An hour later, an indifferent Tang Cheng came out of the courtyard of the Military Command Headquarters. Behind him, in a window on the second floor, an expressionless bureau chief was watching Tang Cheng step by step out of the courtyard. Tang Cheng's trip to Shanghai this time once again set the bureau's expectations, especially when Tang Cheng dared to break into the military police headquarters alone and assassinate many high-level targets, including Li Shiqun. What the bureau chief said in the conference room before was correct. If it were someone from the military command who did this, a third-class medal awarded by the chairman of the committee would never be able to escape.
But this person happened to be Tang Cheng. No matter how well-intentioned or hinted by the bureau chief, Tang Cheng always refused to work in the military command. If it had been someone else who had repeatedly rejected him, he might have been furious. However, facing Tang Cheng, the junior he was most optimistic about, he was rare and did not get angry. Tang Cheng, who had already left the military headquarters compound, did not know at this moment that he had almost angered the bureau chief. Now he just wants to go home quickly, because he only saw his mother and eldest sister last night, but not his younger brothers and sisters.
The happiest person about Tangcheng's return was not the Tang family, but Hans. While Tangcheng was away from Chongqing, Hans not only visited the mine in northern Myanmar, but also took a trip to Kunming. According to him, once the Japanese army attacks Myanmar, prices in Kunming will rise significantly. As soon as Tang Cheng returned home, Hans immediately came to see him. On the surface, he was discussing business matters with Tang Cheng, but in fact, he was asking Tang Cheng about the current situation in Shanghai.
Because of the land in Hong Kong, Hans was now tied to the Tang family, so Tangcheng did not hide it from Hans. "The current situation in Shanghai is very bad. Not only do the Japanese now control almost all the docks in Shanghai, but even the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau of the Concession has lost actual control over the concession. When I was in Shanghai, the patrolling military police of the Military Police Headquarters could do whatever they wanted. They go in and out of the concession to arrest people. Even the gangsters in the concession mostly help the Japanese!"
"Those relationships you had in the concession, I didn't contact them when I went there this time. Because I searched around according to the list, and found that most of the people on the list are no longer in the concession. There are only a few that can be found. People, they have all ended their black market business, and they have not touched the intelligence business for a long time!" The answer given by Tang Cheng stunned Hans. He did not expect that the situation in Shanghai had become so bad.
Tang Cheng saw all the changes in Hans's expression. He didn't want Hans to be troubled by this and continued to speak. "I told you a long time ago that the Japanese are very ambitious! Once they launch their southward offensive and start provoking the United States, all foreigners in Shanghai will no longer have their previous advantages. In the current Shanghai concession, the only ones who can afford to eat Yes, maybe only the Germans and Portuguese. After all, Germany is their ally, and Japan has too many expats in South America, so they dare not fall out with the Germans and Portuguese."
Hans was secretly a member of the German intelligence service, but he actually held an American passport. Therefore, if he had still stayed in Shanghai, he might have been taken advantage of by the Japanese. Thinking about it now, if he had not accepted Tang Cheng's persuasion at that time, he might be in the same situation as his business partners, who were repeatedly targeted by the Japanese. Hans asked a lot about Shanghai and told Tang Cheng about the situation in the mines in northern Myanmar. Tang Cheng was relieved to learn that Ma Ye and the others had withdrawn from northern Myanmar and settled in Kunming temporarily.
Hans had not been away for long, and Zhang Jianghe, who had just gotten off work, came to the Tang family again. Zhang Jianghe is now the deputy director of the Logistics Department of the Military Command Headquarters. During the period when Tang Cheng was away from Chongqing, the action team was still under the command of Zhang Jianghe. Zhang Jianghe came to Tang Cheng, firstly to return the command of the action team to Tangcheng, and secondly to bring awards to Tangcheng. Tang Cheng was not considered an active member of the military command, but he had a military rank, so the bureau chief applied for Tang Cheng to be promoted to military rank.
Tang Cheng originally had the rank of second lieutenant. This time, the Chairman of the Generalissimo personally issued a commendation to upgrade Tang Cheng to two levels of military rank, so Tang Cheng is now Captain Tang. "What kind of captain am I?" After reading the content of the award, Tang Cheng showed a mocking look on his face. "You know that as a second lieutenant, I am not under the control of the military commander, nor is it under the control of the military and political department. Even if I am promoted to captain now, it will still be the same! If I had known that this was the case, I might as well have just pointed out the key points in the bureau's office before. Forget the cash prize!”
Tang Cheng's unscrupulous face made Zhang Jianghe's eyes twitch. Fortunately, this was the Tang family's backyard study, and only they knew these words, otherwise Zhang Jianghe might have slapped him with a big ear. "You kid, that's about it! After a trip to Shanghai, your kid's temper also got worse?" Zhang Jianghe couldn't hold it back, but subconsciously, he used the tone of teaching the junior a lesson. Tang Cheng naturally did not dare to refute Zhang Jianghe, so he could only change the topic to eliminate the embarrassment in his heart.
