Black Flag Army

Although only a month had passed, the building of Beihai Group Company had been built, and the company employees had moved from tents to dormitories. Of course, this was also related to the transportation facilities and underground drainage projects that Xian Yuji had built in the early stage. Xian Yuji had laid the foundation with the labor of 3,000 slaves, and also triggered a rebellion. Considering Xian Yuji's great contributions to the Justice Party and Beihai Company, as well as her current prestige among the Mongolians in Beitang City, the Justice Party's top leaders decided to promote her to the deputy chief of the Intelligence Department, on the same level as Tian Mengxue, and gave her the title of Mozhe. She was promoted directly from a team leader to a deputy chief, skipping the stationmaster or team leader level, which was the first time since the establishment of the Justice Party.

At night, it was time to get off work, but the lights were still on in the chairman's office in the Beihai Group's building. Leng Hanbing knocked on the door, and after getting permission, he walked in and asked Di Xiong, "Boss! Are you looking for me?"

Di Xiong had a gloomy face. He handed a telegram to Leng Hanbing and said, "This is a telegram from Cha Jingfeng. She has given us a difficult problem and asked us to exempt Dong Xuechun from death penalty and send her to Tianjin to be Cha Jingfeng's assistant to make up for her crime."

Leng Hanbing said: "Dong Xuechun is a Japanese spy and one of the culprits in the murder of Zhu Zhuquan. If we pardon her, how will we explain to Feng Ru and the others?"

Di Xiong said: "She said that although Dong Xuechun was a Japanese spy, her parents were both members of the Japanese Left-wing Party. They were implicated in the assassination of the Emperor and were wanted. After escaping to Tianjin, they were still caught by the Japanese police in the Japanese Concession in Tianjin and imprisoned in the Japanese Concession Prison. In order to save her parents and brothers, she was forced to attend the spy training class. She was also forced to seduce Zhu Zhuquan. After the Japanese bombing of the aircraft factory failed, her parents and brothers were executed. Cha Jingfeng said that Dong Xuechun didn't know about this yet. If she knew, she would hate the Japanese government to the bone and would never work for the Japanese again."

Leng Hanbing said, "How could Cha Jingfeng know so many things? Only people who have been to Japan would know, or in other words, only real Japanese would know what the assassination of the emperor was about. We also know this after reading Dong Xuechun's confession."

Di Xiong shook the telegram in his hand and said, "Because Cha Jingfeng is Japanese, she admitted it herself."

Leng Hanbing quickly took the telegram and read it carefully. He was surprised and said, "Cha Jingfeng is actually Japanese. If she hadn't admitted it herself, we wouldn't have known about it. We even let her be the head of the Tianjin Intelligence Station. No wonder she speaks Japanese so fluently. What should we do? If she betrays the Tianjin Intelligence Station and the Beijing Intelligence Group, we will suffer a great loss."

Di Xiong said, "Don't make a fuss when you hear that she is Japanese. Since many Chinese serve as dogs for the Japanese and do things for the Japanese, why can't there be Japanese who help the Chinese? Although Cha Jingfeng is Japanese, she has provided us with a lot of important intelligence since she arrived in Tianjin, which has been a great help to us. If she wanted to betray us, she would have sold out the Tianjin Intelligence Group long ago. If she didn't say it herself, we wouldn't have known that she was Japanese. Her parents were also members of the Japanese Left-wing Party and were also executed. She had a very good relationship with Dong Xuechun. Before she went to Tianjin, she didn't know that Dong Xuechun had gotten into trouble. She guaranteed with her life that Dong Xuechun would work for us in the future. And she also said that the four people including Guo Jincai were also sentenced to death, but weren't they pardoned in the end?"

Leng Hanbing sighed, "You're just tying yourself up in knots! You opened the door in the beginning, and now you can't close it. It's really hard to get rid of Dong Xuechun."

