Every day, every hour, every minute, every second, there are thousands of radio waves echoing in the sky above the earth. Among these waves, in addition to a large number of private telegrams, there are also many government-to-government communications.

For many eyes, how to obtain the information carried in these radio waves may even be related to the life and death of a country.

Compared with wired telegraphy, wireless telegraphy is undoubtedly convenient and fast. Unlike wired telegraphy, wireless telegraphy may be extremely convenient, but at the same time as it is convenient, it has a shortcoming - anyone can adjust it to the appropriate wave length.

, you can receive radio signals and thus grasp the contents of the other party's telegram. Because of this, the confidentiality and deciphering of telegrams has become the most important issue among various political affairs and diplomatic agencies. No country wants to see itself

The secrets of the war were exposed to the world. From then on, the radio battlefield became a battlefield where no gunpowder could be seen, but a matter of life and death for the country.

In this battlefield where only electromagnetic waves can be seen, mathematicians and cryptographers from various countries are working hard to improve their own codes, while trying their best to decipher other countries' codes. This competition of contradictions and shields has never stopped, and as time passes,

As the European war continued, it became more and more intense.

China Telecom and Telephone Company, referred to as China Telecom and Electric Company, is a large-scale "enterprise" established in September of the fourth year of the Republic of China. It is based on the "one industry, one enterprise" principle created by the State Council and through the integration of "Longhai Electric and Electronics"

As well as several telegraph and telephone companies. It is a special business company that aims to control the backbone of China's telecommunications and broadcasting networks and operate electrical communication services.

The reason why such a "government-business joint venture" special business was established is to promote the established telecommunications and broadcasting networks in China and achieve future development with the monopoly position of one company. Of course, there is another benefit to doing so.

——Conducive to technical confidentiality.

The Electric Power Company is the earliest enterprise established in the "One Industry, One Enterprise". The reason why it was established the earliest is because it involves fewer interest groups, so it faces the least resistance and the least interference in its establishment. Therefore, it is

Become the leading enterprise of "one enterprise, one enterprise".

On Yuntai Mountain on the outskirts of Lianyungang, there is a towering concrete tower building. The towering iron tower on the concrete tower is very conspicuous. To some extent, this iron tower is still one of the well-known landmarks of Lianyungang, and here

It is the telegraph signal tower of China Electric Power Company. It is also the most powerful telegraph signal tower in Asia and the second most powerful in the world.

Before this telegraph signal tower was built, radio telegrams sent from China to Europe and the United States were often sent to Japan or Hong Kong, and then relayed to Europe and the United States through the two places. It was not until this telegraph tower was built that a large number of domestic and international telegrams were sent to Europe and the United States.

Reposted from Lianyungang Electric Power Company. When Chunghwa Electric Power Company was established last year, the reason why "Longhai Electric Power" was able to control 55% of the new company's equity was precisely due to its advanced hardware equipment.

For the outside world, the biggest use of this signal tower is probably to forward international long-distance telegrams. But for intelligence personnel, this telegraph signal tower has other uses. It can not only receive telegrams from telegraph offices of various countries.

, can also receive various radio signals reverberating in the atmosphere, including a large number of military and diplomatic secret messages. Although the recipient of those telegrams is not the Lianyungang signal tower.

Because of this, as early as after the telegraph signal tower was built, the translation team under the company's security department began to work with the Intelligence Division of the Jiangsu Army Staff Headquarters to get involved in the daily management of the telegraph signal tower. At the same time, a team was also set up in the city.

A telegraph deciphering institution jointly operated by two institutions - Lianyungang Telecommunications Technology Center. [*You]

Chunghwa Telecom Technology Center, this "technical institution" located in Lianyungang, has almost never developed any inventions with commercial value in the past two years, even except for the small bronze medal outside the building.

There is nothing attractive about it, but this technical center, which appears to belong to the "Electronic and Electrical Company", has another responsibility - to decipher any military, political, and diplomatic secret messages they receive.

There are no secrets from us!

For the Telecommunications Technology Center with this motto, telegram deciphering has always been their most important job. Telegram deciphering has never been an easy job, especially for China. Telegram deciphering cannot be separated from mathematics.

Support from everyone, but how many mathematicians are there in China?

