Tang Weidong's Hongqi sedan stopped at the door of the office building of the National Security Leading Group, and the secretary on the deputy seat hurriedly got out of the car and opened the rear door.

Tang Weidong said to the secretary as he walked: Immediately notify Minister Zhao of the Central Investigation Department to come over. Tang Weidong's words were like an old-fashioned typewriter typing out word by word, and there were no superfluous words.

The secretary said, "Yes, I'll let you know right away."

When he arrived at the office, the secretary made tea with Tang Weidong as usual. Tang Weidong said: No need, hurry up and inform Minister Zhao, 100,000 is urgent.

The secretary put down the teacup in his hand and was busy making a phone call. Director Tang Weidong is the kind of person who is not in a hurry or slow, he has always been calm, and he will not be nervous when the sky falls, but today he is obviously a little out of shape, and the secretary guesses that it seems that there is something more important than the sky falling, otherwise he would not be so anxious.

Tang Weidong is the former director of the Central Investigation Department, the current minister Zhao Hanbing is the former vice minister, and Tang Weidong's current position is the director of the Office of the National Security Leading Group and the head of the Central Investigation Group. All the ministers are ministerial-level leaders, but Tang Weidong, the minister who coordinates the work of various ministries, is obviously the minister who leads the ministers, but his status is too special, which makes him, a person who used to be vigorous and resolute, become cautious and serious. Tang Weidong was not busy processing the documents on the table as usual, but stood in front of the window and looked at the spring scenery of Beijing outside the window.

Minister Zhao's secretary on the other side of the phone said: What is going on so urgently, Minister Zhao is speaking on the rostrum, can you change the time?

The secretary said: I don't think so, Director Tang said that 100,000 is urgent, it seems that there is really something big. When I arrived at the office just now, I didn't want to make tea, saying that I was in a hurry, which was the original words, and his face was colder than snow.

Zhao Hanbing's secretary said: Oh, that's it, then I'll go and inform Minister Zhao immediately.

Zhao Hanbing's secretary put down the phone, trotted all the way to the venue, ran to the rostrum, and quietly conveyed the content of the call in Minister Zhao's ear. Minister Zhao also realized the seriousness of the problem, but still said to the secretary: when can we learn to be calm? But he still stopped his speech and said: This is the end of today's meeting, and the meeting is adjourned.

Zhao Hanbing got into a red flag car and rushed to the office building of the National Security Leading Group, went directly to Tang Weidong's office, and said to Tang Weidong's back standing at the window: What instructions does the chief have, I haven't been home for a week, do you want anyone to live? They are all people who have been born and died together, and although they are already high-ranking people, they still have a special feeling of life and death with each other.

Tang Weidong turned around and said: You haven't been home for a week? I haven't been home in a month.

Zhao Hanbing said: I heard that you will soon be the big chief, and I will have to line up when I see you in the future.

Tang Weidong said: Is it interesting to say this? Is the old minister in good health?

Zhao Hanbing said: The old man is in good health, and he is very much talking about you. Look at it, the way you speak is like a big chief.

Tang Weidong said tiredly: You tease me, one day it will be your turn, this is our life, until the day when we can't move, it's not like the old man, going to the mailroom to distribute newspapers.

Zhao Hanbing said to Tang Weidong: Say, what are your instructions? It's certainly not going to be a good thing.

Tang Weidong said: It is indeed not a good thing. We got an information that our scientists may be sentenced to life in prison in the United States, and you say that we can't even protect our own scientists, so what is the value of our department? The people above were angry and said, "Even the scientists of your own country can't protect them, so what are you talking about national security?" "I'm speechless.

Zhao Hanbing said: Can't we just do what the White House wants?

Tang Weidong said: He also said that there is ironclad evidence to prove that Mr. Yang Zigeng was a spy who carried out espionage activities in the United States, and there is such a ridiculous thing in the world.

Zhao Hanbing said: Americans love to engage in this set of tricks and ghosts, and they have never stopped our plans for this and that plan, aren't we just busy with those plans for us?

Tang Weidong said: Since the loss of contact with the West, we have been very passive, the backup system has not been found, people are crazy, what do you think of the new backup system?

Zhao Hanbing said: It can't be done in the short term. According to my old man, the establishment of the backup system began at the time of national crisis, and after a long period of construction, it is objectively impossible to build a new backup system in a short period of time.

Tang Weidong said: The impossible is also possible, if the backup system really can't be found, is it allowed to do whatever the White House wants? This is the core of the problem. All of the White House's strategy revolves around this core. During this time, Tang Weidong's cigarettes reached the point where he could not leave his fingers, and Tang Weidong continued: Is there any new progress in the investigation of the desire to look to the west?

Zhao Hanbing said: There is a point, but I can't judge whether it is a new development.

Tang Weidong took a deep puff of his cigarette and said: Tell me about it.

