In an office on the easternmost side of the second floor of No. 124 Disway Road, the first attached room of the Japanese Navy's Military Attache's Office, known as Yasuo Matsuo, that is, the head of the Japanese Navy's Shanghai Special Service Department, Kakimoto Goichi, was sitting at his desk, looking at the 91-style cipher machine placed on it.

As early as the early 20s, in order to realize the mechanization of ciphers, the Japanese Navy ordered Kazuo Tanabe, a technician at the Technical Research Institute, to gather technical backbones to start the development of cipher machines.

After several years of hard work, the first cipher machine was finally successfully trial-produced in 1928. It's just that the original cipher machine was transformed with a small typewriter with Korona, in which the printing part is only seven or eight inches large, because the typewriter is too small, and the quality is not too hard, it often can only type about hundreds of thousands of words before it breaks.

Therefore, after research, Kazuo Tanabe decided in 1931 to change the Korona typewriter on the cipher machine to a relatively sturdy typewriter made by the American company Andaxiande, which was bought by the Ddewich American Company based in Yokoei, thus producing a sturdy and durable cipher machine that could be put into practical use.

Because 1931 is 2591 according to the Japanese era, this kind of cipher machine is named 91-style cipher machine.

However, the number of typewriters purchased by D&We USA from Andahamd in the United States is limited, and the Japanese side is worried that the purchase of typewriters from D&We USA in large quantities will arouse suspicion from the Americans, so the production of 91-style cipher machines is very limited. Even the first room attached to the Japanese Navy's Military Attache's Office, the famous Shanghai X organ, was only assigned the first 91-type cipher machine a few days ago.

However, the 91-type cipher machine has arrived, but there is no one who can use this kind of cipher machine in the first room attached to the Japanese Navy's military attaché office. The technicians sent from the Japanese headquarters would not arrive in Shanghai until a month later. Matsuo Yasuo was anxious to put this 91-type cipher machine into use, and in the end he could only ask for help from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Toyama Commercial Bank in Hangcheng, and invited Toyamai, who had used the 91-type cipher machine in Manchukuo, to train the personnel of the first office attached to the Japanese Navy's military attaché's office on how to use the 91-type cipher machine.

When Matsuo Yasuo was angry, Toyamai also came, but he ridiculed the first attached room of the Japanese Navy's military attaché's office, saying that as the most mysterious organization of the navy stationed in Shanghai, they could not even use the Navy's own 91-style cipher machine, which was simply a big joke in the world.

But Matsuo Yasuo still has a request for Toyama Ieya, and no matter how big the fire is in his heart, he can't let it out, so he can only let Toyama Eiya mock him.

However, Toyamai also mocked it, but in terms of professional skills, it was obviously a lot more than the personnel on the first side of the Japanese Navy Attache's Office. He was not a professional radio transceiver, but he was more skilled than the operators of the Navy Ministry Headquarters when he fiddled with the 91-style cipher machine and the new radio transmitter, which made Matsuo Yasuo have to admire.

In just two days at the First Office of the Japanese Navy's Military Attache Office, he trained all five radio operators to be proficient in the use of the 91-style cipher machine and to correctly deal with all kinds of malfunctions of the 91-type cipher machine.

In all fairness, Matsuo himself has to admit that his professional level as the head of the first office attached to the Japanese Navy Attaché Office is far worse than that of Toyama Iya, the head of the Toyama firm.

At the same time, Matsuo Yasuo also knew that he was able to persuade Toyama Iya to come over to conduct business training for the operators of the first office attached to the Japanese Navy Military Attache Office, the main reason was that there was no direct competition of interests between the first office attached to the Japanese Navy Military Attache Office and the Toyama firm of Toyama Iiya, so Toyama Iya finally made an exception although he was reluctant.

Unlike Toyamai, whose main task was to arrest members of the Korean Provisional Government and collect information on the Chinese military, the Japanese Navy's Attaché's Office, the famous X-Agency, was not primarily aimed at the Korean Provisional Government or China, but the United States and the United Kingdom.

Beginning in 1932, the Japanese Navy Command, stimulated by the "US Secret Room," set up a special room for the fourth section, and secretly began to decipher the codes of the United States and the United Kingdom.

In the beginning, the Japanese Navy Command wanted to rely on the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to collect telegrams sent back home by the U.S. and British embassies and consulates.

However, the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was afraid that the incident would expose a backlash from the United States and Britain, and was unwilling to cooperate with the Japanese Navy Command's work of secretly collecting telegrams from the US and British embassies and consulates.

