Chapter 1072: Raising troops to investigate crimes (please vote for me)
“Let’s have a cigarette.” Hua Bingren grinned and said.
“Hua Bingren, who do you think you are?” the agent holding the whip in his hand cursed.
Tang Benlao waved his hand to stop his men from cursing. He looked at Hua Bingren coldly, but finally took out the cigarette case from his body, smoked a cigarette, and stuffed the cigarette into Hua Bingren's mouth. .
"You can talk now." Tang Wenlao lit a match and lit the cigarette, then shook off the match and said.
"Why am I laughing?" Hua Bingren snorted coldly, "Brother Tang, what do you think?"
He took a few puffs of cigarette, biting the cigarette and said, "Brother Tang asked me what is the relationship between me and Da Liu, what is the relationship? We are brothers who are helping each other. We eat and drink together and think about how to make more money." banknote."
He looked at Tang Zhunlao and said, "Your Brother Tang is now wearing official clothes and working for the Japanese. He is popular and drinks spicy food. If it hadn't been like this, Brother Tang is still helping to do things. We, Huazi, would inevitably have to follow." Serving Brother Tang by my side is like having Da Liu by my side."
The more he spoke, the angrier he looked, "We get along better around Brother Mi Liu, but Da Liu wants to flatter us and gets closer. That's how it goes."
After saying that, Hua Bingren took several deep puffs of the cigarette. Because the saliva flew everywhere, the cigarette was moistened and the fire was extinguished. He spit out the cigarette irritably. There were tobacco leaves in his mouth, and he took several puffs in succession.
"Da Liu is from Chongqing." Tang Wenlao said, "He is from the Shanghai special situation team of the military command."
"What does it have to do with me?" Hua Bingren's lips were trembling with anger, "If this can be implicated, what about Brother Mi Liu? Where is Boss Zhang?"
“Of course it’s impossible for Boss Zhang to have anything to do with Chongqing.” Tang Wenlao looked at Hua Bingren, “But, Mi Gen, that’s not necessarily the case.”
Hua Bingren was stunned for a moment. He first looked at Tang Canlao in astonishment, as if he was a little confused as to why Tang Canlao said that. Suddenly, he looked at Tang Canlao with his eyes wide open, "That's Brother Mi Liu, that's Boss Zhang." My brother-in-law!"
"Yes." Tang Wenlao smiled and nodded, "Boss Zhang's brother-in-law, the famous sixth brother Mi Gen."
He came up and said in a voice that almost only Hua Bingren could hear, "Fat and oily rice roots."
Hua Bingren was silent.
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“Chairman, let me take care of it.” Chu Mingyu stood up from the presidium and said to Wang Qianhai.
“Thank you for your hard work.” Wang Qianhai nodded.
Cheng Qianfan sat in the audience and saw all this.
It is said that Chu Mingyu is deeply trusted by Wang Quanhai, which is evident from this incident:
Let’s not talk about Chu Mingyu’s abilities. At this moment, Chu Mingyu took the initiative to stand up and help Wang Quhai solve the problem, not to mention whether he could solve it. This attitude has nothing to say.
The most important point is that Wang Chuanhai has just been elected as the chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang Party, and Chu Mingyu has just been called the "chairman". This phrase "chairman" obviously scratched Wang Chuanhai's itch:
This man has long been ashamed of being subordinate to Chang Kaishen, and now he is finally the leader!
Wang Chuanhai, on the other hand, is polite and courteous, and he has the style of "the king and his ministers get along well with each other".
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Chu Mingyu walked a few steps and suddenly stopped. He looked down the stage and said, "Qianfan, come with me."
Cheng Qianfan was slightly stunned.
However, he quickly responded, "Okay, Secretary-General Chu."
Arriving outside the auditorium, he quickly asked in a low voice, "Uncle Chu, please call me over..."
“I heard that you have a good relationship with Counselor Imamura of the Consulate General.” Chu Mingyu asked.
"My nephew is good friends with Sakamoto Yoshino, the youngest son of the famous Japanese writer Sakamoto Nagayuki. Sakamoto Nagayuki and Counselor Imamura are old friends. Counselor Imamura regards Sakamoto Yoshino as his nephew." Cheng Qianfan explained, "Because of Yoshino's relationship, Counselor Imamura also became more friendly towards me."
"I see." Chu Mingyu nodded slightly. He heard that Cheng Qianfan was highly admired by Hyōtaro Imamura, the counselor of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai. He had always been curious about how Cheng Qianfan got on Imamura's line. It turned out that he was a junior. relation.
"In today's meeting, Mr. Wang has already reached a consensus with the Japanese side that the Japanese side will not participate. Now that Inu Yangjian is here, something must have happened." Chu Mingyu said, "You come with me for a while. Dogs keep healthy.”
