Chapter 513: The Yellow Bird

Situ Lian quickly changed hands and presented the "Snow Owl Airship Operation Guide" directly to the king. While explaining the positive side of the current development of airships, he explained the gaps between the airships in Bei Liao and the airships in Dongping that have been very mature and formed a series. After the airship test flight, this explanation particularly attracted the attention of many ministers in the court. Kong Xinhua was able to get such a very confidential document, and his status in the minds of many people became higher and higher.

. The king summoned Kong Xinhua, although he only gave him a short time and did not have a friendly conversation. He was awarded a military post as honorable as a cavalry lieutenant, as well as a trivial hundred taels of gold and twenty pieces of brocade, but no one dared to underestimate Kong Xinhua. This was the second time Kong Xinhua was summoned in a very short time recently. Moreover, the eunuch of the king also specifically asked about Kong Xinhua’s recent arrangements, and vaguely revealed that the king would summon him again in a relatively abundant time later.

The Lord of Northern Liao originally wanted to copy some of the "Snow Owl Airship Operation Manual" and sent it to relevant ministers and generals for reference, but was persuaded by the Situ League. Such a document is of great benefit to the development of airships in Northern Liao, but no matter which country it is an important document that he wants to obtain. It is better to keep such a secret and use it secretly. Once distributed, not only will such important information be leaked, but it will also expose Kong Xinhua's channels for obtaining documents, which is not worth the loss.

The Northern Liao Kingdom ruled the good and immediately affirmed this statement. He ordered the goods to be kept strictly and asked Situ Lian to return to give him a statement. The Ministry of Works' status has been greatly strengthened in recent years. There are many important secret workshops and test sites, and the funds are becoming more and more sufficient, but all kinds of defense work have always been the responsibility of the imperial guards. This time, more people will definitely be sent to monitor the documents and determine the access authority, which will naturally involve the cooperation between the Yulin Army and the Ministry of Works.

However, no one expected that after the test that day, the "Snow Owl Airship Operation Guide" had not had time to send it back to the Ministry of Works from the test site, that night a group of powerful masked men broke into the test site, snatched the "Guidelines" and lit the workshop beside the test site. If the workshop hadn't been day and night now and had sufficient military equipment, especially if it were suppressed by the people like shooting in the future, the entire workshop would have probably not been able to be saved. But even so, the losses now were very astonishing. In less than an hour, the news from the test site spread to Yanjing. Waking up the ministers and even the king of the country in the middle of the night was the first time in many years. Even when the war between Dongping and Bei Liao started, such a thing had never happened.

"Who did it?" Kong Xinhua looked at Chen Su unconsciously. Chen Su shrugged and said with a lip, "I don't know, I'm definitely not ours... Since we agree to focus on you, we will definitely not do such extra things again. You don't know the style of our work here... Besides, although it is a confidential document, did Ye Jingluo say that he doesn't think this is a big deal. Don't say that you only have one, even if you want to get ten or eight books, it's nothing."

"Who could that be?" Kong Xinhua frowned and began to think about it. He was still very sure of Chen Su's statement. Whether it was the Intelligence Bureau or the Northern Xinjiang Administration, the style of doing things was very heartwarming. It was almost impossible for such a thing to do. In Yanjing, there was indeed another set of Dongping spy system independent of him, but such a big thing would never be ignored. If such a thing happened, if it was improperly handled, it was very likely that he would be surrounded by himself.

Also asking this question were a series of important figures including the Lord of Northern Liao, Zhang Ci, Situ Lian and the Yulin Army general who was in charge of the safety of the Workshop in the Ministry of Works, were immediately summoned, and several ministers even went to the palace to hold talks in very homely clothes. This was not just an isolated incident of an important document being robbed, but meant that there were hidden safety hazards around Yanjing. What if the other party did not choose a thief to raid at night, but launched a surprise attack while the subject of the country was watching the test flight during the day? The powerful force displayed by the other party made people think of this problem, which was a numb scalp.

"Your Majesty, I think those who can do such things are nothing more than Chunnan and Xiling." Jing Linchi, deputy commander of the left army of the Yulin Army who is in charge of the workshop's security and security work, said with courage.

