Chen Lei took a rickshaw and first went to a hospital called "St. Mary" run by a French in the French Concession, and spent about half an hour cleaning the wound and reducing inflammation and changing the dressing.

After leaving Santa Maria Hospital, Chen Lei took a rickshaw and went straight to work at the Iwai Mansion on Baoshan Road in the Zhabei area of Shanghai, at this time, it was about half past nine in the morning.

Baoshan Road is a main street located in the eastern part of the Zhabei area of Shanghai Tang, running north-south, with a total length of about 1,756 meters and a width of between 13.3 meters and 32 meters.

Unfortunately, after the April 12 Incident in 1927, the 128 Incident in 1932 and the August 13 Incident in 1937, Baoshan Road was severely damaged, although by the autumn of 1938, the southern section of Baoshan Road was partially restored, and most of the area evolved into slums.

The Iwai Mansion, which Iwai Ichiro had just founded, was called the "Special Investigation Office" to the outside world, and the office was a three-meter-high courtyard wall, on which a power grid was installed, and a gate was left on the side of Baoshan Road, which was guarded by the Japanese gendarmerie 24 hours a day.

In this courtyard, there are a total of four buildings, and most of the Chinese employees recruited are mainly students who have returned from studying in Japan, and the reason why Chen Lei was able to become Iwai Ichiro's assistant is the second person in Iwai Mansion, that is, he is thirty years old, he studied in Japan five years ago, and he is studying at the best university in Japan, and Iwai Ichiro, who is three years older than him, has a classmate.

When the rickshaw driver pulled Chen Lei to the gate of the Iwai Mansion on the side of Baoshan Road, he paid the money and went straight to the gate of the Iwai Mansion, which was more than 20 meters away.

There is no plaque hanging at the gate of the courtyard of the Iwai Mansion, but people who pass by this person can guess that the courtyard must be the office of the Japanese military police who are guarding the courtyard gate with loaded guns.

According to the requirements for entering the Iwai Mansion set by Iwai Ichiro, all staff members who enter and leave the Iwai Mansion must show their work ID to the Japanese military police guarding the courtyard at the entrance of the courtyard, and they can only enter and leave after verification.

However, at the beginning of the establishment of this special investigation center, Chen Lei was appointed by Iwai Ichiro as the deputy director, and the Japanese military police who were in charge of guarding the gate of the courtyard did not have to check his personal documents, but could only enter and leave the Iwai Mansion, and this is naturally no exception.

Not only that, when Chen Lei walked to the closed courtyard gate, the five Japanese military policemen who were in charge of guarding the courtyard gate nodded to him before opening the courtyard gate, and Chen Lei also bowed slightly.

After entering the Iwai Mansion, Chen Lei went straight to his office on the third floor of Building A, these four office buildings with a total of four floors of Jianwei were divided into four floors by Chen Lei according to the distance from the courtyard gate, which were divided into four floors: A, B, C, and D.

As soon as he sat down in the chair in front of his desk, Chen Lei paused for a moment, then picked up the one on the left side of the three telephones on his desk, connected to the telephone bureau, and said to the operator on the other end of the receiver: "Hello, I am Chen Lei from Iwai Mansion, help me connect to the office of Iwai Ichiro, Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai, thank you." ”

In order to hide people's eyes, this intelligence agency of the Japanese military junta's diplomatic port on Baoshan Road was called the Special Investigation Office in Japan and later after it became known to Wang Puppet, and it was called the Iwai Mansion to the outside world.

Although Iwai Mansion was founded by Iwai Ichiro, he spent most of his time not working here, and more often stayed in the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.

Because in addition to being the director of this special investigation office, Iwai Ichiro also has another identity, that is, the deputy consul general of the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai (later promoted to consul general).

Only in the afternoon or evening would Iwai Ichiro come to the Iwai Mansion to listen to Chen Lei's work report, his office is on the fourth floor of Building A, the outer room is reserved for office use, and the inner room is his bedroom.

