Morning, October 12, 1937.

Nanxiang Town, Jiading County, Shanghai.

The black clouds are low.

Early in the morning, the station was full of people.

Officials at all levels, representatives of the business community, journalists, etc.

Standing at the forefront was Yang Sen, the commander of the 20th Army of the Sichuan Army, who entered Shanghai in advance.

His face was solemn and unsmiling.

Meng Shaoyuan was standing beside him.

"Meng Shaoyuan."

"Commander Yang."

"The 802nd Regiment of our Sichuan Army, as the vanguard force, arrived in Shanghai and immediately entered the designated combat position.

"Don't worry, Commander Yang." Meng Shaoyuan did not hesitate: "I will personally take on the task of guiding the 802nd Regiment, and I will stay on the position and cooperate with the whole regiment to fight." ”

"Good work." Yang Sen sighed: "I arrived in Shanghai a few days ago and talked to colleagues at all levels, your military commander, from the first day of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, fought bravely to kill the enemy, fought to the death, made heavy sacrifices, and there were some rumors, you don't have to take them to heart." ”

Meng Shaoyuan knew what he meant.

Yang Sen then whispered: "Last year, the Sichuan disaster, all walks of life in Shanghai enthusiastically donated, and the donation was almost robbed halfway, but the robbers were killed by a group of mysterious people, so that the huge donation arrived in Sichuan smoothly, which solved our urgent need." I am inexplicably grateful in Sichuan. As soon as I arrived in Shanghai this time, someone quietly told me who the leader of this group of mysterious people was. ”

said, clenching his fists: "Brother Meng, thank you!" ”

Meng Shaoyuan smiled.

Yang Sen arrived in Shanghai on the 8th, and representatives from all walks of life in Shanghai received him that night, and Madame Rose was among them.

I think Cai Xuefei told Yang Sen this news.

Her purpose is very simple:

Let the Sichuan army be grateful to Meng Shaoyuan, and make the cooperation smoother.

Before Meng Shao could speak, a large number of armed gendarmes suddenly appeared.

The "battlefield observation group" that arrived in Shanghai from Nanjing only yesterday arrived.

The leaders are Lin Qingquan, deputy secretary general of the Executive Yuan, and Shi Yifeng, director of the Audit Department of the Ministry of Finance.

"Commander Yang, the Sichuan army swears to go out of Sichuan, how strong, admire and admire."

As soon as he saw Yang Sen, Lin Qingquan complimented him.

"You're welcome, Secretary General Lin." Janssen replied lukewarmly.

He didn't have a good impression of Lin Qingquan at all.

This person is Wang Jingwei's person, and he is a representative of the peace talk faction.

On September 5th, the Sichuan army held a swearing-in meeting in Chengdu, and the news reached Nanjing, all of them were excited, only this Lin Qingquan said this in private:

"What are these twin-spearmen doing in Shanghai? Robbing a strong tip? Scourge of Shanghai? Their stay in Sichuan is the greatest help to the government. ”

If it weren't for Liu Xiang's repeated suppression, several Sichuan army generals who contacted the Military Commission in Nanjing were afraid that they would rush to the political court on the spot and find out Lin Qingquan.

Later, Lin Qingquan also had to come forward to "refute the rumors", he had never said these words, and they were all political enemies who slandered Yunyun there.

Although the situation did not expand, he and Liang Zi of the Sichuan army were completely settled.

Yang Sen's attitude made Lin Qingquan a little embarrassed.

Seeing that Meng Shaoyuan was also there, he coughed: "Director Meng." ”

"Yes, Secretary General Lin."

"What about the documents I asked you to prepare?"

Yesterday, as soon as the observation group arrived in Shanghai, they immediately made a phone call to the Supervision Office, and it was Lin Qingquan himself who asked them to immediately prepare a work report for this period.

Zhou Weilong, head of the Shanghai District of the Military Command, and Cheng Yiming, secretary of the military command, also received the same call.

