1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

His Highness said he didn't want to?

Your Highness, the weather is cold, please put on more clothes!

355 The Three Heroes of Longtan? No, the Four Heroes of Manchuria

While Wang Yaqiao and UMP40, Chen Li and Doihara Kenji, Zhao Ziqi and Chongren, the army and the immigrants were all busy with their own affairs, some people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were also very busy.

In the evening, in a house not far from the Shenyang Imperial Palace, two men were silently eating braised beef with peanuts and drinking Huadiao wine, waiting without saying a word. From the room inside, a dripping sound was heard.

Comrades familiar with telegraph work knew immediately that someone was sending and receiving telegrams, and the movements were quite skillful. It was obvious that the person was a professionally trained veteran.

After a long while, the man in the room came out with a piece of paper. The two men outside the room immediately looked at him and asked hurriedly:

"Old Qian, what do you say?"

The man known as "Old Qian" took a deep breath and said slowly:

"Shaanxi replied that Comrade Chen Kang was not a traitor. He simply had a conflict with Comrade Ma Shiwu and fled after feeling wronged. He did not take any confidential documents with him, and there was no news of him doing anything harmful to the revolution."

After hearing this, the two men outside the room breathed a sigh of relief.

As Chen Li's former subordinates and friends, they really didn't want to see him become a traitor and then be killed by the "anti-traitor team" they formed;

Now, neither Comrade Li Desheng nor Comrade Wu Hao has issued the "anti-traitor order", so they don't have to do something that may cause them pain for the rest of their lives.

Even so, the youngest of the three men couldn't help but slam the table hard:

"You ran away after being wronged? And you even came here to be a traitor? Does Chen Ying have any organizational discipline? I used to think he was..."

"Xiao Hu!"

The man surnamed Qian sternly stopped his companion and shook his head:

"We've all been involved in secret revolutions. Don't take things so lightly."

The responses from the Party Central Committee and Comrade Li Desheng were somewhat vague on certain key points, which is really worrying.

"Yes."

Another round-faced man with glasses named Li also agreed:

"Chen She's entire process from the time he got into trouble to his escape seemed too smooth. I'm afraid there's something else going on."

"You mean..." "Yeah, that's right." "Hiss..."

The man surnamed Hu took a deep breath and his eyes became excited: "Then this Manchukuo will be very interesting!"

"Don't be too absolute. Maybe Chen Li is not a traitor, but he is indeed working for the Japanese now."

"Well...what should we do with him?"

"Let me think about it. Anyway, gathering intelligence is definitely necessary..."

Yes, these three people are the outstanding representatives of the CCP’s secret front, who were later known as the “Three Heroes of Longtan (Front)”:

Qian Zhuangfei, Li Kenong, and Hu Di.

The three of them were transferred from their respective posts by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and sent to the "Manchukuo" to lie undercover. They arrived in batches some time ago.

However, the tasks assigned to them by the Party Central Committee were somewhat vague:

Collect all intelligence on the "Manchukuo".

To be honest, when they were told the mission, the three of them were completely bewildered. All the information?

What intelligence?

However, Wu Hao, who issued the task, seemed to be at a loss himself. He hesitated for a long time before giving a slightly limited answer:

Politics, military, economy, technology, society, culture, resources, business... Hahaha... So it's politics and military...

Isn't it the same as if I didn't say anything? (Fall)

I always feel that the Party Central Committee itself doesn’t know which aspects should be listed as the focus of the investigation, so it just throws everything together, and it depends on how the intelligence personnel perform.

As a result, many Communist Party members, including the "Three Heroes of Longtan", arrived in the Northeast in a daze and began their mission with gritted teeth.

Then, Qian Zhuangfei and others were shocked to find that the head of Manchukuo's most elite armed forces was a Chinese!

He was my former boss! (Actually, it was Gu Shunzhang, but who was that...)

He even fawned over that "Hachimangu Kanezane-oh" like a damn traitor!

Now, before we could figure out what was going on with Chen Pan and get a response from the Central Committee, the plan to infiltrate the 386th Brigade had to be temporarily abandoned.

