Chapter 246: Past Events
Suzuki Takuo’s face showed anger, his surface elegance pierced, leaving only barbarism.
He slammed the table and stood up, glaring angrily: “Mr. Song, you’d better figure out the situation of your Chongqing Government! Two hundred thousand troops are gathered in Changsha, we can launch a full offensive at any time, this negotiation is our chance to let you survive, not us begging you to negotiate!
With your attitude, I’ll report to the Dispatch Army Command Headquarters tonight, and when you lose the Changsha Campaign, your President Jiang blames you, I’m afraid you can’t bear it!”
“Threatening me!” Song Ziliang also slammed the table and stood up, “Then go fight, why come to me? Not to mention you can’t take Changsha, even if you do and slaughter it, what does it have to do with me, I’m not leading troops, the shit pot can’t be put on my head.
Damn it, what the hell, daring to threaten me, Professor Wang, let’s go.”
“The shit pot can’t be put on your head, but it can be put on your Song family’s head, we’ll send airplanes to drop 100,000 leaflets over Chongqing city saying the Song family abandoned negotiations before the Changsha Campaign, accusing you of not even talking, abandoning Changsha, I wonder if your nationals can understand your Song family’s backbone.”
Suzuki Takuo’s words made Song Ziwen, who was already walking out, pause his steps, and he said arrogantly: “You think the Song family is scared shitless, you dare drop them, I’ll dare collect them, 100,000 sheets of paper, perfect for burning in winter, if you have the guts don’t stop, 100,000 a day, I’ll see how much aviation fuel your airplanes have, damn it! Let’s go!”
Suzuki Takuo was quite pissed off, in his view, it was truly because Japan’s grand strategy that they gave the Chinese a chance to breathe, and they actually didn’t want it?
But most importantly, the last sentence, which Song Ziliang cursed in Ningbo dialect, Suzuki Takuo didn’t understand.
So he frowned and asked, “What did he mean by that last sentence?”
Gao Zhongwu and Mei Siping understood it, people from the Chongqing Government were very familiar with this highest leader’s supreme instruction.
But they didn’t dare translate.
They paused, ummed and ahhed for a long time, unable to speak.
“Mr. Suzuki, don’t ask, it’s nothing.”
“Say it.”
“This, this is nothing.”
Gu Yansheng dared to translate, “It means your mom got fucked by him.”
Suzuki Takuo first widened his eyes in shock, then angrily yelled and flipped the table!
The dishes on the table crashed to the floor, Gu Yansheng moved back a few steps, hiding farther away.
What a waste, no more eating, and have to pay for it, if you can’t handle it, don’t ask.
The gathering dispersed, Gu Yansheng asked his subordinate outside the door.
“Followed them?”
“Captain Yan took people there.”
“Good.”
He arranged for Yan Dongqing to track these two, just don’t lose the line.
“Also, find someone to send a telegram back to Director Ding at No. 76, check the information on Song Ziwen’s younger brother Song Ziliang, and have them copy a copy to my secretary Ma Shiqi.”
“Yes.”
“Minister Gu, why did you translate that for him just now? It made him lose so much face.” Mei Siping came closer with a smile, “The talks were already not going smoothly, now the Japanese are full of anger, hasn’t this messed things up?”
“Does Minister Mei think smooth talks would be better?” Gu Yansheng gave him a faint smile.
Mei Siping paused, “Not really, sigh, what is this, we have to find people, and hope the negotiations don’t go smoothly, our brains are going to split.”
Gu Yansheng smiled warmly, “Minister Mei, find people when you need to, the negotiations are the Japanese’s business, you also need to balance work and rest, enjoy Hong Kong’s charm, as for work, don’t wear yourself out.”
“Yes, yes” Mei Siping smiled happily, whispering: “Minister Gu, I’ve worked in Hong Kong before, I know some fun places, British women dancing, want to go check it out together tonight if you’re free?”
