The office of Lu Ming from the Security Bureau.
Gao Baoshan's leather shoes paced on the shiny floor, and the sound of kakas also made the quiet office echo.
"Brother, there is a saying that right now in the urban area of Nanping, only your office is not within the monitoring range of the Bureau of Security." Gao Baoshan suddenly smiled meaningfully.
Lu Ming smiled and said, "It's a rumor, don't you know about it, Gao Shuai?"
Sun Chonggu was also there, and he smiled coldly, "The Bureau of Secret Affairs is so powerful, how come they didn't smell a single bit of wind about Cheng Dasui's plan to defect to Liu Bangchang?"
Yesterday afternoon, Cheng Dasui appeared in Jinzhou, Haixi Province, and together with Liu Bangchang, the governor of Haixi Province, and Japanese friends, laid the foundation for the Haixi Friendship Hospital invested by the Japanese.
This is a very clear signal that Cheng Dasui has already defected to Liu Bangchang.
Indeed, Liu Bangchang has always had a strong army, the Jinzhou soldiers are cruel and good at fighting, and now they have the support of the Japanese garrison, and their ambitions have expanded to the extreme.
However, Liu Bangchang and Qi Huaide, the governor of the Northern Frontier, are mortal enemies. Before completely defeating Qi Huaide, he should not interfere too much in the affairs of Longbei, so as not to make enemies on all sides.
Therefore, Cheng Dasui hinted at his choice by appearing on the screen with Liu Bangchang, without sending a telegram to Wanzhou Road to separate from Longbei Province, nor did he curse his old master when he changed his allegiance.
Therefore, Wanzhou Dao legally still belongs to the territory of Longbei Province.
The object of Cheng Dasui's loyalty was still Ren Zhonglin, the governor of Longbei Province.
"What did Marshal Ren say?" Lu Ming ignored Sun Chonggu and asked Gao Baoshan.
Gao Baoshan shook his head and said, "We need our Nanping intelligence system to submit a report to evaluate whether he will get the support of the people in Wanzhou Road if he announces the removal of Cheng Dasui from all his posts, and whether the regiments in Wanzhou Road have become disloyal to him. In addition, if we attack Wanzhou Road, there is a possibility that Liu Bangchang will directly send troops to intervene." He glanced at Lu Ming and said, "Brother, try to get this report out within three days."
Lu Ming nodded. Actually, one day would only be enough. The people of Wanzhou Road had suffered from Cheng Dasui for a long time. If he were to be relieved of all his duties, the people would be looking forward to it and there would certainly be deafening firecrackers. However, the backbones of several regiments in Wanzhou Road today were all Cheng Dasui's old brothers when he was a bandit, and they had all made a lot of money. Even if they could be won over, it would be meaningless.
As for Liu Bangchang, if the Longbei army attacks Wanzhou Road now, Liu Bangchang will definitely send troops to intervene.
Cheng Dasui has changed his allegiance, and the happiest person nowadays should be Gao Baoshan, as the two are sworn enemies.
Now Cheng Dasui must have become a thorn in the eyes of Marshal Ren Zhonglin.
This is great news for Gao Baoshan.
Unfortunately, Gao Baoshan is now unable to take care of himself, and his control over Nanping Road has become extremely weak. For this reason, he even did not hesitate to introduce Japanese forces to disrupt the situation, but his hope of gaining advantage from the fire is becoming increasingly slim.
Sun Chonggu was obviously a little depressed.
He has been the inspector of two routes, but if he goes to Wanzhou Road again, he is afraid that his inspection will not be successful and his safety will be threatened.
Besides, his job would be meaningless.
Originally, he was nominated by his own family, and Ren Zhonglin took advantage of the situation to maintain peaceful relations between the two regions.
Now that Wanzhou Road is gone, his two circuit patrols are no longer worthy of their name.
Just inspecting the government affairs of Nanping? Nanping had a governor, Gao Baoshan.
"Alas, times are difficult!" Gao Baoshan stroked his big head that looked like Maitreya Buddha.
Sun Chonggu stood up and snorted coldly, "Cheng Dasui, the traitor, will sooner or later learn how powerful I am!"
I really don't understand why Gao Baoshan asked me to come to Zhang's office to sigh and worry together
Sun Chonggu strode out and shouted, "I'm going back to the provincial capital now! If the Marshal doesn't send troops to attack him, my Sun family will!"
Gao Baoshan looked at his back in astonishment. For the first time, he felt that this guy was actually a pig. What was he talking about
Moreover, I originally wanted to test the Black Mountain Clan's attitude, wondering if the Marshal had any plans with Jiang Ning and the Black Mountain Clan.
Because the Marshal, Jiangning and the Black Mountain faction are now close, they are all going to open a bank together.
Therefore, this commissioner might be more informed than I am.
But before they got to the point, Sun Chonggu became like a fool and ran away in a rage.
