In 1948, our army shifted from strategic defense to strategy, and Zhou Gong assigned members of the Shanghai underground organization to leave some people, and sent Pan Hannian, Hua Kezhi and other backbones to Hong Kong Island to establish the South China Intelligence Bureau, which was responsible for collecting war intelligence.
Walker's activities on Hong Kong Island are very secretive, and only a few people know about his whereabouts. One night, when it was drizzling in the sky, Pan Hannian knocked on Walker's door and said, "I have important matters to discuss with you. ”
Hua Kezhi replied with a smile: "Of course, you have nothing to do but ascend the Three Treasures Palace, please say, what is the task?" ”
Pan Hannian said: "Under the current situation, the battlefield has shifted from the liberated areas to the nationalized areas. In order to guide operations and deepen the understanding of the national control area, the organization needs a set of accurate military maps of the national control area.
These maps were not available in the liberated areas, and the Japanese army had produced a military map of 1/25,000 during the invasion of China, which was handed over to Chiang's army after the surrender of the Japanese army. ”
Hua Kezhi responded: "You mean, we need to find clues to the map within Chiang's army?" ”
Hua Kezhi's Pan Hannian nodded in agreement, he said: "Finding the military map of the Japanese army is a crucial task, and the South China Branch must be found by the superiors. At the precinct meeting, it was agreed that you were the most suitable person.
You are calm and calm, and you have connections in Chiang's army, and you have dealt with them for a long time, and you have successfully completed a number of dangerous missions. Therefore, we have decided to give this task to you. ”
I will do my best to complete the task. To which department were these maps finally handed over? "It's Chiang's Ministry of Defense. Hua Kezhi thought for a while, and then said: "I know a person from Jiang Jun Rongjun***, I can ask him for help." ”
A few days later, Walkers arrived in Shanghai by plane and drove to the Fuxing Hotel on Xiafei Road. He made an appointment here to have dinner with Chen Guangbin, the dean of the Invalids.
As soon as he sat down, he saw a young officer in a military uniform walk into the hotel, looked around, and shouted: "Brother Hua, Brother Hua!" Walkers stood up to greet each other, and the two shook hands tightly.
Hua Kezhi smiled and said: "My brother has now been promoted to a major general, and his future is limitless!" ”
Don't worry, I have a way. Chen Guangbin then went to Nanjing, asked his students for help, and managed to get a large bundle of 25,000 military maps, which he then returned to Shanghai and handed over to Hua Kezhi.
When you open a map, the distances between the city and the countryside, valleys, and mounds are clearly marked in Japanese, and they are indeed accurate.
Walkers faced a dilemma: how to transport some military maps from Chinese mainland to Hong Kong Island? Chiang's guards were very tight, and both the customs and the post office would carry out detailed inspections of the goods being transported, and the map could not pass through without special passages.
Hua Kezhi decided to ask a friend for help, his friend Ji Chang's ancestor dealt with foreigners and was relatively mobile. Hua Kezhi believed that Ji Chang could help him solve this problem, so he decided to tell Ji Chang straight to the point.
Walkers invited Ji Chang to his room, pointed to a bundle of maps and said, "This is the map I got from the Ministry of National Defense, and I need to send them to Hong Kong Island." Now that the wind outside is tight, no matter which pass it is, it must be strictly inspected, do you think there is any special way to send it out? ”
Ji Chang said: "I want to think about it. After pondering for a while, Ji Chang said: "By taking the ordinary way, it is impossible for this map to be sent out of Shanghai." It seems that the ambassador can only be borrowed. According to international law, mail from embassies of various countries abroad can be transported by the signature of the ambassador of that country, and the institutions of the host country do not have the right to dismantle and inspect them.
If you use this embassy pouch, you can avoid all inspections. Walkers said, "It's a good idea. There is just a problem, after the things are sent to Hong Kong Island, it will be very troublesome for the consulate staff to open and look at them. ”
Ji Chang said lightly: "This is not a problem, Lu Jun, a consul in Hong Kong, is my friend." Just put my name on the pouch and he won't open it. Walkers asked, "How can I get an ambassador to be willing to send a mail bag?" ”
Ji Chang said: "What are the ambassadors interested in? We can start with that. Hua Kezhi said: "The ambassador is keen on literature and art and is interested in international affairs. ”
Therefore, Walkers decided to take advantage of the ambassador's interest in literature and art and use a precious work of art as a "gift" in the mail bag, so that the ambassador would be willing to send the mail bag.
Eventually, the puzzle was solved, and Walkers succeeded in delivering the military map to Hong Kong Island.
Ji Chang suggested to Hua Kezhi that he could negotiate with the ambassador about the export of Longjing tea, because Chinese Longjing tea is very popular in Europe. Walkers agreed, and said that he wanted to work with the ambassador to open a tea plantation in Europe to attract the ambassador's attention.
However, Hua Kezhi said that he knew nothing about tea planting and operation, and Ji Chang suggested that he could study, and took out a bunch of books related to Longjing tea planting and management, saying that their family had dealt with foreigners for generations and understood that foreigners liked Longjing tea.
Hua Kezhi has mastered the basics of tea and can talk about Longjing tea with ease in a few days. Ji Chang asked some questions about tea, and Hua Kezhi's answer was accurate.
Ji Chang said: "With your level, it should be no problem to be a tea grower." ”
Mr. and Mrs. Hua Kezhi introduced their Longjing Tea project to the Ambassador through Ji Chang, and the Ambassador expressed great interest in it and hoped to meet Hua Kezhi in person. As a sign of respect, Hua Kezhi decided to go under the pseudonym Zhang Songnan and visit the ambassador with Ji Chang.
During the meeting, the ambassador asked Hua Kezhi why he chose to grow Longjing tea in Europe. Hua Kezhi was well prepared for this, and he calmly explained that although the production conditions of Longjing tea in Hangzhou were very good, he thought that it would be safer to leave his hometown in the face of continuous domestic war.
Ji Chang added that because Hua Kezhi had been ostracized by Chiang's army, he was worried that the PLA would adopt a policy of suppression of big capitalists after its arrival, so he chose to move his industry to Europe.
For Ambassador Walker, cooperating in the cultivation of Longjing tea is a mutually beneficial thing. Hua Kezhi said that Longjing tea has always been selling well in Europe, and if we can work with the ambassador to choose a suitable place to grow Longjing tea and sell it freely, it will be very beneficial to both parties.
The ambassador felt that it made sense, and had Ji Chang's guarantee, so he agreed to cooperate with Hua Kezhi to plant Longjing tea. During the dinner, Hua Kezhi and the ambassador discussed various topics of tea, and the ambassador was very interested in it and nodded frequently.
They also talked about literature and literature together, and Walkers praised the ambassador for his breadth of knowledge. The three of them had been talking very happily throughout the evening.
However, when talking about how to bring the information on the cultivation of Longjing tea to Europe, Hua Kezhi said that he encountered difficulties. Because the customs inspection did not pass, saying that the state has restrictions on the export of materials for planting Longjing tea, he feels that this problem is a little difficult.
Walker's and Ji Chang's successful delivery of military maps to the Consulate on Hong Kong Island safely played an important role in the liberation of the battlefield, and Walker's efforts once again made an important contribution to intelligence work.
They used to ship the map in batches, wrapped in layers of wax paper, white cloth, etc., and then sewn and sealed with fine needles to ensure the safety of the map. At the same time, they clearly wrote on the mail bag the English instructions asking Lu Jun to forward Zhang Songnan.
Hua Kezhi's wisdom and prudence made Pan Hannian very happy, and even praised him for his strength, and immediately sent someone to deliver the map to his superiors.