"Understood!" Kota Nakajima replied. "I will report to you immediately if anything happens."

Kitaoka Ryoko shook her head and said, "Don't report back to me at the Tsuchihara Agency during this time. I will be the only one to contact you. The Tsuchihara Agency is currently in charge of operations by Kagesa Hiroki. He has brought a lot of people with him, and the agency is not very discreet. If they find out about your surveillance of the Fujiwara Company, it will soon reach Fujiwara Tomohito's ears, and that will be troublesome."

Kota Nakajima was startled. He had been lying low in the French Concession and had only returned twice after the establishment of the Tsuchihara Agency. He didn't know many things. Could it be that things had changed?

However, they had always been under the command of Kitaoka Ryoko and trusted her greatly, so they nodded and agreed, "Yes, sir, we will do as you say!"

At this moment, Kitaoka Ryoko took out two more photos and placed them in front of Nakajima Kota, saying, "Keep an eye on these two people in the French Concession. If you can find them, it will be a great achievement."

The people in these two photos are Hirayama Jiro and Miyata Yasutoshi. The photos were taken from newspapers. Kitaoka Ryoko gave Nakajima Kota a brief overview of the situation and then said, "We don't know where Miyata Yasutoshi is, but Hirayama Jiro is definitely still in Shanghai. Things are very tense in Shanghai right now. He might be able to enter the concession. Keep a close eye on him. If you find him, capture him alive. I need him."

In the past few days, Kitaoka Ryoko had uncovered the whole story. When she learned that Lieutenant Colonel Hirayama Tokumoto had been assassinated, she immediately knew that it was the Fujiwara Company's doing. What anti-Japanese leaflets? It was just a clumsy trick to cover up the truth. The subsequent developments were clear: Hirayama Jiro deserted the military camp and sneaked into Suzhou to assassinate Shirakawa Eiei to avenge his brother. Fujiwara Tomohito ordered the military police to arrest him, but Hirayama Jiro somehow managed to infiltrate Shanghai and directly confront Fujiwara Tomohito for revenge. All these events, when put together, made everything crystal clear.

Kitaoka Ryoko knew that Fujiwara Tomohito wielded considerable power, and the charge of smuggling controlled supplies posed little threat to him. However, the charge of murdering an active-duty officer was a different story. After all, this was wartime, and the matter could be serious or minor. If handled properly, it could escalate and incur the displeasure of the military, which would be a major problem for Fujiwara Tomohito. Therefore, as long as she found the two individuals involved, she could use them as leverage to negotiate with Fujiwara Tomohito.

The situation within the Tsuchihara Agency is currently unfavorable. Since their teacher left, Kagesa Hiroki has taken over the agency's operations and quickly began placing his own people in key positions. Kitaoka Ryoko is watching this with growing anxiety. She keenly senses that her teacher is not in a favorable position in this power struggle. She tries to use her resources to threaten Fujiwara Tomohito into supporting her teacher. She believes that if the Fujiwara family's banner is raised, all problems can be resolved.

Just as Kitaoka Ryoko was meticulously gathering all the evidence in preparation for negotiations with Fujiwara Tomohito, the representatives of the puppet government, who had stayed in Japan for many days, finally returned to Shanghai. This time, they finally completed negotiations on important issues in Japan.

With the negotiations completed, the formation of the puppet government began in earnest. Kagesa Yuuki also knew that a new round of assassinations targeting key figures of the new government by Chinese agents was about to begin. In order to better protect the new government, Kagesa Yuuki decided to formally transfer the intelligence department under the Tsuchihara Agency to the new government's system.

After being recommended by Yingzuo Yushu, Ding Mo and Li Zhiqun formally met Wang Tianhai. At this time, Wang Tianhai was penniless, lacking both manpower and money. He was naturally very satisfied with the addition of the well-equipped and well-mannered special agent headquarters and immediately appointed two people as political commissars of the puppet government to be fully responsible for the protection of the puppet government's special agents.

From then on, the Special Agent Headquarters officially became the exclusive intelligence department of the puppet government, and was referred to as No. 76 in the outside world, becoming the sharpest knife in the hands of the puppet government.

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