Espionage: I became sworn brothers with Zheng Yaoxian at the beginning, and became the Seventh Broth

Chapter 732 An Interesting Story

The interrogation was very interesting.

When Tsuda Shimaishi intervened to interrogate Kishida Raino, their conversation sounded like a shrewish argument.

One minute they're calling him a bastard, the next a deer.

Otherwise, he's just a coward and a piece of trash.

Of course, these were just seasonings, bringing Ye Shaohong a little joy, but not worth paying attention to.

What truly deserved his attention were the curses uttered by Kishida Raino.

According to Kishida Raino, Tsuda Shimaishi is not a professional agent, which proves Ye Shaohong's previous guess.

So, what is Tsudajima Ishi's identity? It's very simple.

He was a bank clerk planted by the Japanese in the mountain city, responsible for distributing funds to the mountain city's infiltrator team.

That's right.

Tsudajima Ishi's hidden identity is that of an employee of Citibank.

He personally oversaw several bank accounts held by the Japanese in the mountain city and monitored the financial expenditures of various Japanese intelligence groups in the city.

It was through this identity that Tsudajima Ishi was able to uncover many secrets of the Japanese Yamashiro infiltrator group.

Upon hearing this news, Ye Shaohong's eyes lit up.

Regardless of whether Tsudajima Ishi is truly surrendering, his very identity alone is enough for Ye Shaohong to do a great deal of work.

This also provides an opportunity to make a lot of noise. Later, Ye Shaohong learned from Kishida Raino about the reasons why Tsudajima Ishita defected to the Special Service.

To be precise, this matter is actually somewhat related to Ye Shaohong.

Didn't Tsudajima Ishi previously mention that he had a biological older brother who died in an assassination attempt against Ye Shaohong in Jinling City?

This was not a big deal originally.

Unfortunately, there were bad guys in the Japanese army too.

After Tsudajima Ishi's death, the official in charge of handling the aftermath within the Shanghai Special Higher Police actually used a trick to steal the death compensation money of Tsudajima Ishi's brother.

This made life even more difficult for the Tsuda family, who were already struggling to make ends meet in their home country.

Even the Japanese were poor.

Don't assume that just because the Japanese are an industrialized nation and one of the few empires on Earth, their ordinary people live a life of luxury.

Because of preparations for war, their living conditions at home were also very poor.

The Japanese spent most of the national treasury's money on the military industry.

The remaining funds were invested in the import of military supplies.

Importing war-related supplies such as oil, steel, and brass from the United States...

As a result, the civilian population of the Japanese army suffered greatly. They did not benefit from the war, and instead had to bear a heavy economic burden.

On the Japanese mainland, food prices were inflated and supplies were scarce.

Many Japanese civilians could only afford to eat coarse grains to fill their stomachs. As the war dragged on, and after 1941, with the Sino-Japanese War reaching a stalemate, Japan also went to war with the United States. At the same time, it had to prepare for the Southern Army and seize oil-producing areas in Southeast Asia. Japan's domestic economic situation would become even more difficult.

Ordinary people even experienced food shortages, and some starved to death.

Tsudajima Ishi was trained in economics, otherwise he wouldn't have worked in banking. It was precisely because of this background that he was able to make a clearer judgment about the future economic situation.

His brother's death compensation was embezzled by personnel from the Special Higher Police, and he received no further death compensation.

On the Japanese mainland, he also has two grandparents, both parents, two underage brothers, and a seven or eight-year-old sister.

Without his brother's military pay and death benefits, how would his family survive? This became Tsudajima Ishi's biggest problem during this period.

To resolve this issue, Tsudajima Ishikawa repeatedly reported it to his superiors. However, this kind of collusion among officials isn't unique to China; it also exists among the Japanese, who are deeply influenced by Confucianism.

Despite Tsudajima Ishi reporting the issue to higher authorities several times, this hidden danger remained unresolved.

On the contrary, his repeated petitions eventually angered officials of the Shanghai Special Higher Police, who reprimanded him several times.

That’s all.

