Dressed and holding a cigarette, Professor Furuta swaggered into the captain's tent. He seemed to have something to say, and first dusted off the ash on the felt floor.

"Hey, do you have any brains? It was explored ten years ago. The remains of the old well, just a few kilometers away, you ride a horse to the west and you can see it in 10 minutes. Why repeat probing at such close range? ”

The professor was rude enough to attack the temporary captain directly, not even bothering to call his name.

"Professor, how deep was your well last time?"

"At least 700 meters, how's that? Too shallow? ”

"Yes, it's too shallow. I studied the geology of the swamp for hundreds of kilometres, which is entirely open to oil deposits, but at depths of more than 1,000 metres. ”

"Your research?" Furuta looked Hasegawa up and down a few times, "Can you tell me which university you teach?" What scholarly works are there? ”

Sure enough, like all domineering pedants who dominate academia, Furuta quickly shifted the subject to academic qualifications, a domineering demeanor that was almost identical to Hasegawa's previous boss.

"At the moment, I'm not teaching, but I'm sure I can make oil, right here, right under your feet."

"Who wouldn't talk big? But what qualifications do you have; What kind of academic background do you have to talk to me like this? ”

"I was a visiting scholar at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences."

"Does Stanford have this academy?" Furuta was also confused for a while, according to his memory, there shouldn't be, but he couldn't be sure for a while.

"If you don't believe me, Professor Furuta, I can make a bet with you, if there is no oil here...... I can apologize for my honor. ”

"Hehe, sure enough, there is the wind of a father."

"Seiji Hasegawa is not my father, although I admire him; But I don't care about that, do you dare to bet with me? ”

"What would you not dare, if you could find 100,000 ...... here No, 500,000 tons of oil fields, I swear that I will never survive in the world. ”

"Okay, that's a deal."

Fumihiko Hasegawa agreed, but Furuta was taken aback, and he was very sure that he would win, because he had carefully inspected the area more than once, and even drilled a 700-meter-deep pilot well. Of course, if this Hasegawa is forced to death, he will inevitably have a reputation for forcing people too much, but whatever, those who dare to talk back to him can't sympathize.

The professor swaggered out as he stomped his cigarette butt on the ground.

Fumihiko Hasegawa sat down, but he was a little scared, he was timid and suspicious by nature, and he always couldn't trust himself. Soon the data came back, and he began to immerse himself in the traditional analysis, of course, all the traditional analysis pointed to Furuta's conclusion, there are some oil-bearing layers, but there is no mining value, considering the lack of accuracy of acoustic detection in this era, everything is expected. He simply stopped wasting time reviewing the calculations and instead spread out his notebook, ready to write something for Kishi's suggestion.

Yes, once a war starts, the rational use of resources is a rather critical part. The most direct example is Germany in World War II, the quality of armor steel plummeted after 44 years, that is, the allies blockaded resources, resulting in the lack of tungsten, nickel, manganese, molybdenum and other rare metals, which shows that countries with scarce resources may be seized by the enemy.

"Uranium and iron ore from North Korea, coal and oil and rare earths from China, rubber, copper and molybdenum from the Philippines, tungsten, lead and tin from Myanmar, bauxite from Malaysia."

His mind quickly flashed through the countries that he had occupied, or had not yet occupied, and he was delusional about pocketing all his resources, and at this moment he suddenly realized the insatiable, no, should I say selfless feelings of serving the country before his great-grandfather's death.

But one problem is that he can accurately grasp the minerals of the origin, such as the uranium ore belt in North Korea, even in the Kasuga Maru's host database, there is not much accurate information, that is, even if he knows where it is, it must be explored for a long time before it can be used, and many other resource information collected through public channels has also been hidden deep into the seabed with the sinking of Kasuga Maru.

Only Burma, with whom he is more familiar, had espionage for strategic resources when he was a consultant in the Thilova development zone, where the Japanese government had invested, and knew so much about the country's resources that he could recall without a written record. Thinking of this, he took out a 200,000-to-1 map of Myanmar from the items he carried at all times and began to draw it.

His thoughts were interrupted by the sudden rumbling of a motor outside, and he realized that it was the heavy tractors that had arrived in advance. He emerged from the tent and could see the tractor slowly dragging a huge steel frame out of the forest. Apparently a shortcut. The tractors modified by these heavy tractors were slow, of course, because Japan lacked rubber to make wheeled towing vehicles.

"Great, I want to see how you die, Gutian."

On October 20, in the Toshima Duck Nest Detention Center in Tokyo, Yuji Shikata, who had just been promoted by Tojo, walked into an execution room with his shirt open. On the chair opposite him sat the fleshy Hidemi Oki.

Tojo ordered the Metropolitan Police Department to hand over Oki to the Quartet for some time, and the Quartet was busy tracking down the remaining parties a few days ago, and he didn't bother to ask, just let people whip them once a day, he knew that these communists didn't give a little hardship first, and it was superfluous to ask. Seeing that the heat was almost over, he came here in person today, hoping to ask some famous people.

