After returning to his residence from Uehara Junpei's official residence, Ning Zhiheng locked the study door and immediately retrieved paper and pen.
Among today's guests are several intelligence officers under Uehara Junpei. Their images are very important and may come in handy someday.
He has an exceptional memory; he carefully recalls each face in his mind and slowly sketches them out on paper.
Fortunately, he had seen these faces with his own eyes, so he didn't have to listen to other people's descriptions and make repeated revisions like before. Therefore, he was able to draw very quickly and finished all four portraits by 2 a.m. The last one was the portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Takasaki Shigeo.
Ning Zhiheng drew it down so that he could memorize it repeatedly. No matter how strong a person's memory is, it will gradually become blurred or even forgotten after a period of time. After drawing it down, he will have a very clear image in his mind, which will not be easily forgotten for a long time.
After finishing the four portraits, he memorized them again, then took out his camera and photographed all four portraits, and put the film away.
Finally, he lit a match and burned all four paintings to ashes, watching them burn before cleaning them up.
In the following days, Uehara Junpei was busy with pre-war official duties and did not have much time to spend with Ning Zhiheng. So, apart from occasionally going to chat with Uehara Junpei, Ning Zhiheng spent the rest of his time touring around Wuhan.
Wuhan is located in the eastern part of the Jianghan Plain. The Yangtze River and the Han River run through the center of the city, dividing the central urban area of Wuhan into three parts, forming the pattern of the three towns of Wuhan standing side by side across the river. The city is crisscrossed by rivers and lakes, and has a unique landscape.
Ning Zhiheng had only stayed in Wuhan for three months before. During that time, due to the tight schedule of preparing for the Second Operations Division, he had no time to sightsee. This time, he had no other duties, so he settled down to visit various places.
At the same time, I investigated the situation of the commercial market in Wuhan. Wuhan is an important city in Central China and one of the major cities in the Republic of China. In particular, the economy of Hankou Town is very prosperous. Many foreign banks have branches in Hankou, including Citibank of the United States. The intelligence broker Miller once worked at this bank.
However, due to the influence of the Japanese, many businesses are barely surviving, and the overall market is not doing well.
During his visit, Ning Zhiheng also returned to his former official residence and office, but unfortunately, everything had changed.
Meanwhile, in another corner of Wuhan, a young man wearing a police hat and a black police uniform was walking briskly down the street and soon arrived at the door of a small traditional Chinese medicine shop.
He glanced around out of the corner of his eye, and seeing nothing unusual, he stepped inside.
Inside the traditional Chinese medicine shop, a customer was still picking up his medicine. The thin, elderly man behind the counter saw the young man enter, nodded slightly, and without pausing, quickly finished getting the medicine for the customer and saw him to the door. After making sure there was no one else in the shop, he turned to the young man and whispered, "Let's talk in the back!"
The young policeman nodded, and the two quickly went into the back room of the shop and sat facing each other.
The young policeman spoke first, asking, "Uncle Quan, I saw the meeting mark. Why are you in such a hurry to see me? Is there something important?"
This young policeman was none other than Miao Yongyi, the action captain of the Wuhan station of the Military Intelligence Bureau, who had been undercover in Wuhan.
When Miao Yongyi was transferred to Wuhan Station, it was just as Wuhan was about to fall. All the members of Wuhan Station took off their military uniforms, forged documents, changed their identities, and went into hiding.
Miao Yongyi, using the alias Zhang Xinli, was assigned by the Military Intelligence Bureau to work as a junior police chief in the police station. After the Japanese army occupied Wuhan, they did not make many changes to the original police system, since they needed some Chinese to help them maintain the area. Miao Yongyi was able to successfully go undercover.
Uncle Quan was his contact point with the underground party. Because of his special status and high level of secrecy, Miao Yongyi was an intelligence agent directly managed by the headquarters, and therefore was directly led by Uncle Quan, who held a high position in the Wuhan underground party organization.
Uncle Quan nodded and said, "It is indeed something important that I need to talk to you about. Did the police arrest Chai Guoan, the owner of Chuwen Newspaper, along with two editors and four staff members yesterday afternoon?"
Miao Yongyi nodded and replied, "I know about this."
Do you know the specific reason?
Although Miao Yongyi was only a police chief in the police station, he had considerable influence within the station due to his straightforward personality and love of making friends, and many things could not be kept from him.
"The cause of the matter is very simple. It was mainly because the newspaper owner, Chai Guoan, offended Ma Yaowu, the director of the Wuhan Police Bureau, which led to him being framed and harmed."
Miao Yongyi actually knew the whole story. The newspaper owner, Chai Guoan, was a wealthy businessman in Wuhan with considerable assets. He owned many businesses, and Chuwen Newspaper was just one of them.
Chai Guoan was wealthy and a fairly cautious person. He had no connection with Ma Yaowu, but unexpectedly, the problem arose with his son.
Ma Yaowu married three concubines. One of them, the third concubine, had an affair with Chai Guoan's son. Eventually, the affair was exposed, and Ma Yaowu was cuckolded. He was not about to let it go.
As a result, Chai Guoan's son ignored everything and ran away with his third concubine, which stirred up a hornet's nest.
Ma Yaowu, the director of the police headquarters, was not only powerful and influential but also had men and guns. He immediately went to their door. Chai Guoan had no choice but to clean up the mess for his son, paying Ma Yaowu a large sum of money and promising to find the third concubine and hand her over to Ma Yaowu to deal with. In this way, he managed to get rid of the matter.
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