Martin. Martinez was not only a linguistic genius, but also a "man born to eat the bowl of intelligence"—the consensus of later theorists.

Martinez has an innate and extraordinary sensitivity to the transmutation of information. He has the ability to quickly find a small amount of truly valuable information in a sea of sources, most of which are of no value, and to find connections between two seemingly unrelated pieces of information.

Different from the spy war dramas of later generations, the highlight of real intelligence work is not the intrigue between spies and counter-espionage, and the deceit of self-deception, which is of course also important, but the collection and processing of intelligence-information.

The gathering of information is the basis of intelligence work. This "collection" is extensive, multi-channel, astronomical, and sometimes, even indiscriminate—as mentioned above: "vast as a sea of smoke".

Most of the process of obtaining this information does not actually reach the level of "espionage"; Moreover, as mentioned above, many of them do not have real value in the sense of "intelligence", so how to effectively deal with this information—inducting, sorting, analyzing, sorting out the chaff, finding out the really useful parts, and establishing the internal relationship between each other, is the most important thing in intelligence work.

This job requires astonishing patience and carefulness, as well as a keen sense of touch, a rigorous logical mind, and excellent judgment. Martin. Martinez is the one who has both.

In addition, Martinez is not just a "keyboard man", not just hiding behind the scenes to "take inventory". He has not been in China for a long time, but he has "entered the situation" faster than anyone else. Martinez spent only a few months in Beijing. But he's a foreigner. Knowledge of Beijing. It has surpassed many people from other provinces who have lived in Beijing for several years.

Of course, Martinez's high-nosed and deep-eyed appearance is too dazzling after all, and at present, most of the time, he is still hiding "behind the scenes".

In addition to the above factors, the reason why Guan Zhuofan put Martinez in such a critical position is because he, like Chen Yicheng, is a "naked person" in a sense.

Martinez was of poor white origin in the American South. Before coming to China, I didn't know a single Chinese except for Xuanjun's colleagues, and I didn't have any "social connections" in China. Not only that, but with Martinez's resolute mentality of abandoning his hometown in Georgia, the little "social relations" he had in the United States were completely negligible.

At the same time, Martinez is a very enterprising person - such a person, without any worries, single-mindedly devoted himself to this special job. There should be no doubt, right?

Not to mention Chen Yicheng.

"Chen Jinghao" no longer exists in this world, except for a mother and a sister. Chen Yicheng's original social relations all disappeared with the "death" of "Chen Jinghao". Except for Guan Zhuofan, Chen Yicheng is really "six relatives do not recognize" - any person in this world, including the generals of Xuanjun, can become his "work object". As long as the marshal gives an order, no matter who it is, he will not hesitate to cut it with a knife - just like he and his body pounced on Wang Zuochen.

Well, whether it is Xiao Chen or Xiao Ma, there is no distraction, so you can do your job well. This state, well, is good, very powerful.

After the An Dehai case, the "Investigation and Liaison Office of the Military Commission" began to be established; After the Xuan army returned from Japan, the "Military Adjustment Office" began to operate in earnest.

At the beginning of its establishment, the "Military Coordination Office" consisted of only two departments, the headquarters and the Beijing station, which were located in the barracks of the small station in Tianjin, and the focus of the work was the Beijing station. Director Chen and Deputy Director Ma of the Military Coordination Department are also the stationmaster and deputy stationmaster of the Beijing Station, and are based in Beijing. Externally, a sign was hung at the Beijing station that read, "The General Grain Station Office of the Songjiang Army of the Xuanjiang Army in Beijing," and the comrades who were the chief and deputy station chiefs were naturally Chen and Ma of the "Songjiang Army General Grain Station Office in Beijing."

After the Beijing Station of the Military Adjustment Office was formally established, it has carried out its work in full swing on the basis of preliminary preparations, and it has only been a few months so far, and it has already achieved fruitful results.

One of the biggest achievements of the Beijing station is the initial establishment of a monitoring system for "first-level monitoring objects".

The objects of monitoring of the Military Adjustment Office are divided into levels, limited to manpower and resources, and the first to be included in the monitoring network are naturally the most important "first-level monitoring objects" -- Guan Zhuofan's political enemies and potential political enemies.

King Gong, Bao Jun, and King Xuan, they never imagined that they had been targeted by Guan Zhuofan's people a few months ago.