"Yes." Cheng Qianfan nodded in agreement first, and then asked doubtfully, "Uncle Chu has given orders, and my nephew should obey his orders wholeheartedly, but my nephew and Mr. Inukai do not know each other."
“I once saw Inukai Ken and Imamura Hyotaro talking happily at a cocktail party at the Consulate General,” Chu Mingyu said.
“My nephew understands.” Cheng Qianfan nodded.
Chu Mingyu wanted to use his good relationship with Imamura Hyoutarou to deal with the uninvited Inu Yangken.
Cheng Qianfan was also thinking about it in his mind, and then he was a little scornful.
Quanyang Jian came uninvited. Although I haven’t seen him yet, I thought it wouldn’t be a good thing. He might have come to investigate. At worst, it means monitoring the meeting.
Under such circumstances, Chu Mingyu was so ill that he went to the doctor in a hurry, and even took him, a young man, to accompany him, trying to use his personal connections to deal with the Japanese. This seemed to be Chu Mingyu's ingenuity, but in fact it showed that Wang Chuanhai and the gang The status of people in the hearts of Japanese people.
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“Prime Minister Inukai is friends with Mr. Sun. He supports the Chinese revolution and shows sympathy to China.” Chu Mingyu slowed down and said to Cheng Qianfan.
As he spoke, he also said with emotion, "If Prime Minister Inukai was still alive, China and Japan would not be in this situation."
The Prime Minister Chu Mingyu mentioned was Quan Yangjian’s father, Quan Yangyi. This man was a friend of Mr. Sun and supported the revolutionaries’ anti-Qing struggle to a certain extent.
In the thirty-third year of Guangxu's reign, when the Tongmenghui launched the Zhennanguan Uprising, Inukai Yi also helped the revolutionary army ask for weapons from the Japanese Army.
When there were not enough weapons, he took the initiative to hand over dozens of Japanese swords collected in his home to the Japanese Umeya Shokichi and Sugano Nagatomo, who also supported the Chinese anti-Qing movement, and asked them to transfer them to the rebels.
In the 20th year of the Republic of China, when Inukai Takeshi became Prime Minister, it happened to catch up with the "September 18th Incident".
In this regard, Inukai Takeshi advocated the policy of "non-expansion" and did not intend to directly recognize "Manchukuo".
“At that time, Prime Minister Inukai sent his confidant Nagatomo Sugano to secretly rush to Shanghai to contact (Executive President) Sun Ke and try to sign a secret agreement.”
"The main content is to recognize that China has suzerainty over Northeast China, but Japan also enjoys "governance rights" including finance, taxation, trade, etc., and retains a certain garrison in Northeast China. On this basis, China and Japan "jointly build" "New Regime in the Northeast."
“So, Prime Minister Inukai does have a moderate attitude towards China.” Cheng Qianfan nodded and said.
He actually already knew what Chu Mingyu said. Hyōtaro Imamura told him about the changes in the "imperial foreign policy in recent years" in the "Imamura Small Classroom", which included Inukai Takeshi's China policy.
Takeshi Inukai's attitude towards Japan's diplomacy after the September 18th Incident is: Japan can realize its interests with China through unequal treaties, and can even force the Chinese to sign another treaty similar to the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" and demand huge compensation. It is necessary to resort to war.
Even so, the gradual control and encroachment of Northeast China planned by Inukai Takeshi, a treaty that was extremely humiliating to China, still aroused outrage after being discovered by the Japanese Military Ministry - what the far-right Japanese Military Ministry demanded was Northeast China is truly "independent".
So, eleven young Japanese men wearing navy uniforms broke into Inukai Takeshi's home and shot and killed the Japanese Prime Minister.
At the time of the assassination, Ken Inukai was serving as Secretary of the Inukai Cabinet. He was entertaining Chaplin, who was visiting Japan, to watch a sumo wrestling performance...
After the assassination incident, during the subsequent trial, the eleven people confessed to the assassination of Inukai Takeshi, but claimed that their actions were to "save the country" - this assassination was not a crime, but a "revolution". They were "eating traitors" for Japan, because they got rid of the biggest obstacle that prevented Japan from annexing China - the "Japanese traitor" Takeshi Inukai!
Throughout the trial, the court received nearly 120,000 letters requesting commutations for these 11 people, and there was also a petition for clemency signed by 357,000 people.
What is even more shocking is that at that time, 11 Japanese people cut off their little fingers, soaked them in alcohol bottles, and sent them to the court to express their admiration and support for those 11 people.
In this fanatical atmosphere, the Japanese people not only did not regard these 11 assassins as criminals, but worshiped them as "heroes" who saved the country. Countless girls even wrote passionate courtship letters and volunteered to come. The prison married them and became the wives of these murderers.
In the end, under the pressure of a large number of "petitions" and popular voices across Japan, none of the eleven assassins who participated in the assassination of Inukai Takeshi were sentenced to death. A few years later, as the war expanded, these people were acquitted!
