"Report, Zou Yaowei, the plenipotentiary envoy of Commander Yan Xishan of the Second War Zone, arrived in Shanghai, and Director Dai ordered him to be personally received by Meng Shaoyuan, director of the Shanghai Special Office of the Military Command."

Yan Xishan?

What did his people do when they came to Shanghai?

Traveling?

Meng Shaoyuan picked up the teacup: "What did you say?" ”

"Nope."

Wu Jingyi shook her head: "Just say that you will receive him in person, I have already sent someone to pick him up, arrange him in the international hotel, and he will be there in about half an hour." ”

"Yan Xishan's people are coming to Shanghai." Meng Shaoyuan took a sip of tea: "Lively, this big Shanghai is really a good place, anyone can come." Cheng, since it was Mr. Dai's personal order, we can't help but obey the order. By the way, Assistant Wu, I think that, in the future, everyone can't be arranged in an international hotel, otherwise, someone will be noticed there sooner or later. ”

"Got it, the car is arranged outside."

"Envoy Yan Xishan." Meng Shaoyuan stood up and smiled: "I heard that this chief is the famous Yan Laojiao, and I don't know if he will bring me the famous Shanxi Lao Chen vinegar." ”

……

Meng Shaoyuan was still disappointed, this envoy of Chief Yan didn't even bring a bottle of old vinegar, only a fake greeting:

"This is Director Meng, right? Look up for a long time. ”

"You're welcome." Meng Shaoyuan was smiling in a fake appearance: "Chief Yan is in the important position of commander of the Second Theater of Operations, the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, outstanding achievements, first cooperated with the Eighth Route Army, achieved a great victory in Pingxingguan, and then in Xinkou, personally led the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army to fight together, bloody battles for 23 days and nights, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese army, my brother is really admired." ”

"That's the duty of a revolutionary soldier." Zou Yaowei's Shanxi accent is extremely heavy: "I am in Shanxi, and I have heard of the famous name of Shanghai Young Master Meng for a long time. We soldiers are fighting the enemy head-on. Director Meng lives in Shanghai, which makes the Japanese invaders frightened and gives great cooperation to the frontal battlefield, but whenever your name is mentioned, we all admire it. ”

This fuck, it's a commercial blow.

If we continue to boast like this, we can boast to each other until tomorrow morning, do you believe it?

The doorbell rang in the room, and the meal was delivered to the room according to Meng Shaoyuan's instructions.

A total of four dishes, one soup, and one bottle of wine.

"Mr. Zou, I'm really sorry."

Meng Shaoyuan arched his hand: "Originally, I was supposed to take care of Mr. Zou, but I thought that since Mr. Zou was the plenipotentiary envoy of Chief Yan and ventured to Shanghai, he would have a heavy responsibility. ”

"So wonderful, wonderful." Zou Yaowei didn't care much about it: "It's my first time coming to Shanghai, and in the next few days, I will be taken care of by Director Meng." ”

"Well said, well said, please."

Meng Shaoyuan poured wine into the two cups: "Mr. Zou, this cup, I salute Chief Yan and the brothers of the Jin Sui Army who fought bloodily on the front line. ”

"Please."

"Please eat the food and taste the taste of Shanghai food."

Zou Yaowei picked up the chopsticks, ate a piece of winter bamboo shoots, and frowned: "Sorry, wait a minute." ”

got up, took out a stainless steel bottle in his luggage, and walked back: "We Shanxi people, just take this mouthful, without this thing, nothing is fragrant." ”

As he spoke, he poured half a bowl.

A strong smell of vinegar quickly spreads.

"Come on, come on, Director Meng, taste, taste, this is a good thing." Zou Yaowei enthusiastically also poured most of the old vinegar into Meng Shaoyuan's bowl.

Then he picked up his bowl and took a big sip, so that he could enjoy as much as he could.

Damn, Meng Shaoyuan felt a burst of sourness in his mouth when he saw it.

"We are from Shanxi, but we can't miss a meal." Zou Yaowei was satisfied: "In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the rise of the Qin State, the wine that the old Qin people drank was this vinegar." It has been passed down for thousands of years, and you can go without food for a day, but you can't go without vinegar for a day. ”

This is also the case, just like the people of Hunan in Sichuan are so spicy, the people of Guangdong are so light, and the customs are different in different places.

After drinking and chatting for a while, Meng Shaoyuan turned his conversation to the topic: "Mr. Zou came to Shanghai this time, I don't know what the task is?" Director Dai has an order, and I will fully cooperate with you. ”

"There will be Director Lao Meng." Zou Yaowei said: "This is Chief Yan personally asking Director Dai for help. I came to Shanghai this time for a native of Shandong. ”

"Shandong?"

Are you a Shanxi person, and you went to Shanghai for a Shandong person? Are you talking about tongue twisters?

"Exactly, this person is famous in Shandong." Zou Yaowei said slowly: "In many places in Shandong, scolding people use his name to scold. This person is Shandong bandit Liu Heiqi! ”

Liu Heiqi? It sounds like an impression.

"He is the big Liu Guitang, because he is ranked seventh and has dark skin, so he has the name Liu Heiqi, and the Shandong people have given him a nickname, 'The Demon King of the Mixed World'." Zou Yaowei's face was serious: "In the fourth year of the Republic of China, he gathered a group of brothers as bandits, and was repeatedly suppressed by officers and soldiers, but the more he fought, he had more than 10,000 subordinates.

