Without news of Zhang Shaoquan's visit, Hu Chunpu could not get news from Pei Zhijiu. Huang Jilu was worried that Zhang's quality was too low and decided to send a capable person to assist in the work. He wrote to Hu Chunpu, asking him to go to Sichuan to take charge of the political work of Zhang Shaoquan's department, and kindly sent the travel expenses, a letter to Zhang Shaoquan and a press card of Hong Kong's Transcendental Newspaper while Hu Chunpu made public his identity. Before leaving, Hu Chun met his superiors for the first time through ordinary contacts. Hu Chunpu remembers that it was a secret building in the French Concession. After knocking at the door in secret, a comrade took him by the hand, took him to a spacious hall and walked away. The person in charge in the hall is of medium height, stout, square face and flat head, with a northern accent, wearing a Chinese jacket and grooved shoes. He asked Hu Chunpu carefully about Huang's political attitude and his entry into Sichuan, talked about the party's United front policy and work strategy, and repeatedly explained: "Go and see, there is no future in returning to Shanghai." Then the female contact gave him the contact address with Shanghai and the way to contact the organization back in Shanghai. In short, it is a round trip, and safety matters.
This time, Hu Chunpu can't come back. According to the prior arrangement, Zhang Shaoquan needs to pull the team up, and the Commissioner of the head office can only allocate the salary after personally checking. However, Zhang is anxious to get the money to pull the team. Before the Commissioner arrived, he had sent two heads to take people to Neijiang to rob a bank. As a result, I didn't grab the money, but I caught a few. When Hu Chunpu and Pei Zijiu learned of the exposure, they first ran to the nearby mountains to hide for a few days and decided to disperse and transfer: Hu returned to Chengdu to contact Huang to report the situation, while Pei Zijiu hid in the temporarily withdrawn funds and planned to do it again. When he arrived in Zizhong, Zhang did not stop, robbing and killing people, causing a sensation in the whole city. The case was serious, and Wang Mengxiong, the Commissioner of Neijiang (then Weiyuan and Zizhong were under the jurisdiction of Neijiang Special Agency), immediately issued a "wanted order".
When he was sitting in heming Teahouse in Chengdu Shaocheng Park, he was caught by the gendarmes who had been following him for a long time and charged with "bandit robbery". The next day, all the newspapers in Chengdu sent news. One of them is entitled "The Giant Bandit Hu Chunpu is Arrested", and the subtitle is "When Chunxi Road escorted the bandits, he looked around fearlessly with a cigarette in his mouth". However, he himself is relatively calm, and it is also useful to be familiar with a set of knot code words of Sichuan Paoge. It didn't take long to get in touch with Lin Xin 'an, the squad leader in charge of escort, and also learned from him the origin of the case, who was arrested and where he was detained. Hearing that Pei Zijiu was tortured after his arrest, he entrusted some money left in his pocket to Lin. Later, he sent a note written in code. On the evening of their arrival in Zizhong, Neijiang Commissioner Wang Mengxiong, deputy commander of security Chen Qingyun and military judge Ao Mou attended the joint hearing. At that time, lawyers were not allowed to be appointed, and Hu Chunpu could only defend himself. The main points of defense are: I am not a bandit, but a reporter; Hong Kong's Transcendental Newspaper is a well-documented anti-Japanese newspaper. Huang is an executive member of the Kuomintang Central Committee and advocates resolute resistance to Japan, not a reactionary; I went to Gaoshi Town because Phoebe Chan wanted to introduce her niece to me for a blind date, and so on. He was also impassioned, preaching the truth that anti-Japanese is the first way to save the country, and anti-Japanese can save the country, turning the interrogation room into his special lecture. One night a few days later, Lin Xin 'an, the head of the security class, suddenly came to tell him, "Eight people are going to be killed tonight. I wonder if you are there? " At this time, Hu Chunpu, who was ready for sacrifice, sat on the bed with bated breath, waiting for this moment ... Later, Hu Chunpu learned that he had survived this time and was rescued by a famous local gentleman, He Hengjiu.