The Spy

Chapter 359 Want to Record
Xu Qingyun noticed this when he got the detailed information of the Special High Police. Arai thought that Taguchi was his breakthrough against Kamei, and never thought that he would become the god of death who sent him to hell.

Arai had worked in Northeast China, had the blood of Chinese people on his hands, and died on Chinese soil. I believe that those predecessors and martyrs would not forgive him.

"Section Chief, there's news from Bao Gossip."

Two days later, Takeda came to report secretly to Kamei first, but Arai had not gone yet.

"Have you found Taguchi?"

Kamei immediately asked, Taguchi pretended to come to deliver tea, he had written a letter to Osawa before, and after Takeda reported it, he immediately sent a telegram to the country.

Letters are too slow, far less fast than telegrams.

Ozawa didn't send him anything at all. This must be a Chinese conspiracy, deliberately trying to make Arai suspect himself.

Kamei was also puzzled and even shocked as to how the Chinese knew about his relationship with Ozawa.

He had heard from the chief section chief before that the Chinese had made great progress in intelligence, and asked all people in the Special High Section not to slack off and to be cautious.

Many people disagree. In their eyes, these Chinese agents are like children and cannot be compared with them at all.

Now it seems that what the section chief said was absolutely correct. He had only been in Shanghai for a short time, and the Chinese had even found out his connections in China.

They are making rapid progress indeed.

"No, but they have a clue. Taguchi is currently hiding with the Westerners, and they are Westerners of high status. They dare not act rashly."

"Who is this Westerner of status?"

Kamei asked immediately, and Takeda shook his head: "Bao Gossip didn't say anything, he just said that the other party has power, Taguchi is with him, we can't catch him."

Kamei stood up and walked back and forth.

It would be best if Taguchi could be caught, as the section chief hates traitors the most, not to mention that Taguchi had assassinated many Japanese.

If he is caught, Arai's slander against himself will be useless, and the chief section chief can also see his results.

"He took the money and just did it like this?"

Kamei asked dissatisfiedly, fortunately the money was not paid by the Special Higher Police, but by Arai himself.

Arai spent so much money, but he ended up losing more than he gained. This made him very satisfied.

"He said that apart from arresting people, he could find ways to help us with everything else."

Takeda replied immediately, and Kamei returned to the sofa, picked up the cup of tea and sipped it slowly.

It was obvious that Bao Ting was afraid of offending the people who protected Taguchi. For the Chinese living in the concession, foreigners were people they absolutely could not offend.

Otherwise they would not be able to move an inch in the concession.

"Except arresting people, he can do everything?"

After drinking some tea, Kamei asked, and Takeda nodded quickly: "That's about right. I heard that Bao Gossip can help with most things, and he can even meet Taguchi."

"Can he see people?"

Kamei was very surprised. This gossiper had great power and could even see the people hiding in the Shanghai station.

"If he can see someone, can we arrest him secretly?"

"Section Chief, if we want to arrest someone, he will definitely not agree."

Takeda smiled bitterly. He didn't expect the section chief to ask this question because the other party had clearly stated that he would not help them catch anyone.

The section chief and Arai are evenly matched, and neither of them can match the Chinese.

"Then can we get Taguchi to say what we want?"

An idea suddenly came to Kamei's mind, while Takeda was stunned. This was what the Chinese had instructed him to do, to report first and find a way to get Taguchi to record the conversation. Unexpectedly, before he could say anything, the section chief took the initiative to bring it up.

"That should be possible. I can ask him."

Takeda did not agree immediately. It would have been foolish to agree directly and would have easily aroused Kamei's suspicion.

At least for now, Kamei trusts him very much, including Arai. Neither of them thought that he was the traitor.

Takeda felt a small sense of accomplishment for being able to fool the section chief and the head of the intelligence team.

"Okay, ask clearly and report to me immediately."

Kamei nodded immediately. If they could get Taguchi to say something that would be beneficial to them, it would be more effective than arresting people directly.

But this alone is not enough, he needs to find a way to find evidence to convict Arai.

It’s a pity that he couldn’t contact anyone at the Shanghai station. If he could, he wouldn’t mind asking the Shanghai station to do him a favor.

For him, interests are the most important thing. What does it matter if he cooperates with the enemy?
It's not like the Japanese haven't done this kind of thing before.

"Hay."

Takeda took the order and left quietly. When he got home he laughed out loud. The two Jings were fooled by him. It really felt good.

"Stationmaster, Takeda has succeeded."

At the Shanghai station, Yan Ming came to Xu Qingyun and said with a smile that he had been paying attention to Takeda for some time, and after this success, Takeda would definitely be promoted.

