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At this point, the Executive Office didn't have time to cause trouble for the Party's intelligence bureau or the secret service.

The overwhelming public opinion was enough to keep the Executive Office busy, so they had no time to cause trouble for the Security Bureau.

However, Mao Renfeng hid in the hospital and refused to come out. It's hard to say whether he was really sick, but he was genuinely afraid to leave the hospital.

He and a group of veterans huddled in the hospital room, reviewing the situation again and again, gritting their teeth each time. This time, the defeat was... too inexplicable. Public opinion was clearly under control, so why was the underground party able to turn the tables overnight?
Overnight, the enemy had spread to cities in all the Nationalist-controlled areas.

This must have been a premeditated and well-prepared operation!
……

"This was a premeditated and well-prepared operation!"

At a meeting of station chiefs and group leaders of the Bureau of Secrecy, Zhang Anping, with a gloomy face, slammed his hand on the table:

"So many cities launched simultaneous operations overnight—how many leaflets had to be prepared beforehand? How many newspapers had to be secretly delivered?"

"How much time will this take?"

"For such a long time, not a single person in any of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics' stations and teams noticed anything! Are you all blind? Are you all deaf?"

Faced with Zhang Anping's angry questioning, not a single station chief or group leader who had rushed to Nanjing to be criticized uttered a word. Some directors of the inspection office thought to themselves how lucky it was that this happened in the city. If it had happened in the army, they would be the ones being criticized now.

"Mute?!"

Snapped

Zhang Anping grabbed a teacup and smashed it on the ground. The shattered teacup made the hearts of the pillars of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics present skip a beat.

I originally thought Zhang Anping would be watching from the sidelines and kicking someone when they're down, but looking at his current angry state, it seems... he's not faking it?
Someone had a sudden thought: "Hmm, could it be about that $3800 million?"
Someone glanced at Zhang Anping discreetly and, seeing his face as dark as the bottom of a pot, thought to themselves that it was probably because of this matter.

This matter... must have had a significant impact on Commander Zhang.

It makes sense when you think about it. You work so hard to make a lot of money, but most likely you don't end up with a single penny. You provide a large sum on the surface and another large sum on the side, but you can't claim credit for it. You could have comforted yourself with a sense of national pride, but in the end you find that you're the complete clown. It's not hard to understand why you'd be so upset.

Zhang Anping, seemingly unaware of his subordinates' thoughts, was currently scanning the attendees with murderous intent in his eyes. When his gaze settled on Gu Shenyan, he could no longer hold back and gritted his teeth, saying:

"Why would such a major oversight occur at Shanghai Station?"

"Why!"

Gu Shenyan jumped up in surprise, then hurriedly stood up and said in a trembling voice:
"Chief Qu, there's more to this than meets the eye!"

"Say!"

Gu Shenyan glanced awkwardly at the attendees, then looked at Zhang Anping with a fearful expression. Zhang Anping, enraged, slammed his fist on the table again.
"I told you to say it!"

Gu Shenyan swallowed hard and said in a fearful tone:
“Chief, our focus has been entirely on the newspaper and printing plant lately. In addition… the Party’s intelligence bureau is deliberately working against us and has exposed our hidden brothers. We have had to repeatedly invest manpower to relocate people to infiltrate the newspaper and printing plant, which has severely weakened our field operations.”

"Up to the time of the incident, 70% of the staff at Shanghai Railway Station were devoted to the newspaper and printing plant. The remaining staff were barely able to keep the station running, let alone..."

Zhang Anping was so angry at Gu Shenyan's explanation that he laughed:
"Absurd, absurd!"

"Seventy percent of the manpower are dedicated to one direction? Even animal hunters know to keep reserves on hand. You're a graduate of Whampoa Military Academy, and you held Shanghai during the War of Resistance. Don't you understand such a simple principle?!"

Gu Shenyan gritted his teeth:

"District Chief, this is the requirement of the Public Opinion Committee. If a local station group fails to complete the tasks assigned by the Public Opinion Committee, everyone from top to bottom will be held accountable. Station Chief Xu Tian of the Beiping Station was personally reprimanded by Director Zheng for three days for failing to meet the requirements of the Public Opinion Committee. At the same time, Director Zheng also personally assigned tasks to the Beiping Station..."

