In October of the first year of the republic, the "Pu Case" of persecution of progressive students by the Anhui government occurred in Pucheng County, Weibei, and student movements in solidarity with the "Pu Case" occurred one after another in all parts of the province. Soon the student movement reached its climax. During this anti-persecution struggle, Hu Jingyi met his future best friend, Zhang Yi'an. The unarmed students, of course, pale in the face of a reactionary army loaded with ammunition, and the student movement had to end in defeat. The failure of the student movement taught Hu Jingyi that in order to overthrow the authoritarian government, he must build up his own armed forces. A scholar, bare-handed, wants to build his own armament, where to start? Hu Jingyi believes that the only way to start is with the "swordsman" at that time. Looking at this record, Yu Jian felt that it was more reliable to change his Xi'an station to the editorial department of "Shaanxi Literature".

In fact, Hu Jingyi was a pragmatic and legendary revolutionary, and his hometown of Fuping and the surrounding counties were the areas where the "swordsmen" were most active. When he was a teenager, Hu Jingyi worshipped the "swordsmen", worshiped them chivalrous and courageous, and was jealous and hateful; Worship them for killing the rich and helping the poor, and for their bravery. So, he suggested to Jing Bemu to contact the "knife man". Jing Bemu handed over the task of secretly contacting the Weibei Hui Party and the "swordsmen" to Hu Jingyi, Li Zhongsan and others.

In Fuping, Hu Jingyi successively got acquainted with a number of famous "swordsmen" such as Wang Shoushen of the "Black Barren Back", Hu Yanhai of "Hu Lao Liu", Ma Zhengde of "Ma Lao Er", and Shi Lengchi Shi Xiangyi, as well as Tian Yujie and Tian Chungeng, the leaders of the "Chai Ganghui" (Banghui). Most of these people later became the backbone of the rebel army led by Jing Bemu and Hu Jingyi. At that time, Fuping had a leader of the Elders' Association named Xiang Zishan, who had some strength. Hu Jingyi wanted to do Xiang Zishan's work, but Xiang was imprisoned by the county government. Hu Jingyi rescued Xiang Zishan by doing work, combining inside and outside. After being released from prison, Xiang Zishan led a team of more than 1,000 people to join the revolution.

While doing the work of "swordsmen" and gangs, Hu Jingyi extended his work to the inside of the Qing army. In the new army of Shaanxi expanded by the Qing government, there were a large number of members of the Brotherhood. Hu Jingyi risked his life to join the New Army alone, became acquainted with Zhang Yunshan, Wan Bingnan, and other leaders of the Brotherhood, and joined the Brotherhood, and made a bloody alliance in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, so that the members of the Brotherhood became an armed force in the revolutionary ranks.

Hu Jingyi contacted the "swordsmen", entered the new army, and won the work of the "elders' association", laying a good foundation for the armed uprising in the future. It is a pity that the invasion and fall of the Anhui warlords are like singing operas, which quickly made Hu Jingyi and others unable to react, and within a few months the national defense army was stationed in Xi'an, and then there were activities such as the great suppression of bandits and the peace of Qingma, and the independence of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningqing, and Qingdao provinces, not only made the bandits panic all day long, but even the revolutionary party was confused. On the stage is the National Defense Force, which is theoretically also a national army subordinate to the republican government in Nanjing, and this army and the officials sent by Shandong are all young and promising, down-to-earth and hard-working. From the appearance of the city to culture and education, from the physical examination of workers to the restriction of peasants' rents, from the prohibition of opium to the encouragement of industry and commerce, the construction of the Longhai Railway and the Northwest Highway network, professors and experts from Shandong University Hall and Zhejiang University Hall have visited Xi'an in turn, and the current students feel that the revolution has been accomplished, and it is time to learn scientific and technological knowledge, report to the state, bring peace to the people, and display their talents and ambitions. It turned out that the propaganda and agitation of the revolutionary party in the schools was almost stagnant, and Hu Jingyi and others also planned to encourage the backbone students to strike classes and oppose the independence of the northwest. Fortunately, the students did not have the habit of informing the government, so Hu Jingyi and others were able to withdraw from Xi'an safely.

However, the foundation of the Shaanxi Revolutionary Party has been exposed, and Yu Jianyu, the general manager of the Coordination Office, will not be merciful, and the backbone of the revolutionary party is being monitored one by one, and the security army simply squats and waits, and what makes these revolutionary parties cry and laugh is that these guys in black military uniforms look at one of the four people, and whether the target is on the street or at home, there are people on duty by their side. Think about it, an elementary school teacher was suddenly followed by four soldiers with loaded guns, followed him without saying a word, stood outside the door on duty during class, and someone regularly came to change the guard, knowing that he was protecting the revolutionary party, and those who didn't know thought that this was the crown prince who paid a private visit? The explanation of these security forces is that because the remnants of the former dynasty retaliated against the revolutionaries, in order to ensure the safety of the lives and property of the revolutionaries, the Northwest Governor's Office strictly ordered the local security forces to protect the revolutionary party and never give the remnants of the former dynasty a chance to take advantage of it.