I just don’t know if I can directly become the head of the intelligence team.

If they become the head of the intelligence team, the Shanghai Special High Section will have no secrets at all for them.

"The internal strife of the Special High Section is our opportunity. Don't worry about it for now. How is the matter you were asked to investigate going?"

"We have almost finished the investigation. There are a total of 16 people who are very active, and they all hold important positions in the pseudo-government."

Yan Ming immediately replied that the Shanghai Station was not doing nothing during this period. The Japanese asked the traitors to re-establish a government and renamed Shanghai Dadao City.

Unfortunately, this name was not only not recognized by the Chinese, but many foreigners were also dissatisfied with it.

Even the Japanese think this name is ugly and far inferior to Shanghai.

However, the establishment of a puppet government made some appointed officials very excited, and they vied with each other to show their loyalty to their new master. Most of these people had no reputation before.

People with reputations simply don't want to work for such a government.

He is the mayor, Su Wenxi. He was just a consultant for a company before. He has no fame and no connections.

The reason he was able to become mayor was purely because he joined the party early.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that he won't be mayor for long.

Including the Japanese, they are quite disappointed with him and are looking for a more suitable candidate.

But those who were chosen by Su Wenxi didn’t know that they were very happy to be officials, even if they didn’t have any real power.

Now Su Wenxi takes these running dogs with him every day to welcome the Japanese, bowing and lowering them every day; but when facing his own people, he acts arrogantly, as if he were a very great person.

They had no idea how badly they were scolding them behind their backs.

"Don't leave any one alive. Kill them all."

Xu Qingyun waved his hand and announced the fate of these sixteen people with just one sentence.

Aren't you very active? If you are active, you have to pay a price. They are so high-profile every day and speak for the Japanese. Let others see the final fate of these traitors and running dogs.

This was not an order from headquarters, but the Shanghai station’s own behavior.

For Xu Qingyun, as long as there are traitors who like to jump around, he will treat them to peanuts and let them go to the underworld to be whipped by their ancestors.

"Yes."

Yan Ming took the order. There were sixteen people involved. A one-time sanction would serve as a great warning to the traitors.

There are so many people on this mission that the intelligence team alone is not enough, and a joint action team must work together.

Yan Ming went straight to Fu Wenzheng. "Team Leader Yan, please make the arrangements. The action team will fully cooperate. We must defeat them completely this time."

Upon learning the details of the mission, Fu Wenzhen was very excited. These traitors must be killed, especially since many of them had voluntarily surrendered to the Japanese just to become officials.

It would have been fine if they had protected the people after becoming officials, but they did not. On the contrary, after gaining support from the Japanese, they even more exploited the people.

At this time, people in the Japanese-occupied areas were living a very hard life.

"Thank you for your cooperation, Team Leader Fu."

Yan Ming thanked him with a smile. With the help of the action team and careful planning, it would not be difficult to kill these low-level traitors.

The traitor's identity was ordinary, but his contribution was not small after the mission was accomplished.

Who made these traitors carry the titles of directors of this bureau or that bureau?

After the sanctions are successful, they can clearly point out the identity of the other party when reporting their achievements: a traitor of the puppet government, Director So-and-so, who was successfully sanctioned by the Shanghai Station on a certain day of a certain month of a certain year.

If such merit is reported, it will definitely be greater than the merit of punishing ordinary traitors.

It was three days later that Takeda returned to the Special Higher Police to report.

Before this, he had gone to report the latest work progress to Arai. Upon learning that no one could be caught, Arai was also very regretful. Under Takeda's guidance, he quickly thought of the method of recording.

"Team leader, I heard that Taguchi loves money. Giving him money can make him say what we want."

Takeda first met with Kamei in secret and then went to Arai's office.

"Will Taguchi admit it?"

Arai was full of doubts and asked directly, "Taguchi has been instigated by the Chinese. If he admits it, it would be equivalent to betraying the Chinese. At that time, he will have no place to stand."

"It's not an admission. They can give money to meet people and then we can get information from them. Once we get it, we can point to the section chief."

Takeda explained, Arai knocked on the table, and after a while slowly nodded: "Wait, I will report to the section chief and apply for a recorder."

The recording method is feasible. Let the Chinese go to Taguchi to get information. As long as they say something related to the Special High Police, such as that there are people from the Special High Police, then they can be led to Kamei.

Yanwu's confession, Taguchi's recording, and photos, this is a complete chain of evidence.

