Chapter 292: The Intelligence Bureau's Idle Talk
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"And such a thing?" Ren Xuefeng raised his head from the pile of documents, "There is still such an operation?" ”
"What's wrong? Heads! The naturalized migrant worker next to him hurriedly stood up and asked, Ren Xuefeng shook his head, "It's okay, you're busy." The worker hurriedly sat down and continued to sort the documents. Ren Xuefeng handed the information in hand to another veteran sitting next to him, "Look, this thing is very interesting." ”
The work in the Army Intelligence Bureau is like working in a waste paper recycling plant, which sits in the pile of old paper and sorts the paper, but the only difference is that the recycling plant throws the sorted paper directly into the pulp pool, while the Army Intelligence Bureau hands over the paper to the "leaders" and "chiefs" for review.
After the end of the department, the most enemy after the war
There are now six or seven veterans in the Army Intelligence Bureau, but the person in charge is still Ren Xuefeng. Since Liu Xu died unexpectedly in the battle of "liberating Zhancheng Port", the stall of the Army Intelligence Bureau was taken over by Ren Xuefeng, and his favorite general Zhou Rui has become a leader among field agents, and now he also takes the auxiliary agent Li Ming to serve as a "transport captain" in the distant Annan Southern Army, and ordered a lot of "in-demand military supplies" from Dongfang Port for the Southern Army to use, in exchange for a large amount of gold and silver looted by the Southern Army in the battle. In a week alone, the Senate Department of Commerce earned at least six thousand taels of silver and one thousand two hundred taels of gold. These incomes made Gu Qingqian, who was originally cold in front of Ren Xuefeng, full of spring every time she saw him recently, and kept asking if she needed more supplies.
In fact, the Senate attaches more importance to another kind of interest that is not actually reflected in the actual than the benefits they create, and that is all kinds of information. Although Zhou Rui and his team did a prosperous business along the way, they did not forget their mission, spying on intelligence along the way, reporting this information to the intelligence station in Wenshan Port in real time, and then reporting it to the Army Intelligence Bureau in Dongfang Port through radio. With the continuous reporting of field agents during this period, the Army Intelligence Bureau has a sufficient understanding of the actual number, equipment, and sustainable combat time of the Southern Army, and can also estimate the existing war mobilization capability of South Annan and the organizational ability of the Annam Imperial Court based on this information.
However, the main purpose of the Army Intelligence Bureau is not to the south of Annan, but to the Wu Dynasty in the north. Because the last time the northbound detachment went to Beijing, it was repeatedly besieged by various forces along the way, and in the end, it was even attacked by a group of eunuchs who were quite combat-effective, and even if there was no airship falling from the sky during the retreat, it might even be completely lost and fell into the hands of the enemy. Based on the above situation, it can be deduced that there should be a force in the court of the Wu Dynasty that has enough knowledge of the Senate and is hostile to the Senate, and this force has considerable power to call on the intelligence agency of Dongchang to intercept and assassinate the northbound detachment, then they are either Wei Zhongxian's power or the Emperor of the Apocalypse himself. The only thing that can be excluded is the civil official group, because from Beihai to Mingzhou, along the way, anyone who heard about the people of Dongfang Port, the attitude of the civilian official group towards the northbound detachment was quite polite, although it was said that this was related to the northbound detachment throwing money all the way, but after all, a good relationship was established, and there were not only local officials along the way to meet and escort them, but also documents written by Liu Chuanzhi himself to prove their identity. Of course, these are not all evidence that the civilian clique and the Senate will not fight evil, but because the people who are now attacking the northbound detachment are all eunuchs, so the anti-Senate forces must be the enemies of the eunuch family, and the civil management system will not surrender its identity and collude with these "eunuchs" for the sake of "innocence" in reputation, even Cen Min, who was born in "black work", is not willing to be Wei Zhongxian's godson, so he was relegated to Annan in this poor countryside to be a thousand households, and the civil officials will not do this.
