Chapter 1292: Split up
One day in September 1941, New Zealand, South Island.
Zuo Zhong was lying on a lounge chair in the garden of Zuo's old house, with a book of Tagore's poems covered on his face. The radio on the table was playing Chinese radio. The sound from the speaker was not loud but the sentences were sonorous and powerful.
"October 10 this year is the 30th anniversary of the separation of lives. All parts of the country should hold warm celebrations and commemorations, and underground party members in various places should also give extensive explanations to the people so that men and women of every Chinese nation can understand this day. "
During the sound of the broadcast, He Yijun, who was wearing a floral skirt, walked quickly forward, leaned against Zuo Zhong's ear and whispered the latest news.
"Deputy Chairman, Fu Ling sent a message. Konoe Fumiya is about to resign again. The successor is likely to be Tojo. In addition, Nobita also sent a secret message."
Zuo Zhong moved the book away from his face and took the two secret messages from He Yijun. The first one had nothing to say. This was the third time that Fumiya Konoe formed a cabinet and resigned. It was only a short time since he last formed a cabinet. Within two months, the Japanese were changing prime ministers faster than Xu Enzeng was changing his mistresses.
The reason why Konoe resigned was because he believed that the conditions for an immediate war with the United States and Britain were not yet mature, and there was little certainty of victory, so he should wait. This angered the main war faction represented by Tojo.
The main war faction proposed that if the Konoe Cabinet does not implement national policies in accordance with the decision of the Imperial Council, then all must take the blame and resign.
Therefore, it is only a matter of time before Konoe Fumiya steps down. When the situation has developed to this point, even locusts cannot stop Japan's completely out-of-control war machine.
Zuo Zhong folded the first message and put it in the ashtray to light it. He slowly fell into memories. From the departure from the mountain city to the return to New Zealand, too many things had happened in the past few months.
August 13 - The President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom signed the Atlantic Charter on the British Navy battleship "Prince of Wales".
September 3rd—The Japanese army evacuated Fucheng, and on the same day the Japanese army regained Fucheng for the first time.
September 7th - The Guo army conducted the second Battle of Shacheng. The battle is currently going smoothly, but the Japanese army suffered heavy losses.
Prior to this, on September 6, Hayashi Fuichiro urgently informed Zuoshige that the Japanese Imperial Council secretly decided to go to war with the United States.
This piece of information seems to prove the madness of the Japanese, but is it really so? Zuo Zhong doesn't think so.
Faced with the increasingly close ties between Britain and the United States, the decaying battlefields of the Republic of China, and the domestic industry and agriculture on the verge of collapse, Japan actually had the only option to go to war.
If they lose, the whole nation will be shattered.
If it wins, Japan can at least monopolize East Asia and become a real great power.
The Japanese who are full of gambling once again gambled on the fate of the country. After all, the people who died were untouchables. The rich and powerful thought they were safe until those big mushrooms fell.
Zuo Zhong analyzed the recent intelligence, got up from the recliner and walked in the garden. He was thinking about one thing and one person.
If I remember correctly, the legendary Red Russian spy Sorge and his team were arrested after Fumiya Konoe resigned, and the underground party's international intelligence network in Japan was paralyzed.
This matter originally had nothing to do with Zuo Zhong, but the arrested members of Sorge's team included not only Red Russians, but also members of the Northwest underground party.
For example, the Asahi Shimbun reporter Ozaki who had dealt with the 226 hour, the Japanese members of Special Kosovo Nakanishi Isao and Nishiri Tatsuo, the economic team leader of the Mantetsu Northern Economic Research Institute Ozaki Shotaro, and the Intelligence Section of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Force Headquarters Section Chief Shirai Yuyuki.
Moreover, the Sorge Group has a close relationship with the Shanghai Intelligence Network of the underground party. Historically, after the Sorge Group was arrested, more than 20 underground personnel lurking in the Manchuria Railway Special Investigation Team were exposed, and the Northwest Japan Intelligence Network was severely damaged, causing losses. heavy.
