Spy Wars: I can get rewards by being a bully!

Chapter 893 Wang Kemin is dead

Just when Dong Ling'er mustered up the courage and tried hard to be a good English confidential secretary, Lin Ze left Tianjin for Peking again.

A major event happened in Peiping. Wang Kemin, the leader of the traitors in North China and chairman of the Administrative Committee, suddenly died.

After Lin Ze learned the news, he rushed to Peiping immediately.

Before going to the headquarters, Lin Zexian had a secret meeting with Kitahara Ransuke.

In a secret room in the restaurant, Lin Ze asked, "Kitahara-kun, I saw that President Wang was in good health. How could he suddenly die? Is there something strange going on?"

Wang Kemin deserves to die. For the numerous crimes he committed, he deserves to be shot ten times.

But he died at a very bad time.

Now Lin Ze's control over the Governance Committee is getting deeper and deeper. After the game in the past few years, Chairman Wang's attitude towards Lin Ze has changed from fear to struggle to avoiding Lin Ze and finally to following his lead. It can be said that with Lin Ze's suppression of Chairman Wang, the Governance Committee, a traitorous organization, will not be able to cause any trouble, and Lin Ze can continuously obtain resources, intelligence and funds from the Governance Committee system.

Now that President Wang is dead, new changes have been brought to the originally stable situation, forcing Lin Ze to pay attention.

Kitahara Ransuke shook his head slightly when he heard this, lit a cigarette, and took a deep breath. "Don't mention it, it's really a scandal. Wang Kemin drank alcohol the night before yesterday, and then smoked two pipes of opium. I don't know if it got him into the mood or what, but he grabbed his 18 or 19-year-old male secretary... and then he suddenly had a stroke. The male secretary was scared and delayed, and he wasn't taken to the hospital until early yesterday morning. After such a long delay, even a god couldn't save him. He stopped breathing yesterday afternoon. After a symbolic resuscitation, he was finally pronounced dead."

Kitahara Ransuke flicked the ash from his cigarette and added, "That secretary has also been arrested. I personally interrogated him yesterday afternoon and used every possible means. There's nothing wrong with him. He's educated and handsome, which suits Wang Kemin's taste. That's why he was made a secretary. Wang Kemin had investigated him before, so he couldn't be a spy."

Lin Ze was speechless. Damn it, Old Wang, he was already an old man, but he was still playing so extravagantly. Now he had played himself to death.

If I had known this would happen, I would have tortured him before killing him. Maybe I could have gotten a lot of rewards!

"What does the General say?"

"The General also attaches great importance to this. Wang has been working for us since five years ago and was even received by His Majesty the Emperor. He plays a very important role in stabilizing the situation in North China. Now the General is concerned about three things. The first is how to define this matter. He is in good health. If he dies suddenly of illness, the headquarters will definitely send people to investigate. The cabinet may also intervene, which will cause trouble again.

The second is how to hold a funeral for him and what standards should be used to treat him. A few years ago, the headquarters instructed the establishment of the North China Administrative Committee, which was actually designed according to the standards of Manchukuo. However, Nanjing later gained power and the matter was shelved, so the funeral standards needed to be discussed.

The third question is, who will take over the position of chairman of the Governing Committee?"

The first two things are actually trivial matters. The person is dead. As for how he died and what to do after he died, he is dead anyway. As long as there is a reasonable reason, there is no need to be afraid of investigation.

The only big problem is who will be the president.

The chairman of the administrative committee is a very important position. Not only are various forces in North China eyeing it covetously, but Wang Tianhai of Jinling has always wanted to unify the martial arts world. This time, Jinling must have some ideas as well.

As for the base camp, who knows if there is any old devil who wants to arrange his own people?

Kitahara Ransuke seemed to be staying out of the matter. He was focused on being his spy chief. It didn't matter to him who would become the chairman of the North China Administrative Committee. Now was the critical moment for him to win Okamura's trust and favor, and he would not interfere in such a sensitive issue.

"Mr. Lin, why don't you become the president?"

Kitahara Ransuke was joking, he knew that Lin Ze would not be the president.

The main reason was that their interests were different. When he was the commander-in-chief of the Tianjin Military Police Headquarters, the Japanese, from General Okamura to ordinary soldiers, all treated Lin Ze as one of their own.

But when did they ever consider Wang Kemin as one of their own?

The reason why Lin Ze could frequently "rebel against his superiors" in the Administrative Committee was because all the previous commanders of the front felt that the gendarmerie headquarters was internal and the Administrative Committee was external.

So when there is a conflict between Lin Ze and the Administrative Committee, it goes without saying whose side they will stand on.

In addition to this reason, another point is that being the chairman of the board of directors is too big a goal.

If there are a hundred people who want Lin Ze dead, then there may be a hundred thousand people who want Wang Kemin dead. If you are the leader of the traitors, you must be prepared to be infamous for eternity.

This kind of position, which attracts too much attention and is in the newspapers all day long, is really not conducive to obtaining intelligence.

For example, Lin Ze worked in the Military Police Headquarters and directly controlled various newspapers. News about Mr. Lin had to get his approval before it could be published. Most of the time, the description was based on the Military Police Headquarters, and rarely involved Lin Ze himself directly.

Lin Ze has already started to think about who will take over this position that will be most beneficial to him?

That afternoon, Okamura summoned Hayashizawa.

"Lin Sang, you are very resourceful. Tell me, who is the right person to take over?"

"It is naturally appropriate to let someone loyal to the General take over."

Okamura laughed and said, "When did you become so cunning? This is all for the cause of the Empire. There's no such thing as loyalty. If there's any loyalty, it's loyalty to the Empire and to His Majesty the Emperor."

Lin Ze said seriously, "General, I'm not saying this to please you. If we want to consider the cause of the empire, we must find someone who is loyal to you. Please think about the current situation in North China."

Okamura also became serious, "Lin-san, what's the situation?"

"General, with all due respect, this is a precarious situation! The original vision of the headquarters was to achieve the same level of security and safety in North China as in Manchuria, providing a steady supply of resources for the Empire and thus serving as a bridgehead for the southward offensive. But now, although Beijing and Tianjin are impregnable under your administration, guerrillas from the Taihang Mountains are rampant in the south, harassing county towns. This has prevented the Imperial Army from marching into the countryside, forcing them to maintain a symbolic garrison.

The Southern Army still occupied southern Henan, which prevented the Imperial Army's northern and southern fronts from connecting. To the west, the Pingxi base was right under our noses. When we advanced, they retreated, and when we left, they came back.

Although the entire Shanxi Province had been conquered, there were guerrillas in the southeastern part of Shanxi, a large army from the South was pressing in from the south, crossing the river to harass the area from time to time, and the northwestern part of Shanxi was constantly being watched by the Red Zone.

Looking further east, the Eighth Route Army has entered Shandong Province!

Your Excellency, General, isn't this a precarious situation?