The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

  About 40 minutes later, Zhou Hexuan was helped into a building, and he walked upstairs for more than ten steps before removing the black cloth covering his eyes.

   Zhou Hexuan saw that Shenzui was no longer there and asked, "Where's Xiao Shen?"

   The military spy next to him said: "Director Shen is only responsible for spreading news, he is not qualified to enter this building."

   Zhou Hexuan finally started to be surprised. Shen Zui is now the deputy director and chief inspector of the Chongqing Garrison Command Inspection Office, and Dai Li's confidant. He belongs to the absolute strength in the military.

   Drunk is not qualified to enter this building?

   "What is this place?" Zhou Hexuan couldn't help asking.

  The agent said: "This floor is the office of the secret electricity group. Please forgive me for not being able to tell the rest of the floors, and please Mr. Zhou not to walk around."

   Zhou Hexuan asked again: "What are you bringing me for?"

  The agent said: "I don't know, I'm only responsible for bringing Mr. Zhou here. Please come with me!"

   The two quickly came to a room with a sign on the door - Team Leader Room.

  The spy knocked on the door and said, "Report! Mr. Zhou has brought it here."

   Someone in the house immediately came over to open the door and shook hands warmly: "Mr. Zhou, I'm really bothering you today, my dear Wei Daming."

   "It turned out to be Director Wei, good luck to meet!" Zhou Hexuan said.

  Wei Daming, the director of the Juntong Telecommunications Department, was in charge of intelligence collection during the Anti-Japanese War, and was known as the "Soul of Dai Li".

  Wei Daming invited Zhou Hexuan into the office, made him a cup of tea himself, and explained the reason: "I invited Mr. Zhou today because I hope you can do me a favor."

   Zhou Hexuan said with tea foam, "Please speak."

Wei Daming said: "Chongqing is a foggy city, and there are often heavy fogs. It is reasonable to say that it is difficult for Japanese pilots to bomb accurately. However, every time the Japanese planes bombed Chongqing, it was just in time for sunny days. Even night bombing can accurately find the most people and the most prosperous. The place."

   Zhou Hexuan said: "Do you suspect that there are Japanese spies in Chongqing?"

"There must be, but it is not something that ordinary spies can do to send information accurately in real time," Wei Daming said with a sigh, "In fact, at the beginning of the year, we caught a spy, but because of this, we were shocked and led to Japanese aggressors. The replacement of the code is very complicated. This time, I asked Mr. Zhou to come to the secret telegram team because I hope you can help decipher the telegrams of the Japanese army. "

   Zhou Hexuan was speechless and smiled bitterly: "Director Wei, I only understand simple Morse code, and I really can't help it."

Wei Daming shook his head and said, "No, this is Mr. Zhou's strength. We deciphered three English words through the intercepted Japanese code. After repeated research, those three words should come from an English book. This English book can easily decipher the Japanese invaders' secret telegrams. Mr. Zhou is very familiar with Western writings, and I heard that you have the ability to remember it. I really had no choice, so I thought of asking Mr. Zhou for help.

   "Which three words?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

   "Mr. Zhou, please take a look." Wei Daming took out a note.

  The words written on the note are: she, pistol and never.

  It is no wonder that the people in the secret telegram group could not decipher it. Finding an English book with three words was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

  It's a pity that Zhou Hexuan didn't read Yardley's "China's Dark Room", otherwise he would have been able to point out who the Japanese spy was without even thinking about it.

   Of course, the butterfly effect has caused a small change in history. The three English words deciphered by the secret code team are completely different from the original words.

   Zhou Hexuan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Give me some more tips."

  Wei Daming said: "This English book should be more famous in China or Japan, and it should be easier to find in China."

   "Why do you say that?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Wei Daming explained: "Our military control over Chongqing is very strict. The spy who sent secret telegrams to the Japanese aggressors was probably latent or never left Chongqing. He communicated with the Japanese army in Wuhan using secret telegrams. Use a relatively common book, otherwise it will not be easy to get hold of in a short time."

   "Let me think about it." Zhou Hexuan closed his eyes.

  Wei Daming didn't bother, but sat quietly and waited.

  What English works are famous in China and can be easily obtained in Chongqing and Wuhan?

