Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 243 Cousin ([-])

Xin Zuowei looked expressionlessly at a piece of paper in his hand, which was just found from Adil.Some things are recorded in messy characters on the paper. Shinzaemon, who has learned about the situation of the arsenal, knows that this is probably the ratio of the components of the crucible for refining various specifications of steel; Design drawing of chamber (including regenerator, blower design).Europe is unable to obtain molten steel at this time, and the only difficulty is that it cannot reach the melting temperature of molten steel. If they get this pair of design drawings, it is believed that their steel smelting level will immediately rise to a new level.

For the East Coast, iron and steel smelting is the foundation of all technologies and the most important thing.Shinzaemon couldn't imagine how much the country would fall in an instant if the East Coast Republic lost its technological advantage in steel smelting.The East Coast Republic has given him a good life and a chance to be a new man, and he absolutely cannot allow these greedy white-skinned pigs to steal the country's secrets.

"The evidence is convincing, take this guy back quietly for interrogation, and be careful not to leak the news! Lin Zhen, go and arrest Henry's second group, and ask them to be careful, especially keep the information secret. The rest, close the team!" Xin Zuowei The door glanced coldly at the ashen-faced Adil, and said with a little excitement.He knew that he had made a meritorious service this time, a great service!For cracking such a major case of stealing technical secrets, I am afraid that it will be difficult for anyone in the General Intelligence Bureau to match his credit.If he seized the opportunity to open a breakthrough from Henry and Adil and crack the enemy's entire spy network lurking in the country, perhaps the position of the inspector and deputy inspector would not be so far away from him.

At nightfall, the dispatched groups quietly returned to the General Intelligence Bureau building near the original lime mine outside the city.At this time, Jiao Tang, the Internal Affairs Commissioner who had received the news, He Fang, Director of the Security Department of the General Intelligence Bureau, and Liu Yunzheng, Director of the Prison Affairs Department and Special Service Department, sat solemnly in the room next to the interrogation room waiting for the news. The smell of human smoke reflects from the side the mood of several leading figures in the national security system at the moment.

"Director, the results of the interrogation are out." Jiao Tang's secretary led Shinzaemon in.

Seeing that several bosses who were rarely seen on weekdays turned their gazes to him, Shinzaemon was a little nervous, but he still stood at attention with a "snap" in front of several superiors, looking straight ahead.

"Ninzaemon, report the interrogation results to me directly now, don't talk nonsense, just get to the point." Jiao Tang coughed and said to Shinzaemon.

"Yes!" Shinzaemon replied, "Luckily, the humble job did not disgrace, and we have obtained the confessions of the two former French immigrants, Henry and Adil, who were captured. They admitted that they were hired by the French government and came here specially. my country's scientific research institutions and technology manufacturers have stolen secrets. They came to the Oriental Port on October 10 this year with the last group of French immigrants. According to the confessions of Adil and Henry, there were four people who came together, of which Adil was in four One of them is the person in charge. The other two were secretly arrested by comrades from the Dingyuan Branch of the Intelligence Bureau in the afternoon and are currently on their way to the headquarters.”

"Among the four, Henry was assigned to the arsenal to steal technical secrets because he had certain technical knowledge. He handed over the stolen technical information to Adil, who was in charge of the center, and Adil tried to send it to the other two in Cotton Farmer's Castle. These two people will find an opportunity to smuggle the information to the neighboring Spanish colony, and then find a way to get it back to the French mainland." Shinzaemon continued, "The whole operation is organized and premeditated, and it is led by the government, specifically targeting our country. The latest technologies come here. If it hadn’t been cracked by us, they might have successfully transferred the technical secrets.”

"Is that all?" Jiao Tang chewed on Shinzaemon's words for a while, and then asked.

"During the interrogation, Adil also confessed to a special situation." Speaking of this, Shinzaemon slightly lowered his voice: "He confessed that he had heard two other spies in Miannon Castle say that they were in an accidental situation. There is also a Dutch intelligence network discovered at Fort Cottonnon. This intelligence network seems to be doing the same job as theirs, which is to transfer stolen things from the interior to the neighboring Spanish colonies, and then return to the mainland by ship from there. The Dutch Since there is such a traffic station in Fort Cotton Farm, they must have a spy organization in the interior..."

Hearing this, Jiao Tang suddenly stood up, then walked slowly to the window, took a deep breath, and said: "After the arrests of the Dingyuan Sub-bureau are delivered, we will immediately organize an overnight interrogation. I don't care what methods you use. , must pry the mouths of these two people open. Then follow the vine and try to uproot this spy network of the Dutch. Fuck, everyone treats me here for something, and all of them stretched out their hands! Fuck, give I'll investigate! I'll investigate to the end! After catching these moles, let's see how I can make them survive or die!"

