Chapter 217 Pay back the money first
"Director, we've obtained quite a few clues from the remittance slip this time. Chu Lingyun is particularly adept at using these limited clues to find Japanese spies. We've found two Japanese spy teams on the mole we found, and we're not done yet."
He Nian replied hurriedly, and the director nodded slowly: "You are right, Chu Lingyun did a very good job in this regard. No matter whether it is an important clue or not, it can play a huge role in his hands."
"Director, I just encouraged Chu Lingyun and told him that if he could completely defeat the entire Japanese spy group, I would ask you to help him apply for a promotion to major. As you know, the leaders of the other groups in the Operations Department are all majors."
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Henian immediately spoke up for Chu Lingyun.
If Chu Lingyun wants to be promoted to major, he can't do it by himself. The director must give the order personally, and he must apply directly to the chairman instead of the military headquarters.
As long as the old man nodded, the people in the military didn't dare to say anything. What's more, the Military Intelligence Department now had something on them, so they dared not say anything.
"What's the big deal? It's just a rank of major. Tell him that as long as he catches this Japanese spy group, I guarantee he will be promoted."
The director didn't take it seriously. It wasn't a military rank system. Although promotion in military rank was equally difficult, there were too many loopholes.
Some people with good family backgrounds are already majors even though they are younger than Chu Lingyun. Chu Lingyun has made so many great contributions, so isn't he worthy of a mere major?
As long as he can make merit this time, he will have enough reasons to find the chairman and help Chu Lingyun get promoted.
"Thank you, Director."
Henian stood up straight. It was settled. With the position of Director, as long as Chu Lingyun did not encounter any accident, the major would not be able to escape.
In fact, if Chu Lingyun was given time, his achievements would have been more than enough for him to be promoted to major. Unfortunately, he achieved success too quickly, making promotion a little more difficult.
But no matter how difficult it is, no one can stop him from moving forward after he has made so many great achievements.
There are four groups in the Operations Department, and the other three group leaders are all majors, only Chu Lingyun is a captain. It would have been fine if it was when he first came, but now Chu Lingyun has made many achievements, all of which are great, so he should be given the rank of major.
After Henian left, Chuzuo suddenly laughed to himself.
I originally wanted to report the results to the chairman as soon as possible, but I didn't expect Chu Lingyun to have hindsight. In this case, I can wait a while before going. Cracking down one intelligence team and cracking down on two at the same time are completely different concepts.
What's more, the more Japanese spies and traitors we catch, the happier the old man will be.
The continuous arrests made not only the Intelligence Department jealous, but also the other three teams in the Operations Department.
Unfortunately, their team leader was not as capable as the others, and there were not that many cases to investigate, so they could only watch Group 4 eat the meat while they could not even get a sip of the soup.
"Team Leader Chu, are you busy?"
Chu Lingyun was in the office when Zhu Qing suddenly knocked on the door and asked with a smile.
"Team Leader Zhu is here, please sit down."
Chu Lingyun was indeed a bit busy at this moment. He had just arrested so many people, including the families of those traitors. How to deal with them was a difficult problem.
These traitors are bound to be killed. Their families will be subject to detailed review and investigation. If they have participated in providing intelligence to the Japanese, they must be severely punished.
Even if you did not participate, you will be punished for not reporting it.
Family members who know nothing and are completely innocent will be dealt with as appropriate, especially the elderly and children. Some will be released, but even if they are released, they will no longer have their previous lives.
Having lost the most important member of the family, their future lives will be in trouble.
We can only blame those traitors. They could have lived a good life, but they chose to become running dogs for the Japanese, harming themselves and their families.
"Team Leader Chu, if you're too busy in the future, you can give me a call. We have so many people in Team Three, and we're always ready to take orders from you."
Even if Zhu Qing came over, there was nothing he could do.
His three captains came to him together and asked him if he had any clues. The people in Group 3 were bored to death, and seeing Group 4 making continuous achievements, they were already impatient.
Unfortunately, he tried to look for it, but still couldn't find any useful clues.
Is it so easy to find clues about Japanese spies? If it were easy, they wouldn't have taken several years to catch so few Japanese spies. But Group 4 was like a chicken with its blood pumped up, taking action one after another and catching Japanese spies in large numbers.
There were more than a dozen real Japanese spies, not counting the traitors and people who had collusion with Japan who were arrested.
Including them, the number is even greater.
Zhu Qing couldn't find any clues himself, and his subordinates were eager to make a contribution, so he had no choice but to come to Chu Lingyun to see if he could get some soup from Chu Lingyun.
