Yu Sheng was surprised again and again, but still accepted the fact that Qing Xiaoyi was an intelligence genius. In fact, the so-called intelligence work is not just like the TV show, lurking for years and delivering an absolutely crucial message. Then, you can save the world.

The vast majority of intelligence sources do not come from secrets, but from various information released to the public. And the best at this is the Japanese!

Therefore, long before the First Sino-Japanese War, long before Japan's large-scale invasion of China, the Japanese invested a lot of money and manpower to train and send a large number of spies who not only understood China's customs and secular concepts, but were also Chinese-speaking level 8, and used various identities and occupations as a cover to obtain all kinds of intelligence and data in China. At the same time, the Japanese intelligence agencies also bribed a large number of traitors and Westerners in China to serve as spies.

After the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance against Japanese aggression, Japan's intelligence agencies operating in China consisted of three major intelligence systems: the military department, the government, and the gendarmerie.

Japan's intelligence agencies in China are extremely large. These intelligence agencies are divided into three systems: the military department, the government, and the military police, including the intelligence section of the staff department of the Northern, Central, and South China Dispatch Armies (part of which is the Shanghai Dispatch Army led by Matsui Ishine), the gendarmerie, the special high-tech section of the police department, and the puppet Manchukuo Security Bureau.

In addition, the spy agencies set up by the Japanese in China also appeared under various names such as "organs" and "mansions". There are vassal-style pine, bamboo, plum, and orchid institutions, Kodama institutions, Inoue Mansion (in Shanghai), Rokujo Mansion, and so on. and peripheral organs controlled by Japanese spy agencies, such as the headquarters of Wang's puppet agents, the Intelligence Bureau of the North China Political Affairs Committee, and the Investigation Department of the Central Headquarters of the Xinmin Association.

It is precisely because of the large number of party members and adequate preparations that the external status of Japanese intelligence personnel in China can change in many ways. These intelligence agencies often use the form of opening pharmacies, hotels, morphine parlors, and white noodle shops to install agents and obtain important information. Moreover, this information is obtained through open channels, and the cost is extremely low!

And the so-called intelligence collected by these agents is actually just gossip circulating on the streets, and the gossip of Zhang's family and Li Jiaxiao. From this gossip, the Japanese filter out the information that is useful to them and use it, which is not inefficient!

According to statistics, in 1937 there were as many as 173 white noodle restaurants and morphine restaurants in the Japanese Concession in Tianjin, and in Shanghai, the total number of white noodle restaurants and morphine restaurants set up in the French Concession, Hongkou, and North Sichuan Road far exceeded that of Tianjin!

In addition to Shanghai and Tianjin, the Japanese did not spare other important cities in China. Not only did the Japanese trace the major cities along the Yangtze River in Beiping, but even Tibet and Xinjiang did not escape the clutches of the Japanese in collecting intelligence.

The "white noodle" restaurants and morphine restaurants opened by the Japanese were all over the country, and even Changxin Shop and Fengtai, which were remote places at that time, had a large number of "white noodle" restaurants opened by Japanese spies, and the Japanese spies chose to open drug stores mainly because they took advantage of the weaknesses of drug addicts, such as poor self-control and the need for a large amount of money, which were easy to buy and use.

In addition, Japanese intelligence agencies have opened a large number of pharmacies, barber shops, and cooking shops in various places at the same time, and have hung billboards around the cities where these stores are located.

This kind of billboard seems to be an advertisement on the surface, but in fact it is a military map mark, such as the "Rendan Advertisement" that can be seen everywhere in urban and rural areas at that time, on which an old man with an eight-character beard is depicted, such as a five-character beard slightly upturned, indicating that the road is unimpeded; The left corner of the mustache hangs downward, which means that the left turn is not passable, and it should turn to the right; The right corner of the mustache hangs downward, indicating that the right turn is impassable, and you should turn to the left; If the beard droops downward, it means that the road is impassable and you cannot move forward.

During the Anti-Japanese War, on the military maps of the Japanese army captured by the Nationalist Government, such billboards were used as military markers for the Japanese army!

