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Zhang Anping must personally interrogate these "repatriated" subordinates.

This is as it should be - after all, this is Zhang Anping's first "crushing defeat", and he has to take the necessary actions no matter what.

This is the only way to fit the character.

In addition to the elite troops directly under Zhang Anping, the Xi'an Station also participated in the review.

Among the numerous branches of the Military Control Commission, there are not many district-level agencies, but more are stations or groups.

Among the many station groups, Xi'an Station is a very special institution.

In terms of staff size, Xi'an Station is far larger than the directly affiliated Chongqing Station, and is even larger than several unimportant districts.

The reason is that this is the front line for confronting and infiltrating Yan'an.

The spies with the most experience in dealing with the CCP in the Military Control Commission were basically all in the Xi'an Station, and most of the CCP traitors received were also in the Xi'an Station - even the "traitor" Bian Jike, who was "personally" instigated and received by Zhang Anping, was transferred to the Xi'an Station.

It can be said that the Military Control Commission’s Xi’an Station is a special agency that knows Yan’an best.

This is also the reason why Zhang Anping chose Xi'an as the transfer site.

After the released spies were collectively detained, the investigation work was carried out on a large scale. Although Zhang Anping's direct subordinates and the spies from Xi'an Station, a total of more than 300 people, participated in the investigation, the speed of the investigation was still not fast enough.

There is no way around it. During the review, it is not enough to just ask a few questions. Usually, it is necessary to inquire a piece of information to multiple people, and only after obtaining a unified answer will it be considered qualified. When faced with more than a hundred people, there are more than thousands of pieces of information involved.
After going through various screening and inquiry processes over and over again, there is no telling why the process may have to be started all over again because of another piece of unexpected intelligence.

This review lasted for ten days.

The elite troops directly under Zhang Anping were able to hold on, but the spies in Xi'an were complaining bitterly. The high-intensity questioning and screening was a test for those being questioned, but it was an even heavier burden for the interrogators.

After ten days of waiting, the spies at Xi'an Station were unable to conduct an interrogation, and people kept complaining to the stationmaster of Xi'an Station who was assisting them:
"Webmaster, I really can't take it anymore. When I close my eyes now, all I see is all kinds of messed up news. I really can't take it anymore."

The stationmaster of Xi'an Station was actually exhausted.

He originally didn't care much about Zhang Anping, but not long ago, Zhang Anping chopped down with his machete, and the prison warden who followed his instructions and did not release the prisoner was ordered to be dismissed by the bureau headquarters, and then he was investigated. When Zhang Anping arrived, there was a gunshot, and his trusted prison warden was dead.

Under such circumstances, how could the stationmaster of Xi'an Station dare to pretend to obey but actually disobey?

He was afraid that Zhang Anping would kill him as well as make an example of him.

"Can't handle it? How many groups of people do you interrogate in a day? Do you know how many groups of people Chief Zhang interrogates in a day? How much information do you face in a day? Do you know how much information Chief Zhang faces in a day?"

"Did Commander Zhang say he couldn't handle it?"

"Let me tell you, Commander Zhang rests for less than three hours a day. Apart from that, he even takes the information you asked for with him when he goes to the toilet, checking and filling in the gaps over and over again!"

"The intelligence summaries of the few times your group was beaten back were all picked out by Commander Zhang! Do you think you're the only one who's tired? Go back to work!"

The stationmaster of Xi'an Station flattered him from a distance.

But this flattery also gave the Xi'an Stationmaster an idea:
I don't dare to stop Chief Zhang's endless screening work, but...what if I save the country in a roundabout way?
He immediately sent a telegram to the Chongqing Bureau, saying:

The Xi'an station is currently seriously understaffed. Due to the shortage of staff, Chief Zhang has been in Xi'an for ten days and has less than three hours of rest time a day. In addition, he is always interrogating and releasing agents and reading review reports over and over again. Please ask the bureau headquarters to send more staff to solve this urgent problem.