I don't ask for the first credit, or even the second credit. I just want to help out, catch someone, and get some credit.
"Team Leader Zhu, you're too kind. We're both working together. If I need you, I'll definitely remember you."
Chu Lingyun smiled. He understood what Zhu Qing meant as soon as he heard it. There was no problem in giving the three groups the opportunity to make meritorious service, provided that it did not affect the three teams under his command.
If you give food to outsiders before your own people have enough to eat, your subordinates will be dissatisfied.
"Thank you, Team Leader Chu. Don't forget to take us with you if anything happens."
What Zhu Qing wanted was Chu Lingyun's words, so that he could achieve his goal and leave quickly.
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Lao Zheng's grocery store is doing good business today. Lao Zheng has been busy carrying things for customers.
Lin Shi walked over slowly and saw the sign saying that the soy sauce was out of stock. He realized that it was Lao Zheng who asked him to meet.
When there were fewer people around, he walked into the grocery store and pretended to buy something.
"Old Zheng, what's the matter with meeting me?"
When no one was around, he took the two items he had selected and came to Lao Zheng to settle the bill, and asked in a low voice.
"That's twenty-seven cents."
Lao Zheng replied, then lowered his voice and secretly handed Lin Shi a bag: "Thank you for the money you provided last time. Now that the organization is not short of money, I will return this money to you."
The second shipload of cargo was about to arrive, and Director Yang no longer had financial pressure, so he asked for the previously borrowed money to be repaid as soon as possible.
No matter who borrows the money, it must be repaid. Now that we are not short of money, we cannot ask them to repay it individually.
"Aren't you short of money? Don't you need medicine back home?" Lin Shi was slightly stunned and asked hurriedly.
"Yes, but we can handle it ourselves. You can take it back first. It's hard to pay back such a large sum of money with your salary."
Lao Zheng secretly stuffed the bag of money into Lin Shi's hand. Lin Shi did not refuse. He had indeed borrowed the money, and it would be better if he could pay it back sooner.
He always felt a little uneasy because he owed Chu Lingyun money.
Especially since he is now engaged in underground work and Chu Lingyun has become an agent, he is even more reluctant to let Chu Lingyun pay more attention to him.
If he had no place to borrow money, he would not have asked Chu Lingyun.
"By the way, Lao Zheng, I got promoted to deputy section chief."
Lin Shi spoke quickly, and Old Zheng was delighted and said hurriedly, "This is a good thing. You are young now, and the sooner you get promoted, the more helpful it will be for your future development. Seize the opportunity well. Don't gather intelligence recently. Your current task is to stay hidden, so that you can get more important intelligence later."
"I understand. I'll leave then."
Lin Shi didn't dare to stay with Lao Zheng any longer. They had already talked for longer than usual today, so he hurried away with his things.
Only after returning home did he dare to open the bag that Lao Zheng gave him.
There were 1,100 French francs in it, which was the full amount of money he had given to Lao Zheng last time.
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Shi locked the money.
The loan period was too short, and if he paid it back now, he was afraid that Chu Lingyun would become suspicious. He thought he could wait a few days to pay the money back, and there was no need to rush.
The next morning, Shen Hanwen got up early and secretly watched Yang Guang push his cart out again.
If he had not made very strict arrangements before and discovered anti-reconnaissance arrangements in Yang Guang's home, he would even suspect that he had followed the wrong person.
Yang Guang has been very calm these days. After getting the intelligence, he neither reported it nor made any move. He just kept his junk all day long.
He didn't know that Fukada Tokuji had been observing the dead mailbox for three consecutive days to make sure there were no suspicious people around it.
He was much more careful than the carp, but no matter how careful he was, it was useless. He didn't expect that he had been targeted long ago, but the dead mailbox was fine.
After confirming that the dead mailbox was safe, Yang Guang still did not collect the information. He continued to collect his junk, then went home to cook, eat and sleep.
Shen Hanwen felt very bored after just a few days of repeating the boring life every day. He didn't know how these Japanese spies persisted.
On the fourth day, Yang Guang pushed the cart through the streets as usual.
"Captain, Yang Papa is making a move."
Shen Hanwen was following the target personally, but he didn't keep watching all the time. When following the target, he couldn't let the target discover him, and he had to keep an eye on him and pay attention to everything he did. It was impossible for one person to do it, so Shen Hanwen cooperated with several people and took turns to keep watch.
He was eating at the time. When he heard the message from the team members, he immediately put down the steamed bun in his hand and ran over quickly.