No one knows who leaked the news of his petition, but the official who embezzled his brother's death benefits also harbored murderous intent towards Tsudajima Ishi.

He arranged for people to take action against Tsudajima Ishi in the mountain city.

On the one hand, they also mobilized local connections to completely eradicate Jinri.

This has become an irreconcilable contradiction.

They are mortal enemies. Don't be fooled by Tsudajima's somewhat special status and power among the undercover spies in Yamashiro; it's just a small part of it.

In terms of importance, Tsuda Shimaishi, an economic professional, cannot be compared to a hidden spy.

Even if Tsudajima Ishi wanted to embezzle the Citibank account, it wouldn't be so easy.

And so, little by little, Tsudajima Ishi's mindset changed.

He stopped believing in the so-called "licking locusts" (a euphemism for sycophants).

He began to harbor resentment.

Then he began to consciously contact and collect information about the composition of the Japanese personnel who had infiltrated the mountain city, and secretly investigate their hidden identities and addresses.

Ye Shaohong's arrival, along with the two public killings of Japanese spies in Jiangcheng and Shancheng, gave Tsudajima Ishi the hope of revenge.

This explains why Tsudajima Ishiki took the initiative to defect to the Special Service and specifically requested to see Ye Shaohong.

"interesting!"

"That's really interesting."

'This story sounds very detailed, but it seems deliberately staged no matter how you look at it!'

"Could this be a scheme specifically designed to target me?"

What did Ye Shaohong discover?

Ye Shaohong noticed two issues in the cursing exchange between Kishida Raino and Tsuda Shima.

First.

Tsudajima Ishi had access to the funds account of the Japanese spies operating in Yamashiro. Even though Citibank had strict rules and regulations that prevented him from easily stealing wealth from it, Tsudajima Ishi actually had a way to solve his and his family's predicament.

In a brief moment, Ye Shaohong came up with two methods.

The first and simplest method is to follow and assassinate the Japanese spies when they take away the operating funds, and then shift the blame to the Special Service Department.

In this way, Tsudajima Ishi can easily acquire a lot of money.

Don't say you're having difficulties.

If there had truly been hardship, Tsudajima Ishi wouldn't have been able to thoroughly investigate all the Japanese agents' infiltrating Yamashiro.

If he can find out the identities, backgrounds, and home addresses of these people, he will have an opportunity to make his move.

The second method.

Even before the Japanese spy team received a huge amount of operating funds from their superiors and the funds were transferred out, Tsudajima Ishi could secretly send the intelligence she had collected to the Special Service Department. As long as the Special Service Department took action against the Japanese spy team, Tsudajima Ishi could pocket the huge amount of operating funds.

If the higher-ups investigate, he can report that the funds have already been taken away.

This was just a method Ye Shaohong came up with in a fleeting moment; there must be other methods, many more.

Besides these, Ye Shaohong also discovered something else.

Given how much Tsudajima Ishikawa valued his family and relatives back home, why would he defect to the Special Service before their safety was even guaranteed?

Wasn't he afraid that news of his defection would leak out and provoke retaliation from the Japanese Special Higher Police on the mainland against his family?

Wasn't he afraid that the Secret Service would use this to threaten him and force him to do other things?

Ye Shaohong discovered the problem.

But he didn't rush to express it immediately, because he wanted to see how this seemingly clever Mr. Tsuda would make up for these two loopholes.

If he can't fix these two loopholes, then it would be quite interesting if Tsudajima Ishiki were to defect to the Special Service. Let's think about it the other way around.

If Tsudajima Ishi has already solved both problems on his own, then this matter will be even more interesting.

If Tsudajima Ishi was really that capable, why would he defect to the Special Service?

Why can't he climb up the ladder himself and take revenge on his enemies?

The answers to all these questions will likely only be revealed gradually as the story unfolds.

Thinking of this, Ye Shaohong lit another cigarette.

As he smoked, he watched Tsudajima Ishi and Kishida Raino cursing at each other. Gradually, Kishida Raino also broke down.

He also showed signs of wanting to surrender and confess.

interesting.

How interesting! When did these Japanese devils become so weak? What exactly are they trying to do?