Back in the living room, I saw Hirofumi Fujiwara sitting upright.
"uncle!"
Fujiwara Hirofumi nodded in acknowledgment, and then asked, "I heard your conversation just now. You did very well. I also disagree with you joining any intelligence agency. It's easy to get into such an agency, but difficult to get out. At the very least, you'll leave with a mess. It's definitely not worth it. I'm very pleased that you were able to resist being misled by the empty fame before you."
Ning Zhiheng said with a smile, "Uncle is right. Besides, I've never liked so-called intelligence organizations. A life that's too dark makes me lose my appreciation for the beauty of this world. I still want to live a more pure life."
Fujiwara Hirofumi nodded in agreement, a look of satisfaction in his eyes. He patted Ning Zhiheng on the shoulder and said, "Zhiren, everyone should have a space in their heart for themselves. What the heart desires, the words will follow. You are very satisfactory to me now."
"Uncle, you flatter me!" Ning Zhiheng replied with a smile, then changed the subject, "By the way, didn't you say you were going to the racecourse today? We can still make it if we go now!"
Fujiwara Hirofumi smiled and nodded. The two then tidied themselves up and left the house under the protection of others.
Time flies, and more than ten days have passed quickly. Ning Zhiheng has been staying by Fujiwara Hirofumi's side during these days. The uncle and nephew get along very well. Uehara Junpei, who is in charge of receiving them, is also secretly happy to see that everything is going smoothly. The three of them often go to places like the Muran Academy, the racecourse, and the kendo dojo to relax. They are living a very carefree life.
However, the situation was quite different inside the Special Higher Police. The engraving of the ten-dollar legal tender had been completed, but the tender was burned, causing the Eclipse Project to fail.
As the Ministry of Home Affairs' decision was made, thanks to Keiji Tsuchihara's extensive maneuvering, Yoshiko Kitaoka, who was in charge, was demoted one rank from lieutenant colonel to major, removed from her position as head of the intelligence group, and transferred from the Special Higher Police to become the head of the intelligence group of the Tsuchihara agency at the Shanghai office of the Special Committee on China.
It's really just a change of name but not substance. Apart from the demotion, he's just been transferred to a different department and is still working under Keiji Tsuchihara.
Taro Sagawa, the head of the Shanghai Special Higher Police Section, was severely warned and reprimanded for dereliction of duty and leadership errors.
This was only because Fujiwara Hirofumi spoke up, and the Ministry of Home Affairs had no choice but to let it go. Otherwise, the Special Higher Police would have been in serious trouble. It was a stroke of good luck amidst misfortune.
However, Project Eclipse did not end there. The engraving and paper experts were sent back to Japan to continue the work of counterfeiting legal tender. However, they were unlikely to make any progress in the short term. By the time they produced counterfeit legal tender banknotes that were indistinguishable from the real thing, it was already too late.
It was mid-April 1939. The vice president of the Kuomintang in Hanoi, Vietnam, after surviving several assassination attempts, finally made up his mind to agree to the Japanese negotiation terms. Under the protection of the Japanese, he fled Hanoi and entered Shanghai to escape the pursuit of the Kuomintang's assassination squad.
The assassination attempts by the Military Intelligence Bureau repeatedly failed, and the assassination team eventually chased them from Hanoi to Shanghai. However, Shanghai was not Hanoi, Vietnam; it was the Japanese stronghold.
Wu Huarong and Luo Wuqing led a team of sixty assassination agents who bypassed Hong Kong, infiltrated the concession by sea, and made contact with the Shanghai station. They prepared to continue the assassination of their target and would not give up until the operation was successful.
In a safe house in the International Settlement, Station Chief Wang Hanmin looked at Wu Huarong and Luo Wuqing and said softly, "Gentlemen, your operations have repeatedly failed, which has greatly displeased the Director. You've even allowed the target to escape to Shanghai. Isn't this like releasing a tiger back into the mountains? This is Japanese territory. Headquarters has already sent a telegram instructing me to closely cooperate with your assassination operation. You are still safe in the Settlement, but you must be careful when entering the city. I will notify you of any news about the target. Do not act on your own."
Wu Huarong looked helpless. This assassination attempt had gone very poorly. Apart from the first attempt which brought them close to the target, the subsequent attempts had not posed any threat at all. In the end, they had no choice but to chase them all the way here.
He looked up at the two men beside him, nodded and agreed, "Station Chief Wang, don't worry, we'll follow your orders once we're in Shanghai. We've all come here with the determination to die; we won't leave alive until we've eliminated our target!"
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