My spy diary

Chapter 404 Dirty Work (asking for monthly ticket)

"Fujiang, Fujiang."

Boss Dai's face was filled with joy, and his mood instantly became extremely good. This devastating operation yielded such rich results, which was really a pleasant surprise.

He stood up, patted Zhang Yi on the shoulder and said, "Well done. I will recommend you for the credit of the Intelligence Department."

"You are overpraising me, Director. I was able to succeed by chance because they were caught off guard. I think we should conduct a surprise interrogation immediately to see if there are any fish that have escaped the net and try to catch them all in one fell swoop."

"Oh, that's true. We should seize the opportunity to pursue the victory and wipe out the Japanese spies lurking in the mountain city in one fell swoop."

"Yes, I will do it right away. After working hard for a few days, I finally got the result. Fortunately, I did not disappoint the director."

"What are you talking about? Why would I be disappointed? Oh, by the way, I really want to meet the female spy leader you arrested. This woman is very capable." Boss Dai thought of the contents of the file bag and felt very proud for a while.

"She is receiving treatment in the medical department. The Director can see her anytime."

Zhang Yi said this, feeling a little amused. No matter how charming and attractive she had been, she had now turned into a pig-head. What was so good about such a woman?

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the office door. Adjutant Jia came in hurriedly, looking panicked and said:
"Mr. Dai, something bad has happened. I just received a call from the Black Room. Director Wei Daming and Chi Buzhou are fighting."

"With whom? Chi Buzhou? Why did they fight?" Dai Chunfeng asked puzzledly.

"It is said that people from the CC faction are going to jointly file a complaint against Director Wei to the chairman."

"Ah?!" Boss Dai was stunned and asked immediately, "Have you submitted the complaint?"

"It should have been handed over." Adjutant Jia wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Dai Chunfeng's face darkened instantly. He knew that the struggle within the black room had reached a point of no return. He said angrily:
"Wu Zetian is a widow. What the hell is Wei Daming doing? Let's go to the dark room right now."

The struggle within the black room has been going on for a long time, and even Zhang Yi has heard about it.

Originally, there was a technical research department under the Military Commission, which was specifically responsible for intercepting and deciphering coded intelligence from various countries.

The founder of the department is Wen Qingzhu, who is known as the father of Chinese cryptography.

After the "September 18th" Incident, Wen Qingzhu felt that a war between China and Japan would break out sooner or later, so he strongly suggested that a secret organization similar to the "American Black Room" be established in China as soon as possible to specifically decipher Japan's secret codes.

Minister Song, who was a close personal friend of Wen Tuo, reported his idea to Mr. Chang.

Although Chang approved his suggestion, his attitude was not positive and he did not allocate any funds.

Wen Qingzhu had no choice but to find a few technical partners and use his spare time to collect some Japanese telegram manuscripts for secret research.

After the July 7 Incident, some Japanese intelligence deciphered by Wen Qingzhu gradually attracted the attention of Chang.

As the situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression became increasingly urgent, Chang asked the Japanese for intelligence more and more frequently.

Because Wen Qingzhu had limited staff under him, he had to go to his former subordinate, Wei Daming, who had worked as a radio operator at the Shanghai International Telecommunications Station, and ask him to send people to assist in the work and train telecommunications personnel, hoping to make a profit.

At this time, Wei Daming was already working under Boss Dai, and he reported the situation to Boss Dai truthfully.

Boss Dai realized that this was an opportunity and took the initiative to propose to Wen Qingzhu the idea of ​​cooperating to establish a Nippon Electric Translation Agency.

However, Wen Qingzhu was unwilling to include cryptographic research work in the scope of espionage intelligence, so he politely declined Boss Dai's suggestion.

Boss Dai was not discouraged because the Military Intelligence Bureau already had a Telecommunications Department, and it had a stable material and talent base to continue developing the code-breaking business.

