It felt as if a century had passed before Wang Ju slowly came to his senses. Opening his hazy eyes, it took a while for him to gradually adjust to the light of his environment, and when he looked around, he found himself in a closed room. Except for the closed door, only a small one-foot-square window with an iron barrage on the upper part of the right wall, through which a ray of sunlight shone in to allow him to see the inside of the room. He was sitting on a chair made of iron, his hands held to the armrests by belts, and his feet were treated equally, and the belts were fastened to the legs of the chair. In front of him lay a table with a strange thing on it, like an iron pedestal, and an iron bowl on a slender branch like a bamboo knot, and in the iron bowl was a glass ball like a pear. Looking around, the walls on both sides are covered with whips, iron shackles, ropes, wooden flails and other torture instruments, indicating that this is not a good place.

What is this place? Wang Ju's brain was completely awake, and what happened at the inn last night was slowly recalled. Visiting the old camp of the Chinese army of the Guangfu Army, he got drunk and slept after returning, was broken in, subdued, and hooded, and then lost consciousness, and he recalled everything one by one. Could it be that he was caught by the Liberation Army? Has the identity of your own spy been discovered? Panic, nervousness, worry, fear, anxiety, all kinds of emotions came to his heart together, he wanted to shout, but he didn't know what to shout. He wanted someone to come and tell him what had happened; He was afraid that someone would come, and he would break his luck and tell him the most terrible and unwanted result of all—that his identity as a spy had been discovered.

While Wang Ju was anxious, Lu Renjia and Yun Suixin were observing his behavior through the monitor. Seeing the protagonist in the monitor twisting his body back and forth, Lu Renjia said: "Judging by his performance, he shouldn't be a professional spy, why did the British send a rookie to his death?" ”

"Don't talk about him, all spies in this era can only be regarded as rookies." Yun said contemptuously. "Spies in this era are still in a 'primitive society' in terms of theory, technology and equipment, and information science in the modern sense is a new discipline gradually formed after the Second World War, and it is still being developed and perfected until the 21st century. This rookie spy doesn't know how to hide his identity, doesn't know how to collect intelligence, and doesn't know how to arrange the way back, so he will be discovered in one day, and we will send him a sobering soup. ”

"Why isn't it a 'water meter'?" Lu Renjia's bad taste began to kick in.

"It will be at least two years before tap water is widely used in our control areas, so it will take two years to 'check the water meter'!" Yun Suixin can say this, which means that he has actually considered this problem.

"Although I am the head of the intelligence department, I can only be regarded as a layman in the espionage industry, and the work of counter-espionage in the future will depend on the vigorous assistance of your police department!" Lu Renjia, the director of the intelligence department, was relatively idle during this period, and he did not have a few soldiers under his command, and he had no channels to collect intelligence from all sides, nor did he have any experience in counter-espionage work, so he could only conduct intelligence analysis based on the historical data collected by Chen Jianhua's experts, which was a bit of a closed-door operation. Now that I finally have a challenging job, I can't help but get ready to do a big job. "You'll be in charge of interrogation later, and I'll learn more from the side!"

"Okay. Speaking of which, when the People's Republic of China was first founded, it was the work of the police to arrest spies, and I don't know how many spies were planted in the hands of the police and the people. Yun Suixin didn't say polite words, "Look at the inside is almost the same, get ready, let's go in and start working." ”

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When people are helpless, they instinctively pray to the gods, and the comprador is praying to all the gods he knows. "The Jade Emperor, the Buddha, Christ Jesus, and Allah, Lord, sincerely ask for your blessings, and if the good faith is saved today, the golden pig will be returned to God as a reward for God's grace!" He prayed in a voice that only he could hear, and the people watching outside could only see his lips moving, and they didn't know what he was chanting.

Perhaps his prayer touched a certain deity, and the door that had been closed opened and two officers of the Liberation Army entered. One of them, Wang Ju, knew that he was the cloud catcher who had met twice. The two of them sat down behind the table across from him, and the cloud catcher pressed the mechanism on the strange thing on the table, and the pear-shaped glass ball glowed yellow, and then became brighter and brighter. Yun twisted the lampshade casually, and the light of the incandescent lamp shone directly on Wang Ju's face, who subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to block his face, but unfortunately his tied hands made him unable to complete this action.

"Mr. Wang, do you know what this place is?" Lu Renjia asked with a smile, today he is in charge of singing white faces.

Wang Ju hurriedly lowered his head and said nothing. Although he has little experience in dealing with interrogations, he also knows the truth of saying too much and making mistakes, so he uses silence as a weapon, hoping to get away with it.

"Do you think you can get away with it without talking?" Yun Suixin, who was in charge of singing the red face, slapped the folder in his hand on the table, and shouted out his intentions, adding a threat. "We've got a way to get you to talk!"

Seeing that Wang Ju's body was obviously starting to tremble, Lu Renjia asked, "Let's talk about it!" What did the British send you for? ”

"I don't know any Englishmen, I'm just a grocery seller." Wang Ju saw that the silent tactics were useless, and he was afraid that his flesh and skin would suffer, so he had to argue.

Yun snorted casually, obviously expressing disdain, but Lu Renjia still said with a smile: "Mr. Wang, it's useless not to admit it. Our Liberation Army is not the government of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and we will not arrest people indiscriminately without evidence. Now that you're here, we know for sure. We will never wrong a good person, and of course, we will never let a bad person go. ”

"I don't understand what you're talking about." Wang Ju saw that it was useless to pretend to be innocent, so he began to pretend to be stupid.