Zhang Anping was taken aback:
"Three days of reprimand?"

Gu Shenyan nodded.

"Bastard!"

Zhang Anping angrily kicked the stool behind him away: "A lecture? Is this a lecture? This is house arrest!"

"Why didn't I know about this?"

Zhang Anping glared angrily at Xu Tian, ​​who remained silent with an expressionless face.

But at this moment, everyone finally understood Zhang Anping's true meaning.

Sharpening their knives, they're all ready!
This is clearly a prelude to something, a prelude to "catching a toad and squeezing out its excrement"!

"What a scoundrel! An amateur leading professionals! What a mess they've made of such a promising situation!"

Sure enough, after his anger subsided, Zhang Anping revealed his true colors by saying that as a deputy director, he had criticized the official director for being an amateur leading professionals at a meeting of station and team leaders across the bureau. This accusation was a complete slap in the face and an insult that exposed his shortcomings.

In a more serious case, it's comparable to digging up ancestral graves!

The attendees were deeply moved. Zhang Anping was really seizing the opportunity to "catch a toad and squeeze out its dung"!

does it work?
It seems...really feasible!
This time, the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics has made a complete disgrace. It was an absolute disaster. If it weren't for the interference of the Public Opinion Committee, the local stations and groups would definitely have had the energy to take care of the underground party. They would have been able to catch wind of things. How could the current situation have turned out like this?

The chief of staff must be furious about this situation. The Bureau of Investigation and Statistics and the Bureau of Party Affairs will probably have to bear the wrath of the authorities this time. Zhang Anping's counterattack could very well wipe out Mao Renfeng and all the elders!

hiss--

After thinking it through, all the Secret Service officers present couldn't help but gasp in shock. This was going to be a decisive battle!

……

"Anping, a telegram has arrived from higher authorities, highly praising this propaganda campaign!"

After meeting Zhang Anping, Chai Ying, who had suppressed her excitement for several hours, excitedly relayed:
"The higher-ups said that the propaganda campaign we led this time was of strategic significance no less than annihilating hundreds of thousands of enemy troops—from now on, the Kuomintang will lose all popular support, and their foundation of rule will be completely shaken!"

"Comrade Anping, although your achievements cannot be revealed to the public for the time being, I believe that once they are declassified in the future, people will say that you, Zhang Anping, are worth an army of 100,000!"

Compared to Chai Ying, who was so excited she lost her composure, Zhang Anping appeared quite calm. He believed that the same thing would have happened even without him; he had simply brought forward the timing and made the scale a tiny bit larger.

Furthermore, his greatest contribution in this matter was merely to covertly provide the organization with a large amount of printing equipment through global trade.

Zhang Anping said with a rather serious expression:
"Comrade Chai Ying, remember, the success of this propaganda campaign was never the achievement of one person alone—it was the result of countless comrades in the liberated areas who secretly printed these materials day and night, the result of tens of thousands of frontline comrades who risked their lives to transport massive amounts of propaganda materials to the Kuomintang-controlled areas, and the result of countless comrades who completed the distribution of the propaganda materials right under the enemy's nose."

He wasn't just spouting empty rhetoric; he was deeply involved and experienced it firsthand.

This propaganda campaign was a resounding success, but what lies behind it?
At least thirty comrades sacrificed their lives during the transportation process;

During the distribution process, more than 100 people sacrificed their lives, and more than 400 underground party members, passionate students, workers, and progressive youths were arrested!

The propaganda campaign was a success, but Zhang Anping dared not claim all the credit for it.

Zhang Anping's composure impressed Chai Ying. Looking at the sadness on his face, she realized he was grieving for the comrades who had sacrificed their lives in the propaganda battle. She immediately became serious.

“Anping, don’t feel too much burden. They are just like us, sacrificing for their beliefs. I believe they will not be disappointed after seeing the results of this propaganda campaign.”

Zhang Anping forced a smile. He believed that those comrades who sacrificed themselves for their beliefs would not regret it, but he wanted the arrested comrades to see the day when the sun rose and the gloom that shrouded this land completely disappeared.

"Let's get down to business—" Zhang Anping suppressed his negative emotions:
"Have all our comrades completed the evacuation? The Bureau of Investigation and Statistics and the Bureau of Party Communications are going to go crazy now!"

