After handing over to Cao Zhenghong, Kong Ming came to the city to report. Looking at the busy city government, Kong Ming also inquired about several places to know where Xiang Zuoding worked, after seeing Xiang Zuoding, Kong Ming reported to him, I don't know why, after seeing Kong Ming come in, Xiang Zuoding did not have any reaction, or lowered his head and did his own thing, only said: "Come, what you have to do, go ask Guo Zhizhi, don't run around." After a faint sentence, there were no other words, after Kong Ming replied yes, walked out of his office, found Guo Lizhi, only to know that Kong Ming's task was very simple, that is, to get information from other intelligence officers, and then analyze, draw a conclusion, and then hand it over to the director of intelligence, and then hand it over to Xiang Zuoding by the director of intelligence, for Xiang Zuoding's reference, in other words, Kong Ming is an intelligence analysis officer, subordinate to the intelligence department, under the jurisdiction of the director of intelligence, of course, the intelligence department is not only one intelligence analysis officer, in order to ensure efficiency and correctness, there are three groups of nine people, one group is the military intelligence groupThe second group is the internal intelligence group, which is mainly responsible for the analysis of information other than the changes in the army, and the third group is the intelligence gatherer, which is mainly responsible for collecting intelligence, and then handed over to one group, and the second group, and Kong Ming is divided into one group. Kong Ming didn't know why Xiang Zuoding would let him do this kind of work, because he didn't have similar work experience, for intelligence work, experience is very important, because as long as a piece of intelligence is wrong, then the meaning may be 100,000 miles away, which is contrary to the actual situation, at least it is a loss of time, and at worst it will put an army into a situation of no disaster. So this work is usually carried out by people around the general who are more familiar with the business and careful, the main thing is trust, if one of the positions is held by an enemy spy, then it will definitely make the army passive, because the enemy will inevitably use the information you get. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for such an outsider as Kong Ming to hold this kind of position, but now Kong Ming is allowed to hold this position, then it can only mean one thing, that is, the predecessor has gone wrong, and now the Lord will not find a person who can be very trusted to take this position, but he cannot let it be vacated, and can only let a person who has no connection with the enemy to fill it, because this is an outsider, that is the most unexpected by the enemy, and the enemy cannot buy it in a short time, and Kong Ming is now this kind of role。 Because there have been such situations in history, where the enemy has taken action, assassinated or misled the spy's superiors, let him be punished, and then the spy himself took over the position, so when the battle situation was very tense, when it was too late to investigate a person, it was usually an outsider to make a transition, and now it is the turn of Kongming. In other words, Kong Ming will always be under Xiang Zuoding's monitoring from now on.

"I've never done this job, why should I do it?" Kong Ming asked curiously, he had to figure out why, otherwise, he would fall into a conspiracy, or he might be a bait to lure the enemy out, or he himself was the object of suspicion of Xiang Zuoding.

"Don't be so sensitive, because you are a classmate of the Grand Duke, and now we have caused such a big loss due to the mistake of intelligence, so we can't find a better person to take this position for a while, just let you take this position temporarily. Guo Lizhi said, in fact, he didn't say something else to Kong Ming, that is, Kong Ming may become a scapegoat.

"I hope so, I'm worried about this position, so what should I do now?" Kong Ming asked, very suddenly received this kind of position, anyone will be a little uncomfortable, although Kong Ming has been a scout, but it does not mean that he is very familiar with intelligence work.

"Let me tell you about your job. You are a staff officer of one group, and your main responsibility is to analyze the information about the army collected from the three groups with the other two officers, and then write the useful information and then write a report to the chief, and the other two work in the same way, although you do the same work, but there is no contradiction, because the same information, each person analyzes from different angles, and the conclusions drawn are not the same, and we do this only to ensure that it is consistent with the reality as much as possible. ”

"Why such an analysis?"