King Gong is Kwan Zhuofan's most important political opponent - this "characterization" has not changed qualitatively because the two parties have worked together in the An Dehai case; Bao Jun is the most trusted and intimate one of the court officials, and he is also the most hostile to Guan Zhuofan in the "Gong family". Therefore, it is natural that these two people have become "first-level monitoring objects".

As for King Xuan, he already has the consciousness of "fighting a tiger and not dying, but being bitten by a tiger", but he wishfully believes that he is in the dark and Guan Zhuofan is in the light. However, among the relatives and nobles, he is the only one who has said bad things about Guan Zhuofan on the stage - so eye-catching, how can he not be remembered by Guan Zhuofan?

In addition, among the first- and second-class officials of the imperial court, Guan Zhuofan is the only one who tears his face with it, and he is Dexinga - this person is from the door of King Xuan. is like Dexing's aunt's wife, who snatched Shengbao, and slapped Guan Zhuofan's face; Guan Zhuofan beat Dexing, why didn't he slap the king in the face?

Since you know that each other's hearts are so deep, and you are the identity of Xuanzong's father and son, and the status of the prince, hehe, this "first-level monitoring object", how can you be embarrassed to leave you behind?

In this era, China has seen the dawn of industrial civilization and smelled the roar of the steel beasts that feed on coal, but the vast majority of people are still immersed in the monotonous and soothing agricultural social conditions; In addition, as mentioned above, the Qing Dynasty has always lacked the tradition of factories and guards, and it is really impossible to imagine how strict and efficient the modern and modern intelligence and governance network they have been.

The Beijing Station of the "Military Adjustment Office" has set up a file for each monitoring object, and the content of the file is divided into two parts:

One piece is the "background information" of the archivist: starting from the eight characters of his birthday, he will "set up a biography" to the archivist. Among them, in addition to the public and semi-public "official authoritative releases" such as "Jade", "Jingentrylu" and the archives of the Ministry of Officials, there are also "social relationships" such as personality analysis, hobbies, dislikes and taboos, and extremely detailed "social relationships" such as relatives and mentors.

In addition, the archives record various relevant information obtained from other sources, such as:

When he was a child, he invited a total of five wet nurses, and the most affectionate one was Wang, followed by Lin.

When he was studying in the school, a certain Hanlin lectured in a fierce voice, and he was not liked by so-and-so, and some people were drugged in the diet, and the Hanlin vomited and diarrhea, and almost died.

When so-and-so first learned humanity, he was infected with his mother-in-law and caused him to have a miscarriage. The father was furious, the concubine died, and the rebel son was flogged. Father and son, from then on, filial piety in front of people, and rebellion in the back.

A certain person should take the annual examination and enter the county school as a student. During the period, a prostitute, a certain teacher was furious, and wanted to drive so-and-so out of the county school. The eldest sister of so-and-so came to the door to plead bitterly with a certain teaching, and she resigned in the early morning of the next day. So-and-so escaped, and he went to school before he went.

When so-and-so was in charge of a certain place, when he left his post, no one was willing to climb the wheel to send an umbrella, and the situation was embarrassing, so he paid for it himself, secretly hired someone, beat gongs and drums, and gave himself an "umbrella for all people".

So-and-so is the "benefactor" of a certain "Qingyin small class" and a certain red girl.

So-and-so has a habit of breaking sleeves, and he is the "old fight" of a certain actor in a certain theater troupe.

So-and-so "has his own golden house in the book", every night, he can't sleep if he doesn't count the gold leaves in his set of "Interpretations of Ancient Texts" from beginning to end.

So-and-so raised an outhouse in a certain place, and the family didn't know about it.

On the resume of a certain person, his hometown is a certain place, and he was also taken a township test in a certain place in the middle of the year. But in fact, his native nationality is not a certain place - this is called "impersonation", which is a violation of strict zhòng. I don't know about this situation, whether it is the Ministry of Officials or the Ministry of Rites.

……

Etcetera.

"Background information" is not set in stone. The Military Adjustment Office constantly supplements, revises, analyzes, annotates, and evaluates the files of the objects under its supervision, so that the image of the archivist becomes more and more "plump" and "three-dimensional" until "the slightest detail is revealed."

Another large part of the file is the "real-time monitoring record".

*(To be continued......)