“Old Mei, Minister Gu, but what to do next?” Gao Zhongwu interjected: “The Japanese will definitely make us find a way to find people, but the people we should find, the people we can find, we’ve already found them all.
The Japanese are definitely not satisfied now, our days ahead won’t be easy.”
“Minister Gu, what do you think?” Mei Siping turned to look.
“What’s the rush, we still have to talk when it’s time to talk, now it’s the Japanese who want to talk, not to mention being cursed once, even if something really happens to his mom, we still have to talk.
Now Suzuki is angry, probably will send a telegram to Nanjing Headquarters soon to vent, but Itagaki’s goal is peace talks, Suzuki’s temper doesn’t matter, wait for him to send the telegram, then see Itagaki’s reply and his reaction.
Can’t say there are no benefits, at least being cursed clears the mind, if talks fail, lower expectations a bit, not a bad thing, eat? You guys not eating, I’m going to eat.”
“Go go go, go eat first, after eating we’ll go stroll, been running for so many days, exhausted me.”
The next day, Suzuki came over with a stern face.
“Mr. Gu, Mr. Mei, for the peace of East Asia, the peace talks must continue, you have to find a way to make Song Ziliang sit down and talk properly.”
“Inviting to eat has some effect, but inviting to sit down and negotiate, no such reason.” Mei Siping said worriedly: “Mr. Suzuki, if we really invite him to sit down and talk, even if we invite him, if he makes some demands, can Japan really agree?”
“So, I need you to come up with ideas to make him cooperate with our negotiations, instead of throwing a young master’s tantrum there.”
Suzuki’s gaze swept over the three, “Chief of Staff Itagaki has already followed my suggestion, dropping leaflets about the Song family abandoning Changsha over Nanjing and Changsha, and launching an attack on Changsha, giving Song Ziliang and Chongqing a warning in the situation.
You also need to provide better methods to get Song Ziliang back to the negotiating table quickly, or find a new candidate to replace Song Ziliang.”
This really worried them to death, Gao Zhongwu and Mei Siping looked dejected, full of worry, searched for a few more days, no progress.
Went to talk to the professor again, but he clearly said Song Ziliang refuses to meet, finding me is useless.
So the two were even more worried.
Seven days passed in a flash, almost half a month in Hong Kong, the airplanes dropping leaflets over Chongqing had flown for seven days, dropping 700,000 sheets of paper, Song Ziliang showed no movement at all.
Truly as people said, the boss doesn’t care, do whatever you want.
Daytime, get up, wash up, eat.
“Minister.” The subordinate came in, bringing a document, “Information on Song Ziliang sent from Shanghai, delivered by airplane.”
“Good, take the brothers who delivered it to rest, give them a good meal.”
“Yes.”
Gu Yansheng picked up the document and looked, a thick stack.
Song Ziliang, Song Ziwen’s younger brother, forty years old, previously served as Director of General Affairs for Foreign Affairs of the old Nanjing Government, Director of the Central Bank, Department Head of Finance in Guangdong, now Chairman of Southwest Transportation Company.
Southwest Transportation Company is a military transport company, back when Guangzhou was still in Chongqing’s hands, it ran routes from other countries to Hong Kong to Guangzhou, then to Wuhan, then to various places in China.
Now it runs the Myanmar line, that is, the transportation line of the Burma Road, procuring supplies in Hong Kong, obtaining aid from Britain and America and overseas Chinese.
Song family offspring, position truly unbeatable, solidly the God of Wealth’s post.
Next are records of personal events, Song Ziliang loves women, has affairs with many, a pile of romantic stories recorded, No. 76’s people from Central Statistics Bureau and Military Statistics Bureau both heard plenty of gossip, many things just hearsay, no evidence proving they definitely happened.
Gu Yansheng quickly browsed down, one thing was a bit interesting.
Before the War of Resistance, Song Ziliang spent no little time in Shanghai’s world of flowers and willows, in 1934, Song Ziliang got a dancer from the Vienna Ballroom in Shanghai pregnant.