When he specially hired the famous cryptographer Yadley from abroad at a high salary, he again proposed to cooperate with Wen Qingzhu.

Since Wen Qingzhu admired Yadley very much in decryption technology, and Yadley had already joined the Military Intelligence Bureau at that time, and the personnel conflicts in the Ministry of Communications where Wen Qingzhu worked were difficult to reconcile, Wen Qingzhu agreed to Boss Dai's suggestion.

Boss Dai was overjoyed, and immediately proposed to Chang that the code-breaking researchers of the Ministry of Communications, the Central Bureau of Investigation, and the Military Bureau of Investigation be unified to form a "Military Commission Technical Research Office" on the grounds of improving work efficiency and facilitating confidentiality.

This was a difficult period in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Chang urgently needed to understand the internal situation of the Japanese. When he saw Boss Dai's proposal, he quickly agreed.

Therefore, in early 1940, the Military Commission's Technical Research Office was officially established.

Although the "China Black Room" was established, it did not fulfill Boss Dai's wish.

Because in the "Military Technology Room", the person who actually holds power is Mao Daxiang, the confidential director of Chang's attendant room.

This is obviously inconsistent with Boss Dai's original intention of expanding the influence of the Military Control Commission, but facing Wen Qingzhu and Mao Daxiang, who have rich experience and strong backing, Boss Dai knows his limits.

In his early years, when Boss Dai was working on his own in Shanghai to gather intelligence, Mao Daxiang was already the confidential secretary of Mr. Chang.

At that time, Boss Dai had to flatter him all day long; and Wen Qingzhu, who obtained a doctorate degree from Harvard University in the United States, had already provided intelligence to Chang during the Central Plains War.

It was not the right time for Boss Dai to fight against the two of them. Moreover, Boss Dai, who was sensitive by nature, had already sensed from the personnel arrangements of the Military Technology Office that this was a deliberate move by Chang to disperse the forces and let his subordinates restrain each other.

For this reason, Dai Chunfeng had no choice but to endure.

Fortunately, things took a turn for the better soon.

Wen Qingzhu was also dissatisfied with the fact that the real power of the "Military Technology Room" fell into the hands of Mao Qingxiang. He took advantage of the special relationship between his family and the Song family and went to Mrs. Song and Minister Song every day to do things for them.

Chang was easily persuaded and rescinded the order for Mao Daxiang to serve as the director concurrently, and replaced him with Wen Qingzhu.

Now that one of the two tigers is gone, the rest will be easy to deal with.

Boss Dai instructed Wei Daming to spread rumors that Wen Qingzhu sold the Japanese government's diplomatic secret telegrams deciphered by the "Military Technology Room" to British spies at a high price.

On the surface, Wen Qingzhu had never taken out such deciphered secret messages, and no one knew where these messages had gone. It did seem like they had been sold to foreigners.

I don't know whether Wen Qingzhu knew that he could not defeat the Military Intelligence Bureau or was afraid that he would not be able to explain clearly if asked by Chang, so he went to Hong Kong for treatment on the grounds of suffering from jaundice and hepatitis and never returned.

Mao Daxiang originally had no knowledge of the specific research work in the technical research laboratory. Wen Qingzhu's departure made Mao Daxiang lose his direction. He wanted to manage it but couldn't, and the work in the laboratory was in chaos.

After Chang learned about the situation, he had no choice but to appoint Wei Daming as the acting director of the "Military Commission Technical Research Office."

Boss Dai finally got the real power of the "China Black Room" as he wished.

At this moment, a melee is breaking out inside the "black room", with shouting and cursing one after another, and everything is in chaos.

"Stop fighting, Mr. Dai is here."

The crowd dispersed completely. Dai Chunfeng glanced around coldly, and finally set his sights on the two instigators who were still fighting with each other, and scolded them:

"A big fat pig that has eaten too much and is so bloated, it's embarrassing."

Wei Daming let go of the hand that was tearing Chi Buzhou's clothes and said angrily: "Mr. Dai, they were the first to start this."

