Chapter 224: Recording
Shanghai.
Fu Xiao’an puts in effort, Gu Yansheng contacts Chen Gongbo to have a meal together, everyone gets to know each other, builds a relationship, and the problem of personnel for the trip is completely solved.
It took a few days, four hundred people gathered, divided into two batches, one batch from government departments, one batch from the police station.
Register the list, then have the original Chongqing Government officials who have already arrived in Shanghai each take responsibility for an important city in the Japanese occupied area, allocate the necessary Kuomintang representative quotas that must be retrieved, pick up their own team members, and they can get to work.
For the original Chongqing Government officials who have defected over, this also counts as an opportunity for a free trip.
As for those who find it troublesome or fear assassination and don’t want to go, that’s not up to them, what level dares to refuse a mission jointly issued by Minister Zhou and Chen Gongbo.
Gu Yansheng is drinking tea in the tea house.
At this stage, the rear cities occupied by the Japanese are mainly coastal cities, like Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian, Tianjin, etc.
Can’t go to Nationalist controlled areas, choosing these cities in the Japanese occupied area is the most convenient for recruiting people, so the representative quotas allocated for these cities are very concentrated.
Estimating that these people going to recruit also don’t want to go to small counties to gather people, they recruit in economically developed cities, so notify the organization to put more effort into these big cities.
Secretary Ma Shiqi walked over and said softly: “Division Chief, the ship returning from Wuhan has arrived.”
Gu Yansheng raised an eyebrow, CC’s people have arrived.
He put down the tea cup, looked at him and asked: “Has it reached Shanghai territory, or has it already docked at the wharf?”
“It has already stopped at Wusongkou Wharf.”
“Good, I know.” Gu Yansheng thought for a moment and said: “There’s a guest on the ship, bringing money, you find someone to get him out.
Your Jiangbei Gang should have familiar restaurants, right?”
“Yes.” Ma Shiqi nodded, “We have ones we own ourselves.”
Gu Yansheng hummed, “You don’t show up, have your subordinates do it, after all they are people from over there, we have less direct contact.”
“Okay.”
“Just tell me once the private room is booked, I’ll send someone over.”
“Mm, I’ll arrange it now.”
“Wait a moment.”
Gu Yansheng called him back, thought for a moment and said: “Can you get a tape recorder?”
Ma Shiqi immediately understood what Gu Yansheng wanted to do, thought slightly, “Getting a tape recorder is easy, it’s just the problem of where to put it, I can find a private room with a cabinet, put the tape recorder inside, it definitely won’t be visible from the outside, but if they get nosy and open the cabinet, it will be awkward on the surface.”
Gu Yansheng thought about it too, wanting to set up Director Ding, it has to be foolproof.
After all, it’s just to leave a handle, not a life-or-death struggle, being discovered would indeed be embarrassing.
“A large private room, one that can be separated by a curtain, do you have that kind of room?” Gu Yansheng thought based on his impression.
“What you’re describing is a brothel girl’s boudoir, small round table with dishes on top, separated by a curtain, bed behind, restaurants don’t have that kind, at least not the ones I know at mine, or should I find you a brothel? We have those.”
“No brothels, too noisy, too many people.” Gu Yansheng waved his hand, “Like this, no restaurant, ordinary house, a quieter one, first send the person to the hotel, set up the house, then order dishes from the restaurant and bring them over, we’ll eat and drink in the house at night.
Front and back rooms, they eat and drink heartily in the hall, we record in the back room separated by the curtain, our own people watching, after eating send them off, they have no chance to open the cabinet.”
“That works, plenty of houses.”
“Good, then that’s it, have you found the intermediary businessman to play the role?”
“That was found long ago, don’t worry, one of our own, familiar with prices, no matter what he brings, we can spell out the details.”
“Good, then you go handle it first, I’ll go find Director Ding, call me when you’re done.”
“Okay.”
Once Ma Shiqi left, Gu Yansheng also had to go find Director Ding.
One press of the accelerator and he arrived at No. 76.
The gatekeeper smiled and opened the gate to let Gu Yansheng in.
Gu Yansheng coming to No. 76 is even more convenient than going home.
People at No. 76 are coming and going quite busy now.
Old Jiang can’t stand Wang Faction people spouting off in Shanghai, recently Military Statistics Bureau assassination actions have started another wave of climax, Military Statistics Bureau and No. 76 are fighting intensely, with casualties on both sides.
