Lost and Spy

Chapter 1637
"I'll check, Han Zhengda, Deputy Director of the Commercial Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, has absconded, and his destination may be Shanghai or Hong Kong!"

Qi Xuezhen paused slightly after reading this: "Well, once the Shanghai District of the Military Control Bureau finds out, they will be arrested immediately, interrogated on the spot, and the whereabouts of the Ministry of Economic Affairs' account books will be checked!"

"What do you mean?" Meng Shaoyuan was baffled when he heard it: "A deputy minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs has absconded. It's none of my business. It's not something our military commander should manage."

"This case was really handed over to the Juntong personally by the commissioner." Qi Xuezhen smiled wryly: "You don't know about Chongqing's 'Large Parity Case'?"

"What's the 'parity case'?" Meng Shaoyuan was confused.

In the rear, especially Chongqing, the accompanying capital, due to factors such as the influx of people from the eastern coastal areas and natural disasters and poor harvests, the price index in the urban area has been rising month after month.

Among them, the food price index has soared beyond the norm, and it has more than quintupled within a year.

Coupled with the wave of rice rushes in various places, the Japanese planes bombed wildly every day, and the people in the capital Chongqing and other places were panic-stricken. The social psychology of panic.

All of a sudden, the "rising price" of food became a serious social and political problem before the Chairman.

The Chairman ordered the Parity Purchase and Sales Department and the Agricultural Bureau under the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the National Government to try to stabilize food prices in Chongqing.

Weng Wenhao, Minister of Economic Affairs at the time, successively discussed with Wu Wentian, Director of the Parity Purchase and Sales Office, and He Lian, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and Director of the Bureau of Agriculture, and others to discuss the method of grain parity.

However, a week later, the price of rice that had just dropped rose again, but the Bureau of Agriculture had no rice available at this time, let alone the extra funds to purchase new rice grains.

But the chairman who didn't know the truth ordered the Agricultural Bureau to continue purchasing rice grains to supply the market.

Later, at the weekly report meeting hosted by the Chairman, there were always participating ministers and chairmen complaining about the rise in rice prices. Xu Kan, the deputy finance minister, even put low-quality rice mixed with sand on the meeting table. .

Under the constraints of practical factors such as the continuation of the war, the price of food in the capital, which is hard to get even, continued to soar, to the extent that there must be a solution.

Under such circumstances, a report reflecting the malpractice of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Bureau of Agriculture and other agencies appeared on the chairman's desk, which finally prompted him to take the decision to issue a warrant for investigation.

On the evening of December 1940, 12, Dai Li, deputy director of the Military Control Bureau of the Nationalist Government, secretly detained Zhang Yuanshan, Director of the Commercial Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and Shou Moqing, General Manager of the Domestic Products Joint Venture Company.

At the same time, the inspection committee headed by the Deputy Minister of Finance Xu Kan is still in full swing on the inspection of the parity funds of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Bureau of Agriculture.

On January 1941, 1, Xu Kan and others secretly submitted the investigation results to the chairman of the committee.

According to the internal statement, the part of the affordable grains undertaken by the Agricultural Bureau "has never been properly supplied", and the purchase cost and price are unknown, forming the fact that "every parity will increase once".

In the part of cheap clothing fabrics undertaken by Fushengzhuang, there are problems such as taking advantage of cheap opportunities to profit from its own operations and so on.

After receiving these investigation reports, the chairman was furious and ordered Dai Li to immediately arrest everyone on the list.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs, in particular, must strictly investigate to the end.

At that time, many officials of the Ministry of Economic Affairs were secretly arrested.

The entire Ministry of Economy is limited to a state of paralysis.

Later, under the repeated requests of the Minister of Economic Affairs, Weng Wenhao, and even resigned, the chairman of the National Committee ordered most of the arrested people to be released on bail pending trial.

However, the investigation never stopped.

At the end of March, Dai Li gradually set his sights on Han Zhengda, Deputy Director of the Department of Commerce of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, thinking that he would make a major breakthrough.

But at this moment, Han Zhengda suddenly absconded with his wife.

I learned from an old servant of the Han family that when Han Zhengda ran away, he seemed to have taken a large box of ledgers with him.

After investigation, it was found that Han Zhengda's destination was either Shanghai or Hong Kong, and it was very likely that he would escape from these two places and then go abroad.

Therefore, Dai Li personally ordered the military commanders of Shanghai and Hong Kong to arrest Han Zhengda with all his might!
"It's ridiculous." Hearing this, Meng Shaoyuan's expression seemed a little inconceivable: "The people under our military commander's surveillance escaped so easily?"

Isn't that a joke?
The person that the military commander was targeting, and he was still in the rear, was unexpectedly escaped by a big living person, no, two big living people escaped from under the nose?
Judging from the information sent from behind, Han Zhengda was 55 years old, his wife was 53 years old, and how did the two people in their fifties manage to escape?
It would be impossible without assistance.

"Is it our internal problem, or is there something else going wrong?"

Meng Shaoyuan pondered and said: "Anyway, there is definitely something weird about this matter. I reckon that Mr. Dai has already started an investigation."

"We have nothing to do with this matter." Wu Jingyi, who was called in by Meng Shaoyuan, said at this time: "Our task is to find Han Zhengda and his wife."

"I'm going to mobilize people immediately."

Just as Qi Xuezhen finished speaking, Meng Shaoyuan had already interjected: "What's the rush? Let me tell you, it's better for us to not get involved in such matters. I'd better be Han Zhengda who went to Hong Kong instead of Shanghai.

There are too many important government officials involved in this kind of low-cost case. Let me say something depressing. Everyone has a backer, and we can't afford to offend any of them.

If Han Zhengda was really in Shanghai, it would be easy to catch him. The question is, what should we do after we catch him?We seized those ledgers, what should we do? "

How many people will this involve?
Once you're stuck in it, it's hard to get out.

"Listen." Meng Shaoyuan suddenly turned serious: "Send our people to look for Han Zhengda and his wife. It's fine if we can't find them. If we do find them, remember not to open his luggage!"

Wu Jingyi immediately understood: "This is the most important thing, especially if you can't see those ledgers. Once you catch them, don't stay for a moment, and escort them to Chongqing immediately."

This is what Meng Shaoyuan admired most about Wu Jingyi.

She knows her own thoughts too well, and knows when to do things.

Han Zhengda and his wife are ticking time bombs. If something insider is found out in Shanghai, their lives will not be easy.

Suddenly, Meng Shaoyuan said fiercely:

"Show me the telegram."

Qi Xuezhen handed the telegram into his hands.

Meng Shaoyuan watched there for a long time, and then murmured: "I understand, I understand, this time I almost missed a major event."

"What's the situation?" Wu Jingyi asked.

"Take Han Zhengda and his wife with all our strength." Meng Shaoyuan's expression revealed a bit of nervousness: "It seems that even if we want to stay out of the matter this time, it may not be so simple!"

(End of this chapter)