My spy diary

Chapter 339 Doubt (asking for monthly ticket)
"I heard that you joined forces with the Red Party in Shanghai?" Dai Chunfeng asked gloomily, changing his tone.

Zhang Yi was shocked, but there was no sign of uneasiness in his eyes.

He was stunned for a moment, pretending to be wronged and confused, then he stood up, raised his head, looked directly at Dai Chunfeng, and said indignantly:
"Commander, who told you that? Isn't this slander?

During the assassination attempt at the Shanghai Hotel, my subordinate Yang Wenxuan had a fight with Zheng Huhe. If they had not been in a hurry to retreat, they would have eliminated this traitor long ago.

Besides, the Reds are our mortal enemy, so why would I cooperate with them?"

Dai Chunfeng looked at him, his tone had softened a lot, and asked:

"How could the Red Party be involved in the Shanghai Hotel operation?"

"How do I know this?"

Zhang Yi said angrily: "Li Shijun is a treacherous and cunning person. He must have deliberately released the news to lure us into a trap.

My brothers have risked their lives to work, but they cannot stand such suspicion. Who said that? I want to confront him. As long as he can produce evidence, I am willing to accept any punishment. "

"Okay, okay, I'm just asking casually, why are you so excited?" Dai Chunfeng smiled and waved his hand to let Zhang Yi sit down.

"Commander, I lost my composure, but I can't stand such questioning, especially when you doubt me?"

"I don't doubt you. If I did, I wouldn't have given you this important task." Dai Chunfeng looked at Zhang Yi, pondered for a while, and continued:

"There's a famous saying in the intelligence community: 'Never doubt a person rashly, and never give up doubting a person.'

This sounds contradictory, doesn't it?
But that's the contradictory job we do. In a sense, we live by doubting, don't we? Including doubting ourselves."

"You still doubt me!"

Dai Chunfeng shook his head and looked at Zhang Yi with a serious expression:
"You work in Shanghai, so you may not know some things. A group of warriors who were intensively trained were secretly sent to Pagoda Mountain and never returned. They always know our plans one step ahead."

Zhang Yi looked incredulous: "Exposed?"

"Exposed?"

Dai Chunfeng sneered: "Although the Red Party has three heads and six arms, and eyes on its feet, I believe that exposure is only a low-probability event.

How could dozens of well-trained agents be exposed? They were betrayed."

"The traitor? Who could it be? Or that mermaid? Director, do you want me to find a chance to investigate?"

"No, don't get involved in this matter for now." Dai Chunfeng waved his hand.

"You have important things to do right now."

"I just can't accept it. I always feel that this mermaid is lurking around us. She is ordinary and mysterious, yet visible and untouchable."

"Sometimes patience is a hunter's best weapon, don't you think?"

"But there is such a person next to us, we are in the light, he is in the dark"

Dai Chunfeng said firmly: "Now is not the time.

Last time, the radio station conspiracy case happened, and the chairman was furious, which brought shame to our Military Control Commission. We must not air our dirty laundry in public, especially when it comes to internal and high-level issues, we must be extremely careful. "

"Commander." Zhang Yi looked at him in surprise. This was not Boss Dai's character.

Noticing Zhang Yi's abnormality, he picked up the tea on the coffee table and took a sip:
"One thing is that family disgrace should not be made public.
Just like this cup of tea, if there is not enough water, it cannot quench your thirst, but if there is too much water, it will overflow and burn your hands.

If we are not suspicious enough, many sensitive people will lose their sense of security, and our work will become passive. "

"I understand." Zhang Yi sighed in frustration and asked:

"Commander, you just said you had something important to entrust to me."

"It is very important." Dai Chunfeng stood up, took a folder from the desk and handed it to Zhang Yi.

There were only a few black-and-white photos in the folder - a female corpse that was salvaged from the river was lying quietly.

The skin of the corpse was pale and swollen, as if it had been soaked in water and had lost its life.

Her wet hair was messily stuck to her face, making it hard to see her features. She was wearing a cheongsam that was tightly wrapped around her body and was covered in mud, sand, and waterweed.

His limbs stretched out weakly, as if telling of his final struggle.