What worries Zuo Zhong the most is that most of these people are from Tongwen Academy and are old classmates with Hase Ryosuke. It is uncertain whether their defection will arouse the enemy's vigilance and suspicion of Hase.
Even though Hase Ryosuke has flourished in the Japanese intelligence system, he is afraid of seriousness in everything. Once the Japanese fully investigate, Hase may have no choice but to run away.
In the same way, Hayashi Fuichiro is also in danger of being exposed. His Excellency the Viscount is very close to the Konoe cabinet, so there is no guarantee that he will not become a target of suspicion.
The fire at the city gate affected Chi Yu. Zuo Zhong was a little helpless and a little annoyed. Sorge was a standard 007-style agent who never forgot "entertainment" in his work and was surrounded by many members of the opposite sex. This was a fatal weakness in intelligence work.
It was rumored that the other party's exposure was related to women. What the **** was it that so many lurkers were implicated for the little thing under the crotch?
It is true that Sorge never gave up his faith even in the most difficult and dangerous environment, which is indeed commendable.
However, as an intelligence officer, he has a habit of performing missions in a hostile country. No matter from which point of view, this is a very serious mistake.
Don't use pretense as an excuse. If you can't even grasp the appropriateness of acting for the occasion, it only means that you are not professional enough.
The more he thought about it, the more angry Zuo Zhong became. He really wanted to send a report letter to the Intelligence Department of the Red Russian General Staff and ask the Red Russians to recall Sorge, the "Oriental 007".
But he just wanted to think about how many of Sorge's team and other lurkers could survive being caught by the Japanese, but none of them could survive being targeted by a loving father. After wandering around for a few times, Zuo Shige realized that he had to go to Japan in person to help Sorge and others wipe their buttocks, otherwise Hase Ryosuke and even Hayashi Fuichiro would be in danger.
Gan! He was provoking someone, thinking that his Zuo family was philanthropic and aloof from the world... Well, Zuo Zhong was in a bad mood anyway.
After a while, Zuo Zhong picked up the second telegram, which contained the results of Hase Ryosuke's tracking of the "new" penicillin. After reading it, Zuo Zhong finally showed a smile on his face.
The day the "new" penicillin material arrived in Shanghai, the Japanese started work in a hurry, and the finished product was produced in just one week.
Subsequently, these precious anti-inflammatory drugs were sent to the Shacheng Field Hospital, bringing kindness to the Army Red Deer.
Feeling that they were not worthy of using the magic medicine that was more expensive than gold, the wounded Japanese soldiers cried bitterly and felt more uncomfortable than the death of their own mothers. Several of them committed seppuku on the spot, and the death rate in field hospitals suddenly soared.
The military doctors persuaded the wounded soldiers to stop and began large-scale human experiments. Although hundreds of Japanese soldiers died during the period, the results of the experiments were very "optimistic". A large number of wounded soldiers were discharged from the hospital after recovering from their injuries, but they were relatively weak.
When being interviewed by reporters, the person in charge of the experiment, Saburo Iguchi, said that with the "new type" penicillin, the casualty rate of frontline troops will be greatly reduced.
As for the injured who died due to allergies, diarrhea, vomiting blood, and unknown reasons, of course they cannot be counted in the death toll. Statistics must be scientific, and particularity cannot be used to replace universality.
Zuo Chong was happy, Iguchi Saburo Zhente's mother was a talent. If the Japanese fully promoted the "new" penicillin, it would only take a year, no, half a year, and the Japanese's field hospitals would probably only have doctors and nurses left.
In addition, the "new" penicillin will not endanger ordinary people in the Republic of China.
The Japanese have very strict control over gunshot wound medicine and will certainly not let it enter the market.
Even if regular pharmacies sell a small amount of medicine, who can buy medicine from Japanese people?