Meng Shaoyuan smiled: "Secretary General Lin, I only found out last night, my assistant was procrastinating, and I changed it sooner or later." This work report asked me to sort out in person, which ones can be made public, and which ones cannot be disclosed. ”

"Can't be divulged?" Lin Qingquan was very dissatisfied: "In addition to inspecting the war in Shanghai, we also have a task to supervise the work of the military commanders in Shanghai, what can we not let know?" ”

"Secretary-General Lin." It was Shi Yifeng, deputy head of the regiment, who spoke: "What you said is slightly deviated, in our work, there is no word 'supervision', when the commission gave us a lecture, he said, 'inspect the war in Shanghai, inspect the work of the military command in Shanghai, and avoid the recurrence of gossip', although this is only the difference between the two words, the meaning is worlds apart." ”

was swept away by his deputy head of the regiment, and Lin Qingquan's face showed anger.

Meng Shaoyuan only pretended not to see: "Secretary General Lin, how important the intelligence work is, so the top secret level will be specially submitted to the commission, and the rest of the people will not be known, otherwise, it will be punished for the crime of leaking secrets." Secretary-General Lin, Meng Shaoyuan really didn't have that much courage. ”

He lifted the chairman's big hat out, Lin Qingquan knew that he was going against him, but he was helpless.

"Several, I'm going to check the station safety work." Meng Shaoyuan didn't bother to talk to him anymore.

Just after walking a few steps, he found that Shi Yifeng followed slowly.

This was sent by the Ministry of Finance to review the cost of military command, and Meng Shaoyuan knew that he must have been sent by Kong Xiangxi if he thought about it with his toes.

"Shao Yuan." Shi Yifeng called very affectionately: "Yesterday, I went to visit the eldest lady. The eldest lady knew the purpose of our visit, and only said one sentence, 'I am full'. ”

Meng Shaoyuan smiled.

Shi Yifeng also smiled and said: "It's really full, we people don't know anything about fighting wars and intelligence work, what are we here to investigate?" It's nothing more than that you did a particularly good job in the early stage of Shanghai, so it touched the interests of some people. ”

"Shao Yuan knows."

"Before I came, Minister Kong explained to me." Shi Yifeng said slowly: "He asked me to bring you a few words. First, it is for you not to think about it so much, concentrate on work, Nanjing side, it's fine. ”

Nanjing, it's fine.

Just this sentence is equivalent to giving Meng Shaoyuan a reassurance.

"Second, Minister Kong asked you to pay attention to safety, there are some things that you don't have to go to danger yourself, don't risk yourself, in the future, you will have to do a lot of big things."

Meng Shaoyuan could only smile bitterly.

This is not something I can control.

"One last point." Shi Yifeng looked around, and his voice was lowered: "Lin Qingquan, this person is very annoying, Minister Kong said that he came by car, let him go back to Nanjing barefoot." ”

"Shao Yuan understands." Meng Shaoyuan said lightly: "Not only did I let him go back to Nanjing barefoot, I also let him go back to Nanjing barefoot." ”

Shi Yifeng smiled very happily: "Okay, okay, then you are busy, I won't bother you." ”

Coming looking for trouble, right?

Meng Shao had originally arranged for someone to deal with this group of expeditions, but now, if Shi Yifeng brought Nanjing, he didn't have to worry about anything anymore.

"Director Meng."

"Assistant Wu, why are you here?"

Wu Jingyi was carrying a suitcase in her hand: "Director Dai just asked someone to get it to us, saying that it was a gift for you, and that it must be handed over to you in person." ”

Dai Li's gift to herself?

Meng Shaoyuan was curious: "Open it." ”

Wu Jingyi put down the suitcase and opened it.

When the two of them looked at it, their faces changed.

In the suitcase, there is a set of military uniforms and military caps.

"Take it out."

Meng Shaoyuan's voice was a little excited.

Wu Jingyi carefully took out this military uniform.

That's the uniform of a lieutenant colonel of the National Revolutionary Army!