Spy War: I am the Living King of Hell

Chapter 231 Antiquities Dealer
If Yang Xuewu knew the boatman's thoughts, he would definitely answer the boatman that he would not join the Red Party. He was willing to help the Red Party, but joining the Red Party was impossible.

He has become accustomed to being self-directed. If he joins the Red Party, it means obeying orders. He cannot stand restraint, so his current state is the most suitable for him.

The death of the drunkard on the other side caused great harm to Miyamoto Ichiro. The agent who instigated the rebellion was assassinated in front of his face. This was really too shameful.

However, Miyamoto Ichiro still had a sense of luck, that is, the drunkard told him how to communicate with the painter, and he wanted to use this clue to realize another conspiracy of his.

Miyamoto Ichiro had a very good idea, that is, to have people pretend to be drunkards, and then wait for an opportunity to break into the Shanghai Red Party and uproot the Shanghai Red Party.

Because the underground party in Shanghai definitely didn’t know the appearance of the drunkard. The reason why he knew about the drunkard’s coming to Shanghai was because the special high school had a traitor in the red party’s secret agent headquarters. The news about the drunkard’s coming to Shanghai was that the special high class had infiltrated the red party secret agent headquarters. It came from the traitor.

But Miyamoto Ichiro didn't know that the news of the drunkard's rebellion had been told to the Shanghai Red Party by Yang Xuewu. When Miyamoto Ichiro published the joint code in the newspaper, the red party immediately concluded that the drunkard had rebelled.

That night, the old fox came to the boatman again. This time the boatman was very happy to see the old fox arriving, because the appearance of the joint code allowed the Shanghai Red Party to confirm the news of the drunkard's rebellion, and also confirmed the authenticity of the information brought by the old fox. .

"Boatman, have you seen the drunkard's connection code?" the old fox asked excitedly.

"I see, old fox, the information you brought is true.

Moreover, my superiors called me back and said that the news about the drunkard coming to Shanghai was leaked from the headquarters. The headquarters had found out the traitor who leaked the information. The superiors called us to praise us and said that we had done a good job. "

Hearing this, a smile appeared on the old fox's face. For him, being praised by his superiors made him happier than receiving awards for meritorious service.

Then the old fox asked: "Boatman, does your superiors have any instructions on the identity of the person who sent the information?"

"Instructions were given. The superior called back and said that the other party is probably not one of our own. The other party is most likely a neutral person who has a good impression of our party. Moreover, the superior judged that this person is probably also an agent, and a White Party agent."

"White agent!" the old fox exclaimed.

"Yes, I think the superior's judgment is reasonable. Since the other party is not one of our own, but he can know your identity and obtain such important information, then his identity must be an agent. Agents from other countries will definitely not Send us information, so the identity of the other party is very likely to be a White Party agent. "

Hearing this, the old fox frowned. He felt that the superior's judgment was a bit unreliable, but the old fox did not refute it. Everything now was just speculation, and no one knew who the person who sent the information was.

Little did he know that the judgment of the Red Party Secret Service Headquarters was very correct. If Yang Xuewu knew about it, he would probably feel chills running down his spine. The Red Party actually relied on guesswork to determine his identity.

"Old fox, my superiors have judged that the other party may send you information in the future, so you have to protect your own safety. With the other party's ability, if he sends us information again, it may be very important information, which is very important to us. "

"Had it not been for the intelligence sent by the other party this time, our entire Shanghai underground party would have been in danger of overthrowing."

Hearing this, the old fox nodded, which he quite agreed with.

"Boatman, I understand and I will protect my own safety."

"Well, our superiors have also instructed us that since the other party is unwilling to reveal their identity, we should not contact them. If we contact them rashly, it is likely to arouse the other party's vigilance. This will not be worth the gain."

"Boatman, I understand. Besides, I can't contact the other party. Judging from the way the other party acted last time, he has no intention of showing up at all."

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On the other hand, Yang Xuewu, who helped the Red Party deal with the traitors, resumed his life. While guiding the "Anti-Japanese Anti-Japanese Anti-Traitor Team" to eliminate the traitors, he also used Chu Xin's manpower to lay an intelligence network in Shanghai.

For some little traitors, Yang Xuewu asked Xiao Hui and others to do it themselves. Only when they couldn't deal with the traitors would they ask Yang Xuewu for help. After several months of training, Xiao Hui and the others became more and more mature, and some little traitors did not use it at all. If Yang Xuewu takes action, they can complete the task of picking off the rapist cleanly, which makes Yang Xuewu very happy.

Although these little traitors cannot affect the overall situation, they have done a lot of evil. To ordinary people, the harm of these little traitors may be even more heinous than that of big traitors.