The answer is easy to think of. Traitors, lackeys, and profiteers are all good people.
The only thing to pay attention to is the underground party, but Zuo Zhong has already sent a message to Lao K, reminding the northwest to pay attention to the distinction between seized materials and purchasing medicines, and must not use poisonous Japanese medicine. He has even found a leakage channel.
As soon as the deal with the Germans ended, Zuo Zhong reported the patulin incident to the Attendant's Office and Lao Dai's office. Leaking secrets from these two departments had nothing to do with Zuo.
In fact, if the northwest really wants to seize patulin, they don't need to throw it away. If they don't use it themselves, they can sell it to traitors. In that case, "giving birth to a son without buttocks" is not a curse, but an objective statement.
Zuo Zhong smiled and asked He Yijun to call Gu Qi and others. The penicillin matter was not over yet. In addition to Japan and Germany, Britain and the United States also coveted Australia's penicillin factory.
Although the Zuo family has licensed relevant technologies to Western pharmaceutical trusts for safety reasons, there are always people who want more, such as experimental data from Australian pharmaceutical companies, the latest scientific research progress, etc.
These forces were inconvenient or did not want to do it themselves, so they found two scapegoats to take the lead. Otherwise, how would the Germans and Japanese know the location of the pharmaceutical factory?
This time, we must remind the British and American capitalists to let them know that the Zuo family is not a vegetarian, and it is best for everyone to be kind and make money.
Ten minutes later, in the study room of Zuo's old house, Gu Qi, Wu Chunyang, Song Minghao, and Gui Youguang were sitting on both sides. Zuo Zhong, who was sitting in the chair, told his plan.
"Lao Gu, you, Lao Song, and Youguang go to Crosby in Liverpool, England. There is a pharmaceutical factory of Glaxo Company there, blow it up for me, and then transfer to the Pfizer pharmaceutical factory in Brooklyn, New York. I hope this pharmaceutical factory will be shut down for at least half a year.”
"Okay, deputy seat." Gu Qi replied without asking Zuo Zhong what he was going to do.
Zuo Zhong thought for a while, told the information Fu Ling had sent back, and proposed that he go to Japan with Wu Chunyang and He Yijun to explore the background of the Japanese new cabinet?
Hearing this, Gu Qi quickly objected: "Deputy Sir, your current status is extraordinary. You must not get involved in dangerous situations. If you are really worried, why not let me lead the team for a trip."
Song Minghao and Gui Youguang also nodded beside them. Yes, if something happens to the first officer, they will be guilty, and even the entire military command will be in turmoil.
"Lao Gu, you don't have to say anything. I have my own reasons for going." Zuo Zhong raised his hand and did not let Gu Qi say any more, and then found a reason casually.
"Tojo is the warmonger among Japan's top leaders who is most enthusiastic about launching aggression. This person's coming to power means that Japan is completely going crazy. I must go and see the situation myself.
Don't worry. After learning about Japan's new cabinet, I will go to the United States to join you as soon as possible. There is still an important mission waiting for us in Washington. See you all in the United States. "
This reason is not sufficient, but he can't tell his subordinates that he, the deputy director of the military command, is going to rescue underground party intelligence personnel.
Hearing what the deputy director said was so serious, Gu Qi couldn't help but tell Wu Chunyang to do a good job of protection, don't hesitate when in danger, and immediately use the military commander's secret channels to retreat.
Wu Chunyang solemnly agreed, but in his mind he was thinking of simply tying the passenger seat to the United States. However, noticing Zuo Zhong's sharp gaze, he quickly lowered his head and pretended to admire the ground, giving up this dangerous idea.
Zuo Zhong moved his eyes away from Wu Chunyang, walked slowly to the door and looked at the old tree in the courtyard in trance. At this time, the breeze blew through the little petals, and the petals flew higher and higher, just like the wandering, involuntary tree. Wanderer.