"Yes, on the very day the propaganda campaign was a success, comrades in various locations organized the evacuation." Chai Ying smiled and said, "The evacuation was easier than we imagined. Several evacuation teams encountered Kuomintang patrols. The guerrillas responsible for providing cover were prepared to fight to the death, but unexpectedly, the Kuomintang simply pretended not to see them." This was the significance of this propaganda campaign—to let the soldiers and officials serving the Nationalist government see clearly this rotten regime and to make them abandon any illusions about this corrupt regime!

Very successful!
Zhang Anping also laughed, both pleased with the smooth evacuation and with the impending dramatic chemical reaction.

The people were struggling to survive, starving, the financial order was collapsing, and people's livelihoods were crumbling, while the top echelons of the Nationalist government easily pocketed hundreds of millions of US dollars.

Such a comparison will shatter everyone's last illusions!

Chai Ying asked, "What's our next task?"

"Let's go into a quiet period, but I need to add fuel to the fire on my end."

Chai Ying hesitated: "Should we add more fuel?"

Her intuition told her that Zhang Anping's "add fuel to the fire" most likely meant pouring gasoline into a raging fire—the unit being "train."

As expected, Zhang Anping said leisurely:

"Mao Renfeng has suffered a terrible defeat this time. If I don't help him out, he's definitely doomed. Secondly, what people are seeing now is the corruption and rot of the Nationalist government. I think there's still something missing."

"What's wrong?"

A strange and extremely bright light flashed in Zhang Anping's eyes: "Weakness."

weak?

Chai Ying suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Comrade Chai Ying, go see Comrade Lu Hanqing and have him pass on a message to Old Zheng..."

Zheng Yaoxian returned after the establishment of the Public Opinion Committee and even became its deputy director. After Mao Renfeng was hospitalized, Zheng Yaoxian was also hospitalized. Zhang Anping could not meet with him, so he could only pass on information to Zheng Yaoxian through Lu Hanqing and Zheng Yaoxian's wife, Cheng Zhen'er.

After hearing Zhang Anping's arrangements, Chai Ying was so shocked that her eyes almost popped out—without a doubt, she once again experienced the same fear and trepidation her husband had felt before.

Zhang Anping is truly capable of anything!
She looked at Zhang Anping with trepidation:
"Anping, is what you're doing... a safe bet?"

Zhang Anping deliberately said, "Don't worry, at worst I'll just 'defect' and join the Communists!"

Chai Ying was furious: "I'm talking to you about serious business!"

"How could I not know what's going on in my family? Last time, when our maid, Wu Ma, had a family emergency, she asked my mother for several years' worth of salary in advance to help her out. My mother searched high and low but couldn't raise enough money. It was only after Mo Yi pawned the bracelet I gave her that we finally managed to raise enough—do you think I'm scared?"

Chai Ying gasped, unable to believe that Zhang Anping's family had fallen to such a state. However, she certainly didn't doubt Zhang Anping's words and intended to approve some funding for him. Before she could even speak, Zhang Anping waved his hand dismissively.

“I have the money, but it doesn’t go through my family’s accounts. It’s all with Global Trade. Unless something happens to Global Trade, they won’t be able to trace it back to me.”

The scale of global trade has expanded many times over, and the dividends Zhang Anping received were also an astronomical figure. However, this money was either used to transport supplies to the liberated areas or invested in reproduction. Zhang Anping himself did not take a single penny. And when he was in his position, if he did not want to be greedy, no one dared to "hunt" him.

Of course, businessmen during the Nationalist government era didn't need to rack their brains to hunt for prey.

After weighing the options, Chai Ying instinctively leaned towards agreeing, but she was also worried that Zhang Anping might overstep his bounds.

Seeing her so conflicted, Zhang Anping smiled and said, "Don't worry, don't forget that the younger brother of the retired Japanese emperor is one of my partners. I'm confident I can handle things in the end!"

"At worst, just like I said, I can defect to the Communists. As the saying goes, once the thought of defecting to the Communists arises, one feels that the world is vast."

Zhang Anping's final joke broke Chai Ying's defenses.

The moment the thought of joining the Communist Party arises, one suddenly feels the vastness of the world.

"You...you better be careful, don't really mess things up!"

Zhang Anping smiled and said, "No way!"

