Volume 1 Turbulent Times Chapter 135 Darkness Strikes
Outside a small hotel in Beijing, Kenji Doihara, wearing Chinese clothes, was sending a visiting businessman out. Before leaving, he bowed repeatedly to express his gratitude.
"Mr. Zhang, I asked you to ask for more business aspects we discussed just now..." Kenji Doihara said sincerely with a businessman's smile on his face.
The person he called Mr. Zhang was the second shopkeeper of a small business. He had just negotiated a big deal with Kenji Doihara.
"Haha, don't worry, this matter is OK, you can talk slowly. Anyway, the future is long, so I can cooperate more in the future."
"Yes! Cooperate more." Kenji Doihara smiled like a flower, and took the opportunity to stuff a small cloth bag into the other party's hand. Manager Zhang skillfully weighed it, and immediately smiled and left with great satisfaction.
Watching Manager Zhang leave, Kenji Doihara's smile gradually faded. He returned to the hotel and closed the door. After exploring around, he confirmed that no one was surveillance. Then he took out a piece of stuff from his arms and looked carefully.
Beijing is not unfamiliar with Kenji Doihara. As early as 1913, he was ordered by the General Staff Headquarters to come to China and served in the famous secret agency Sakanishi Mansion, and was responsible for collecting various information from China.
About a year before and after China, Kenji Doihara reported his work and returned to Japan, and was promoted to the rank of magistrate, and returned to the General Staff Headquarters. Not long ago, he received a new order, and the General Staff Headquarters asked him to return to China and carry out secret activities as an ordinary businessman. His main task was to collect information on China's military, commercial, economic, cultural and other aspects, and use means to provoke conflicts and struggles between various factions of the Chinese government. As much as possible, hinder China's constitutional government implementation.
This is a major task. As a qualified agent, Kenji Doihara still clearly remembers what he said to him when he delivered this task, "The future of the empire lies in China, and a powerful China is not in the interests of the empire." In just two or three years, the newly established Republic of China experienced a brief chaos in the north and south, and soon took the path of development. Although there were twists and turns, with the increasing gap in power between the central and local governments and the increasing prestige of the central government, the entire China has roughly formed a unified state. If we let it go, let China complete the separation of the national defense force and the separation of local military and civil affairs, and accelerate the rapid development of industry and commerce. A powerful China will inevitably reappear, which is a terrifying event for Japan, who is determined to obtain the mainland.
Since the Meiji Restoration, all Japanese undertakings have been occupying China and replacing China's ambitions. After decades, Japan has been desperately defeating the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and Russo-Japanese War, and finally extended its tentacles to the mainland. Once China rises again, it will inevitably affect the implementation of the Japanese mainland plan. The Japanese team is extremely anxious about China's current situation. In the current complex and changing world situation and force are not sure about it, Japan decided to break through the fortress and provoke conflicts between various factions in China as the starting point to disrupt the situation in China.
Kenji Doihara agrees very much about this. Although he was once a soldier, he is not unfamiliar with politics, and his personality is also destined to be a natural agent. He is very sensitive. Kenji Doihara, who has lived in China, once studied Chinese people specifically. Chinese people are completely different from Japanese people. Chinese people seem smart on the surface, but they are actually stupid, greedy, selfish, good at internal fighting, short-sighted... Youdao is that one Chinese is a dragon, and ten Chinese are worms. This is Kenji Doihara's annotation on the Chinese character.
The General Staff Headquarters and the Black Dragon Association jointly formulated a major plan, which was to use the greed of powerful figures among various Beiyang factions and parties to provoke their struggles. Okamura Yasuji is part of this plan, mainly responsible for open work, while Kenji Doihara is the core of the plan, and he hid in the dark with his identity and started quietly to complete the plan.
What he is looking at now is a list. After the efforts of Okamura Yasuji, they have selected some targets that can be won or used. The people on the list include important members of the central government, as well as real-power figures in the military, as well as some members of Congress, division commanders, brigade commanders, etc. The list is densely packed with nearly 100 people. This is just a preliminary scope. Where to start, Kenji Doihara needs to consider carefully. He has always been cautious and does not want to waste his precious power and time on some useless human beings.
While studying, he picked up a pen and circled the names of the people he thought were important so that he could make preparations when exchanging opinions with Okamura Yasuji and others.
This took more than two hours. When Kenji Doihara had almost done research, a knock on the door suddenly came.
"Who!" asked Kenji Doihara, vigilantly stuffing the documents into his arms.
"Sir, it's time to eat!" He was not unfamiliar with the sound outside. It was the guest at the hotel. Kenji Doihara breathed a sigh of relief, and then he realized that he had been forgetting to eat and sleep. It turned out that it was almost dark.
"No need, I'll go out to eat today." Kenji Doihara did not open the door and shouted through the door. The guy outside the door responded and walked away quickly.
After taking out the documents again, Kenji Doihara made the final deletion. After half an hour, he finally got it all done. He stretched happily, hid the modified documents carefully in his arms, and stood up.