This dead mailbox of Tokutoshi Fukada is next to a stinky ditch.
The smell here is very strong, and generally no one wants to come here. However, even if Fukada Tokuchi appears here as a rag collector, it will not arouse suspicion.
There was a stone staircase next to the stinking ditch, and the dead mailbox was under the stone staircase. He pretended to sit there to rest and reached out to quickly take out the information inside.
"Has he been here before?"
Shen Hanwen suddenly asked, and the team member next to him immediately replied: "We have been here for the past three days, but we only sat down to get information today."
"He's very cautious."
Shen Hanwen finally understood why Yang Guang had not made any moves in the past few days. It turned out that he had been observing the surrounding environment for three consecutive days and only collected intelligence on the fourth day.
The same thing happened with the dead mailbox in the grove before. He passed by it many times but never went in. Shen Hanwen thought that was his only route, but now he realized that the other party was always on guard.
Fortunately, the team leader told us not to be impatient about anything, as it is easy to make mistakes if we are impatient.
If he hadn't been patient this time, he might have scared him and failed.
When dealing with these Japanese spies, you really can't be careless at all.
"Another piece of intelligence. It's time to send it out this time."
Shen Hanwen muttered to himself. He stared at Yang Guang and never closed the net, just to find out where his radio station was.
These Japanese spies are not so easy to deal with. If you meet someone who refuses to speak, and you don't get the radio and code book, and you can't catch all his subordinates, your credit will be reduced by more than half.
Chu Yuan has already completely captured the entire intelligence team, and Shen Hanwen doesn't want to do worse than Chu Yuan.
Yang Guang received the information but did not look at it immediately. He continued to push the cart and collect junk. He did not open the new information until he returned home in the evening.
He was quite satisfied with the intelligence this time. It was very important and could be sent out together with the intelligence from Jiang Naichao last time and reported to Shanghai.
He was not in a hurry to send a message. His radio was not at his residence, so he could not send a message even if he wanted to at home.
The next morning, Yang Guang went out pushing his cart as usual.
The difference was that this time he did not go to collect the junk immediately, but came to an abandoned two-story building not far from his home.
This small building originally belonged to the police station and served as their patrol station. Later, after the area was converted into a garbage dump, no one wanted to be on duty here and it gradually became abandoned.
But even if it is abandoned, it is still police territory and nominally belongs to the police station.
Seeing Yang Guang sneaking into the small building, Shen Hanwen was a little confused. Could it be that Yang Guang thought there was something good in there and wanted to steal it?
But isn't he too brave to steal from a police officer?
After entering the small building, Yang Guang first went up to the second floor and stood by the window, secretly looking out.
After checking several windows and making sure there was no problem, he returned to the stove in the kitchen on the first floor and took out the radio hidden there.
No one would have thought that his radio station would be hidden in police territory.
Because this is a police station, even if there are no police here, ordinary homeless people would not dare to come in.
He discovered live wires here, hid the wires and the radio, and this place became a perfect place for him to send messages.
Moreover, this place is open and he can observe all the surrounding situations from upstairs. Even if someone approaches when he is sending the message, he can discover it in time.
The radio is hidden deep under the stove and is wrapped very thickly. If someone uses the stove to cook, the radio will not be damaged as long as they don't use fire every day.
If the police reopen this place, he will not have the opportunity to take the radio away, and there is no need to worry about the radio's hidden location being discovered.
Now that he has lost his radio, he will just apply for another one. To him, safety is more important than a radio.
"He didn't go in to steal anything."
Seeing that Yang Guang had not come out for a long time, Shen Hanwen immediately realized that something was wrong, but there was no cover outside the small building, and if they rushed over rashly, they would easily be discovered by Yang Guang inside.
Thinking of the team leader's instructions, Shen Hanwen patiently took out the telescope and observed carefully from a distance.
It took more than half an hour before Yang Guang came out, tying his belt as he walked. People who didn't know him thought he had gone in to relieve himself.
Only after Yang Guang left and started collecting scrap again did Shen Hanwen dare to enter the small building.
Shen Hanwen personally searched the small building, and a room on the second floor quickly caught his attention.
The other rooms here are full of dust, and you can leave deep footprints when you walk in. This room is also dusty, but much less, and there are no footprints on the floor.
Not only is the floor cleaner than in other rooms, this room also has a broken table, which is also quite clean.
Shen Hanwen walked to the front of the table. It happened that this position could not be seen from outside, but as long as he turned sideways, he could see the situation outside clearly.
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