On the one hand, this telegram was a request for help, but on the other hand, it was a veiled message:
My Xi'an station has nothing to do now. I'm only responsible for review and identification. If anything goes wrong in the future, don't blame me!
After the Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters received the telegram, it immediately submitted it to Dai Chunfeng's office because it involved Zhang Anping.

After seeing the telegram from Xi'an Station, Dai Chunfeng actually did not realize the hidden intention of Xi'an Station to shirk responsibility. Instead, he was worried that his nephew would not be able to bear it if this continued.

Compared with simple physical labor, mental labor is more labor-intensive, not to mention that my nephew has a huge lump in his heart.

He could understand Zhang Anping's reluctance, but his nephew's desperate efforts were beyond his imagination.

Dai Chunfeng originally wanted to send a telegram to warn Zhang Anping not to work so hard, but knowing his nephew's temper well, he knew that Zhang Anping might not pay attention to his concern. After much thought, he decided to go to Xi'an to take a look.

Just leave.

Dai Chunfeng secretly boarded a plane and appeared in Xi'an that afternoon. He did not inform Zhang Anping, but asked the stationmaster of Xi'an Station to take him to see how desperately his nephew was working.

The stationmaster of Xi'an Station was almost scared to death. He didn't expect that after sending the telegram in the morning, the big boss would show up in Xi'an in the afternoon.

After realizing Dai Chunfeng's immense trust in Commander Zhang, the stationmaster of Xi'an Station secretly congratulated himself for his full cooperation and began to flatter Zhang Anping.

During this period, Zhang Anping did work very hard, but according to the stationmaster of Xi'an Station, it was not working very hard, but burning himself out.

He took the noncommittal Dai Chunfeng to the military camp outside the city and visited the inspection camp set up by Zhang Anping.

"All personnel were detained and questioned individually, in small groups of three, and each small group of three formed a screening unit."

"Whether any screening unit can complete the review requires Chief Zhang's personal approval..."

While the stationmaster was introducing himself, he happened to see one of his subordinates returning with a pile of documents in his arms. After Dai Chunfeng made a gesture, the stationmaster stopped his subordinate and said:
"what happened?"

"I got a call back - Commander Zhang circled a few messages and said there were some omissions in them, so he asked me to review them again."

Dai Chunfeng suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the spy looked so sad.

After the other party left, Dai Chunfeng asked, "Shouyi, how many units have passed the screening so far?"

"Originally there were six -" Stationmaster Wang Shouyi reported, "But yesterday, due to a discrepancy in the answer, Officer Zhang rejected two of the units."

One screening unit consists of 9 people, and the six units combined are less than half!
Dai Chunfeng was speechless about Zhang Anping's pursuit of perfection, but he understood that his nephew was just holding his breath.

With all this hassle, it’s no wonder that Xi’an Station is short-staffed.

"Take me to see Shihao."

"Yes."

Dai Chunfeng followed Wang Shouyi quietly to Zhang Anping's office. In fact, before he entered, Zhang Anping had already determined that it was Old Dai who came by the sound of footsteps.

【Wang Shouyi finally invited someone here! 】

Zhang Anping complained secretly.

He was doing this just for show, but the show had to be seen by those who needed to see it.

His performance was naturally for Old Dai to see, so he tortured himself and the Xi'an Station for it. After trying his best, he finally managed to torture Old Dai.

So he continued to work carefully, seriously and in depth, and even when Old Dai came to the door, he "didn't notice".

Dai Chunfeng stood at the door and saw his nephew frowning from time to time and making notes on documents with a pen from time to time. After waiting for a while, he deliberately coughed.

Zhang Anping was instantly furious: "I said quiet...Uncle, Chief!"

Actor Zhang showed three emotions in an instant: rage, astonishment, and respect. The transition between the three emotions was natural and fast, and it was spontaneous. He stood up with a hint of embarrassment, showing his helplessness at the moment.

