The relationship between them is expounded many times in the play.
They come from the same town. After becoming an orphan, he was raised by Tan's parents. Tan's mother regards him as her adopted son, so she also calls Tan's mother her mother. Later, they were admitted to Huangpu Military Academy at the same time. After graduation, I worked in the 57th Division of the Kuomintang. Liu saved Tan's life on the battlefield. In the battle of Changde, the two entered the death list and then entered the so-called eight innings.
Tan Zhongshu did three things in the play:
The first is the Trojan Horse Project.
Closed training of 300 latent agents on the island, as a latent new force after the defeat of the Kuomintang. Li Bohan, the director of operations, is in charge of this plan, and others have no right to ask.
The second is Operation Moses.
Entering the club of shipping tycoon Zhuang Yunqing from Liu Xinjie, with chess and cards as the cover, aims to control a batch of drugs that Zhuang Yunqing bought from the United States so as not to fall into * * *.
The third is to catch "sailors."
The purpose is to crack down on our underground party organization headed by the "sailor" section. Led by intelligence director Zipperling and telecom director Sun Dapu.
In addition, there is a medical director Ma who plays a supporting role.
Because the traitor Qin betrayed him one day, Tan Zhongshu learned that there was an undercover of our party lurking around him. To this end, Tan Zhongshu secretly arranged five directors to check and balance each other. So he staged a drama similar to that of the stationmaster Wu Jingzhong and his cronies Yu Zecheng in Latent, and started an infighting among spies.
Through reverse investigation, Sun Dapu found that the informer who killed the traitor Qin Youtian called Liu Xinjie's home and handcuffed Liu Xinjie.
Strangely, instead of reporting to director Tan Zhongshu, he found Zipperling.
Zipperling came and just asked about the situation, but Liu Xinjie broke away from the handcuffs and put them in handcuffs.
That night, when Qian Yu called, it happened that Ma was drinking at his house. He drank too much and fell asleep, knowing nothing about the telephone.
And the horse escaped.
Call someone's home in the middle of the night and report the person you are looking for. Sun Dapu and Zipperling actually believed this argument. And keep such an important clue from director Tan Zhongshu.
Li Bohan arrested Liu Xinjie's girlfriend, who is actually Gu Yejia of my underground party. Liu Xinjie came, stunned and rescued Gu.
Why didn't Liu Xinjie kill Li Bohan? There is no explanation in the play.
There are only two reasons: First, it is too late to kill or think that Li Bohan is dead. The second is to deliberately not kill, leaving a way out for yourself. In either case, it is an established fact that Liu Xinjie hangs out with * * * people and touches his colleagues.
The next day, Li Bohan's head was bandaged, and Zeppelin surrounded Liu Xinjie's car with a large number of spies. Gu in the car was forced to escape from the encirclement as a hostage with a gun, and the sniper upstairs shot Gu.
If, before this, Gu's identity has yet to be ascertained, then Gu's hijacking with a gun should show her identity.
Somehow, Li Bohan gave up chasing, and only Zeppelin caught up. At this critical moment, Liu Gu and his wife can still talk about their hearts until Gu Yejia died and Liu Xinjie buried her again.
When the spies arrived at the scene, Liu Xinjie had disappeared, leaving only Liu Xinjie's car without oil and a towering new grave.
Zipperling opened a new grave where Gu was buried.
At this point, the question is:
If he is undercover, it is understandable that he buried Gu, but his undercover identity has been exposed.
If you are a Kuomintang spy, how can you bury your girlfriend and run away with a gun?
So it is difficult for immortals to understand this operation.
At the end of the story, before the sailor was arrested and committed suicide, he identified Liu Xinjie as undercover.
Li, a spy who sneaked into the liberated areas, fled back and reported that he was undercover.
Sailor identification is really a counter-measure, aiming at mixing water and diverting the enemy's sight.
But the words of the latent spy Li are also considered to be false.
Tan Zhongshu, Zeppelin and Sun Dapu unanimously concluded that this was "Jiang Gan stealing books" in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
It is considered that those who publicly reported that Gu escaped were cheated by * * *.
In other words, Liu Xinjie has confronted the spy, but he is still regarded as one of his own.
Finally, Tan Zhongshu was suspended. MI8 was revoked, and the ninth bureau preparatory group was established, with Li Bohan as acting director.