On the other hand, the cruel reality forces China to decipher the telegrams of various countries to obtain the secrets of various countries in order to gain an advantage on issues related to China.

"In the era of wired telegraphy, secret messages were translated into codes and then submitted to the telegraph office for issuance. This was done by all countries. In other words, the code was the only encryption of the contents of the telegrams at that time. The diplomatic notes sent by Japan were in Chinese, and China

The embassy saved the trouble and no longer had to translate the notes into Chinese. Since the encrypted messages could only be sent to the Japanese Telegraph Office for issuance, Wang Fengzao asked the translator of the Chinese Embassy to translate the notes into coded telegrams and send them to the Japanese Telegraph Office for issuance.

, the telegraph office will make a copy as usual. In this way, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs only needs to take out the Chinese note draft and slightly compare it with the coded telegram, and all the Chinese embassy codes will be deciphered.

The Japanese obtained the code, and all 54 of Wang Fengzao's encrypted messages from June 6 to August 4 were deciphered. The Japanese kept their composure and from then on not only mastered all the communications between the Chinese Embassy and the country, but also intercepted them

A lot of military intelligence.

The Qing court was unaware of this and did not change the password throughout the war..."

For any codebreakers working in the telecommunications technology center, they must keep this story in mind. This is not so much a story as it is a painful memory of a country. Knowing shame is almost courageous. If it is said in the past, China has never paid attention to it.

If the telegraph code has been passed, then China is undoubtedly now using an extremely paranoid attitude to strengthen its own code security, while at the same time deciphering telegrams from various countries regardless of the cost, and even through government actions, like Japan's "Chinese Declaration of War"

, set up a large number of traps to decipher the diplomatic telegrams of various countries, so as to understand the diplomatic changes of various countries.

However, deciphering military telegrams is far more difficult than deciphering diplomatic telegrams. For all countries, military telegram codes have always been the top secret among secrets. Despite this, a large number of codes have been deciphered in this telecommunications technology center.

of military intelligence, and among the many deciphering tasks, the most successful was probably the deciphering of several pairs of Japanese military intelligence.

During the Jiao'ao Incident, the problem that had been plaguing the Army General Staff was the inability to grasp Japanese military intelligence. For this reason, the General Staff had invested a large amount of manpower in deciphering the Japanese military telegram code, but there was little progress until the end of the Lanshan Campaign.

When the sunken Japanese ship was salvaged, the code book that had not been thrown into the sea was unexpectedly discovered. This was the real breakthrough. [*You] And the mastery of the Japanese telegram code was a top secret in the technical center.

In the past two years, although the Japanese army occasionally updated their codes, most of those codes were still modified based on the combination rules of the old codes, so that their top-secret military telegrams could be quickly deciphered. It can be said that in the past two years.

Japanese military intelligence is almost one-way transparent to China.

In the morning, just like every other day, in the basement of the technical center, the clicking sound of the telegraph machine was the only sound here. Hundreds of telegraph machines were constantly spitting out transfer tapes, which would be quickly sent to various offices according to classification.

The deciphering team deciphers it.

"Move...move..."

In one of the deciphering rooms, a translator referred to the code book and kept deciphering the telegram in his hand, but the content of the telegram made him stunned. This was an order for military mobilization, and it was not related to

What is different from the movements of the Japanese army in the past is that this time's military mobilization is not an internal military mobilization within Japan, but an order to dispatch additional troops to Kanto Prefecture.

Almost immediately, he realized the importance of this telegram. Just as he raised his hand to report to his superior, another translator across the table from him also raised his hand. Then another

Several people, this is an unprecedented scene. The military commander who walked out of the office first received a telegram, his expression changed, and then he took another telegram from another person. The content of the telegram was different, but it made his expression

Becoming more serious because...

"Every telegram points to one purpose - Japan is trying to provoke a new conflict in South Manchuria!"

Looking at the young master in front of him, Li Siqin said in an extremely calm tone.

"New conflict..."

Raising his eyebrows slightly, Li Zicheng once again looked at the Japanese military telegrams in his hand. Now, the Telecommunications Technology Center is jointly managed by the Secret Service and the Military Staff Department. In addition to these military telegrams, there are also several requests for South Korea.

The order to strengthen defense along the Manchuria Railway is exactly what Li Siqin said, Japan is preparing to provoke new troubles there.

