Episode 113 Intelligence Feast

Today is June 18th, and the secrecy work has been done well in the past four days, not only does the prince have no doubts, but most importantly, there are many people involved, but so far there has been no leakage. It's just that the poor 20 female submariners, who were originally going to Shanghai on vacation to have a good time, are now also required to keep secrets, temporarily cancel the vacation, and take them to the island base and are not allowed to go out. Originally, they didn't think it was like it when they saw the silhouette of the "Blowing Snow" in the dark night, but now it can be regarded as confirmation.

For four days, pretending to be a Japanese security agent, he kept talking to the prince, and of course, the center of the conversation was to study the feasibility of supporting the prince to return to Siam and regain the throne. This is also what the prince is most concerned about and willing to talk about. In addition to eating and sleeping, he spent the rest of his time talking with "Japanese personnel". As for "protecting" him in this villa and not letting him out, he didn't complain at all, and felt that it was normal.

In order to be more realistic, four agents were arranged to Xiaoqiang, representing the two forces of Japan: the Japanese government and the Japanese military department. At this time, Japan, especially after the "226" incident this year, the Japanese military department has truly become a country within a country outside the government. On many issues, such as foreign policy, the Japanese government and the military are often at odds with each other. And it is generally the military department that is more active and bold than the government. Xiang Xiaoqiang instructed the two agents to talk to the prince separately, giving him the impression that the Japanese government was relatively conservative and unwilling to easily offend the Ming Dynasty, while the Japanese military department was very interested in supporting his return to Siam's gamble. In this way, the two sides are relaxed, just like the real thing, and it satisfies Prince Ananta's appetite.

Since it is a feasibility study, then, about Siam's royal family, government, ministers, army, armament, land resources, national defense plans...... Everything has to be talked about. There is also Siam's policy towards the Ming Dynasty, the policy towards the strength of neighboring countries such as Britain, France, and the United States, and the policy towards Japan, both openly and secretly...... In short, in this deep conversation, Da Ming knew a lot of things that he had not known in the past few decades, or even hundreds of years.

Moreover, these questions are all very well designed and cleverly interspersed in the conversation, and they do not sound like intentional intelligence spying, but are all asked around such topics as "what is more feasible to use", "what benefits can Siam give Japan", "On what basis can Siam guarantee that Japan will receive these benefits", and so on.

The prince sometimes felt that the Japanese side was greedy and asked too many questions, but the "Japanese representative" immediately hinted at some words, conveying the meaning of "if you like to talk or not, we will not help you regain the throne if we don't understand the situation." After all, the prince has a request for Japan. For him, regaining the throne with the help of Japan is now the whole pursuit of his life. He didn't have a choice. Therefore, he knows everything about most issues, and he has said everything.

Although Siam is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, it is a ** country after all. Although the Ming knew much more about Siam's domestic situation than the average country, it was only for what Siam was willing to let the Ming know. It's like a person who wears little clothes, but after all, when he wears clothes, the important parts are covered and others can't see them. And now it is tantamount to stripping Siam naked, and a trace of - no - hanging in front of Da Ming. You can see everything at a glance.

In the past few days, the conversation between the prince and the agent has been secretly recorded in a tightrope tape recorder without saying a word. Every day, a special plane was sent to fly back to Nanjing with a top-secret steel wire roll, and then the sound stored on the wire roll was made into vinyl records for preservation. The People's Guard, Dongchang, and Jinyi Guards all dispatched cadres and gathered together to study and analyze this rare intelligence "feast". Both new and old agents were excited. This experience is unprecedented for everyone. They have never known another country so thoroughly. Many mysteries in the relationship between Ming and Siam in history have also been revealed.

Although in this stack of vinyl records, the prince did not say "I planted the bomb" himself, but it doesn't matter anymore. The meaning of many words has already been revealed. In many places, even people with no professional training can understand it very well.

