After a long time, Xu Chengyan put aside the entanglement and picked up the third envelope, which was different from the previous two, it was not used by the intelligence department, but an ordinary mailing envelope, and there was no logo on it.

When opened, there are two pages, one on letter paper and one on white paper folded repeatedly.

First of all, when he opened the letter, the writer was still Sun Ming, and the content on it was that he gave a detailed description of a number of hidden belongings, and he presented the map marking the hiding place to Yoshioka Masao as an advanced gift of allegiance to Yoshioka Masao, hoping that Yoshioka Masao would take more care of Yunyun in the future.

Treasure maps?

Xu Chengyan suddenly became interested, and hurriedly opened the second folded white paper, and after unfolding it, he sketched a picture on it, depicting a topographic map, with some scribbled handwriting, and a cross was drawn in the center, obviously this is the location of the treasure.

"What is this?" Ji Yun's gaze looked over.

"Treasure map!"

"Treasure map? I'll take a look! Ji Yun's eyes lit up, and he reached out to take the map from Xu Chengyan's hand.

According to Sun Mingshi's letter, this was a batch of property lost in the process of evacuating the former Shanxi Provincial Bank three years ago, when Japan was about to capture Taiyuan.

At that time, the convoy in charge of transportation was bombed by Japanese planes on the way to retreat, and in the panic, a truck was separated from the convoy and disappeared, but because the situation was extremely dangerous and chaotic at that time, there was no time to track it down, so everyone could only leave the dangerous place in a hurry.

Later, the bank counted and found that the lost truck contained a large amount of fiat currency and silver dollars, as well as a considerable amount of gold, which was of great value.

In order to recover the gold and silver property, the high-level ordered the political and health department, which had been ordered to lurk, to take over the task.

Since taking over the task, Sun Mingshi has spent more than two years before and after finding the driver and escort of the lost vehicle, and asked from their mouths about the hiding place of the property, and drew a map, taking the opportunity to meet Yoshioka Masao in Taiyuan this time, and giving it to Yoshioka Masao, in order to gain Yoshioka Masao's trust.

After the two of them figured out what happened, Ji Yun couldn't help but be speechless, and said, "Good girl, Sun Mingshi, this kid is really willing!" Such a large amount of wealth, just given away? Is he sick in the head? Are there any officials who don't love money these days? ”

"How kind would he be?" Xu Chengyan sneered, pointing to the map with the location of the cross, "What do you see here?" ”

Ji Yun checked again when he heard this, and he didn't understand what Xu Chengyan meant for a long time, and replied suspiciously: "This is marked by the Jinjiang tile kiln field in the southwest corner outside Taiyuan City, according to the map identification, this truck is hidden in the cave of the tile kiln field, this place should not be difficult to find." ”

"Pig brains! This Jinjiang tile kiln yard has long been bombed into ruins by Japanese bombers, when we first entered Taiyuan, we also checked the terrain nearby, have you forgotten? Xu Chengyan said angrily.

When they first entered Taiyuan, in order to familiarize themselves with the terrain, they deliberately figured out all the places in Taiyuan City, which is also one thing that intelligence officers must do, otherwise, an intelligence agent can't even understand the terrain and direction in Taiyuan City, and it will become a big joke.

Ji Yun said with some confusion: "This place is clearly marked outside Taiyuan City, why don't I remember going to this tile kiln?" ”

"Look here, to the east of the tile kiln field is the former Shanxi Provincial No. 2 Prison, which is now the barracks of the 41st Division of the Japanese Army.

Do you remember now that the vacant land three kilometers south of the tile kiln yard has now been built into a temporary airfield, and the vicinity is all martial law areas? ”

"What, in the city?" Ji Yun couldn't help but suddenly realize.

It turned out that when the Japanese occupied Taiyuan, in order to protect the innocent people from the war, the provincial government ordered the citizens of Taiyuan to evacuate Taiyuan in advance, hundreds of thousands of citizens fled one after another, and the entire Taiyuan city was empty.

After the end of the Battle of Taiyuan, the citizens who were far away from their hometowns could only return to their homeland again because they had no life and had a difficult life.

However, in this process, there are still many Taiyuan citizens, for various reasons, never returned, which caused the population of Taiyuan City to drop by nearly half.

The decline in population has naturally caused an economic recession, the market has withered, and the entire Taiyuan City seems to have lost its vitality all of a sudden, and it will never be prosperous again.

However, after the Japanese occupied Taiyuan, in order to continue to advance westward, they tried to build Taiyuan into a solid rear base, and naturally did not want to see Taiyuan gradually decline.

Therefore, it was ordered to expand the urban area on a large scale, extending to Gangdao in the east, Baijiazhuang in the west, Jiajie Village in the south, and Xincheng in the north, with a total area of nearly 400 square kilometers.

At the same time, five administrative districts and 52 villages have been set up, all of which are under the direct jurisdiction of the municipal government, and the scope has increased considerably.

As a result, this change has just assigned the site of the tile kiln that was originally outside Taiyuan to the urban area.

However, the person who drew this drawing did not know the huge changes in the Taiyuan urban area, so there was an error in the labeling, so Ji Yun did not react for a while.

However, Xu Chengyan's memory is extremely amazing, and he is as careful as a hair, and he has long known the terrain and orientation of Taiyuan City, so he quickly searched and compared in his mind and found out the corresponding location of the tile kiln field.

