Chapter 1327 The Yellow Bird is Behind (First Update, Please Subscribe)
Zhongdu, as the heart of the empire, has both a bright and beautiful side and a dark side.
The moon always has a dark side.
Liu Meiyu is a young and beautiful woman. Official registration files show that she came to Ming Dynasty via Hong Kong five years ago. When she entered Ming Dynasty, she was already 18 years old and she did not have a stable job.
What does she do for a living?
About two years ago, she became the lover and plaything of a businessman who was old enough to be her grandfather. This relationship lasted for two years. Perhaps because of overeating, excessive smoking and drinking, and excessive indulgence with her, when the man collapsed and died of a heart attack, it was impossible for him to leave a sum of money for her in his will. In fact, even if he proposed it, his wife would never agree, and the law would not support it.
Imperial law did not protect lovers or their heirs, but she still took everything of value from their lavishly decorated home, along with the gold and jewels he had given her over the years.
But that was not enough to keep her going with the lifestyle she had grown accustomed to. She also did not plan to switch to a low-paid secretary job. She was more interested in running her business than working. After all, compared to working, this business offered higher income, was easier, and of course could bring more extra rewards.
She rented an apartment for a long time in the tree-lined and elegant Thirteenth Street in Chang'anfang in Zhongdu City. The apartment looked very ordinary - it had a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and two bedrooms.
Unlike most people, she slept in a small bedroom and used the large bedroom at the end of the corridor as a studio. She also installed soundproofing materials in the master bedroom, pasted cork lining on the inner walls, covered them with wallpaper, and changed the inside of the door to a double door with a layer of cotton in the middle. It is almost impossible for the sound in the room to be transmitted and disturb the neighbors.
The closet in the hallway only held the dresses that people usually wore. The other closets in the studio held all kinds of sexy underwear and coats, from schoolgirls, maids, brides, waitresses to nuns, nurses, governesses, headmistresses, stewardesses, policewomen, female officers, and even scouts. It could be said that there was everything, as well as some high boots, shawls, masks, and the like.
What is here?
This is where she works, she works here.
She is an excellent business person, and her business is quite successful - a high-end call girl. Many of her clients become repeat customers and come to her regularly, and most of those clients are extraordinary, and many of them are even dignitaries. Unlike ordinary call girls, she can realistically enter the fantasies that her clients desire. However, part of her mind will wander, and she will observe, pay attention to and please them, which is why she is deeply loved by those dignitaries.
This is her job. She has been playing this game for a year. She has never thought about when to retire. Maybe one day, or maybe sometime on that day, when she has enough savings, she will go to a distant place and use her savings to live a luxurious life.
That morning, her doorbell rang.
One problem with this job was that it was mostly night work - she would get up very late and still be in her underwear and nightgown.
"Who could it be?"
Liu Meiyun frowned and said to herself that her client had only come as agreed. She walked from the bedroom to the door and looked through the peephole on the door. She saw that it was Alan with messy gray hair. She sighed, opened the door with a bright smile on her beautiful face.
"Alan, dear..."
The moment the door closed, the smile on her face disappeared with the other person's words.
"They're contacting us!"
Although Ellen didn't say who "they" were, she knew who they were.
It is their past, and also...the reason why they came here.
"It's finally here, huh..."
When she said this, she seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, as if something that was destined to happen had finally happened.
…
Is it finally here?
In the office of the Investigation Department, standing at the edge of the heavy curtains, Qian Zizhuang smoked a cigar and stared out the window. He watched a flock of birds flying over the lake in the distance, then thought for a while and said.
"Are you sure it's the British who are calling them?"
"We are very sure. One thing we can be sure of at the moment is that among some of the people we have been monitoring for a long time, several of them have contacted the British through some means. Just as we speculated back then, even Lawrence did not have all the spies..."
Standing in the office, Feng Jinglun, who had been in charge of the Lawrence case, looked at the minister and said.
"So we deliberately left some people behind. They had been silent all along. After learning that the intelligence network had been cracked, most of them fled their hiding places. They were engaged in various industries and had been hiding for a long time. However, an obituary exposed them..."
When mentioning the "obituary", Feng Jinglun couldn't help but sneer. Don't those people know that the things in the newspapers have been monitored by the Investigation Department and the Security Bureau?
Maybe they really don't know.
On this secret front, the Empire has indeed always been ahead of those countries, far surpassing them in all areas of intelligence work.
"What we need is not just to lure the snake out of its hole, but also to wait for the oriole behind, but..."
Turning around and looking at Feng Jinglun and Qian Zizhuang, the "spy king" of the Ming Empire took a puff of his cigar and said.
"We need to make them our double agents without them realizing it, and pass on the intelligence we need to us. The role of false intelligence is, in many cases, even greater than that of real intelligence. What we need is deception... strategic deception!"
Why did you keep those "spies" behind in the first place?
On the one hand, Lawrence's confession did not necessarily include the confession of everyone. On the other hand, the empire needed double agents, the kind who could unknowingly transmit false information to the empire. Such spies were more likely to gain the trust of the British.
It was for this reason that Qian Zizhuang ordered the release of some of the spies who posed little threat. Of course, letting them go did not mean ignoring them. In fact, those spies themselves did not know that after they escaped, they fell into a trap carefully prepared by the empire.
Now is the time to start planning.
"The Minister is wise."
Faced with the compliments from his subordinates, Qian Zizhuang shook his head and said.
"No need to flatter. Now we need to put all our efforts into preparing everything. After all, the real era of great struggle is about to begin..."
What is the real world of great contention?
It will be the final battle between China and Britain in the future. In this decisive battle, the spies sent by the two countries will play a role that is unimaginable to the outside world. This war on the hidden front may even determine the future and destiny of the country.
It is precisely because of this that Qian Zizhuang dared not slack off in the slightest, because he was well aware of the role of the Investigation Department in this decisive battle.
After his subordinates left, Qian Zizhuang looked at the report in front of him and then talked to himself.
"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. The next step is to lead the enemy into a trap..."
(End of this chapter)
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