Di Xiong said: "Human feelings are above legal principles, and human feelings will be exploited by others. What's more, there is no law here at all. The parents of Guo Jincai, Yuan Xiaobao and others can use this to protect their children. Cha Jingfeng also followed suit and used this incident as a handle to threaten us. I have been thinking recently that the Justice Party needs to issue a party rule to rectify this kind of atmosphere. Our rules cannot be trampled upon by them like this."

Leng Hanbing frowned and said, "Boss, I have to say something unpleasant. It is certainly ugly that our rules are exploited by others, but there are indeed many problems in your employment of people. First of all, you focus too much on ability and ignore morality when selecting people, so that many morally corrupt people enter our organization; secondly, nepotism is too serious in your selection of people. For example, if someone becomes a deputy prime minister, a lot of his relatives and friends will be promoted, thus forming an atmosphere of forming cliques and pursuing personal interests; others say that Lu Jianzhang 'can speak Mengcheng dialect and has foreign weapons', I think in terms of employing people, you are not much better than Lu Jianzhang".

Di Xiong heard the hidden meaning of Leng Hanbing. He was actually using the matter of Cha Jingfeng to talk about Wu Zhong. Wu Zhong recently persuaded Di Xiong to promote Hu Lin and Tuo Qingyun to sages, and also wanted to promote them to Mohists, on the grounds that both of them were proficient in "Mohist Classics". He also wanted to recommend Hu Canglan as the factory director. Fortunately, Hu Canglan himself refused. Leng Hanbing had long been wary of his actions.

After Leng Hanbing finished speaking, Di Xiong remained silent. Seeing that Di Xiong did not respond, Leng Hanbing felt that he might have said too much, so he continued: "Whether to let Dong Xuechun go still needs to be decided by a meeting of senior leaders above the Mohist level. However, the confidentiality of this meeting must be strengthened. When notifying them, do not tell them the content of the meeting first. After all, it concerns the Japanese and the impact is too bad. The fewer people who know about it, the better."

Di Xiong said: "Yes, last time Xian Yujie, Guo Jincai and Yuan Xiaobao's mother made it impossible for us to continue our meeting. Now that I think about it, it was simply a farce."

Therefore, Di Xiong asked Leng Hanbing to arrange for all Mohists to come to the new conference room of Beihai Company. At the same time, he did not disclose the content of the meeting to them, but only said that there were secret issues to be discussed.

About two hours later, the three tycoons and all the Mohists gathered in the conference room. This time, Wu Zhong and Lan Jinping had recovered from their illnesses. Xian Yuji had just been promoted to Mohist. It was her first time attending a high-level meeting of the Justice Party. She was very excited and sat at the end of the table with her notebook in hand. Because the meeting agenda was not open to the public, everyone was talking about it. When Di Xiong briefly talked about Cha Jingfeng and Dong Xuechun, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became terribly quiet and the meeting fell into a deadlock.

Bai Xiuling took the lead in breaking the deadlock and said indignantly: "Brother Di, this is not the first time we have made enemies with the Japanese. Moreover, you must know how many bad things the Japanese have done in China and how many innocent Chinese they have killed. Why are you so confused this time that you actually want to let the Japanese go?"

Wu Chunfeng saw that she wanted to escalate the matter to a national conflict, and hurriedly said: "Of course the Japanese government and the Black Dragon Society are our enemies, but not all Japanese are our enemies. There are also Japanese who oppose the government. Although Dong Xuechun harmed Zhu Zhuquan, she was forced by the Black Dragon Society in the final analysis. She did not kill any Chinese people with her own hands. Her sins do not warrant the death penalty. The crime we charged her is indeed too heavy, and it is understandable that Cha Jingfeng wants to plead for mercy." As the head of the intelligence section, Wu Chunfeng knew the importance of the Tianjin Intelligence Station to the Justice Party, so he had to find an excuse to exonerate Dong Xuechun.