At this time, he continued: "The old site of the tile kiln is on the slope near Washan, but because of the bombing of Japanese planes, the cave has collapsed, and it has long been a ruin, and it is a Japanese military camp to the east and a temporary airfield to the south, if it were not for the Japanese to be too lazy to clean up this area, this truck would have been discovered by the Japanese." ”

"No wonder Sun Mingshi is so generous!" Ji Yun shook his head and sighed, "He couldn't get his hands on this batch of treasures at all, so he gave it to Yoshioka Masao and did a favor." ”

Xu Chengyan nodded and said: "Sun Mingshi can't take away this batch of treasures, but for Ji Gang Zhengxiong, it is a simple matter, just a little bit of manipulation, these treasures can enter his pocket unconsciously, this is definitely a generous gift." ”

"But in this case, we can't get our hands on it!" Ji Yun spread his hands, and couldn't help but feel sorry, he was originally excited and excited, but he was lost in a blink of an eye, "I can only report to the teacher and let him think of a way!" ”

But Xu Chengyan shook his head, pondered for a moment, and said: "Don't report this matter first, let's talk about it for a while, maybe there will be another turnaround." ”

When Ji Yun heard this, he immediately felt happy in his heart, he knew that Xu Chengyan was shrewd and had always done things in an orderly manner, obviously he didn't want to let go of this wealth.

It is also said that there are few people in this world who can be indifferent to such a large amount of treasure, and it is difficult for anyone to accept it when they see so much gold and silver treasure slipping out of their hands.

At this time, Xu Chengyan then explained: "I'm not greedy for this money, our brothers are committed to resisting Japan, thinking about making meritorious contributions, protecting the family and defending the country, life and death are put aside, and there is no need to take these things outside the body so seriously."

It's just that we think so, it's not so clean, what kind of virtue are those old men of the Chongqing government, you and I both know that the money is handed over to them, I'm afraid that they can't even afford to make a splash, how much can it really be used to resist Japan?

After all, I can't trust them, so instead of giving them to them, let's do it ourselves, and always make sure we get the most out of it. ”

This is Xu Chengyan's true thoughts, the Chongqing government is full of corruption, everyone knows it, and this is already an unspoken rule known in officialdom.

Even on the front line in eastern and southern Jiangsu, the use of military funds is the same, and the salaries of grassroots combatants are often deducted, and life is also very hard; both of them have a deep understanding of it, and they deeply hate the bureaucratic system in which corruption is rampant.

Ji Yun naturally agreed when he heard this, and immediately nodded and said: "You're right, if you get the money in your own hands, you can decide how to use it, of course it's the best, but we can hide this matter, so what about Sun Mingshi's defection to the enemy?" These two things are related, do they need to be hidden? ”

"Of course, regarding Sun Mingshi and the treasure map he gave to Yoshioka Masao, we still have to keep our mouths shut and hide it for the time being.

In fact, I still have a layer of consideration, old man, have you thought about it? The credit we have made this time is so great that we were not mentally prepared for it beforehand.

In the previous three assassination operations, especially the assassination of Kazuya Harada, the teacher has reported to the headquarters for us.

Next, find out the real cause of the death of the stationmaster, and eliminate Han Zhirong, and avenge the stationmaster, which can also be regarded as a contribution, this is a task specially requested by the headquarters, and it is also worth recounting for us.

When we assassinated Han Zhirong, we happened to find out that he was connected with Masao Yoshioka, the head of the Japanese big secret service, and successfully assassinated this fang.

With only these three credits, even if there is no teacher to speak for us, there is absolutely no problem for our brother's military rank to go further.

It's a pity that our current military rank is lieutenant, if it is a captain, this merit is enough for us to be promoted to a colonel-level officer, you know, you can't be promoted to the colonel rank without great merit, this is the iron law of the military command, alas, our credit this time was established early! ”

When Ji Yun heard this, he realized that his companion was thoughtful and long-term, and he put aside Sun Mingshi and the treasure map and did not report it, not entirely for the sake of this batch of gold and silver treasures, but also for the sake of leaving room for future promotion.

He also said with some regret: "It's indeed a pity, but it's a matter of time, and it's not bad to be promoted to captain as soon as possible, but it's just ......."

At this time, he looked at Xu Chengyan again, his tone became solemn, and said: "We can not report the matter of Sun Mingshi and the treasure map, but we must not conceal this military investigation report on the eastern front of Zhongtiao Mountain, it is related to the safety of the battle situation in southern Jin, the defense line of Zhongtiao Mountain, and the lives of 300,000 soldiers of the National Army. ”

His tone was resolute, not giving Xu Chengyan the slightest room for rebuttal, and it was obvious that he would not make any concessions on this point.

Xu Chengyan's face straightened, nodded and said: "Of course, I said, you and I are both soldiers, concealing military information and not reporting it, and reversing a major military aircraft, this is a serious crime, and I still know the severity of this."

You and I both know the importance of this investigation report, and to put it mildly, this is the biggest gain of our operation, and it is definitely a miracle!

Even if the teacher handed over this report, even if he, the new head of the Taiyuan Intelligence Station, was completely secured, there would be too many benefits.

Alas, it's just that I always feel uncomfortable in my heart, the harvest of this operation is huge, and the opportunity is hard to find, but in the end I only got a first-class military rank, which is a pity to think about! ”