Lost and Spy

Chapter 920
Cooperate with American cryptography expert Herbert Yardley to solve the Chongqing spy case?

Brother, stop joking with me, he should cooperate with me to solve the case, okay?

But this Yardley still has two brushes. As soon as he came to China, the government selected 30 students to follow Yardley to learn to decipher codes, and the "Chinese black room" was established.

“中国黑室”破译人员每天早上从8点到中午12点、下午2点到6点、晚上7点到10点是工作时间。一个月工资是30元法币，每个人还要交5元伙食费。

In addition to learning Morse Code, which is unified throughout the world, decipherers also need to understand a large number of program codes representing 48 Japanese alphabets and kana. The daily learning tasks are boring and arduous.

Of course, the name "Chinese Black Room" will not officially appear until two years later.

Yardley and his trainees were the first to discover the possible leakage of Chinese air defense force intelligence.

At that time, the monitors in the black room intercepted some secret messages at 6:12 am, 6:[-] noon and [-]:[-] pm every day.

Yardley discovered that these coded telegrams only used 10 Japanese letters, but Japanese has 48 letters. What can only 10 letters say?
He guessed that these 10 pseudonyms might be used to represent numbers, and immediately analyzed the 8 telegrams intercepted within a few days.

The headers of the eight telegrams were all "8", which Yardley guessed probably meant that the telegrams were sent from Chongqing.

The first three messages were sent at 3:6 a.m. on different days, and the second set of numbers were all "231". Based on this, it is speculated that 231 probably refers to 6:[-] a.m. in the morning.

以此推测，第4、5、6号报文中的第二组数字“248”，代表中午12点；第7号和第8号报文中的第二组数字“267”，代表的就是晚上6点。

The 8 messages are all the same length, and the third group of numbers all start with 3. Yardley speculates that this part should provide meteorological information about Chongqing, such as weather, cloud height, air pressure, temperature, and visibility , wind direction and other information.

The third group of numbers in the 8 messages is 3 except for the sixth message which is 401.There was a few days of light rain in Chongqing, and Yardley speculated that 459 should refer to a rainy day, while 459 should be a sunny day.

However, after the execution of the Japanese spies, the monitors successively intercepted a batch of secret messages, and the deciphering work has not yet been completed.
Subsequently, the Japanese army dispatched fighter jets one after another, causing a series of bombing tragedies in Chongqing.

The tragedy shocked Yardley deeply, and he blamed himself for not capturing the spy who provided intelligence for the Japanese plane in time.He swore that he must catch the black hands hiding behind the scenes.

However, until December, the spy was still at large.

The task Meng Shaoyuan received was to fully assist Yardley in capturing this deeply hidden spy.

The question is, is Young Master Meng the master who is willing to help others?

Who is the spy and who is the accomplice? His heart is like a mirror.

Just can't say it.

However, since Dai Li personally explained the matter, he did not dare to be negligent. Coming out of Dai Li's office, Meng Shaoyuan went straight to the "Chinese dark room" without stopping.

Everyone who stood guard at the gate knew this Section Chief Meng, and no one dared to stop him, so he just invited him in.

However, he, Young Master Meng, was still very dissatisfied, and he taught him a lesson about standing guard, which generally meant that anyone who came would be strictly interrogated.

On the surface of the guard, he is submissive, but in his heart he dismisses it.

If you really want to do this, with your character of Section Chief Meng, will you not retaliate?If you offend Director Dai, the family law will be enforced at worst, but if you offend Section Chief Meng, that would be death.

As soon as he entered, he saw his old friend Wei Daming constantly exchanging ideas with a foreigner.

The two looked very tense, spoke quickly, and even had some heated arguments.

"Old Wei!" Meng Shaoyuan greeted carelessly.

"Hey bastard, shut up!"

Unexpectedly, the foreigner roared angrily.

I rely on!

This is Yardley, right?
How dare you call yourself an asshole?
Meng Shaoyuan's nose was crooked with anger.

Or when Wei Daming saw that it was Meng Shaoyuan, it was probably to ease the tense atmosphere: "Mr. Yardley, take a break. Let me introduce you. This is Mr. Meng Shaoyuan, the chief of the Operations Section of the Military Control Bureau. He is We, Deputy Chief Dai, sent to help us solve the case."

Unexpectedly, Yardley dismissed it at all: "What I need is someone who can help with secret codes, not a damn spy!"

I rely on it!
This foreigner is so angry!

Wei Daming's complexion changed a little. He and Meng Shaoyuan were colleagues since Nanjing, and he knew this person's character very well.

Yardley didn't know the depth, first yelled at Meng Shaoyuan, and then called him "damn spy"?
Who offended him? Once this Young Master Meng loses his temper, who cares who you are?No one will be able to bear the responsibility for any big troubles caused by that time.

