After reading Minister Pan's reply, Lao Hou sent a telegram again, agreeing with Li Yixin's judgment that the Japanese most likely received the news from other channels, and the source of the leak of this escort mission was not in Stone Town.
Because at this time, in Stone Town, except for Lao Hou himself and Li Yixin, no one else knew about this escort mission, so Lao Hou strongly asked Minister Pan and the organization to investigate the possible intelligence sources of the Japanese.
At the same time, it is also necessary to conduct an internal investigation, because only the Yan'an headquarters and Li Yixin in Stone Town know the specific content of this mission, and Lao Hou judged that the source of the leakage of the news should be in Yan'an.
As for why Li Yixin was suspected by the Japanese special high school, Lao Hou thought that it might be related to Gao Hongcheng's activities on the day he evacuated Stone Town, after all, Li Yixin was one of the few people who had direct contact with Gao Hongcheng that day.
Lao Hou asked himself, if he stood on the standpoint of Japan's special high school, maybe he would also take secret tracking and surveillance measures against Li Yixin.
Even if Li Yixin turns out to be fine, then such covert tracking and surveillance measures are a preventive measure.
And Li Yixin mentioned that Zhongtong asked him to pay close attention to why Wen Mian was also secretly tracked and monitored, but Lao Hou had some guesses.
For traitors like Wen Mian, it can already be seen that the Japanese are beginning to decline, and it is a natural choice to seek a way back.
Chongqing has to put a big question mark on whether these traitors must be iron-faced and selfless, and refuse to cooperate with traitors, after all, Chongqing's record in this regard has always been bad.
Moreover, a traitor like Wen Mian also had a lot of high-level relationships within the national government before, and at the critical moment of finding a way back to protect his life, Wen Mian will definitely find various ways to dredge up the relationship and become a state of stepping on two boats.
And Deputy Director Ye of Zhongtong Ye this time can basically confirm from another aspect that Wen Mian is indeed trying to find a way to fight with Chongqing behind the back of the Japanese, but it seems that Zhongtong has strength in addition to Li Yixin in Stone Town, otherwise it would not have been found out so quickly that Wen Mian was also on the list of suspects of the Japanese.
At this time, Lao Hou didn't expect that there was something wrong in his guess.
The reason why Wen Mian was suspected by the Japanese was not because the Japanese found out that Wen Mian was secretly colluding with Chongqing, but because Wen Mian was also fermenting after Gao Hongcheng's identity was exposed and evacuated from Stone Town.
Yukio Fujita actually got some definite information and knew that the 'owl' was lurking inside the government agencies in Stone Town, and the reason why Gao Hongcheng was able to get the warning to evacuate Stone Town first was because of the help of the 'owl'.
According to Ma Zhixin's confession, the Japanese believed that Wen Mian had always harbored Gao Hongcheng before, so they also took secret tracking and monitoring measures against Wen Mian.
Minister Pan, who was far away in Yan'an, also tended to agree with Lao Hou's judgment after receiving the telegram sent by Lao Hou again, and after reporting to the leaders of the headquarters, the Yan'an headquarters also began a secret investigation, focusing on the insiders who knew about the escort mission.
Also on this day, Ye Xiaozhou, because of the pressure of the military command headquarters, once again sent a signal to Yin Qunli to meet with him, and was ready to ask Yin Qun to report on the results of the task assigned by the headquarters last time to find out the ideological dynamics of these traitors in the Huangshan Provincial Government.
Of course, Yin Qunli saw this signal from the newspaper, but he didn't go to connect with Ye Xiaozhou.
Because if he ventured to connect with Ye Xiaozhou at this time, it was very likely to expose the close connection between him and Ye Xiaozhou.
Although after he made a big fuss in front of Shinnosuke Murakami last time, Shinnosuke Murakami ostensibly released a signal of great trust in him, but Yin Qunli did not believe in the trust shown by Shinnosuke Murakami.
He is cautious, believing that the trust shown by Shinnosuke Murakami in him is just a smoke bomb in order to paralyze himself.
And he didn't even dare to contact Li Yixin at this time, and even the dead mailbox stopped being used, and it was even more impossible for him to meet Ye Xiaozhou.
Ye Xiaozhou was not able to wait for Yin Qunli to appear at the joint location and scheduled joint time, and he wondered why Yin Qunli didn't come to the joint.
But he didn't have a way to go directly to Yin Qunli, so he thought that his public identity in Stone Town was a hostage sent by Director Lu of the Central Command.
The Japanese arranged him to Jianzhong Trading Company, and they also knew that this was controlled by Li Yixin.
So he decided to try his luck at Jianzhong Trading Company to see if he could find out what happened to Yin Qunli through some testing.
When he uncharacteristically appeared in Jianzhong Trading Company the next day, Hu Yongqiang was very happy.
Because after he came back from Lao Hou's tea shop yesterday, he noticed that there were already capable personnel squatting downstairs of Jianzhong Trading Company, which made him also dare not go to his residence to call Ye Xiaozhou.
And Ye Xiaozhou suddenly came to the company, which made Hu Yongqiang overjoyed.
Although he knew that Ye Xiaozhou was a military commander, since Lao Hou said that he had to give him a warning because of his work, he had to carry out this task.
After Ye Xiaozhou arrived at the company, he directly entered Hu Yongqiang's office and began to talk around, especially to get to know the traitors of various government departments in Stone Town, including Yin Qunli of the Stone Town Branch of the Secret Service Headquarters.
Hu Yongqiang didn't know Ye Xiaozhou's intentions, in his opinion, this might be Ye Xiaozhou's mission to spy on intelligence given to him today.
But when Ye Xiaozhou left his office halfway through and went to the thatched house, Hu Yongqiang secretly stuffed a note into Ye Xiaozhou's careless pocket in the outside office with a very covert action.
This note was written by Hu Yongqiang with his left hand, which was to prevent Ye Xiaozhou from seeing that it was Hu Yongqiang's handwriting.
After doing all this, Hu Yongqiang returned to his office and waited for Ye Xiaozhou to come back from the thatched house.
The small talk between Ye Xiaozhou and Hu Yongqiang didn't get the news he wanted to know about Yin Qunli recently, so he could only go home.
By the time he found the note in his pocket, it was already that night.
Of course he knew about the mysterious 'young master' of the hidden agent of the Central Command, because the upper peak of the military commander had already told him that it was this 'young master' of the Central Command who could allow him to sneak into Stone City smoothly.
Now that the 'young master' is quietly warning him, he has to pay attention to it.
Although he didn't know who this 'young master' was, the other party's contribution to Stone Town was real, and he was very capable and well-informed.