Reborn in the red age

When Li Qingfeng arrived at the office, Xu Yuanming had been waiting there for a long time.

When Xu Yuanming received the news of the leak last night, he was worried all the time. He didn't sleep well that night and rushed to the company early in the morning with dark circles under his eyes.

Seeing Li Qingfeng coming, Xu Yuanming hurriedly went up to him and anxiously admitted his mistake: "Teacher Li, this is my fault. I did not manage the company's confidentiality well, which led to the leak."

"Don't blame yourself. The company has grown to such a large scale and has so many employees that it is difficult to keep secrets. This kind of situation is inevitable."

Putting his handbag aside, Qingfeng Li sat down on the sofa and asked Xu Yuanming to sit down and talk.

"No, no, no, we still need to reflect on this. Although there are objective factors for this leak, it also exposes our loopholes in management."

"Okay, it's already happened, let's not say these regretful words. Now is not the time to hold people accountable. The most urgent task is to solve the problem. First, find the person who leaked the information, and then find a way to plug the loophole."

Compared with Lemon Company, Li Qingfeng cares more about the leak of Huaxin.

Lemon Company is a software company with a huge scale. As an upstream enterprise, it can only strangle others but cannot be strangled by others. For example, even if the project leaks, there will be no problem even if the data leaks.

Huaxin is not doing well. There are too many upstream companies that can strangle Huaxin. Before it develops, any leakage of technical information can bring huge trouble to Huaxin.

For example, if the news about the lithography factory that is being secretly developed were to get out, the international community would definitely block Huaxin's optical equipment and precision instruments.

The domestic optical level is not good. Once it is blocked by foreign countries, the difficulty of research and development in lithography factories will increase exponentially.

"Yes, yes, yes." Xu Yuanming nodded repeatedly and continued, "I thought about it all night last night and came up with a few guesses about where the secrets might have been leaked. We can..."

"Your guess is useless. Theoretically speaking, anyone in Huaxin could be a leaker." Before Xu Yuanming could finish his words, Li Qingfeng interrupted him.

"No way? Our salary is not low, even comparable to foreign companies."

Li Qingfeng shrugged and said casually: "Is the RMB comparable to the US dollar? The upper-level personnel will not easily leak secrets, but what about the middle and lower levels? What if they promise to give you an American green card?"

"Um, this..." Xu Yuanming closed his mouth and said no more.

These days, the attraction of foreign countries to China is fatal. For Chinese people, the American green card is something that most people dream of.

When it comes to green cards, not many people can resist the temptation. Not to mention private company secrets, even state secrets can be sold.

Xu Yuanming asked hesitantly, "There are too many people involved. How should we investigate?"

"Why are you in such a hurry? The police are here. Let's wait and see what they say." Li Qingfeng calmly made tea, signaling Xu Yuanming not to be anxious.

Near noon, He Guangqin pushed the door and walked into the office, informing the police that they had completed the investigation and that he wanted to communicate further with the person in charge of the company to make a preliminary investigation feedback and make subsequent arrangements.

Li Qingfeng and Xu Yuanming looked at each other, then stood up, straightened their clothes, and followed He Guangqin to the meeting room.

When I arrived at the conference room, I saw several policemen sitting at the conference table with notebooks spread out in front of them, which were filled with densely written down information they had just learned.

The policeman in his thirties who led the team saw Li Qingfeng and others coming in, and he quickly stood up, stretched out his hand and said enthusiastically: "Hello, Mr. Li, General Manager Xu, I am Liu Chen from our Municipal Bureau. This time I will lead the team to deal with the Huaxin leak case."

After taking a look at the shoulder straps with a silver olive branch and a silver four-pointed star on the green Type 89 police uniform, Li Qingfeng had an idea. To be able to hold this position at such a young age, he must have a strong background.

Li Qingfeng smiled and shook hands with Liu Chen: "Officer Liu, thank you for your hard work. This time I rely on your help."

"You're welcome, Mr. Li. This is our duty," Liu Chen responded with a smile.

After the three of them exchanged greetings for a while, they introduced each other to the people around them. Then the two sides sat opposite each other and officially began this communication meeting.

