[Loucheng] Numbers

【Three Foot Sword】

"...Therefore, under the current situation, many things cannot be rushed..."

"Mr. Ming." Nantian interrupted Minglou's speech once in a rare moment of impoliteness, and frowned at him, "You mean, you hold a negative attitude towards the Qingxiang campaign that Chairman Wang decided to carry out?"

"No, Section Chief Nantian, you misunderstood." Minglou spread his hands, "I haven't finished yet."

Nan Tian nodded: "I am impatient, please continue."

Minglou smiled and said: "During this time, Ming has always seen and agreed with the new government's efforts to protect the ideological purity of the people, and is very willing to contribute to it. However, No matter how good the intention is, if the implementation method is too simple and rough, it will not achieve good results." He raised a stack of documents in his hand and shook them, "For example, the plan submitted to me on the 76th Book."

Nantian showed an expression of "willing to hear more about it".

A few pages of paper were flipped by Ming Lou.

"Even if we don't want to admit it, the Super High School and No. 76, and even the new government and the Japanese Empire don't have a very good image in the eyes of residents in Shanghai and many surrounding towns. Mr. Nantian, what I said , you can agree."

"Yes." Nan Tian said with a calm face, "The foolish people always take up the majority."

"You're right, that's why I think Chairman Wang's implementation of the Qingxiang Movement is a very necessary decision." Minglou said calmly, "Pioneers are always isolated and blamed."

"Does this have anything to do with what Mr. Ming wants to explain to me?"

"Of course." Minglou said, "To carry out the rural cleansing movement, we must face up to the situation we are facing and choose the most appropriate method of implementation in response to this external environment, instead of blindly relying on violence and bloodshed to achieve our goals."

"Chairman Wang and Section Chief Nantian trusted No. 76, and it was a blessing for No. 76 to entrust this matter to No. 76. But I read No. 76's plan." Ming Lou was very helpless. Falling into a mindset, so the various methods they can use are not smooth enough. Bloody blood can certainly achieve temporary deterrence, but if you want to prosper the economy and stabilize the society for a long time, you must learn to be gentle."

"Presumably, both the Japanese Empire and the new government would prefer to see Shanghai under its rule as a city that is stable and prosperous and can bring more benefits to both parties."

"Mr. Ming is right." Nan Tian praised, "Then, what's your opinion?"

Minglou smiled and said, "Have you heard of the allusion of 'Standing wood is faith'?"

"Oh?"

"The Lord of Shang was afraid that the people would not believe in him, so he set up a three-foot-long tree at the south gate of the city, and recruited people who were able to move to the north gate and gave ten gold. If one person moved there, he would give fifty gold to show that he would not be deceived." [1]

Ming Lou said slowly: "The rewards and punishments are distinct, and the combination of hardness and softness is a good method. Since Chairman Wang means that informers should be rewarded, then we might as well reward them openly and squarely in front of everyone." , I believe that the people will see it, and they will naturally know how to choose what is best for them.” He paused, and then said, “In this way, it must also help change some of their views on the new government and the Japanese Empire.”

Nantian didn't think for too long, stood up quickly, and stretched out his hand to Minglou: "Thank you very much, Mr. Ming." She paused: "However, there is another problem. If it comes to the end, no one will come to move Wood, wouldn't it end badly?"

"There is an old saying in China that under the great reward there must be a brave man." Minglou said, "Take a step back and say that under the leadership of Section Chief Nantian, it is probably not enough to find one or two capable people with the talent to pretend to come out." It's too difficult."

The two smiled knowingly.

"I will convey Mr. Ming's loyalty to the country to Mr. Zhou Fohai."

Minglou bowed gracefully: "Thank you, Section Chief Nantian."

Guo Qiyun took off his earphones and went downstairs with his notebook.

Mingtai was teaching Yu Manli how to taste red wine. The two of them were leaning on the edge of the dining table, pushing a goblet back and forth in their hands. When they heard footsteps, they raised their heads at the same time.

"Team leader, there is a new task."

