Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 445 Mei Tong

Wei Boqiu, who was riding a tall and handsome black horse, stopped in front of a two-story building outside Dongfang Harbor.Several men in black uniforms stepped forward and graciously helped him lead the horse away.

"Section Chief, the latest information we have detected in the past two days." As soon as he returned to the office and sat down, Sun Heiqi, Assistant Section Chief, came over with a few pieces of paper.

Sun Heiqi originally served as an intelligence officer at the Bordeaux Station, but was transferred back to the mainland a few years later to serve as a senior detective in the National Intelligence Agency.Later, the intelligence department separated, and he was favored by Wei Boqiu because of his shrewdness, so he was transferred to the newly established "Syphilis Patient Statistics and Investigation Section" as the assistant to the section chief.

As for Wei Boqiu himself, before time-traveling, he was a master's degree student in sociology. After time-traveling, he has been working as a senior analyst in the National Intelligence Agency, and he is quite familiar with the business of the intelligence system.In the second half of last year, due to dissatisfaction with the anti-espionage work of the National Intelligence Agency, under the impetus of the Executive Committee, a group of people were transferred from the Gendarmerie and the General Intelligence Agency, and the third professional intelligence agency in China was formally established. , It is also the only secret intelligence agency - Syphilis Patient Statistics and Investigation Section.Under the guise of investigating the number of domestic syphilis patients, the department specializes in internal counter-espionage, public opinion investigation and guidance, investigation and punishment of official corruption, etc., with extremely heavy powers and responsibilities.

So far, there have been three intelligence agencies in China, namely, the General Administration of State Intelligence, which specializes in collecting all kinds of intelligence from abroad, the Gendarmerie, which is directly under the military, and the Statistical and Investigation Section of Syphilis Patients (referred to as "Mei Tong" or "Mei Tong" for short). organ").After the establishment of Meitong, some spies and informants who originally belonged to the General Administration of State Intelligence and the Gendarmerie and were stationed in major domestic enterprises, farms, fleets, armies, and government agencies were handed over one after another. Aspects of control rose to a new level.

After the establishment of this agency, at the beginning of this year, a major case of Spanish spies trying to spy on the Dayuhe Armory was cracked.After being captured and interrogated secretly, the Spanish spy had defected to the East Coast people and became a double agent.The people on the east coast are going to rely on this guy to catch all other Spanish spies that may appear, but there is not much progress yet.

Speaking of spies, in fact, the East Coast has lost a lot of technology over the years.For example, the parameters of the fast cruiser lost earlier, the modular shipbuilding method, and some original hydraulic boring machine designs, as well as the stolen East Coast bighorn goats, soybeans and other species stolen by "biological spies".At the beginning of this year, Xinhua broke out that a French technician was missing with a stolen drawing of a hydraulic sawing machine and a planer, and it is believed that he may have fled to the French colony of Fort Doufan in the south.

Although these lost technologies are not fatal advanced technologies, they still have a considerable negative impact on the people on the east coast.For example, the technology of the fast cruiser (that is, the early clipper ship) stolen by the Dutch spies, the Dutch with a well-developed shipbuilding industry, after understanding the essence of it, immediately developed several new types of clipper ships.They are very fond of this kind of ship. Although the cargo loading efficiency is not as good as their traditional main merchant ship - flute-shaped ship, but it is extremely fast on the mature route with smooth wind and water, and it is perfect for carrying urgent supplies.At present, the Dutch are gradually using this fast ship in North Sea and Baltic trade, creating considerable economic benefits.

Another example is the modular shipbuilding technology that was also stolen by the Dutch. The Dutch shipbuilding engineers saw the convenience at a glance, and then immediately began to follow suit, which reduced the cost and speed of shipbuilding a lot.Moreover, some senior scholars also conducted divergent thinking on this technology, and they proposed the concept of "standardized manufacturing", which was approved by a few enlightened factory owners.These factory owners turned to funding scholars engaged in research in this area, encouraging them to come up with some newer ideas, so that the output of products in their factories can be higher and the cost can be lower.And these scholars also quickly returned to their sponsors. They first proposed the idea of ​​"standardized molds", which attracted the attention of many gunsmiths.They used to make temporary models when casting cannons, and never considered the concept of standardization and parts interchange. At this time, after being proposed by someone, everyone agreed that this is a good method and a good idea, so they quickly agreed with scholars. their suggestions.

After several twists and turns, this concept spread to neighboring France, Spain, Austria, Sweden, and even England, which was in the midst of a civil war, and gradually began to be recognized by a few people.Although the speed of promotion is a bit slow, the germination of industrialization has indeed begun to germinate gradually on the European continent.

