When he was training in the Hangzhou training class, Lin Jiangbei also heard a few words from Yu Lexing, the deputy head teacher, about the semi-open identities of some intelligence personnel in the Shanghai Region of the Intelligence Department, but he did not expect that the semi-open identities of the intelligence personnel in the Shanghai Region would be so serious, and the identities of core members like Chen Zui would be almost semi-public.

According to the principle of "openly covering up secrets and making secret use public" formulated by the Intelligence Department, since Chen Zui has served as the head of the French Concession Action Group in the Shanghai Region, he can no longer concurrently serve as the head of the action group of the reconnaissance brigade of the Songhu Garrison Command, which is an open unit. However, it is really unbelievable that such personnel appointments, which are contrary to the principles of the intelligence department, have not only appeared, but also appeared in the most important intelligence agencies in the country, such as the Shanghai Region.

And listening to the meaning of Duan Yinong's words, this situation is far more simple than Chen Zui alone, maybe many members of the reconnaissance brigade of the Songhu Garrison Command have other important part-time jobs.

However, Lin Jiangbei naturally couldn't discuss with Duan Yinong how this situation happened at this time, and it was completely meaningless. What he needed to consider now was whether he had the ability to complete the task assigned to him by Duan Yinong.

After pondering for a while, Lin Jiangbei said: "Director Duan, apart from the open unit of the Reconnaissance Brigade of the Shanghai Garrison Command, how many people can be at the disposal of the students with the hidden power in the Shanghai Region?" ”

Duan Yinong was originally very familiar with the situation in the Shanghai Region, and to a certain extent, Shanghai can be said to be the place where Duan Yinong started his business, so Duan Yinong attaches no less importance to the situation in the Shanghai Region than Nanjing, where the headquarters of the Ministry of Intelligence is located.

However, with Duan Yinong attaching so much importance to it, how could there still be such a low-level mistake in the Shanghai Region, which violated the principle of "openly covering secrets and secretly using them openly" and making the identities of many core intelligence personnel in the Shanghai Region semi-public? This cauldron mainly has to be carried by Wang Xinheng, the mayor of the Shanghai region.

A year earlier, in early 1935, when Wang Xinheng took over as head of the Shanghai Special Zone, there were only four intelligence groups under the Shanghai Special Zone, namely the Nanshi Group, the Huxi Group, the French Concession Group, and the British Concession Group. Including these four intelligence groups, there are only about 100 internal and external personnel in the Shanghai Special Zone.

However, after Wang Xinheng took over as the head of the Shanghai Special Zone, because of his status as a classmate of the crown prince Chang Jingguo, he was deeply favored by President Chang, and President Chang issued a special order to assign the reconnaissance brigade of the Songhu Garrison Command to the Intelligence Department, which was actually under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai Special Region of the Intelligence Department.

Taking advantage of President Chang's order, Wang Xinheng not only dispatched the intelligence backbone of the Shanghai Special Region to the reconnaissance brigade of the Songhu Garrison Command to take over the reconnaissance brigade of the Songhu Garrison Command, but also put forward an ambitious plan for the expansion of the personnel of the Shanghai Special Zone, adding the Hongkou Hidden Group, the Zhabei Hidden Group, and the Hunan Hidden Group in addition to the Nanshi Group, the Huxi Group, the French Concession Group, and the British Concession Group under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai Special Zone.

In addition, more than a dozen military investigation teams and a large number of radio stations have been added. Correspondingly, the number of internal and external support personnel required has also increased from more than 100 to more than 500.

Regarding Wang Xinheng's personnel expansion plan, not only the Huangpu bigwigs in the Intelligence Department, including Zheng Jiemin, Tan Cong and Ji Kaiqiu, have publicly expressed their support, but the key principal Chang also nodded. Although Duan Yinong was not satisfied, he could only pinch his nose and admit it.

It is precisely because of this that within the Intelligence Department, the Nanjing Special Region is still called the Nanjing Special Zone, but the Shanghai Special Zone, which has more than 500 people, has been renamed the Shanghai Region.

It was also from that time that Duan Yinong had the idea of replacing Wang Xinheng, the head of the Shanghai region. But for various reasons, he never found a chance.

This time, he finally took advantage of the opportunity of President Chang's eagerness to withdraw and merge the Zhejiang Police Academy and his uncle Song Ziwu to attack Ji Kaiqiu's corrupt behavior, not only expelled Ji Kaiqiu and Tan Cong from the intelligence department, but also took the opportunity to transfer Wang Xinheng to the Xi'an intelligence station as the station chief under the pretext that Wang Xinheng had a close relationship with Zhang Xueliang, and transferred his brother Huanlong from Hankou to carry out a large-scale readjustment and sorting out of the intelligence work in the Shanghai Region, so as to put the intelligence work in the Shanghai Region back on the right track.

But he didn't want to, and before he could come to Shanghai to take office, the case of the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai stealing information from the Fourth Expeditionary Command of the US Marine Corps was exposed.

Listening to Lin Jiangbei's question at this time, Duan Yinong of course had no way to answer it now, so he could only push the question to Zhang Shixue, the secretary of the Shanghai Region, who was sitting opposite him.

"Secretary Zhang," Duan Yinong pointed at Master Zhang, "how much secret power can you use in the Shanghai Region that has not been exposed to Jiangbei?" ”

As the nominal No. 2 person in the Shanghai Region, although Zhang Shixue was very well overshadowed by Wang Xinheng, he is still familiar with the basic situation of the Shanghai Region.

He listened to Duan Yinong's question at this time, thought for a moment in his heart, and replied: "The personnel of the Hongkou Hidden Group and the Zhabei Hidden Group have basically not revealed their identities, and they are not undertaking any major tasks at present, especially the Hongkou Hidden Group, which is very familiar with the situation of the Japanese in the Hongkou area of the Public Concession, and I think it is more appropriate to transfer these two hidden groups to Jiangbei for command!" ”

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Lin Jiangbei, "Of course, if Jiangbei feels that the personnel strength is not enough in the future, just open your mouth, and I will deploy people and horses for you!" ”

Duan Yinong nodded and asked Lin Jiangbei: "Jiangbei, what do you think of Secretary Zhang's arrangement?" ”

"Secretary Zhang," Lin Jiangbei pondered for a moment and asked, "How many members are there in these two latent groups?" ”

"Combined, there are about forty members in the two groups." Zhang Shixue replied.

Lin Jiangbei nodded, there are more than forty hidden personnel who are familiar with Shanghai, especially the Hongkou area, to cooperate with his investigation work, for now, it should be enough.

Seeing that Lin Jiangbei had no opinion, Duan Yinong pointed at Chen Zui again and said: "Jiangbei, to investigate this case, in addition to the secret investigation by secret personnel, sometimes it may be necessary for the public unit to send forces to assist, so I will also send Chen Zui to you to command, if you need to use the reconnaissance brigade of the Songhu Garrison Command during the investigation, just give an order directly to Chen Zui!" Chen Zui, do you understand? ”

His last sentence was to Chen Zui.

Chen Zui hurriedly stood up and stood up to Duan Yinong, "Report to the office, my subordinates understand!" The subordinates must resolutely obey the command of Chief Lin, and fully cooperate with and assist Chief Lin to complete the task! ”

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