Mingtai took it over and glanced at it, but said nothing. Yu Manli was slightly surprised when Guo Qiyun finished the mission requirements: "This afternoon?" She looked at the clock on the wall, "We only have three hours left. Well, we have to count the past drive.”

"Temporary mission, time is tight." Guo Qiyun said, "We must leave immediately."

Mingtai half-closed his eyes, went through the content of the telegram silently in his mind, and straightened up: "Check the weapons and equipment, and leave in 10 minutes." As he said, he took out a lighter and burned the telegram. ,"action."

"Yes!"

There was not much time left, Guo Qiyun drove the car all the way and took a shortcut, Mingtai and Yu Manli sat in the back seat, and began to draw a rough sketch of the mission location.

"The most difficult thing about this task is the timing. It can't be too early or too late." Mingtai tapped a pen on the paper and circled a place, "Overall, this is the most suitable place on the whole road, but ..."

"But what we can think of, the Japanese can think of too."

"That's right, so this place will definitely be noticed by the special high school. If we are unlucky, it will be difficult for us to get out."

Guo Qiyun glanced at them from the rearview mirror, and said helplessly: "We have too little time left for arrangement. What's more troublesome is that we only know about this location from the map, and no one knows the specific situation."

Mingtai gritted his teeth and said nothing, while Yu Manli looked at the map with a strange expression.

"how?"

"I always feel..." She hesitated, "Mingtai, do you still remember the stack of lists you brought back a few days ago?"

Mingtai replied blankly: "My second brother gave it to me, saying that he wanted me to work hard for the past few days, and go to the factories in the above places to check the accounts for him..." He paused suddenly, "Could it be explain……"

Yu Manli met his questioning gaze and nodded slowly.

Guo Qiyun turned his eyes away from the rearview mirror as if nothing had happened.

"what!"

Nan Tian could hardly control his expression.

From the very beginning, she knew very well what the real purpose of this campaign was not for the so-called reason of maintaining ideological purity, but for the means of making informants so that both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were always in danger and had no time to spare. The idea of ​​playing Yoshida and arms.Of course, there was also some intention to test the loyalty of officials working for the new government.

She knew that Yoshida was suspicious and did not trust the Shanghai government, so whether it was the security of arms or the development of the Qingxiang Movement, she said on the surface that she would ask No. 76 to help, but in fact, all the information and personnel from the beginning to the end were hers. They are all tight-knit, and not many people even in the super high class know about it, so it can be said that the defense is not strict.Even though Minglou had proposed this plan, he only contributed one idea. The specific operation and steps were all arranged by Nantian himself, and he never handed over others.So today she is standing here, following the procedure to complete the lecture on Qingxiang regulations, and when the person who should come to inform her comes, she has even put the next sentence in her mouth, waiting for this person to finish— — Who knew that this person opened his mouth, but what he said was a big secret!

This little gangster, arranged by her in advance, told her loudly in front of thousands of villagers that someone in the super high school was colluding with the Chongqing government, trying to assassinate Yoshida Taka and transfer arms!What's even more shocking is that she didn't respond in time because of her momentary stupefaction. The gangster mistakenly thought that she didn't believe her, and even explained clearly the time, place, and method of Yoshida Taka and Arms' coming to China—and The news received by the special high school is exactly the same!

This is obviously not just nonsense and fake news.

Nantian took a deep breath and forced a smile.The matter has come to this point, the play will always continue, and she did, as promised in advance, reward the whistleblower, and then gently asked the whistleblower to accompany her back to the special high school to assist them in their investigation work , and promised to let him come back safe and sound.

After all, it was someone who had been arranged early in the morning. Although the news that broke out was changed to a core secret, there were still no major mistakes in the follow-up processing.Seeing the slight turmoil in the surrounding crowd, Nan Tian walked to the car door and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. When he was thinking about how to deal with related matters when he went back, he suddenly became alert.

"careful!"

Gunshots sounded.

A figure swayed stiffly twice, then fell down slumped, with blood spreading from the forehead.

There were screams from the crowd.

The person who died was not Nantian, not a Japanese officer, nor someone from the new government.

It was the whistleblower.

