Chapter 223.

To the north of Hongkou Park, at No. 7 East Sports Club Road, a small two-story Western building under the cover of the woods, with a newly restored gate and a guard post set up at the entrance.

It was heavily guarded.

Name it: Shigekwang Hall.

Here is where Japan set up the Shanghai Office of the Special Committee on China, which is presided over by the old ghost Kenji Tofihara.

Therefore, it is also called: Tofihara Organ.

Only, now the Shanghai Bund people and most of the people of the country still do not know the existence of this organ, because, it is still only the grass-roots stage.

Kenji Doihara also traveled between Peking and Shanghai from time to time, and stayed in the north for a longer period of time, and the mess in the north was not yet finished.

South side, he has arranged his deputy Haruka Qingyin over to preside over the work, only, this Lieutenant Colonel Excellency is still in the process of familiarizing himself with the process of Shanghai, Shanghai’s forces are numerous, disjointed, his status is not enough to support him to play such a big game of chess.

Kenji Tohibara had just finished visiting Tang Shaokuan, and was killed immediately afterward.

This was undoubtedly a huge setback for Tohibara, and the idea of “Wu in the north and Tang in the south” had become a pipe dream.

The Blue Coat Society as the main body of the establishment of the military intelligence is located in the Shanghai Concession, most of them originally in the past is a gang member, want to eliminate the containment of them, the only way to use the same talent.

Concession is the interests of European and American powers in China, Japan is not yet with the European and American powers to turn the other cheek, can only be tolerated.

Otherwise, the army occupation control of the Concession, there would not be so many things.

But in this way, I am afraid that the industrial and commercial sector in the Concession will be a large number of escape, which is not in line with the interests of the Japanese side, Tofihara Kenji is not like those generals in the army, think of the problem so simple, as long as the army to send troops to the occupation of the place, anything can be done.

After the occupation, is the need for governance, the land is not productive, no one mining minerals, factories closed, the economy does not flow, no output, only know how to scavenge and kill, that is not long.

Japan also needs a prosperous and stable Shanghai to provide him with a steady flow of economic blood.

If a direct occupation could achieve results, why would he have to make such an effort to bring in these past leaders? Tang Shaochuan was killed scene, Tofihara Kenji went to the scene the next day to see, with his experience at a glance to judge.

This is a premeditated assassination, the layout of the person is obviously not a day or two, just coincidentally selected in the third day of his secret meeting with Tang Shaochuan.

It was hard to say that it wasn’t aimed at their secret meeting.

But he was equally clear that Tang Shaochuan had not agreed to his terms, and the meeting between the two was at best a frank exchange of views, with no consensus at all.

What Tang Shaochuan wanted was something that Tofihara Kenji could not agree to, or rather, even if he could make concessions, it was unlikely that Japan would agree at home.

However, everything was still being talked about, without closing the door.

At this moment, he was assassinated by the Blue Coat Society, which is enough to show the attitude of the No. 1 person in Wuhan now.

Tang Shaochuan represents the ideas and interests of a group of people who are not tolerant of Chiang ……

The complexity of the power struggle within the national government is also a bit of a headache to cope with for a Chinese generalist like Kenji Tofihara.

This case, the Japanese side how to react, in addition to expressing “regret”, but also how to do? Kenji Tohibara locked himself in the room, the whole night did not sleep.

Adjutant and guards, also accompanied, do not dare to sleep.

Until, in the morning, a ray of sunlight through the skylight, the door of the room, which had not moved for a night, was pulled open from the inside.

Dressed in a kimono, Kenji Doihara appeared barefoot in front of the crowd.

“Incoming!”

Lieutenant Colonel Haruki-Keiyin jogged all the way to the room door and made a ninety-degree bow, “Good morning, Your Excellency.” “Haruki-kun, find a newspaper that is not related to us and has influence, and help me send out the content of my secret talks with Tang Shaochuan.”

“Your Excellency, this ……”

“Do as I say, it must appear in the newspaper today.” Kenji Tofihara commanded in a deep voice.

“Hi!” Although Haruka Keiyin did not understand the purpose of doing this, he still immediately agreed and turned around.

Wen Wei Po’s Chief Editor’s Office.

Early in the morning, the editor-in-chief has already come over, staring at today’s newspaper printing it, happened Tang Shaochuan assassination such a big case, each family is grabbing exclusive news it.

Yesterday, reporters from all the major newspapers were at the Tang residence on Fukaisen Road in the French Concession as well as at Kwong Chee Hospital, and the body was said to be still in the morgue and had not been transferred to the funeral parlor.

Today is the second day after the assassination, in addition to the Japanese 106th division under siege in Wanjialing, this is the only case that can attract the attention of the public.

Even more people don’t care about a former high-ranking government official who has gone out of fashion and is working at home as a parishioner, not to mention the fact that there have been rumors in the world that Tang Shaochuan secretly interacted with the Japanese and was preparing to defect to the Japanese.

At his age, he still thinks about power and fame.

It’s not a good idea to be late in life! “Chief Editor, shocking news!” The editor-in-chief was just about to go to the printing workshop to supervise the work for a bit when the editor in charge of current affairs news, Old Liu, excitedly pushed open the door, scaring him so much that he almost had a heart attack straight away.

“Ouch, I say Old Liu, won’t you knock first when you enter?”

“Editor-in-chief, look, this was just delivered by someone, and there are clear photos ……” Editor Lao Liu “snapped” and slapped the photo on the editor-in-chief’s desk.

The editor-in-chief looked at the contents of the photo, and his eyes glazed over.

In addition to the photo, there is also a note, the content of which is very simple, that is, on the evening of the 28th, around six o’clock, the Japanese Chief Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara secretly visited Tang Shaochuan, the two men in the Tang Residence talks for about two hours, the contents of the talks are summarized as follows ……

See the content, the editor-in-chief excited hands trembling, this is obviously not like a forgery, after all, these contents, are too sensitive, and do not understand politics and long time to do this work, can not be made up, a look is a professional record of the conversation.

Overall summarized as, Tang Shaochuan did not completely reject the Japanese solicitation, and in the end did not save the evening.

“Quickly, call everyone back, prepare to issue an extra!” The chief editor exclaimed excitedly, this must be exclusive news today if it’s the only one who receives the photos and descriptions, if not, whoever snatches it up and sends it out first will come out on top.

“Extra, extra, the former Premier of the Beiyang, Tang Shaochuan, had a late-night secret meeting with the Japanese Army Lieutenant General, Kenji Tofihara!”

Huge envious black letters, with a pair of photos from the car down to look back, Fukaisen Road Tang House door number clear! This is not the fact that the private secret meeting? And then with the content of the two sides of the summary of the secret talks.

For a time, the rented world and even the entire Chinese public opinion are in an uproar.

“Young Elder’s late life is in jeopardy, the Blue Coat Society is hoeing traitors for the country!” Even more shocking headlines appeared above the newspaper headlines.

Although the investigation of the case was at a standstill, the suspects were locked, and they were the Blue Coat Society members who were active in the rented area.

As expected, Cheng Mo was right.

In time, it was still a step too slow.

The Japanese hand, not only utilized the contradictions within the national government, tearing apart a large portion of the people who do not share Chiang’s political views, but also aimed at the military intelligence personnel lurking in the island’s concession.

This gave the Japanese an excuse to put pressure on the authorities in the Concession to suppress the anti-Japanese organizations and the military junta.