Chapter 58 Realistic Problems

Saigon, the city is located in the Mekong Delta of the Zhongnan Peninsula. It took the French half a century to create the prosperity of this riverside city. Its prosperity is second to none among Southeast Asian metropolises. There are all kinds of French buildings on both sides of the Saigon River, with a strong colonial style.

When the Vietnamese lyre from the colorful cruise ships on the Mekong River, the realistic influence of French culture and the traces of the historical influence of ancient Chinese culture are intertwined, and the Wu Ge culture is reflected here.

The night in Saigon is not as bright as in Shanghai or Nanjing. Under the dim street lights, Li Zixu walked carefully. Occasionally, when he met the Annan patrol, he would look disdain in a suit and leather shoes, and this look protected him. When those Annan patrols saw the "dededemeful gentleman", They often take the initiative to look away.

Long training has made Li Zixu develop the habit of being vigilant. He found a tavern in the dark alley according to the address left during the day. Before entering the tavern, he looked around. The tavern seemed to be in the dark alley, but it was between a T-shaped intersection. The alley was connected with dozens of passages. In the event of any accident, he had the opportunity to leave safely.

It is not easy to recruit informant abroad. Although the French Central and South are not hostile countries, they still need to be cautious, especially when those Vietnamese can't understand why China does not help Japan and help the Russians, hostility will always arise inadvertently, just like my own advocacy. As such, many Southeast Asians now believe that "the day is fighting for the whole of Asia."

This makes China's image a little... A Vietnamese in a suit came over in the alley. Like most Vietnamese, he was thin and his cheekbones protruding, with a typical appearance with a trace of unevolution. Seeing him coming alone, Li Zixu looked up at the comer and then I took a sip of rice wine at will.

"Mr. Murata!"

Sitting in front of the man looking for him during the day, Ruan Mingquan bowed politely.

"Hello, Ruan Jun!"

Li Zixu is talking with Ruan Mingquan in Japanese, that is, those French Central and Southerners are temporarily dissatisfied with China, which "sells the interests of Asian nationalities". When recruiting intelligence agents, they can completely use their own identity, and the recruiters will never go to the Japanese consulate for verification. He will also carefully cover up. Hide your identity as an "intelligence officer".

Ruan Mingquan in front of him is an employee of the French Central South Governor's Office. Because he is from a noble background, he can contact the governor and have an important position in the governor. Although he is only idle, he has the opportunity to contact many secrets, which is why Li Zixu recruited him.

"I'm very sorry to have kept you waiting!"

After apologizing, Ruan Mingquan looked around again, and then took out a pile of paper from his pocket, which was the information he copied at home based on the documents he had contacted in the governor.

"Mr. Murata, I think this is what you need!"

Pushing the paper forward from the table, Ruan Mingquan's expression seemed a little nervous.

Li Zixu did not take the information directly.

"Mr. Ruan, I would appreciate your help and be willing to give a certain reward to my friends who have helped me!"

When saying this sentence in fluent Japanese, Li Zixu lifted a corner of the folded newspaper according to the right hand of the newspaper. There was a stack of banknotes in the newspaper.

"Mr. Murata, this..."

The banknotes in the newspaper stunned Ruan Mingquan.

"This is the reward that friends deserve! And there is some necessary information in it!"

Li Zixu refers to the contact information of the two.

"This..."

Ruan Mingquan hesitated for a moment, and then picked up the newspaper and left the pub directly. After he left, Li Zixu picked up the information and paid the bill to leave the pub.

The intelligence station is set up in other countries. In addition to the consulates that have immunity, more often, intelligence personnel are more willing to hide the intelligence stations among the people, which can avoid a lot of trouble and be more conducive to action. Of course, there is a premise, that is, when the skin color can provide cover, in the case of European yellow The race may be very obvious, but the agents of the French Central South Peninsula Intelligence Agency can easily hide among the Vietnamese.

The intelligence station must be located in a relatively secret place with convenient transportation, and the landlord of the intelligence station must be reliable or have something in the hands of the intelligence bureau. It is not easy to set up an intelligence station in every place. It is not easy to make a choice after strict and careful selection. Choose.

Several rooms on the second floor of a Vietnamese hotel on the riverside of Saigon are an intelligence station of the Imperial Intelligence Agency in Saigon. At this time, Li Zixu was looking at the information obtained from Ruan Mingquan.

"It seems that the French are not ready to let the Russians stay in Jinlan Bay!"

