My spy diary

Chapter 504 Transmission (asking for monthly ticket)
After Zheng Huhe left, Zhang Yi cooked a bowl of noodles and was eating it voraciously when suddenly, the phone on the table rang.

He walked over, picked it up, and asked softly, "Who?"

A man's deep voice came from the other end of the phone: "Director Zhang, is it convenient for us to meet?"

It’s Lu Genquan.

This man is a Shanghai builder who is on good terms with the Military Control Commission. He was developed into an informant by Boss Dai and assigned to work undercover beside Kong family's adopted son Lin Shiliang. He secretly collected intelligence and evidence of Lin Shiliang's smuggling and trafficking. He is now in the hands of Zhang Yi.

But the two hadn't been in touch for some time, and the other party called at this time to make an appointment to meet. Could it be that he already had evidence of Lin Shiliang's guilt?

"Boss Lin, what's the matter?"

"I have some findings that need to be reported."

Zhang Yi thought for a moment and said, "Then let's meet at Lao Mai Coffee House in half an hour."

"Okay!" After saying this, Lu Genquan hung up the phone.

More than ten minutes later, Zhang Yi arrived at Lao Mai Coffee House ahead of time. Although he was meeting with an acquaintance, he did not dare to relax at all and was as serious as carrying out a mission.

He parked the car far away and walked around the coffee shop, bargaining seriously, buying a pack of cigarettes, and observing the coffee shop. He walked straight in until he was sure that everything was normal, there were no spies, and no suspicious people.

There were fewer people in the coffee shop in the evening. Zhang Yi waited for a while before the waiter cleared a table on the left side of the counter near the back door. Sitting here, he could see everyone entering the coffee shop and evacuate from the back door in case of an emergency. It was a combination of offense and defense, and he could move forward and backward freely.

He ordered a cup of coffee and read the newspaper. After a while, Lu Genquan came in and sat down opposite him.

"Boss Zhang, it's been a long time, right?"

"Just arrived."

The waiter wearing white gloves and a shirt and waistcoat came over.

"Another cup of coffee." Zhang Yi gave the order and smiled at Lu Genquan. "Where have you made your fortune recently?"

"Build houses for the employees of the Ministry of Finance."

"What a fat job."

"What a lucrative job! Prices are rising every day, but wages haven't. When the project is finished, the little money won't be enough to pay the workers. It's so difficult!"

Zhang Yi nodded. Since the beginning of the national war of resistance, as the Japanese army advanced rapidly, the national army retreated all the way, and the country's economic center and prosperous and wealthy areas fell into the hands of the enemy. The national government only ruled the southwest corner. The economic situation was naturally very bad. In addition, production was exhausted, inflation led to rising prices, and people were living in poverty and the economy was on the verge of collapse. The situation was so serious that even government officials were complaining, not to mention ordinary people.

Since the beginning of this year, prices in the rear areas have been rising rapidly like a wild horse that has broken free from its reins. Even Chang can no longer sit still.

As far as Zhang Yi knows, Chang instructed Vice Premier Kong to take the lead in discussing with the Minister of Economic Affairs, the Minister of Transportation, and senior officials from the Department of Political Science to implement the phased method of stabilizing prices proposed by the Secretariat, but no one agreed.

Just as Tang Heng said, "Now the country is still dominated by capitalist bureaucrats. Any opinions and suggestions that go against their interests cannot be implemented. Therefore, even if the chairman tries hard to persuade us and cries bitterly, it will be ineffective."

Chang was so angry about this that he called everyone except Kong to his official residence and scolded them: "You vice presidents and ministers think I don't understand economics, but in fact I know nothing about military affairs or diplomacy. My military achievements are the result of hard work, and today's diplomatic situation is also the result of our hard work. If you understand economics, you should come up with a solution. Otherwise, you should listen to me and follow my advice."

But those who understand economics are unwilling to come up with a solution, and those who come up with a solution are considered to be ignorant. The two opinions clash, and Kong and the Political Science Department are roughly on the same front. Even Chang's opinion cannot be implemented. What else can be done?

"You have to believe in the Party and the country, and believe in the Chairman." Zhang Yi consoled her, then changed the subject, "Is there any news from Lin Shiliang?"

"It's about him, this afternoon." Lu Genquan said here, and seeing Zhang Yi waving his hand, he quickly changed the subject. He looked up and found that the waiter was coming over with coffee.

"Try it, the coffee here is good."