The assassination of Wang Faction high-level at Traitor Lane entrance hasn’t passed for Wang Faction high-level, Li Shiqun is under a lot of pressure now, desperately trying to ferret out the Military Statistics Bureau.
Every day the No. 76 personnel and vehicle teams come and go back and forth at the entrance of Gu Yansheng’s tea house, very busy.
Go upstairs to find Director Ding.
Knocked on the door, “Director Ding.”
“Yo, Brother Gu is here, come in quickly.” Director Ding lifted his butt from the chair and walked out, as soon as he came out he asked: “Got information?”
Gu Yansheng’s surprised gaze drifted over, “Impressive, Director Ding, you can pinch and calculate, you even know this?”
Director Ding smiled, “Calculating the days I figured it was about time, really arrived?”
“Arrived.” Gu Yansheng sat on the sofa, crossed his legs, leaned in a bit and said, “The goods are already unloaded at Wusongkou, I’ve sent people to pick up the person, I found a Green Gang person as intermediary, from now on he will deal with them on the business, if something goes wrong and Japanese find out, chase relentlessly.”
Gu Yansheng smiled, “Toss him in prison, disappeared from the world.”
Director Ding slapped his thigh and laughed heartily, “Good method, Japanese won’t find him even if they rack their brains.”
After speaking he sighed, “Merciful enough, if it were me.” Director Ding drew a hand across his neck, “Done and over.”
Gu Yansheng sneered and shook his head, “Killing is low-class, all introduced by acquaintances, if I kill the person, how stiff will relationships be later?”
“Fine, listen to you, when do we go meet?”
“Tonight, have a meal together, you, this intermediary, and him, I’ll hide in the inner room, I won’t meet him face to face, I just listen to what he says.”
Gu Yansheng also spoke frankly, “They know of your existence, I think I still need to guard a bit, if they plot something, me not showing up, we can still defend, CC’s people, honestly, the first delivery of medicine had issues, I still can’t fully trust 100%.”
This matter is Director Ding’s problem, thought about it and nodded, “Fine, you don’t show up, me showing up is the same.”
After speaking he looked at his watch, only three o’clock, “Only three, still early, what time? Five?”
“About that.” Gu Yansheng also glanced at his watch, “Mr. Wang and Minister Zhou went to Japan, I can breathe easy too, later go chat with Wu Sibao, how have you been lately, I hear every day you and Military Statistics Bureau are fighting hot, when Minister Zhou comes back, can you show results?”
Speaking of this, Director Ding’s expression soured, “Don’t ask me about this, it’s all Li Shiqun handling it, I’m too lazy to get involved, putting the shit pot on your own head, I’m not brain sick.”
“What happened, fighting again?” Gu Yansheng asked puzzled: “Aren’t you, catching a Military Statistics Bureau also cause a fight?”
Director Ding snorted coldly, his face darkened thinking of it, “You don’t know what he did, to show off in front of Mr. Wang and them, complained to Haruki, using the excuse of vigorously hunting Military Statistics Bureau, pulled all the people from my hands.
Relying on Japanese backing him, I’m now this director, almost isolated.”
Gu Yansheng smiled, if nothing then fan the flames, indifferently said, “Too exaggerated? Li Shiqun can pull all your people? He doesn’t give you any face?”
“Face?” Director Ding got angry at the mention, “Face is for outsiders! Now he doesn’t even give me substance!
All action team members must be under his command.
They are my people sure, but now Haruki ordered command authority to him, he directly warned all captains, everyone must obey his orders, whoever dares not put in effort, muddle through, he’ll let the gendarmerie serve with severe torture!
Listen to that, clearly said for my people to hear.
Now my people can only obediently follow his command, even if I want to use people I have to report to Deputy Director Li, I’m almost his subordinate.
Once I used my own people, just ten or so, after he found out, in front of everyone, slapped that captain.
Right in front of me! Hit my person!”
Gu Yansheng frowned, “That’s a bit excessive.”
Director Ding’s face blackened, “Even beating a dog you look at the master, you say him doing this, did he think to leave me any face? Straight up a bastard! Stinking scoundrel!
Besides using Japanese to pressure me, what else can he do?
If not for Japanese backing him, I’d kill him!
Arrogant, let him be arrogant a few more days, I see how long he can jump!