Holding the information in his hand, Li Zixu frowned. The Russian fleet only arrived at Jinlan Bay today, and the French wanted to drive people away!

Although he had a trace of doubt in his heart, he quickly took out the password book from the dark compartment of the room, translated the telegram into a ciphertext, and finally translated the pure numeric ciphertext into Chinese characters according to the dictionary. After a few minutes of complicated reorganization, the telegram seemed to be no different from most Chinese telegrams.

Dual encryption is the latest encryption technology developed by the General Intelligence Agency. On the surface, double encryption, in fact, after triple encryption, one is a secret book, the other is a number, and the last one is a Chinese character hermit. Although the triple encryption password seems to be complicated in the past, compared with the common password in Europe, the password can be translated. The last name is almost zero.

To decipher him, you need to first unlock the number represented by the Chinese character, and then you need to unlock the password corresponding to the number, and decipher the password requires a password book, all of which are indispensable. The version of this password, which costs hundreds of thousands of years to develop, has been improved and has been adopted by the military, diplomacy, intelligence and other departments. .

Perhaps the password decoding work of the General Administration of Imperial Intelligence has just begun, but at least in terms of its own password, thanks to the complex surnames of Chinese characters, it has a set of the most complex telegraph passwords in the world.

A few minutes later, the telegram was handed over to an overseas Chinese business near the hotel through an insider. After more than ten minutes, an elderly overseas Chinese quickly walked into the Saigon Telegraph Bureau. After entering the Telegraph Bureau, he wrote a short message in the telegraph newspaper and handed it to the service desk.

A telegrapher in it looked at a business in Nanjing. When he saw that it was a telegram sent to China, the telegrapher looked up at the gray-haired old man in front of him. He was wearing Chinese-style new clothes and was obviously an overseas Chinese.

The message is just dozens of words, "Recently, the price of rice prices have risen by at least 10%..." It's just a simple business telegram. However, it has long been notified that any telegram sent to China or Japan must be checked.

So, the telegraphman gave a wink to the police stationed here. The French policeman came over and began to interrogate routinely. The reason why it is so complicated now is that France is an ally of Russia. At the request of Russia, in order to prevent me from getting information about the Second Pacific Fleet. That's why they make such a gesture.

"What kind of business is this?" The police asked.

"This is a famous rice importer. Now the new rice in the south has not been harvested, so we need to import a lot of rice."

"What's written on the message?"

The humble old overseas Chinese handed over the message in order to reassure him. After seeing it, the police agreed to pat the hair and nodded to apologize.

"Sir, please understand that this is a measure that has to be taken to make our country's neutral status inviolable."

A few minutes later, in the telegraph room of the telegraph office of the Imperial Post Office of Nanjing, a telegrapher copied a telegram. A receiver is preparing to treat it as a general telegram. However, an officer who supervised the telegraph room noticed the receiving address.

"Wait a minute!"

He said, and then quickly looked it up on a table in the folder.

A moment later, a motorcyclist drove quickly through the streets of Nanjing, which still looked like a large construction site, and sent the telegram to the Imperial Intelligence Headquarters. The telegram was immediately sent layer by layer, and finally handed over to the secret office of the General Intelligence Agency. The translator in the secret room first verified the place of the report, and then took out the password book from the safe and took out the password word by word.

A few minutes later, the telegram was sent to the director's office. A few minutes later, the telegram was divided into two parts, one was transferred to the Intelligence Department of the Navy, and the other was taken directly to the palace by Zhang Jing.

"Your Majesty, France, out of neutrality and pressure from the Japanese side, has decided to let the Russian navy leave the Golden Orchid Bay!"

Zhang Jing said respectfully in His Majesty's office.

"Leave Jinlan Bay?"

This information was absolutely beyond Chen Moran's expectation. According to the history he knew from the magazine, it was decided that the naval battle between Russia and Russia should not start until 40 days later. Is this a butterfly effect?

If the Russian fleet leaves Jinlan Bay in the next few days, they will be completely annihaled in the Strait of Malaysia for half a month at most. As soon as there is no threat at sea, they will be able to free their hands to target themselves. This is by no means what they want to see, let alone the action to completely reverse the situation. In the future, time... You must buy time for yourself anyway.

"Your Majesty, the temporary opening of the three capitals and Macao military port to Russia can be exchanged for the appropriate return of the Russians. We need time, and the Russians are also willing to transfer the drawings and technical materials of the Borodino-class battleship to China, and the new docking can find out the surname of the Russian naval ship by maintaining the Russian [***] ship. , and..."

(to be continued)