The informer who is obviously a Chinese, but for his own benefit, bowed his knees to the Japanese and exposed his compatriots.

One shot kills, no mercy.

"Snapped."

A sunspot lightly landed on the chessboard.

Mingcheng smiled and said, "Brother, it seems that I have the upper hand in this step."

Minglou lowered his eyes and looked at it for a while, then said with a smile, "It's not enough. You can't die if you beat a snake, you will be eaten by it. Before the last step, who can predict the result?" He raised his hand and put down a white stone.

Mingcheng said slyly: "I didn't expect big brother to be so self-aware?"

Minglou reacted for a few seconds, and finally raised his hand to give him a slap on the forehead. Mingcheng swiftly raised his head to avoid it, and said seriously: "Brother, if you can't say it, you have to do it. This is not what a gentleman does."

"Love to play around more and more." Ming Lou pointed at him, "From now on, you should avoid hanging out with Ming Tai, and see how much you have been led to ruin by him now."

Mingcheng was never afraid of his verbal threats, so he raised his hand and glanced at his watch: "It's almost time, Mingtai should be over."

"How about Staff Lin's group?"

"I haven't received any news yet..." Just as he was speaking, the phone at home rang, and was hung up after two rings, and no calls came in after that.

Mingcheng breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's done?"

"It's done."

Ming Lou nodded and stood up: "That's right, at this point, Heizi still has the upper hand for the time being. However, we can't let our guard down in the future."

Mingcheng skillfully took off Minglou's coat from the coat rack and handed it to him, stepped back a few steps to watch him put it on, then tilted his head to look at it for a while, frowned and stretched out his hand to adjust the position of his tie.Ming Lou raised his jaw very naturally and let Ming Cheng do what he wanted. He stared at the handsome eyebrows in front of him for a while, and then sighed suddenly: "You have dark circles under your eyes. You have not been in a good spirit recently."

Mingcheng said: "Brother still talks about me, I'm not much better."

Ming Lou said helplessly: "It seems that after this period, Ah Xiang has to cook some good dishes, and we all have to make up for it."

Mingcheng glanced over from under the eyelashes, and muttered, "I've been thinking about eating all day long."

Minglou snorted.

"In our family, who can eat the most?"

Chief Ming's frame arrived at the government building together with Mr. Nantian.

"Section Chief Nantian?" Minglou said in surprise, "Your complexion is not very good... Is the Qingxiang Movement not going well?"

"Master Ming." Nantian greeted him, and briefly explained what happened before. Of course, he concealed the matters related to Yoshida and the arms, and only said that the arranged informer was shot and killed in public.

Minglou expressed surprise for a moment, and then comforted: "It's not a big deal—oh, have the killers been caught? Take a good trial, maybe you can find a bunch of them."

Nantian's face was ugly: "People ran away, leaving behind a row of abandoned factories, even the doors were pried open, and no clues were found." She was silent for a while, and lowered her voice, "Besides, I will not hide anything. Officer Ming, just now, an important member of the Special High School was also assassinated."

"Such a thing actually happened?" Minglou was startled, and then showed anger, "These anti-Japanese elements are really getting more and more rampant-you didn't have anything wrong, did you?"

"Thank you, Chief Ming, for your concern." Nantian softened his tone, "I'm fine. Go ahead, I have to go to the archives to get a document."

"Section Chief Nantian, walk slowly."

Minglou stood behind her with a calm expression, the corners of his lips curled up in a slight arc, and slowly walked into his office.

Someone reported that the Chongqing government was colluding with members of the Super High School. Immediately afterwards, the informer died, and someone in the Super High School also died.

What a standard murder.

Minglou is very much looking forward to Nantian, and Yoshida behind her, how many unwarranted traitors can be found out from this dead member of the super high class—no matter how many, in short, the super high class will not be able to be peaceful during this period of time , let alone take out your hand to carry out any other campaigns to clean up the countryside and cause trouble for them.

Yoshida wanted them to suffer—and in that case, he didn't mind letting Yoshida have a taste of it.

"Tell Owl." Ming Lou said, "Recently pay more attention to the situation over there."

Mingcheng nodded.