Li Fei was so angry that veins popped out on his face. He looked quite annoyed. He stood up and said, "Chief Wu, have you ever heard of an old saying? It says that a murderer said 'It's not me, it's the weapon' after killing someone, blaming the crime of murder on the weapon. The same problem applies to Dong Yue Junzi. She assisted the Black Dragon Society in killing Mr. Zhu. Can all the responsibility be put on the Black Dragon Society? The Black Dragon Society can do whatever it wants on Chinese soil thanks to the Japanese government. Therefore, the problems of Dong Yue Junzi and the Japanese government are inseparable. Ladies and gentlemen, how much suffering we have suffered in Beijing, our company was destroyed by the Japanese, how many brothers were beaten to death by the Japanese, and Mr. Di you yourself were imprisoned because of the Japanese. Now you actually have the idea of ​​letting the Japanese go. If you do this now, will your dead brothers agree? Will those ordinary people who were harmed by the Black Dragon Society agree? Will our ancestors agree?" Li Fei had been calling Dong Xuechun by her real name, and it was obvious that he did not regard her as one of his own.

Seeing Li Fei so excited, Wu Zhong on the side quickly grabbed his hand to prevent him from clashing with Di Xiong. Seeing the tense atmosphere, Lan Jinping said slowly: "Chairman Li, there is also an old saying in China, 'A little intolerance will ruin a big plan'. If we execute Dong Xuechun now, it will not only make Feng Ru and others happy, but also lead to the destruction of Tianjin Intelligence Station. Our strength is so weak now. If we want to survive and develop, we must do some things that go against our conscience. Mr. Di had cooperated with the German Baker and the British Sean before, and received great help in the production of weapons and ammunition. Didn't Britain and Germany massacre the Chinese when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China? Do you really think those foreign businessmen are good people? They are just some people who make money by exploiting the Chinese people, but they can provide help and cover for Mr. Di's development, so he has to cooperate with them. It is indeed a very shameful thing to let Dong Xuechun go, but if the development of Tianjin Station helps to strengthen our strength, then all this is worth it." After all, Lan Jinping had followed Lu Jianzhang for quite some time and had seen him deal with foreigners on many occasions, so she didn't really care about Dong Xuechun's affairs.

Tian Mengxue also agreed, "Sister Lan has a point. We have to base everything on interests now. There is no benefit at all in executing Dong Xuechun now. However, I think the matter of Dong Xuechun cannot be written off. Releasing her now is to appease Cha Jingfeng in Tianjin. It does not mean that we cannot kill her in the future. Using the enemy to get rid of her in the future is also a way. However, the boss's personnel arrangement for the Tianjin Intelligence Station is really bad. Tianjin does not even have someone who can check and balance Cha Jingfeng, otherwise they would not let her get so far." Although Tian Mengxue is Feng Ru's girlfriend now, she only agreed to it in order to let Feng Ru work for the company. This makes her not have much good impression of Feng Ru. She doesn't care much about Dong Xuechun's affairs. Instead, she has a better relationship with Lan Jinping recently.

Li Fei roared again at this time: "Interest! Interest! Everything is for interest. Are you all profit-seeking businessmen? Is there no one who thinks about the problem from the perspective of ordinary people? Isn't Mr. Zhu, who was killed by Dong Xuechun, your friend? Mr. Feng and others have worked so hard to build airplanes, shouldn't they help Mr. Zhu to get revenge? Is this how you treat these patriotic young people?"

Di Xiong then said: "Feng Ru and his assistants will never agree to let Dong Xuechun go, so I plan to use the same method as I did. I will find a female death row prisoner to pretend to be Dong Xuechun and execute her, and then put on a show in front of Feng Ru and the others."

Bai Xiuling said angrily, "Brother Di, I am really disappointed with your attitude today. Mr. Feng has worked so hard to help us develop the air force, and you just lied to him like this. Isn't this too much?"