This person is rampant, in the countryside of Pingyi and Fei County, the most vicious kind of scolding is 'You are Liu Heiqi, you are Liu Junjun'. He also likes women, and it is said that there are as many as eighty-one women around him, and of course there must be exaggerated elements, and after the Japanese entered Shandong, in order to ensure the safety of the rear, they also attracted them. ”

Zou Yaowei was talking eloquently, and Meng Shaoyuan slowly remembered.

Yes, the bandit Liu Guitang later defected to the national army, and then defected to the Japanese again, probably like this, right?

"In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, he was absorbed, and his department was reorganized into the New Fourth Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and he served as the division commander, and it was during this period that he met Chief Yan." Zou Yaowei continued: "Because of his lax discipline in the New Fourth Division, which had a serious impact on the local people, and was scolded by the superiors, he simply went to the northeast to take refuge with the Japanese and served as the commander-in-chief of the puppet Manchurian Third Route Army.

After his so-called Third Route Army was defeated by Han Fuqu, he went to Tianjin to hide, and in the 24th year of the Republic of China, he re-emerged from the mountains, co-opted the old subordinates in the past, and arrested strong men everywhere, and it didn't take long for him to have nearly 10,000 subordinates. After the Japanese invaded Shandong, they wooed him, but there was a conflict between him and the Japanese, so he decided to resist the Japanese. ”

Anti-Japanese anyway?

This kind of bandit repeats itself, if you have a milk, you are a mother, today you will be able to join the Japanese again, tomorrow you will be able to take refuge with the Japanese, there is no national concept at all, there is no shame at all.

However, during the Anti-Japanese War, whether it was bandits or local anti-Japanese forces, all of them were the forces that the Nationalist Government actively fought for.

This is also a kind of sad helplessness.

"Liu Guitang, I have taken refuge in the Japanese, so I am worried that this time anyway, the Shandong National Army does not believe him, he had a relationship with Chief Yan before, so he secretly contacted Chief Yan, what does Chief Yan mean, now at the critical moment of the Anti-Japanese War, all the armed forces that can be contacted must be united, 105 counties in Shanxi, 70 county magistrates are served by the special commissioner of the Sacrifice League, and Shanxi has therefore become a model area for comprehensive cooperation between national workers and persisting in the War of Resistance. Therefore, Liu Guitang is also within the scope of objects that can be fought for.

Liu Guitang wanted to do so anyway, but he was worried that he had taken refuge with the Japanese, and the Nationalist Government would not easily spare him, so he proposed that each side send a plenipotentiary to negotiate in Shanghai. Chief Yan sent me. ”

What does it matter to me that you talk about yours?

Meng Shaoyuan disagreed.

What's more, a bandit who has rebelled today and betrayed tomorrow, has no loyalty at all, why should he be so fond of him, and send a plenipotentiary.

Meng Shaoyuan had no interest in co-opting the bandit team, but since it was a task personally assigned by Dai Li, he was perfunctory and let them quickly finish talking about leaving Shanghai.

Anyway, it won't be long before Liu Guitang will rebel again, and he will have to beat him when the time comes.

"Mr. Zou has a heavy responsibility, and I will definitely help." Meng Shaoyuan's face was hypocritical: "I don't know who the person sent by Liu Guitang is?" ”

"They had a total of eight people to worship, Liu Guitang's seventh, and the first six died one after another, leaving only his cousin, who is also the eighth Liu Mancai, known as Liu Baye, also known as Abacus Liu." Zou Yaowei immediately replied: "Liu Mancai can't fight, but he can fight well, Liu Guitang's money is taken care of by him, and he is a cronie among his cronies."

In this Shanghai negotiation, it is inevitable that the two sides will bargain, and Liu Guitang will definitely strive for the greatest interests, so Liu Mancai was sent out. What I mean is that I want to ask Director Meng to help us arrange a place where we can negotiate safely, and at the same time, in order to avoid the leakage of information and being grasped by the Japanese, I also ask Director Meng to take charge of our security in Shanghai. ”

It's not that hard.

Meng Shaoyuan had a thought in his heart, you guys hurry up and finish talking, hurry up and get out. The situation of the struggle in Shanghai is so complicated, and now I have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of protecting you, how can I have so much free time.

But after all, he was sent by the commander of the Second Theater of Operations, and he had to do enough work to save face: "Although Mr. Zou can rest assured, I don't dare to say anything else, but in Shanghai, the people I Meng Shaoyuan wanted to protect would not have an accident." So, Mr. Zou, when are you going to meet Liu Man? ”

"Tomorrow." Zou Yaowei sighed slightly: "According to the agreement, Liu Mancai lives in the Xingwang Hotel, please ask Director Meng to send two people to protect him, he is the same as me is the first time to come to Shanghai, and his life is sparse, in case it falls into the hands of the Japanese special organs, it will not be good." ”

"Cheng, I'll send someone to find him now."

Meng Shaoyuan just wanted to get up and say goodbye, but Zou Yaowei hesitated, and was a little embarrassed: "Director Meng, the Anti-Japanese War is in full swing, and Shanxi has limited funds, so I live in such a high-end hotel, I'm afraid the cost is not enough." ”

No way!

Yan Xishan is Yan Lao's picking, this is not inferior at all?

Meng Shaoyuan couldn't cry or laugh: "Mr. Zou, don't worry, all your expenses in Shanghai will be borne by the military commanders, you Mr. Zou, just rest assured and bold to live here, and you don't have to worry about all the rest of the expenses." ”