As long as you find the right way in intelligence work, you can sit back and enjoy the results. At this time, Li Kongrong, who stayed in Hamburg, felt that everything was within the ideal. After being tossed in the middle of the night, those boys from the Electric Thunder School knew everything under the questioning of Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong, and when they felt that something was not quite right two days later, everything that should have been said had already been said.

After receiving the reports of these people, Li Kongrong had a certain understanding of the situation of the German Navy's submarine forces and shipyards. Among them, he felt even more that he was interfering in the course of history -- according to the original plan, these cadets should have left Germany last week, but Ouyang Ge, who learned that the Admiralty was going to buy German submarines, secretly ordered them to stay for more than a week in order to learn about the situation of German submarines.

"Sir, they've probably got everything they know over there." In the middle of the night, the extremely tired Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong took out the report he had sorted out and said to Li Kongrong. "I can't ask anything more."

"Hmm." Li Kongrong, who was smoking a cigarette, nodded in agreement with him, and asked for all the valuable things, if the others want to be squeezed out again, they have to be the FBI hypnotist torture officer, this is not necessary. The Lightning School is subordinate to the Ministry of Military Affairs, and it has been three days since they detained their people, and if they continue to detain them, if they call and reprimand them, they will not be able to eat and walk away.

"How are the students feeling now?" Li Kongrong thought of this and suddenly asked.

"They ......" Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong smiled and said, "I started to complain, and I always asked when I could return to China." ”

"Then let them go back tomorrow." Li Kongrong glanced at the stack of reports and nodded slightly. "Papers and stuff were sent to them. By the way, each of the eight people will be rewarded with a hundred marks, which can be regarded as my practice for them. ”

Major Li Kongrong did not pick on the door, and Li Kongrong, who came from later generations, did not regard the mark as money, especially after learning that the overseas Chinese in Germany could only remit ten marks in cash every month, and even less regarded the mark in his hand as money. And this also leads to a question: what should be done with the money he sells intelligence in the future? The foreign exchange remitted to Germany is controlled by the Deutsche Bank, and it is difficult for the mark to be remitted, so can it really only buy a shipload of German freight to cash out?

Li Kongrong's eyes flashed and he was thinking about other things, but Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong looked at his temporary commander with a smile, he thought that these eight students could be kicked away directly after asking, and he didn't want the commander to give a reward of 800 marks when he left. He smiled and said, "Eight hundred yuan is enough to practice several times, I don't know if they can spend all this money in these days." ”

"Flowers can be left for the next group." Li Kongrong extinguished the cigarette with a smile, "Didn't they say that they would send a group of people to study in Germany at the end of the year?" Those people can bring less money and it won't be a problem. Well, Depei has also worked hard during this time. I don't have that much money to reward you, so I can only say more kind things for you in my report to Colonel Xu and Mr. Kong. ”

"There, there. Thank you, sir, for cultivating. "After rewarding those naval cadets, I don't want the commander to actually shift the topic to himself. Regardless of whether what he said was true or not, Zhong Qiangong's heart was on fire -- he was actually older than Li Kongrong, almost forty years old, but because he was halfway through the revolution, his military rank was only a second lieutenant.

"What cultivation is not cultivated." Li Kongrong shook his head and said, "Those who do practical things always have to be commended." And this is our last effort before the war. When I look back on it, I will feel how important the work I have done now is! ”

The chief actually talked about the start of the war, Zhong Qiangong was a little surprised, and he whispered: "Is the situation really so bad? ”

"Of course." Li Kongrong nodded, he used to think that he might be able to change history - he suggested that Chang Kaishen postpone the War of Resistance and endure it for another year or two, but the trip to the British delegation made him feel that the war was about to break out. Kong Xiangxi is going to visit the whole of Europe, and then he will go to the United States for a loan (Kong Lingyi); Weng Wenhao of the Resources Committee seemed to be going to the Soviet Union -- once passing by their cabin, he actually heard some of them say that they had waited for the Soviet Union.

If Lugou Bridge can be tolerated, what about Huanggou Bridge and Zhaogou Bridge? After the Xi'an Incident, Chang Kaishen's position has completely changed, and it is obviously impossible to let him come to the Hemei Agreement for the second time, and maybe he will be killed as a pro-Japanese element.

Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong thought that the chief would give him a clearer explanation, but he didn't want Li Kongrong to answer 'of course', but his expression was extremely depressed, and the air in the room seemed to condense. He didn't dare to ask any more, just nodded and smoked.

"Rest early." After a long sigh, Li Kongrong spit out a sentence and left. The next day, the students of the Electric Thunder School with 100 marks each left Hamburg, and as Li Kongrong thought, they finally handed over the extra wealth to the embassy for safekeeping, so as to leave it for the next batch of students studying in Germany.

*

Three days later, the northern German port of Kiel.

"Mr. Li, that's the school." On a three-story house, Cao Akun, the owner of the laundry, stretched out his hand and pointed to the Navy anti-submarine school on the other side of the road. At this time, everyone was hiding in a pile of hanging clothes, and the binoculars and people were covered by clothes so as not to be noticed. This is the roof of a Chinese laundry, and their customers are supposed to be cadets and instructors of the naval school, so the roof is lit up with naval uniforms.

While Cao Akun was talking, Major Li Kongrong, who was dressed in civilian clothes, was staring at the binoculars, and on the other side of the camera, he saw the German submarine for the first time, which was in the bay, probably out of port. It was six o'clock in the morning, the morning sun was rising, the sea was shining with gold, and he could only see the silhouette of the entire submarine and the naval flag fluttering in the sea breeze. 'You've come to the right place!' The Major had words in his mouth. However, he is still satisfied with the whole location now, and after a brief look, he said to another overseas Chinese, that is, Lin Rugui, the leader introduced by Chen Shunqing of the Sailor Museum: "This location is still too far, is there any closer place?" ”

Lin Rugui was an old sailor, and he stayed in Kir for seven or eight years. He thought that the roof of Cao Akun was already very close, and he didn't want Chief Li to be dissatisfied, so he shook his head and said a little twisted Qingtian Chinese: "No, this is the closest." ”

"Sir, how is that position?" Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong, who was also holding a high-powered telescope next to him, said.

"Where is that?" Major Lee Kong Rong also saw where he said, the house on the main seafront street of Port Kiel, about a kilometre closer than here.

"It's a foreigner's inn." Lin Rugui is worthy of being a snake on the ground, and he knows what that place is for at a glance.

Hearing that it was a hotel, Major Li Kongrong was in high spirits, and he said, "Then where are we going?" ”

"Can't go!" Lin Rugui shook his head vigorously. "There are many public officials who will arrest people, and there are a lot of public officials."

The public is the police, Li Kongrong was surprised: "Who are the arrests?" Why arrest people. ”

"I don't know." Lin Rugui shook his head again, he had just heard that the public officials in that place would arrest people, but he didn't know why he arrested people. "Anyway, there are a lot of public officials on that street, and many of them don't wear official uniforms, and overseas Chinese are afraid to go. There used to be a shop on the street, but it moved last year. ”

"Seems like a trap?" Zhong Qiangong looked at Lin Rugui and was stunned, the location of the hotel is indeed good, if he is a German intelligence department, he will also set a trap there and wait for the rabbit - the foreigners who come to Kiel are nothing more than to spy on the intelligence of the German Navy, the location of the hotel is the best, and if they don't know that it is a trap, there will still be many people who will fall into the net.

"Then look elsewhere." Major Li Kongrong said to Zhong Qiangong. After speaking, he touched the sweat again, he patted the shoulder of the old sailor who was afraid of Lin Rugui, and cocked his thumb and said, "President Chen didn't introduce the wrong person!" ”

"Hehe...... Lin Rugui's swarthy face smiled. President Chen also spoke of righteousness, and helped us fight a lawsuit with foreigners the year before last. ”

"What kind of lawsuit?" Zhong Qiangong continued to hold the telescope to choose a suitable observation location, while Li Kongrong put down the telescope, handed Lin Rugui and Cao Akun a cigarette, and began to chat.

"The steamer that ran to New York had an accident and died, and the foreigners refused to pay more, so Chairman Chen asked the foreigners to file a lawsuit." Lin Rugui was not used to smoking cigarettes, so he took the cigarette with both hands and only held it in his ear, but took out the dry tobacco pouch. He tapped his pipe, stuffed it in, and lit it, and it seemed that it didn't taste any worse than a cigarette.

"And such a thing?" Li Kongrong has a question of every sentence. He still doesn't know the specific business of Chen Shunqing's sailor gym, what he does for a living.

