Shinzaemon looked blankly at the piece of paper in his hand, which had just been found from Adil. Some things were recorded on the paper with jumbled characters, and Shinzaemon Zhilu, who had learned about the situation of the arsenal, was afraid that it was the ratio of refining various specifications of steel crucibles; In addition, there is another drawing that stands out, which is obviously the design of the melting chamber (including the regenerator and blower design). Europe could not obtain liquid molten steel at this time, the only difficulty was that it could not reach the temperature at which the molten steel melted, and if they got this design drawing, it is believed that their steel smelting level would soon reach a new level.

For the East Coast, steel smelting is the foundation of all techniques and is the top priority. Shinzaemon could not imagine how far the Eastern Coast Republic would fall if it lost its technological superiority in steel smelting. The Republic of the East Coast has given itself a good life and a chance to be a new person, and it must not allow these greedy white pigs to steal the secrets of the state.

"The evidence is conclusive, take this guy back quietly for interrogation, and be careful not to leak the news! Lin Zhen, you go and arrest Henry's second group, let them be careful, and pay special attention to the confidentiality of information. The rest, close the line! Shinzaemon glanced coldly at Adil, who was like a dead face, and said with a little excitement. He knew that he had made a meritorious contribution this time, and he had made a great contribution! Having cracked such a big case of stealing technical secrets, I am afraid that it will be difficult for anyone in the General Intelligence Bureau to compare with his own achievements in the near future. If he seized the opportunity to open a breakthrough from Henry and Adil and unravel the entire spy network of the enemy lurking in the country, perhaps the position of the inspector and deputy inspector would not be so far away from him.

At nightfall, several groups of men and horses quietly returned to the General Intelligence Bureau building, located near the original lime mine outside the city. At this time, Jiao Tang, the internal affairs commissioner, He Fang, the director of the Security Division of the General Intelligence Bureau, and Liu Yunzheng, the director of the Prison Administration and the Special Services Division, were sitting in the next room of the interrogation room with a serious face waiting for the news. There was a choking smell of smoke in the room. This reflects the mood of several leading figures in the national security system at the moment.

"Director. The results of the interrogation came out. Jiao Tang's secretary walked in with Shinzaemon in his hand.

Seeing that several leaders who were rarely seen on weekdays turned their eyes to themselves, Shinzaemon was a little nervous, but he still stood in front of several officials with a "snap", looking straight ahead.

"Shinzaemon, now report the results of the interrogation directly to me, don't talk nonsense, just talk about the point." Jiao Tang coughed and said to Shinzaemon.

"Yes!" Shinzaemon replied. Fortunately, he has obtained the confessions of Henri and Adil, two former French immigrants who were captured. They admit that they were hired by the French government to come to our country's scientific research institutions and technical manufacturers to steal secrets. They arrived at Port Oriente on October 15 of this year with the previous group of French immigrants, and according to the confessions of Adil and Henry, they came with four men, of whom Adil was the head of the four. The other two were secretly arrested by comrades from the Dingyuan Branch of the Intelligence Bureau in the afternoon and are currently on their way to the headquarters. ”

Among the four, Henry was assigned to the arsenal to steal technical secrets because of his certain technical knowledge. He handed over the stolen technical materials to Adil, who was in charge in the center, and Adil managed to deliver them to the other two people in Cotton Farmer Castle. The two men sought an opportunity to smuggle the information to a neighboring Spanish colony. Then find a way to get back to mainland France. Shinzaemon continued, "The whole operation was organized and premeditated. And it is led by the government and specially aimed at the latest technologies of our country. If it hadn't been cracked by us, they would probably have succeeded in transferring the technical secrets out of the city. ”

"Is that all there is to it?" Jiao Tang chewed on Shinzaemon's words for a while, and then asked.

"During the interrogation, Adil also confessed to a special situation." Speaking of this, Shinzaemon lowered his voice slightly: "He confessed that he had heard from two other spies in Cotton Farmer's Castle that they had discovered by chance that there was also a Dutch intelligence network in Cotton Farmer's Castle. The network appears to be doing the same job as they do, moving what they have stolen from the interior to neighboring Spanish colonies, from where they can then be returned home by ship. Since the Dutch had such a communication post in Cotton Farmer's Castle, they must have had an espionage organization in the interior......"

