Wei Boqiu, who was riding a tall black war horse, stopped in front of a two-story building outside Dongfang Harbor. Several men in black uniforms stepped forward and courteously led the horses for him.

"Section Chief, the latest information detected in the past two days." As soon as he returned to the office and sat down, Sun Heiqi, assistant to the section chief, came over with a few pieces of paper.

Sun Heiqi was originally an intelligence officer at the Bordeaux station, but a few years later he was transferred back to China and became a senior detective in the National Intelligence Agency. Later, the intelligence department was separated, and because of his shrewdness and ability, Wei Boqiu took a fancy to him, so he was transferred to the newly established "Syphilis Patient Statistical Investigation Section" as an assistant to the section chief.

As for Wei Boqiu himself, he was studying for a master's degree in sociology before the crossing, and he has been working as a senior analyst in the State Intelligence Administration since the crossing, and he is already quite familiar with the business of the intelligence system. In the second half of last year, due to dissatisfaction with the counter-espionage work of the State Intelligence Administration, under the impetus of the Executive Committee, a group of personnel from the gendarmerie and the General Intelligence Bureau were transferred from each to formally set up the Syphilis Patient Statistical Investigation Section, the third professional intelligence agency and the only secret intelligence agency in China. Under the guise of investigating the number of syphilis patients in China, the department specializes in internal counter-espionage, public opinion investigation and guidance, and investigation and punishment of official corruption.

So far, there have been three intelligence agencies in the country, namely, the State Intelligence Bureau, which specializes in collecting all kinds of information externally, the gendarmerie under the direct control of the military, and the Statistical Investigation Department of Syphilis Patients (referred to as "Mei Tong" or "Mei Agency") for short. After the establishment of Meitong, some secret agents and informants who had been installed in major domestic enterprises, farms, fleets, military and government agencies, which originally belonged to the State Intelligence Administration and the gendarmerie, were handed over one after another. This has taken their control over all aspects of the country to a new level.

After the establishment of this agency, at the beginning of this year, a major case of Spanish spies attempting to spy on the Big Fish River Arsenal was cracked. After being secretly arrested and interrogated, the Spanish spy had defected to the East Coasters and became a double agent. The East Coasters are ready to rely on this guy to catch all the other Spanish spies that might be possible, but not much progress has been made so far.

Speaking of espionage, in fact, there has been a lot of loss of East Coast technology over the years. For example, the parameters of fast cruisers, modular shipbuilding methods, and some primitive hydraulic boring machine designs that were lost earlier, as well as species such as bighorn goats and soybeans that were stolen by "biological spies". At the beginning of this year, it was revealed that a French technician had disappeared with drawings of a hydraulic sawing machine and planer that he had secretly drawn, and it was believed that he had probably fled to the French colony of Fort Dorvan in the south.

These lost technologies are not fatally advanced technologies. But it still has a considerable negative impact on the East Coasters. For example, the fast cruiser (i.e., early clippers) technology that was stolen by Dutch spies. The Dutch, who had a developed shipbuilding industry, immediately developed several new types of clippers after understanding the essence of this. They were extremely fond of these vessels, and although they were not as efficient at carrying cargo as their traditional mainstay merchant ships, the flutes, they were extremely fast on well-established routes. It's perfect for carrying much-needed supplies. At present, the Dutch are gradually using such fast ships in the North Sea and Baltic trade. It has created a lot of economic benefits.

Another example is modular shipbuilding technology, which was also stolen by the Dutch. The naval architects in the Netherlands saw the convenience at a glance and immediately began to follow suit, resulting in a much lower cost and speed of shipbuilding. And. Some senior scholars have also developed divergent thinking about this technology, and they have come up with the concept of "standardized manufacturing", which has been endorsed by a few open-minded factory owners. These factory owners have turned to grants to scholars who are engaged in this research, encouraging them to come up with new ideas that will allow their factories to produce more and lower costs. And these scholars also quickly repaid the sponsors, and they first proposed the idea of "standardized molds", which attracted the attention of many gunsmiths. In the past, when they used to cast guns, they were all temporary molds, and never considered the concept of standardization and parts exchange, but after being put forward, everyone agreed that this was a good method and a good idea, so they quickly agreed with the scholars' proposals.

After several twists and turns, the concept spread to neighboring France, Spain, Austria, Sweden, and even England, which was in the midst of civil war, and began to gradually gain acceptance among a small number of people. Although the pace of promotion was a bit slow, the germs of industrialization did begin to sprout gradually on the European continent.

