usatvline Chapter 1605 Arao Chihiro
Chapter 1605 Arao Chihiro
Chapter 1605 Arao Chihiro
"Wang Hengyi was arrested by the police station, and you know him well." Araki Harima said, "Miyazaki-kun, I want to hear your opinion on this matter."
"From the results, the enemy was indeed fooled." Cheng Qianfan said thoughtfully, "Although the identity of the enemy has not been confirmed for the time being, it can be basically determined that it is a joint action team composed of the Shanghai District of the Military Control Commission, the Shanghai Special Affairs Department, and the Military Control Commission members from Zhejiang."
He said to Araki Harima, "There are nearly 20 bodies of our enemies left, which is a huge loss for the Military Control Commission. Moreover, the number of enemies in this operation is large, which also proves that they were indeed fooled. If it weren't for the strong firepower of the enemy and the successful escape from our encirclement, their losses would be even greater."
Cheng Qianfan said, "From this point of view, our plan is successful, and it can also directly prove that the intelligence of the 'ruler' is accurate and there is no problem."
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After hearing Kentaro Miyazaki's analysis, Araki Harima thought about it carefully and nodded.
Because the Empire suffered heavy losses this time, he inevitably had some doubts in his mind. However, as Miyazaki-kun said, the enemy's losses were actually very large as well. It was just that he was used to the huge advantage in the casualty ratio between his own side and the enemy, so he subconsciously had doubts and questions.
"As for the enemy's strong firepower, in my opinion, this further proves the enemy's determination to assassinate General Gangcun." Cheng Qianfan snorted coldly and said, "Since the Empire occupied Shanghai, our opponents' situation has become increasingly difficult. Their weapons and supplies are limited. This time they are willing to use so many grenades and explosives, which is enough to show that the Military Control Commission has done its best in this operation."
"So, you think there is no problem with Wang Hengyi?" asked Araki Harima.
"I am only analyzing objective facts. The intelligence provided by 'Ruler' should be quite accurate, and our trap was successful." Cheng Qianfan said, "As for Wang Hengyi, initially speaking, there is no problem with this person."
"However," he looked at Araki Harima, "Araki-kun, you know that I don't trust the Chinese."
Araki Harima shook his head. That was right. Miyazaki-kun had a natural distrust of the Chinese. Asking this guy this question was like asking a blind man for advice.
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"When was Wang Hengyi tried in the French Concession?" Araki Harima suddenly asked.
The empire has been negotiating with the French Concession authorities, demanding that they hand over Chongqing element Wang Hengyi, but the French Concession authorities have not relented.
Now, after the Guan Charter incident, the relationship between the French Concession authorities and the Empire further deteriorated. They directly rejected the Empire's request to extradite Wang Hengyi and stated that they would try Wang Hengyi in the French Concession Court.
"Just recently." Cheng Qianfan said, "What does Araki-kun mean?"
"Wang Hengyi knows about the 'ruler.'" Araki Harima said solemnly, "We can't keep this person."
"The Chongqing side didn't know that Wang Hengyi had defected to the empire. They only knew that Wang Hengyi was arrested by the police station." Cheng Qianfan frowned and said, "Although the French Concession will put him on trial, Chongqing should try its best to rescue Wang Hengyi. This person will return to the Military Control Commission in the future..."
Araki Harima frowned slightly. He understood what Miyasaki Kentaro meant, which was that Wang Hengyi still had some value.
"No, this guy spoke after being tortured in the police station. Although this matter is secret, we still have to solve it just in case." Araki Harima was firm.
"Okay, I'll arrange it." Cheng Qianfan said with a smile.
Araki Harima also laughed. He knew that in the eyes of Miyazaki Kentaro, all Chinese were untrustworthy. Even those who defected to the empire would be killed by Miyazaki without mercy.
It was also because he knew Kentaro Miyazaki that he was relieved that Kentaro Miyazaki was able to put aside his personal emotions and persuade him to save Wang Hengyi's life. It was good that Miyazaki was able to control his personal preferences and emotions in work.
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"It's been a while since the section chief passed away, and the position of section chief of the Special High Section is vacant." Cheng Qianfan frowned and said, "Does Lord Arai have any comment?"
When Araki Harima heard his friend ask this, his face darkened.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Qianfan asked immediately.
"I went to see Mr. Arai, and he said that the Empire has decided to send Lieutenant Colonel Tomohiro Arao, a staff officer of the China Section of the General Staff, to Shanghai from the mainland." Araki Harima said with a worried look on his face.
"What?" Cheng Qianfan was extremely shocked. He was stunned for more than ten seconds and said angrily, "This guy is just a lieutenant colonel, and he actually..."
Having said that, he also shut up and fell silent.
Araki Harima sighed.