Tan Zhongshu, Zeppelin and Sun Dapu kidnapped Ouyang, the deputy official of the Ministry of Justice who came to co-manage the eighth inning, and decided that it was undercover who had been suspected all along and used Ding San to get rid of it.
And the Trojan horse plan initiated by Li Bohan was also declared invalid-note that this latent plan, which took more than a year to form in island closed training, was declared invalid by the enemy himself.
Therefore, Tan Zhongshu was reinstated and gave Liu Xinjie the news of the meeting in the newspaper. Liu Xinjie swaggered back to the station to work again.
The play also designed a unique feature for Liu Xinjie: he suffered brain injury, which made him deaf and forgetful. For this reason, I put a flat hip flask in my pocket, and I took it out for a drink when I had something to do, pretending to be a semi-disabled person.
Whether drinking can cure the disease or not, it is a high-risk business that needs careful thinking and resourceful mind. Liu Xinjie's illness is undoubtedly a taboo for spies. This is obviously used to confuse the enemy's illusion, in order to alleviate the enemy's suspicion of him.
The reason for this conclusion is that he has not been affected by this disease in his high-risk spy career.
But it is puzzling that he not only took out his hip flask to drink in front of his enemies, but also took it out when no one was around, even when he was alone in the middle of the night. Who is this for? It is such a deaf and forgetful semi-disabled person who can also play chess with chess masters Zhuang Yunqing and Duan. That's a job that requires a high degree of brain power.
There is a conventional logic in the play: if there is a gun hanging on the wall, you must shoot it before the end of the play. This characteristic of Liu Xinjie, whether true or not, and what it is used for, is hard to justify.
What's the point of adding a plot for fun?
More interestingly,
At the end of the play, Tan Zhongshu personally presented a bunch of flowers to the sailor's tomb and stood up to salute Liu Xinjie.
Tan and Liu had the following conversation:
Tan: It's over. It's over. The sailor was right. I have no confidence in all this.
Liu: How can people live without faith?
Tan: What about your faith?
Liu: Yes.
Tan: I know you have it, and I will find it, too. Don't forget what I told you, it's your choice to go or stay. If he can come back, just carve the word sailor on his tombstone and he should be remembered.
Liu: Who will remember him?
Tan: Country, nation.
Tan: You go ahead.
Liu: Goodbye!
Tan: Goodbye!
What does this ending mean?
Tan Zhongshu paid homage to the * * * people who committed suicide and let the living * * * agents go. Is it because Tan Zhongshu, the spy chief of our underground party, wants to put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha?
You know, the famous * * * people he ordered to kill were all rich, such as Zhou Hanting, Bian Rinan, Duan (sailor), Mrs. Duan, Zheng, Bi Yuhai and Shen. And he personally supervised and poisoned 26 people who were arrested and imprisoned with poison gas. Although these 26 people were replaced by other bodies by Liu Xinjie, Tan Zhongshu already believed that the massacre was successful.
Such an executioner with revolutionary blood on his hands suddenly found his conscience and became a good man!
The director was probably worried that the audience couldn't understand it, so he specially marked a subtitle at the end of the play:
Tan Zhongshu left Shanghai for Taiwan Province Province on 1949 and was immediately detained. His exam lasted for three years. After their release, Tan Zhongshu's family lived in Taipei until their death in 1980. In fact, he never really regained his freedom.
Liu Xinjie returned to the Liberated Area at the end of 1949 and recovered his identity-No.031. The Central Military Commission awarded him the Third Class Red Star Medal in recognition of his outstanding struggle behind enemy lines.
Note that Tan Zhongshu, as the most heinous spy chief, did not escape, retreat, retreat or threaten, but left Shanghai for Taiwan Province Province. He is a tourist. Did he leave Shanghai for Taiwan Province Province? Isn't it obvious what this ambiguous text wants to convey?
Tan Zhongshu was detained for examination only because he released Liu Xinjie. What is the crime of letting the undercover go on purpose? However, the Kuomintang released him and let him die well. Do Kuomintang agents in Taiwan Province Province also sympathize? ......
On the mainland, Liu Xinjie made his identity public and was recognized by the public.
Even more puzzling is the last line:
Tan Zhongshu and Liu Xinjie, two brothers, have never met in their lives.
Is this description a pity for their brotherhood?
In a word, this so-called spy war drama, which can be compared with Cliff and Lurking, can be regarded as a lively and enjoyable pastime. But if you analyze it a little, you will find that the logic inside is chaotic and you don't know what to show!