Due to the fact that there was a prisoner Fanzi riot on the last day of the withdrawal of the northbound detachment, which led to many casualties among the militia and special reconnaissance members, and what was even more troublesome was that the originally captured prisoners could not be brought back, so the forces behind this attack could only be analyzed from the confessions of the preliminary interrogation, which caused six or seven conclusions in the intelligence summary, so that the Army Intelligence Bureau had to guess the forces behind this sneak attack and the northbound detachment along the way. Of course, Ren Xuefeng would not be satisfied with such a conclusion, and after discussing it many times, he finally decided to send field agents to the north, as close to the direction of Jingshi as possible, hoping to get more information.
The only consequence of casting a wide net is the influx of intelligence and the sending of duplicate information, most of these field personnel lurk in the homes of local officials as domestic servants, and the source of intelligence is the content that is passed on by the officials when they chat on weekdays, and most of these contents are nonsense during chatting, not only mixed with a lot of false information for boasting, but also their blind analysis of current affairs, so the intelligence sent to the Army Intelligence Bureau has to be constantly screened and screened. After the analysis of the veteran analysts, it can be submitted to Ren Xuefeng and the veterans of the intelligence analysis department for final intelligence analysis and summary.
However, today Ren Xuefeng saw an interesting content from the intelligence - the official army fought with the rebel army in Taiping, Shanxi, and won a great victory, defeating the combined attack of tens of thousands of rebel troops with only 100 casualties, and also beheaded more than 2,000 people and captured countless prisoners. This information is copied from the newspaper at first glance, which is mixed with all kinds of rhetoric and rhetoric, and there are also many unrealistic war reports, if you look closely, the number of rebel troops who fought with the official army will not exceed 3,000 people, these officers and soldiers are the same exaggerated results, you must know that they often exaggerate the results of the battle ten times to report, if they can make the emperor happy, then there will be rewards or something.
But he saw a lot of different things in this information, such as the firecracker that often appeared between the lines. Although Ren Xuefeng knew that the proportion of musketeers in the army of the Wu Dynasty was relatively high, it was only a comparison, and it generally did not exceed three tenths, but based on the battle situation mentioned in the battle report, it was clear that all the results were caused by the musketeers. Based on the ratio of weapons to the existing Wu Dynasty army, it is clear that this must not have been an ordinary Wu Dynasty army, on the contrary, it is very similar to the independent forces that have always been poorly equipped, and they have gone to Shanxi to fight the chaotic army according to the emperor's call. According to the specific situation in the article, this strange armed army not only caused thousands of casualties among the chaotic army, but also occupied Taiping Town and gained control of Taiping Town.
"It seems that this force is acting a little like us, but they must be in an ammunition crisis." An elder next to him said, Ren Xuefeng nodded, "I think so too, this unit may use Senate rifles, but such a large number of troops should be equipped with a large number of rifles, who on the mainland will have such a large number of Senate rifles?" ”
Sun Qiudi's situation is a matter of hatred
"Who else? Of course, it's Zheng Zhilong. Someone suddenly began to speak, and several of their elders were sitting at the desk in the innermost circle, and the area next to them was surrounded by the desks of the naturalized people's classifiers, in order to allow them to meet a person who felt that they could exchange information with each other, and at the same time, they could inadvertently tell the naturalized staff next to them the analysis ideas of these information, so that they could learn the way of thinking of the elders subtly, and sure enough, the movements of a few staff members began to slow down. I listened to the conversation between the patriarchs with my ears sideways.
"Zheng Zhilong was a pirate in his early years, and he was once the boss of Eighteen Zhi, and he was invincible in the southern Fujian Ocean, so that the Wu Dynasty had no way to surrender him, so he had to recruit peace." "That's right, but although Zheng Zhilong has reined in after recruiting An, he is still the old pirate in his bones!" "It's an old pirate, and people are not necessarily younger than you!" Someone said with a smile on the side, and the person who was said gave him a blank look and continued, "Although Zheng Zhilong said that he had been recruited, he was still a pirate's policy and style, according to the situation reflected by those maritime merchants outside, Zheng Zhilong was selling his Zheng family's order flag, three thousand to five thousand taels, if there was no his order flag on the Fujian-Guangdong Ocean, he might be attacked by the Zheng family's fleet." ”
"That's not a good thing for us!" "Of course it's not a good thing, we are an industrial country, what we need is to import a lot of raw materials and sell industrial products, if someone gets stuck in the logistics path, it will seriously affect our production capacity." "Then you mean that we are going to prepare for war with Zheng Zhilong?"