Lu Genquan took a sip of coffee, and waited until the waiter walked away before whispering, "Today's meeting is related to him. An economic salon was held at his home this afternoon, and suddenly Kong San and a pretty boy came. I vaguely heard them talking about rickshaw drivers. Later, Lin Shiliang gave a lot of money to his driver, and the driver really brought a rickshaw driver a while later. The pretty boy gave him instructions for a long time. I guessed it should be related to Deputy Director Yang's matter, so I thought of letting you know."

"You mean they got a rickshaw driver to give false testimony?"

"possible."

"Who is that pretty boy?"

Lu Genquan thought for a moment and said, "I think his name is Chief Meng."

"Section Chief Meng?" Zhang Yi didn't say that he had a photographic memory, but his brain was filled with archived information about many people and events. After a while of thinking, he roughly guessed the identity of this person - Meng Zhen, Section Chief of Section 4 of the Second Group of the Central Bureau of Investigation. This section was the core of the core of the Central Bureau of Investigation. Its only task was to plan anti-red activities and it called itself the "engine" of the Central Bureau of Investigation's anti-red spy activities.

Moreover, Meng Zhen was not only well-known within the Central Bureau of Investigation, but also famous in the Kuomintang intelligence system because he had been to Pagoda Mountain.

During the Battle of Shanghai, while Xu Zeng'en was urgently arranging for spies to lurk in Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, he did not forget to deal with the Red Party in his busy schedule. He sent senior spies Liu Guilin, Fan Zhenzhong, Tian Kun and others to lead a team to sneak into the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, establish and lead an anti-Red spy organization there, and wait for an opportunity to steal intelligence.

However, most of the spies were active in the fringes of the border areas and did not dare to enter the central area at all, with one exception.

Among Liu, Fan, Tian and others there was a man named Meng Zhen who was "a young and inexperienced man who was not afraid of a tiger". In other words, he was "very ambitious". He even went into the border area to conduct a field investigation.

He asked the Shaanxi Civil Affairs Department for a title of "inspector" and began to go deep into Pagoda Mountain under the pretext of inspecting the provincial government construction. He first visited Zhang Tao, the deputy chairman of the border government, and then visited the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. He also accepted a banquet held by Luo Bazi, the dean of education of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and generously donated ten yuan of legal currency to the cooperative.

His trip to Pagoda Mountain lasted more than a month. After returning, he immediately wrote a report of more than 10,000 words, detailing his impressions of the trip. He believed that although northern Shaanxi was poor, the people were poor, materials were scarce, and the ecological environment was extremely poor, the Red Party was full of vigor and vitality and should not be underestimated. It must be prevented and suppressed.
With this report "Adventures in Pagoda Mountain", Meng Zhen pioneered the precedent of Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics spies infiltrating Pagoda Mountain to conduct espionage activities. He not only won a lot of reputation for himself, but also for the Central Bureau of Investigation and Xu Zeng'en, and his status soared.

Although Zhang Yi had known before that the police station, the gendarmerie headquarters, and the Central Bureau of Investigation were connected in the "Kong Sanjia robbery" incident, he did not expect that the person sent by the Central Bureau of Investigation would be Meng Zhen. Could it be that they wanted to "beat" Yang Zaixing into becoming a member of the Red Party?

After chatting with Lu Genquan for a while and instructing him to continue secretly collecting evidence of Lin Shiliang's crimes, Zhang Yi parted ways with him.

After leaving the cafe, he immediately called Dai Chunfeng's office to report the incident with the rickshaw driver.

On the other end of the phone, Dai Chunfeng looked a little serious when he heard the news. On the other side, in the interrogation room.

Just as Zhang Yi expected, the pretty boy who interrogated Yang Zaixing was indeed Meng Zhen.

At this moment, Yang Zaixing had been tortured to the point of being on the verge of death, but he never uttered a word.

Meng Zhen was anxious. He walked over and grabbed Yang Zaixing's hair, cursing viciously: "Fuck you, you are stubborn and don't say anything. Do you think you can get away with it by being dumb? I tell you, those so-called iron-toothed and copper-jawed Red Party members can't last more than 24 hours under my hands."

After saying that, he picked up the water cup on the table and went out cursing.

The fat man came over and looked down at Yang Zaixing: "Tell me, the sooner you tell me, the sooner you will be free. Who ordered you to do this?"

The long period of suffocation seemed to make Yang Zaixing lose the strength to speak. He collapsed to the ground, occasionally letting out a groan from the depths of his throat.

The fat man continued to ask: "Kong Xiaobao was introduced to you by Zhang Yi. What role did he play in this? Did he know about the agreement you reached with Kong San? Did he receive any money?"

Yang Zaixing moved slightly, as if he was about to speak. The fat man immediately leaned over and put his ear close to him. He heard Yang Zaixing mumble, "Water, I want to drink water."

