Chapter 842: Breaking the Clouds (5)

After Zuo Chong assigned the task to Gu Qi, he returned to the house and told several professors not to disclose what happened today. If someone deliberately asked, he must inform the secret service office of the other party's name.

Professor Qian and others agreed happily. No one understands better than scientists. What it means to give professional matters to professionals. If you are forced to make a breakthrough in such matters, it will be a life-threatening person.

Seeing that the other party was not a stubborn nerd, Zuo Chong breathed a sigh of relief and smiled and left a field phone number for Professor Qian and others, telling him how many people could contact him at any time if they needed help.

This is a reward. If there is no other party’s professional knowledge, it will be difficult to narrow the scope of the photo to three provinces. The secret service must thank you.

You should not be like Xu Enzeng, using people forward and not backward. In this way, there will be more and more enemies, fewer and fewer friends, and the road will be narrower and narrower.

But how to thank you is a problem. It is obviously not appropriate to give money or local specialties. Those who can become professors in this era probably will not be short of money at home, otherwise they may not even be able to pay the tuition fee.

Instead of making things like Adu, it is better to use favors to make a deal. If you encounter such a situation in the future, you can ask for help. Intelligence work is not only about fighting, killing, but also about human relationships.

The professors are very satisfied with this reward. Nowadays, state affairs are shaky, and various ideologies and ideas are emerging like mushrooms after a rain, especially the underground party, which has a great influence among students.

I heard that the Party Department of Baocheng is going to "supervise" major high schools and schools to severely punish those students who sympathize and spread dissidents' remarks. As teachers and chiefs, they are very worried about this.

Now that this favor from the Secret Service is here, this Deputy Director Zuo does not seem to be a difficult person to talk to, and those targeted students may be able to escape.

So for a while, the host and the guests had fun. After chatting for a while, Zuo Chong kissed several professors on board, watched each other slowly leave, turned around and took the bus back to the industrial area command post.

As soon as he got out of the car, before he had time to enter the house, Song Minghao, who had received the news, ran over and reported the latest search situation.

"Deputy Director, Youguang led people to check it out, and there were no new discoveries in the encirclement. The remaining part of the photo may have been burned down by the fire."

Zuo Xin nodded: "Well, then let's lift the lockdown. There are many residents working in the arsenal nearby, so they can't delay military production.

Don't forget that our mission is to support the military operations on the front line. If the war fails, those military leaders will complain to the commissioner."

"yes."

Song Minghao understood the trick. In terms of shirking responsibility, if the generals of the Guo Army were called second, no one would dare to be the first, and the secret service would never take the blame.

The two of them came to the house as they spoke. Zuo Chong waved his hand and sent the old fried dough stick away. They casually found a chair and sat down and closed their eyes. In the blink of an eye, they started to snore.

These two days, they have been searching again, and they are fighting with the trash of the agents' headquarters. He has not been able to close his eyes for more than a day, so he will finally have a chance to sleep.

I don’t know how long it took, Zuo Chong heard someone calling out to the deputy director in a daze, his eyes suddenly opened, and he saw Guqi, who was also tired on his face.

"Report to Deputy Director, you have brought back all the things you want. It depends on your face not being very good. Do you want to take a rest for a while?" Guqi was worried.

"No need, bring it in." Zuo Chong stood up and rubbed his face hard, trying to wake himself up quickly, and gave an order.

When Gu Qi heard this, he stopped persuading him. He walked to the door and opened the door and waved. A group of small spies immediately walked in with a bunch of license plates.

Under his command, the little spies spread colorful license plates of various styles on the ground and placed a room full of them.

In fact, Gu Qi didn't understand a little. The deputy director asked him to take out the license plates of Guangdong, Gui and Min Sandi, which contained the characters "6", which meant.

In the 27th year of the previous dynasty, that is, in 1901, automobiles were introduced to China from the Shanghai Concession. The Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession held a meeting in the following year and approved the first special temporary license.

After the 1911 year, the previous dynasty was destroyed and all regions had their own car licenses, but the purpose was not to manage it, but to make money.

For example, a 4-seater sedan had a car and ship tax (car donation) of 60 yuan per year in 19 of the Republic of China. If used for operation, it would directly double to 120 yuan per year.

In the 21st year of the Republic of China, it increased to 80 oceans and 160 oceans respectively. Moreover, the tax collections in the Republic of China were all collected from their own taxes, and if there were any vehicles that needed to be used across regions.

For example, if a car in Hangzhou wants to drive in Shanghai, it will have to pay two taxes, and the government has clear regulations on this:

"Anyone who drives a business car in this county and city for a long time travels to other counties and cities should submit the original license to the construction bureaus of the county, pay half of the donation in the county, and receive a long-term pass donation. Commercial long-distance buses should also pay a special donation at 10% of their operating income."

This kind of car that can drive in other places has a license plate composed of the words "abbing place abbreviation + abbreviation + abroad" and is longer than the general license plate, making it easier for inspectors to inspect on the road.