Unfortunately, there is no conclusive evidence. If he could find someone from the Shanghai station and get the ironclad evidence that Kamei had defected to the Chinese, he would be able to completely eliminate any chance of Kamei's comeback.

At this moment, Arai and Kamei were both thinking how nice it would be if they could contact someone at the Shanghai station.

Not for arresting people, just for profit.

"Section Chief, there is new progress from Takeda."

Arai quickly came to Kamei's office and reported in a low voice.

"What progress?"

Kamei narrowed his eyes. He knew exactly what Takeda was doing, and now he wanted to hear how Arai was trying to deceive him.

"He found a gathering place for a group of well-informed Chinese people and wanted to set up a monitoring point there to see if he could get any clues about the Shanghai station from their conversations."

“Even without the intelligence from the Shanghai station, it can help us better understand the Chinese and the situation in the concession.”

Arai had already thought of an excuse. He certainly couldn't mention the matter of looking for Taguchi, otherwise Kamei would immediately become alert.

Fortunately, Kamei was not an intelligence agent and he trusted him quite a bit, so it was not difficult to deceive him.

"You have a good idea, you can do this."

Kamei nodded, and Arai immediately bowed his head: "Thank you, Section Chief."

After he left, Kamei's eyes became even colder. Arai wanted to use the bug to record Taguchi's words that were unfavorable to him, and he was still deceiving himself.

Damn it, Arai. Now he is looking forward to seeing if Arai will be shocked when he hears the contents of the recording.

Takeda came to report to him in the most detail, including how to tell Arai.

What Takeda really wanted to record was the testimony that Taguchi and Arai colluded to deliberately frame him.

As long as he recorded it, he could take action against Arai.

He is the boss and has evidence. He can suspend Arai from his position and detain him at any time.

By then, Arai can do whatever he wants with him.

Regarding the Shanghai Station, Kamei has given Takeda a task, to bribe the Chinese at all costs and find a way to obtain evidence of collusion between the Shanghai Station and Arai.

Even if it is false evidence, it will be fine as long as it comes from the hands of Chinese.

He will not do this personally, but let Takeda do it. If something really goes wrong, he will not admit it, and then it will all be Takeda's fault.

Kamei was very satisfied with his plan.

Takeda quickly got the wiretap tape recorder and handed it to the gossip-monger in the International Settlement.

"I've given you the equipment, but you must give me what I need. Also, the equipment is expensive, so don't let anything break down, or you won't be able to pay for it. If it breaks down, we can find you wherever you go."

Takeda brought his men to the International Settlement and gave all the equipment to Bao Ta Ting.

"Don't worry, it won't break. How do you use this thing?"

Bao Da Ting chuckled and said that he really didn't know how to use it.

Takeda specially found a place and taught him how to use it. The eavesdropping device must use electricity. They couldn't contact Taguchi, so it had to be done by a gossipmonger.

It took a whole day just to teach him how to set up a bug.

The bug is easy to use. Just turn on the switch and it will start recording. However, it is troublesome to install as it requires a lot of circuits and the tapes must be replaced in a timely manner.

Audio tapes are not cheap, more expensive than film.

The next day, as soon as Takeda went out, he heard gunshots in the distance.

Takeda immediately lowered his head. He was inside the car, and it would be safer if he squatted down.

He didn't know where the shooting came from, but it was definitely far away. There were continuous gunshots and even grenades.

At the same time, gunshots were heard in many places in Shanghai.

"Quick, go see what's going on."

When the gunfire stopped, Takeda immediately gave orders. There were four people in the car, all of whom were his men.

The driver immediately started the car and drove towards the place where the gunshots were heard.

"withdraw."

On the other side, after completing the mission, the members of the Shanghai Station action team took photos of the sanctioned persons and quickly evacuated.

At the Shanghai station, Xu Qingyun was waiting for news.

Yan Ming and Fu Wenzhen walked in together.

"Stationmaster, the plan went smoothly. When we were withdrawing from two points, we encountered the Japanese. The people who were covering us successfully led them away and killed several Japanese soldiers."

Yan Ming first reported that they had made full preparations before the operation, including the whereabouts of the target, how many people were around him, patrolling soldiers and police, etc.

They have people supporting each point, mainly to help attract firepower.

The people who came to meet them brought a lot of grenades and even set up booby traps in advance. They have now also been successfully withdrawn. This sanctions operation was a great victory.

"Well done. Go write the report immediately and list all the people who have made contributions. I will help you all report your contributions."

Xu Qingyun nodded. He was not surprised that the mission was successful. The targets of this sanctions were not important and they did not have much guard force around them.

(End of this chapter)