"Thirsty, huh?" Meng Zhen had come back at this moment. He carefully held a cup filled with urine in his hand and said to the fat man and the thugs:

"Open his mouth and let him drink enough at once."

The thugs held down Yang Zaixing's arms, the fat man pried open his mouth, and Meng Zhen poured a cup of liquid directly into him. Yang Zaixing struggled frantically, but to no avail.
On the other side, Zheng Huhe and two underground party members disguised as "cleaners" had arrived outside the Wanglongmen Detention Center.

"Who are you looking for? Stand back!" A guard armed with a gun saw the three of them and immediately raised his gun vigilantly.

"Commander Zhang Wei asked us to come here to clean up."

"I haven't been notified, stand back."

Zheng Huhe quickly handed over a pack of cigarettes and said flatteringly, "Boss, you've worked hard. Please let me know that it was Commander Zhang who asked us to come."

After saying that, he took out a few crumpled bills and stuffed them into the other person's pockets.

The guard then glanced at the three of them, turned around and went into the phone booth to make a call.

After a long time, Zhang Wei, with a greasy face, finally appeared with two of his men. He wiped his mouth as he walked and glanced at the three people suspiciously: "You came so soon?"

"Sir, I received a call and was afraid of delaying your work, so I rushed over without eating." Zheng Huhe smiled humbly and handed over his ID.

"Zheng San?" Zhang Wei glared at him to shut up. After glancing at the ID, he threw it to one of his men and looked at Zheng Hu and the two people behind him. "Where are yours?"

Two "cleaners" handed over their IDs. One was called "Liu Shui" and the other was called "Liu Huo". Both had "cleaner" written in their occupation column.

Zhang Wei looked at them: "Liu Ah Shui, Liu Ah Huo, brothers?"

"what!"

"Fire and water cannot coexist. Your parents are very educated. Liu A Shui, take off your mask." Zhang Wei took the ID and examined it. Seeing that Liu A Shui was wearing a mask, he immediately scolded him to take it off.

Liu A Shui hurriedly and cautiously took off the mask.

"Turns out he's got a pockmarked face." Zhang Wei frowned in disdain, stared at the two of them for a few more seconds, also confiscated his ID, and winked at his men.

The two men immediately stepped forward, starting with Zheng Huhe, and carefully touched their waists and legs, and even inside their shoes, to confirm whether they were carrying anything that should not be there.

Next, they brought with them the cleaning tools. Several items were clearly visible at a glance, including wooden barrels, brooms, dustpans, wooden two-wheeled carts, shovels, ladles, clamps and other tools. The ladles were wet and stained with filth, and very pungent. The two guards took a few glances at them, then stepped aside, covering their noses and nodding to Zhang Wei.

"Okay, take them in." Zhang Wei pointed out one of his men and warned Zheng Hu and the other two, "Remember, after you go in, do your work honestly. Don't whisper to each other, and don't talk to anyone. Do you hear me?"

"Yes."

Three people followed the guard and the remaining one asked Zhang Wei in frustration, "Boss, where did you find these people? Although it's a dirty and hard job, you can just assign it to your own people. My father-in-law is a cleaner, and they're getting nothing for free."

Zhang Wei looked at him as if he were a fool, and said with a smile: "Are you jealous? How about calling your father-in-law over?"

"Boss"

"Xiao San, don't try to take advantage of them. Do you think they can get out after they go in?"

Looking at Zhang Wei's smiling face, Xiao San trembled all over and wanted to say something, but finally swallowed it back.

"You keep an eye on them."

"Yes."

The underground passage was dark and damp, with a disgusting smell. Seeing Zheng Huhe and the other two working hard, the two guards covered their noses and retreated to the corner.

One of them took out a cigarette, but found that the box was empty. He crumpled the box into a ball and threw it on the ground, then kicked it casually to his companion. The two of them started kicking the "ball" back and forth at the corner.

In their invisible sight, the three "cleaners" looked at each other, and Zheng Huhe and Ma Lian continued to clean and keep watch, while the other one immediately approached the cell door and knocked. While attracting the vigilance of several people in the cell, he quickly found the target, who was an old man in dirty prison uniform. Seeing the old man looking at him, he immediately took off his mask and gave the other person a smile.

The old man stared at him in a daze for a moment. He didn't expect that his superior's courier would come here. He was about to come over and say something when he saw the courier shook his head and then tapped his legs quickly with his hands.

Morse code, the old man's heart was shocked, and he immediately focused on the repeated tapping.

(End of this chapter)