Therefore, the Navy Command finally found another way and dispatched a special agency to Shanghai through the special room of the Fourth Section of the Military Command Department, which was responsible for listening to the wireless telegraphs sent and received by the warships of the US Navy and the British Navy entering the waters of the Yangtze River.

At that time, this secret service was still subordinate to the first room of the Shanghai Marine Corps.

In 1933, the group was transferred to the Naval Attaché's Office and named the First Attached Office. Since then, the first room attached to the Naval Attaché's Office has been anonymously referred to as "X Organ". Its real name internally is "Japanese Navy Shanghai Special Service Department".

The secret of this secret service was unknown even to the officers of the Navy's Third Fleet and the Third Fleet Marine Corps, who were tasked with guarding Shanghai. Even when he saw the two-story building covered in dense ivy at 124 Disway Road in Hongkou, he really thought it was a property of Nissin Kisen Corporation. I didn't know that this was the headquarters of the famous "X Agency" in Shanghai.

And Yasuo Matsuo, who is the assistant to the president of Nissin Kisen Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., is none other than Major Tsuyoshi Kakimoto, the head of the first office attached to the Japanese Navy's military attache office!

At this time, a young man wearing gold-wire glasses and a thin face walked in and said to Kakimoto Goichi: "Kakimoto-kun, are you still researching the cipher machine?" ”

This person is none other than Kakimoto Goichi's deputy, Captain Naoto Yamada, deputy head of the First Attached Office of the Japanese Naval Attaché's Office, that is, the Yamashita Keigo mentioned to Lin Jiangbei by Tao Pengshi.

"yes!" Kakimoto just glanced at Naoto Yamada and said, "Yamada-kun, you should also study this 91-style cipher machine, after all, in the future, for our naval secret service, the use of cipher machines to send and receive reports will become the mainstream." ”

"There's no need for that, is it?" Naoto Yamada shook his head with a smile, "Using a cipher machine to send and receive telegrams, isn't that a matter for the operator?" Those of us who are bosses still have to focus on how to gather intelligence. ”

"Of course, it's not enough to just collect intelligence, we also have to think about how to make money, after all, in Shanghai, an international metropolis, the expenses are too great, and if you only rely on military salary, you can barely support your family!"

Speaking of this, he said to Kakimoto Gangichi with envy: "Persimmon Ben-kun, do you know that Araki Oi, who came from Tianjin and opened a labor agency in Shanghai under the guise of Nissin Steamship Co., Ltd., has won more than 55,000 fiat money in the pachinko room of the Licha Hotel in the past few days!" ”

Kakimoto looked at Naoto Yamada coldly, "What does this have to do with us?" ”

Naoto Yamada shook his head and said, "Kakimoto-kun, you don't want to be so serious, okay?" These 5,000 fiat currency is equivalent to nearly a year's income for you and me. And don't you know who that guy is Dai Zhenwu, didn't this second ancestor rely on the huge subsidies of our Japanese government to the Dai Shengchang Steamship Company to live such a luxurious life of drunkenness and gold? ”

"Why can he, a Taiwanese from China, live such a luxurious life, while our upright Japanese soldiers want to cut down on food and clothing in the metropolis of Shanghai and live this ascetic-like life?"

"Just say it, what do you mean?" Kakimoto impatiently interrupted Naoto Yamada's chattering complaints.

"Kakimoto-kun, what I mean is very simple, you also know what my marble skills are. So I thought, can you use your assistant to the president of Nissin Steamship Co., Ltd. to go to Dai Zhenwu for a few games of marble, and when the time comes, with my skills, kill Dai Zhenwu with a fart, and the money earned, you and I will add five to one, which can be regarded as subsidizing the living expenses of you and me in Shanghai, an international metropolis! ”

"Yamada-kun, I'm sorry, I'm not interested in your proposal at all, if you want to go to Dai Zhenwu to fight the marble, just go over and make an appointment with him, Hugh will involve me!"

Kakimoto looked at Naoto Yamada angrily. If he really had the power to decide the life and death of Naoto Yamada at this time, Tsuyoshi Kakimoto would definitely pull out the knife on his body and cut Naoto Yamada by disembowelment.

It's a pity that Kakimoto Goichi doesn't have this power. Not only does he not have the power to decide the life and death of Naoto Yamada, but he also has no power to restrain and interfere with Naoto Yamada's actions.

