The cruelty of war is far from understandable by the flowers in a greenhouse.

After the beginning of spring, the second prince and the third prince were feudal and vassalized, and Liu Xian took his next few sons to North America, and at the same time, he went to North America with four sons over the age of twelve and Nikolai. Tesla. The reason why it is still called Nikolai. Tesla, because there are also multiple radio stations on board. In the days to come, this thing will really be put into practice.

Liu Xian was accompanied by 100,000 Praetorian Guards. This Chinese army, which is best equipped and the most elite in personnel selection, will also be put into the war in North America.

According to information from Germany, Britain and France had shipped many nomads to the United States. Chances are, the Praetorian Guard will fight these little nomads.

During the two years of war, the Western world produced anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, as well as cannons and rockets specially designed to deal with armored forces. Now tanks will be used by Westerners in warfare twenty years ahead of schedule. If by the end of this year, the war in North America is not over, China will really fall into the quagmire.

This would take too much of China's national power, and O'Barro has used this time to actively close the distance between China's weapons and equipment, which in turn will reduce China's deterrence. The more time passes, the more unfavorable it becomes for China.

The most terrible thing is that the war in North America has shifted the center of gravity of the Chinese government, so that it cannot properly digest the South China Seas, Central Asia, and Europe, which will tear down China's retreat as a whole. Just like Germany in World War II, it conquered most of Europe, but failed to digest the nutrients of these territories, but was dragged down by these places. Valuable forces had to be dispersed.

Liu Xian is now afraid of Europeans, especially Britain and France. On the one hand, it is supporting the Americans in North America and holding back China's energy. The other side returned to Nanyang and instigated the local natives to rebel against Chinese rule.

Liu Xian must completely end the war in North America within this year -- either completely destroy the United States, or fight the United States and have to sue for peace in order to prolong its respite.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of State Security sent a secret telegram." The fleet stopped in Hawaii on the way, and Liu Xian received a secret recital from the Ministry of State Security. Liu Xian's eyes blinked, and he wondered if he was dazzled. "Did you mistranslate it?"

"It's been confirmed."

"Hehe......" Liu Xian laughed angrily. There were traitors in the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance, and the two Japanese who disguised themselves as Chinese people took the lead, and there were two people who worked together. It's a pure Chinese who can't be purified anymore. One is from Hong Kong, the other is from Nanyang. "Pigs and dogs are not as good."

"Three dog thieves with a thousand cuts."

"Call back to Beijing quickly and ask the Ministry of State Security to start immediately." However, due to the financial constraints and the trend of military spending and budgets, I am afraid that it will not be possible to hide the people behind them.

The former can only be regarded as a general secret, but the latter is truly and absolutely confidential. Anyone who gets the budget and expenditure form and looks at China's recent actions and troop strength can deduce what major moves and plans China and the military will have this year.

Liu Xian simply wanted to skin them!

Ministry of State Security, Beijing.

Vice Minister Yuan Shikai and Director Lu Jianzhang of the Fifth National Security Division gave orders, and one elite cadre after another quickly set off from all over the capital. Pounce on your target as fast as you can.

"Let's go. Lao Lu. Let's take a look at that stupid, idiot from the National Treasury Division. Yuan Shikai really looked down on this traitor. It's completely headless. Don't look at what kind of China is now? It's not a weak front clearing. If you hook up with a foreigner, you may stop you.

Compared with foreigners, China is the real big tree now. Shade and shade for people to enjoy the coolness. Unexpectedly, he only turned his hand twice and fell into the set of foreign fine works. I can see that I am stupid.

Zhou Chengying, deputy director of the Archives Management Division of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance, walked into the director's office with a nervous mood, and saw several people sitting in the room, except for the director and his immediate boss Wang Cheng. There are two others I don't know, and one of them is an older one who looks familiar. I just can't remember who it is.

"Zhou Chengying, do you know these two adults?" The wooden-faced director pointed to the two strangers and said to Deputy Director Zhou. Director of the National Security Service. can be equated with a department level like him, and they are all official titles of the chief and deputy four grades. For Zhou Chengying, an official from the sixth grade, of course he is an adult.

"Back to the director's words, I don't know the lowly position." Zhou Chengying spoke, very calm on the surface, but in his heart he seemed to be squeezed tightly. He has done bad things, and what he is afraid of is that the ghost knocks on the door. Strangers, or adults, are scary.

The director had a cold face, and his color looked seriously dissatisfied with Zhou Chengying, "Zhou Chengying, you have a big face." Let me introduce you, this is Lord Yuan, the vice minister of the Ministry of State Security, I think you have heard of it. That one is Lord Lu from the Fifth Division, and his department is in charge of domestic counter-espionage. "Deputy Minister, it's not the same as the left and right waiters, and the rank is one level worse than the main Shangshu. The heads of some important sub-departments will be added to the post of deputy minister when their qualifications and merits are obtained. This is the same as comparing the deputy of the Celestial Empire with a leader. And the left and right squires are the usual deputy positions, or executive deputy positions.

Ministry of State Security, counter-espionage? It was like a thunderbolt exploding above Zhou Chengying's head, and his face turned white.

