The train driver in the courtyard

Inside the small dark room.

Li Aiguo picked up the phone and heard Yang Jizong's voice in the receiver.

"My patriotic brothers, something terrible has happened! I just read in the newspaper that a new type of magnetic core storage has appeared in the United States. It is said that it was independently developed by IBM."

“The storage principle is similar to our memory.

Damn it, these guys actually dared to copy our products, do they still have any patent spirit? I will notify the lawyers immediately and sue them!"

The voice was hurried, even a little trembling. It seemed that Yang Jizong was really angry and anxious this time.

Li Aiguo lit a cigarette, leaned back, and said slowly, "The lawsuit is definitely not an option. Didn't you see that Wang An was forced to sell his patents?"

Are you kidding? We are on someone else’s territory and they set the rules. How can you beat them?
"What should we do? Are we just going to suffer this loss?"

Li Aiguo did not answer Yang Jizong's question, but asked: "Has Wang An Computer contacted you?"

The voice in the receiver died down.

Even though the telephone line was thousands of miles away, Li Aiguo could see the extremely confused expression on Yang Jizon's face.

Five minutes later, just when Li Aiguo was worrying about the skyrocketing phone bill at Hex this month, Yang Jizong's puzzled voice came from the receiver.

"No, this doesn't seem right, it's so wrong!"

"IBM copied the magnetic core memory, and Wang Laboratories was probably the one that suffered the most. How could they remain indifferent?"

"Could it be."

Yang Jizong raised his voice suddenly, and asked in surprise: "Brother Aiguo, do you have a trick up your sleeve?"

"What do you think?"

Li Aiguo chuckled and hung up the phone.

Looking at the red telephone, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, he became serious, and a fierce look flashed in his eyes.

Although the weaving method is simple, it would take several months to figure it out.

Now IBM only took half a month to produce the sample.

It only means that the technology has been leaked!

Wang Laboratories had only been in production for a few days, so even if the technology was leaked, it would be impossible for IBM to launch a sample so quickly.

This can only mean that IBM obtained the technical details earlier than Wang An Computer.

It is even possible that the technology had already been sent to the United States before Wang Hong left the mainland.

"It looks like there's a mole in the house!"

Li Aiguo straightened his collar, stood up, opened the door and walked out.

"Driver Li, come here, today I will tell you a story from my childhood." The old man was leaning against the wall smoking a pipe, and when he saw him come out, he waved at him.

"No, I'm going to go kill mice."

After saying this, Li Aiguo got on his bicycle and disappeared at the end of the road.

The old man scratched his head and said, "Catching mice? Don't we have a mousetrap?"

******
The summer sun, like a ball of blazing flame, burns the earth unscrupulously.

The strong light was like countless sharp arrows, shooting straight at every inch of land, leaving the earth with nowhere to escape.

On the street, pedestrians walked hurriedly, looking for shady corners to avoid the sun's pursuit.

The exterior walls of the buildings were heated by the sun, reflecting a dazzling light.

Li Aiguo pedaled hard with his legs as he shuttled through the streets, but his mood was as cold as if he was in the coldest winter.

In order to prevent leaks, the Institute of Computing Technology and Li Aiguo made careful arrangements and blocked the news.

However, those people were able to steal technology from the mainland in just over ten days.

This is too terrible!

But whatever is done will inevitably leave traces.

This time we can catch all those rats in one fell swoop.

We rode our bike quickly all the way to the Shijingshan Meteorological Station.

Through a confidential phone call, Li Aiguo contacted the farmer and reported his suspicions.

The farmer on the other end of the phone immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

"Comrade driver, will the theft of magnetic core storage technology cause trouble for our cooperation with Wang An Computer?"

"That's not the case. I have already made preparations in advance. The key to magnetic core storage technology is not the magnetic core storage, but how to read and write data."

Li Aiguo explained it briefly.

[Farmer] felt like he was listening to a divine book, but he also knew that the other party had only stolen useless technology.

"Well done, comrade driver. You are worthy of being a member of our system. You always have a backup plan before doing anything."