Chi Buzhou defended himself: "Director Dai, it's not like that." Before he finished speaking, Dai Chunfeng had already picked up a teacup and smashed it on the ground: "That's enough, isn't it embarrassing enough?"

In an instant, everyone was silent.

Dai Chunfeng's face was as gloomy as water. He touched his nose habitually, remained silent for a while, and said to Mao Qiwu while suppressing his anger:
"Put them both in solitary confinement first. No one is allowed to release them without my order."

Then, he thought for a while and said to Zhang Yi, "Go and ask and find out what happened."

"Yes."

Zhang Yi stepped forward to accept the order and looked at Chi Wei and the other man with bruised noses and eyes with amusement.

He was very familiar with Wei Daming, arrogant and cold, even a little domineering. It was the first time Chi Buzhou saw him, and he couldn't help but feel curious.

It is said that this person is from Minqing, Fujian, graduated from Waseda University in Japan, worked at the Chinese Embassy in Japan, and married a Japanese girl named Shirahama Eiko, and had one son and two daughters.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Chi Buzhou, out of his sincere patriotism, resolutely broke through numerous obstacles and returned to his motherland with his wife and children. Through the introduction of his classmates, he joined the confidential section of the General Affairs Group of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics and engaged in reconnaissance and decryption work.

Later, he was invited to join the organization established by Minister He within the Ministry of Military Affairs to decipher Japanese military secret codes, and served as the director of the Research and Translation Office of the Ministry of Military Affairs.

Without any assistants, he used the simplest methods, the most primitive tools and the most rudimentary equipment, summed up a set of technical secrets of decryption, and successfully deciphered the secret code of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

For this achievement he was awarded the Baoding Medal and was transferred to the Military Technology Room.

The two "fighting cocks" were invited to the confinement room. Zhang Yi first approached Wei Daming and said with a smile:
"Brother Daming, why bother coming?"

Wei Daming touched the bruises on his face and said angrily, "If you don't show some strength, do you really think I, the director, am a weakling? I've long disliked these CC faction members!"

"What did they do?"

"I am following the boss's instructions to eliminate dissidents." Wei Daming said it in a secretive manner.

The new official has three things to do when he takes office. In order to completely control the "Military Technology Room" in the hands of the Military Control Commission, Wei Daming ordered all staff in the room to hand in three two-inch half-body photos, re-create files for everyone, and process their certificates.

At first no one took it seriously, but when they were filling out the file, they found that the file card used was from the Military Control Commission’s Personnel Department. Everyone suddenly realized that they were going to force everyone into the Military Control Commission.

Once the file was written, it was clear that he was a member of the Military Control Commission, even if he was not. He walked in and came out lying down. Everyone immediately joined forces to resist.

Seeing that soft tactics didn't work, Wei Daming decided to make an example of someone to scare the monkeys. He instructed his men to hand over photos of the three most violent CC technicians to the Inspection Department of the Garrison Command, and requested the Inspection Department to track and monitor the three on the grounds that they were "suspected of collaborating with the enemy."

The Inspection Office was naturally controlled by the Military Control Commission, but since it involved the struggle between the two organizations, they did not want to make things worse without direct orders from Boss Dai, so they evaded the issue by saying, "We are short-staffed and unable to undertake this task. If it is really necessary, you can send your own Military Control Commission personnel to provide nearby surveillance."

Wei Daming was not angry at all when he received the call. As long as he got the reply from the Inspection Office, he could cut off the whole matter and report to the Military Intelligence Bureau on the grounds that the Inspection Office found that these three people were "suspected of collaborating with the enemy" but were unable to carry out the work due to lack of manpower. He then took action directly against these three people.

But as the saying goes, "Secrecy leads to success, while disclosure leads to failure." Wei Daming was waiting for a reply, but he did not expect that the letter was secretly opened by someone from the CC faction as soon as it arrived at the confidential room.