Big traitors are generally associated with betraying the country and seeking glory, while small traitors are associated with plundering people's wealth and oppressing good people.

As young traitors continued to be killed, the traitors in Shanghai were all in danger, fearing that one day the "Sword of Damocles" would strike on their heads.

This even caused panic. The traitors appealed one after another, hoping that the Japanese would take action. However, there were too many traitors in Shanghai, and the Japanese could not protect them at all. In addition, Xiaohui and his companions had small targets and strong maneuverability, which made them vulnerable to the Japanese. Caused great trouble.

That day Yang Xuewu came to Fengwei Tower and Chu Xin told him a piece of news.

"Xuewu, didn't you ask me to help you find out about antiques? In the past two days, one of my girls met a Japanese businessman named Nishi Ryousuke. He is in the antique business. I think you can check him out. "

"Oh, tell me in detail." Yang Xuewu was very interested in this matter. Ever since he obtained a lot of antiques from the Chen family and his son last time, Yang Xuewu had become interested in antiques and asked Chu Xin to help find out. After hearing the news, I didn’t expect it would actually be fruitful.

According to later statistics, the Japanese plundered millions of cultural relics and antiques from our country in modern times, including the "Yobian Tianmu Zhan" of the Song Dynasty, Wang Xizhi's original "Sangluan Tie", "Tiger Cannibalism" and other rare national treasures.

Although Yang Xuewu cannot completely stop the Japanese plundering of cultural relics in China, he can protect as much as he can. Once our cultural relics are transported to Japan by the Japanese, they may never come back.

Of course, this is not absolute. If Yang Xuewu can survive until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he will inevitably go to Japan several times in the future, wreak havoc in Japan, and then take back all our national treasures stored in Japanese museums.

The Japanese help keep the national treasure, and when the time comes, he goes to get it back, which is very reasonable.

After listening to Chu Xin's story, Yang Xuewu decided to personally check out this Japanese antique dealer named Nishi Ryousuke.

Moreover, Yang Xuewu felt that this antique dealer named Nishi Ryousuke must be more than just an antique dealer. The Japanese had a clear plan to plunder Chinese cultural relics, and Nishi Ryosuke may be one of the executors of this plan. As we all know, the Japanese were slaves of China in the past. This is not nonsense, but there is real evidence. The "Golden Seal of the Japanese Nu King" unearthed in Japan can prove this, and it is recorded in various historical materials.

Although Japan has become stronger in other countries in modern times, their country does not have such a deep cultural culture to support them in becoming a great power. Therefore, by robbing Chinese cultural relics, they want to shamelessly appropriate Chinese culture as their own.

This is like the Korean Bangzi of later generations. They can even regard kimchi as a treasure, but insist that the whole world belongs to them.

The next morning, Yang Xuewu found Xi Liangsuke based on the information provided by Chu Xin.

According to Chu Xin's information, Xi Liangjie has contacts with many cultural relic dealers in Shanghai. The largest cultural relic dealer among them is Lu Qingzhai.

This Lu Qingzhai is not a simple person. He can be said to be the largest cultural relics dealer in modern China. Lu Qingzhai was born in 1880. He lost his father when he was young. He was first fostered in the home of his distant cousin, and later worked as a servant in the Zhang family in Nanxun.

The eldest young master of the Zhang family in Nanxun was Zhang Jingjiang, one of the four elders of the White Party. Relying on Zhang Jingjiang's support and Lu Qingzhai's own talent in antiques, he soon became an expert in the antiques field.

Taking advantage of the collapse of the Qing government, the ancient treasures in the Forbidden City were lost overseas. Lu Qingzhai relied on his ability to identify Chinese cultural relics and successfully purchased many ancient and rare treasures at low prices, sold them to the European market, and made a lot of money.

Gradually, Lu Qingzhai became a renowned connoisseur of Chinese antiques and a celebrity among European Chinese.

According to later estimates by people in the Chinese antique industry, about half of the Chinese antiques lost overseas were sold through the hands of Lu Qingzhai. Among them, "Sa Lu Zi" and "Fist Mao Jun" among the Six Horses of Zhaoling The most famous one was sold to an American museum by Lu Qingzhai.

Lu Qingzhai smuggled and sold countless pre-Ming statues, stone carvings, bronzes, and jades throughout his life, a large number of which came from the stolen tombs of emperors of all dynasties. Lu Qingzhai caused immeasurable losses to Chinese culture, archeology, and cultural relic identification. !

He later admitted that he had caused many national treasures to escape overseas, but he also felt lucky that these national treasures had avoided war.