Dai Chunfeng then strode in, looking at the pile of documents in the room, and saw the number written by Zhang Anping on each document. Then he returned his gaze to Zhang Anping, and after seeing his nephew's bloodshot eyes, slovenly appearance, and tired face, he frowned and said:
"How long do you plan to review it?"

Is the review useful?
Have!
But is censorship useful?
No!

The most obvious example is when the Anti-Japanese War had not yet fully broken out, Zhang Anping planned the position of Shanghai District Chief for Gu Shenyan and tricked Chen Moqun badly.

According to Zhang Anping's calculations at the time, once Chen Moqun fell, Wang Shi'an was a "Communist", and given the personnel situation in the Shanghai area, if he promoted on the spot, only Gu Shenyan would be the successor.

But Old Dai did not play by the rules. He simply changed the Shanghai District into the Shanghai Station and sent Old Wu to be the station chief.

All the former middle and high-level cadres in the Shanghai district were investigated - including Gu Shenyan. The investigation lasted for more than half a year, but to no avail. Gu Shenyan was finally reinstated.

So it is not an exaggeration to say that censorship is of little use.

We are all spies. If we really want to make trouble among the released people, it would be like the undercover agents Zhang Anping sent to the New Fourth Army. They were hidden in three layers inside and outside. How could the real core be found out through investigation?

So Dai Chunfeng was a little dissatisfied with Zhang Anping's stubborn behavior.

"I, I..." Zhang Anping paused, took a deep breath and said, "Director, give me another five days."

"Five days?"

Dai Chunfeng asked angrily: "Who are you, Zhang Shihao?"

"You are the top general of our Military Control Commission, and you are Zhang Shihao, who is famous and frightening to the Japanese!"

"Do you want to waste your precious time and energy here?"

Faced with the questioning, Zhang Anping remained silent for a few seconds, then said angrily: "I won't accept this!"

"The Japanese are in front of me, I can manipulate them however I want, and plot against them however I want. No chief of the Shanghai secret service agency has ever had a good ending under me!"

"But, in front of the Communist Party, I lost inexplicably!"

Dai Chunfeng thought to himself, as expected, this brat has an incredibly big knot in his heart!
He suppressed his temper and waved to Wang Shouyi who had shrunk to the door. After Wang Shouyi closed the door and left, Dai Chunfeng said:
"Anping, you must be able to win and lose! The truly strong can always withstand setbacks. Throughout history, which strong person didn't come out this way?"

"If you dwell on a failure and become afraid of failure, your future will be limited to that!"

Zhang Anping was silent for a longer time this time. After a long while, he said:

"Uncle, I, I'm not being too picky."

Dai Chunfeng chuckled, but did not expose Zhang Anping's lie. He took the opportunity to sit on the hot chair where Zhang Anping was sitting and asked:

"So is there any result?"

Zhang Anping replied:

"We now have the general process of how the Communist Party uncovered the intelligence network, but I still cannot reconstruct the detailed process."

Dai Chunfeng frowned at first, but soon relaxed his brows.

This is actually understandable.

After being arrested, members of the spy network must have confessed something.

Often, an unintentional mistake may lead to the leakage of important information.

But during the investigation, no one can give a sincere answer - everyone has selfish motives, this has been true throughout history, both in China and abroad.

Therefore, if Zhang Anping wanted to deduce the whole process through review, he would inevitably lose his direction because of the various misleading or hidden answers.
Dai Chunfeng understood why Zhang Anping took so long, so he asked, "What else did you get?"

“A total of 14 people confessed to me that they were instigated by the Communist Party;

There were 11 other people who were slandered by the Communist Party using various means, including Lin Nansheng's most capable assistant.

There are four more people. I suspect they have already been recruited by the Communist Party and were sent in as undercover agents this time."

Dai Chunfeng looked at Zhang Anping in astonishment. He couldn't believe that Zhang Anping had actually found out this information.