Although Arao Tomohiro only has the rank of lieutenant colonel, he came from the General Staff Headquarters and graduated from the General Staff Department. Within the empire, these guys in the General Staff Department have always been superior to others.
The two men looked at each other with gloomy expressions, and neither of them discussed why it was someone from the General Staff who came instead of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who made the appointment.
"Is this Arao Chihiro a prominent figure?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"That's true." Araki Harima nodded, "Arao Chihiro is from the Arao family."
"The Arao family?" Cheng Qianfan frowned, then narrowed his eyes, "Your Excellency Arao..."
"Arawo Tomohiro is the great-nephew of Lord Arawo Seiji." said Araki Harima.
"Sure enough, he has a prominent background." Cheng Qianfan sighed.
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During the early Qing Dynasty, Japan had been aggressively deploying spies into China in preparation for the subsequent Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.
In the spring of the 12th year of the Guangxu period, on behalf of the Japanese General Staff, Lieutenant Seijiro Arao of the "China Section" of the Japanese General Staff secretly came to China to collect military secrets.
Subsequently, Seiji Arao established the "Genyosha" in Shanghai, which was Japan's earliest established spy agency in China.
Japanese businessman and spy Ginko Kishida established the Le Shan Tang in Shanghai under the guise of doing charity, but in reality it was an agency for collecting intelligence for the Japanese.
After Seiji Arao arrived in Shanghai, he used the "Le Shan Tang" as his base and successively established intelligence branches in more than ten cities including Hankou, Beijing, Changsha, Chongqing, Chengdu, Zhengzhou, Tianjin, and Fuzhou, all under the banner of the Le Shan Tang's branches in various places.
Later, when Boss Dai learned that Le Shan Tang was a Japanese spy base since the Qing Dynasty, he ordered all Military Control Commission stations to take action against Le Shan Tang. Unfortunately, the Japanese had already evacuated in advance.
Based on these secret agencies, Japan's espionage activities began to infiltrate and radiate into the heartland of China.
In April of the 16th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, Arao Seiji returned to Japan to report on his work. The then Minister of the Army, Oyama Takeshi, was keen on learning from Europe and the United States. He did not quite understand why Arao Seiji gave up going to Europe and the United States and was anxious to go to the backward Qing Dynasty. Arao Seiji answered his goal - "to seize and rule China."
Seiji Arao's efforts were recognized by the then Prime Minister Aritomo Yamagata, who allocated 40,000 yuan from the cabinet's secret funds to him.
Japanese Vice Chief of Staff Kawakami Soroku even mortgaged his own house to the bank and gave all the loans of several thousand yuan to Seiji Arao.
After Japan established its secret service agencies and spy training institutions in China, it organized its largest intelligence gathering campaign, the "Four Hundred States Expedition," which lasted more than three years.
Japanese spies disguised themselves as Chinese and went deep into various places under the guise of investigating and buying and selling medicinal materials. They investigated and explored the local customs, topography, climate, industry, transportation, checkpoints, barracks and military fortresses.
Kentaro Miyazaki had previously traveled around China as a wandering poet, and was actually doing similar work.
Based on the intelligence gathered by his spies, Seinari Arao compiled three volumes of "An Overview of Qing Dynasty's Trade" totaling more than 2,300 pages.
From this book, Japanese military and political leaders gained a very detailed understanding of the Qing Dynasty's politics, economy, and military deployment.
The Japanese themselves commented that the book "helped the world understand the true situation of the great empire after its publication, and all people of insight were inspired." They concluded from this that the Qing government seemed to be a behemoth, but in fact, it was already riddled with holes.
The book became a must-read reference for Japanese invaders in China in the following half century.
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Kentaro Miyazaki recorded in his diary that this book was one of his "must-read textbooks" when he was training.
It can be said that Seiji Arao himself was one of the pioneers of modern Japanese intelligence work against China. Therefore, Kentaro Miyazaki and Harima Araki, the two "local tyrants" in Shanghai, had to admit that Tomohiro Arao was of great importance. They all felt a huge sense of oppression and pressure when facing Tomohiro Arao.
"Will Arao Tomohiro directly become the head of the Special High Section?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"Probably not for the time being." Araki Harima shook his head and said, "From what I understand, Arao Tomohiro will temporarily take charge of the work of the Special Higher Section as a special dispatch officer."
"This is a pre-booked position for the section chief." Cheng Qianfan snorted coldly, "Once you are integrated into the Special High Section by Arao Chihiro and make some contributions, the section chief's hat will be taken out of the bag and put on your head."
He looked at Araki Harima, his eyes full of anger, "Araki-kun, your superiors are unfair."