Zhao Hanbing said: According to the investigation, there is a problem with the history of Wangxi, his father was a large landowner in Shanxi, Jinxi, and had been a commissioner of the Kuomintang, but Wangxi had never stated this history to the organization, and there was also the fact that Wangxi had worked as a military attache in the Middle East, and during his time as a military attaché, he had a close relationship with an American woman.

Tang Weidong said: Is there anything else?

Zhao Hanbing said: No.

Tang Weidong said: Does Bai Qiulu know about these situations?

Zhao Hanbing said: I shouldn't know.

Tang Weidong said: If being the son of a big landlord is a historical problem, then don't you and I have such a historical problem?

Zhao Hanbing said: The problem is that he seems to have deliberately concealed this history. And according to the latest investigation, the American woman who had an intimate relationship with him is now working for the CIA in the United States.

Tang Weidong said: This is a bit interesting.

Zhao Hanbing said: I also think it's a little interesting. But I can't figure it out, is all his loyalty just a show? If that's the case, then he's really an actor par excellence.

Tang Weidong said: A person dies again and again for the country, is there such a performance? Besides, the result of every performance may be death, and if it is really a performance, then such a performance is too earth-shattering, how is it possible? And we are the participants and witnesses of his performance, if it is really a performance, his acting skills are rare in the world.

Zhao Hanbing said: I think the same as you, but will he just take advantage of our trust?

Tang Weidong shook his head and said: It doesn't make sense, according to the information we have got, he has not appeared in the United States so far, which means that the defection is not established, so we can't characterize it, we can only say that we have lost contact. O cold ice, to be honest, do you believe that Hope West will be the apostate?

Zhao Hanbing said: To be honest, I don't believe it, and I don't want to believe it. But our work does not allow us to think and judge problems with personal feelings.

Tang Weidong said: This is a good thing, we can't think and judge problems with personal feelings, but I often think and judge problems with personal feelings, because a person's character determines what kind of person a person is, this is common sense. If personal character and style of conduct are completely different things, then the person must be a person with a split personality.

Zhao Hanbing said: You're right, but what about people like us who aren't split personalities?

Tang Weidong said: So you still want to believe that Wangxi is the one who betrayed the organization?

Zhao Hanbing said: It can be understood in this way, we care about the result, not the process, and the reality is that we can't find him.

Tang Weidong said: I have a feeling that someone has set up a bureau for us, and the person who set up the bureau is leading us to follow his thoughts and ideas. If there is such a person, what does he want to do? What did he want? This man has been telling us to follow his train of thought, and if so, then there must be a huge conspiracy behind it. Therefore, next, we must pay close attention to the implementation of two things, one is that we must find the coveted Wangxi and his daughter coveted Qiusha, live, where are the people? Dead, the body is there. Second, we must do everything possible to rescue the scientist Mr. Yang Zigeng to return to China, and the principle is still to meet people in life, and to be buried in our own country when we die. During the period when the system is down and the backup system is not turned on, all extraordinary measures can be taken for the sake of our national security.

Zhao Hanbing said: Can I understand it at all costs?

Tang Weidong said: It can be understood in this way that there is nothing that cannot be sacrificed in front of the country, including you and me.

Zhao Hanbing said: Okay, I'll execute it. So, do we need to stop our internal investigations?

Tang Weidong said: What do you say? We are now in trouble with the purity of the organization. You are no longer the head of an action group, nor is you just the head of the Central Investigation Department, don't always stare at your "one acre and three points of land", when will you have a sense of the overall situation? When will we be able to think from the perspective of the state?

Zhao Hanbing said: This is the difference between us, I only have to be the minister, but you are the person in charge of the minister.

Tang Weidong said: The internal investigation must not only not be stopped, but must also be strictly investigated. Let's not just keep our eyes on the lookout, I always feel that we are facing a terrible conspiracy, or that there is an undercurrent surging, not a problem of one or two people, and I hope my guess is wrong, but I have a premonition that something will happen.

Zhao Hanbing said: What else will happen? Can't you say something nice? A lot of things just come when I think about it.

Tang Weidong said: If you think about it, he lost contact with the West, and then his daughter Qiu Qiusha lost contact, and then many comrades died, and then Mr. Yang Zigeng was forcibly arrested by the United States for lecturing in the United States, and then the American Chinese scientist Deng Anping was arrested and Mr. Yang Zigeng was merged, and then we were targeted as soon as we arrived in the United States, and this series of events is not separated, which shows that there is a force manipulating these events, and we cannot just put out the fire, but to break the situation and tear apart this conspiracy.

Zhao Hanbing said: I agree with your analysis, you are the one who plots the overall situation, I still sort out the clues you have and implement them one by one. I forgot to tell you one thing, our minority language experts who were transferred to Beijing from various provinces proved that Huang Weiguo's inference was correct. In the past few days, I have been chanting two lines of poetry, "In the city above the clouds, meet the most beautiful Yiche woman in the world." ”

Tang Weidong said: Let's go, go see the "madman"