Chapter 152 Found one
He was also good to his laborers. If anyone had difficulties and came to him, he would help as long as it was not caused by smoking opium, gambling or going to brothels.
The people from Shandong, who are single and have a good reputation, gave Chu Lingyun a sense of familiarity.
Gu Cheng was the boss and his income was much higher than that of the coolies. He lived near the dock. Although it was a bungalow, the yard was very large. In addition to the main hall, there were side rooms on both sides.
Such a house is large enough for a family of six.
Chu Lingyun didn't ask too much. He simply chatted with a few people for a while and then said goodbye and left. If he asked too many questions, the people here might tip off Gu Cheng. After all, he had good connections here.
In fact, there was no need to continue asking, Chu Lingyun also knew that there was a big problem with Gu Cheng.
He lives alone and is the head of a group. There is no one else living above him. Where did the old man come from?
"Team leader, you're looking for me."
Chu Lingyun waited for more than an hour in a teahouse outside the pier before Loach came hurriedly.
It was he who called to inform the surveillance point, and when Loach returned, he asked him to come over immediately.
"Go and investigate this Gu Cheng yourself. Find out everything about him as quickly as possible. Also, arrange for two people to pretend to be laborers and find a way to get close to Gu Cheng."
Chu Lingyun instructed Niu Qiu that he should not monitor Gu Cheng the same way he monitored Zhang Bai.
Zhang Bai is just a pedicurist, so it's easy to monitor him. Gu Cheng is the boss and has hundreds of subordinates. With so many people around him, he might be discovered by them if he is not careful during surveillance.
Since Gu Cheng treats the coolies well, if he finds out that someone is following and monitoring their leader, he will definitely inform on them, which will easily alert the enemy.
You can't monitor, you can only get close.
"Yes, Team Leader, I'll do it right away."
Loach nodded in agreement. He was good at gathering information, so it wouldn't be difficult for him to find someone to pretend to be a laborer.
Except for the students from the school, the rest of their Action Group 4 were selected from the military, many of whom had done farm work and had dark skin.
Find two thin guys, dress them up, and they can be passed off as coolies fleeing famine.
After returning to the office, Chu Lingyun took out Gu Cheng's monitoring record and read it carefully.
He didn't chat much with Zhang Bai, and it sounded like just ordinary family conversation. If Chu Lingyun wasn't good at noticing subtle differences, he would probably have mistaken him for a real old customer.
The old man doesn't exist, so that must be a hint at something, and the south room they mentioned during their conversation also doesn't exist.
The house he lived in faced south, with only a gate and a wall on the south side.
A character, a name, what could it refer to? Chu Lingyun pondered slowly.
Gu Cheng was lurking at the dock, and the intelligence he gathered was most likely related to the dock.
Chu Lingyun walked to the wall and looked at the map. Soon, his eyes looked towards the south bank above.
There is a water police dock over there, where some water police ships are usually docked. As the capital of the country, Nanjing cannot be without any protection for such an important water area as the Yangtze River.
“Is the Marine Police Pier going to be renovated?”
Chu Lingyun talked to himself, and he remembered a Japanese spy he caught in Wuhan. He also found out about the expansion of the dock. At that time, many people were still unaware of it, so he reported it to his superior.
"Wang Sheng, can you help me find out if the Yangtze River Water Police Headquarters has any recent plans for renovation of its dock?"
Chu Lingyun called Wang Sheng. Now that his three great commanders were not around, he could only let Wang Sheng ask about this matter first. After all, he was a policeman, so it would be more convenient for him to inquire about such matters.
Less than half an hour later, Wang Sheng called back. "Commander Chu, I asked a director of the Yangtze River Water Police Headquarters. He said someone at the Yangtze River Water Police Headquarters proposed renovating the Water Police Wharf to add more berths, but due to disagreements, the plan has been shelved for the time being."
If that is indeed the place, we can basically confirm that Gu Cheng is a Japanese spy and Zhang Bai's subordinate without waiting for the results of Niu's investigation.
These Japanese spies are really powerful. Even a dock boss can find out things that their own intelligence department doesn't know. I don't know how much useful intelligence they have obtained in Nanjing over the years.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work. I'll find you if I need anything."
Chu Lingyun hung up the phone and looked through the information that Loach had investigated again.
Ma Jingyuan, the radio operator, went to see Zhang Bai the most often, basically every month. The time was not fixed, sometimes he would go once every half a month, and the shortest interval was three days.
If you get your feet trimmed twice in three days, it must be something very important.
The time that Gu Cheng went to see Zhang Bai was much more stable, basically once a month. According to the records in the past three years, the shortest time was twenty-five days and the longest time was thirty-eight days.
After reading the information, Chu Lingyun tapped the table lightly with his fingers and thought quickly in his mind.
Now they are keeping an eye on Zhang Bai and have discovered his radio operator Ma Jingyuan and a subordinate Gu Cheng.
According to Wuhan's experience, a Japanese spy intelligence team consists of about five to six people, consisting of a team leader and four intelligence officers. Some intelligence team leaders send messages themselves, while some teams have dedicated radio operators.
Nanjing is not Wuhan. The Japanese spies here have been lurking for a longer time, and Zhang Bai may have more subordinates.
There is also Kawamoto Xiangtai. According to his account, he was not a member of Zhang Bai's group, but he applied to come to Nanjing on his own initiative. Zhang Bai was temporarily in charge of his connection, and he received instructions from the Special High Section headquarters from Zhang Bai.
Excluding Taro Kawamoto, Zhang Bai should have at least three more intelligence agents hiding. The names of these intelligence agents are likely in the information, but they have not been found yet.
So far, the direction of the investigation is not wrong.
Zhang Bai is the leader of this intelligence team, but the way he communicates with the intelligence officers is not through a dead mailbox, but by meeting in person.
But this way of meeting is really not bad.
In addition, Zhang Bai had been undercover for ten years, so no one could have imagined that this honest pedicurist who had been helping people with their feet for ten years would be a Japanese agent.
Two days later, Niqiu returned to the office to report: "Team leader, the people have already broken in, but now they can only do rough labor and cannot contact Gu Cheng."
"It's okay if you can't make contact. Just keep an eye on him and don't let Gu Cheng escape."
Chu Lingyun understood the difficulty of keeping an eye on someone like Gu Cheng. There were too many spies around him, and without knowing more about him, he couldn't even bribe his laborers.
Besides, those coolies are not agents by profession. If they are asked to monitor a hidden agent, they are likely to expose themselves.
"I checked Gu Cheng. This guy is not simple."
Loach continued, "He's familiar with the director and deputy director of the dock management office, as well as the Marine Police. At least several directors and one deputy director there have a good relationship with him. It's said he's even boarded a Marine Police patrol boat and cruised along the river several times."
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