"This is?"

Dai Chunfeng did not reply to him. After a pause, he asked:
"You've heard of the case of the one-armed bandit, haven't you?"

Zhang Yi nodded. The "one-armed bandit" was an officer of the Sichuan Army's anti-aircraft artillery unit.

This man was born a bandit, but he could speak some English. He colluded with the German adviser to the Standing Committee, Hull, to form a spy network and leaked the secret that China's anti-aircraft guns had a maximum range of 12,000 feet to the Japanese army.

As a result, Japanese bombers flew at an altitude of more than 12,000 feet, acting alone and bombing indiscriminately, bringing great disaster to the mountain city.

Even if the Military Intelligence Bureau detected the plane's take-off time in advance, it would be helpless if it was not within the range of anti-aircraft guns.

Although the Military Intelligence Bureau's Telecommunications Department detected and copied a large number of telegrams sent by the "One-Armed Bandit", they were also helpless because they were unable to decipher them.

Later, after repeated research and translation by Yardley, he finally discovered that the password used by the one-armed bandit was "infinite non-repetitive", that is, a password that has been used will never be used again.

He concluded that the secret was a book code and the original text should be an English novel.

After using this information and going through layers of screening and elimination, the Military Intelligence Bureau finally locked the suspect on an officer of the Sichuan Army's anti-aircraft artillery unit.

In order not to alert the enemy, Yardley asked his girlfriend Xu Zhen, whom he met in China, for help.

Out of patriotic enthusiasm, Xu Zhen agreed without hesitation, regardless of danger.

By creating an opportunity for chance encounter, Xu Zhen successfully got to know the officer, and took advantage of the opportunity to visit his home to sneak into his study and find the code book - The Good Earth, a novel by an American Nobel Prize-winning writer.

With the code book, the Military Intelligence Bureau immediately organized people to decipher it, and in one fell swoop destroyed this spy network involving dozens of people.

Dai Chunfeng sighed and said: "The cracking of the case shocked the Japanese and puppet regimes, and the chairman was overjoyed and personally met with Yadley.

However, the case was complicated and we were afraid that other hidden Japanese spies would retaliate against Xu Zhen, so we decided to let her go to Hong Kong to avoid the limelight.

But on her way to the airport, the ship she was on had an accident and she drowned in the river. This was clearly a deliberate murder.”

"Upon hearing the news, Yardley was filled with grief and anger. He drank heavily every day and lost interest in his work. The Americans also asked him to return home immediately."

Boss Dai frowned and said, "Solving this case is not only to give an explanation to the spirit of Ms. Xu in heaven and comfort Mr. Yardley, but more importantly, it is to wipe out the remaining Japanese and puppet forces lurking in the mountain city."

"Yes."

Zhang Yi responded sternly and asked again:
"Why would the Americans let him go back? Although we have only signed a one-year contract with Yardley, he is extremely important and can be renewed."

"Who knows?" Dai Chunfeng said angrily.

Spy warfare, intelligence, and code breaking are naturally shrouded in a veil of mystery, but in 31 Yardley published a book titled "American Blackroom", in which he disclosed many of the code-breaking secrets he knew, directly piercing this mysterious veil.

It caused a sensation internationally and led dozens of countries to change their communication codes, with the Japanese reacting most strongly.

Yardley, who joined the U.S. Army as a signals corpsman during World War I, suggested establishing a cipher bureau within the intelligence service.

After the plan was adopted, the military quickly set up an office called the Military Intelligence Bureau, headed by Yardley, whose functions were divided into five parts, including compiling codes and deciphering codes.

After the end of World War I, the Military Intelligence Agency was disbanded, but the office responsible for code-breaking was preserved and continued to be headed by Yardley and placed under the direct command of the U.S. Executive Office.

At the same time, the U.S. Navy also established a department in the Naval Communications Office, which was responsible for the code security of the naval fleet and was also given the task of spying on the Japanese naval codes.

The United States and Japan were allies during World War I, but in order to compete for hegemony in the Pacific region, although the "father and son" were in harmony on the surface, they secretly used all kinds of tricks and did their best.

