Sir Hugh Sinclair, the head of MI6's Secret Intelligence Service, was in fact a short, fat man, smiling like a kind English priest, with a soft demeanor and tone, and only shrewd black eyes showed a resolute character beneath the gentle surface. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info At this moment, the director is holding a corn cob pipe, sitting cross-legged in the office at 21 Queen Anne Street in London, listening to the report of his subordinates, and the report has only one content, that is, about Agent 007.

Britain's manufacturing industry was gradually replaced by Germany before World War I, and after the end of the war, the old industries such as textiles and coal became more and more defeated, and the new industries such as electrical appliances, radios, and automobiles were strongly contested by American companies. Foreign intelligence agencies such as MI6 – which received more funding for the Bolshevik movement at home – were only £100,000 a year, and the Cabinet, sensing the threat of war, increased MI6 funding after the rise of the Nazis.

However, it seems that it is too late. In the years before, in order to save money, MI6 overseas agencies and foreign affairs were combined into one: the visa officers in embassies were almost all MI6 intelligence station chiefs, and with these visa officers as the fulcrum, several agents were developed below. In Germany, for example, the Berlin station was headed by Captain Frank Foley, and earlier this year there was Colonel Timothy Brin, the first secretary of the embassy in charge of the press, and below Berlin there were four sub-stations in Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, and Mainz, all of which were covered by diplomatic status.

This is the site agency, but what about the agents? What a pitiful few! Before the advent of 007, there were only three agents in the whole of Germany, one of which was Baron Wilhelm Drup, codenamed 821, who was familiar with the Nazi hierarchy and therefore mainly provided political intelligence; The second was Dr. Carl Kruger, codenamed 016, who was a naval architect who provided naval intelligence, and the last one, codenamed B. Jones, came to the door on his own, and was paid a hundred pounds for each intelligence, mainly for air force intelligence.

There were only three agents in the entire German station, and there was Paul Sumer, codenamed A-54, who was attached to the Czech Prague station, where he lived in a city completely close to the Czech Republic. Funding constraints put the Intelligence Service in an extremely backward state for German intelligence, even though the Cabinet had been increasing its appropriations since the year before: £180,000 in '35, £350,000 in '36, and nearly £400,000 this year. Luckily, 007 appeared.

This strange Chinese seems to know everything—he actually knows that the Secret Intelligence Service is led by Admiral Sinclair, and he also knows that Menses, the head of the Second Army Division; He also knew a lot about the situation of the German Nazi top brass, and ultimately, he was a naval officer himself, and he knew the tactics of the German naval top brass and the performance of German ships. If the information he had provided had not been confirmed from other sources, Director Sinclair would have feared that he was a liar and an intelligence broker.

But just when he found out that this person was of great value, he had a car accident, fortunately God didn't want to see him, and he came back to life, but now there are many people who pay attention to him, the Japanese are staring at him, the German military intelligence is also paying attention to him, and the car accident is hospitalized, which makes it difficult to realize his plan to come to London in August, and all this is always remedied.

In Sir Sinclair's office, under the oil painting of the naval battle of Nelson as the first officer, Colonel Russell, the chief of the third division (naval department), was reporting on the situation of agent 007, and when he finished talking about the Japanese and German military intelligence did not closely monitor him, the colonel talked about the current situation of the Chinese navy: that is, after the battle of Jiangyin in the sea and air on September 24-25, the three main cruisers of the Chinese navy, Pinghai, Yixian and Yingrui, were sunk, the four cruisers Haiqi, Hairong, Haichou and Haichen sank by themselves, and the rest of the seaplane carriers, gunboats, Most of the frigates were also sunk.

"Colonel, are you going to tell me that the Chinese Navy has disappeared?" Sir Sinclair spat out his pipe impatiently, he didn't want to hear the names of so many Chinese naval ships. Although he is a naval admiral, the Chinese navy has never been the object of his attention.

