Not long after Xin Feiyu entered Wang Kunjun's mansion, all the members of the crossing team who were in Kaifeng were invited by Wang Kunjun to his mansion to hold an enlarged meeting of the committee.

After listening to Xin Feiyu's introduction to the relevant situation, the first question raised by the brothers was not how to bring Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and others to the imperial court from the hands of the Dingyan Army, nor whether the established policy of the Dingyan Army needed to be changed for the border towns, especially the Dingyan Army, but why the Ministry of Intelligence did not get any relevant information. Even if the agents of the intelligence department do not have the knowledge and ability to identify the traversers, at least the front-loading artillery and flintlock pistols similar to the firearms used by the "Shenji Army" in the Later Zhou Dynasty should have seen it.

Although the Dingyan Army nominally belonged to the territory of the Later Zhou Dynasty, due to its semi-independent nature in nature, the intelligence work in this area was assigned to the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence, which Zheng Zhiwei was responsible for, rather than the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence, which he was responsible for, and he was not very clear about the specific situation there. In addition, as a plan formulated by the crossing team to pacify the world, it is relatively low in the ranking, and in the eyes of everyone, a local feudal town separatist force that is not much attention in everyone's eyes, the Ministry of Intelligence has infiltrated there late, and has invested less, so it is almost impossible to achieve the same results as other high-attention areas. But in the face of the brothers' questions, Liang Ziyue, who was present, did not immediately defend himself. First, crossing team members to do things has always been about having the courage to take responsibility, and shirking responsibility is not Liang Ziyue's style. Second, the flaws in both the Department of the Interior and the Department of Foreign Affairs are deficiencies in the work of the Ministry of Intelligence. Therefore, as one of the main responsible persons of the Intelligence Department, although Liang Ziyue has received it on behalf of others, he is also duty-bound, and self-explanatory and justification will not only not win the understanding of his brothers, but will make everyone disgusted, despised and even disgusted.

However, Liang Ziyue does not intend to defend himself out of many considerations, but it does not mean that no one is upset about him and speaks for him. The first person to speak was none other than Xin Feiyu, who had just introduced to everyone the situation of Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and other traversers, and brought Xin Feiyu, who had been secretly equipped with firearms by the Dingyan Army. As the one of the brothers present who knew the most about Chen, Qiu, and the other people, as well as the secret armament of firearms in the Dingyan Army, he felt that he had the responsibility to make some things clear to his face.

So, taking advantage of everyone's discussions, Xin Feiyu, who had just returned to his seat, stood up again and said, "Brother, I think that Brother Ziyue is not wrong in this matter. First, although my brother and I joined the team late, I may not know as well as other brothers about the history of the development of the intelligence department. But there is one brother I still know, that is, when Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and others were put into the command of the Dingyan Army at the end of the third year of Xiande, and at the end of the fourth year of Xiande, when they made primitive firearms for Li Yiyin, all the brothers were still secretly developing their strength in the Khitan Nanjing Road at that time and the current Beiping Army, and were ready to take advantage of the situation. At that time, the Ministry of Intelligence, which was still in the initial stage, said that it was well aware of the situation of the Dingyan Army, but it was afraid that it had not even completed the wiring and infiltration of some important areas in the Central Plains and Khitan, so how could it be possible to know the confidential information that Li Yiyin already possessed firearms.

Second, because of the powerful power displayed by the firearms made by Chen and Qiu, especially the excellent performance of the 'Shenjizhi' in the Later Zhou Dynasty's victory over Shouzhou, Li Yiyin attached great importance to firearms. In order to hide his strength, but also to avoid arousing the suspicion of the Later Zhou court, after the first few tests, he ordered all the research and development and manufacturing of firearms to be moved to a newly built secret military fortress on the edge of Dijin Ze, which was nearly 100 miles away from Tongwan City. For this reason, he not only moved all the people who had participated in the research and development, manufacture, and testing of firearms and their families to the secret military camp, but also moved those soldiers who were responsible for guarding the perimeter during the test, who had only seen firearms from a distance and did not know their performance, power, or even their names, to the secret military village to serve as guards there. At the same time, Li Yiyin also strictly ordered those who knew the secret of the firearms in Dingyan not to disclose the information about the possession of firearms by the Dingyan Army to anyone who did not know about the matter unless he had obtained his own permission. Second, unless you have your own handwritten decree or a special pass for the secret military fortress, you will be killed unless you have anyone within ten miles of the secret military fortress, regardless of their status or official position. In the face of such strict secrecy measures, how likely are the agents of the Intelligence Department stationed in the area of the Dingyan Army to obtain information that the Dingyan Army already possesses firearms? ”

