The office of Shancheng Zaozi Lanya.

"Some time ago, I told you, did you find anything unusual in the secret investigation of the recent situation of the personnel in the Tangshan Hot Spring Guest House?" Han Lin asked.

"After I received the order, I sent a team to be responsible for the investigation, after the fall of Jinling, the guest house of the Ministry of Military Affairs moved to the mountain city, and continued to open a guest house in the South Shore Hot Springs, the name was changed to the South Bank Hot Spring Guest House of the Ministry of Military Affairs, although the scale is not comparable to the Tangshan Hot Spring Guest House, but it has been constantly expanding."

According to the personnel files of the Ministry of Military Affairs, a small number of people have been transferred to work in other departments, and most of the waiters are newly recruited from the local area. Cao Jiandong said.

"Through what channels did the investigation be conducted?" Han Lin asked.

"The guest house is under the jurisdiction of the General Affairs Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and in the name of verifying Liao Yaquan's lurking case, we found the chief of the personnel section, and with the authority of the special service department, we secretly reviewed all the personnel files and records of the guest house from the early days of the Anti-Japanese War to the present, and made excerpts about the personnel changes.

"To be on the safe side, I specially sent four brothers to secretly follow him, and so far, there has been no change in the whereabouts of the head of the personnel section." Cao Jiandong said.

The secret service was originally the intelligence department of the Yamashiro government, and although it was subordinate to the General Office of the Military Commission, the attendant room behind it was the existence that could not be provoked, and it was not lost to the Military Unification Bureau in the slightest in terms of power, and the secrecy and anti-espionage section was responsible for the secrecy and espionage work of all military organs of the Yamashiro government, and it had the right to investigate and deal with it, and all military agencies must cooperate unconditionally, and they dare not fail to cooperate.

"The direction of your investigation is logical, if the inner line of Liao Yaquan's development is hidden in the military command center of the Shancheng government, in order to facilitate the transmission of information, the distance between the inner line and the liaison person cannot be too far, and it may even be on the side of the inner line."

"Liao Yaquan has been undercover in the Tangshan Hot Spring Guest House for a long time, and the easiest person for her to develop must be the people around her, the department leaders, guards, logistics, and waiters of the guest house, which may become her liaison, and help her contact the inside line through such means."

"First, the best way to continue to track down the situation of the transferred personnel is to see if their activities have come into contact with personnel in important positions in the military command center, even if the two of them appear in the same place at the same time, it is abnormal."

"The second is to deploy radio monitoring equipment around this guest house, 24 hours a day to monitor, we can't be sure that there is no inside line for her development in the current guest house, Liao Yaquan is a very cunning opponent, anything can happen." Han Lin said.

On 22 June, Ambassador Jensen of the US Embassy in Yamashiro specially invited Han Lin for an interview, because Germany suddenly tore up the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" and launched a large-scale attack on the Soviet Union.

In fact, the U.S. government knew this information through Han Lin as early as May, and of course President Jiang also knew about it, but the underground party knew about it earlier.

All parties are psychologically prepared for a war between Germany and the Soviet Union sooner or later, but with Han Lin's intelligence, all parties have a more accurate control of the situation.

"Mr. Han Lin, we, the U.S. government, are highly concerned about the upcoming actions of the Japanese side because of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. When you were in Shanghai, you talked to Colonel Smith, the military attache of intelligence, that Japan would definitely be stationed in the southern part of French Indochina and use Cam Ranh Bay as a naval base. Ambassador Jensen said.

Han Lin's identity at the moment is the Japan issue adviser of the US Naval Intelligence Agency, and he is also the main partner of international intelligence, but the super high value he has shown is not limited to the US Navy, and his intelligence and analysis of international real-time dynamics have reached the level of the government and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and are an important reference for formulating strategies.

The reason is also very simple, that is, Han Lin has a "great prophecy technique", but whenever he provides information, none of it is wrong, timeliness and accuracy are incredible, so Han Lin's opinions and suggestions are also very authoritative.

"Based on the top-secret analysis of Japan's high-level dynamics that I have recently obtained, I believe that Japan's implementation of the stationing action may be carried out in late July, more than a month ago, not more than two months, which also means that Japan has finally given up the northward strategy and is making every effort to prepare for the southward strategy. How are the negotiations between Japan and the United States progressing? Han Lin asked.

After the outbreak of the German-Soviet War, the Japanese military and navy, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held successive meetings to discuss Japan's strategy for the next step, and finally decided to continue to promote the strategy of advancing southward.

The most important step in the southward expansion strategy was to garrison the southern part of the French Indochina region and use Cam Ranh Bay as a forward naval base, which is also considered to be the trigger for the outbreak of the Pacific War. Han Lin has a clear memory of this, that is, this time period at the end of July and early August.

"My personal understanding is that there will be no breakthrough in the long-term negotiations between the two countries, and the two countries have their own interests and demands, and there are great contradictions and disputes in nature, and it is difficult to reach an agreement under such circumstances."

"However, the U.S. government's strategy is to put Europe first and then Asia, coupled with the influence of the domestic climate, it has not made up its mind to start a war against Japan first, and we are still in the stage of war preparation, and we are not ready for war."

"The current attitude is to use economic sanctions to curb Japan's ambitions, and if Japan crosses the U.S. government's bottom line and enters the southern part of French Indochina, we will take tough measures, including an oil embargo and a freeze on Japanese assets." Jensen said.

It is absolutely impossible for the US Government to take the initiative to start a war against Japan, because the US Congress, where isolationism is rife, has not granted President Roosevelt the relevant authority to wage war against foreign countries, and in addition to imposing economic sanctions against Japan, the US president can only use the "Lend-Lease Act" as a weapon of influence and intervention.

"Germany's victory in Europe has also stimulated the ambitions of the entire fascist countries to swell, war between Japan and the United States is inevitable, Japan will not succumb to the pressure of the United States, slow down the pace of aggression, in fact, Japan hopes to be able to get rid of the high dependence on American resources in the form of war, so as to realize its aggressive ambitions." Han Lin said.

"And one more question, in your opinion, will the Japanese launch a surprise attack on the United States after occupying the southern part of the French Indochina region?" Jensen asked.

"No, it is impossible for Japan to act like this in a short period of time, because Japan's top leaders have always been suspicious of starting a war with the United States, and the military, economic, population, and financial resources of the two sides are not at the same level at all."

"I admit that war will definitely break out, but the process is not so simple, at least it will not happen during the Konoe Fumiro period, he is afraid of the war between the two countries, and the successor prime minister will also need time to make this determination." Han Lin said.

Konoe Fumiro was worried that he would not be able to bear the responsibility for the war between Japan and the United States, so he had to resign under the pressure of the military department, and replaced it with Hideki Tojo, who was the main war faction, came to power.

However, at the beginning of the year, Hideki Tojo did not dare to rashly start a war against the United States, but chose to continue negotiations with the United States, and the negotiations were inconclusive for a long time, and finally the US Government came up with a "Hull Memorandum" that was completely unacceptable to the Japanese, and the Government of Hideki Tojo finally made up its mind to start a war against the United States.

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