"Intelligence cannot be used directly, because intelligence can be divided into three categories, one is information that is consistent with our needs, the second is information that is inconsistent with what we need, and the third is useless intelligence. ”

"How do you explain it?" asked Kong Ming strangely, because although he knew the importance of intelligence itself, he didn't know that there were so many ways to use intelligence.

"The first type of intelligence is the information that can be used directly, or the information that can be used through guò analysis, which should be easy to understand, and they can usually include the size of the army, the personnel, the generals and their personalities, the weapons and the intentions of the generals, the terrain of the battle area, etc., these are all kinds of information that we need to be consistent. ”

Hearing this, Kong Ming nodded.

"The second kind of intelligence is the intelligence that we do not need, it has nothing to do with our engagement, but it is also a kind of intelligence of the enemy itself, which is needed at certain moments, and this kind of intelligence will increase our work, because an important indicator of whether the intelligence itself will be valuable is the timeliness of the intelligence, which usually includes the intelligence of the enemy and our side, such as the social situation in the combat area, the economy, Politics and so on, these information must be collected in ordinary times, although they may not be of much help to one of our battles, but they can become the first type of intelligence when necessary, so we must pay attention to collecting and storing them in ordinary times. ”

"The third type of intelligence is useless information, which cannot be understood only literally, and in most cases, most of the information we have collected can be classified under this type of information. Because there is too much information of this kind, sometimes even some seemingly useful but useless information, the same is true, but often we also make mistakes in this kind of intelligence, causing the greatest loss, because useful and useless are often the same word. After obtaining complete information, we should make bold assumptions on this basis, and in the process of inference, we should keep a calm and clear head, and try not to be disturbed by many factors such as bureaucracy, personal psychology, and higher-level administrative personnel. After the arguments, the conclusions are drawn and handed over to the generals. ”

"So it's so complicated?" Kong Ming sighed, indeed, before entering this industry, he just simply read some books about intelligence, after all, he only took the subject of command in the military, not intelligence, but there are some things about intelligence in the military, and now he has just stepped into this industry, and he feels that there are some complications.

Sometimes, a conclusion of a few words involves a lot of things, and there is even a conclusion of only five words, and the article of its argumentation is hundreds of thousands of words, but because it did not take a fancy to this thing in advance, it was only after paying more than 100,000 people that he was willing to spend hundreds of thousands of gold coins to buy that conclusion. It's just that the cost of not knowing information is too great. By the way, we will be colleagues in the future, and we will communicate with each other a lot, and at the same time, I am also your superior, the intelligence director who is responsible for delivering information to General Xiang Zuoding. Guo Lizhi said, he looked at Kong Ming's appearance and knew that Kong Ming had never done such a thing, and Kong Ming's explanation strengthened his thoughts, so he said a few words.

"Follow me. Guo Lizhi continued.

"Where are you going?"

"Just come along, don't ask so much. ”

Guo Lizhi walked through several rooms with Kong Ming, and came to a place similar to an archive room, where the room was against the wall, there was a row of filing cabinets, and there were many labels on the cabinets, and in front of the cabinets there were several officers, sitting at a few tables, looking at some things, and from time to time some people came in and handed over some things to a few officers, and then those officers put the classified documents into the corresponding cabinet bags.

"This is our intelligence archive, which is used to collect the information, your task now is to read the information related to the Yan Army, and then, as much as possible, enter the situation. We need someone to enter the situation within two days, because the time is very tight, the enemy will attack the city at any time, and once the fight starts, our work will be very busy, so you have to try to enter the situation. ”

After seeing Kong Ming nodded, Guo Lizhi walked out of the archives and went to busy with him, Kong Ming also knew that he was working here in the end of Xiang Zuoding's meaning or Xiang Tiancheng's meaning, this job was very different from his purpose here, he originally came here to be a commander, which was conducive to giving full play to his strengths, but Chu State put him in a place where civil officials stayed, and dealt with this kind of Wen Jiàn all day long, I don't know what it means? However, what Kong Ming didn't expect was that Chu State's arrangement, which I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, laid a solid foundation for his future military career.