"It's better to be educated by leaders." Li Aiguo said.

[The farmer] said, "The phone bill is too expensive. If you want to flatter me, you can come to my office. I'll give you an entire afternoon."

It was the first time that Li Aiguo saw the farmer joking, and for a moment he didn't know how to respond.

Fortunately, [Farmer] immediately brought the topic back to work.

"Our opponents this time are from the US. If we intervene, we will be criticized. After all, this is just a pure business activity."

"Well, since you are a worker of the Qianmen Locomotive Depot, if the technology you developed was stolen, the Qianmen Locomotive Depot has the responsibility to investigate."

"Let the Qianmen Locomotive Depot Armed Forces Department handle this matter. I will ask the relevant units to cooperate."

After hanging up the phone, Li Aiguo rode his bicycle towards Qianmen Locomotive Depot.

[Farmer] is indeed in a high position, and his overall view is far beyond that of ordinary people.

People in the US are particularly fond of making trouble and are good at calling a horse a zebra.

If we directly use the people at the weather station, even if the evidence is solid, they may be used as an excuse to make trouble for others.

The armed department of Qianmen Locomotive Depot is similar in nature to the security department, so it is legitimate for it to investigate the theft of technology.

"He is indeed an old fox. He has considered everything."

Li Aiguo felt as if he had been taught a lesson.

He reminded himself that he must be cautious and careful in doing things.

When Li Aiguo arrived at the Security Department of Qianmen Locomotive Depot, Minister Niu had already received a notice from his superiors to gather all the team members together.

In addition, Zhou Ke, who had worked with Li Aiguo last time, and several other comrades were also found.

When the group learned that they had a mission, they all seemed extremely excited and gathered in the conference room to have a heated discussion.

"Recently, our Qianmen locomotive section has been checked three times, and all the old people with bad backgrounds have been transferred away from important positions. How could this happen again?"

"It shouldn't be our internal matter, otherwise we wouldn't know anything about it."

Zhou Ke stood up, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and put it into Minister Niu's mouth: "Uncle Niu, what exactly is the mission? Don't hide it."

"How would I know? The superior told the armed forces department to cooperate with driver Li over the phone, and didn't reveal anything else!"

Minister Niu picked up the cigarette and took a look at it while talking. He looked at Zhou Ke in surprise and said, "Zhou Ke, you have become more popular. You used to smoke Daqianmen, but now you have changed to Dazhonghua?"

Zhou Ke looked down at the Daqianmen in his hand and fell into silence.

He felt that the cigarette as a treat was totally wasted.

The team members became even more excited when they saw that even Minister Niu didn't know what the case was about.

People in their line of work all know one thing: the bigger the matter, the smaller the noise; the bigger the noise, the smaller the matter.

Just like what happened a while ago when driver Zhou from the freight workshop had an affair with a lesbian from the logistics department and was discovered by the lesbian's husband.

While they were having an in-depth conversation, they were locked in the driver's building, and then started yelling in the section.

It was late at night and the station was packed with people.

When Zhou Ke and his men rushed over, they thought the enemy had fought back again.

A dozen railway police officers even raised their rifles, only to find out that it was just someone having an affair.

At this time, Li Aiguo pushed open the door and walked in.

As soon as he came in, he quickly closed the door and walked out.

My goodness, in just a moment, he was so choked by the smoke in the house that he couldn’t even open his eyes.

"Hurry up and open the window. You don't want to live anymore. I want to drive the train for a few more years!"

After receiving Li Aiguo's order, Zhou Ke asked someone to open the window.

For a moment, white smoke came out of the window.

Yan Jiecheng, who was passing by, asked in surprise: "It's on fire?"

"Brother Aiguo, do you want me to notify the rescue team?"

Li Aiguo: "No need, the comrades from the armed forces and the police station are discussing something inside."

As he spoke, Li Aiguo saw that the smoke in the house had dissipated, so he opened the door and walked in, closing the door behind him.

It seems that Brother Aiguo is going to do something big again from the Armed Forces Department and the police station. Yan Jiecheng wants to join in.

