The Spy

Chapter 371 Different
Kamei himself is not a professional intelligence officer, so he doesn't care much about whether the agency is controlled by agents.

But you can’t just pick anyone at random.

The intelligence department has great power, and it is necessary to select someone who is capable of taking charge and achieving results.

Even if I can't beat him, at least I can't be too far behind.

Kamei was not in a hurry, mainly because he did not have that many surrendered Chinese agents.

If the person in charge is not a professional agent, the people under him must be, otherwise what is the point of having them?

Are you exploiting the people every day?
Kamei knew better than anyone what kind of people these Chinese were. After they surrendered to the empire, they were even more cruel to their former compatriots than the people of the empire themselves.

Fortunately, the chief section chief did not give him a time limit, so he did not need to rush.

What's more, these Chinese agents have just surrendered and are not trusted at the moment, so let them perform their duties first.

The assignment of the captured Chinese agents is very simple. The two people captured by the action team are currently under the control of the action team.

The three captured by Takeda will temporarily follow their intelligence team.

Both the action team and the intelligence team look down on these Central Bureau of Investigation agents. They are all currently in custody and no one is paying any attention to them.

"Chief, it has been confirmed that his identity is fake."

After a few days of surveillance, the target did not take any other action, so Hou Yigong asked the people in Rehe who helped with the investigation to send back the news.

"Prepare for action, secret arrest."

Hou Yigong gave a decisive order: since the identity was fake, there must be something wrong, so just arrest him first.

This person is wandering outside the city. He can't be someone who has been lurking here for a long time. He won't incite anyone to defect for the time being. As for whether he is online or offline, we will catch him first.

Keeping him around could bring danger to the party at any time.

"Yes."

His subordinates followed the order and made full preparations during the investigation.

He found a traveling merchant who was acquainted with Gong Wu in advance, and after finding out his background, he kept him as a backup.

When it's time to arrest someone, asking this traveling merchant to cooperate will make it easier to capture him secretly.

Through surveillance, Hou Yigong did not find any other suspects in the town who had contact with Gong Wu, but he could not guarantee that there were no Japanese spies secretly observing.

Fortunately, this town is not big, so it is not difficult to monitor everyone.

The operation will not be completely over after arresting the person. He will arrange people to continue watching. If anyone comes to inquire or check on Gong Wu's condition, they will be arrested immediately.

No matter who comes, there must be something wrong with him, and it will be right to arrest him.

This is to prevent the Japanese from deploying observers or security guards.

Hou Yigong was experienced and was able to think of these arrangements without Xu Zhanjie's special reminder. When the Special High Section was in Nanjing, it deployed a lot of observers.

At that time, they found more Japanese agents through observers.

The traveling merchant was brought before Hou Yigong.

After the warning, the merchant was frightened to the point of almost kneeling down. In this era, everyone knew what the consequences would be if they were targeted by spies.

At the very least, the family will be ruined, and at worst, the whole family will be ruined.

Fortunately, Hou Yigong did not make things difficult for him and asked him to cooperate. If he did his job well, nothing would happen. If he messed up the Military Control Commission's plan, it would not only be the merchant who would be in trouble.

Under such pressure, how could the merchants dare to refuse?

The traveling merchant approached Gong Wu and said that he knew a timber merchant in the city and asked him if he needed anything.

At this time, how could Gong Wu refuse?

After stating his needs, the traveling merchant told Gong Wu that he happened to have something to do in the city and that they could go together. He did not want timber, but he knew the timber merchant for the other goods he wanted.

It’s easier to talk to people you know.

The traveling merchant told Gong Wu the news because he wanted to ask the timber merchant behind Gong Wu to help him negotiate the price.

Even if you can negotiate a little bit, you can save a lot of money.

Gong Wu has been in China for a long time, and you can't tell he is Japanese just from his accent. He understands the temperament of the Chinese very well.

The merchant's words did not arouse his suspicion, so he agreed to go with him.

On their way out, Gong Wu was caught directly.

It was easier to catch him because the operatives were in a horse-drawn carriage, which was less conspicuous than a car, and it was more convenient to jump out of the carriage than from a car.

When the carriage passed by Gong Wu, someone suddenly jumped out of the carriage and, together with the team members disguised as coachmen, held Gong Wu down.

Zhao San was not aware of this and had been training Xu Xiaoer at home.

One day later, just after dinner, Xu Xiaoer suddenly said, "Sir, has that man been arrested?"

"caught?"

Zhao San was a little surprised. He knew who Xu Xiaoer was talking about, but he had not been out in the past few days and was not clear about the operations of the Intelligence Department.

