Spy Wars: I have space, but I choose to work alone

After there were only two people in the office, Tian Junliu sighed and said helplessly to Tu Feiyuan:

"Doi-Yuan-kun, we are all from the Army. There were outsiders present just now, so some things cannot be said openly. Judging from the current situation, there is indeed a possibility that the top brass of the Army Expeditionary Force may have leaked information."

It was not convenient for Fatty to play dumb at this time, so he nodded seriously.

After seeing Doiyuan's reaction, Tian Junliu continued:

"Now, we must find the senior general who leaked the information as soon as possible, otherwise my dispatched troops will never have peace."

"I now authorize you to conduct a secret investigation of the senior generals below the rank of general in the dispatched army. This order is top secret. For the sake of the army's reputation, no written orders will be kept. You will report to me alone!"

If Fatty really heard this fatal order, how could he investigate it in secret without giving a public written order?

I instinctively want to refuse.

"Sir, I..."

Seeing that the fat guy was about to give up, Tian Junliu stopped pretending and raised his voice in a strong tone and said:

"Dobi-kun, I'm not discussing this with you. This is an order! You must follow it!"

"Hi!"

As a subordinate, Feiyuan could only stand up and stand at attention immediately to receive the order.

After saying this, Tian Junliu seemed to feel that this was a bit inhumane. He softened his tone, nodded gently, motioned for Tu Feiyuan to sit down, and encouraged him:

"Doi-Yuan-kun, your military rank and qualifications are no lower than those of the division commanders. The best solution is for you to investigate!"

"Please, Tobi-kun!"

Now that things have come to this, what can the fat guy say?

After much thought, I feel that I am the most suitable person in the entire expeditionary force.

Speaking of it, Tian Junliu gave this unlucky task to Tu Feiyuan not because he wanted to make things difficult for Tu Feiyuan, but because Tu Feiyuan really had to do this.

First of all, Feiyuan is different from those professional spies who have never fought in a war. He is a military cadet who graduated from the 16th Infantry Department of the Army Officer Academy.

While in school, he had been classmates with famous generals such as Ningji Okamura, Seishirō Banakamura, and warlord Yan Laoxi, and they had established close relationships.

He fought in the Russo-Japanese War, participated in the September 918th Incident, Huanggutun Incident, and the false founding of the People's Republic of China in Northeast China, and worked his way up from a second lieutenant to a lieutenant general and commander of the 14th Division based on his military exploits, before finally changing his career to become a secret agent.

He is considered a senior figure in the military and everyone has to give him some respect. Now he is working for the intelligence agency.

Whether in terms of qualifications or ability, this job can only be done by a fat man.

A secret investigation targeting senior officers within the expeditionary force was quickly launched under the leadership of Doiyuan, a genius spy known as the Lawrence of the East.

Shortly after leaving the expeditionary army headquarters and returning to his Iwai residence, he was tried to "humiliate" by Tian Shunroku in front of many of his colleagues. Iwai Eiichi became increasingly angry, but he also realized that this was a rare opportunity to prove his abilities.

If I could be the first to find this much-anticipated traitor before those idiots in the army could find him, and if Iwai Mansion, which I had founded, could successfully find him, wouldn't that be a huge honor for me?

The more he thought about it, the more excited he felt. He immediately picked up the phone and called someone.

"Mr. Yuan? Come to my office."

Soon, in less than half an hour, a short but extremely elegant man walked into Iwai Eiichi's office.

When Iwai Eiichi saw the visitor, he took the initiative to pour tea and water as if he had seen a relative:

"Yuan Jun, you've come at the right time. You are the person I trust the most. I now have an extremely important secret mission to entrust to you."

"Iwai-kun, we are good friends, just say whatever you want to say!"

As the person in charge of both internal and external affairs of Iwai Mansion, he spoke in Chinese without any accent.

"It's like this. Don't you know a lot of people from the National Government? Now there is a traitor in the Expeditionary Force. We can't find him from the inside. I think this person must have contacted people from the Celestial Empire and resold the information in his hands. Since we can't find him from the inside, we should search in the opposite direction and start from the Celestial Empire."

"If our Iwai Mansion is the first to find out this time, let's see who dares to say that our Iwai Mansion is a makeshift team! We have a bright future!" Iwai Eiichi spoke his thoughts quickly and nervously.

"As expected of Iwai-kun."

The visitor was also amazed by Iwai Eiichi's tricky angle in investigating the traitor.

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Iwai Eiichi knew what the other party wanted to say, so he waved his hand and said boldly:

"The intelligence fee is 5 US dollars!"

Another second passed, and thinking that the army must be investigating, it was probably that old fox Tu Feiyuan, Iwai Eiichi gritted his teeth:

"No, one hundred thousand dollars. If anyone can provide the traitor in the Expeditionary Forces Headquarters, I will pay one hundred thousand dollars."

This was definitely a sky-high amount of intelligence fees in China at that time.

Why was Iwai Eiichi able to come up with such a sky-high intelligence fee, and why was he, a diplomat, so concerned about this matter?

It's very simple. Iwai Eiichi was the deputy consul general of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai. Although his position was not high, he had great power. All the activity funds of the Japanese and puppet spy organizations in Shanghai were controlled and issued by him.

In other words, he is not short of money. He has a huge amount of intelligence funds in his hands. He can get more money than an ordinary person can spend in a lifetime with just a few clicks.

There is no need to worry about checking these funds, because there is no way to audit intelligence expenses and issue invoices. It is impossible for auditors to go to enemy-occupied areas to find the collectors to reconcile the accounts.

He was not short of money, but he had strong political ambitions. He planned to establish and expand his power in the Celestial Empire, using this as capital to gradually climb towards the throne of Minister of Foreign Affairs.

He was specifically responsible for providing operating funds to spy agencies, so naturally he set his sights on establishing his own spy agency.

In April 1938, Iwai Mansion, a special spy intelligence agency of the diplomatic department, was established. In other words, the so-called Iwai Mansion is not even one year old now.

However, at that time, there were already numerous Japanese spy agencies in China, all of which had been rooted in China for many years and had a powerful intelligence network. It was extremely difficult for him, a newcomer, to stand out.

The personnel composition alone is enough to give him a headache. Qualified agents are in short supply and even the established intelligence agencies do not have enough of them.

So Eiichi Iwai took a different approach, which is quite a modern way of thinking in reverse.

As an expert on China, I believe that the people who know Chinese people best are the Chinese themselves. Having a reliable Chinese expert is more helpful than having 10 hired helpers.

Therefore, there were a large number of Chinese people from various forces in his Iwai Mansion.

Just when the Japanese army was busy searching for the traitor both internally and externally.

Major General Sakanishi, a senior adviser to Prince Togo, who had just returned from the front line after the battle, was humming an English tune and packing his briefcase to get off work.