"I'll go check on him!" Gao Baoshan stood up helplessly, "Young people tend to get carried away easily."
Lu Ming nodded.
In fact, Ren Zhonglin had already sent a secret telegram to Governor Chakson, trying to see if Jiangning could give a certain degree of support to recapture Wanzhou Road. At least politically, Jiangning's support was needed. This might make the Japanese garrison in Haixi more or less fearful and not directly participate in the war.
To be honest, although Ren Zhonglin was the weakest among the four warlords, and the entire Longbei Province was full of warlords of all sizes and was severely divided, he was naturally a ruthless character to be able to reach his position.
Liu Bangchang's move to annex the entire Wanzhou Road somewhat touched his bottom line.
In fact, even if Cheng Dasui and Liu Bangchang were secretly in collusion, he would turn a blind eye.
But Cheng Dasui really went too far. Although he did not send a telegram to the four provinces, the warlords in the four provinces all saw it. It was tantamount to announcing to the world that he had changed his allegiance.
I am also prepared to carefully evaluate how future events will develop.
Looking at the map of Wanzhou Road on the table and flipping through the documents on the table, Lu Ming did not leave the office all morning after leaving Gao Baoshan.
The phone on the desk rang. It was an outside line. Although it was not a red dedicated line, it was a number known to only a few people and could be used to call directly into one's office.
Lu Ming looked at the clock on the wall. It was almost twelve o'clock. He picked up the phone and heard a slightly panicked female voice. "Director, I'm at the Normal School Attached Primary School. I wanted to invite Xueruo to have a nice lunch, but the Japanese military police came to arrest people for some reason. They arrested Teacher Li Hongxuan, and no one was allowed to leave. Xueruo, Xueruo's study partner and I were taken to the principal's office alone. And they were talking..."
A fierce Japanese male voice muttered a few words, and then the voice of "Dudu" was heard on the phone.
The person speaking in the microphone was Ding Wanjun. Lately, she had been following Xueruo's route, trying to please the little girl. She would occasionally invite Xueruo to dinner at noon. Lu Ming knew about it.
When the sound of "dudu" came from the microphone, Lu Ming had already stood up and pressed the red button under the table.
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Several black cars stopped in front of the gate of the Normal School Attached Primary School.
There were several Japanese military police wearing brown military uniforms and armed with live ammunition in front of the door. Before they could react, they were already pointed at by the black muzzles of the guns of the guys in the peaked caps.
Lu Ming strode in.
On campus, many classrooms' front and back doors were guarded by Japanese military police, and the students inside seemed to be huddled in the corners.
However, the Japanese military police strictly abided by their duties and had their own division of labor. They probably did not expect that anyone would break in by force. Therefore, even when they saw Lu Ming and his group walking towards the office building on School Monument Avenue, no one came to stop them.
But in front of the small office building on the second floor, there was a row of more than a dozen armed gendarmes standing, and judging from the noise inside, there was a commotion going on.
A military police captain saw Lu Ming and others approaching, took a step forward, stretched out his hand to make a stop gesture, and said something in a gibberish, probably asking which unit they belonged to.
But before he could finish his words, the captain of the gendarmerie suddenly froze, and he felt a dull pain in his neck. A cold dagger was pressed against the carotid artery in his neck. The owner of the dagger was a sinister, hunchbacked old lady.
Lu Ming walked forward without stopping, and the dozen or so gendarmes were caught off guard. They originally thought that they were one of their own, but they didn't know where they belonged.
Those who reacted quickly covered their hands and screamed as their guns fell to the ground, but the two little guys, Xiao Guo and Xiao Guo, who looked like elementary school students, quickly slashed their wrists with sharp blades.
Those who were slow to raise their guns were pointed at by the guys in the baseball caps with their guns having black holes in their mouths.
Captain Chang Lei, the guard who followed closely beside Lu Ming, was dumbfounded. He never expected that the old man and two children around the commissioner were actually three monsters.
All the excuses I had prepared were useless and I could only follow the commissioner's footsteps into the building.
In front of a room in the middle of the corridor on the second floor, there were a dozen Japanese military police gathered and screaming.
There was also the awkward Middle-Asia dialect, "Let them go first! I guarantee your safety!"
The voice seemed familiar to Lu Ming, it was Ichiro Okagawa.
"Gangchuan, what's going on? Why are you detaining my people?!" Lu Ming strode over.
Ichiro Okagawa turned around and looked at Lu Ming and others in surprise. He could not have expected that Lu Ming would appear here.
"The people who arrested our young master Kawamoto in the principal's office were your people?" Okagawa Ichiro looked a little anxious.
Lu Ming nodded: "It seems so!"
Xueruo's study partner Qing'e Nineteen seemed to have fulfilled her mission and turned the situation around.