At the critical moment of life and death, the CC people decided to make a big deal out of it, the bigger the better.

So they immediately wrote a joint report to Chang to accuse Wei Daming, and attached the reply letter from the Inspection Office.

Wei Daming waited a long time for a reply, and when he asked, he found out that someone had got there first. In anger and humiliation, he went to question the CC people.

This group of people acted as if they were completely unaware and instead pushed Chi Buzhou, who had no background, out as a scapegoat.

When Chi Buzhou entered the military technology room, Wen Qing was still in power. He was a gentleman and honest man, very popular.

But his successor Wei Daming, relying on the support of Boss Dai, was arrogant and domineering. As soon as he took office, he clashed with the stubborn Chi Buzhou, and Chi was directly squeezed out of the key department.

This time, forcing others to change their jobs became the fuse for the conflict to break out. After a few words, the two technical experts and the pale-faced scholar went into battle shirtless.

After figuring out the whole story, Zhang Yi was speechless. Many things fell apart in the intrigue and internal strife...

"Director, the complaint letter has been submitted. What about the chairman?" In the office, Zhang Yi asked with a worried look on his face after finishing his report.

"He is more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything." Boss Dai cursed angrily, and said anxiously, "If the old man gets angry, the Military Control Commission will completely lose control of the Black Room."

Mao Qiwu thought for a moment and said, "Now it depends on whether Tang Heng can intercept the letter."

"Him?" Boss Dai sneered.

He has always treated this mature and strategic old military commander well for many years, especially since Tang entered the attendant's office as the major general team leader in charge of intelligence, he has taken care of Tang's life in every possible way.

The General Affairs Department of the Military Intelligence Bureau sent Tang a monthly living allowance and daily necessities, and gave him large amounts of money and gifts during festivals. The purpose was to force Tang to continue using his authority to look after the work of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

However, Tang was obviously ambitious. After gaining a foothold in the attendant's office, he insisted on the principle of fairness in the friction between the intelligence systems of the Military Control Commission and the Central Control Commission, and never favored the Military Control Commission.

He even said: "How can I be so obviously biased towards one side? I can't take care of Group 6 alone."

Not only that, in order to avoid the suspicion that he came from the Military Control Commission, Tang Heng often affirmed the strengths of the Central Control Commission in front of Chang and criticized the work of the Military Control Commission in a timely manner.

This move made Boss Dai extremely angry, but it attracted more attention from Chang. Although this person was timid, he was rigorous in his work, never showed off, or formed cliques, and was good at understanding Chang's psychology, which pleased Chang and gradually made him his confidant.

Sure enough, the phone in the office rang, and Tang Heng's calm voice came from the other end:

"Hello, oh, it's Director Mao. Please tell Brother Yunong that the principal is very angry and after careful consideration, he decided to remove Director Wei Daming from his position and let him return to the Military Control Bureau. By the way, Mao Daxiang will be the acting director of the Technical Research Office again."

The phone call was hung up. A few casual words conveyed a huge amount of information: the Military Control Commission was kicked out.

Mao Qiwu looked at Boss Dai sternly:

"Seat!"

Dai Chunfeng's face was as cold as ice.

He walked to the window, looked at the gloomy night sky, and said after a while:

"I have no objection to the principal's decision, but without Butcher Zhang, we won't eat hairy pigs? Release Wei Daming, withdraw all our people, and re-establish a special technology research lab."

After saying that, he suddenly turned around and looked at Zhang Yi with hatred in his eyes:

"But we can't just let this go. Those three bastards who were involved in the conspiracy must die for both public and private reasons."

Zhang Yi shuddered at what he heard. This was clearly an order given to him. This kind of dirty work...

"Commander, at this critical moment, I think it's best not to touch them for now."

Before he finished speaking, Dai Chunfeng interrupted him and said meaningfully:
"What if it was an accident?"

……

(End of this chapter)