But he also knew that given his background, it was impossible for him to get involved in these matters.

"Someday I'll be able to do something big, then maybe Dad won't stop me from being with Yu Li."

Yan Jiecheng shook his head helplessly and left with his hands behind his back.

In the conference room.

"Some time ago, we developed a computer-related technology on the railway. Now we suspect that the technology has been leaked overseas. Our mission is to arrest the person who leaked the technology."

Li Aiguo gave a brief introduction of the situation.

There was a sudden silence in the meeting room. The team members' breathing became rapid and their expressions became more and more serious.

Zhou Ke was the first to stand up and break the silence.

"How dare he steal the technology that our workers have worked so hard to develop for his own selfish interests? This person is absolutely heartless!"

The players stood up one after another.

"That's right. The computer technology was developed by us on the railway. It belongs to all of us railway workers. Anyone who steals the technology is stealing the things of all of us railway workers."

"If I catch him, I'll chop off his fingers."

Although Minister Niu was also angry, he was much calmer than the team members.

"Comrade Aiguo, you just introduced the initial preventive measures. You were able to steal the technology and send it to the Americans in such a confidential manner.

The person who stole the technology is probably the mole that the Americans hid in our house!"

As expected of the Minister of the Armed Forces, he immediately identified his suspect and Li Aiguo nodded in agreement.

The players fell silent again.

They have dealt with Dieter a lot over the years.

However, most of the other side are enemies, and they have never dealt with Americans before.

Zhou Ke said: "Brother Aiguo, what should we check now?" Li Aiguo took out a list from the canvas bag and slapped it on the table.

"This is a list of people who have come into contact with the Textile Law. It includes five technicians from the Computer Institute, thirty-five female textile workers from the Beijing Cotton No. 2 Mill, and two truck drivers."

He pulled out a pistol from his waist and slammed it on the table.

"Arrests!"

Minister Niu of the Armed Forces Department, Zhou Ke and the team members all stood up.

The dim light made everyone's face look red.

My faith is a bottomless ocean.

The fire in my heart is surging.

Burning endless power.

That is loyalty forever. !
******
After finalizing the action plan, Li Aiguo used the fact that a major case had occurred in the Qianmen Locomotive Depot as an excuse to report it to the relevant departments in Beijing.

We request them to order strict checks on suspicious persons on roads, railways and airports around the capital, and to arrest any suspicious targets immediately and report promptly once they are found.

At the same time, the relevant departments were notified in the name of the weather station and were asked to closely monitor suspicious radio signals.

Once a message is discovered, all efforts must be made to disrupt and suppress it immediately to ensure that the news of the enemy's capture does not leak out.

After completing the preparations, Li Aiguo and his team members arrived at the Institute of Computing Technology in a jeep and a truck.

Section Chief Chen of the Security Department, who is in charge of security work at the Institute of Computing Technology, has received a notice from the Ministry of Railways.

At that time, I felt strange. Did the Armed Forces Department of Qianmen Locomotive Depot have the power to investigate departments directly under the ministry?

Especially since the team leader was the train driver who was doing research in the Institute of Computing Technology a while ago.

Li Aiguo got out of the car and asked Zhou Ke to take several team members to control the gate and lock it tightly.

Section Chief Chen saw that something was not right and wanted to order the security officers to step forward and stop them.

Li Aiguo handed him a document.

"Old Chen, take a look."

The investigation team carried out its work with the highest-level authorization documents issued by the relevant departments.

However, Li Aiguo’s identity is a special commissioner of the Ministry of Railways.

Section Chief Chen immediately understood something.

Section Chief Chen has been engaged in confidentiality work for many years and is well aware of Li Aiguo's true identity.

According to the opera, Li Aiguo was the imperial envoy who came with the imperial sword.

If things are not done well, he will hold people accountable, and the imperial sword will draw blood.

Section Chief Chen waved his hand and asked all the security officers of the Computing Institute to retreat and leave Zhou Ke's men to block the door.

He looked at Li Aiguo and asked, "Team Leader Li, how do you want to investigate?"