"Scared?" Yuan Shikai put down the teacup in his hand and sneered on his face, "Since you dare to do it, you must dare to do it." Director Cheng, you can get busy. Just leave Deputy Director Zhou to chat with us. ”

"Shameless thing! The face of the Ministry of Finance has been lost to you! Cheng Yuanyu stood up, his eyes erupted angrily, "Tell me honestly, otherwise, you know the consequences." "After the founding of the new Qin Dynasty, the conviction for treason was nine deaths. Cheng Yuanyu didn't think that Zhou Chengying still had a chance to live, this guy almost held the secrets of the entire Ministry of Finance. He's personally dead! But his family will be punished like this, and there are many kinds.

There was an espionage case in the department, which annoyed Director Cheng. Because, Director Cheng is absolutely patriotic, and what he hates most in his life is the scum who forgets his ancestors, and he thinks about his own future, and he hates Zhou Chengying in his heart.

The people in the Ministry of State Security are not good people, but the facts of the past few years have proved that this intelligence agency, which has been heard of by officialdom, is similar to Zhu Ming's Jinyiwei and Dongchang's power departments, but it rarely has unjust cases. Since he is eyeing Zhou Chengying, he must have a problem! And with Zhou Chengying's position and level, as soon as this guy commits a crime, he will definitely lose his head.

In the twenty years after the establishment of the dynasty, strictly speaking, it could not be regarded as a peaceful and prosperous era. This kind of unrest is not in the people, but in the officialdom. The main thing is the constant purge of officials, all kinds of new things, from the courts to the establishment of deputy offices, from the strict power of the Supervisory Yuan, to the parliament, the Congress, and then corruption. Even at the top level, there are some people who have lost their positions and dismissed them because of corruption, let alone the middle and grassroots levels. A large number of officials were removed from the black veil, and fortunately there were many officials in the new dynasty. Many of these people have lost their heads, and many more have been assigned to the frontier with their entire families.

But corruption is not at all comparable to treason. The latter was extremely hated by the emperor, but there was no room for maneuver when it came to betraying the country, and even if he was not sentenced to death, he could probably only spend his life in prison. The Criminal Code imposes extremely severe sentences for treason, and very few can save lives.

"Say, you know what I'm going to ask you." Yuan Shikai said softly.

"Humble, humble, don't understand......" Zhou Chengying desperately calmed down his panicked mood. But his heart was still beating wildly, as if it was about to burst out of his cavity.

"Give him the picture. Look at the end of toasting without eating and drinking. ”

Behind Lu Jianzhang, a person took out a few photos from his leather bag and threw them on the table.

Zhou Chengying didn't want to see it, but he had to go up. He leaned over to take a look, and couldn't help but sigh. The photograph is the scene of a man being tortured, and that person has been beaten beyond recognition. The face was swollen and completely unrecognizable, and there were blood-colored scars all over the body, and some of the wounds were clearly recorded by the photos. All ten of his fingers were inserted into the bamboo sticks, and just by looking at it like this, Zhou Chengying's legs trembled and his feet softened. In the other photos, two hands are fixed to the table with steel rings, and half of the fingers have been smashed. Bai Sensen's shattered stubble, mixed with the blurred flesh and blood, is clearly visible.

"This person should be known to Deputy Director Zhou, right?" Lu Jianzhang took a photo from the entourage behind him and handed it over.

"Huh?!" Zhou Chengying exclaimed, the photo was his close friend Teng Gang. It's that after coming into contact with this person, I slowly sank into the quagmire and couldn't break free anymore.

"Didn't he go to Nanyang to talk about business?" Zhou Chengying was stunned.

"He's going back to his hometown of Japan soon." Lu Jianzhang said in a flat tone, "He has been staying in the Chengnan Hotel for the past seven or eight days, I'm afraid you don't know, right?" Also, you definitely don't know what his real name is, you just know that Teng Gang likes Japanese culture more. Teng Gangjian was still very hard, and he didn't speak until he smashed his fifth finger.

Zhou Chengying's psychological defense line completely collapsed. The man fell to his knees with a thud. "My lords spare my life, and the two adults spare my life."

Yuan Shikai looked down on Zhou Chengying in front of him even more. "Idiot. How dare you want to spare your life at this time? What a shell of pig brains. ”

"Zhou Chengying, this official can tell you that you are dead. But you can choose how you die, and your family can be saved. If you're satisfied. ”

Lu Jianzhang spoke slowly, "Say, what did you take outside?" Speak slowly, say it all, think carefully, but don't forget. "If it weren't for the people who were squatting in the telegraph office from the telegram sent by Nakata Mingde, who was alias Tian Zhong, they felt that something was wrong, and if they wanted to dig out Zhou Chengying, a big rat, they might have to postpone it for a few days.

The weather in Beijing has warmed up, but Zhou Chengying's whole person is like falling into an ice cave, and he is covered in biting cold. "I said, I said. The little ones all say. I just ask the adults to let go of the small family. ”

The law of the new Qin has abolished lianzai and lianjiao, but treason is the only exception. (To be continued......)