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Chapter 836 Pulling the Clouds (1)

Three hours after Gu Zhongya opened his mouth, Gui Youguang came back from Hankou in a hurry, carrying a suitcase in his hand, and a pair of handcuffs were locked between the handle of the suitcase and his wrist.

As for the clues related to the spy leader of Jiangcheng, if the Japanese got the news, they would probably take action to snatch it. Even if they were on their own territory, they had to be careful.

He hurried into an office and saluted Zuo Zhong and Gu Qi who had been waiting for a long time.

"Deputy Director, Section Chief, the physical evidence has been brought back. No one has touched it except me, and the box has not left my sight for a second."

"Well, give it to me, you go to rest first."

Zuo, who was talking softly with Gu Qi on the sofa, nodded his head, watched the big bald head take off the handcuffs and leave, got up and went to the box to check it carefully, making sure that the seal was intact and slowly pressing the button.

With a click, the box was opened, and there were two kraft paper envelopes inside. The style was very ordinary, and it could be bought at any grocery store in Jiangcheng. There was no writing on the surface.

Zuo Zhong thought about it for a while and didn't touch them. Instead, he called the technical room and asked the other party to send someone to check whether there were any poisonous substances on the letter, lest the Japanese come out of a Trojan horse.

The longer you work in this line of work, the more paranoid you will become. But compared to safety, wasting time is nothing. Instead of regretting something, it is better to prepare in advance.

The technicians did not dare to neglect the call from the deputy director, and rushed to bring the equipment, and conducted a quick test using medicine and test tubes, ruling out the possibility that the letter contained dangerous poison.

After the other party left, Zuo Zhong put on his gloves and opened a letter to read.

The letter is very short, only two lines, the content is the location and time of the joint, printed by a Chinese character typewriter, consistent with the situation Gu Zhongya explained.

However, after looking for a long time, he did not find any usable clues. The letter was written by a veteran, and the vocabulary used was very common, and he could not see the regional characteristics and education level.

Letter paper is a common glossy paper on the market. This kind of paper is smooth on one side and rough on the other. The texture is relatively fragile. It is often used for single-sided printing or writing, and it is also untraceable.

No fingerprints or other traces were found by powder visualization. Obviously, it has been carefully handled and it is impossible to investigate from this aspect. The spy leader is really cautious.

Passing the letter to Gu Qi who was at the side, Zuo Zhong opened the second letter and read it, and found that it was no different from the first letter, and the clues he had finally found seemed to be interrupted.

He couldn't help frowning, is he really going to give up the investigation? If the leader of the spy is not removed, the Japanese intelligence organization in Jiangcheng will soon revive and even become more difficult to deal with.

The Japanese are not stupid. They have learned the experience and lessons of Gu Zhongya’s group being arrested, and they will act in a low-key manner. It is almost impossible to find the other party’s flaws through platooning.

Zuo Zhong, who was unwilling to give up, looked down at the letter paper. This time, he changed his direction and focused his attention on the square letters.

In 1912, Zhou Houkun, an engineer studying in the United States, invented the first Chinese typewriter. In 1919, Shu Zhendong of the Commercial Library developed the Shu-style Chinese typewriter on the basis of Zhou Houkun's typewriter.

This kind of machine changes the type model into movable type. The movable type plate is connected to the pointer, and the cable type plate is in front. When using it, one hand points the pointer to the character to be typed, and the other hand uses the joystick to output the character.

At the same time, it is equipped with a backspace key and a space key, and there are also tweezers and extra movable type in the parts for users to modify the type plate according to their needs, which is very convenient.

Under mass production, the Shu typewriter quickly became the most important typing equipment in the Republic of China, and many government offices, schools, companies, and factories were equipped with it.

But it also has disadvantages, that is, the quality of the movable type of the typewriter is not good, and the commonly used characters are easy to wear and tear after long-term use, and sometimes the strokes may be blurred or miss-missed.