Although Koichi Kakimoto was nominally the head of the first attached office of the Japanese Navy's military attache office, Naoto Yamada was the deputy director. However, Kakimoto Goichi, the head of the agency, could not interfere with the work of Naoto Yamada, the deputy director.

Because the division of labor between the two of them is fundamentally different from that of the First Attached Office of the Japanese Naval Attaché Office, with Kakimoto Gonichi being responsible for collecting intelligence on the British Navy in the First Attached Office of the Japanese Naval Attaché, while Naoto Yamada is responsible for collecting intelligence on the US Navy in the First Attached Office of the Japanese Naval Attaché.

In other words, in addition to the several radio transceivers in the first room attached to the Japanese Navy's military attaché's office, which were under their joint command, the remaining intelligence personnel in the first room attached to the Japanese Navy's military attaché's office were also divided into two teams, which were under the command of Kakimoto Goichi and Yamada Naoto respectively, and were not subordinate to each other.

In this case, even though Kakimoto Tsuyoshi repeatedly disliked Naoto Yamada, he was helpless against Naoto Yamada.

Naoto Yamada saw that Kakimoto Goichi was not on the road at all, so he could only sneer and leave in a huff.

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After leaving the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions, Lin Jiangbei found a place to have lunch, and when he saw that the time was almost up, he called a rickshaw and rushed to the Yuantong Deji Company located at the bottom of North Sichuan Road.

As soon as I entered the gate of Yuan Tong De Kee Company, a front desk immediately greeted me, "Sir, who are you looking for?" ”

"Hehe, my name is Xu Bingcheng, and I am a friend of Dai Zhenwu, the general manager of your company." Lin Jiangbei said with a smile, "He asked me to come over to see him this afternoon." ”

"Oh, you're General Manager Dai's friend Boss Xu?" The attitude of the front desk suddenly became extraordinarily polite, "General Manager Dai gave me instructions in the morning, please wait a moment, I will call our General Manager Dai!" ”

While talking, the front desk picked up the phone, dialed the internal number of Dai Zhenwu's office, and reported softly: "General Manager Dai, the Boss Xu you made an appointment with has arrived." ”

"Are you dizzy? Now that he's here, why don't you hurry up and invite him to my office, what kind of phone call? Dai Zhenwu scolded angrily on the phone.

The front desk was so frightened that he hurriedly put down the phone, bowed down to Lin Jiangbei and said, "Boss Xu, our Mr. Dai asks you to hurry up!" ”

As she spoke, she diligently turned sideways in front to lead the way, leading Lin Jiangbei up the marble staircase.

Before he reached the second floor, he heard a sound of footsteps from above, and then Dai Zhenwu's figure appeared at the staircase, quickly stretched out his hand and rushed down, and said to Lin Jiangbei: "Brother Bingcheng, you are here, but you want to kill me!" ”

"Is that an exaggeration?" Lin Jiangbei shook hands with Dai Zhenwu and smiled helplessly, "We obviously just met last night!" ”

"Hey! Brother Bingcheng, what you say hurts my heart so much! Haven't you heard that you don't see each other for a day, like three autumns? Come up with me, I'll show you around my office! Dai Zhenwu held Lin Jiangbei's hand and shook it for a long time, and then pulled him up.

Soon, Lin Jiangbei was led by Dai Zhenwu to his spacious and luxurious office.

In all fairness, Dai Zhenwu's office is placed in this era, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as luxurious or even luxurious. But in Lin Jiangbei's eyes, it is nothing. After all, in the previous life, Lin Jiangbei had seen too many leaders and local tyrants' offices, and Dai Zhenwu looked at the luxurious office layout, if it was placed in the previous life, it was estimated that it was at most the office level of a real power director in the county.

"Brother Bingcheng, how is it, my office is okay, right?" Dai Zhenwu said proudly while taking out a pack of black cat cigarettes for Lin Jiangbei.

"Well, isn't that good? It's a level of luxury! Lin Jiangbei deliberately made a shocked look and said, "Compared with your office, my office in Zhabei is simply a dog kennel!" ”

At this moment, a slender woman in red appeared at the door of Dai Zhenwu's office, swept her two big eyes to Lin Jiangbei's face, and then asked Dai Zhenwu: "General Manager Dai, is this the Boss Xu you told me this morning?" ”

Lin Jiangbei turned his head and swept over the appearance of the woman in red, and suddenly his heart was shocked: Isn't this the radio transceiver of the Chiwei and Mo spy group who escaped in Luoyang some time ago, Ogawa Xiangli?

How could she be in Shanghai and still in Dai Zhenwu's office?

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