"Why do you say that?"

Zhao San asked directly. Xu Xiaoer said while eating, "Strangers came to the town a few days ago. Their target was the timber merchant. Although they hid well, I could tell they were not ordinary people."

"Only a few are left today, half of them are missing. The timber merchant is also missing. I heard that he went into the town with someone else, but the person who went into the town with him came back yesterday and left the town. So I guess he was lured out of the town and has been captured."

Xu Xiaoer had a sharp eye and lived in the town for a while.

I go out every day and deal with these traveling merchants, including Gong Wu.

What he didn't know was that he had already been investigated by Hou Yigong. He was not a suspect, and he had come to the town before and had been very active, so he was naturally included in the investigation.

However, when it was later discovered that his identity was genuine, Hou Yigong no longer paid any attention to him.

Xu Xiaoer himself was not a suspect, and his contact with Gong Wu was all normal.

"You have a sharp eye, kid."

Zhao San smiled. He didn't expect this boy to be so meticulous. Not bad, he is a good candidate.

But the most powerful one is their district chief.

Just by looking at the information and observing these students' performance for a few days, I found that Xu Xiaoer was different from others.

I really don’t know how the district chief saw that.

"We are agents, so we naturally have to pay more attention to our surroundings."

Xu Xiaoer grinned. At that time, he was not yet the ace agent working for the organization. There was a bit of simplicity in his smile.

"You're right. Since you've discovered it, I won't hide it from you. I reported the anomaly you found to the headquarters, and they sent someone to investigate. Don't worry, if the other party is really a Japanese spy, you have a share of the credit, and it's a great one."

Before joining the Shanghai district, or even before graduating, Xu Xiaoer had already made great contributions, which will be of great help to his future development.

Apart from anything else, as long as he confirmed that the other party was a Japanese spy, this merit alone would allow him to be promoted to a higher rank.

Even directly become a second lieutenant.

The level of the Military Control Commission training class is not as high as that of the Whampoa Military Academy, but it is not bad either. Now that the Military Control Commission has been upgraded, all the students who come out of it are Boss Dai’s direct subordinates.

Boss Dai has never been stingy when it comes to helping them get benefits.

Xu Xiaoer is a lucky boy.

"Thank you, sir."

Xu Xiaoer was very happy. Since the person he discovered had been caught, he was most likely a Japanese spy.

The people at the headquarters are not useless. They have caught many Japanese spies, including Zhao San. Xu Qingyun is well-known. How can his secretary be bad?
Xu Xiaoer was very happy when he thought about the contribution he had made, especially the capture of the Japanese.

"Don't thank me, this is the result of your carefulness."

Zhao San said with a smile that the longer he interacted with Xu Xiaoer, the more he admired this young man. Now he was willing to teach Xu Xiaoer everything he knew without reservation.

When he first accepted the task, he thought that one month was too long. If the other party could learn it, it would take less than a month. If not, three months would be useless.

Now, as time goes by, he feels that time is too short.

At the Military Intelligence Department headquarters, Hou Yigong tortured Gong Wu.

It only took an hour for Gong Wu to confess everything.

The punishment was so painful that it overcame the Bushido in his heart.

Hou Yigong was overjoyed to learn that he had four subordinates. Although one Japanese spy was a credit, they had caught too many of them before, so it was nothing.

It would certainly be different if a complete team, five Japanese spies in total, were captured at once.

Even in the past when they were in Nanjing, only Xu Qingyun caught the entire group at once more often, while others only did so a few times.

Cracking a complete group at once has a completely different meaning.

"Director, there are four more, all outside the city. Only Gongcheng is online. We can catch them all."

After the interrogation, Hou Yigong immediately came to report to Xu Zhanjie. It was true that he was the one investigating the case, but the clues were given to him by the director.

He is just an executor and must report.

"Okay, catch them all."

Xu Zhanjie was also very surprised. He thought there was only one person, so he wanted to catch him and use him to lure him online. Unexpectedly, he was so lucky that he caught the team leader.

Zhao San gave him a big gift.

If we use Miyagi to lure out his superior and capture him, the credit will be even greater.

"Yes."

Hou Yigong left quickly, and Xu Zhanjie smacked his lips, feeling a little regretful.

Hideo Miyagi has no radio station.

Although he is the team leader, it is not yet time to actually carry out the mission. What they have to do now is to successfully lurk in the city, and someone will send him a radio later.

They had little intelligence to report at the moment, so they really didn't need a radio.

