Chapter 108 secret agent feat

On September 23, 1931, someone plotted to assassinate Song Ziwen at Shanghai Railway Station.Song, who was wearing his usual Panama hat at the time, became an obvious target.He tossed his straw hat aside and ducked into the crowd, hiding behind a steel frame and escaping death.But his secretary Tang Yulu was killed.The murderer got away. In April 1934, an "eyeliner" contacted the Shanghai Station of the Secret Service and reported the situation of the murderer.Dai Li immediately sent two of the most elite spies Shen Zui and Cheng Muyi to investigate the case. The "eyeliner" brought them to northern Jiangsu, where the suspect worked as a security captain in Yancheng.With the help of "eyeliners", they tricked him into a small boat and arrested him for interrogation.

Under torture, this person confessed that the assassination of Song Ziwen was ordered by the "King of Assassination" Wang Yaqiao.He also confessed to another accomplice: Song Ziwen's former driver, who now works in a machinery factory in Yangzhou, was arrested as a result.After the two were brought back to Shanghai, Dai Li showed Song Ziwen a photo of the second person.Song not only affirmed the identity of the driver, but also rewarded Shen Zui with 5,000 yuan.But under the hint of Dai Li, Shen Zui returned the check to Song, saying that it was their responsibility to protect the minister.Afterwards, Song Ziwen felt deeply indebted to Dai Li, and later Dai Li got Chiang Kai-shek's permission to bypass the Ministry of Finance and obtain Song's signature. Since then, Song has approved more than one application from the Military Command for the Bank of China to allocate funds for activities.

But Dai Li's most successful secret agent operations in those years were the conquest of domestic military figures in the southeast: the suppression of the Fujian rebellion in 1933 and the overthrow of the "King of South China" in 1936. In November 1933, Li Jishen and Chen Mingshu led the 19th Route Army to establish an independent government in Fujian to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek.This poses the most serious threat to Chiang Kai-shek's regime.Dai Li realized the seriousness of the rebellion in Fujian, so he immediately went to Jian'ou, 80 kilometers south of Pucheng. Dai Li carried a group of spies headed by Zheng Jiemin and assisted by Zhang Yanyuan.The special task force is called the "rebel group", which is divided into 4 groups, led by Mo Xiong and others, who go to the areas controlled by the Fujian People's Government to recruit rebel personnel to subvert the rebellion cause.Dai Li himself, accompanied by Shen Zui, set up an office on Gulangyu Island, a resort island outside Xiamen, dotted with residences for diplomats, businessmen and missionaries who took shelter from the coastal heat of Fujian.The rebel group followed Dai Li's instructions and tried to win over the rebels.As a result, they bought two key officers: Huang Qiang, chief of staff of the 19th Route Army, and Fan Hanjie, chief of staff.In the first few days of the rebellion, Dai Li's men obtained the enemy's code, which enabled the "king of spies" to spy on all the campaign plans of the 19th Route Army from his residence on Gulangyu Island.In addition, Dai Li also won the head of the regiment stationed in Mawei, which opened the door to Fuzhou, allowing Chiang Kai-shek's army to take Fuzhou lightly in January 1934.The rebellion was quickly quelled, making Dai Li even more important in the commander-in-chief's eyes.

The "King of South China" is the Guangdong warlord Chen Jitang, who led the New Kuomintang in Guangzhou together with Hu Hanmin. After the death of Hu Hanmin in May 1935, Chen Jitang participated in the armed uprising against the Nanjing government in June 1936, forming a direct challenge of the Guangxi warlords to the Chiang Kai-shek government.Dai Li once again led Zheng Jiemin to the south in person to suppress his master's enemies.Zheng Jiemin went to Hong Kong with a huge sum of money and entrusted the bribery money to Xing Senzhou, a special agent of Dai Li.A complex conspiracy begins immediately.Dai Li's people, through the Minister of Education Zhu Jiahua in Nanjing (who was once the president of Sun Yat-sen University), persuaded the principal of the Guangdong Aviation School to establish a relationship with Chen Jitang's air force commander Huang Guangrui.

Meanwhile, Dai Li sends one of his best female spies, former Shanghai ballroom dancer Huang Peizhen, to seduce Huang Guangrui. "Skirt" plus "wealth" does work.Xing Senzhou assured Huang Guangrui that he would get 20,000 yuan each time he handed over a plane from the Chen Jitang Air Force to Chiang Kai-shek. On June 30, seven planes took off from Guangdong and dropped on Chiang Kai-shek.In less than three weeks, on July 18, another 82 planes left Baiyun Airport and headed north to Nanchang station by station.This team consisting of more than 150 pilots and mechanics joined the Nanjing regime, which made the Guangdong Air Force slump. Chen Jitang felt that the situation was over. On that day, the "King of South China" resigned and fled to Hong Kong on a British ship.

The Guangdong Uprising was over, and Dai Li was once again praised by Chiang Kai-shek, which was immediately converted into financial credit because the Secret Service had solved the assassination case of Song Ziwen earlier.From then on, Dai Li could withdraw money from Song Ziwen at the central bank or from Bei Songsun, the president of the Shanghai branch, as long as he had a note from Chiang Kai-shek, without going through any procedures of the Ministry of Finance.