what I do What I'm good at, I'm not good at using my brain!" Tang Cheng pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray, then looked up at Hans, with no trace of emotion in his eyes. Hans, who originally planned to continue testing, had no choice now. Looking at Tang Cheng, he was not affected by his words at all.
After a slight hesitation, Hans planned to tell the truth, "What I just told you really meant from Berlin. The situation in Shanghai looks weird right now. Most of the experts I have contacted in private have this kind of attitude." Opinions." Hans said implicitly, but Tangcheng knew that the insiders Hans just mentioned were the intelligence personnel from various parties who were mixed in the Shanghai Concession, which might include intelligence from Britain, France and the United States. agent.
"If you are asking me for my opinion, I don't know that the Japanese have any private agreement with the British. If I were Japanese, I would avoid antagonizing Britain, France and the United States at this time. After all, it will take time to end this war." Tang Cheng’s view is somewhat novel to Hans. "Japan is just an island country, and its own resources are not enough to support them in completing this war. If they provoke Britain, France and the United States at this time, their access to external resources will be interrupted."
It is not a secret that Britain, France and the United States have been selling so-called waste materials to Japan. Even Hans, who lived in Shanghai in the last issue, knew it. At this moment, when Tang Cheng reminded him, Hans immediately reacted. Just by following Tang Cheng's thoughts and thinking about it, Hans truly understood what Tang Cheng wanted to express. "Don, do you mean that the Japanese's current attitude is just a temporary measure?" Hans quickly came to an inference, but he was not sure about it yet.
"That's right, it's just a stopgap measure!" Tang Cheng nodded in agreement with Hans's conclusion. "The war has just begun. Although the Japanese army has taken control of Shanghai and mobilized troops to besiege Nanjing, the Japanese army has also seen China's courage and bottom line to fight to the end. Japan is too small and China is too big. Japan is preparing to fully occupy China. That can only be an idea. . In this kind of matter, if the Japanese offend the interests of Britain, France and the United States in China, it will definitely be counterproductive. The Japanese are familiar with the Three Kingdoms and Sun Tzu's Art of War, how can they not know this truth."
Tang Cheng's words mentioned that the Japanese were familiar with the Three Kingdoms and Sun Tzu's Art of War. This was obviously not a compliment. Hans thought about Tang Cheng's words carefully and felt that they were not unreasonable. "Then how do you think I should reply to Berlin?" Hans, who had never grasped the point, took the initiative to ask Tang Cheng what he meant. Tang Cheng didn't find it strange, because Hans looked more like a businessman than an intelligence agent. .
"The Japanese appear to be cruel and cunning on the surface, but they actually have an inferiority complex deep inside. They worship the strong, but they often have crazy thoughts and actions that overwhelm their superiors. If you ask me, the Japanese can take advantage of them, but they cannot give them complete trust. Because once the Japanese become crazy, everyone in the world can be wiped out and sacrificed except their emperor." Tang Cheng's comments about the Japanese made Hans even more confused, but he also felt that the Japanese were A complex contradiction.