After changing his coat, Kenji Dohira was about to go out. He had to go to the restaurant he had made an appointment to meet his contact person, and hand over the documents to the contact person and let the other party bring them to Okamura Nagaji. In order to avoid accidents, Kenji Dohira was very careful and never met Okamura Nagaji directly, so the information transmission was relied on the contact person. His current identity is only a small Japanese grocery merchant, and it is even more inappropriate to go directly to places like the Japanese embassy.
After leaving the hotel, it was already dark. The connection place was not too far from the hotel, so Kenji Doihara did not call for a rickshaw and walked away like an ordinary person. Whether it was dressing or appearance, Kenji Doihara now was almost no different from the Chinese. If his Chinese had not yet reached the level of extreme fluency, he even felt that pretending to be a Chinese could be more concealed.
While walking, he was thinking about his future plans, his mind was full of countless conspiracies and tricks, and even showed a hint of smug smile.
It was not long before the night was clear, and the streets of old Beijing were still very lively. The restaurant where Kenji Doihara and the contact person met were located in a prosperous area, which was also the aspect of his consideration of the safety of the more people. After passing through the alley in front, he walked another street to the place. Looking up at the sky, Kenji Doihara couldn't help but speed up.
A noise suddenly came. He stopped and looked forward vigilantly. He saw a family holding a banquet not far from the alley. Looking at the lanterns, he seemed to be having a wedding banquet. Kenji Doihara was very familiar with this Chinese folk custom.
"Hehe" laughed at himself. Kenji Dohihara felt that he seemed a little nervous. He dressed up confidently like this. The stupid Chinese could not recognize him at all, let alone his whereabouts were so secret, so it should be very safe. Looking at the family holding a banquet with interest, Kenji Dohihara even thought of the beautiful bride's body dirtyly in his heart. He couldn't help but lick his lips and let out a smirk. Just as he was yy, several men came over with a big table, and shouted while walking: "Let's give me a favor! Let me!"
This is the case when Chinese people get married. They borrow tables from their neighbors without tables, and then set them up in their own yard or even outside the yard. The guests can eat at the table. Seeing that they were coming quickly, Kenji Doihara hurriedly avoided them. Who would have thought that the alley was a bit narrow, and when he passed by, he still bumped it into it.
"Master, I'm so sorry. I didn't hurt you just now? I'm so sorry. Today, my girl is so happy. Why don't you go in and have a drink?" A man seemed to feel like he met Kenji Doihara, and quickly turned around and greeted with an apology smile.
Kenji Doihara, who was a little unhappy, reluctantly smiled, shook his head generously and signaled that it was okay, but he cursed that these Chinese people were too rude. This backward and incompetent nation should be replaced by their advanced Yamato nation.
Seeing that Kenji Doihara seemed to be nothing, the man ignored him and his companions carried the table and shouted and left quickly.
When he rubbed and hit the part, Kenji Doihara whispered "Baga". He thought he was unlucky and quickened his pace through the alley and walked towards the street of the restaurant.
After leaving the alley, the streets were even more lively, and there were a lot of pedestrians coming and going. After walking a few more steps forward, I could see the restaurant. Kenji Doihara suddenly felt a little dizzy and his eyes seemed a little blurred.
Touching his forehead, he made sure he didn't have a fever. He hadn't drunk a drop of wine today, so why was he dizzy? Could it be that the illusion arises from the dim alley that came to the bright street? Kenji Doihara shook his head, walked a few more steps forward, and suddenly staggered and almost fell to the ground.
"Not good!" At this moment, he suddenly felt his head getting dizzy. The things he saw were white and could not see clearly, and his mouth was dry and bitter. For a moment, Kenji Doihara immediately realized that he had been caught. A simple smile flashed through his mind just now. Kenji Doihara was filled with regret.
He struggled to walk a few more steps towards the restaurant. He pounced on the ground and suddenly heard a scream around him.
"Save...Help..." At this time, Kenji Doihara could not even explain clearly, and struggled to sniff out a few words.
"What's wrong? What's wrong with this person?"
"Did you have some acute illness?"
"Accidental illness? Isn't it a plague?"
"Ah! My mother! Plague?"
The people around him were so scared that they hurriedly dodged. At the same time, a well-dressed man wearing glasses squeezed in: "I am a doctor, let me see!"
"Hurry! Let the doctor see." Others moved aside, and the man who claimed to be a doctor quickly squatted down and checked the dying Kenji Doihara.
"It's a heart disease, hurry to send it to the hospital. It's too late." The doctor confirmed with certainty, and called a few people watching to help. He also called a rickshaw to work together to carry Kenji Dohira. But no one noticed that the documents in Kenji Dohira's arms were quietly taken away by the person who claimed to be a doctor. Although Kenji Dohira, who was in a semi-unconscious, noticed it, he could not even lift half of his finger.
"Save... Save...Haihara Kenji's purple lips were trembling and shouting, but his voice was so weak that no one could hear it. In a minute, Kenji Doihara was shrouded in the deep darkness that came. To be continued...
Chapter completed!