Li Aiguo handed him a list.

"Please invite the people on the list one by one."

Seeing Section Chief Chen leaving with the list, Li Aiguo suddenly asked, "Old Chen, you don't mind borrowing your office, right?"

"."

How can Section Chief Chen respond when facing a guy holding the imperial sword?
Li Aiguo was quite lucky. The Institute of Computing Technology had no external liaison tasks today, and he did not have to go to the department for a meeting. All the people on the list were in the institute.

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Section Chief Chen invited the other party to his office in the name of applying for a new pass from the Security Department.

The first one is Professor Xia Zhongsu.

Professor Xia Zhongsu pushed open the door and saw Li Aiguo sitting behind the section chief's desk. He immediately felt something was wrong.

At this time, Li Aiguo spoke up: "My last name is Li! Li Aiguo, are you Comrade Xia Zhongsu?"

Xia Zhongsu didn't know what Li Aiguo was doing, so he answered subconsciously:
"Yes! I am Xia Zhongsu, Xia for summer, Zhong for China, and Su for quiet.

Comrade Li Aiguo, I was just about to call you. Our Institute of Computing Technology has developed a new computing program."

"Oh, this is my ID, please take a look." Li Aiguo interrupted him.

"Oh, why are you so reserved, young man? We've worked together for so long, don't I know your identity? Do you need me to verify your ID? Hurry, put it away, put it away!"

"Let's take a look. After all, this is a necessary procedure and we should follow it to avoid any trouble."

"Well, if you insist, then I won't be polite. Driver Li, you are so principled. It seems that our computing institute should check the documents from time to time in the future. After all, the computing program we have developed has already involved the scope of confidentiality."

As Xia Zhongsu was speaking, he took the certificate and saw the position on it. His expression suddenly changed.

"Driver Li, what's going on? How did you become an investigator?"

"We are a brick of the organization, and we will move wherever we are needed."

Li Aiguo turned his head and looked at Zhou Ke, signaling him to do some recording.

"Comrade Xia Zhongsu, I am now questioning you in accordance with organizational discipline. I hope you can cooperate."

"Cooperate."

Xia Zhongsu still didn't understand the situation at this time. Even if something happened in the Computing Institute, it should be the Computing Institute that should investigate. What does it have to do with the Qianmen Locomotive Depot?

Li Aiguo asked directly:
"Professor Xia, you are an old member of the organization!"

"Of course! I, Xia Zhongsu, am not bragging. I have been a member of the organization for 20 years. When I was studying at Jingcheng University, I followed the comrades in the organization to participate in activities. Although I am not as good as those comrades who crossed the grassland, my whole family is a member of the organization."

"Have you had any contact with people from abroad recently?"

"No, absolutely not."

"you sure?"

"Sure!"

"Okay then, now recall all your itineraries from the fifth of last month to today. Don't be in a hurry, just recall them slowly." Li Aiguo leaned back.

"On the fifth of last month, the magnetic core memory was produced. At that time, I was talking to my colleagues in the Institute of Computing Technology, and not you, but that train driver Li Aiguo."

No one would be happy if they were asked to recall all their experiences in the past month, and Xia Zhongsu was no exception.

He looked at Li Aiguo and then continued, "To celebrate the successful development, we had a meal at Donglaishun."

Having said this, Professor Xia Zhongsu's expression suddenly changed.

He looked up at Li Aiguo and asked with a trembling voice, "Driver Li, has the technology of the magnetic core memory been leaked?"

Li Aiguo did not answer him, but just nodded: "Go on."

Professor Xia Zhongsu had already seen the clues at this time and realized the seriousness of the problem.

He perked up and recalled his experiences of the past month.

"That's all. I may not remember some of the little things. You know I'm very busy at work."

"It's okay, we can check it out clearly." Li Aiguo saw Zhou Kequan record it and said with a smile: "Okay. Old Xia, let me tell you, later, you just pretend to cooperate a little. Don't be afraid. Don't worry, everything will be fine after a while."

"What are you doing?"