The influence of those lost hydraulic machine tool technologies is not so far-reaching, because these technologies are not much more advanced than Europeans in essence, at most, some structural designs are more delicate, and the power is provided by traditional pedals. , The hand crank has become a hydraulic drive.These things do not impress the Europeans, but they still appreciate the involute gears used by the people on the east coast, because they are much stronger than the cycloid gears they have used for many years.Some people who are talented in mathematics are also funded to study the mathematical principles in the gears of the East Coasters, in order to understand the mystery as soon as possible.

All in all, while these lost technologies opened the eyes of the Europeans, they also made them covet the east bank even more. However, for various reasons, they were inconvenient or unable to come to the east bank to rob them openly, so they had to send a large number of spies trying to infiltrate the east coast to steal the technology they are interested in.

However, in the past few years, people on the east coast have also realized the dangers of immigrating from big countries such as the Netherlands, France, and Spain.Immigrants from these countries are indeed relatively high in cultural quality and relatively strong in technology. However, after careful consideration, the Executive Committee resolutely stopped emigrating from these countries a few years ago and turned to Italy and Livonia. Areas search for immigrants.By the year before last, even Italian immigration had been suspended, and the only source of European immigration was the relatively primitive and ignorant Livonians.Of course, in addition to this, a large number of Polish, Bulgarian, and Serbian women entered the east coast, but the possibility of them serving as spies was much smaller.

However, a hundred secrets eventually have a sparseness, and it is actually impossible for any technology to be kept secret for a long time.All the East Coast people need to do is to delay the time of technology leaks as much as possible, so as to gain more opportunities for their own development.It was against such a background that Meitong came into being. From the very beginning, they were positioned to be based in the country, strictly investigate enemy agents and infiltrated enemies, and at the same time grasp and guide public opinion at any time to ensure that the Executive Committee has State rule is not threatened.

There are currently about 80 people in Meitong, roughly divided into three departments, namely: investigation team, analysis team and action team.

The members of the investigation team are composed of 5 inspectors and 25 detectives. Each detective is responsible for one aspect and has 5 detectives under him.These are all official members. As for the peripheral members such as spies and informants all over the country, they have single-line contact with the agents in charge of themselves. The agents are not allowed to inquire about each other. The investigation team leader keeps a copy of the list of everyone on hand .

The analysis team usually works in the office. It is responsible for classifying, summarizing and sorting out all kinds of useful and useless information obtained by the investigation team, and then analyzing and summarizing them to draw various conclusions. review.Of course, all intelligence analysis has a backend.

The operation team has the largest number of personnel, more than 40 people, with a plainclothes detective team and a night watchman organization assigned from the Office of Religious Affairs.The source of personnel for the operation team is very complicated, and many of them are even scumbags. Currently, the biggest "scumbag" among them, Sun Heiqi, is also the team leader. At the same time, he is also the only assistant to the section chief. number one.In the basement of Mei Tong's office building, there is also an interrogation room and cell belonging to the operation team. Many captured spies spent many unforgettable nights in their lives here.

It has not been long since the establishment of the Mei Tong Agency, and the various systems are still very rough and need to be improved urgently. However, the determination and combat effectiveness they have shown still make Wei Boqiu, who has taken office as a new official, quite satisfied.What this shady-looking man usually likes to do is either observe the interrogation and torture of prisoners in the underground cell, or make up with his subordinates to listen to public opinion.

A while ago, Mei Tong had just secretly captured a Spanish spy, and was praised by his superiors.However, with the changing situation in the north, their current focus of work has gradually shifted to the investigation of Guarani and Chaluya settlements.They cooperated with the people sent by Putin, one of the two giants of the gendarmerie, to go deep into the hills and mountains west of Duck Lake in the north, and secretly investigate the distribution of Guarani people in the local area, so as to provide accurate reference information for the suppression operation formulated by the superiors. .

Wei Boqiu flipped through the information at hand, then narrowed his eyes, subconsciously tapped his fingers on the mahogany table.Sun Heiqi knew that his section chief was probably thinking of some tricks again.

"The gangsters in the gendarmerie work very hard." Wei Boqiu opened his eyes after a while, then smiled, and said, "The gendarmerie should take the lead in this matter, since it involves military security. Well, you should inform Team Leader Qin of the investigation team that you can't relax what you explained last time. Are those people spies arranged by the Almeida family in Brazil? Have they ever stolen anything of value? , These must be clarified. Well, don’t stick around here, go out and do business.”

Sun Heiqi nodded, and then quietly retreated out.

(End of this chapter)