Of course Song Ziliang couldn’t let the dancer give birth to his child, made her abort, but the dancer knew Song Ziliang’s identity, saw it as a chance to skyrocket, wanted to marry into a wealthy family.
Song Ziliang couldn’t handle it, thought the woman too troublesome, so had Du Yuesheng step in to settle it.
Du Yuesheng is famous for being eagerly righteous and lecturing righteousness.
With Old Jiang’s relationship, impossible not to help, so routinely asked.
“Did you handle it by the rules?”
Getting someone pregnant, abortion and recuperation, always costs money.
Song Ziliang replied, “I did, gave double severance pay.”
Du Yuesheng said, “Then nothing to say, since you followed the rules, I’ll handle it by the rules too.”
So he planted the woman in the lotus flower.
That is, sank her in the river.
Gu Yansheng finished reading No. 76’s document, looked at the intelligence collected by Ma Shiqi.
Interestingly, Ma Shiqi also mentioned this matter.
At that time, Vienna Ballroom was a big ballroom in Shanghai, the manager was Tang Jiapeng.
Tang Jiapeng was Gu Zhuxuan’s subordinate, and the real boss of Vienna Ballroom was the North Jiangsu Tycoon Gu Zhuxuan.
At that time, this dancer was the ballroom’s top dancer, a top dancer disappeared unclearly, of course the Jiangbei Gang had to find her, alive see person, dead see corpse.
This matter was handled by Tang Jiapeng himself, Vienna Ballroom in the French Concession, so for finding people, also approached constables from the French Concession Police Station and the Green Gang boss Huang Jinrong behind the French Concession.
Shanghai is big when said big, not big when said not, at that time Huang Jinrong could easily find out what he wanted, this matter was found out, the ballroom’s disappearance was done by Du Yuesheng.
Green Gang’s three tycoons, Japanese not here yet then, naturally give each other face, person dead is dead, compensate some money to the ballroom, this matter settled.
And by the rules, it was this dancer who broke rules first, sleep sleep, wanting to marry into wealthy family is breaking rules, if spread, who would come play later?
Tang Jiapeng thought this involved the three tycoons, the reason was this, so wanted to settle it like this.
But Gu Zhuxuan didn’t think so, even if this dancer broke rules, but she was Vienna’s person, killed just like that, without even greeting him? Appropriate?
Does his Jiangbei Gang have no face?
So had Tang Jiapeng go demand an explanation, otherwise don’t do manager, say he can’t cover.
Tang Jiapeng didn’t want to go, said how to offend the three tycoons? Worth it for one dancer?
This is face issue, Gu Zhuxuan this North Jiangsu Tycoon although fame not as big as Green Gang three tycoons, but also a tycoon, can’t weaken Jiangbei Gang’s face, must make him go.
But Gu Zhuxuan didn’t expect, Tang Jiapeng came to Shanghai to make it big, he introduced his cousin as his wife, gave him the money-making Vienna big ballroom manager position.
Result because of this, this guy actually defected to Huang Jinrong!
Defected then defected, fine birds choose trees, with cousin relation, Gu Zhuxuan didn’t plan to pursue, just dissatisfied with Huang Jinrong taking his people.
One side talks rules, other side breaks rules, as boss, no face left.
Huang Jinrong didn’t care, all of Shanghai should be his call, originally he and Jiangbei Gang were enemies, Shanghai’s rice just so much, Jiangbei Gang eats one more bite, he eats one less.
And after this Tang Jiapeng followed Huang Jinrong, Huang Jinrong to hit Jiangbei Gang, deliberately made him manager of then Shanghai’s best amusement park Rongji Great World.
Just telling the world, Jiangbei Gang no good, talents all come to me.
But he didn’t expect Tang Jiapeng to really be talented.
Amusement park has circus, theater, opera troupe, after Tang Jiapeng became manager, he threatened the theater bosses inside, introduce female actors from their troupes for him to sleep, otherwise not let them operate.
In a few months, stirred up widespread resentment.
After this mess, the deputy manager who was already dissatisfied with the parachute drop stabbed it to Huang Jinrong.