The U.S. Navy established its own cipher bureau, code-named "Darkroom". While they set up listening stations in Guam, the Philippines, and Shanghai, China, they sent spies to sneak into the Japanese consulate in the United States and secretly photographed the Navy code book, code-named JN-1, which was regarded as top secret by Japan. With the code book, they successfully cracked a series of Japanese military codes using the latest technology, frequency counters, card sorters, and keyboard punch machines.

Based on this, after listening to the report on the results of the "dark room", the then US Secretary of State Henry believed that the Yardley Code-Breaking Office was no longer necessary and directly abolished it.

After losing his job, Yardley had nothing to do, so he simply became a writer. This is the origin of "American Blackroom".

Zhang Yi speculated that the Americans must have deciphered the "Red Code" used by the Japanese army. He did not want Yadley to create trouble at this time and stimulate the sensitive Japanese army, asking them to change the "Red Code" and activate the more complicated "Purple Code", so he recalled him to the country.

However, the Military Intelligence Bureau had already established a solid foundation in detecting and deciphering Japanese secret telegrams, and was constantly making new achievements, so there was no need to worry too much.

After a pause, he asked Zhang Yi: "Where are you going to start?"

Zhang Yi frowned and said, "I have no clue yet. I plan to go check out the body and visit the scene first."

Dai Chunfeng did not comment. After a pause, he picked up the teacup and said:

"Don't just talk about it. I'll give you seven days to find the Japanese spy for me."

"Yes." Zhang Yi stood up and saluted.

Coming out of Boss Dai's office, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

As the saying goes, "To serve the king is like serving a tiger." Although Dai Chunfeng was not a king, he was like a devil to the independent kingdom of the Military Control Commission.

Just one word from him could make countless people lose their heads. The same words could also make many chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.

Especially Boss Dai’s vigilance against traitors. Zhang Yi shuddered at the thought of the sentence “Sometimes patience is a hunter’s best weapon”.

He thought to himself that it would be better for him to be honest and cautious.

Thinking of this, he walked through the corridor without looking around, went downstairs to the General Affairs Department.

"Brother Yunyi, this should be a good thing. Why are you so worried?"

Shen Xishan was sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed. When he saw Zhang Yi come in, he asked his secretary to bring him tea, and then handed him a thick document.

"Pick one."

"A good thing done poorly becomes a bad thing."

Zhang Yi flipped through the "Property Registration Book" and frowned. There was no suitable one.

Shen Xishan smiled and said, "Before I took over the General Affairs Department, the big and small leaders of the bureau had already divided up the better properties that were seized.

Hey, Shancheng is now the secondary capital, and it is full of dignitaries and high-ranking officials. The decent apartments and houses have long been taken. I now live in a guesthouse that entertains field staff."

Zhang Yi smiled: "You are cautious."

"Some things are hard to explain. There are many people without houses. It's not easy to get a position in general affairs. Don't let others get jealous and report you."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense and take out a spare property." Zhang Yi said bluntly, pointing to his drawer.

"Hehe, I knew I couldn't fool you."

Shen Xishan smiled cunningly and took out another registration book.

"There are indeed some high-end residences here, but they have all been assigned to the Military Control Commission. There won't be any for others to use. But as for you, it wouldn't hurt to vacate one."

"Thank you. I'll treat you to dinner some other day." Zhang Yi handed him a cigarette, but then he took the cigarette back, thinking that this guy didn't smoke, drink, or gamble. He asked:
"Where's the car?"

"I'll write you a note." Shen Xishan sighed, and then said, "Forget it, I'll send the Buddha to the west and be a good person to the end."

As he said this, he picked up a pen and prepared to write a note and give it to his secretary.

Zhang Yi was surprised: "Is there anyone who doesn't listen to you?"

"It's not your cousin."

Shen Xishan said angrily that the Military Control Commission's motor vehicle brigade was originally an independent unit. The team leader was named Zhang Bing, an old relative of Dai Chunfeng, and had driven for Boss Dai before.

As the Military Control Commission's organization expanded, this person was promoted step by step and became the captain of the motor vehicle brigade.