As for the three telephones on Chen Lei's desk, the one on the left is for the internal use of the Iwai Mansion, the one in the middle is for the Iwai Mansion and the outside, and the one on the right is the special line between him and Iwai Ichiro in the office of the Consulate General in Shanghai.

Soon, I connected to Iwai Ichiro's office phone in the Shanghai Consulate General, and Iwai Ichiro's reproach and persuasion came from the other end of the phone: "Chen Sang, didn't I already tell you on the way back to your residence last night, you can stay at home and rest for a while, wait until ten days and a half months, and wait until the injury is almost healed, and then work in the office."

"Why are you disobedient, it's only been one night, and you're going to work in the office this morning, so it's not okay. The work in the office is important, but for me, the health of your old friend is even more important. Chen Sang, you listen to my advice, now leave the special investigation center quickly, return to your residence to rest, recuperate and resume your work. ”

In the face of Iwai Ichiro's reproach and persuasion, Chen Lei was naturally unmoved, and politely declined: "Iwai-kun, I just have two burns on my chest, and I have changed the medicine again, and the doctor said that there is no major problem, and I can participate in non-manual work." Besides, my hands and feet are not injured, and I will be fine if I work in the institute more by my brain than by my body.

"Thank you, Iwai-kun, for your care and love for me, the Special Investigation Institute has only been established for less than a month, and a lot of work has not yet been carried out. Iwai-kun, you have to be busy with the work of the consulate again, and you can't take care of the work of the Special Investigation Center. If I, the deputy director, had not worked here, I believe that within two days, the work of the institute would be a mess. Please rest assured, Iwai-kun will take a break when I work in the office. ”

After listening to what Chen Lei said, Iwai Ichiro did not continue to insist, but returned to the book and asked: "Okay, Chen Sang, you don't listen to my persuasion, now is the time to employ people, then please Chen Sang!" I think that after you return to the office, Chen Sang, you will use this special line on your desk to talk to me, and there must be something more important to report to me than this. What the hell is going on, Chen Sang, can you please tell me? ”

In response to Iwai Ichiro's inquiry, Chen Lei paused for a moment, and after calming down, he replied: "Iwai-kun, I personally believe that regarding the fact that Wang Tianmu, the head of the Shanghai Station of the Military Command, was arrested and lured to surrender by the secret service headquarters, we should notify the intelligence officers lurking in Shancheng (Chongqing) in the form of a telegram of this matter, and ask them to pay close attention to the reaction of the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau.

"In particular, let the intelligence personnel lurking in the mountain city find out whether the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau has grasped and understood Wang Tianmu's rebellion. and whether the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau will send others to Shanghai Tang to take Wang Tianmu's place. As the saying goes, 'knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent wins all battles', I don't know what Iwai-kun wants? ”

After Chen Lei finished speaking, Iwai Ichiro did not give an immediate reply, but thought for a full minute, hesitated, and replied to Chen Lei: "Chen Sang, just do what you just said, I want to see who the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau will send to take over Wang Tianmu's position."

"From my personal point of view, I hope that Deputy Director Dai of the Military Unification Bureau will let Chen Sanglai take over the position of Wang Tianmu's position as the head of the Shanghai Station of the Military Unification, so that it will be more convenient for us to collect information on the Shanghai Military Command and the Central Unification at a higher level of confidentiality, especially to understand the foreign policy trends of the Chongqing government in the international arena."

When Chen Lei hung up the phone with Iwai Ichiro, he immediately sat up, got out of his office on the third floor of Building A, and went up the stairs at the end of the corridor to the telecommunications room on the fourth floor.

In addition to a hall on the first floor of the first floor, there are conference rooms and meeting rooms on the left and right sides of the corridor, the second floor is the archive room, on the third floor, in addition to Chen Lei's office, on the other side of the corridor are two small offices, namely the Finance Department and the General Affairs Department, and on one side of the corridor on the fourth floor is Ichiro Iwai's office, and on the other side is the telecommunications room.