"The list of intelligence team members is as follows: Yao Li, Hankou Police Station Third Branch..."

Zuo Zhong turned on the desk lamp, put the letter paper under the light, and used the magnifying glass to observe each word carefully.

Suddenly, his movements stopped, and his head suddenly moved closer to the letter paper, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, he patted the table with his hand, and said something with a little excitement.

"Finally caught you!"

Gu Qi, who was studying the first letter but found nothing, was overjoyed and raised his head to ask, "Deputy Director, did you find anything?"

"Well, just look at the word "three" in this letter and you will understand." Zuo Zhong didn't explain, and handed the letter out for Gu Qi to read by himself.

"Three words?"

Gu Qi took the letter paper with a face full of doubts and looked at it intently. Sure enough, he found a problem. The right end of the bottommost horizontal line of the word "three" seems to be printed not very clearly. If you don't look carefully, you really can't find it.

As an old intelligence officer, he immediately figured out the reason, and put forward a suggestion: "Deputy director, we must collect the documents of various agencies and commercial organizations in Jiang City as soon as possible, and compare the "three" characters in them one by one.

Finding a typewriter that can print out the same trace is equivalent to finding the location of the spy leader, and it is not difficult to arrest him. I will lead people to do analysis work and complete the comparison as quickly as possible without delaying the task. "

"kindness……"

Zuo Zhong slowly regained his composure, paced back and forth in the room thinking for a long time, and finally made a decision after analyzing various situations.

"Okay, I'll leave this work to you, keep it secret, and don't disturb the target, the documents can be collected in the name of collecting waste.

In order to make money, the general affairs departments of various agencies are very diligent in this regard, regardless of whether the documents are confidential or not, they can't wait to sell them all.

The scope of the documents starts from the westward relocation of the government to Jiangcheng. All military and government agencies must not miss a single one, and the documents of schools at all levels must also be paid attention to. "

"Understood, I will arrange it now."

Gu Qi replied confidently, and trotted out of the office. He was not active in doing meritorious deeds, and he had a problem with his head. He couldn't act, so he should work harder on intelligence.

Zuo Zhong looked at Gu's back, crossed his arms and pondered for a while, then picked up the microphone and said to the other side: "Let Gui Youguang, Wu Chunyang, and Shen Dongxin come to see me, yes, immediately."

Not long after, the three people who received the order came together, and the door was closed immediately. Ten minutes later, the three people went out together again, and each took a group of people and drove away from the office.

The Secret Service has been searching everywhere these days, and personnel and vehicles are frequently dispatched, so their actions did not alarm anyone, and it was just an ordinary operation.

Behind a window in the office building, Zuo Zhong stroked his chin and looked out of the building. After an unknown amount of time, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he turned and disappeared in front of the window.

Time flies, and three days have passed in a blink of an eye.

With a clear detection direction, Gu Qi also became ruthless. It only took 24 hours to collect all the samples of documents and printed materials, and summoned all the spies who had nothing to do to take charge of the comparison.

This is not an easy task. There are hundreds of agencies that have moved westward to Changcheng, and almost every office has a typewriter, and the officials of the Guo Party have to issue written materials even if they fart.

Therefore, there are thousands of documents of various types that need to be checked, plus other printouts. After two days of non-stop checking by dozens of staff, they only read less than half of them.

But luck is really hard to say. In this small number of documents, the spies found four documents that met the screening criteria.

——The word "three" on these materials is the same as the word "three" in the letter Gu Zhongya received, and the horizontal line at the bottom is blurred to varying degrees.

The specific sources are:
The first one comes from the office of a legislator named Sun Jisan in the Legislative Division.

The second is from a product brochure of a company called Sanren.

The third one is from the Jiangcheng Office of the Third Theater Zone.

The fourth one is from a school publication of Jiangcheng No. [-] Primary School.

After receiving the report, Gu Qi met with Zuo Zhong and made a report, asking whether to carry out secret investigations on these four locations to find out the spy leaders hidden inside.

