"Old Hu, have your superiors called us back?" Lu Xiyan finally couldn't help asking. He was always talking since he was over, and Hu Yunzhi was listening.

"Yes, after receiving our telegram, my superiors attached great importance to it. They urgently contacted the underground party organization in Shanghai and checked the secret files from the past. You also know that during the Long March of the Red Army, a batch of archives were discarded, so it took time. However, a comrade who had worked in Shanghai remembered the name Liu Tong. He did work in the underground party organization in Shanghai. The specific time was around the 9/18 Incident..."

"That's just that I can't confirm Liu Tong's true identity?" Lu Xiyan frowned.

"The superior gave us an authority and asked us to contact a responsible person from the Shanghai Working Committee directly. He should know about Liu Tong's situation." Hu Yunzhi said again.

"Then contact us quickly. We can't keep people like this all the time?" Lu Xiyan said.

"It's not suitable for me and you to go there. You must find someone who has nothing to do with us and can trust us." Hu Yunzhi's way.

"It's hard to find, otherwise let Lao Song go?" Lu Xiyan thought for a while and said.

"Old Song is a suitable candidate, and Lao Song has been working and fighting in Shanghai for a long time. Maybe he might know Liu Tong." Hu Yun's way.

"Is Lao Song's qualifications in the Red Team older than Lao Ma?"

"I don't know this. I only know that they are one of the few people surviving the Red Team back then. The Red Team is directly under the leadership of the Central Special Section. It is two lines from the Shanghai underground party organization. It has different tasks, so it is estimated that they will not have a chance of knowing each other." Hu Yunzhi analyzed and judged.

"Then let Old Song disguise himself and contact the comrades of the Working Committee to see if he can confirm Liu Tong's identity. As long as Liu Tong's identity is confirmed, it will be much easier to do next." Lu Xiyan said.

"Okay, did Ogino find it?"

"Not yet, this guy should have been prepared for a long time. Such a person either doesn't take action, and once he takes action, he will never leave any flaws for himself. We can't find it, and we may not be able to find it even if the special high school courses are." Lu Xiyan shook his head.

...

On September 7, the second Changsha defense battle began. This time, the Japanese army gathered more than 120,000 troops in northern Hunan, trying to annihilate the main force of the Ninth War Zone in one fell swoop.

Faced with the fierce Japanese army, the Ninth War Zone launched a counterattack against the Japanese army under the command of Commander Xue Yue.

Lu Xiyan can receive war reports from the front line every day.

Although the Japanese army was still attacking the attacking side, it was obvious from the war report that the Japanese army declined to a certain extent, and this feeling was very wonderful.

If you compare the battle reports of the Japanese attacks in the past, you can find that the overall combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is constantly declining.

Also, in the past six months, their troops have been rotated and replaced more frequently. Except for the troops fighting on the front line, the main divisions on the second and third lines have basically been brought back to the country for rest and rest.

Originally, it was normal for the main force to return to China to rest and rest, but there are major secrets in this kind of rest and defense change.

The Japanese army transferred some powerful Armored Divisions back to the country, and continuously formed new divisions in the country to expand the army.

This shows that Japan has no intention of stopping its external expansion, especially its domestic military factories, which are still operating overload, producing weapons and hoarding ammunition.

The amount of strategic materials such as steel, oil, rubber, etc., is not taking into account the deteriorating finances, and it is almost impossible to implement military control.

Lao Song went to see the comrades from the Shanghai Working Committee and brought back the exact news.

"Old Song said that after confirmation by the comrades of the Working Committee, the person in the photo was Liu Tong, who was once named Li Yongxin and Liu Xing, and now the pseudonym was Li Ming. He used to work in the liaison department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and was one of the main leaders. The code name is: 031. Later, in order to strengthen the work in Shanghai, he was transferred to the Shanghai Municipal Working Committee, and he was mainly responsible for liaison and transportation work."

"How can I make him believe us?" Lu Xiyan asked Lao Ma.

"Liu Tong has a distinctive feature, that is, his little finger on his left foot was injured by an accident and he was unable to undergo amputation surgery in the end. The reason for his injury was not known by outsiders, but only his own people knew about it." Lao Ma explained.

"How did you get hurt?"

"The weight was smashed, and he still kept the weight at home." Lao Ma said, "As long as he showed it to him, he would believe us."

"Where is the weight?"

"Where Liu Tong lives, the comrades from the Working Committee have sent someone to pick it up and send it to us tomorrow morning." Lao Ma explained.

"It seems that tomorrow, we will know the whereabouts of the 'Minutes of the Imperial Conference'." Lu Xiyan murmured to himself.

...

It was confined to a basement, except for the lack of freedom, and it was fine, and the food was good, and it even had wine and meat.

I don’t know who the other party is, but I pretended to be the identity of a special high school class. In Shanghai, there are too few organizations with the courage and the ability to act.

Anyway, Liu Tong locked up a belief, knew nothing, and said nothing, no one could get anything valuable from his mouth.

"Li Ming, it's time to eat."

"It's time to eat again, brother, why are you catching me? I'm just an ordinary loader and unloader, but I don't know anything, I don't know anything..."

"Don't ask me, I'm just a delivery person, I don't know anything else." The young man who delivered the meal replied in a very formulaic manner.

"Who else are you locked up here? Why do you have two breakfasts?"

"You want to know?"

"I, I just ask casually..." Liu Tong immediately changed his words.

"It's okay to tell you, anyway, you will know sooner or later that there is a Japanese living next door. His name is Tanaka, and he is quite famous..." The young man who delivered the meal sighed.