But looking at the mountains of documents in the office, Dai Chunfeng felt that this was quite reasonable.

At this time, Zhang Anping added:
"These were all discovered through various clues in the past four days. In the past six days, there has been no result."

Seeing Zhang Anping's frustrated look, Dai Chunfeng said unhappily:

"Just be content!"

"The Communist Party must have prepared more than just this, and they must have inserted more than this. You're lucky if you can find at least four of them! I guess they themselves didn't expect you to find them out - they dared to insert the nails, so they must have made all the preparations."

Zhang Anping shook his head: "I don't have any evidence, so I want to collect as much evidence as possible and then cause trouble for them."

You little bastard, you have such a petty mind!

Dai Chunfeng complained in his heart and said, "You silly boy, how could they leave evidence? And from what I know about the Communist Party, they are just trying to get in. Now that we are facing a powerful enemy, they will not rashly use it and will definitely not give us a chance to catch them."

"Just get rid of those four, and avoid embarrassing yourself."

Zhang Anping frowned: "I want to prove it - forget it, I'll let someone do it."

Dai Chunfeng likes Zhang Anping's attitude. Although he has his own opinions and ideas, he will execute his orders unconditionally when they come.

"Have you discovered anything else?"

"No more," Zhang Anping paused again after answering, and said in an uncertain tone: "Director, do you think it is possible that Lin Nansheng has a problem?"

"Lin Nansheng?"

Dai Chunfeng was stumped by Zhang Anping's question.

He had never considered Lin Nansheng from the beginning to the end, mainly because the spy network had always been in Lin Nansheng's hands. If there was anything wrong with Lin Nansheng, the spy network would have been exposed long ago. He would never have waited until now.

But Zhang Anping's words were like a wake-up call.

What if it was intentional?

After thinking carefully for a while, Dai Chunfeng felt that this possibility could not be ruled out - if there was something wrong with Lin Nansheng, then all their speculations were wrong.

But, is it possible?

Dai Chunfeng stared at Zhang Anping: "What do you think?"

"I want to keep Lin Nansheng with me."

"So confident?"

“If he has a problem, the next thing is, even if he is in a silent period, he will definitely take the initiative to act. As long as he has a problem…” Zhang Anping gradually fell silent, but the strong murderous intent in his eyes could not be ignored.

"It's up to you - Okay, we can stop the review and let these people go for now."

Dai Chunfeng taught: "In the intelligence industry, there are not many coincidences. If there are, there is probably something wrong. If they can be linked to the Communist Party next time, whether they are innocent or not, they should die. Do you understand?"

This is also Dai Chunfeng's usual style of doing things.

In fact, undercover agents are the most difficult to detect. If they remain silent, they can basically not be detected. Only when they are constantly active can it be easy to catch clues.

Among those who might be undercover agents, how many of them will be used frequently?
Even when caught, the undercover agents often have countless "evidence" to prove their innocence.

What should I do?
Dai Chunfeng’s response plan is:
If several people are on the suspect list of a certain incident, and someone appears on the suspect list again when something happens next time, he will be arrested and severely punished!
If you do this, at least nine out of ten times you will fail.

But, were the nine failures really failures?

You have to know that the underground party’s words are sometimes ridiculously hard!
In the final analysis, this is another way of saying it is better to kill by mistake than to let the net go. Although innocent people may be involved, compared with the losses caused by the traitor, a few lives are really nothing to the spy agency that regards human life as worthless.

Zhang Anping nodded silently.

Dai Chunfeng smiled and stood up and patted Zhang Anping on the shoulder:

"Kindness does not command the army, righteousness does not command wealth, affection does not establish affairs, benevolence does not engage in politics - each industry has its own way of doing things, and you always want to do things perfectly."

"But in our line of work, especially when it comes to internal counterintelligence, how can we do it perfectly?"

"Go and take a rest, have a good sleep for two days, and then go where you should go."

