"Give this to your boss and tell him that as soon as the items on the manifest arrive at the dock, find a way to transfer them away immediately!" After a good night's sleep, Tang Cheng strolled out after breakfast the next day. The hotel, according to the address Hans told him before, found the watch shop Hans mentioned. The Japanese who runs this watch shop was an insider of Hans's long time ago. In an era when almost all Japanese were enthusiastic about war, it was very rare to have such a Japanese who was determined to avoid war.
What Tang Cheng handed over to the owner of the watch shop was the bill of lading he found in the briefcase of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs intelligence agent yesterday. Tang Cheng burned down the business house that transported the goods last night and destroyed the correct couplet of the bill of lading. Now even if it is on the dock The Japanese army wanted to trace it, but there was no trace at all. "Tell your boss to be careful when picking up the goods. It's best not to use your own people to intervene!" Before Tang Cheng left the watch store, he didn't forget to remind him that Hans's face was so good that he got into Qian's eyes. Afraid that Hans would cause trouble.
When Tangcheng was worried about Hans, Hans, who was in the concession, had also received news from the inside. Hans had almost an idea of what happened in Hongkou District yesterday. Other intelligence dealers active in the black market only received information about what happened in Hongkou District yesterday and related to the Korean National Salvation Army. But in the message Hans received, the word ghost gunman appeared. Hans knew that this elusive ghost gunman was definitely inseparable from Tangcheng.
Tang Cheng didn't know that Hans was also worried about him. After leaving the watch shop, Tang Cheng did not return to the New Asia Hotel. Instead, he walked around Hongkou District with a disguised face. The two sudden attacks yesterday made the atmosphere in Hongkou District tense. Tangcheng was only two blocks away from the watch shop, and he saw military police and police patrolling the streets several times. Such a tense atmosphere not only did not make Tang Cheng secretly nervous, but he felt that he seemed to like this atmosphere very much.
Tang Cheng had his lunch at a street shop. While eating, he eavesdropped on the discussions of other diners. Tang Cheng felt very comfortable. Although what happened last night was tightly controlled by the Gendarmerie Headquarters and the Special High School Division, there is no airtight wall. Last night, not only the Gendarmerie and plainclothes agents were present, but also the police on night patrol. What happened last night was revealed, and the reason lies in the few policemen who showed up at the scene, but they didn't know about the ghost gunman.
From the discussions among the diners, Tangcheng learned that the Military Police Headquarters and the Special High School Division had pinned yesterday's events on the North Korean National Salvation Army. Tang Cheng was secretly happy, thinking that his advance planning was not in vain. People like Li Youling still had some effect. After a brief lunch, Tang Cheng also went around to the street where Jin Zheng Bank was located. Unfortunately, the entire street, including the intersections at both ends, was still under blockade by the military police. Tang Cheng did not see the situation in the street.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Tang Cheng appeared in the watch shop again. According to his explanation, the owner of the watch shop should have brought back Hans' reply. When Tang Cheng entered the watch store, there were no other customers in the store. After receiving the envelope from the owner of the watch store, Tang Cheng opened the envelope immediately. Hans's letter was short; strictly speaking, the envelope contained only a note. From the words in the note, it is not difficult to see Hans' worry. In addition, Hans also mentioned the bills of lading.
The bills of lading that Tangcheng handed over to Hans only showed a batch of timber and leather goods. Hans immediately saw the problem from the bills of lading after receiving them. The Japanese have been traveling outside the customs for many years. They clearly have a direct route to the Japanese mainland. Why do they bother to deliberately transfer a batch of timber and local leather goods from Shanghai to the Japanese mainland? Hans, who was very suspicious of this, immediately arranged for someone to pretend to be the owner of the cargo and go to the dock to find out the information.
The goods at the pick-up point were in the name of private trading companies, so the Japanese troops guarding the dock did not do much investigation. The people Hans sent to the dock quickly found the warehouse where the goods were stored according to the information noted on the bill of lading. There was indeed a large amount of wood stacked in the warehouse, but the people sent by Hans were not fools. After carefully examining the wood, they finally discovered that there was something inside the wood. Tang Cheng found not only these pick-up points from the briefcase, but also a specially marked map outside the customs.
Hans, who didn't know there was such a map, now suspects that the Japanese may have found a gold mine with amazing reserves outside the customs, because the wood in the warehouse has been deliberately hollowed out and filled with fur and rough Refined gold. Seeing this, Tang Cheng couldn't help but curl his lips secretly, thinking that the Japanese controlled quite a lot of gold mines outside the customs. This batch of gold hidden in the wood was definitely obtained from those gold mines.