He considered himself to be Boss Dai's confidant and didn't take ordinary people seriously at all.

Now that the motor vehicle brigade was placed under the General Affairs Department, Shen Xishan, a young and inexperienced junior in his eyes, suddenly became his immediate superior. Naturally, he was not convinced, and every time Shen Xishan gave an order, he dared to talk back in person.

Shen Xishan didn't want to make a big deal out of the matter, so he gave orders in written notes and gave them to his secretary to handle the matter.

Because according to the Military Control Commission's rules and regulations, warrants from officials at all levels must be registered and must have a receipt. Anyone who sees a warrant and does not execute it is blatantly violating the rules, so Captain Zhang had to execute it.

"Just because you worked as a driver for Boss Dai, you can show off your qualifications? This guy takes himself too seriously." Zhang Yi smiled. However, aren't there many people like this in reality?
He suddenly thought of the clumsy Ma Kui in "Lost". This guy just relied on his experience as a guard for Mao Qiwu to show off his seniority in front of Yu Zecheng.

"As the saying goes, one should return a favor. You have been good to me, so I cannot be ungrateful. I have to help you get the first things started as a new official." Zhang Yi said, leaning over to whisper a few words to Shen Xishan.

Shen Xishan was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is this okay?"

"Don't worry, it will definitely be fine."

"Then let's try it." Shen Xishan put away the note, picked up the phone and asked someone to arrange a car. The person on the other end said something perfunctory and hung up the phone.

After waiting for a while, he came out of the office and went straight to the car brigade.

Captain Zhang Bing was smoking with his feet up on the desk. When he saw Shen Xishan, he did not stop smoking either, with smoke coming out of his nostrils:
"Hey, isn't this Xiao Shen? What's up?"

Hearing this name, Shen Xishan was furious, and all the new and old hatreds came to his mind. However, he and Zhang Yi had already made a plan, so it was not convenient for him to get angry at this moment. He just smiled and nodded:
"District Chief Zhang is back. Where is the car I asked you to arrange for him?"

"That Zhang Qu." Before he finished speaking, Zhang Yi appeared and saluted Shen Xishan respectfully:
"Director Shen has worked hard and personally asked about my affairs."

Zhang Bing was stunned. When he saw Zhang Yi, he quickly stood up and saluted.

He had worked in the bureau headquarters for a long time, so he was naturally familiar with the prestigious Deputy Director Zhang. However, he was confused for a moment as to why Deputy Director Zhang was so respectful to the man named Shen?

Zhang Yi glanced at him and said to Shen Xishan, "You came at the right time. I just came out from Boss Dai.

The boss said that since the Military Intelligence Bureau moved to the mountain city, the staff and organization have expanded rapidly, the work order has become a bit chaotic, and work efficiency has been seriously affected.

The chairman has criticized it many times, and the boss is also very angry. What do you think is the problem? "

Shen Xishan said, "I just arrived and I don't know the situation in the bureau, but the work of the General Affairs Office is indeed a bit chaotic and needs to be properly managed."

"That's right. That's what the boss meant. He said that some people can be laid off. No matter who they are, no matter what their relationship or background is, as long as they don't do the actual work, they can be fired."

"It's good to have the boss's sword of authority. I will draw up a list now." After saying that, Shen Xishan smiled slightly, put his hands behind his back and left.

Zhang Bing panicked instantly and asked Zhang Yi in a flattering way:
"Director Zhang, did Mr. Dai really say that?"

Zhang Yi glanced at him and said seriously, "Have you forgotten about the rectification of the Military Control Commission?

Section Chief Shen will soon be Director Shen, with the rank of Major General, on par with the other seven departments. He is also deeply trusted by Boss Dai, and even I have to respect him."

As he said this, he looked at Zhang Bing strangely:
"What's wrong with you? If you have any old grudges with Director Shen, apologize to him as soon as possible. Otherwise, don't even think about staying in the Military Control Commission."

After saying that, Zhang Yi turned and left.

Zhang Bing was stunned. He stood there for a while, then hurriedly walked towards Shen Xishan's office with his body bent.

"Director Shen, please listen to me."

……

(End of this chapter)