There was a sudden silence in the office, and after a while, Ren Xuefeng spoke, "It's too early to start a war, we haven't even been able to grasp the sea supremacy near Dongfang Port at this stage, so we have begun to talk to Zheng Zhilong to seize the sea supremacy?" It's too early. What's more, he Zheng Zhilong plays like this, and we are definitely not the only ones who are unhappy with him, in fact, the most annoying person should be Medno. ”
After the distant reluctance to learn to pick up the strange sail knot
"Also, the Maidno people do business across the ocean, and what they love the most must be the right to free trade, and forces like Zheng Zhilong who collect protection money are what they hate the most, why don't the Maidno people plan to clean up the Zheng family?"
"I haven't heard of it yet, because we don't have many spies in the Maidno fleet, and according to the confessions of the previous prisoners, the Zheng family is also a thorn in their side, and the Maidno people even have a war plan against the Zheng family, but they haven't put it into practice." As soon as Ren Xuefeng finished speaking, someone asked curiously, "Why don't you put it into practice?" ”
Ren Xuefeng nodded and said, "It's very simple, because Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the imperial court, and there is a huge Wu Dynasty behind him as a protective umbrella, even if the civil official system of the Wu Dynasty does not accept Zheng Zhilong as a member of the Wu Dynasty officials, but he is still an official of the Wu Dynasty." The people of Maidno know very little about this situation, thinking that as long as he is an official of the Wu Dynasty, then the Wu Dynasty will support him, and once he starts a war against the Zheng family, it is equivalent to a war against the Wu Dynasty. ”
"It's not a big deal to start a war, the people of Maidno didn't want to start a war against us, and I didn't see how many concerns they had!" Someone next to him scoffed.
"This is different," Ren Xuefeng shook his head, "The Wu Dynasty is a big country with a history of hundreds of years of nationhood, and it is also the leader of the Eastern World, not to mention that under the Confucian cultural thought, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, the tens of millions of ordinary people in the Great Wu Dynasty are not joking, people are different from us, as long as they can have a little muscle and can work hard, they can be counted as labor force and combat effectiveness, and the army can be doubled with a little mobilization." Although the Medeno people have advanced firearms, of course, they are not comparable to ours, but they have an absolute disadvantage in numbers, you don't see that they dare to invade South Annan and fight with North Annan now, but if it is really the same as North Annan's weapons and training, they dare not really fight, they are just bullying the natives, and they dare not fight with their lives. What's more, Zheng Zhilong is the title of guerrilla general, and he can't win at sea, so it's a big deal to drive the boat into the river, and if he can't go ashore, the ship of the Maidno people will not be loaded with wheels and go ashore to fight, right? On the shore, it is the dominant battlefield of the Zheng family, and the people of Maidno will definitely be deflated. ”
"Also, I fought with our fleet with so much effort, and now Baba's came to sue for peace, and even the princess was sent over, I heard that he is now in love with Xiao Jing, probably planning to make peace, right?" Someone said sourly, and someone on the side answered, "It shouldn't be so close, but that princess is really beautiful, and it's a pity that she was arched by Xiao Jing's guy!" ”
"I don't know if the king of Medeno has any other daughters, send a few more to make peace, we can even sell them the technology!" The person who spoke caused a burst of laughter, but was immediately interrupted by Ren Xuefeng, "Don't talk nonsense, our technology is technology, how can we sell it?" Don't you see that now we are the ones who contribute the technology and the personnel and money to set up joint ventures with the locals? And the technology is still in our own hands, and we don't allow others to get their hands on it. ”
"Of course I know, I'm just talking about playing, really selling the technology, and teaching the apprentice to starve the master to death." "It's just that technology must not be sold." "No wonder it's a hero who is sad to pass the beauty pass! You guy, if you come to a princess, you will sell the technology, and if you come to a queen, you will not have to sell the Senate? ”
"Phew! Pull it down! The queen is an old lady, whoever wants to take it! Also sell the Senate, you dream! The man who spoke waved his hand again and again, and after a short while, asked weakly, "That's off topic again, right?" What is the situation on the battlefield in Shanxi now, it's not a matter for us to sit here and guess now, why don't you take a look? ”
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