At this moment, Jiao Tang's face felt hot. Hundreds of analysts, researchers, inspectors, detectives, and investigators of the General Intelligence Bureau, plus hundreds of ordinary patrols, secret police, and special agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, etc., who could be mobilized, were still there. Let so many moles get in.What a shame!If these moles stole some important secrets, then I'm afraid I should consider how to step down.After all, he was criticized by thousands of people at the Founders Conference, and he would not be able to pass the test by then.

The night of January 1 was unusual for the various agents of the General Intelligence Service.Perhaps stimulated by the spate of espionage cases, the heads of various departments held a meeting all night to carefully discuss the next response measures and how to minimize the negative impact.

Meanwhile, the interrogation of two newly arrived French spies had a breakthrough in the middle of the night.They were not obliged to keep secrets for the Dutch, so they easily revealed the identities of the three Dutch spies in order to pray for the possible forgiveness of the people on the east coast.After getting the exact news, the General Intelligence Bureau immediately dispatched an arresting team with a senior detective and a few capable detectives as the core. They brought twenty heavily armed secret police and galloped along Highway 1 overnight. Heading towards Fort Cotton Farm.

At dawn, they arrived at Fort Cotton Farm, captured three Dutch spies who were still asleep, and then conducted a separate interrogation on the spot.Several Dutch spies couldn't stand the torture and confessed one after another.After comparing the confessions of several Dutch spies, the detective who led the team suddenly felt his scalp tingle.Soon, he ordered the team to withdraw and rushed to the headquarters with a few spies and criminals.

Jiao Tang lay on the bed for a while in the middle of the night, but he didn't sleep well.In the morning, he just fell asleep, but was woken up by the secretary. It turned out that the people who went to Cotton Farmer's Castle to catch spies last night had returned.Jiao Tang, who looked tired, was shocked as soon as he got the interrogation record, and the lingering drowsiness in his mind disappeared.

Several Dutch spies confessed one after another during the interrogation process. They entered the East Bank through immigration after the East Bank Republic and the British East India Company reached a peace agreement last year.At first there were four of them, and all four of them were going to apply for employment at the dock, striving to become dock workers so as to facilitate the transmission of information.As a result, almost all the dockworkers on the east coast were Charuyas, and the acquaintance introduction system was implemented when recruiting workers. The newly recruited dockworkers were often Charuyas, and these few Dutch people couldn’t get in at all. Therefore, they gave up trying to pass information through the docks, and instead, like the French, passed information by land.

The four Dutchmen initially worked in a fishery product processing factory near Dingyuan Township, and the others who came with them were assigned to work in factories or factories and mines.In the first year, they were lurking with peace of mind, waiting for action.At the beginning of this year, the Government Affairs Council recruited [-] volunteers from all over the country to go to Miannongbao and Zhenyuanbao to open up frontiers. These four people signed up according to the instructions of their superiors, and were then uniformly assigned to Miannongbao, which was not far away.

In the first half of this year, several other Dutch spies lurking in the Dayu River Naval Shipyard and the firearms manufacturing workshop of the arsenal successively passed on some information to Fort Cotton Farmer.One of the Dutchmen who had been lurking in Cotton Farmer's Castle left Cotton Farmer's Castle late one night with intelligence, and never showed up again.Regarding the disappearance, the Cotton Farmer’s Fort organized a search at that time, but the result was nothing. The local responsible officials just submitted a report that someone was attacked and disappeared by the Charuyas. .

As for what information the Dutch spy carried away, the mystery was also revealed under interrogation at this time.The Dutch spies lurking in the shipyard wrote some information about the modular shipbuilding technology adopted by the people on the east coast, and the Dutch in the gunsmith workshop drew a rough schematic diagram of a hydraulic boring machine (fortunately, the workshop had not implemented steam technology at that time. ).Among other things, the departing Dutch spy took some soybean seeds with him.

The results of the interrogation stunned the Intelligence Bureau for a moment.These Dutch people have been active under their noses for more than half a year, and even successfully carried out an intelligence transfer, which is simply slapping their own people in the face.

Things have come to this point, no matter how regretful it is, the most important thing now is to arrest the remaining few Dutch spies.So, under the order of Jiao Tang gnashing his teeth, a group of agents from the Intelligence Bureau swarmed out and came to arrest people with the list given by the three Dutch spies.

Half an hour later, the arrest operation came to an end.Four Dutch craftsmen who worked in the gunsmithing workshops of the naval shipyard and the arsenal were arrested by heavily armed secret police on the way to work. After interrogation, they admitted that they had been spying for the Dutch East India Company since last year.

(End of this chapter)