Lost and Spy

Chapter 897 The Honest Person
1938年11月22日下午4点30，在上海公共租界爆发了震惊中外的“刺温案”。

According to the on-site investigation of the patrol room and interviews with witnesses, the general scene of the scene at that time was depicted:

A convoy of four cars suddenly exploded in the front and back as they passed Nansiri Road. Judging from the angle and effect of the explosion, it was obviously carefully arranged.

The effect of the explosion was extremely astonishing, and the front and rear cars were damaged on the spot.

The attackers then used machine guns, submachine guns and even hand grenades.

The convoy that was suddenly attacked had no power to fight back.

And the assassin was very ferocious.

They came with the purpose of not leaving any survivors.

They rushed to the convoy, firing guns into every car.

Judging from the warheads at the scene, each of the assassins emptied at least two magazines.

And during the evacuation, he did not forget to throw two grenades into each of the dead cars.

This made it very difficult to confirm the identity of the victims afterwards.

Finally, after painstaking verification work, it was confirmed that one of the victims was Wen Zongyao, President of the Legislative Yuan of the Nanjing Reform Government!

As soon as the news came out, the whole country was shocked.The Japanese and puppets are frightened, and the people of the country are excited!

On the 23rd, the Nationalist Government of Chongqing sent a congratulatory message to the chairman of the committee. The congratulatory message said that after this battle, the confidence of the Chinese people in the war of resistance to the end was greatly boosted, the souls of the treacherous and ugly people were captured, and the hearts of the people in the occupied areas were stabilized...

In short, the chairman personally commended him, which is already the highest honor of the Shanghai Latent Area of ​​the Military Control Bureau!
Dai Li's commendation telegram also arrived later, and there were two copies in total.

One is for the Shanghai Latent Area of ​​the Military Control Bureau, and it is some official commendation text.Another copy was for Meng Shaoyuan alone.

There are only two words of commendation above:

"Very good!"

Then, there is another line of words:

"Reward 2 yuan in legal currency to those who participated in the action!"

What about money?

Only telegrams, no money!
"Damn it, what about karate?"

Meng Shaoyuan cursed resentfully: "A reward of [-] yuan? What about the money? There is only a telegram, but you can't see the money. Doesn't it make it clear that you want me to pay? I will pay the money together, and Mr. Dai will do it for a good person?"

Wu Jingyi couldn't help laughing.

In this world, the only one who can cure Young Master Meng is Director Dai, right?
……

Kenji Doihara didn't know what to say anymore.

Wen Zongyao is dead?
Wen Zongyao died again?

Kenji Doihara can only use the word "you".

Kill whoever you want?
The military command has simply moved to the point of lawlessness!
Full investigation!

But where should we investigate?

"There is a person who may be suspected."

Yanagawa Kosumi, who was in charge of personally solving the case, said with some difficulty: "Meng Bofeng!"

"Well, go on."

"At that time, Meng Bofeng also lived in the New Asia Hotel, and he had a hot fight with Sugawara Tomoko. I secretly interrogated Sugawara Tomoko, and I got some information from her."

"Yeah, why did Meng Bofeng suddenly appear in the New Asia Hotel? What is his real purpose? Why did Wen Zongyao's whereabouts soon be exposed as soon as he moved in? It is possible for him to get this information."

Kenji Doihara frowned: "The strange thing is that he took the initiative to report his whereabouts to me again, just for fear that others would not know that he went to the New Asia Hotel, for fear that he would not become a suspect, and he did not hide at all. "

I thought about it for a long time: "Immediately interrogate... No, invite Meng Bofeng here immediately. Liu Chuan-jun, you go in person, you must be more polite. This person is famous and well-connected, and I heard that when he was young He also has a bad temper, and if we suspect something wrong, it will cause a lot of trouble. It may even affect Wang Jingwei's decision."

"Understood, I will go in person."

"Also, prepare the machines we just shipped to Shanghai."

……

Sitting in front of Kenji Doihara, Meng Bofeng was still so calm and calm. He stuffed tobacco into the pipe, took a puff, and then said:
"Your Excellency Doihara, you are looking for me for the assassination of Wen Zongyao, right? Am I a suspect?"

"Ah, no, no, how could Mr. Meng be a suspect?" Kenji Doihara was a little embarrassed: "It's just that as soon as Mr. Meng checked into the New Asia Hotel, Wen Zongyao was stabbed the next day. It's a coincidence, so I went to Mr. Meng to find out something."

"It's nothing more than proving my suspicion." Meng Bofeng said lightly: "Well, I admit that Wen Zongyao's assassination is indeed related to me!"

Ah!
Kenji Doihara and Yasuzu Yanagawa looked at each other in blank dismay, and they actually admitted it voluntarily when they asked this question?

Doihara Kenji's inner doubts were even worse: "Mr. Meng, please don't joke about this matter."