Dai Chunfeng left after saying this, leaving Zhang Anping standing there in a daze.

It was not until Dai Chunfeng disappeared that a fleeting look of relief appeared on Zhang Anping's face.

After the Yan'an spy network was destroyed, he did countless cleanup work and cleared himself of blame.

It gives people a very procrastinating feeling, um, commonly known as water word count.

But he had to do it!

Dai Chunfeng, the king of spies who has been in charge of the Military Intelligence Bureau for many years, has countless Military Intelligence Bureau agents submitting to him.

Although Dai Chunfeng is Zhang Anping's cousin, and although Zhang Anping is regarded as his successor by Dai Chunfeng and is being trained as such, does Zhang Anping dare to be careless?

Don’t dare!
Zhang Anping had already guessed what Dai Chunfeng had just taught him through his understanding of Dai Chunfeng's code of conduct - faced with such a ruthless and decisive way of doing things, no undercover agent could make the same mistake twice in front of Dai Chunfeng.

Zhang Anping didn't dare to bet whether he would be treated specially.

……

Dai Chunfeng did not stay in Xi'an for long before leaving in a hurry. Before leaving, Zhang Anping was in a dream, so he did not disturb him. He just asked Wang Shouyi to tell Zhang Anping:
"Stop wasting time—business is important!"

The "business" that Dai Chunfeng mentioned was naturally the task that Zhang Anping had received before:

Destroy U.S. military aid to the New Fourth Army.

After a good sleep for an entire afternoon and a night, Zhang Anping reappeared early the next morning, feeling refreshed.

Wang Shouyi, who was awakened by his subordinates, ran over to ask for instructions: "Chief Zhang, the review matter..."

"Stop it - I have a list here. You have them executed, and I will take the rest away."

After being "taught" by Old Dai, Zhang Anping was particularly decisive today.

Hearing that the God of Plague was leaving, Wang Shouyi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He is finally leaving. This plague god has brought disaster to Chongqing and now comes to Xi'an to bring disaster to him - God knows how Wang Shouyi has been living these past ten days!

As the order was given, the agents who had been tormented for ten days finally felt relieved. The agents in charge of the review were tired, and the agents being reviewed had a hard time too!

Now, the clouds and fog have finally cleared.

The number of people in this group was too large, so other agents naturally could not take the plane. Zhang Anping arranged for people to escort them to the Third War Zone, and then they took off on a plane in the afternoon and headed to the Third War Zone first.

He was accompanied by almost all the original cast members, with only one new face.

Lin Nansheng.

Although no one paid attention to Lin Nansheng sitting on the plane, he looked relaxed, as if the investigation was finally over.

But his heart felt heavy and confused.

For others, the ordeal is over.

But for Lin Nansheng, the real test has just begun!
Lin Nansheng glanced at Zhang Anping who was pretending to sleep with his eyes closed, and thought to himself:

What comes next is... the key!

……

The plane arrived at the Qianshan airport, and Lu Yaohui, director of the Third War Zone Supervision Department, came to pick it up.

Seeing Zhang Anping coming down, Lu Yaohui couldn't wait to greet him: "Chief Zhang."

Facing Lu Yaohui's attentiveness, Zhang Anping pretended to be polite and said:

"Director Lu, from now on you and I are colleagues, so please do not mention your superior's words again."

Lu Yaohui immediately looked serious: "Chief Zhang, no matter when and where, you are always my Chief Zhang! What I said comes from the bottom of my heart, and it is absolutely true!"

Zhang Anping expressed his emotion:
"It is said that a journey of a thousand miles reveals a horse's strength, and time reveals a person's heart!"

"Brother Yaohui's true love will be engraved in my heart and I will never forget it."

Lu Yaohui immediately put on a "small" posture: "Chief Zhang, you must not do this..."

The two of them started acting here.