In addition to these public gossip and folk rumors, public intelligence is its main source of intelligence. And the basis of these sources of information is all the literature!

After the Japanese invasion of China, the Japanese army carried out large-scale looting activities in order to enrich the library's documents. After the fall of Nanjing, the Japanese army began to loot Chinese documents without impunity. First, the head of the secret service department of the Shanghai Dispatch Army instructed his agents in Nanjing to immediately inspect the important books in Nanjing and prepare to receive them.

At the same time, the Japanese also transferred Dalian library professionals from the "South Manchuria Co., Ltd." from Dalian in northeast China to Nanjing.

In addition, there were also "Han experts" from the East Asian Tongwen Academy and the Shanghai Institute of Natural Sciences in Japan, which gathered more than 330 Japanese agents and 367 soldiers, and looted Chinese documents in the city of Nanjing.

There were more than 70 targets in this raid, and 880,000 books were stolen, which was 30,000 more than the Imperial Library, the largest library in Nanjing at that time.

According to the recollections of the staff of the Dalian Library of the Manchurian Railway, who participated in the looting work at that time, after the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, the Special Service Department of the Shanghai Dispatch Army mobilized nine staff members of the Special Service Department to search for important books and documents in the downtown area of Nanjing in three cars under the pretext of inspecting important books in the city, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Civil Affairs Office of the Nationalist Government, the Provincial Library, and the Academia Sinica.

Then the Japanese army mobilized special agents, soldiers and captured coolies, and used more than 300 trucks to load the looted books and documents. They had soldiers and coolies load the books onto trucks and transport them to their destinations. The stolen books were placed in the three-story building of the Nanjing Geological Survey. More than a dozen truckloads of books are brought in every day, and almost 200 mountains of books are piled up in every room on the first, second, and third floors of the research center.

Of course, the Japanese will not use all the documents and information they have collected. Rather, it will be carefully divided into categories. And after corroborating each other, a definite intelligence information will be given. And the information that has been extensively collected and carefully selected is naturally extremely valuable and credible.

The information excerpted by Qing Xiaoyi already has some professional shadows. She not only found the headquarters of the Zodiac Society, the specific map of the New Asia Hotel on North Sichuan Road, and the surrounding environment from the "Shanghai Travel Number Catalogue". In addition, I found a question about the recent movements of Japanese people from newspapers edited by Japanese people.

The Nippon Shin newspaper reported in March: "On the 20th of this month, it is the spring equinox in Japan again. On this day, our world is equal in length to day and night, and this day is also a day for the Japanese to sweep the graves and worship their ancestors. Japanese culture is influenced by Buddhism and other religious cultures, and many people believe that on the other side of the day, when the day and night are equal in length, the heavens and the earth are balanced, and on this day, you can go to the graves of your ancestors to visit the graves of your ancestors, and you can meet the souls of your ancestors and be blessed by them! ”

"The spring equinox festival was held in Japan during the Heian period, and it is also known as the Higankai. Those who practice Buddhism hold rituals in order to realize the way to reach the other side. They would recite Buddhist scriptures in front of the sunset in the other side of the meeting, believing that by doing so, they would be able to enter the Pure Land of Bliss in the West after they died. ”

"Today, there are hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in China, and these people cannot return to the graves of their ancestors to pay respects, but they don't know how they will spend this year?"

The Japanese invaded China, not just for plunder, but for occupation! In order to achieve this goal, the Japanese began to invade China culturally and ideologically at the beginning of their invasion of China. Whenever there is a traditional festival in Japan, the Japanese people are bound to celebrate it! And the officers and generals in the upper echelons of the army are even more exemplary. Although there is no way to return to Japan, it is completely necessary to have a party, give a few speeches, hold a banquet, and sprinkle wine and worship.

And the Zodiac Society is the most loyal lackey of the Japanese. Therefore, with these two items, the rest of my life can conclude that on March 20, nine out of ten Japanese people will meet at the New Asia Hotel. And no matter whether the Japanese will go to the New Asia Hotel or not, if the Japanese make trouble that day, Chang Yuqing's life will definitely not be very comfortable!