"Yes." Lin Rugui had a cigarette in his mouth, and the knife-like wrinkles on his forehead were extremely severe, "There will always be accidents when running a boat, some boat owners abide by the rules, and we don't suffer." Some shipowners are stingy, and they will drag it and not give a pension, or they will give very little. ”

"And then President Chen will help you fight the lawsuit?" Li Kongrong said.

"Hmm. We were all introduced by President Chen, and if something happened, President Chen would help us negotiate with the foreigners, and the foreigners were willing to take the money according to the contract set earlier, but if they were not, they would have to go to court. Lin Rugui said that he smiled rarely, "If the family can't get by, they come out to run the boat, and the money given by foreigners is not much, but it is better than farming." ”

"And you're all running in Germany?" The Major finally had some idea of what the Sailor's House was all about—a labor broker.

"It's not. Whoever wants to run those lines. Lin Rugui said, "The price of Chinese workers is cheap, and some unimportant things on the ship can be handed over to Chinese workers to do, and the pension is cheaper than that of foreigners." There were no unions on board, and shipowners liked to recruit Chinese workers on board. ”

"How much money do you get a month?" Li Kongrong asked with interest, he had never noticed the Chinese sailors on foreign ships before, but now when he heard Lin Rugui say this, he found that Chinese sailors on foreign ships were so common.

"I can't get much money, so I just eat with a mouth." Lin Rugui shook his head with a smile, "It's not as good as being a public." ”

"Three hundred marks a month?" The major suddenly thought of the monthly allowance of 800 marks for international students, and immediately asked again.

"Where are there so many." Lin Rugui laughed and smoked in his mouth, he felt that Chief Li in front of him really didn't understand the people's suffering. "With an average of 100 marks a month, everyone is satisfied. U.S. ships have the highest wages, but the U.S. doesn't want Chinese laborers. ”

"So little." Major Li Kongrong was finally a little stunned. His salary used to be 270 yuan a month, but after he went abroad, because there was no longer a subsidy, it was only 230 yuan, but the Admiralty obviously took this into account, so the living allowance was 200 marks more than that of the international students, which was a little more than before at the exchange rate of private marks.

One hundred marks Chief Li also said less, not to mention Lin Rugui, and the laundry owner Cao Akun also smiled. On the steamer, a hundred marks were covered with food and lodging, and this money was equal to fifty national dollars, which was a lot of money to the countrymen. Listening to their laughter, Major Li Kongrong felt that he really didn't know much about them, and he was just smoking at the moment, and he didn't ask anything anymore.

During the day, he used binoculars to observe the Naval Anti-Submarine School on the roof of the laundry, and at night he discussed with Zhong Qiangong the details and methods of the information he had obtained. But the two of them stayed in the laundry for less than a week, and they felt that they couldn't get any information. In fact, as far as the purchase of submarines is concerned, the information currently available is enough, but Li Kongrong feels that this is not enough, and his extravagant hope of this pseudo-military fan is to get the course details of the German submarine school, and he is very worried that the Germans will keep a hand when teaching themselves. If the training courses of the German submarine school can be clear, then these elements can be added to the negotiations and demand that the German side fulfill the contract without discount.

According to his cognition and imagination, foreigners are always cunning and cunning, for example, a Japanese instructor who taught at the Beiyang Army School actually returned to Japan by disembowelment because he was moved for a while. Weapons are the same weapons, but there are different ways to use them. Of course, he didn't expect the Germans to show him the skills of submarine warfare, but the normal course should not be compromised.

With such a purpose, he discussed several ways with Zhong Qiangong, but in the end he felt that there were only two feasible. One is to go straight into the school and steal the syllabus, but that's hard. The naval school is a militarized management, and it will be even more difficult to go in and steal things if you are not familiar with the place. But the laundry provides a certain amount of convenience because it has to collect and send clothes in. At least in the garbage that Cao Akun secretly took out last time, the two of them saw some diving course notes.

In addition to stealing, the other method is simple and crude -- taking advantage of the school holidays to directly kidnap a naval cadet and take him to a no-man's land for torture. As long as you are a senior student, there is nothing you can't ask. But there is another risk, what if the kidnapped trainee returns and reports the crime? And the Chinese delegation happened to propose to train according to these courses.