Cheng Qianfan took a few puffs of his cigarette and said, "These guys with extraordinary backgrounds are already nobles with a very high starting point, but they always snatch things directly from ordinary people like us who work hard. It's simply too much."
"Yes, it's too much." Araki Harima felt sad, sighed and said angrily.
Cheng Qianfan glanced at Araki Harima. It seemed that this matter had stimulated Araki Harima quite a bit. Although Araki Harima seemed to be quite courageous sometimes, he was actually a rather cautious guy at heart, especially when facing a "nobleman" with a strong background like Arao Tomohiro. In the past, Araki Harima would have pretended to say "Miyazaki-kun, be careful with your words", but now he did not hide his resentment at all.
"Mr. Araki, after all, Arawo Chihiro came from above and lacks understanding of the situation in Shanghai. It will take some time for him to master the Special Higher Section." Cheng Qianfan smiled slightly and said, "Now Arawo Chihiro has not arrived yet. Mr. Araki, you have to help this young master Arawo take over the work of the Special Higher Section in advance."
Araki Harima's eyes lit up and he nodded, "Miyazaki-kun is absolutely right."
What my friend said was right, Tomohiro Arao was parachuted in and lacks any foundation, especially now that we know in advance that Tomohiro Arao is coming, and the period before he arrives is the window period for him to firmly grasp the power of the Special High Section!
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Arao Chihiro.
After leaving the Special High Section and heading back to the police station, Cheng Qianfan, sitting in the back seat, silently repeated the name in his mind and could not help but snort coldly.
Apart from anything else, for the sake of the Arao Sei, he had to be prepared and entertain this Mr. Arao well.
The Japanese must have had some plans and arrangements in arranging such a son of a spy family to come to the Shanghai Special High Section.
This is good too. Araki Harima will never be willing to remain dormant after being overjoyed for nothing. When the time comes, there will be internal discord within the Special High Police, and he will take advantage of it.
"Haozi." Cheng Qianfan glanced at Li Hao who was concentrating on driving.
"Brother Fan."
"Araki is worried that Wang Hengyi will leak the information about the 'ruler', so he decided to get rid of Wang Hengyi." Cheng Qianfan said calmly, "I'll leave this to you."
"Should we arrange our own people to do it? Or?" Li Hao thought for a while and asked.
The so-called arranging their own people meant arranging the special intelligence personnel who infiltrated the police station to take action. In this way, they not only got rid of the traitor Wang Hengyi, but also helped their own people to successfully disguise themselves as traitors who killed Military Control Commission personnel.
"No, you go and arrange it yourself and find a guy who is truly a traitor to do it secretly." Cheng Qianfan said decisively.
If the secret agent of the Special Affairs Department were to take action, it would seem like a brilliant move, but in fact it would be a huge failure.
Once something happened to this hidden man, this matter itself would become a huge suspicious point, which would trigger a chain reaction and cause the enemy to dig up many problems, and even implicate him and Li Hao.
Arranging for Li Hao to find a guy who is willing to be a traitor will avoid these hidden dangers and can also help Li Hao get stained with the blood of anti-Japanese elements, thus killing two birds with one stone.
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"I understand." After a little thought, Li Hao understood Brother Fan's concerns.
He was full of admiration in his heart. He thought his plan was perfect, but Brother Fan could see the flaw in it at a glance. He was worthy of being Brother Fan.
"Ping Chongyang should be back in Shanghai in the next two days. You should arrange the grain transportation." Cheng Qianfan said, "Sheng Shuyu has been eager to leave Shanghai. Arrange for them to sneak into the grain transport team and take the opportunity to leave Shanghai."
"clear."
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"Is the news accurate?" Chen Gongshu asked with a gloomy face.
"It's almost certain that it was done by Xiao Mian's men." Cen Yufeng said, "Besides us, the only one in Shanghai who could have such manpower and powerful firepower to assassinate Toda Seiichiro is Xiao Mian's Special Affairs Department."
He said to Chen Gongshu, "According to the intelligence sent by our insider in the police station, the Japanese suffered heavy losses. Not only was Toda Seiichiro killed, but the old devil's head was also cut off and taken away."
Chen Gongshu was silent. They had successfully killed a Japanese major general and even beheaded him. Such a great achievement was actually achieved by Xiao Mian's troops. He really made him envious and jealous.
At the same time, Chen Gongshu was a little annoyed. His attention was focused on assassinating Gangcun, and he didn't even pay attention to the birthday of the old devil Toda Seiichiro. Otherwise, he could do what Xiao Mian's men could do.
Thinking about the fact that the assassination attempt on Gangcun failed and his side suffered heavy losses, while Xiao Mian took the opportunity to do such a big thing in Pukou Hotel, he felt very uncomfortable.
"No, there is something strange here!" Chen Gongshu said with a sudden turn of face.
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