This trick is too damaging, the revolutionary party is brave and invincible, and is not afraid of sacrifice, but you don't even have the opportunity to contact the masses, and you still develop a fart organization. Jing Bemu and Hu Jingyi negotiated with the Governor's Mansion for a long time, but they only got one choice offered by General Du, either to accept the personal security work, or to publish a statement in the newspaper refusing to accept the protection of the Governor's Palace's Public Security Department. Lao Jing and Hu Jingyi discussed, daring that this was preparing to poison them, if they dared to sign and publish the newspaper, I am afraid that none of them would be able to get out of the 800 miles of Qinchuan at that time, and the Governor's Mansion could also take the opportunity to rectify the place, and continue to dig up the ancestral graves of those local tyrants and inferior gentry under the banner of avenging the revolutionary party.

The Ming War in the Northwest Region, although painful, was also an isolated case. What is even more secretive on the intelligence front is that in Nanjing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and other places where the revolutionary party is very powerful or where the revolutionary party is in power on the surface, and where the intelligence department has just begun to play its role within the enemy, the Central Party Affairs Investigation Division, which is presided over by Dai Jitao and Xie Zhi, has become the only organization of the revolutionary party on the intelligence front. It is a pity that this investigation section has been congenitally deficient since its establishment, and in addition to relying on the strength of the Shanghai Youth Gang, it is relying on the non-professional agent training provided by the Japanese Genyosha to accumulate talents. Toyama Manchu was now mainly focused on Manchuria, and his support for the revolutionary party was not as good as before, but the Japanese government was still very interested in the Jov regime, which had been lucky enough to obtain the highest power in the country, and in order to avoid criticism from other powers, it simply replaced Kawashima Naniwa, director of the Shina Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff Headquarters, with the vest of the Koya Academy, and soon mastered the revolutionary party's party affairs investigation section. It's a pity that this Japanese friend is a double agent, He Minhan provided him with a lot of candidates, and the intelligence personnel of the Party Affairs Investigation Division are of super high quality, which makes Dai Jitao and Xie Zhi excited them for a while, and the investigation of these revolutionary warlords around them is also very efficient, with a thick pile of social relations surveys of these southwestern warlords, and the development of Ma Ben, drivers, guards, cooks, tutors and even head shaving masters around them, relying on the feedback of these people to the survey subjects, The Party Affairs Investigation Division can analyze the dynamics of many of these people and grasp their movements in advance.

Anyway, from Qiao Fu to Xie Zhi, every important member of the party and state was very satisfied with the work of the investigation section, and compared with the original intelligence work in the past, these leaders of the revolutionary party felt that intelligence could be carried out like scientific research work, and there was no thrilling feeling in spy novels at all. Of course, what they don't know is that as early as ten years ago, the Intelligence Department adopted this method at the beginning of its establishment, that is, to infer intelligence through comprehensive analysis and comparison of intelligence sources, and to compare the information directly obtained, which greatly reduced the probability of intelligence being used by the other party. As for the operation of the Party Affairs Investigation Division, hehe, to put it bluntly, it is to first select information purposefully through the intelligence guidance provided by the Intelligence Investigation Division, and then to refute the authenticity of the intelligence analysis they provide. That is, to have a conclusion first, and then find evidence, fooling these layman revolutionaries to be stunned one by one, in the eyes of the experts of the underground intelligence analysis center on Langmao Mountain in Jinan, it is simply a child's trick.

Putting aside the internal intelligence work of the eleven northern provinces and the flawed intelligence agencies of the Revolutionary Party, in fact, for the dead-faced He Minhan and the smiling tiger Yu Jian, the biggest opponents of the two places are still Japan's three major intelligence systems, the intelligence headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Shina Intelligence General Bureau of the Ministry of War, and the investigation section of the Black Dragon Society (Genyosha has become history, and Toyama Mitsu finally changed the name of the organization to the Black Dragon Society). These agencies do not belong to each other, and only a small number of people within the agency have access to the list of their sleepers. Some Japanese spies have been lurking in China since the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, and it is difficult to catch them all in China, where there is no identification.

However, in addition to the double-sided spy of Kawashima Naniwa in the Japanese intelligence agency, there are also several high-talented students who graduated from Nakano School who have been transformed after being captured in two places, some of which are achieved through drug control, but more are implanted in their bodies with eavesdropping devices, and intelligence is obtained through continuous monitoring of their neurobioelectricity, this kind of chip rooted in the brain is connected with the outside world through telephone lines, it can be said that as long as they pick up the phone receiver, it is these tireless intelligence officers who give the mood, Coordinate the timing of intelligence reporting between the two divisions. Despite this, many spies who were ordered to stay in hiding for a long time did not need to be ordered, and they wandered around the city, living like ordinary Chinese until someone activated them with specific instructions, and such infiltrators had no way to detect their existence even in the Skynet system.

At least in terms of intelligence, Wu Chenxuan has already left his opponent a few streets behind, and in the east, this situation seems to continue.