Xian Yuji suddenly said at this time: "Di Juzi, I have no objection to pardoning Dong Xuechun from the death penalty, but I think it is wrong to send Dong Xuechun back to Tianjin. Once Dong Xuechun escapes to Tianjin, she will be out of our control. Cha Jingfeng may lie about her whereabouts at any time. Maybe she will flee directly to Japan, which would be really unfair to the deceased Mr. Zhu. In the worst case, she will instigate Cha Jingfeng to rebel and pass false information directly to us, which would be a disaster for us."

Leng Hanbing said: "I think this is impossible, because her parents and brothers were killed by the Japanese government."

Wu Zhong seemed to agree with Xian Yujie's words, but he noticed Leng Hanbing who had been staring at him, so he tried to smooth things over and said, "Letting Dong Xuechun go is a very risky decision. No matter how much we discuss it, there will always be people who are dissatisfied. Let's vote on whether to let Dong Xuechun go to Tianjin."

Soon, everyone finished voting in a very depressing atmosphere, and then the results were announced. For the release of Dong Xuechun, five votes were in favor, two votes were against, and two votes abstained. Among them, Di Xiong, Leng Hanbing, Tian Mengxue, Lan Jinping, and Wu Chunfeng were in favor, Li Fei and Xian Yuji were against, and Wu Zhong and Bai Xiuling chose to abstain. In fact, Bai Xiuling wanted to kill Dong Xuechun, but she didn't want to make Di Xiong angry, so she chose to abstain in a dilemma. Li Fei had been gloomy since the voting results were announced, and found an excuse to leave the venue early.

Di Xiong said with a heavy heart, "Because of the pardon of Jin Cai and four others from the death penalty last time, this incident has caused damage to the reputation of the Justice Party. I am the one who is most responsible. I apologize to everyone and promise that there will be no more pardons in the future. If it happens again, I will resign."

Wu Zhong said, "Boss, you are too kind. The subsequent performance of these four people proves that you did nothing wrong. It is too early to say whether Dong Xuechun was wrong or not. If you resign, you will truly damage the Justice Party, because there is no one who can replace you, at least not yet."

After the meeting, Xian Yujie walked out of the conference room, put her conference notebook and pen into her handbag, and threw the handbag to the guard Hu Canglan who was waiting outside the door. Hu Canglan took the handbag and followed her downstairs.

There were several carriages waiting downstairs. One of the carriages had a white snow lotus embroidered on its curtain. Hu Canglang rushed to the front of the carriage before Xian Yujie, lifted the curtain to let Xian Yujie get in, and then he got in.

Wu Zhong, who came downstairs later, saw this scene and shook his head and sighed, "Even a hero can't resist the temptation of beauty!"

After Xian Yuji became a Mohist, she was allowed to have two female guards according to regulations. However, she did not want female guards, but only one male guard, who was of course Hu Canglang. Hu Canglang also made great contributions in the Erdenet operation this time, and he could have been the chief of the intelligence station. Wu Chunfeng proposed that he be the chief of the intelligence station of Beitang City. Beitang City was protected by the Justice Army, and it was safe and prestigious. Many people wanted to compete for this position, but Hu Canglang refused and was willing to be an ordinary guard for Xian Yuji. Wu Zhong recommended him to be the director of the newly established meat processing plant, which was a lucrative position, but Hu Canglang also refused.

Xian Yuji said to the driver: "Go home!"

The driver whipped the horse and the carriage started galloping.

When she said going home, she didn't mean going back to the Erdenet Palace, but to the dormitory building allocated to her by the Beihai Company. It only had two bedrooms and a living room, and was far smaller than the palace. Although Xian Yuji was still the princess in name, she had actually completely severed her relationship with Huter. Huter was accompanied by four concubines and didn't care about her at all.

In the carriage, Xian Yuji naturally leaned her head on Hu Canglang's shoulder and was held in Hu Canglang's arms. In Hu Canglang's view, he was inseparable from Xian Yuji during the day and lived with her at night. He could enjoy her body to his heart's content and was happier than a god, so he didn't want to be a stationmaster or factory manager at all.