So Huang Jinrong thought to move him away, give manager to this deputy manager.
Then the deputy manager died, shot dead on the street.
Huang Jinrong got scared.
Why does Ma Shiqi know so clearly, because Gu Zhuxuan personally visited, told Huang Jinrong, the one who killed the deputy manager was Tang Jiapeng’s right-hand man, who defected from Jiangbei Gang with Tang Jiapeng, Gu Zhuxuan personally asked Tang Jiapeng’s subordinate, already admitted.
And Gu Zhuxuan also said one thing, Huang Jinrong your son just died, Tang Jiapeng has eyes on your daughter-in-law, waiting to call you dad after getting in bed.
The person you wanted back then, now very close to you.
Huang Jinrong completely panicked.
If he died, with this white-eyed wolf with betrayal genes, so ruthless, wouldn’t he sleep with his daughter-in-law, seize his family property? Later might chop up his whole family and dump in Huangpu River to feed fish?
One thought of this, even King of Hell wouldn’t dare keep him till 3 AM.
Found opportunity and had Tang Jiapeng shot dead on the street.
Tang Jiapeng died, by reason matter settled, but Concession Police Station got interested.
Foreign directors behind the Concession actually always wanted to clean up Green Gang people, drive them out, take back profits.
After simple investigation, found this matter involves big figure Huang Jinrong, as long as find evidence arrest Huang Jinrong, Concession’s profits back?
Then after investigation, caught the killer, Police Station wanted to make this case ironclad, bring down Huang Jinrong.
Result Huang Jinrong has eyes and ears everywhere in Concession, right under foreigners’ noses, made the killer change confession.
Pointed out the one who bought the killer was Gu Zhuxuan.
Reason was Gu Zhuxuan harbored grudge against Tang Jiapeng defecting from Jiangbei Gang, he married his cousin to him, yet he still fooled around with women outside, so bought killer to murder Tang Jiapeng, clean house.
Foreigners had no choice, case at this point, witnesses and evidence complete, motive there, forced to be Huang Jinrong’s thug, arrested Gu Zhuxuan.
Of course nothing happened, but during Gu Zhuxuan’s investigation and detention, Huang Jinrong went all out suppressing Jiangbei Gang, anyway the two already have grudge, sooner or later fight to death situation.
Later through various efforts, like family pulling strings, like clansman brother Gu Zhutong helping speak, Gu Zhuxuan detained over a year, released for insufficient evidence, forces halved.
Then Japanese came.
When Japanese came, Green Gang also had to support War of Resistance, no question, national enmity first, personal grudges put aside.
When Japanese took Shanghai, recruiting Green Gang three tycoons.
Huang Jinrong turned around accused Gu Zhuxuan of Military Statistics Bureau, sent Gu Zhuxuan in again, this time to Japanese.
Reason was Gu Zhutong is Gu Zhuxuan’s relative, back when Gu Zhuxuan released, Gu Zhutong helped, now War of Resistance, also helping Military Statistics Bureau.
Former fact, latter no evidence, but Japanese don’t care, arrest is arrest, so Gu Zhuxuan appeared in Gu Yansheng’s prison, waiting for Gu Yansheng to rescue.
Tsk, Gu Yansheng didn’t expect the whole thing to be like this.
No wonder Gu Zhuxuan hates Huang Jinrong to the teeth, so many things in between, and the few dead people, two gangs vendetta, blood battle Shanghai Bund, the knot actually in that year’s one dancer.
And key figure is the romantic Song family offspring, Song Ziliang.
Gu Yansheng put down the document, still need to find way to convince this Song Ziliang, push the negotiations forward, talks must start, have a process, then fail, otherwise Japanese won’t give up.
But have to wait for the time node to arrive, then he step in to solve.
Gu Yansheng picked up today’s newspaper, eyes lit up.
Dagong Daily missing person notice, “Wang Haifeng looking for sister Wang Ruyan”
Finally here, this time node is about right.