"Because of Prime Minister Inukai, Inukai Ken's attitude towards China is quite friendly." Chu Mingyu said, "Mr. Qingqi Qingyin did not come in person, but sent Inukai Ken here. This is also a kind of gentle approach." Attitude, this shows that there may indeed be something wrong, but the Japanese still take good care of our face."
“The country is weak, but fortunately Mr. Wang and Uncle Chu have won rare respect for China.” Cheng Qianfan said with emotion.
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“Mr. Inukai.” Chu Mingyu shook hands with Inukai with a smile on his face.
“Mr. Chu.” Quan Yangjian looked serious and nodded lightly.
He glanced at Cheng Qianfan next to Chu Mingyu, seemingly surprised by how handsome this young man was.
“This is Cheng Qianfan, a representative of the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of my country and deputy chief inspector of the Central District Patrol Office of the French Concession.” Chu Mingyu introduced him immediately, “Qianfan is a young talent who is highly admired by Counselor Imamura.”
“Oh?” Inukai Ken glanced at Cheng Qianfan in surprise, “Does Cheng Sang know Imamura-kun?”
“I am good friends with Liangye, and because of our relationship with Liangye, Mr. Imamura treats me like a nephew.” Cheng Qianfan said modestly.
“The youngest son of the Sakamoto family? Yoshino?”
“Exactly.”
"That's it." Quan Yangjian nodded, his face a little gentler.
In addition to being a politician, Sakamoto Yoshino is also a novelist. Sakamoto Yoshino’s father, Sakamoto Nagayuki, is a senior figure in the cultural world whom he admires and respects.
“Sir, what are you doing here?” Seeing that the atmosphere had relaxed a lot, Chu Mingyu asked.
Inukai Kenichi reached out, took the briefcase from the assistant beside him, took out a document, opened it, and found a certain page.
He pointed out the passage circled in red pen to Chu Mingyu and asked: "Manchukuo has been established in this area for several years. What does it have to do with this meeting? Why did it send representatives to the meeting?"
Chu Mingyu was shocked.
Because what Quan Yangjian was holding was the internal document of this conference.
The most important thing is that according to the regulations of the conference, all documents issued by the conference can only be read by representatives during the meeting and are not allowed to be taken out of the venue.
How come the Japanese have such a document in their hands?
Cheng Qianfan stood aside. He glanced at it and knew why Qingqi Qingyin sent Quan Yangjian to investigate.
The organizational law of the conference expressed in the document includes a provision that several representatives from northeastern Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other provinces should attend the conference.
Obviously, the Japanese are deeply dissatisfied with this.
"Mr. Inukai, please be patient." Chu Mingyu was anxious. He didn't know how to defend himself for a moment, so he could only delay the attack. "Later, I will report to Mr. Wang, and there will definitely be a solution that satisfies you." answer."
“That’s the best.” Inuyang Ken nodded.
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Cheng Qianfan quietly returned to his seat.
“What did Secretary-General Chu ask you to do?” Lu Daren asked in a low voice.
"Because I have an old relationship with Mr. Inukai..." Cheng Qianfan said in a low voice with a proud look on his face.
Lu Daren nodded, and his eyes suddenly became a little more envious and serious when he looked at Cheng Qianfan.
Wang Chunhai saw Chu Mingyu coming back with a slightly serious expression and winked at Chen Chunpu beside him.
The latter walked up to Chu Mingyu and whispered a few words.
Subsequently, the conference secretary-general Mei Shenping announced a temporary adjournment for a quarter of an hour, euphemistically calling it time for everyone to relieve themselves.
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On the rostrum, Wang Chuanhai was shocked when he heard the news and hurriedly summoned the sages of the bureau to discuss countermeasures.
“How do the Japanese have our internal documents?” Mei Shenping said dissatisfied.
“Now is not the time to discuss this.” Chen Chunpu said, and he muttered, “The Japanese know, is there anything strange about it?”
Everyone was silent for more than ten seconds, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
Someone said: "Part of the documents issued by the conference were copied as they were in the past, and we have not officially recognized "Manchukuo" yet, so we cannot do without this article. "
Some people shook their heads and said: "This answer will not solve the problem."
Zhou Liang thought for a while and said, "Why don't we just say that this article in the Organizational Law is indeed due to the temporary negligence and lack of consideration by the temporary secretary. In fact, there were no representatives from these places at the meeting. I would like to apologize to the Japanese side. Please give me my apology." understanding."
“This is a good idea.”
“This makes sense.”
Finally, Mei Shenping, the secretary-general of the conference, went to reply Quan Yangjian based on this reason.
When Mei Shenping came back, he was informed that Quan Yangjian had accepted this statement and had left.
Wang Chuhai and others all breathed a sigh of relief, and smiles appeared on their faces again.
It's just that there's a little more embarrassment in this smile, and the energy is also a little lighter.
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