If we can get the radio and code book, the achievement will be even greater.

Even though they don't have such a great need for the Japanese spy code books now, if they can get the latest code books, they can find out the patterns in the Japanese code books they are using now.

Xu Zhanjie also knew that Boss Dai had set up a special organization to decipher the codes of Japanese spies.

Some results have been achieved so far.

He doesn't know the details, it's not his responsibility, so he can't ask or talk about it.

We only know this because Boss Dai accidentally mentioned it, which means that the progress is good.

Hou Yigong came back very quickly, and with Gong Cheng's instructions, it was not difficult to catch these people.

They were taken away without any warning.

After interrogation, Hou Yigong confirmed that they had not lied or concealed anything, so he evacuated everyone in the town.

They had no safety officers or spotters, so there was no need to watch the air.

This case involved Zhao San. Xu Zhanjie asked Hou Yigong to write the case closing report, while he himself reported to Boss Dai separately.

Zhao San, and the student he had specially trained, jointly asked for credit for them.

Until now Xu Zhanjie still doesn't know who Zhao San is training.

"I see, you did a good job."

Boss Dai smiled and nodded. The Japanese would not give up on Wuhan, so it was normal for them to send spies.

I was caught by them just after arriving and hadn't done anything, and couldn't even hide in the city. It was really a relief.

Well done to Xu Qingyun, he stayed for personal training. I didn’t expect to gain such results.

Boss Dai knew what Xu Zhanjie didn't know.

Xu Qingyun had reported this matter a long time ago.

Boss Dai was even more satisfied that Xu Qingyun did not tell Xu Zhanjie but did not hide this from him.

This shows that in Xu Qingyun's heart, he is the most important.

If the master and apprentice really kept everything in the loop, Boss Dai would probably become wary immediately and both of them would be suppressed.

The strongest district chief and the chief of intelligence could really have the potential to undermine him if they joined forces.

"Give them credit and let Xu Qingyun find a reason to reward them."

After Xu Zhanjie left, Boss Dai told Secretary Qi that he not only knew that Zhao San was outside Wuhan, but also knew that the person he was training was a student in the training class named Xu Xiaoer.

It is said that Xu Xiaoer has never graduated because of his poor grades.

Boss Dai was very curious, why would Xu Qingyun fall for such a person?
Xu Xiaoer did not disappoint Xu Qingyun. Before he graduated, he went to Shanghai to work and made great contributions.

Being able to discover something is wrong and find the Japanese spy is a skill.

What’s the point of training classes? How could such people not be allowed to graduate?

The next day, Deputy Director Yu secretly sent Xu Xiaoer's file information to the headquarters. This was Boss Dai's request.

He became somewhat curious about Xu Xiaoer.

After reading the information, Boss Dai remained silent.

The information was very detailed, describing his previous situation: he failed in shooting, physical fitness, was smooth-talking, and was lazy and cheating, and had been punished several times.

He is also very lustful and often tries to chat up female classmates.

Of all the grades, only the logic class barely passed.

With such grades, I really can't graduate.

However, Deputy Director Yu gave him an evaluation that his calligraphy was good and his handwriting was beautiful, but this did not give him any extra points.

Boss Dai understands this very well.

What's the use of writing beautifully? They are agents, not calligraphers. If they really need to deal with people in Japan who like calligraphy, this may be helpful, but what people like are the real masters.

Xu Xiaoer's handwriting is just more beautiful, better than the average person, but far behind the great calligraphers.

What's more, he is so young that the Japanese won't pay any attention to him.

After reading the information, Boss Dai asked Secretary Qi to put it into a top-secret file.

Top secret files, no one can look at them without Boss Dai's permission.

All members in the Shanghai area are included in this list. The file level of the training class is just confidential, a little short of top secret.

Xu Xiaoer was selected by Xu Qingyun and will definitely go to the Shanghai district in the future.

Moreover, he was the only one who was treated differently. He was the only one who was selected in advance. The others did not know yet that they had been assigned to the Shanghai area and continued to study in the training class.

Thinking of Xu Xiaoer's name, Boss Dai's heart moved slightly. They have the same surname, so they couldn't be related, right?

Recalling the files, Boss Dai shook his head.

The two people's hometowns are far apart, so it is impossible for them to be from the same clan, they just have the same surname.

The same goes for Xu Zhanjie. He has nothing to do with Xu Qingyun, let alone Xu Xiaoer.

It seems that Xu Qingyun really appreciated his abilities and brought him to the Shanghai district ahead of time.

(End of this chapter)