Spy Wars: Return of the Red Luan

Chapter 238 Special Higher Police Intercept Telegrams

Seeing Chen Jiehua standing there dumbfounded with his mouth agape, an old man who came out behind him chuckled and teased him.

"Haha, Qingxuan is now an idol for the young people in the Navy, didn't expect that, did you?"

"What?! When did I become so famous? How come I didn't know?"

"General Aoki's deeds have already spread throughout the Navy. He was the initiator and designer of the Yamato. He was truly remarkable!"

"Oh! Yoshi."

Holy crap, who tricked me like this?! They labeled me as the designer of the Yamato! This is outrageous!

"What are your names, young men?"

“Replying to Aoki-kun, my name is Anzai Koji, and this is Otowa Masahiko.”

"Otoha? That's a very rare surname."

"Otoha-kun is the second son of Prince Asaka Yasuhiko."

You have connections everywhere.

I can meet Prince Hiroyasu of Fushimi family anytime now, why would I care about some second son of the Asaka family?

You can tell at a glance that this little brat is under eighteen.

"Is Otoha-kun an adult yet?"

“Reporting to Aoki-kun, Masahiko has come of age and is eighteen years old this year.”

"Otoha-kun, you're a talented young man. You should train in the military; you can't develop that kind of skill in this office!"

"Oh, General Aoki is absolutely right! Masahiko has always wanted to train in the army, but unfortunately, my father won't allow it."

"General Aoki, could you please speak to my father on Masahiko's behalf?"

……

Chen Jiehua looked around. The old guy had just run off with his head held high, and Anzai Kuji kept winking at him! Looks like I've stirred up a hornet's nest?
We can't talk anymore after this day.

But who am I, Aoki Seigen? Would I be afraid of Asaka-no-miya?

"Otoha-kun, let's find a place to talk, we're just killing time anyway. Ansai, come along."

"General Aoki, Koji still has work to do..."

"What work do you want to do? Come on, let's go for a drink. Which department are you in? I'll go find your section chief for you."

"General Aoki, it's working time now, and Masahiko can't go drinking either."

Well, her family's upbringing was quite strict.

Oh well, I guess I'll consider myself acquainted with these two now. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future.

"This is so boring. I'm going to go have a drink with Watanabe-kun."

Chen Jiehua pretended to be annoyed and left.

"Anzai-kun, is General Aoki angry?"

After leaving the Naval Headquarters building, Chen Jiehua walked slowly down the road. Drinking? He wasn't in the mood for drinking right now.

Chen Jiehua hadn't expected that the Japanese Navy's secret shipyard in Kagoshima was so powerful. The Yamato had only been in operation for two and a half years since the blueprints were confirmed, and it was almost finished? We told you to build it in secret, but you were building it at full capacity?
The Yamato was launched so quickly, and there were still at least seven years before the outbreak of war between Japan and the United States. In those seven years, the Japanese navy might very well test its guns in China, and by 1937, there would be no way to stop them. This was a huge problem.

The two remedial measures are: first, to sabotage the construction and launch of the Yamato; and second, to incite the Japanese Navy to provoke the United States and start the war ahead of schedule.

After much thought, the first option seems more reliable.

Upon returning to his secret villa in Senso-ji Temple, Chen Jiehua immediately sent a telegram to Zhou Yongsu: The Japanese Navy is secretly building a battleship with a displacement of over 70,000 tons in Kagoshima, which will soon be launched. Please inform the U.S. Navy Command as soon as possible.

I don't know what the U.S. Navy's intelligence office is doing. It's been two years and they still haven't discovered it.

With this first step completed, the next step is to find an opportunity to inspect the shipyard and explore its terrain and structural location. Although I visited two years ago, construction hadn't started yet, and I knew nothing about it except for its location.

The next morning, Chen Jiehua was awakened by a series of urgent, coded knocks on the door. Ozaki had come looking for him!
"Qingxuan, our informant in the Special Higher Police sent a message last night that they intercepted a telegram sent from the Senso-ji area to the South Pacific Islands. It was heavily encrypted, and the Special Higher Police are organizing people to decipher it!"

Chen Jiehua was startled! He immediately recalled the telegram from the previous night. He had only sent one message: "The Japanese Navy is secretly building a battleship with a displacement of over 70,000 tons in Kagoshima. It will be launched soon. Please inform the U.S. Navy Command as soon as possible." It seemed that there was no special title.

"Sent to the South Pacific Islands? I didn't send anything to the South Pacific Islands."

"It's good that it's not you. Also, please note that the Special Higher Police have developed new equipment that can now intercept most telegraph frequencies."

"It seems we need to update our encryption method as soon as possible. Until the latest encryption method is available, let's try to use dead mailboxes for deliveries."

“We need to be careful about face-to-face communication in offices, public places and other places in the future. The Special Higher Police have introduced a new batch of eavesdropping devices.”

What's coming will eventually come, but the underground work still needs to be done.

"Ozaki, now that you're here, may I ask if your team has anyone in Kagoshima?"

"Qingxuan, you want to ask about Kagoshima Kawasaki Heavy Industries, right? We have a comrade who is an engineer there, but once you go in, you're not allowed to come out. So, it will be very difficult for you to steal the blueprints."

"Just give me your name and contact information, anyone will do."

“Mizuno Naru. Sake in Kyoto is more expensive now. You can try Nara sake. Nara sake? Is Nara sake famous? Nara sake is undiluted.”

After Ozaki left, Chen Jiehua began to reflect on his negligence.

The past few years have been so smooth, with telegrams flying by so fast that we almost forgot about the possibility of telegrams being intercepted.

Whether it's the Kuomintang or the Japanese, their ability to decipher codes will improve rapidly. Even if they use double-line encryption, it's only a matter of time before their codes are cracked.

Fortunately, they had made prior arrangements with Ozaki and reminded him, and arranged for people to enter many key departments in Japan.

As Chen Jiehua pondered, he went upstairs and put the transceiver into the space. The original location of the transmitter had worn down due to long-term use, leaving obvious traces.

The marks definitely need to be removed, but fortunately there are still some leftover wooden boards from the original renovation, so we can just replace one.

From now on, it will be a bit more troublesome. The telegraph machine must be carried with you at all times. You can't leave anything related to it here anymore, in case the Special Higher Police conduct a surprise inspection.

Ozaki said that the telegram was sent from Senso-ji Temple to the South Seas Islands. Was Lao Zhou's fleet going from America to Taiwan again, passing through the South Seas, or was it returning from Taiwan?

Based on the timeline, the fleet first visited Taiwan in February and returned to the United States at the end of February or the beginning of March. Therefore, it should be visiting Taiwan again in mid-March.

After calculating the details, Chen Jiehua decided to go to Taiwan first, and then send a telegram after sailing at sea for a day. Surely the Special Higher Police wouldn't be able to detect the signal then.
In the afternoon, after cleaning up his residence, erasing all traces, and leaving behind the necessary mechanisms, Chen Jiehua went to the port to find the flagship and set off for Yilan.

Fujiwara Mio has been staying in Yilan with her father-in-law and hasn't come back yet. I miss my wife.

At night, Chen Jiehua telegraphed Zhou Yongsu, the astrologer of Tian Shu: "With the north wind and south wind, it is advisable to meet."

The following evening, Chen Jiehua arrived at Yilan Port, only to find that Duke Fujiwara had taken Mio to Taipei.

(End of this chapter)