Hans didn't know the origin of these bills of lading, nor did he know that there was a map outside the customs. After thinking about it for a while, Tang Cheng figured out the connection. The intelligence agent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who was beaten to death by Tang Cheng in Hongkou District had a mysterious origin. The bill of lading and the map were also found in the briefcase that the man carried. According to the Japanese military and Japanese government in the Internet in later generations, Based on the relevant information, Tangcheng judged that the Kwantung Army, which actually controlled the areas outside the Pass, may not know about this batch of gold hidden in the wood.
The main reason why this batch of gold did not return directly to Japan by sea from outside the customs was probably because the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was in charge of this matter, had been hiding it from the Japanese military, especially the Kwantung Army, which had actually controlled the area outside the customs. After thinking about this, Tang Cheng immediately picked up a pen and paper and wrote a note in German to Hans in the watch shop. "Tell your boss that I will pay attention to the things he mentioned, the goods, and just do what he says without asking me what I mean."
The amount of gold hidden in the wood was staggering, but Tangcheng chose to trust Hans 100% because Hans's family was still in Chongqing and under the close surveillance of Ma Ye's apprentices. After finally figuring out the bill of lading, Tang Cheng immediately felt relaxed. After leaving the watch shop, he immediately went to an izakaya in the next street because he heard that this izakaya had a close relationship with the military and was said to be... Many officers of the Japanese army in Shanghai came here to eat and drink.
The business of the izakaya was obviously not as good as the previous few days. Tang Cheng occupied a seat alone in the lobby on the first floor. While drinking and killing time, he secretly kept an eye on the guests coming in and out of the izakaya. About half an hour had passed before Tang Cheng saw three or four Japanese officers entering this izakaya. Looking at their military ranks, the oldest one was only a captain. The actual situation was completely different from what Tang Cheng had expected, but there was no trace of disappointment on Tang Cheng's face.
This izakaya, which was often visited by Japanese military officers, was not Tang Cheng's target in the first place. The main reason why he appeared here was because he did not want to return to the hotel immediately. But just when Tang Cheng had lost interest and was about to get up and leave, a car suddenly stopped outside the izakaya, and two Japanese officers got out of the car. Upon seeing this, Tang Cheng's eyes narrowed slightly subconsciously, because one of the two Japanese officers who got out of the car actually had the rank of lieutenant colonel.
A Japanese Lieutenant Colonel and a Japanese Major. It would be a bit difficult to kill a Japanese officer of this rank on a frontal battlefield. Tang Cheng, who had frequent dealings with the Japanese military police, could tell at a glance that these two Japanese officers were definitely not from the military police headquarters. Looking at the two people's figures when they were walking, and the twinkles in their eyes from time to time, Tang Cheng judged that these two guys were probably members of the army.
There are only two possibilities for the army officers who appeared in Shanghai at this time. One was returning to Japan by sea via Shanghai to visit relatives, and the other was injured and was sent to Shanghai for treatment and recuperation. Tang Cheng saw no signs of injury on these two Japanese officers. Could it be that they were frontline army officers who came to Shanghai from the frontline troops to attend the award ceremony? Tang Cheng suddenly thought of the third possibility!
Normally, after Tang Cheng successfully killed the intelligence agent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he could return to Chongqing immediately, but he unexpectedly got a piece of information from Hans. In order to dispel the negative emotions of the Japanese people due to the stalemate on the front line, the Japanese military plans to hold an awards ceremony in Shanghai. They planned to use the form of commending frontline officers to deliberately create an illusion for the Japanese people that the Japanese army was victorious.
Tang Cheng, who had completed his mission, chose to stay in Shanghai for the purpose of going to this award conference. He planned to give the Japanese another hard blow before Shanghai. The two Japanese officers who walked into the izakaya at this moment were obviously here for the first time, so they did not go upstairs. Instead, they were just like Tang Cheng and sat in the scattered seats in the lobby downstairs.
What made Tang Cheng think it was a coincidence was that the place where these two guys were sitting was right behind Tang Cheng. All the seats downstairs are separated by some distance. Unless they speak too loudly or spy on them intentionally, most people would not be able to hear the conversations of the guests in adjacent seats. But Tang Cheng is not an ordinary person. Before Tang Cheng left Chongqing and Shanghai, he used up all the lottery opportunities.
Tang Cheng was very lucky to have picked up a new skill that doubled his hearing power. In other words, as long as Tang Cheng activated this new skill, he could clearly hear all sounds within a twelve-meter radius around him. At this moment, Tang Cheng was not more than twelve meters away from the two Japanese officers who had just entered the izakaya. Therefore, as long as Tang Cheng was willing, he could clearly hear everything between the two Japanese officers. Conversation content.