In fact, after Zhang Anping was dismissed from his position as the mayor of the Beijing-Shanghai District, Lu Yaohui began to think:

Has Mr. Zhang lost his power?
Although the Director of Intelligence of the Third War Zone was one level higher than the Director of Supervision, he was not as dominant as he had been in the past. Lu Yaohui felt that he had reached the point where he could look Zhang Anping on an equal footing - but before he could even show off, Zhang Anping dealt with several Military Control Commission cadres in succession, one of whom was even a senior colonel.

Lu Yaohui immediately realized that there are differences between one director and another, and that Director Zhang Anping was far more valuable than him, so he immediately behaved himself.

At this time, Lu Yaohui panicked when he remembered some things he had done inadvertently after learning that Zhang Anping was demoted. So when he learned that Zhang Anping had returned to the Third War Zone, he came over to show his loyalty.

Seeing Zhang Anping's amiable attitude, Lu Yaohui finally felt relieved.

Led by Lu Yaohui, the group arrived at the Intelligence Department's headquarters.

……

After settling down a bit, Zhang Anping called Lin Nansheng:
"Lin Nansheng, come in with me."

Although Lin Nansheng was prepared, he still felt his scalp tingling at this moment.

He pretended to be nervous and followed Zhang Anping step by step and came to the room prepared for Zhang Anping.

Lin Nansheng acted ashamed again: "Teacher, student..."

Zhang Anping looked at his student with a smile, pointed at a table not far away, and said:

"The interior is nicely decorated, but it's just missing a pot of Clivia."

Clivia?
These three words immediately triggered the key words engraved in Lin Nansheng's mind.

However, Lin Nansheng didn't even think about it. Instead, he said carefully, "Teacher, what kind of Clivia do you like? I'll prepare a pot for you some other day."

Zhang Anping looked at Lin Nansheng with a smile:
“You should ask – what kind of Clivia do you like!”

Lin Nansheng felt a chill in his heart, but he still asked obediently: "Teacher, what kind of Clivia do you like?"

"For Clivia miniata, it takes eight to ten years or even longer to grow from seed to bloom."

Lin Nansheng felt like the sky was falling.

Just now, he was still feeling lucky and thought that Zhang Anping's words "You should ask - what variety of Clivia do you like" were a blessing in disguise.

But the addition of the word "at every turn" in the following sentence says it all.

This was indeed the code he used to contact his superiors. Now that Zhang Shihao knew the code and asked about it, there was only one explanation:
The superiors were arrested and all were gone!

Deny it flatly?

still is……

Lin Nansheng smiled faintly:
"it's me."

He chose to be calm.

Since Zhang Anping has already said the secret code that only three people know, what's the point of him carrying it?

Just be straightforward!
Zhang Anping laughed, even laughed out loud.

Lin Nansheng's answer to the secret code was not "It's me".

He said "it was me", there was no doubt that it must have been a misunderstanding.

But to Lin Nansheng, this laughter sounded as if Zhang Anping was mocking himself - the student he trusted turned out to be an underground party member!

So, Lin Nansheng answered proudly: "Teacher, I will call you teacher for the last time - we cannot work together if we have different ideologies!"

Zhang Anping stopped laughing, looked at Lin Nansheng with a smile, and said softly:
"I seem to remember the commander told me that as long as you say this set of codes, you will be your superior, right?"

As soon as these words came out, Lin Nansheng was completely stunned.

Sir, that is exactly what he said.

He looked at Zhang Anping in surprise.

Zhang Anping looked at Lin Nansheng with a smile.

There was no murderous intent in his eyes, only a smile, a kind smile and a barely perceptible hint of teasing.

Sometimes it is really interesting to see these smart people preferring to believe that there are ghosts in the world rather than believe that Zhang Anping is gay.

But sometimes, it's also quite sad.

Lin Nansheng was stunned for a long time: "Teacher?"

"Ok?"

"you……"

Zhang Anping laughed:
"When you joined the party, your introducer... kept it a secret, right?"

He pointed to himself:
"I am your party introducer!" (End of this chapter)