"We must make further preparations for prevention."

Xiao Xiao looked at the Prime Minister and said, the State Council has no military jurisdiction, but as the commander of the internal affairs force under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Xiao Xiao is in charge of 120,000 internal affairs troops.

The troops may not seem to have strong combat effectiveness, but they are elite light infantry troops, which can be said to be a sharp sword in the hands of the State Council.

Now, after receiving this information, Li Zicheng naturally needed to discuss this issue with his military chief of staff and the head of the internal affairs force. After Xiao Xiao learned this information, his first reaction was to respond immediately.

"I personally think that we should consider further strengthening the internal affairs troops in Liaoning and Jilin, um..."

After thinking for a moment, Xiao Xiao added.

"In view of the fact that the banditry in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces has been basically eliminated and the local police have been strengthened, we can consider transferring the 21st and 33rd corps from Shaanxi and Gansu provinces to Liaoning..."

When Xiao Xiao mentioned this suggestion, Li Zicheng was surprisingly silent. Outside the long French window, heavy raindrops fell from time to time. It is undeniable that this summer heavy rain is annoying.

This is definitely not good weather.

"Send additional troops..."

As he pondered, Li Zicheng placed his hand on the bulging folder in front of him. Such a draft agreement was forced out with great effort during talks with representatives from various provinces last year.

Sending internal affairs troops to each province is not an easy task. It was difficult to force out this agreement on the dispatch of internal affairs troops. It was actually a compromise between the central and local governments. According to the agreement, each province can only garrison one general corps at most.

That is, an internal affairs force of no more than 4,500 people.

The reason why the internal affairs forces of the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang have five corps of internal affairs troops stationed is because of two reasons. One is because they are located in border areas, and the other is because they are invaded by bandits. For this reason, after many parties coordinated, the three provinces agreed.

If the internal affairs troops stationed in two additional corps are now rashly dispatching two more corps of nearly 10,000 people, will it cause a local backlash?

If it triggers a local backlash...

"Prime Minister, there are too many clauses in the Internal Affairs Forces' anti-bandit agreement, which are full of restrictions on us,"

Seeing the Prime Minister holding the agreement with his hand, Xiao Xiao immediately said frankly,

"Of course, this was originally a concession that was necessary to establish the internal affairs force. Now my view is this: If we still stubbornly implement this agreement, it is very likely to lead to the situation of disregarding the national security. Central Army, now

It means that we cannot move forward, and it is difficult for the local authorities to accept the transfer of several divisions from the Central Army. In any case, for the sake of national security, we should re-negotiate with the local authorities, at least with Liaoning, on the content of the agreement. In short, if.

If preparations are not completed now, it will be unrealistic to defend Liaoning for now. Once the Japanese army launches an attack in Liaoning, it will be impossible for Zhang Zuolin to protect Liaoning by that time. And for us, relying on

It is also difficult for the current internal affairs troops to resist the attack of two divisions or even four divisions, so we have no choice but to increase our troops!"

"Then it seems that additional troops are inevitable."

While Li Zicheng asked in reply, he looked at everyone in the office and asked.

"The other side of the issue, which is what we have to consider, is how do you break out of this agreement?"

Perhaps Li Zicheng has not yet expressed his agreement, but this sentence has fully exposed his intentions - he supports breaking through the agreement and sending more troops to Liaoning. But on the other hand, he still has concerns about the agreement. After all, the outside world

Trust in him is based on one principle - he will not violate any agreement signed with all parties!

There is no foundation without faith!

If he rashly increases his troops, he will break through the current agreement, which is likely to cause a backlash in the local area and even affect his "credibility", which makes him have to think about it.

"Another option is that we can send people to negotiate with Zhang Zuolin to sign a new agreement,"

As an aide to the Prime Minister, after Chen Taoyi thought for a moment, he looked at the Prime Minister and said,

"If we come directly to the door, then Zhang Zuolin will definitely not agree, unless we can prove to him that if he does not agree with us sending troops, he will ultimately suffer the loss. He himself will not be able to protect Liaoning at all, and where we go, it is not

In order not to let him become the local emperor, but for the overall interests of the entire country, and we also need to express to him that if he agrees, the Ministry of Finance can pay a considerable amount of subsidies in other words. These subsidies, he uses
To be continued...