If it was Zhang Xiaofei, the director of the Intelligence Department, who was upset about Liang Ziyue, or Zeng Zhilin, Wang Feng and others, who had always had a good relationship with him, the other brothers attending the meeting might still think that they were saying good things for their subordinates or friends, but now this is from the mouth of Xin Feiyu, who has been committed to the development of the navy and the Marine Corps in Dagu Port and has not had much contact with Liang Ziyue, so it is impossible for everyone to accept it.

Seeing Xin Feiyu's words, the brothers' "condemnation" of Liang Ziyue gradually subsided, and Wang Kunjun, who had not spoken, spoke: "In my opinion, if what Qiu Mingbo said is true, we don't know anything about the Dingyan Army's possession of firearms, and I really can't put the responsibility on the Ministry of Intelligence, let alone blame Lao Twenty-six for this." At the beginning when Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and others made firearms for the Dingyan Army, our Beiping Army had not yet risen, and the Intelligence Department, which had not yet been expanded, was unaware of this matter, which was naturally understandable. As for our brothers' entry into Kaifeng, the intelligence network under the command of the Ministry of Intelligence was fully rolled out in the Later Zhou Dynasty and even the entire homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Ministry of Intelligence still did not find out about this matter, although there was a reason why Li Yiyin, the commander of the Dingyan Army, kept this matter strictly secret, which made it difficult for the local branch of the Ministry of Intelligence to investigate. However, I am afraid that more of it is because the Ministry of Intelligence has not invested enough in the local area, and the time for entering is relatively short. And at this point, it is no wonder that the Ministry of Intelligence. After all, the allocation of resources and forces invested by the relevant intelligence department in the various regions of the Han and Tang dynasties was formulated by the crossing team committee and the enlarged meeting of the committee according to the development plan of the team in a certain period of time. In other words, the lack of investment by the Ministry of Intelligence in the Dingjiao Army is determined by the development plan of the crossing team, and it is discussed and generated by the brothers present collectively. If there is responsibility, it is also the responsibility of all of us, and it is by no means the responsibility of a certain functional department, let alone the responsibility of a certain person, including the Zhiwei brothers, who are directly responsible for the intelligence work of the difficult army. ”

Although Wang Kunjun's authority in the crossing team, if he spoke out in support of Liang Ziyue at the beginning of the discussion, it could also calm the doubts and dissatisfaction of the brothers. However, Wang Kunjun cherishes this kind of discussion meeting with a good atmosphere, and does not want the brothers to give up the opportunity to speak and the right to give up their opinions because they are unwilling to challenge their authority or refute their own face. Second, if we can't explain the problem clearly, we should put all kinds of facts and evidence in front of everyone. Even if he can calm the doubts and discussions on the surface with his prestige, he will make the brothers unwilling and dissatisfied, thus turning the open discussion and argument on the table into shady attacks and grievances under the table, and into the private hostility and estrangement between the brothers, which is a situation he does not want to see. Therefore, it was not until Xin Feiyu took the initiative to stand up for Liang Ziyue and even the entire intelligence department and explain the actual situation that Wang Kunjun took advantage of the topic to play, which not only resolved everyone's doubts about Liang Ziyue, but also guided the discussion direction of the meeting to how to view the possession of firearms by the Dingyan Army, and whether it was necessary to adjust the correct track of the established planning and deployment of the crossing team for this purpose.