There are a thousand opinions on this statement. Some people think he did the right thing. If he had not sold the cultural relics abroad, many cultural relics might have been damaged in the war. Some people think he did the wrong thing and looted. They stole Chinese cultural relics and caused a large-scale outflow of cultural relics from the motherland. They are sinners of the nation.

After Yang Xuewu learned about this man's story, he scorned him because Lu Qingzhai had always adhered to the view that "art has no borders" throughout his life.

In his opinion, this bullshit "art without borders" is clearly Lu Qingzhai's excuse to make money for himself. Yang Xuewu very much agrees with President Zheng Qiang's speech about "science without borders". I don't know. You can go and have a look.

As a saying goes, "Without buying and selling, there is no killing." If cultural relic dealers such as Lu Qingzhai did not make profits from the motherland's cultural relics, activities such as smuggling cultural relics and tomb robbing would not be so rampant. In this way, many cultural relics may still be How could it be lost abroad if it was buried underground.

Of course, this statement is somewhat one-sided, but no matter how one-sided, it cannot hide that Lu Qingzhai is an out-and-out thief of cultural relics of the motherland.

Some people say that Lu Qingzhai made his fortune by being "traitorous", but he was generous and "patriotic". After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he donated money to the White Party's anti-Japanese resistance many times. Yang Xuewu strongly disagreed with this patriotic behavior.

He would rather the country's things be destroyed on his own land than the things left by his ancestors to be scattered overseas and become the capital of other countries to show off to China in later generations.

So he decided to get rid of Lu Qingzhai. This kind of person did more damage to the cultural relics of the motherland than he contributed.

During the few days that Yang Xuewu followed Xi Liangjie, Yang Xuewu saw that Xi Liangjie came into contact with many cultural relic dealers, including Lu Qingzhai.

Yang Xuewu made a list of them one by one. These people are all the people he may want to eliminate.

During this period, Nishi Ryousuke received dozens of valuable cultural relics, some of which he bought with money, and some of which he robbed through traitors. Because he was interested in some cultural relics, it did not mean that the cultural relic dealers would sell them to him. Nishi Ryousuke would ask the traitors for help, and let them help him rob, and finally pocket the cultural relics he was interested in.

On the eighth day when Yang Xuewu followed Nishi Ryousuke, Yang Xuewu saw Nishi Ryousuke loading the cultural relics he received into a truck and delivering them to the warehouse of Mitsubishi Corporation.

Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsui Trading Company, which Yang Xuewu had robbed of arms before, were both large trading houses in Japan and were responsible for the storage and transshipment of Japanese goods.

Mitsubishi Corporation's warehouse is located near the bank of the Huangpu River, near a dock occupied by the Japanese.

Mitsubishi Matheson was very tightly guarded, with Japanese soldiers acting as sentries, with one post every five steps and one sentry every ten steps. It was a fantasy for ordinary people to enter Mitsubishi Matheson, but it was not impossible for Yang Xuewu.

Although Mitsubishi Corporation's strict sentry sent him a lot of trouble, as long as he looked carefully, he would always find a way to enter the warehouse.

In the next three days, Yang Xuewu kept observing the situation in Mitsubishi Matheson's warehouse. After making all preparations, on a dark and windy night, Yang Xuewu quietly sneaked into Mitsubishi Matheson's warehouse.

Mitsubishi Corporation has many warehouses, but one of them is particularly valued by the Japanese guards. The antiques shipped by Nishi Ryousuke are placed in this warehouse, so Yang Xuewu has also been observing this warehouse in the past few days.

After entering the warehouse, Yang Xuewu hid and did not take action. He was waiting for the right time. The Japanese guards inspected the warehouse very strictly, giving Yang Xuewu very little time to act.

According to what Yang Xuewu observed in the past three days, in addition to the normal Japanese guards at the gate, the Japanese army would patrol the warehouse every hour. However, this was not without flaws. In the first half of the night, during the inspection, the Japanese army He will be more careful, but in the second half of the night when he is dozing off, the Japanese guards will relax a lot, and this is his opportunity.

Time passed by, and when the time came to three o'clock in the morning, after the Japanese guards left for inspection, Yang Xuewu immediately launched into action.

But what made Yang Xuewu uncomfortable was that he spent an hour but failed to open the lock of the warehouse. This was because Yang Xuewu was not good at studying and partly because the lock of this warehouse was specially made by a kid.

As a last resort, Yang Xuewu could only leave temporarily. On the way home from the warehouse, Yang Xuewu made a deep reflection. This action was due to his lack of preparation, or it could be said that he was too arrogant, knowing that the Japanese valued this warehouse very much. , but I didn’t expect that the Japanese would make a fuss about the lock of this warehouse.

However, Yang Xuewu was not discouraged. A lock could not stop him. Since he could not open the lock himself, he had to get the key.

(End of this chapter)