At that time, Wang Yaqiao, who had just joined Manchukuo, was recruiting people on behalf of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The three of them took the assessment together with the idea of ​​"let's get into the system first and then think about other things", and then passed it together.

In other words, these three CCP members who once worked on the intelligence front are now members of the intelligence force of the Manchurian Interior Ministry. In the future, they will definitely be responsible for internal and external intelligence work, and they may even be responsible for "anti-communism."

"If Chen Kang came to Manchukuo on a mission and didn't actually rebel, how did he manage to evade Japanese scrutiny?"

"this.…."

No matter how smart they were, they couldn't have imagined the existence of something like the "Sekai Party" and a crazy person like Fujiwara no Kanezane. Naturally, they couldn't understand the reason and could only give up:

"Forget it. Since the Party Central Committee has responded in this way, let's put Chen Kang's matter aside for now and observe carefully. Let's discuss the second issue."

Qian Zhuangfei knocked on the table and said seriously:

"Wang Yaqiao, what should we do?"

"

Li Kenong's face suddenly darkened.

The examination for admission to the Manchurian Ministry of Internal Affairs is divided into three stages:

The first is a purely written test, held together with other civil service exams, and the content is all about basic cultural knowledge, which is obviously used to screen out some uneducated and unskilled people;

The second part was also a written test, but it was a series of confusing multiple-choice questions, such as what would come to mind when you saw a certain color. These questions were confusing but seemed irrelevant.

After passing these two rounds, someone will secretly inform you to participate in the third interview. It was in this interview that Qian Zhuangfei and the other two met their future boss, Wang Yaqiao.

As a former personal secretary to a top official of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, and having worked in Shanghai for a long time, Qian Zhuangfei had naturally seen the photo of Wang Yaqiao, who was listed as a key surveillance target of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics.

Li Kenong, under Chen Li's orders, once sent someone to contact Wang Yaqiao and try to bring him into the CCP. Although he was unsuccessful (Wang replied, "I'm used to being free and can't stand being constrained"), he had seen the photo.

So, when both of them felt that he looked familiar, they checked with each other and immediately confirmed the identity of Wang Yaqiao in disguise.

Fortunately, they knew the king, but the king did not know them, otherwise the situation would have been very awkward and even dangerous.

I haven't heard of this Shanghai gangster for a long time. I thought he was assassinated by Chiang Kai-shek. Who would have thought that he actually ran to the Northeast and became a traitor?

Is that "Hachimangu Kanezane-oh" really that attractive? One or two!

"First, we need to confirm whether Wang Yaqiao was a traitor and what he meant by those words."

Like Chen Li, it is hard to believe that this person would be a traitor;

They had been fighting against the Japanese all along, even forming the "Iron Blood Anti-Traitor Group" to kill Japanese everywhere, and now they are the anti-Japanese vanguards. How could they suddenly become the running dogs of the Japanese?

No matter how you look at it, something is 100% wrong.

However, Wang Yaqiao was so famous that they could easily recognize him. How could they possibly have hidden it from the Japanese, who had a more sophisticated intelligence system?

Since he couldn't hide it, how did the Japanese believe that he was really here to be a traitor? The more people thought about it, the more they felt that Wang Yaqiao might also be a "lurker" who had gained the trust of the Japanese through some means, and might even still be under surveillance.

That was what I thought, but when the Ministry of Internal Affairs Intelligence Corps organized a meeting for new recruits, Wang Yaqiao said something that was hard to understand:

"...We in the Ministry of Internal Affairs do not want those useless people who sincerely serve as running dogs for the Japanese or become traitors. We only want top talents who wholeheartedly strive for the development of Manchukuo..."

These words immediately made everyone's brains, including Qian, Li and Hu, freeze.

No...Brother?

Do you want to reorganize your language?

You, the head of the intelligence department of a puppet regime established by the Japanese, tell new recruits "Don't be dogs of the Japanese"?

Don't you think there's something wrong with the logic behind this statement?

However, Wang Yaqiao's subsequent words, such as "building Manchukuo and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and realizing Your Highness's ideals", made Qian Zhuangfei and others understand a little.

It turns out that the high and mighty His Majesty was planning to "create a new nation, ascend the throne, and unify the world"...

No wonder.