"It's okay, I just need you to bear with it for a while."

"What are you talking about? The more you talk, the less I understand."

"You'll understand when you get to our place!"

"Li Aiguo, what are you doing? Let me go, let me go."

"Professor Xia, please understand. I have to inconvenience you for a while until the case is fully investigated.

Do you think we'll let you guys run wild now that the technology is out?"

Hearing this, Professor Xia also came to his senses.

He is also a person who is familiar with organizational discipline and has learned about confidentiality regulations.

Once a major leak occurs, everyone must be controlled immediately.

He pushed Zhou Ke's hand away and said, "I can do it myself."

"Zhou Ke, Professor Xia is just a suspect, not a criminal. Be polite!"

After Professor Xia was sent back to the Qianmen Locomotive Depot by Zhou Ke's men, Li Aiguo "interrogated" four technicians including Zhang Qingshan and two truck drivers.

These technicians were more cooperative than Professor Xia. When questioned, they quickly recounted their experiences over the past month.

The truck drivers had no idea what they were transporting that day, so Li Aiguo just asked as usual.

The six people were also taken back to the Qianmen Locomotive Depot by jeep.

The news that seven people were taken away and the gate was closed quickly spread throughout the Institute of Computing Technology, and everyone turned their attention to the Institute of Computing Technology's Security Department.

Starting this morning, the Security Department of the Institute of Computing Technology became different from usual.

The security officers who were usually present were all off duty, and then at noon, someone saw comrades in railway department uniforms delivering twenty or thirty aluminum lunch boxes from outside.

Then we saw two armed sentries in the security department, and even the small door connecting the Computing Institute and the family compound next door was locked. We realized that something big had happened.

Then Xia Zhongsu was arrested. The director, who used to have the final say in the station, went to find out what happened, but was almost not allowed to enter the security department door. After a while, he walked out listlessly.

Then the rumor spread in the Computing Institute that someone had leaked the institute's secrets and sold twenty small yellow croakers.

Now the people above are furious and want to turn the computing institute upside down. The soldiers outside have surrounded the computing institute.

Under the deliberate creation of Li Aiguo and the investigation team, panic continued to spread.

Panic is sometimes a weapon that can expose the enemy's true colors.

In the office of the head of the security department.

Li Aiguo handed the director a cigarette and asked, "How is the situation?"

"Nothing was found. The activists I sent out talked quietly to everyone in the Institute of Computing Technology and found nothing suspicious." The director lit a cigarette and took a puff.

“It seems that the problem doesn’t lie here.”

At this time, Li Aiguo had already checked the confessions of Xia Zhongsu and others with Minister Niu and Zhou Ke, and cross-checked those confessions. As a result, the confessions of several people confirmed each other.

You know, it's easy to lie, but it's not so easy to make up for a lie.

For example, if you went to a pub to drink after work today, and someone confessed in a confession that they saw you in the cinema, then you become the real suspect.

So don't underestimate the unreliable method of recalling your experiences.

Of course, Zhou Ke and his team also conducted a comprehensive investigation on several people.

There have been no major changes in interpersonal relationships, economic conditions, or even married life.

Looking at the situation of Professor Xia Zhongsu recorded on the paper, Li Aiguo sighed twice. He didn't expect that this old guy was so capable. He did it three times in one night.
"Driver Li, can Professor Xia and the others be released? The work in our institute is quite heavy." Seeing the smile on Li Aiguo's face, the director bravely asked in a low voice.

"Not yet. We have to wait until the case is solved before we can release the person." Li Aiguo put his life records in a file bag, stood up and prepared to leave the Security Department.

Suddenly, Section Chief Chen came up hesitantly from behind and reported a situation.

"Driver Li, I received a report from the security officer Lao Liu a while ago, saying that the Russian experts had inquired about you."

Russian expert?
After calling the security officer into the office and asking about the details, Li Aiguo stared at the cigar from the Russian and frowned.

Could Professor Lebedev have something to do with this?
Could it be that the Russians also intervened?
Why is this matter becoming more and more complicated?

(End of this chapter)