   Zhou Hexuan thought of a book subconsciously, that is his own "Titanic"! Before the Chinese version of this book was sold in China, many English versions were imported from the United States. It can be said that it is the most English version of the book in China - second only to the "Bible".

   Zhou Hexuan recalled carefully, and found that he had written three English words, she, pistol and never. Needless to say, she appears very frequently; pistol also appears several times, but the connection between she and pistol should be a dialogue between the heroine's mother and the villain; never is in a narrative after the sinking of the ship.

   Zhou Hexuan opened his eyes and said, "Try "Titanic"."

  Wei Daming abruptly got up and opened the door, instructing his secretary, "Look for an English version of Titanic, right now!"

   After about an hour, the secretary finally found the book.

  Wei Daming took Zhou Hexuan to the decryption room and handed the book to a foreigner: "Mr. Yardley, try this book!"

   "Okay!" The foreigner did not operate it himself, but handed the book to a young man.

  Wei Daming introduced: "Mr. Zhou, this is Mr. Yardley, a specially-appointed code-breaking expert from the military system. Mr. Yardley, this is Mr. Zhou Hexuan, a university enquirer in our country."

"Hello!"

   Zhou Hexuan and Yardley shook hands and greeted each other.

  Yardley is the father of American cryptography. He was in charge of the deciphering class of the US Military Intelligence Agency (the predecessor of the National Security Agency). He was invited by Dai Li with a monthly salary of 10,000 US dollars.

   Zhou Hexuan didn't know much about Yardley, because he was deliberately ignored by both China and the United States after the war, and his book "China's Dark Room" was blocked by the United States for more than 40 years. Zhou Hexuan had no chance to come into contact with this book, nor could he deliberately use the Internet to search for relevant information.

To be honest, even if Zhou Hexuan knew this, he couldn't rely on memory to help decipher the code, because history has changed - the original Japanese spies used Pearl Buck's "The Earth", but now they use Zhou Hexuan's "Titan" Nick" as a codebook.

   Catching spies is not the key, the key is to decipher the password, and then send wrong information to the Japanese invaders through the password.

  The Soviet pilot Kulishenko was able to successfully bomb the W airport in Wuhan because Yardley sent the Japanese army in Wuhan news of heavy fog in Chongqing after deciphering the code. As a result, the Japanese planes in Wuhan were not dispatched that night, and most of them were parked at the airport. As a result, the bombing squadron led by Kurishenko gave it a shot.

   Historically, Yardley's deciphering of codes is as bizarre as making a movie.

   First of all, the secret telegram team failed to find the English book as a codebook, but Dai Li's military secret agent discovered the Japanese spy. After confirming who is the spy, the military commander would not dare to arrest someone for fear of being stunned.

  The most amazing thing is that the spy is actually a friend Yardley met at the bar.

   Even more miraculously, Yardley got help from another friend he met at the bar. This friend is still a woman, her name is Xu Zhen. According to Yardley's account, Xu Zhen should be Wang Zhaoming's underground lover before he surrendered to the enemy...

  Yardley was very courageous. He knew all about Xu Zhen and the traitor Wang Zhaoming once had a close relationship, so he revealed all his identity and the predicament he faced. Then, Yardley took Xu Zhen to the spy's house as a guest, and the spy heard the air defense siren and left. Yardley chatted and stabilized the spy's girlfriend, asked Xu Zhen to go to the spy's study, and finally found the English book.

   This strange woman named Xu Zhen, although she was Wang Zhaoming's lover, made great contributions to the Anti-Japanese War and was finally assassinated by Japanese agents.

After the busy work of dozens of code breakers, within an hour, someone came to report with joy: "Director Wei, Mr. Yardley, we have compared and tested more than ten Japanese telegrams recently intercepted, and the codebooks they used. It's the Titanic!"

   "Nice job!"

  Yardley hugged Zhou Hexuan and patted his shoulder: "Zhou, you did me a big favor."

   "You have helped the Chinese people a lot." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

   Dozens of decipherers under Yardley's team were all overseas students who returned from Japan, because most of the Japanese army's telegram passwords used Japanese letters. Who says studying in Japan is useless? At least these telegram decipherers intercepted countless Japanese military intelligence during the Anti-Japanese War.