Liu Chen flipped a few pages of the notebook in front of him, his expression became serious, and he cleared his throat and said, "We have just had a detailed communication with some relevant personnel of the company and also reviewed some information. Now I would like to tell you some of our current preliminary views and the direction of the next investigation."

Li Qingfeng and the others did not speak, but nodded, motioning him to continue.

"The situation of this leak is indeed quite complicated, involving a wide range of people and many people who know about the situation. After our initial communication, we can only use the clumsy method to check one by one, contacting the bank to investigate their recent financial situation and whether there are obvious clues such as large amounts of funds from unknown sources entering their accounts."

"In addition, we will also send police officers to conduct investigations and learn about the suspects' daily living conditions, consumption habits, and whether they have any unusual visitors through their neighbors, neighbours and acquaintances."

Listening to Liu Chen's story, Li Qingfeng and the others all frowned. This was really a stupid way.

With so many people involved, just investigating their and their family members' bank deposits is a huge project, not to mention the investigation, which would take a lot of manpower and time.

Without waiting for Li Qingfeng to speak, Xu Yuanming spoke first, frowning and questioning: "About half of the people in the company know about the graphics accelerator card project. If we follow your investigation model, how long will it take to find out?"

"That's right. Moreover, such a large-scale investigation will have a serious negative impact on the normal operation of the company and the morale of the employees. By then, people in the company will inevitably be in panic. This method won't work. You police should try a more efficient method," said Yun Haoyang, the vice president sent from Lemon Company.

The police who can come here are either real talents or have strong backgrounds to gild themselves. Facing Yun Haoyang's reprimand, the policemen opposite frowned slightly, and the atmosphere in the office became a little stiff.

"Vice President Yun, please calm down. Officer Liu and his team are also trying to investigate the leak as soon as possible. Their intentions are good. They are all doing this for the good of Huaxin."

As the party secretary of Huaxin, Xie Wanmin has both an official background and works for Huaxin. When he saw this situation, he hurriedly came out with a smile to smooth things over.

After Xie Wanmin's mediation, the atmosphere eased a little and the expressions of the police officers also relaxed a little, but still no one took the initiative to speak.

At this time, the only female police officer on the opposite side spoke first and put forward her own plan: "Mr. Xu and Vice President Yun, you are worrying too much. Although many people know the news, in fact, we don't need to check all of them. Our workload is not that great." "Why do you say that?"

Hearing this, everyone became interested and turned their eyes to the only female police officer.

Liu Chen saw everyone's gaze and quickly introduced her to everyone: "This is the policewoman in our bureau, known as Detective Nie. She was just transferred here. Although she is young, she has extraordinary abilities in criminal investigation and case analysis. She has solved several major cases with a 100% case-solving rate."

Female police officer Detective Nie looked at everyone with a proud expression on her face and was very satisfied with Liu Chen's introduction of herself.

After listening to Detective Nie's background introduction, everyone became interested and looked at her curiously, waiting for her to speak.

Feeling everyone's gaze, Detective Nie smiled confidently and continued, "The reason why I said the workload is not that heavy is because this leak was revealed by foreign forces, which means that people who have had contact with foreign forces are highly suspected. This way, those who know the situation but have never had contact with foreigners can be ruled out as suspects."

"As for those who have had recent contact with foreign countries, the scope is definitely not very large. Your company should also have records. First, secretly investigate those who have had contact with specific sensitive areas abroad."

At this point, Detective Nie stood up from his chair, glanced at everyone confidently, waved his fist and said firmly: "The leaker must be among these people, there is no other possibility."

After hearing Detective Nie's explanation, the people from Huaxin all looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Huaxin Building is connected to the international Internet, and there is no network wall at this time. People in the building can contact foreign countries through the Internet at will, and there is no need to meet in person.

In addition, all the people sent by Huaxin for international inspections in the past year were engineers and the company's middle and senior management.

These people have top-notch benefits and are considered mid- to high-level talents even in America. No one believes that they would reveal Huaxin's secrets for a little money.

Besides, if these people leaked the information, the top-secret information of the lithography factory would have spread out long ago.