"Yes, sir." Colonel Russell closed the document and nodded: "The three fleets of the Chinese Navy have all been destroyed, and now they only have the Ninghai and the Fourth Fleet in Guangdong. This may be the reason 007 asked us to secretly assist the Ninghai. ”

Li Kongrong, who was in the Berlin hospital, did not know that the navy had been completely wiped out, but he eventually corrected his request: he hoped that MI6 would assist the Ninghai, even if it was only for intelligence purposes. But this request made Sir Sinclair feel very unsecure, and he twisted his brows and said: "Now the cruisers and destroyers of the entire Japanese Navy are looking for the Chinese Ninghai!" If the Japanese learn of our move to help the Chinese, the foreign minister will certainly be furious. ”

"Yes, Sir." Colonel Russell fully agreed, but as the direct leader of 007's subordinates, he insisted, "But, sir, I must warn you: 007 did not take our compensation. ”

At first, 007 said that he wanted to trade information, but after that he didn't say a word about the deal, and never took a penny. This made Colonel Russell a little uneasy, and a non-paid intelligence officer who could provide top-notch intelligence meant that he could leave MI6 at any time. If such a situation happens, the intelligence work against Germany will return to its previous lifeless state.

"He didn't want his wife to have ...... before," Jazz also realized it was a big problem at the Colonel's reminder.

"Sir, the reason for 007's car accident was to receive a telegram that his wife had died......" Colonel Russell introduced the situation, he didn't know that Li Kongrong also had a little wife, and all he cared about was this little wife. What a misfortune he was! ”

"Well, where's that damn cruiser?" It seems to have been compromised, Director Sinclair asked with annoyance.

"Information from an American merchant ship says that someone saw the sunken Japanese mail ship sail into the Bering Sea." Colonel Russell said that the British ships that filled the ocean were naturally inseparable from the Intelligence Service, but every American ship also had volunteer observers from the Intelligence Service, who would report all the interesting information.

"This means that the Chinese did not sink the Tatsuda Maru?" Jazz suddenly became interested.

"Yes, they didn't sink her, they captured him. Reports from Yokohama and Los Angeles say that there is a lot of valuable cargo on the mail ship, and I think the Chinese are reluctant to sink her, at least the cargo on board has to find a place to transport it. "Colonel said." Sir, I don't think the Japanese would have discovered anything if they had just provided information. ”

"But we have to contact the Chinese directly!" After a little thought, Director Sinclair made a request, "The matter of Sir Xu Gesen makes me not believe in the secrecy work of the Chinese, and they can't even keep Chang Kaishen's whereabouts secret. ”

"Of course, I totally understand that." The colonel nodded, he also knew the reason for the death of the ambassador to China, that is, the Chinese leader Chang Kaishen was going to Shanghai in the ambassador's car to comfort the troops. Now it is said that the Japanese spy has been found, but it doesn't mean much. "So...... Jazz, what should we do with the plan mentioned in 007? ”

Compared with Baron Dropp, codenamed 821, 007's analysis of the political situation in Germany seems to be more straightforward - Germany under the leadership of the Nazi Party cannot fight at home but only abroad, and the only thing that can stop their crazy plans now is the Wehrmacht officer corps. The Wehrmacht did not support Hitler's war plan because he feared fighting on two fronts again, and thought that everything was not ready, and even, in the report, 007 joked that the Wehrmacht officer corps was a bunch of cowering cowards who did not really want to dominate Europe, but only wanted to restore the treatment and status of the previous officer corps. Therefore, it is all the more important to prop up the officer corps, especially to prevent Hitler's Nazi Party from taming it prematurely.

His plan was to assassinate Eva Gruen, the female secretary to Field Marshal von Blomburg, Minister of Defense. The reason was that Field Marshal Blomburg would soon propose to him, but the problem was that the female secretary had worked in a massage parlor, and she would make the Nazis find an excuse for Blomburg to resign, and if he resigned, the post of Minister of Defense would definitely end up in the hands of the Nazis, which would mean that the conditions were ripe for war - the Nazis did not have much hope for the German Navy, and the Air Force was already in the hands of the Nazis.