"Are you kidding? Who poured dirty water on his head?" Meng Bofeng's eyes fell on a strange machine in the room, and a person sitting behind the machine:

"what is this?"

"Ah, Mr. Meng, let me introduce the new technology to you." Kenji Doihara immediately said: "This is imported from the United States, it is called 'Multiple Recorder', also called 'Kira Tester', or... Lie Tester!"

Lie Tester, Lie Detector!
The first practical side liar was invented in 1921 by John A. Larson, a medical student at the University of California, USA.

The machine named "multiple recorder" was invented by combining a sphygmomanometer and a respiration meter, and can continuously record the two indicators of blood pressure and respiration.

In 1926, American inventor Leonard Kira patented another lie detector.Kira is the first practical polygraph successfully invented by combining Larsen type polygraph and GSR device.

Meng Bofeng became curious: "Lie tester? This machine can detect whether you are lying or not?"

"This is Wada Mahe, our doctor of science. He can introduce you."

Wada Mahe has no expression on his face: "We bought this new type of instrument specially from the United States, and after many tests, it is impossible to achieve 100% accuracy, but most of the lies can still be detected through scientific judgment. .”

Meng Bofeng extinguished his pipe: "Then it's just right, let me be an experimenter."

Kenji Doihara was worried about how he could make this request without angering Meng Bofeng, but now he actually applied for it, asking for it: "Mr. Meng, how dare you..."

"Okay, don't use this." Meng Bofeng stood up and walked to the lie detector: "What kind of lie detector did you prepare here, isn't it just to use it against me?"

……

"Mr. Meng, then, shall we start?"

"let's start."

"Name?"

"Meng Bofeng."

"age?"

"45."

"gender?"

Meng Bofeng looked at himself: "What do you think?"

"Please tell me."

"male."

"Well, Mr. Meng, please tell a lie."

Meng Bofeng thought for a while, then looked at Hetian Mahe again: "Dr. Hetian, you are very handsome."

Hetian Mahe couldn't laugh or cry: "You are telling a lie, but please don't make fun of me anymore... Then, we will officially start now. Mr. Meng Bofeng, are you from the military?"

"no!"

"Did someone assign you to lurk with us?"

"Assignment? Who can appoint me? The chairman is my close friend, Mr. Wang is my confidant, Dai Li has received my kindness, who is qualified to appoint me?"

"Is Wen Zongyao's assassination related to you?"

"Of course it's relevant, I've admitted it."

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense.

"Please tell everyone." He Tian Mahe looked serious: "How did you do it? Why did you do it?"

"can."

Meng Bofeng was silent for a while, and then he said slowly: "I know that Wen Zongyao has arrived in Shanghai and was invited by His Excellency Doihara to the Japanese control area, so he must be staying at the New Asia Hotel. I observed it, and the security guard on the second floor The most rigorous, and then I deliberately approached Tomoko Sugawara, obtained sufficient information from her, and judged the day when Wen Zongyao left..."

He said it without reservation.

Yanagawa Kosumi couldn't help it anymore: "Since you are not a member of the military commander or a hidden spy, why did you do this?"

"Women, or rights." Meng Bofeng replied lightly: "I have many women, so I have only one possibility to do so, rights. Mr. Wang will establish a new national government sooner or later, and I have been eyeing the position of the president of the Judicial Yuan for a long time Wen Zongyao is my biggest competitor, if he gets rid of him, no one will compete with me anymore."

It took Kenji Doihara a long time to react: "You, are you for this reason?"

"This is a very big reason." Meng Baifeng said with a serious face: "You are a China expert, Your Excellency Doihara. In the history of China, there have been too many things involving mountains of corpses and seas of blood for the sake of rights. What's the point of killing a person? Are you willing to do it for yourself?" People working for the Empire of Japan can be found all over the place, without Wen Zongyao, what’s the point? I directly called the Military Command’s Shanghai Office and told them the exact news that Wen Zongyao had left the hotel, and I left them to do the rest.”

The people in the room couldn't believe it.

"The last question." Yanagawa Kochun felt a little ridiculous: "Did you contact Meng Shaoyuan directly?"

"Yes."

"What is your relationship with him? The superior-subordinate relationship? Or something else?"

Meng Bofeng sighed:
"It is undeniable that Meng Shaoyuan is a very good person. How I wish he was my son. My surname is Meng, and his surname is also Meng. Your Excellency Doihara, do you remember what I told you, if I can With such an excellent son, maybe I will really join the army."

Kenji Doihara's eyes fell on Wada Mahe.

Hetian Mahe turned off the machine: "What he said is all the truth, and I can't even find any trace of lying."

"As I said, I am an honest person." Meng Bofeng lit his pipe again.

He's really an honest guy.

From the beginning to the end, he didn't tell a lie, and every word and every word he said was absolutely true.

(End of this chapter)