"Then tell them to release them!" Gangchuan Ichiro said anxiously. At this moment, it didn't matter anymore whether he asked how Lu Ming got here or not.
Lu Ming walked up and knocked on the door. "Nineteen, it's me. Are you all right?"
The door creaked open a crack, and after Lu Ming went in, before Gangchuan Ichiro could react, it was locked again.
The principal's office was not big, but Ding Wanjun was seen with a pale face, hugging Xueruo in a corner.
Seeing that their collars were not messy, Lu Ming felt relieved. With Nineteen around, it seemed that they had not suffered any loss.
"Where is that young master named Kawamoto?" Lu Ming asked.
The pretty girl in white shirt and black pants standing next to Lu Ming was Qing'e Nineteen. She whispered, "She's dead." She pointed to the screen, and presumably the body was behind the screen.
"I have just chosen an escape route. I plan to take Miss Xueruo and Miss Ding to the roof through the back window and then go down from the west side of the roof. There are not many Japanese slaves over there, so I can take the two ladies away. So, I think this Japanese slave has no value, so..."
Lu Ming nodded: "Well done." This Nineteen is really a character.
Suddenly I felt that Liuli was not just someone who created problems for me or did abnormal things. She was also a good helper.
"Oh, when I killed someone, I asked Miss Ding to blindfold Miss Xueruo. Miss Xueruo didn't even see the corpse. From beginning to end, that Japanese slave didn't even touch the corner of Miss Xueruo's clothes." Nineteen hurriedly reported. This matter was much more important than killing someone.
Lu Ming nodded and looked at Ding Wanjun whose pretty face changed color. It seemed that she was not scared by the Japanese, but by Nineteen.
Of course, she graduated from a military academy after all. Unlike ordinary women, she was not really scared when she saw someone being killed.
Lu Ming looked at his watch and said, "Okay, let's go."
Without asking, one could tell that it was that Master Benchuan who came along to arrest people. When he saw Xueruo, Shijiu and Ding Wanjun standing together, he immediately became lustful and brought the three of them to the principal's office to commit a crime.
"Commander, I just told the Japanese that I am from the Security Bureau and showed my ID." Ding Wanjun took two quick steps forward.
Lu Ming nodded, Nineteen opened the door, and Lu Ming walked out.
Ichiro Okagawa wanted to go in, but suddenly found that the secret service agents had occupied the advantageous position at the door and stopped him.
He was so concerned about the safety of the young master inside that he didn't care about anything else.
After all, according to the soldiers' report, a woman inside was very fierce. She directly kicked out the soldier who followed Master Kawamoto, and the soldier was kicked to the ground and couldn't breathe for a long time. The woman even pinched Master Kawamoto's neck and picked him up like a chicken, and kicked the door shut.
Therefore, Ichiro Okagawa was afraid to break into the room.
"Commissioner Zhang, how is Master Kawamoto?" Gangchuan Ichiro asked anxiously, "He didn't get beaten, did he?"
This young master would be in great danger if he lost even a single hair.
Young Master Kawamoto was sent by the Kawamoto family to Nanping for a secret investigation. It was also a kind of experience. He liked to join in the fun and was curious about the new things, so he participated in this operation.
Who knew that something like this would happen
"I didn't get beaten." Lu Ming nodded.
Gangchuan Ichiro breathed a sigh of relief, and his expression immediately became serious, "Commissioner Zhang, why are you here? You have to give me a reasonable explanation." He looked inside again: "Where is Master Kawamoto?"
Lu Ming said: "He was not beaten, but he is dead."
What? Okagawa Ichiro's eyes almost popped out. "What did you say?"
"He's dead, so what?" Lu Ming frowned. "I won't let this matter go. You have to explain this matter to me clearly. I will also send a formal notice to your superiors in the Japanese headquarters. As for your guilt, I will have to wait until I have investigated it thoroughly before I can say anything."
"What did you say?" Ichiro Okagawa was in a state of disarray, his thoughts completely confused.
When Lu Ming and his group walked out, he suddenly pulled out his pistol and said, "Stop right there!"
The gendarmes behind him also raised their guns.
Lu Ming pointed to the French window on the south side of the corridor and said, "Look outside."
Ichiro Okagawa turned his head and looked. Although he was far away, he could see that at the entrance of the campus, several military trucks drove in and stopped. Soldiers in green uniforms quickly jumped out from the trucks.
"I allowed you to leave temporarily, but you have no right to take anyone with you. You and your people can leave after leaving your weapons behind. As for your final guilt, I will investigate it thoroughly."
Lu Ming turned around and went downstairs on his own. The young men in baseball caps following behind him lined up in several rows, pointed their guns at the military police, and slowly retreated.
“Ah…” Ichiro Okagawa came back to his senses, put his pistol in his hand, and hurried into the principal’s office. Then, a scream was heard.
The way Master Kawamoto died was the most tragic in Japanese tradition, with his throat slit.