Zuo Zhong did not object, and issued a warrant on the spot to approve his request, allowing him to mobilize some intelligence personnel to participate in the mission and identify spies.

All of a sudden, all the spies were mobilized to monitor the four suspicious targets in an all-round way, and a large net was slowly spread in Jiangcheng.

Early the next morning.

The staff of the Jiangchengguo Party Headquarters started a new day of work. Zuo Zhong's partner, Old K, an underground, separated, latent member of the Party, and Xu Weiming, deputy director of the Zuzhi Department of the Jinling Party Headquarters, were no exception.

Since the retreat to the west, the party headquarters of the two places have worked together. Hundreds of people crowded into the same building to handle their respective official duties. The originally solemn office building seemed a bit messy.

He walked out of the large office shared by several directors with a report, walked through the chaotic stairs to the top floor, and glanced at the various schedules posted on the wall from time to time.

"At [-]:[-] a.m. on ~month~day, we will launch an air defense drill together with the fire brigade and the police station."

"~Month~Day, cooperate with the military police department to check the passengers and vehicles entering and leaving the city."

…………

He quickly wrote down the useful information, came to an office outside and knocked on the door unhurriedly, heard someone reply please come in, opened the door and walked into the house.

There were two people sitting in the room, one was the chief secretary of the Jinling Party Headquarters, and the other was unknown to him but familiar, so he should be a staff member of the local Party Headquarters.

This is normal. There are hundreds of people in the two party departments. Even if he is an agent, it is impossible to remember everyone in a short time, let alone there is no need for this.

Those who came from Jinling will continue to move to the mountain city once the war situation worsens. It is useless to have a good relationship with the people in Jiangcheng. Sooner or later, the two sides will part ways.

"Comptroller, here is the report you want."

Handing over the document with both hands, Xu Weiming smiled and nodded to the stranger again, as a greeting.

The other party stood, separated, and nodded slightly. Looking at the style of this picture, he obviously has some status, at least similar to the official title of Jinling Party Secretary, otherwise he would not be so arrogant.

"Weiming, come, let me introduce you. This is Superviser Guo Binguo of the Jiangcheng Party Headquarters. He is also my old classmate and old friend. He used to work on Party affairs in various southern provinces.

He had something to do in the last meeting, and you were busy with work, so you just missed it. Now it’s fate to meet with me. You might as well communicate more in the future. Having more friends is always a good thing. "

The chief accountant of the Jinling Party Department put the documents aside, introduced the two of them with a smile, then looked at Guo Bin, pointed at Xu Weiming and said.

"This is Xu Weiming, the deputy director of the Ancestral Weaving Department under me, who was born in the Party Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He has been interviewed and praised by Mr. Da Chen many times during his work.

He is honest, honest, and capable, and he is a rare helper. I am going to hand over to him what you said about carrying out de-redification education in universities, middle schools and primary schools. "

"good."

Guo Bin looked at Xu Weiming squinting for a few times, and finally his expression was no longer so serious. He said two words softly with a strong Zhejiang accent, and then looked at his watch to say goodbye.

The Chief Accountant of the Jinling Party Headquarters hurriedly got up and sent him outside the door. The two exchanged some pleasantries. Guo Bin took the initiative to shake hands and bid farewell, and walked away.

Xu Weiming who stood beside Gong Li quietly squinted his eyes. For some reason, he always felt that this person was a little dangerous, as if he saw a poisonous snake preparing to attack.

Is this person an intelligence officer of the party affairs system? Why hasn't he heard of this name before? It seems that it is necessary to find Qiu Chan to get to know him. A thought flashed in his mind.

not far away.

Guo Bin returned to his office. A few minutes after he sat down, a staff member walked in and put the letter he had just received in the morning on the table.

He waved his hand to signal the other party to go out first, picked up the letter cutter and opened a letter, took out the letter paper and glanced at it casually, his pupils shrank instantly.

(End of this chapter)