Chapter 547 Between Allies (First update, please subscribe)
Chang'an, every day starts with the same scenery.
When most people were still sleeping soundly in their dreams, a rising sun jumped over the distant horizon, coating the thick clouds covering the city with golden light, creating the illusion of clear weather, and then disappeared again Without a trace.
Frank laced up his running shoes and ran out of the embassy. Running towards the seaside facing the rising sun. Frank, who was born in the military, has a very regular personal life. He goes to the beach for jogging every morning to keep fit.
For Frank, this is his morning. Not much different from that president.
After finishing his run and returning to the embassy again, Frank took a hurried shower, dried himself, and hurriedly changed into clean casual clothes. As soon as he entered the hall above, he was stopped by a young man from Nanyang. These young people usually run errands and do some miscellaneous things here.
"Major Frank,"
the young man gasped,
"Mr. Coker wants you to go to his office immediately."
" Tell him I will be there when I get dressed.”
"At once, sir."
I don't know what it is.
Frank muttered to himself as he buttoned his shirt and tied his tie.
A few minutes later, Frank arrived at the ambassador's office on the fifth floor.
"Major!"
Ambassador Cork pointed to an upholstered armchair beside the large coffee table. He sat down in another chair and looked at his intelligence officer with bright eyes.
“Do you know about the state funeral two days ago? What do you think?”
The state funeral was held two days ago, not for Nanyang people, but for a German— - John Rabe, he died in the Army Hospital a few days ago. The grand state funeral was attended not only by the president and senior government officials, but also by many ordinary people who had benefited from him, and of course many Germans. Finally, John Rabe was buried in the Martyrs' Shrine in Chang'an.
Frank looked at the ambassador in front of him and said.
“On the surface, it seems that they are holding a state funeral for Mr. John Rabe to thank him for his good deeds in Jinling. In fact, this is fundamentally related to the strong pro-German atmosphere in Nanyang. As we all know, Germany is the third largest source of immigrants to Nanyang, but unlike Japanese labor brides, German immigrants are mostly skilled immigrants. They bring the knowledge and technology needed by Nanyang. German scholars are commonly found in various universities, Among enterprises, if we can trace the origin of the "Nanyang Miracle", it can be attributed to German immigrants."
As an intelligence officer at the embassy, Frank has a very clear understanding of Nanyang. Looking at Da Shi, he began his narration.
“With the post-war reconstruction of West Germany, coming to Nanyang to pan for gold or immigrating to Nanyang no longer has obvious advantages. It is inevitable that some Germans will have the idea of returning to Germany. Therefore, in order to win over German immigrants, they held a state funeral for Rabe. Of course, this is my personal opinion."
Kock made a gesture.
"Your view is a common view among the outside world. The "Nanyang Miracle" is equal to the "German Miracle". This is a common view among all walks of life. But is there anything else that needs to be added?"
< br>“In fact, I need to add something...”
Frank said when asked by the ambassador.
“War criminals, we don’t have a single war criminal here. Yes, to a certain extent, Nanyang is still a shelter for German war criminals, but this does not prevent them from advocating that no Japanese war criminal should be spared.”
Ambassador Cork sat there silently. At this time, his secretary came into the office with two cups of coffee, put them on the table and asked:
"Major, do you think this will work?" "
Frank smiled at her:
"Thank you, Miss Anne!"
"We don't care about this issue. The reason why I asked you about your views on state funerals is because things have changed."
In After the secretary left the office, Kirk said in a serious tone.
“What Washington is now concerned about is whether Nanyang, as our friend, will have a pro-Russian tendency. As we all know, Russia needs to import tens of thousands of tons of rubber every year. In the past few years, Nanyang has been importing tens of thousands of tons of rubber every year. Russia exports more than 70,000 tons of rubber, and also exports a large amount of cane sugar. With the implementation of the embargo, the losses to Nanyang will be very large. Will this lead them to Russia to a certain extent? "< br>
"Unless they're crazy!" Frank shook his head.
"Whether it is important to export rubber to Russia or to export products to the United States, Nanyang's senior officials have made it very clear."
"Indeed..."
This embassy The number one man pondered for a moment, just like Frank did just now, as if thinking about the next few steps of action. He picked up a stack of papers stapled together from the table and handed it to Frank:
“We don’t know how far they will implement the embargo, but according to Washington’s requirements, you need to communicate with the company’s We have to make sure that some people of German origin are in contact - they will not circumvent the ban and provide embargoed goods to the Russians, which of course includes Tangshan..."
"That's unlikely,"
Frank said straightforwardly.
“Since immigration stopped there, conflicts between them are inevitable, and they also involve hundreds of millions of dollars in railway equipment loans. For Nanyang, this loss is extremely heavy. , if it were not for the official capital injection of hundreds of millions of dollars to many banks, including the Bank of Borneo, these banks might even go bankrupt, and the negotiations between them in Hong Kong City also broke up. There is almost no possibility of any cooperation between them.”
“Frank,”
Ambassador Cork said.
"However, the UK has recognized them, and they will soon launch further negotiations. Not only are they members of the Commonwealth, but they are also members of the same nation. These are the factors we need."
"Damn Labor Party, sooner or later they will hand over Britain to the Russians."
Frank complained, looked up at Cole and said.
“I will strengthen work in this area.”
As he spoke, he slowly flipped through the list page by page. This list listed prominent Germans from all walks of life in Southeast Asia. People, from professors and academics to business executives, apparently the elite of German descent, put the list together, Frank said.
"Are these people we need to contact? They are not necessarily willing to help us."
"Frank, you have to exploit their hatred of the Russians. That is the most important thing, what we need They provide some information about transactions with the Russians, do you understand?"
Kok said in a calm tone,
"That's all, you can understand it as our concern for our allies? , of course without their knowledge.”
Facing the ambassador’s request, Frank felt an unprecedented pressure in his heart.
"But, sir, if the matter is exposed, it is likely to affect our relationship with them."
Frank frowned and said.
"We need their help for many matters in Southeast Asia. If things are exposed, it will be my turn to deal with this difficult situation, right?"
Koke said directly.
“Who else can get away with it? We’re all involved.”
"But,..."
Frank hesitated: This is the working situation in the intelligence circle. Even if Kirk says so now, once the incident occurs, this person will deny that he knows these situations. Then put all the blame on yourself. After all, this is a bad relationship with allies, and someone always needs to be responsible in the end.
In this case, there is no point in saying anything now.
"Sir, you know, I work in the military intelligence department and I am not suitable to handle this matter that has nothing to do with the military. The person you like most should be-Fox, he is from the intelligence agency People, they are the best at doing this kind of thing.”
Even in intelligence agencies, when there is possible danger, people will always choose to protect themselves first, and other things are not important... …
(End of this chapter)