The influence of the lost hydraulic machine tool technology is not so far-reaching, because these technologies are not much more advanced than the Europeans, at most some of the structural design is more elaborate, and the power has changed from the traditional foot pedal and hand crank to water power. The Europeans were not impressed by these things, but they still appreciated the kind of involute gears used by the East coasters, because they were much stronger than the cycloidal gears they had used for many years. Some of the most talented people in mathematics were also funded to study the mathematical principles in the gears of the East Coasters, in order to make the most of them.

All in all, the lost technology was an eye-opener for the Europeans, but they also made them more coveted the East Coast, but for various reasons they could not afford to come to the East Coast to loot it openly, so they had to send a large number of spies to try to infiltrate the East Coast and steal the technology they were interested in.

However, in recent years, people on the East Coast have also realized the dangers of emigration from large countries such as the Netherlands, France, and Spain. It is true that the immigrants from these countries are relatively literate and skilled, but after careful consideration, the Executive Committee resolutely stopped migrating from these countries a few years ago and instead sought migrants from Italy and Livonia. By the year before last, even Italian immigration had been suspended, and the only source of European immigration was the relatively primitive and ignorant Livonians. Of course, there were also a large number of Polish, Bulgarian, and Serbian women who entered the East Coast, but they were much less likely to act as spies.

However, there will be a mistake in the secret, and it is impossible for any technology to be kept secret for a long time. What the East Coasters need to do is to delay the technical leak as much as possible, so as to gain more opportunities for their own development. It was against this background that the Mei Tong came into being, and from the very beginning of its establishment, they were positioned to be based on the country, to strictly investigate the enemy elements and the enemies who had infiltrated them, and at the same time to grasp and guide public opinion at all times, so as to ensure that the rule of the executive committee over the country was not threatened.

At present, there are about 80 people in Meitong, which are roughly divided into three departments, namely: the investigation team, the analysis team, and the action group.

The investigation team consisted of 5 detectives and 25 detectives, each of whom was responsible for one aspect and had 5 detectives under him. These are all full members, and the peripheral members such as spies and informants throughout the country have one-line contact with the agents in charge of themselves, and the agents are not allowed to inquire with each other, and the head of the investigation team keeps a list of all the people on hand.

The analysis team usually works mainly in the office, and is responsible for classifying, summarizing and sorting out all kinds of useful and useless information obtained by the investigation team, and then analyzing and summarizing it to draw various conclusions, which are screened by the team leader and submitted to the section chief for review. Of course, there is a record of all intelligence analysis.

The Operational Group had the largest number of members, numbering over 40 members, and consisted of a plainclothes detective squad and a night watchman organization that had been assigned to the Religious Affairs Department. The source of the personnel of the action group is very complicated, many people are even scumbags, and at present, Sun Heiqi, the biggest "scum" among them, is also the team leader, and he is also the only assistant to the section chief, and he is faintly regarded as the number two person in the Meitong organ. In the basement of the Meitong office building, there is also an interrogation room and cell belonging to the operation team, where many captured spies spent many unforgettable nights of their lives.

It has not been long since the establishment of the Meitong organs, and the various systems are still very sloppy and need to be improved urgently, but the determination and combat effectiveness they have displayed are still quite satisfactory to Wei Boqiu, who has taken office as a new official. What this somewhat gloomy-looking man usually likes to do is either to observe the interrogation and torture of prisoners in the underground cell, or to listen to public opinion with his subordinates.

A while ago, Mei Tong had just secretly captured a Spanish spy, and he was very praised by his superiors. However, with the change in the shape of the north, the focus of their work has gradually shifted to scouting the Guaraní and Charrua settlements. Together with men sent by Puting, one of the two giants of the gendarmerie, they went deep into the hills and mountains west of Duck Lake in the north to secretly reconnoiter the distribution of the Guarani people in order to provide accurate reference information for the clean-up operations planned by their superiors.

Wei Boqiu flipped through the information in his hand slightly, then narrowed his eyes and subconsciously tapped his fingers on the mahogany table. Sun Heiqi knew that his section elder was probably thinking of some kind of trick again.

"The gendarmerie guys work hard." After a while, Wei Boqiu opened his eyes, then smiled and said, "This matter should have been the responsibility of their gendarmerie, and it involves military security." Okay, you inform Team Leader Qin of the investigation team, and you can't relax about what you explained last time. Whether those people were spies arranged by the Almeida family in Brazil, and whether they had stolen anything of value, these must be clarified. Okay, don't stick here, let's go out and run errands. ”

Sun Heiqi nodded, and then quietly retreated. (To be continued......)