Judging from the fragments of the photo found by Wu Jingzhong, the Buick sedan should have an ordinary license plate and can only drive in one place, which indicates that the photo is taken and the license plate belong to the same place.

In other words, the Japanese spy leader or person related to him has a high probability of conducting intelligence investigations in a city in Guangdong, Guangxi and Min provinces, and took this photo that was almost burned.

As long as you determine the specific city and find the car and then check it back, you can use this clue to find the traces of the Japanese spy.

The problem is that the license plate is now burned to the point where only the word "6" is left, and the original style and background color cannot be seen clearly, and the location cannot be determined.

There are dozens of cities of all sizes in Guangdong, Guizhou and Min, and I don’t know when to find them. This is a result of half the effort with twice the effort, unlike the deputy director’s style.

Gu Qi hesitated for a moment, but still expressed his questions. He was all old partners who had worked with him for many years. He knew that the deputy director would not mind.

"Yeah, you're right."

Zuo Chong was not angry after hearing this, but instead asked a question: "Lao Gu, look, what is the difference between the license plates in the photo and these license plates?"

the difference?

Gucci turned his head and looked to the ground, and immediately understood that although the license plate image in the photo was incomplete, it could be seen that it was a rectangle.

However, the license plates on the ground have different shapes, some are squares and some are triangles. Through this line, some can be filtered out.

Seeing that he understood, Zuo Chong pointed to the ground and said lightly: "There is a little different. Some cities here use handwritten license plates, but the photos are printed by machine."

This is not surprising. The economic situations in different places are different, and the number of cars is different, so there are naturally differences in the investment in license plate production.

After saying that, he turned around the license plate twice, squatted down from time to time and took a piece to check it carefully, and finally issued two orders to the little spy.

“Take all non-rectangular license plates away.”

“Take all handwritten license plates away.”

With the left heavier, the license plates on the ground have dropped rapidly, leaving only thirty or forty pairs, but the workload is still amazing to find the target.

Let’s not talk about other things yet, there are more than a dozen places in Guangdong Province alone that need to be investigated. In addition, since ancient times, there have been many merchants gathering, and countless private families are rich in resources.

Most of these people make a fortune by doing business with Westerners, and they highly recommend emerging Western technologies. In addition to Shanghai, they are the region with the largest number of cars in the Republic of China.

It takes at least three to six months to check all Buick cars in these dozen places. This is still an ideal state of sufficient manpower, otherwise it will take longer.

"Take away all the license plates of Guizhou Province." At this time, Zuo Chong mentioned another identification standard.

Guqi thought about it and quickly understood the reason. Compared with Min Province and coastal provinces of Xiaoliuqiu, Guizhou Province, as an inland province, has a strategic position that is obviously much lower.

If the Japanese want to completely annex the Republic of China, the first step is to completely block the coast of the Republic of China and cut off external aid. From this point of view, the possibility of Japanese spies operating in Guangdong and Min is greater.

At the same time, the Yue Kingdom bordering Guizhou Province is a French colony. Before digesting the Republic of China, the Japanese would not over-stimulate European powers, so Guizhou Province can be temporarily eliminated.

Now there are only more than twenty license plates. Guqi pricked up his ears and wanted to hear how the deputy director would narrow the scope of the investigation next.

"Take away all the license plates connected to the strokes in the 6 characters." The left hexun spoke again.

Gu Qi was stunned and quickly walked to the fragment of the photo. After careful observation, he found that the word "6" above was not completely connected to the main body at the end, but a small opening appeared.

He looked annoyed and skillfully flattered: "We didn't notice such an obvious clue before. Deputy Director, you are really angry and humble. You are inferior to your humble position."

"Okay, okay, you can keep this for meritorious service and receive awards. Now let's talk about the important things first."

Zuo Chong was amused by his stiff flattery, then stared at the three license plates on the ground and slowly curled his smile, and asked the little spy: "Where is the license plate belonging to?"

The little spy turned over the license plate and looked up to report that the three license plates belonged to Chaozhou, Yangfeng, and Zhangzhou, Min Province, respectively.

Zuo Chong frowned. These three places are not small cities. There are a lot of cars. If you want to quickly open the breakthrough, you have to walk on two legs.

He thought for a few minutes and assigned two tasks to Guqi: "Lao Gu, notified Guangdong and Min provinces, and immediately launched a secret investigation of Chaozhou, Yangqi and Zhangzhou, and looked for Buick cars with 6 characters with license plates.

I remind them to focus on the vehicles of party departments and senior military officials. If they find any information, they must report it immediately. They must not act rashly. Anyone who fights for merit and starts to start a Japanese spy will be engaged in military law.

In addition, Wu Chunyang, Wu Jingzhong and Shen Dongxin were told that after investigating the photography equipment store, the photo studio and the newspaper, the suspects were compared twice, and there was only one condition for comparison.

Once you find that someone has been to Chaozhou or has had contact with people who have been to Chaozhou, immediately conduct all-round monitoring. I need to know every move of the target, go quickly.”

①Guizhou Province had a sea of ​​exports in history, but it has been a standard inland province in modern times, and it was not until later... that it became a coastal province.
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