The so-called "no traitors" is probably just a brainwashing rhetoric. In fact, it is to turn everyone into a "private army" loyal to him personally rather than the country of Japan, so as to gain power directly under his personal control.

Humph, this petty trick of dreaming of becoming an emperor, or even the emperor of China, will never shake my communist ideals!

But this makes Wang Yaqiao's position even more difficult to judge. Was he a lurker who endured humiliation, or was he truly deceived by that prince and became a traitor who believed he was not a traitor?

If Wang Yaqiao really became a traitor, once such a person of considerable ability and in a key position began to exert his power, the damage to the Chinese revolutionary cause would be enormous;

So, the three of them need to discuss how to deal with this person.

Assassination is naturally impossible, so should we approach Wang Yaqiao under our true identity to find out his true intentions?

After some discussion, no one could come up with an answer that could convince everyone, so they decided to continue observing secretly.

The problems faced by Chen and Wang Lianlian were the same, and the three heroes of Longtan, who once "killed all sides" within the Kuomintang, felt increasingly difficult.

By the way, they have clearly felt this since they came to Manchukuo, because there is something weird and different everywhere here.

"...This place is really...really... spooky..." "It's really weird. The Japanese...are not ordinary..."

Anyone who works in intelligence knows that the best thing is not to have no flaws;

On the contrary, the most clever situation is when there are many doubts but it appears extremely calm on the surface, making it impossible for you to find any problems.

Because, any intelligence officer who sees this kind of situation will be "itchy" and will definitely not let it go easily!

Since we can't let it go, we must investigate. Once we start investigating, we will be full of loopholes and will definitely fall into the enemy's surveillance.

So, for the sake of caution, I didn't dare to move rashly.

Currently, the Qian-Li-Hu intelligence front is stuck in this dilemma. The leader, Qian Zhuangfei, simply doesn't dare to "awaken" all the lurkers easily, resulting in the work being unable to break through.

The CPC has worked hard to achieve the current good situation. No one wants to fail and cause comrades to suffer losses due to lack of caution.

The anxious Hu Di couldn't help but complain:

"If only Chen Kang and Wang Yaqiao were really our own people..." This sentence suddenly made Li Kenong's eyes light up:

"I have an idea! It's just that it might take a long time."

"Hmm? Lao Li, you said that time is not a big deal. The Party Central Committee didn't set a time limit for us."

"My idea is, since Chen Bi and Wang Yaqiao can't confirm whether they are our people, then we should just not confirm them and just pretend they don't exist."

"This... go on."

"If we just replace their men with our own, then we won't have to worry about whether they are our own people or not."

"ah?? ?"

Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di were both confused:

"Are you saying, let more party members join the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the 386th Brigade? No, the more people there are, the easier it is to be exposed. We still have to control the number, otherwise..."

"That being said, if everyone inside is ours, then there's no chance of being exposed. Even if we're exposed, we can still cover for each other."

Alas?

This seems to be an idea.

After all, the political review in Manchukuo did not seem very strict. At least when Qian Zhuangfei took the exam, he found several "acquaintances" from the Kuomintang, some of whom were even his former comrades.

Yes, if this place becomes a "branch" of the Party organization, then what is there to expose or not?

"However, the process of infiltrating the enemy camp is still very dangerous. The superiors have said that safety is the top priority, and we cannot let our comrades take risks and sacrifice themselves."

"That's why I said it would take a lot of time, because to do this, the first step is to replace most of the current people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs with people who are not hostile to us."

"How do you change it? Keep talking."

"You've all seen that this Manchukuo, or that prince, is truly impressive. On the surface, they're so righteous and moral, you can't find fault with them..."

Qian and Hu were silent. Indeed, that was the case.

Before they came, they had thought that the Northeast, invaded by Japan, would be a place where "the people were oppressed and miserable, the revolutionary struggle was severe, and enthusiasm was high."

The result was almost the exact opposite?

Initially, it seemed that the common people were not oppressed, their lives were not greatly disturbed, and they had little interest in resisting the Japanese. Most of the existing anti-Japanese armed forces had also disappeared.

It is no exaggeration to say that the lives of ordinary people here seem to be similar to those in the current Central Soviet Area, and their material life is even better!