He had already learned from Zolge's dispatcher that between July and August, the density of contact between Wei Qi and the Shanghai intelligence station had increased fourfold, and he was obviously also concerned about the affairs there, but some of the messages contained secret words, and only Wei Qi and Zorge knew the exact contents.

The second purpose was to find out whether Prime Minister Konoe was involved in the Zolga espionage case. But when he left in the morning, Tojo called and asked him to stop tracking Konoe; Even if the Quartet is simple-minded, he roughly guessed that this was a political consideration; Konoe and his mentor Tojo should have reached a tacit understanding of what kind of private teaching, so Tojo doesn't plan to hold on to this matter.

"Tell me, who is Yelena?" He asked slowly. "Throughout the month of July, the name was mentioned 21 times in the telegrams of Zhongxi Gong and you in Shanghai.

"That's just a code name."

"Whose code name?"

"He was an intelligence agent of unknown identity and nationality embedded in the Mahler shipyard. Zorge was interested in finding out what he was all about. Wei Qi was also very cooperative, and said unhurriedly.

"Is this the person?"

Quartet threw out a pencil portrait, and Ozi glanced up.

"I haven't seen this person, but a comrade in Shanghai sent a telegram describing him as being around 35 years old, very tall, very handsome, and a bit like Hando Tsusaburo."

"Don't give me a sloppy look, your life is in my hands."

"Quartet, from the moment you entered the door, I knew that Tojo had gained power, otherwise you wouldn't be able to return to Tokyo."

"Hmph, I know that you and your comrades have been making trouble by sending talented soldiers out so that you can operate unscrupulously in Tokyo. But now I'm back. ”

"I know that you were made to vomit blood in Shanghai, and I also know that before I was arrested, you were planning a new crusade, and the first two times were very busy, but depending on the situation, you still haven't figured out who Lin Jiu is, and the third time should have failed, right? It's a pity that I don't know much, he's not on my line. ”

"So, is he a Soviet spy team?"

"I'm not sure, they used a lot of weapons, they had Soviet calibers, but they weren't all, and their attitude towards the workers after taking over the Jewish shipyard made Zorge feel like it was on our side, but it could have been just a deliberate disguise."

Quartet's brain was not spinning fast, and there was a pause at this moment, and his intuition told him that Wei Qi was playing tricks on him, on the one hand, he seemed to be very cooperative, so as to avoid eating bitter flesh, and on the other hand, he was covering his own people, saying something that might or may not be, ambiguous.

"If you're not honest......"

"I told me everything I knew, and it is common for intelligence agencies of various countries to send two groups of unrelated people, and I am not in charge of Shanghai, which you know very well, otherwise why would Zorge send someone to collect intelligence about this person."

"Your investigation of Yelena was instructed by your superiors?"

"Yes, Yelianya's code name was decided by the General Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff."

"You want to deny the fact that they are actually Soviet spies, and you want to divert my attention?"

"I didn't say that, maybe it's someone from the General Directorate of State Security. The superiors are not obligated to answer our doubts, and perhaps the superiors do not know. ”

"How exactly will the investigation plan be implemented?"

Zorge decided to go after Kage Sho because he was a member of the intelligence agency of the military department, one of the few capable guys in Shanghai, and he probably knew something more about the organization. This is the reason why my people sneaked into the military medical university. ”

"Nonsense, Shadow Zuo Zhenzhao has long been unable to access the core information?"

"I said Quartet, that's all I know, otherwise you still ask me about Prime Minister Konoe, and I can tell you everything."

"Shut up, don't speak."

Quartet shouted, interrupting Oki's words, there are also clerks and two guards in this room, If you really want this guy to say something he shouldn't hear, if the Prime Minister Konoe regains power in the future, what the consequences will be, I can't say.

Wei Qi sneered, he probably figured out his tricks from the demeanor of the Quartet. He really didn't know much about Lin Jiu's organization, which was also what Zorge wanted to figure out, and he guessed that this Lin Jiu was not an organization affiliated with the Soviet Union, but there was a lot of energy behind it. After consulting with Zolge, he decided to follow up on the line of Ying Zuo Zhenzhao, and then track down Lin Jiu, who originally wanted to play a mantis to catch cicadas, but he didn't expect to get away with it. Of course, even if you are in prison, you can still deal with the Quartet with certainty.

"So, you think he's from the Anglo-American?"

"With this possibility, he can stay in the concession for so long, which is difficult to do without outside assistance. And the USSR did not have too much energy in the concessions. ”

"What's the matter with the submarine you brought down in your telegram?"

"When Izumo sank, someone witnessed the periscope."

"Do you think there's a connection between the sinking of Izumo and this organization?"

Quartet suddenly asked an extremely stupid question, which fully exposed his understanding of the whole thing, and he was still in a general state.

Wei Qi couldn't help laughing, and the laughing Quartet became uncomfortable.