Tang Cheng opened the drawer, took out a document bag that he had prepared a long time ago, and handed it to Zhang Jianghe. "These are some documents I found from the Military Police Headquarters when I went to Shanghai to assassinate Li Shiqun. I just don't know if they are useful! You also know that I can speak Japanese but not write it, but I look at it There are some things in here, such as personnel information, and many of them have Chinese names, something is wrong!" The document bag Tang Cheng took out immediately diverted Zhang Jianghe's attention.
Especially after Tang Cheng expressed his suspicions, Zhang Jianghe immediately took out the document bag and opened it in front of Tang Cheng. Under Tang Cheng's guidance, he found the personnel information that Tang Cheng had just mentioned. As a senior operator at the Military Command Headquarters, Zhang Jianghe, who had many encounters with Japanese and puppet spies when he was in Nanjing, is second only to his native language in familiarity with Japanese, so he can not only speak Japanese, but also write in Japanese. After carefully looking through these personnel information, Zhang Jianghe's expression became serious, because the information that Tang Cheng "accidentally" obtained was very important.
"You kid, I don't even know what to say! In short, you have made a great contribution this time!" Zhang Jianghe, who had read those personnel information, couldn't wait to look at other information, and his expression was also As the information continues to be turned over, different changes begin to appear. Ten minutes later, Zhang Jianghe, who had only briefly browsed through the information, finally stopped what he was doing and let out a long breath. "I really don't know what to say to you, kid. Anyway, this information is very important!"
Facing Zhang Jianghe's scrutinizing gaze, Tang Cheng just spread his hands and said with a slight smile. "You can take it if it's useful. Anyway, I got these things by chance. This is Chongqing, and it's useless for me to ask for these things! But let's make an agreement first. Only you and I know these things. After we leave this door, I But I don’t know anything!” Tang Cheng chose to hand over these information documents to Zhang Jianghe instead of the bureau chief. His original intention was to use Zhang Jianghe’s channels to allow Yan’an to finally receive these information.
There are actually a lot of information documents like this in Tang Cheng's carry-on equipment bag, but Tang Cheng is not prepared to hand them all to Zhang Jianghe. Because these documents and materials are all related to Shanghai, if Tangcheng takes them all out at once, if there is a problem in any link, it will inevitably affect itself. For the safety of himself and his family, Tang Cheng could only choose the right moment and hand it to Zhang Jianghe bit by bit like squeezing toothpaste.
The personnel information that Tang Cheng handed over to Zhang Jianghe was actually a list of potential personnel, a list of a group of secret agents placed in the concession by the Military Police Headquarters in collaboration with Shanghai. These secret agents placed in the concession cover all walks of life in the concession. These latent agents are usually only responsible for collecting daily intelligence, and approaching and monitoring targets that the Special High School deems suspicious. Once these latent agents are awakened, they will play a greater role than regular plainclothes agents.
How could Tang Cheng, who was proficient in Japanese, not know the importance of this information? However, at this moment, Zhang Jianghe had no time to doubt Tang Cheng's intentions. If these information were sent to organizations both above and below the sea, they would be able to target these latent agents early. Moreover, these latent agents can also be used to quietly insert people from the Shanghai underground party organization into the Japanese and puppet intelligence agencies. Zhang Jianghe was worthy of being an old underground party member. In just a blink of an eye, he had already thought of many things based on this information.
Seeing that Zhang Jianghe was in a good mood, Tang Cheng took out another piece of paper and handed it to him, "Last time I was in Shanghai, I attacked many Japanese military police and plainclothes agents! I seized the property from them and used it for operations." I paid the fee, but the weapons and documents they left behind are all in my hands. I originally thought about finding a black market broker and converting those things into money, but I didn't expect that the Japanese control the black market very hard now. Not many black marketeers dare to deal with the arms business.”
"Many gangs in Shanghai have private relations with the Japanese, so I hid the weapons, ammunition and secret service certificates in these places. When I was in the bureau office before, I forgot to mention this It's over! The address is here, just take care of it. Anyway, it's just some pistols and secret service certificates!" Tang Cheng deliberately used a relaxed tone, but Zhang Jianghe was not at peace in his heart.
After the Japanese army took full control of Shanghai, life for Shanghai's underground party organizations has been difficult, especially since they also shouldered the important task of raising supplies for the base area. Due to the siege and raids carried out by the Japanese and puppet secret services on the concession, Shanghai's underground party organizations also suffered heavy losses, and many members even lacked necessary weapons. If Tangcheng really hid weapons in the Shanghai Concession, it would definitely be a surprise for Shanghai's underground party organizations who lack weapons.