……

Zheng Yaoxian, who was hospitalized, happily ate the hospital meal that Cheng Zhen'er brought him, thinking to himself:

Anping must be worried sick right now, right?

Why are you worried?
It's very simple. The Bureau of Investigation and Statistics is likely to be "bloodied" this time, and Zhang Anping is the only high-ranking official who is not involved. He has been favored by the Bureau for $4000 million. How can he not play a role at this time?

The thought of $4000 million made him both amused and furious. He was angry because only a mere few hundred thousand dollars of that money actually ended up in actual use. Even a glutton wouldn't dare to be so greedy!
Ironically, Zhang Anping was probably furious. He must have been certain that the chief attendant would actually use a significant portion of the money, but he clearly underestimated the chief attendant's indulgence of his wife. Since the money used to purchase the aircraft was used for investment, it's not hard to understand why this happened later.

It can only be said that when faced with national crisis, people's thoughts are ultimately different.

The abbot of that dilapidated temple is rich!

He was thinking too far ahead—he knew that Zhang Anping had been working hard and carefully maintaining the balance within the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, and even though he could easily crush Mao Renfeng, he would do his best to protect him.

To prevent him from becoming the biggest guy.

This time, Zhang Anping is probably doomed.

Although the situation was unfavorable, he couldn't help but laugh—if the Kuomintang wasn't eliminated soon, he would become the bureau chief.

Cheng Zhen'er saw her husband's forced smile, but assumed that he was happy and excited about this publicity campaign.

Come to think of it, her husband was clearly involved, but now he's hiding in the hospital with a bunch of spies, pretending to be sick, and they have to get together and sigh from time to time. It's understandable that he can relax a little in front of her now.

She then decided to tell her husband the message the organization had asked her to convey, so that he could be happy again.

“Yaoxian,” Cheng Zhen’er said in a low voice, “the organization has sent instructions to you and Mao Renfeng to suggest that you use foreigners to accuse Zhang Anping of large-scale embezzlement during the evacuation of Shanghai.”

Cheng Zhen'er didn't know Zhang Anping's identity, but she did know that Zhang Anping had organized the Shanghai evacuation. Furthermore, because of this propaganda campaign, she learned that Zhang Anping had quietly provided his chief of staff with a full forty million US dollars—

The 40 million US dollars that Zhang Anping offered was originally intended as working capital for the chief of staff, since the situation was difficult at the time and there were holes everywhere to fill.

But now everyone thinks:
This money was directly supplied by Zhang Anping to the chief attendant's private funds!

So, to put it another way, since Zhang Anping was willing to give 40 million US dollars to his chief of staff, how much of it did he embezzle?
In the eyes of most people who judge others by their own standards, Zhang Anping's ill-gotten gains are probably astronomical!

Zheng Yaoxian was shocked; Anping had made his move!
Holy crap, I was just watching the show, and then this guy turned around and used me as a bargaining chip!

He couldn't help but become serious, wondering if Zhang Anping would capsize in this situation.
Damn, what a load of crap!
This guy is extremely stingy; he probably really doesn't have any money. Could he possibly lose his job?
Compared to Chai Ying, Zheng Yaoxian clearly had more confidence in Zhang Anping—and once he realized that Zhang Anping wouldn't capsize, he immediately understood the brilliance of this move.

Zhang Anping was able to secretly hand over 40 million US dollars to the chief of staff, but he didn't get a single penny for himself. Compared to that, the chief of staff would probably be nailed to the pillar of shame!
Secondly, once Zhang Anping proves that he did not embezzle a single penny, how will people view the chief attendant who was abandoned as a pawn?

If even a loyal dog like Zhang Anping is abandoned, who would dare to repay this man as a national hero?
Huh?
Zheng Yaoxian's expression turned serious; he had realized the most crucial point:
What would it mean if the chief aide were to launch an investigation into Zhang Anping under pressure from foreign powers?
This means that the weakness of the Nationalist government will be completely exposed!

This is the most ruthless killing move!

Having just shown his corrupt and greedy side, he is now showing his vulnerable and weak side.

Well, all sorts of negative states are piling up!

Realizing this, Zheng Yaoxian couldn't help but think:
[Anping's heart is smaller than the eye of a pin! Chief Attendant, you dare to embezzle Anping's money? Now… you're probably going to cry!] (End of Chapter)