There was a long silence in the conference room. Xu Yuanming frowned and asked, "Comrade Nie, our company has not done much overseas business. Those who have had contact with overseas are all elites of our Huaxin. I don't think anyone among them would leak secrets."

Detective Nie frowned slightly, but his eyes remained firm: "Mr. Xu, I understand your trust in the company's employees, but in criminal investigations, we cannot be blinded by emotions and appearances. You said that these are the company's elite backbones and the treatment is good, but people's hearts are unpredictable, and the temptation of interests is sometimes unimaginable."

"These employees are carefully trained by the company and have undergone strict background checks. They have also contributed a lot to the company's development, so their loyalty should be relatively high."

"Mr. Xu, loyalty is a relative concept. It may be vulnerable in the face of huge interests. We cannot ignore this important investigation channel just because we trust certain employees."

Looking at Detective Nie who was speaking eloquently and firmly in his opinion, Qingfeng Li's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

After the other party finished explaining his reasoning, Li Qingfeng finally said the first sentence he said after sitting down: "Officer Nie, I would like to ask, why do you think the person who leaked the information must be someone who has contact with foreign countries? What is your basis for this?"

"What I just said is very clear, in my opinion."

Before the other party could finish, Qingfeng Li knocked on the table and interrupted him: "I am talking about the basis, not your subjective assumptions."

Detective Nie was slightly stunned, and then immediately said: "Intuition, my intuition has always been very accurate. Many of the cases I solved before were based on this intuition to find key clues and eventually successfully solve the case. This time is no exception."

As soon as this statement came out, the whole audience was shocked.

Not to mention the people from Huaxin, even veteran policemen like Liu Chen were stunned, looking at their newly transferred female detective in disbelief.

Solving cases based on intuition, is this something that someone with a 100% crime-solving rate would say?
Everyone at Huaxin looked at each other, not knowing what to say. Everyone turned their eyes to Li Qingfeng, wanting to see what he would say.

With his jaw dropped, Qingfeng Li picked up the teacup in front of him expressionlessly, stood up from the chair, and said calmly, "It's time for dinner, let's eat first."

After saying this, he turned to He Guangqin, who was also speechless due to shock, and said, "Guangqin, after dinner, tell Director Luo of the Municipal Bureau that we want elite criminal investigators who can solve cases, not executioners who can only solve cases based on intuition. Don't stuff all that garbage into my hands."

"Uh, yes, I'll arrange it right away."

After He Guangqin agreed, the atmosphere in the conference room became extremely awkward. Detective Nie's face turned pale and blue. She opened her mouth to refute, but before she could say anything, her colleague next to her grabbed her arm.

"Teacher Li, please don't be angry. Detective Nie may have expressed it incorrectly. Let's calm down first. After all, the most urgent task is to solve the problem of leaks."

Everyone understood what Qingfeng Li meant. Although Liu Chen wanted to crawl under the table out of embarrassment, he still stepped forward and tried to ease the atmosphere, preventing He Guangqin from relaying his words completely to Director Luo.

After all, the nature of information relayed by outsiders and reported by one's own people are completely different.

Unfortunately, Li Qingfeng and the people from Huaxin ignored him and followed Li Qingfeng out of the meeting room without even looking at him.

He Guangqin gave Liu Chen an apologetic look and quickly chased after him: "Teacher Li, do we need to remove the working meal we prepared for them now?"

"Retreat, they must retreat, these guys are not worthy of our hospitality dinner, what the hell are they?" Xu Yuanming said angrily.

Li Qingfeng waved his hand: "Well, no matter what, since they come to our place to handle cases, we still have to provide them with food. Guangqin, ask the canteen to cook them a few bowls of plain noodles, and forget about the rest."

“Okay, I’ll arrange it now.”

Looking at the backs of the Huaxin people leaving, Liu Chen sighed, then looked at Detective Nie with a bad look.

If looks could kill, Detective Nie would have been cut into pieces by now.

What the hell is this? How dare you advertise yourself as a detective with this method of solving cases? I transferred you here to solve cases, and you dare to come? (End of this chapter)