Yun Suixin sneered twice, "I don't know why the British sent you as an idiot?" There are flaws all over your body, so you almost tell us that you were sent by the British. Seeing the look of disbelief on Wang Ju's face, he continued: "I'll say a few things casually, lest you be unconvinced." First, you say that you are a street vendor, do you think you are like an image? The peddler walks around every day, and his skin must be dark and rough, while your skin is white and fine, and you are obviously a pampered person. It's almost the same to say that you are a rich man, but you don't look like a peddler anyway. ”

A trace of panic flashed in Wang Ju's eyes, and he was immediately caught by Yun Suixin, so he took advantage of the victory to pursue. "Second, while at the inn, I noticed a small callus on the inside of the first section of the middle finger of your right hand, which I confirmed when I shook hands with you. Can you tell me where this callus came from? Without waiting for Wang Ju to answer, he asked himself and replied: "It was sharpened by using a Western ink pen for a long time." I also had a piece on my middle finger when I was a kid, so you can't fool me. Do you want me to make a third point? ”

"Is it because I shook hands with you?" Wang Ju was not a staunch revolutionary, he did not have the consciousness of preferring to die unyieldingly, and asking this sentence was tantamount to admitting that he was sent by the British.

"It's not. It's the dishes you call for dinner. The average small trader doesn't have the same level of food as you, and even if you sell all the goods you brought, the money you earn is not enough for your money. I doubted your identity when I met you for the first time at the inn, and shaking hands with you was just a temptation, but I didn't expect you to be so vigilant, and I didn't admit to myself. ”

Looking at Yun Suixin, who was showing his superiority in IQ, Wang Ju's heart was full of bitterness, thinking that he was cautious enough, but he didn't expect that it was still full of flaws, and he was discovered when he arrived at the place, and he was really wronged. "First of all, I'm not a spy. I am a business comprador of Jardine Matheson, and I am here just to do a business survey. "When Wang Ju was chatting with the British, he heard what happened to Western spies after they were arrested, and he was reluctant to bear the charge.

"We know you're not a professional spy, but we don't think you're here to do business investigations. Do business surveys require surveys of our barracks and warships? "Yun Suixin saw through the Wang comprador's intention to avoid the important and trivial, and directly exposed it." It seems that the saying 'no business, no adultery, no business' is reasonable, and if you don't use violent means, you won't be honest. The latter sentence was said to Lu Renjia. His eyes were on the walls covered with "femdom kits", all of which had been found in an adult goods store.

"Mr. Wang, I believe that you are really a comprador, and I also believe that you have no formal training as a spy, let alone anti-torture training. Look at your delicate and expensive body, and trust me, the toys here will leave you with a deep impression. You are also a person who has read books, and you should understand the truth that 'those who know practice are handsome'. Isn't it too cost-effective to work for the British to bear the infamy of a traitor and not get any benefits? You only have to confess the task given to you by the British, and we will not embarrass you; If you give us some information about the British, we will not only punish you for your crimes, but also praise you. Lu Renjia saw through the essence of Wang Ju's lack of integrity, and put forward conditions straight to the point, believing that this "weak bourgeoisie" understood what the right choice was.

Sure enough, Wang Ju only hesitated for a while, and then explained everything he knew. Not only did he not hide his identity, the tasks assigned by the British commander, the route he took to enter Xin'an, and the content he was going to write into the report, but he also took the initiative to explain the situation of the commander's adjutant Davis going to Guangzhou to report the news. Lu Renjia is a temporary guest clerk, responsible for recording the situation explained by Wang Comprador . Yun Suixin also untied his limbs in the middle of the Wang comprador explanation and gave him a glass of water.

After Wang Ju emptied the contents of his stomach like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, Lu Renjia put the finished record in front of him. "Mr. Wang, look at this record, if there is no problem, sign it below!" As soon as Wang Comprador knew that this name was signed, his handle was handed over to the Liberation Army. But now that he has fully explained, he can only honestly sign his name. Lu Renjia's modern fountain pen aroused his curiosity, you must know that fountain pens are still rare in this era, and the way of absorbing ink is still piston-type, and even like wallets and pocket watches, they are the target of thieves. Lu Renjia saw that he couldn't put down the fountain pen, so he gave it to him very generously, anyway, there were many such things in the original time and space.

After the Wang comprador finished explaining, Yun casually asked people to take him down to rest. After more than ten hours of tossing, the former was already tired and hungry, so he urgently needed food and sleep.

The results of the two-hour struggle of Yunlu and Lu - the transcript was also submitted to the management committee, and the handling of Wang Ju needs to be discussed and decided by everyone. The situation on Hong Kong Island, according to historical information and the confession of the British prisoners, corresponds to the situation explained by Wang Ju, and everyone knows it well; As for the situation of the British army sending people to Guangzhou to report the news, it is also the proper meaning of the question, and everyone does not think it is strange. Moreover, with the current strength of the Liberation Army and Navy, it is impossible to block the Pearl River Estuary at all, and everyone even thinks that the decision of the British commander to let the messenger take the land route is a redundant move. As for the follow-up response, there is no more information now, so we can only sit and wait for Guangzhou's response. The general point of discussion at the meeting focused on the issue of dealing with Wang Ju.