"Tanaka?" Liu Tong was stunned for a moment. He thought that he was the only one who was arrested, but he didn't expect that Tanaka also fell into the other party's hands. What should I do?

Thinking of this, when Liu Tong saw the breakfast that exuded this tempting fragrance, he lost all his appetite.

"Liu Tongjun, is it you?" Liu Tong was racking his brains to think about how to deal with the situation below when suddenly a familiar voice came from the next door, instantly awakening him from his thoughts.

"Hey, Tanaka, why are you..." Liu Tong responded helplessly. At this moment, they should pretend that they don't know each other, and that's not knowing each other.

"Liu Tongjun, do you know where this place is?" Tanaka heard Liu Tong's voice and felt a familiar person beside him, found a companion, and felt a sense of security.

The two started chatting without saying a word. Of course, they avoided talking about some confidential matters, and most of them were about going to school at the Tongwen Academy in East Asia.

...

"Sir, I ordered someone to deliberately lock them in two adjacent rooms, so that they could hear each other's voices. This is a record of their conversation, please take a look." Guo Hanjie handed Lu Xiyan a conversation record, which not only recorded the time, duration, tone, etc. of the conversation.

It's almost impossible to shoot it with film.

Liu Tong's identity can also be confirmed through the dialogue, but in order to be cautious, Lu Xiyan still needs to verify it. Any mistakes are fatal.

"Sir, who is this?"

"Mr. Song, the Shanghai Underground Party of the Communist Party of China, and the subordinate of Hu Yunzhi." Lu Xiyan explained.

"Oh." Guo Hanjie nodded slightly.

"Mr. Song, he is yours, go and ask." Lu Xiyan waved to Song Xin who came in with him.

"Thank you." Song Xin clasped his fists and pretended not to know Lu Xiyan. Under Ding Jie's leadership, he went to see Liu Tong.

Lu Xiyan did not send anyone to follow him, but asked Song Xin to meet Liu Tong alone. Anyway, Old Song would definitely report to him in detail later.

"Mr. Lu, can I take Liu Tong away?" After Song Xin came out half an hour later, he asked directly.

"No, he can't go out now. The Japanese are looking for him everywhere. Once they go out, they will definitely die if they fall into the hands of the Japanese." Guo Hanjie refused directly.

"Then is it a bit too much for you to lock him up like this?"

"Apart from restricting his freedom, we did not cause any harm to others, and even had delicious food and drinks. Can he escape the Japanese's search when he goes out now?" Guo Hanjie said, "What's more, we don't know who the 'Minutes of the Imperial Conference' is in?"

"I asked this, but he refused to say it, and I had no choice." Song Xin said, "You should have searched and found no matter how you found it, right?"

Guo Hanjie glanced at Lu Xiyan and nodded.

"Since it's not about them, there is only one possibility." Song Xin said, "Only by finding Ogino can we figure out what the 'Minutes of the Imperial Conference' is written."

"But Ogino is missing, where can we find it?"

"Liu Tong said that if he was safe, he would contact him, by publishing a missing person notice in the Hujiang Daily..."

"Then this will be easy."

"Mr. Song, go back and tell Mr. Hu clearly that Liu Tong, Tanaka and his son are very safe for me. We will ensure their safety. If necessary, we will send them out of Shanghai to where they want to go." Lu Xiyan promised.

"Okay, I will retell it." Song Xin said, "I hope you do what you say."

"rest assured."

...

The safest thing in Shanghai now is the French Concession. The French Concession is a place where even No. 76 dares to act recklessly, because in addition to the French concession, there is also a smoking ban brigade.

Although the smoke ban brigade belongs to the French Concession, in fact, everyone knows that it already belongs to the undisclosed armed forces under the Wang Puppet Ministry of Finance.

Now when Wang Puppet takes back the French Concession, this armed force will transform into a tax police force of the Nanjing Ministry of Finance.

This was also Zhou Fuhai deliberately found an opponent in the concession in order to restrain Lin Shiqun's increasingly large-scale agent organization.

Lu Xiyan was of course optimistic. Taking this opportunity, he took advantage of the conflict between Zhou Fuhai and Lin Shiqun, and the Smoking Brigade was very happy to suppress the No. 76 activity in the French Concession.

Even if the Japanese military police stationed in the French Concession takes any action, they need to cooperate with the ban on smoking brigade.

Therefore, the Smoking Ban Brigade blatantly expanded its team, from 500 people to the current scale of 2,000 people, and eventually it will reach 3,000 people.

Therefore, Ogino had already built a safe house in the French Concession and hid in the French Concession, which was safer than anywhere else. He had to send out the confidential documents that Tanaka gave him as soon as possible.

The content of this document not only affects the fate of China and Japan, but also affects the fate of the world. We must contact the contactor as soon as possible.

Put on your beard, put on your shoes that have grown inside, and hold a peach pit in your mouth. Even those who are familiar with Ogino may not be able to recognize him at a glance.

He pays attention to several newspapers every day, such as Hujiang Daily, Shanghai Morning Post and New Report, and the information on the link is on it.

"A bowl of tofu brain, two fried dough sticks, thank you." Ogino made it at a roadside breakfast stall, raised his hand and shouted.

"Sir, your tofu brain and fried dough sticks." The boss came over with a bowl of tofu brain and two fried dough sticks.

He likes to eat tofu brain and fried dough sticks very much, but he never eats it outside because he is afraid that others will know his dietary preferences. This preference was ten years ago, but now, he has changed his identity and can enjoy it at will.
To be continued...