Don't pretend, anchor, I've seen you touch the golden talisman!

"Brother, do you think it is this Young Master Xu who is secretly hiding something?"

Qian Sheng looked at Lin Yi beside him with some doubts.

"You mean, he used the name of the 'Secret Shopping Group' to gain personal gain for you?"

Qian Sheng looked around cautiously and lowered his voice:
"My brother, think about it, what are these things they are dealing with? How tempting are those things? We have seen the real thing, right?

We can't hold the cauldron, so we won't mention it.But if we really want to put the authentic work of 'Two Kings' in front of our brothers, who dares to say that he won't be moved? "

Lin Yi asked himself, he couldn't achieve that kind of selfless and broad-minded state of mind.

But there is no occasion for this matter. Back then, Xu Baijiao was under pressure and would go back to buy things like a tiger's mouth, and he did it without any consideration for remuneration.

It is fair to say that he used his position to make friends with the public and make some small profits for himself.

As the saying goes, a gentleman does not care about his conduct, and there are no good people in the world.

"Then have you ever thought about it, if he really wanted to get some benefits from it, why would he risk his own life? Moreover, after he sent a telegram to his superiors, the content of the telegram was found ?"

Qian Sheng slapped his head.

'Oh, why did I forget this? You're right, we have to look for this telegram quickly. "

According to the timeline of Xu Baijiao's accidental death, the photocopy he sent was quickly found in the telegram column of the filing cabinet.

The above content is very short, only one sentence: In the past three days, not much has been achieved.

At that time, telegrams were charged by the word, so the content was required to be concise and to the point.

This telegram was the last telegram that Xu Baijiao sent back to the mainland before his death. If taken literally, it was almost nonsense: nothing was gained in these three days.

Under the conditions at that time, it was completely possible to communicate on the phone, but at that time, spies were still very rampant, so encrypted telegrams became particularly safe.

According to what Director Ma just explained and the information they found in the archives, the codebook used in the telegram was the "Wu Jing Zong Yao" - a military work written in the Northern Song Dynasty.

There are forty pieces of military information in it, such as: Ask for soldiers, ask for armor, ask for bows, ask for food and grass, please lick soldiers, please move camps, please march, retreat, thieves advance, thieves retreat, besieged, rescue siege, invincible, big. Victory, small victory, etc., covering almost all situations that may arise in war.

“Absolutely amazing, this thing is absolutely amazing!
When Jiang Taigong promoted the Zhou Dynasty to conquer Zhou, in order to convey the military code, he deliberately left behind the 'Yin Talisman'. The generals in the front and the rear each held 8 pieces with inscribed symbols on them to identify the authenticity.

The length of the yin talisman expresses different meanings. The front is a great victory. The yin talisman used to convey military information is one foot long, and then decreases in sequence. The shortest one is only three inches, which represents the complete defeat of the army and the annihilation of the entire army.

Isn't the work of the 'secret shopping team' and others in Xiangjiang just like fighting?It is perfect to use this as a password master. "

Qian Sheng saw the wisdom of his predecessors with his own eyes and expressed sincere admiration.

"The telegram was sent in March, and the code comparison template used in March was Du Fu's "Spring Hope". According to Wang and Ma's annotations, they adopted the principle of homophonic substituting of characters.

What lines in this poem can correspond to the telegram? "

Lin Yi asked, holding the folder in one hand.

Qian Sheng rolled his eyes and thought for a moment.

""Spring Hope" has a total of 40 characters, which corresponds exactly to the forty situations in "Wu Jing Zong Yao".

The city is springy and has deep vegetation, so here it is homophonic to the word "even". Later, the war continues for three months, so we just use "three". Letters from home are worth ten thousand gold, and the homophone to "near" is here. "

Lin Yi took out a pen and wrote down all these words.

"According to the order of this poem, the word "Shen" is at the 10th; the word "三" is at the 24th; the word "金" is at the 30th. Check 10/24/30. The corresponding content of "Wu Jing Zong Yao" is What?"

Qian Sheng immediately found the original copy of "Wu Jing Zong Yao" and started corresponding inquiries. "The contents corresponding to these three numbers are: asking for food, the thieves retreating, and the battle is won."

The content they deduced was not shown in the data, but the cable contained the comments made by Wang and Ma back then.

"The words don't convey the meaning, and I can't understand it. There is a line of pen writing at the bottom, 'Be sure to ask Comrade Baijiao to explain the meaning of the message! Then give the next step of instructions.'"

The two of them frowned as they looked at the content above.

"We have just read so many telegram texts, and they are basically one sentence. If you are short of money, you will ask for food. If you are short of manpower, you will ask for more troops. If you take antiques of average quality, you will ask for a small victory. ', 'Zhan Dajie', a message of this level, corresponds to a national treasure-level cultural relic being successfully captured before it is sent back to report the victory.

Xu Baijiao's last telegram before he died, translated means: send money, the other party is ready to withdraw, we are going to win big!Judging from the contents of the previous telegrams and letters exchanged between them, there are no signs. "

The two were once again in a deadlock, and for a while they really didn't know how to solve the mystery.

I have gone through all the files related to the "Secret Shopping Group", but I haven't found any clues.

Just when the two were at a loss what to do, Director Ma came over.

"How about you two, what can you gain?"

Lin Yi and Qian Sheng shook their heads helplessly.

"We were both stumped by just one telegram, let alone the ledger. We couldn't understand it. We couldn't understand it at all."

"The telegram you are talking about is the telegram Mr. Xu sent back before he died?"

Lin Yi nodded quickly.

"What, do you have any other inside information here?"

The horse trainer let out a long sigh.

"My father, after hearing the news of Mr. Xu's unexpected death, has been studying the contents of this telegram, but he could not understand its meaning until his death.

This telegram also became Mr. Xu Baijiao's last words. Unfortunately, none of us can understand his thoughts.

It's getting late, we're going to have dinner here soon. If you two don't mind, come with me to the staff canteen to deal with it. "

The two of them were busy looking for information in the archives, and they lost track of time. In a blink of an eye, it was lunch time.

In a place like the archives, the door must be locked at noon, so it would not be appropriate to leave them here.

What's more, Director Ma has already mentioned this, and it would be pretentious not to mention it.

"Then we should be respectful rather than obedient."

Director Ma carefully locked the filing cabinet and the door of the filing room, and took them both straight to the staff canteen.

On the way, Curator Ma chatted with them about the past.

“In addition to dealing with cultural relics throughout his life, my father’s favorite thing was to study orchids. After Mr. Xu heard about it, he immediately expressed his intention to give my father a gift.

This gift was not transferred from Xiangjiang to Shangjing until after his death.

My father opened it and saw that it was Mr. Xu's private life. He spent a lot of money to buy a rare ancient book that reproduced the Southern Song Dynasty's orchid treatise "Jin Zhang Orchid Pu" in the Ming Dynasty and gave it to my father. I remember that my father was looking at this book. Book, tears streaming down my face. "

""Jin Zhang Lan Pu"?"

Upon hearing this name, Lin Yi and Qian Sheng shouted out in unison. (End of chapter)