Is this judgment correct? The whole MI6 and the Foreign Office are thinking that if this is possible, then this will be the most genius plan, and the Cabinet and the Prime Minister will be ecstatic about this plan now very much want peace with Germany.

"We are verifying the information reported by 007." Speaking of which, Sir Sinclair shifted his stocky body and lit his pipe before speaking. "But in any case, it is unseemly to stop the war by assassinating an innocent female secretary." In the smoke, Jazz showed the sense of justice of an English gentleman - if 007 was British, he probably wouldn't say such a thing, but 007 is a foreigner or a yellow race, and if the Intelligence Bureau really did this, then this matter would be a scandal for the Intelligence Bureau. "Perhaps, we can get Marshal von Blomburg not to marry this female secretary by other means, if in fact he is in fact intimate with her."

"Sir, the timing is not optimistic." As a direct leader, Colonel Russell naturally read 007's report, and although he was in charge of naval intelligence, he was completely in favor of 007's report. It's not that I'm not convinced of 007's plan, but I feel that the investment cost of this plan is very small.

"Yes, time is tight, I know. But we need a lot of time to analyze that report. Sir Sinclair emphasised: "We also need to find an alternative way to stop this wedding. Of course, this would certainly be a safe approach. ”

007 seems to have thought of the Intelligence Bureau's reluctance to carry out the assassination, so he stressed in his report that Miss Eva Gruen's massage parlor experience should not be disclosed in advance in an attempt to prevent the wedding. Miss Gruen had to be honorary, because he was the secretary and lover of Field Marshal von Blomburg, a prostitute who spent time with the marshal, and one step further would have to think that Field Marshal von Blomburg was also dishonorable, which had the exact same effect as the two of them getting married, and had achieved the Nazis' goal of taming the officer corps in advance.

In short, 007 seems to have gone through all the solutions in the report, and after comparing them, it is determined that an assassination of an accidental nature is the safest solution.

"I care more about 007's safety than I do about preventing the wedding." After convincing his subordinates, Sir expressed his concerns, "The Japanese may just sabotage China's submarine program, but if the Military Intelligence Bureau finds out that he is spying on German intelligence, then he will be deported back to China by the Germans, but we cannot afford to lose him." ”

"Yes, sir. I have told him what he is doing and told him to be careful. Except for Plan Z and Y, there is no need to track other intelligence. Colonel Russell said. But he was now clearly in a hurry to assassinate him, believing that once Field Marshal von Blomburg fell, the Nazi Party would change its previous policy toward China. ”

"Look, he's still thinking about China's interests." Director Sinclair suddenly laughed, and if he knew that 'those who are not of my race must have different hearts', he might have said it as well. "John, we can trust the information provided by 007, because it is real, but we need to be cautious about the plan he provided, he may want to use the intelligence bureau to serve China's interests."

Sinclair said, "You can tell him again that the Intelligence Bureau is only responsible for gathering intelligence, and that if an assassination is to be carried out, it needs the approval of a higher agency." ”

Sir Sinclair's words reached Berlin a few days later, and by this time Lee Kongrong had been discharged from the hospital—it was already October, and there were many difficult things, and he was discharged as soon as the cast on his leg was removed.

Still at the Berlin Zoo near the British Embassy in Germany, in the bright autumn light, he sits on a white bench on crutches to feed pigeons, while a woman in a tusk hat sits on the chair behind the bench and reads a novel. The two didn't talk at first, but when a few tourists sat on the woman's bench and giggled, the woman stood up and sat on Li Kongrong's side. After a brief conversation, Li Kongrong received three directives from London: he must pay attention to his own safety and prevent being expelled by German military intelligence; The Intelligence Bureau had to contact the Ninghai directly to help the Ninghai; The Intelligence Service is still considering the plan he presented last month and cannot respond immediately.

The first one made Li Kongrong happy, but the last one made him worried. The war was raging at home, and ammunition was largely imported from Germany, and once Field Marshal von Blomburg stepped down and General von Flitsch was framed by the Nazis as a chicken. If you are dismissed for adultery, then Sino-German relations will be ......, what should I do?!