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In a guest room of the East China Sea Fleet Headquarters, Xiang Xiaoqiang stood in front of the wide glass window, drinking a teacup, and looking at the battleships moored in the Yamashita Military Port: Hongwu, Yongle, Zhengde, Changping, Yanping, and Deyong.

In the next technical room, the wire coil of a tape recorder rotates slowly. At this time, there were no tape recorders, only wire recorders, and the sound information was not stored on tape, but on a very thin special wire. The wire is long and turns in rolls like a tape. Therefore, wire coils are almost equivalent to magnetic tapes.

The recorder's speaker came from Prince Ananta's voice in English. This was the conversation between the prince and the "representative of the Japanese military department" last night, and the tightrope roll had been removed from the tape recorder over there and was being played on the tape recorder here for the security agents to record and translate. Originally, the steel wire coil could be directly taken back to Nanjing for processing, but Xiang Xiaoqiang instructed him to add this process, so that people could record and translate it first, and then give it to him. The reason is simple: it saves the matter of Nanjing. In fact, it is because he doesn't understand English, and he doesn't understand what he hears directly, so he has to look at the translation into Chinese.

He planned to cut it out secretly if there was something unfavorable in the prince's conversation. Fortunately, not yet.

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The doors of the two rooms were connected, and the sound came through clearly. Xiang Xiaoqiang listened numbly, admiring the magnificent battleships below, and thinking about what would happen after returning to Nanjing. And most importantly: what to do with the prince. Whether it is a killing or a sentence, it can't be delayed for too long. There are so many people involved in this matter that it won't be kept secret for long, and maybe tomorrow when you wake up, it will make the headlines in the newspapers.

I can't stay here any longer. The day after tomorrow is the ceremony of Zheng Gongyin's succession to King Yanping, and he must go back to participate. Four days later is Qiu Yun's birthday, and he is also ready to spend it with Qiu Yun.

During this time, the affairs of the Siamese prince were in a mess, he almost lost Zhu Yourong, and he almost lost everything, and he was not in a good mood. Now it's finally completely reversed. In a few days, this matter will be made public, and the part of the recording that can be used as evidence of the crime will also be made public. When the time comes, the ministers who wanted to use the Siamese prince to marry Zhu Yourong and oust him from power to Xiaoqiang will be disgraced.

Xiang Xiaoqiang estimated that after this incident, even if he openly pursued Zhu Yourong, few ministers would have the courage to be shy and use those high-sounding reasons to obstruct it. Even if someone really jumps out to obstruct it, it will be the mantis arm blocking the car. Zhu Yourong understood it anyway, those ministers who tried their best to marry themselves turned out to be such a thing.

Xiang Xiaoqiang not only won back Zhu Yourong, but also won back Zheng Yuxuan. He will appear in the newspapers of the Ming Dynasty as a hero who is wronged, but who is strong enough to find the real murderer and finally avenge the king of Yanping, and his prestige will reach a new height.

In the short term, there is nothing in the Ming Dynasty that can threaten him. Including Shen Rongxuan.

As for Prince Ananta, there is still a lot of value that has not been squeezed out. But in a few days, I will take the initiative to disclose this matter to the outside world. This secret will not be kept for long, and it is better for the authorities to make it public than to be made public by reporters and then forced to admit it. Of course, even after it is disclosed to the outside world, the prince's power of life and death is also in the hands of Xiang Xiaoqiang. He could have the prince publicly tried in the Ming Dynasty, or he could send him to Siam and have him cut down by the Siamese court.

Of course, the prince can also be made here. The reason is that the prince kidnapped someone and ran away, and shot and killed him in the process of pursuit. Or maybe the prince fell into the sea and died in the mouth of the shark. Anyway, this prince is very capable, very good at escaping, and very good at taking hostages, which everyone knows. If you come out like this again, you won't be surprised.

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In the afternoon, Xiang Xiaoqiang took Xiuxiu, Hu Jiong and a group of attachés to return to Nanjing by plane.