Hearing this, Jiao Tang Huoran stood up, then slowly paced to the window, took a deep breath before saying: "After the people arrested by the Dingyuan Branch Bureau are delivered, they will immediately organize an overnight interrogation, I don't care what means you use, you must pry the mouths of these two people open." Then he tried to uproot this spy network of the Dutch. Fuck, all of them are doing what I'm here, and they're all reaching out! Grass, check it for me! Check it out! After catching these moles, let's see how Lao Tzu makes them survive and die! ”

Jiao Tang felt hot on his face at the moment, hundreds of analysts, researchers, detectives, detectives, and investigators of the General Intelligence Bureau, plus hundreds of ordinary patrol police, secret police, and agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who could be mobilized, actually let so many moles get in. What a shame! If these moles have stolen any important secrets, then I am afraid that they should think about how to step down. After all, as pointed out by thousands of people at the National People's Congress, he will not be able to pass the test when the time comes.

The night of 10 January was unusual for the agents of the General Intelligence Directorate. Perhaps irritated by the spike in espionage cases, the heads of various departments met all night to discuss the next steps and how to minimize the negative impact.

At the same time, the interrogation of two newly arrived French spies made a breakthrough in the second half of the night. Having no obligation to keep a secret for the Dutch, they easily confided the identities of the three Dutch spies in order to ask for possible forgiveness from the East Coasters. After receiving the exact information, the General Intelligence Directorate immediately dispatched an arrest team with a senior inspector and several capable agents as the core, and they took 20 heavily armed secret policemen and galloped along Highway 1 overnight towards the Cotton Farmer's Fort.

At dawn they arrived at the Cotton Farmer's Castle, where they caught three Dutch spies who were still asleep, and then interrogated them in isolation. Several Dutch spies could not endure the torture and confessed one after another. The detective who led the team suddenly felt a tingling in his scalp after comparing the confessions of several Dutch spies. Soon, he ordered the team to be closed and rushed towards the headquarters with a few spy prisoners.

Jiao Tang lay on the bed for a while in the second half of the night, but he never slept soundly. I had just fallen asleep in the morning, but I was woken up by my secretary, who had gone to Cotton Farmer's Fort last night to capture the spy. As soon as Jiao Tang, who had a tired face, got the interrogation record, he suddenly became excited, and the little sleepiness that still remained in his mind disappeared.

During the interrogation, several Dutch spies confessed that they had entered the East Coast through emigration after the East Coast Republic and the British East India Company had reached a peace agreement last year. Initially, there were four of them, all four of whom were going to go to the docks to apply for jobs and try to become dock workers to facilitate the transmission of information. As a result, because the dock workers on the east coast were almost all Charrouya, and because the acquaintance introduction system was implemented when recruiting workers, and the newly recruited dock workers were often also Charrouas, these Dutch could not squeeze in at all, so they abandoned the attempt to transmit information through the docks, and instead passed information by land, as the French did.

The four Dutchmen initially worked in a fishery processing plant near Dingyuan Township, while several others who came with them were assigned to work in factories or mines. In the first year, they were lurking in peace of mind, ready to act. At the beginning of this year, the Government Council recruited 1,000 volunteers from across the country to go to the Cotton Farmer Fort and Zhenyuan Fort to expand the border and reclaim the wasteland.

In the first half of this year, several other Dutch spies lurking in the Dayuhe Naval Shipyard and the Arsenal Gunsmith Workshop successively passed some information to the side of Cotton Farmer Fort. One of the Dutchmen who had been lurking in the Cotton Farmer's Castle left the Cotton Farmer's Castle late one night with information and never been seen again. As for the disappearance, the Miannongbao side also organized a search at that time, but the result was naturally inconclusive, and the local responsible official only handed over a perfunctory report to Lu Shang that someone had been attacked and disappeared by the Charua.

As for what information the Dutch spy left with him, the mystery was also revealed under interrogation. Dutch spies lurking in the shipyard wrote about the adoption of modular shipbuilding techniques by the East Coasters, and the Dutch in the gunsmith's workshop drew a rough schematic diagram of a hydraulic boring machine (fortunately, the workshop had not yet been steamed). In addition to this, the departing Dutch spy also took some soybean seeds with him.

The results of the interrogation caused the entire intelligence bureau to lose their voice for a while. These Dutchmen have been operating under their noses for more than half a year, and have even successfully carried out an intelligence transmission, which is simply a naked slap in the face of their own gang.

Things have come to this point, and it is useless to regret them, and the most important thing now is to capture the few remaining Dutch spies. So, under the order of Jiao Tang gritted his teeth, a group of agents from the intelligence bureau flocked out and came to arrest people with the list of three Dutch spies.

Half an hour later, the arrest was over. Four Dutch craftsmen working in the naval shipyards and arsenal gunsmiths were arrested by heavily armed secret police while on duty, and after interrogation, they confessed to being spies for the Dutch East India Company since the previous year. (To be continued......)