Meng Shaoyuan was also really pissed off, as usual, he would have already had an attack.

But after thinking about it again, forget it, the establishment of the "China Black Room" was the foundation laid by others alone, which allowed China's code-breaking work to quickly integrate with the world's advanced level, saving a lot of detours.

At any rate, they have also made indelible contributions to China's Anti-Japanese War.

Besides, the investigation of the Japanese espionage case was now at a dead end, and Yardley was bound to be upset.

Forget it.

Count your sister!
Retaliation is avoided, but if you don't show your hands in front of you, you really don't know how many eyes Prince Ma has?

Originally, Meng Shaoyuan knew that although Yardley was temporarily in trouble, he would soon find a way to decipher the code, and he didn't want to take credit for others.

But it's not working now, yelling, and calling yourself "damn"?

Yardley, Yardley, you don't understand, Young Master Meng, in my own time, I read the "Chongqing Air Defense Spy" case very carefully, and I even discussed it with my good friend, Little Glasses. Leigh was full of praise.

I understand every detail clearly.

I have to give you a big blow.

Meng Shaoyuan looked indifferent, and said in fluent English: "Mr. Herbert Yardley, I have been ordered to come to assist you. I hope we can cooperate happily. Old Dai, how is the deciphering work going?" ?”

"It's not going well." Wei Daming didn't hide anything: "Mr. Yardley, this Mr. Meng is very capable. May I tell him about our discussion?"

Yardley snorted, noncommittal.

Wei Daming picked up a stack of research materials: "For example, the encrypted telegrams we intercepted yesterday and this morning are all in groups of 4 numbers, such as 1349, 5727, 7234, and the passwords change every day without any rules. The only thing we found The characteristic is that the first group of each telegram is 5 English letters that cannot form a word, such as mifto, lofed, titth, etc.”

"May I see it?"

Meng Shaoyuan took the information from Wei Daming, and pretended to read it for a while: "It's not difficult."

"What?" Wei Daming and Yardley exclaimed at the same time.

Not difficult?

Are you kidding me?
Irregular codes, don't you think it's not difficult?

You know, Yardley is the leading cryptography expert in the United States, and Wei Daming is a telecommunications genius in China.

The two of them have been researching for so long and have no clue.

Now suddenly a person pops up and says it's not difficult?

"Look." Meng Shaoyuan held the documents solemnly: "The first group on this intercepted telegram is the five letters 'ewwee', if my judgment is correct, 'ee' refers to the 11th. This telegram is It was intercepted yesterday, so yesterday happened to be the 11th."

Yardley thought in a daze for a while, snatched the materials from Meng Shaoyuan's hand, took the pen, and buried himself in writing something.

After about half an hour, he suddenly raised his head with ecstasy written on his face: "Meng, genius, you are a genius! That's right, it's like this, it's like this. You see, according to this train of thought, the deciphered The result of rearranging the letters in monophonic order is, her (her), light (light), grain (grain)!"

Wei Daming has been paying attention.

That's right, it is.

Yardley then said to himself again: "She, light, grain? What does this represent?"

Can't think of it?
Forget it.

"Novel!" Meng Shaoyuan helped him out: "This new type of password that changes every day, the secret table is probably an English novel. If you can find this novel, you can follow the clues to find the spy behind the scenes."

"Yes, novel!"

Yardley reacted immediately.He looked at Meng Shaoyuan in disbelief: "Do you also know the secret code?"

"A little research, a little research." Meng Shaoyuan looked humble.

Yardley's attitude towards Meng Shaoyuan has completely changed.

He likes his peers in the business.

Especially a talented colleague like the young man in front of him!

Wei Daming felt very strange.

He has known Meng Shaoyuan since Nanjing, and he has never heard of his deep research on secret codes?
How could the Japanese top-secret code be deciphered so quickly?

Ah, right.

Wei Daming suddenly realized.

Although Meng Shaoyuan didn't know secret codes, he was definitely good at intelligence work. His telecommunications department received so many secret codes from Japanese people, all of which were provided by him.

He must have obtained the secret code used by the Japanese in Chongqing in other ways, and then played tricks in front of Yardley.

Wei Daming smiled slightly, but did not try to expose him.As long as Meng Shaoyuan doesn't cause trouble, it will be fine.

"Mr. Yardley, we can confirm that this is a novel." Meng Shaoyuan continued to say seriously: "But what novel? We don't know yet, but this is my strong point, let me handle it."

"Okay, my friend." Yardley even changed his address: "As long as this spy can be caught, then the Japanese in Chongqing will have no secrets from us!"

(End of this chapter)