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

Chapter 778 The Origin of the "Black Room"

Many people have heard of the name "Black Room".

However, few people understand it.

Simply put, the Black Room is the code-breaking team, and it is also the department that Dai Yunong values ​​most.

From the establishment of the Special Service Department in 1932, Dai Yunong attached great importance to the secret telegram department.

There's a reason for this.

When the Special Service Department was first established, its organizational structure was simple and its staff was insufficient. For a long time, it was actually subordinate to the Party Affairs Investigation Department.

During that period, Dai Yunong and Xu Enzeng had a very good relationship. They were almost like sworn brothers.

It was precisely because of this connection that, at the beginning of the Special Service Department's establishment, the telecommunications equipment used by the Special Service Department to contact various stations across the country was from the Party Affairs Investigation Department.

To put it bluntly, Dai Yunong was poor.

At that time, he was so poor that the entire Secret Service couldn't even afford a few radios.

We should be prepared for danger even in times of peace.

Following others around and freeloading off them for too long eventually became unbearable for Dai Yunong, the future king of espionage for the Republic of China government.

He began to amass wealth, recruit soldiers, interfere in police affairs, and purchase communication equipment.

We have the communication equipment, but we lack the necessary talent.

At this point, Dai Yunong played a clever trick, turning his sinister gaze toward Xu Enzeng and the Party Affairs Investigation Department.

That bastard, he sneakily brandished a hoe and started digging at the corner of the wall.

Xu Enzeng, without any warning, directly poached the head of the communications section of the Party Affairs Investigation Department.

Along with them, many secret telegram specialists from the Party Affairs Investigation Department were also poached.

During the Republic of China era, espionage experts were a rare commodity.

Even with the strong support of Chen Shuang and the CC Clique, the Party Affairs Investigation Department doesn't have much in reserve.

Dai Yunong poached half of his department in one go, almost costing Xu Enzeng his life.

And so, Dai Yunong and Xu Enzeng fell out.

The heads of the two departments were at loggerheads, and gradually it evolved into a situation where subordinates of the Special Service Department and the Party Affairs Investigation Department were undermining each other.

Ultimately, this evolved into an irreconcilable conflict between the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics.

Judging from this incident, Dai Yunong did not act very properly.

But it's not really his fault.

Because behind this, there is also the deliberate indulgence of the bald-headed chairman, and the entanglement of interests involved is even more complex, making it difficult to explain clearly in a short time.

Let's get back to the "Black Room".

After recruiting enough telecommunications talents from Xu Enzeng of the Party Affairs Investigation Department, Dai Yunong quickly built a nationwide communications network by relying on the telecommunications classes set up by these people.

With the help of communication networks, Dai Yunong's horizons broadened considerably.

His gaze was fixed on the secret code.

During the Republic of China era, the world's commonly used methods of writing secret codes were further divided into three major categories.

American, German, and Russian styles.

The American and Russian codes are easy to understand; these two categories eventually developed into the two major communication code models during the Cold War, and they dominated the world for decades to come.

However, in 1937, the world's telecommunications codes were mainly American and German.

German style, on the other hand, has several subcategories.

One major category is the Japanese style, because during the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese sent many people to various European countries to learn about Western economic and military models.

After these people returned to their home countries, they brought back the German economic and military models.

Also brought back was the German-style cipher writing method.

To some extent, the common codes used by the invading Japanese army in China were initially constructed by drawing on the German cryptographic method.

During this period, Hanscat even gifted the first generation of Enigma machines they had created to the Japanese.

Not many. Only three.

These three machines gradually became the foundational templates for all of the Japanese soldiers' communication codes.

A spy drama called "The Message" featured this kind of cipher machine.

The difficulty of deciphering it was so great that it would have been very difficult to accomplish in the days before computers existed, relying solely on the human brain and abacus.

As for Dai Yunong, he had already begun his actions.

In order to decipher the Japanese cipher, which has almost the same specifications and configuration as the German cipher, he spared no expense in bringing back many mathematicians from Europe.

These people were all invited into the "black room" by Dai Yunong.

They carried Dai Yunong's ambitions and attempted to crack the Japanese army's communication codes.

They attempted to use this to save the nation and its people from peril. But the result was not good.

Although Dai Yunong gathered many highly skilled mathematical experts and purchased a lot of equipment, the Enigma machine built by Hanscat was really difficult to crack.

For years, the mathematicians in the "black room" could only occasionally crack some of the Japanese's encrypted messages.

It is very difficult to decipher the complete set of codes.

Later, when he was forced into a corner, Dai Yunong came up with a new idea.

Increase the reward for the Japanese codebook.

That's why later on, it was said that cracking a Japanese spy team was one achievement, while finding the radio and codebook was another.

Ye Shaohong also relied on this rule to gradually rise in the process of cracking down on the Japanese intelligence group.

Because he found quite a few Japanese codebooks. These codebooks, once seized, ended up in the "Black Room," the core department of the Special Service.

It served as a reference specimen for the mathematicians responsible for deciphering the Japanese coded messages.

This demonstrates the special status of the code experts in the "black room" within the intelligence agency.

Although they did not directly participate in the War of Resistance against Japan, they were indeed in a class of their own within the Special Service Department during the Republic of China era.

To some extent, in Dai Yunong's mind, these code-breaking experts, and even his confidants such as Ye Shaohong, Xu Baichuan, and Zheng Yaoxian, held a higher status.

It's fine now.

This precious little darling, Dai Yunong's beloved, was assassinated by someone arranged by Sanchun Shouhui at the gate of the Special Service Headquarters compound.

Ye Shaohong dared not imagine the subsequent consequences, the potential for Dai Yunong to erupt in fury. "It's over!"

"Seventh Brother, you have to save me!"

"I don't want to die!"

Ye Shaohong knew the importance of these people and their place in Dai Yunong's heart. Li Yunlong, who had been by Ye Shaohong's side for many years, also knew the general idea.

So, after only a moment of confusion, Li Yunlong panicked.

He was also afraid.

Li Yunlong, the former king of bandits in the north and now the head of the first section of the Second Special Service Division, has completely panicked.

He seemed to have already foreseen his death.

Terrified, Li Yunlong didn't dare to delay for a moment. He turned around and grabbed Ye Shaohong's arm, letting out a mournful wail filled with earnest pleading.