"Oh, what's the reason?" Zhang Ci asked. "Dongping lost his document. Could it be that they did it?"

"I think it won't... Lord Situ explained to His Majesty and ministers during the day. Even if I am not constrained by any restrictions on Northern Liao, I can develop and produce a first-class airship of Xuexiao. It will take five or six years or even longer to achieve the best. That means, Dongping is not very worried about such a thing... Especially with Ye Tao's gentle but extremely confident personality." Jing Linchi explained this reason wholeheartedly, and naturally he did not dare to make it clear on such occasions. Ye Tao may not give it to Northern Liao for so long.

But everyone understands the time, and everyone must understand what he means. "If such documents are left in our hands, if Lord Situ dare not report it, it would be fine. It is just a research material. However, since it is left in our hands, every time we look through it, we will think more and more that the Dongping airship is mature and powerful, which makes people sigh. It can be said that staying in our hands can certainly promote our airship research, but it is also a powerful weapon to deter us."

Jing Linchi paused, looked at the ministers around him and the king of the country nodded slightly, breathed a sigh of relief, and continued, "However, since this information is useful to us, it will also be useful to Chunnan and Xiling. Although Chunnan can make airships long ago, it is a relatively simple model. It is not much better than what we test flights today. Chunnan and Dongping are allies, but both sides have the ambition to unify Zhongtu. It can be said that sooner or later, they are just guarding against each other and restraining each other. Seeing that Dongping used troops to our Northern Liao Dynasty this time, it did not increase from the southern line Chunnan border.

It can be seen that the relationship between the two sides is probably not very good. Chunnan has a certain technical foundation for airships, so he is naturally very interested in this advanced data. In addition to Dongping, they can be said to be the country with the most opportunity to create airships of the same level. The other is Xiling. Xiling is also facing the pressure of Dongping. He has suffered great losses from airships. If they don’t want to build airships and don’t want to have a powerful weapon to restrain Dongping, that would be a strange thing. It is unknown how their airships are now progressing, but they must also want to obtain relevant data."

The king showed a slight smile on his face and praised: "Master Jing Du, you are a sensible person. How did you think of these things?"

Jing Linchi was flattered and said, "I dare not, my humble position is just obtained according to common sense. Theft of this document is a dereliction of duty. I should have asked for punishment, but these words are still something I have to say. The last general is ignorant. These things should be thought of by all the powerful people in the court, but the last general is..."

The king interrupted him: "Mr. Jing Duwei, there is no need to say these words. I have heard less of this kind of words. Of course, it is inevitable to punish you. Reduce two levels and pay a salary of half a year. There is no need to do this security work anymore... It depends on your personality, and you don't seem to be someone who can do this kind of work well. I will give you 200,000 taels of silver and 500 people. You can choose yourself. Do you dare to issue a military order so that today's thing will never happen again?

Jing Linchi opened his mouth slightly, looking incredible. Can this opportunity actually fall on his head? You know, if something happens today, even if he cuts his head, he will feel unlucky and dare not argue. However, two levels of reduction and half a year of salary fine? What is this to him? It is obvious that he can easily let him go. And the 200,000 silver dollars plus the 500 people he selected, and there is also an authority to stand alone... This is clearly a reuse of him. How can he believe this? But he also knew that this was a rare opportunity, so he thanked him immediately and agreed. So, the first professional anti-espionage and anti-terrorism professional institution in the world was established in the turbulent Beiliao. Jing Linchi's level has dropped for only a few days, but it has been raised again, and he also mentioned that

There is no other reason. As a solemn person, although he does not participate in the court's political discussion, he must understand the court and know who said what, so that he can infer the channels for various news leakage. Therefore, he must have the lowest level of listening to the court. As a department head who is solemn person, he must also have enough levels to order his subordinates, which is convenient for dealing with Yulin Army, Eastern Army, Western Army, Neiweiying and other institutions. After this, Jing Linchi was naturally extremely grateful for the country's reward and worked harder. What he was most attracted to was the real word "common sense". Being able to calmly infer when his life and guilt were uncertain, just this kind of management of his heart is enough to show that his ability is good. At this time, those who see this point will definitely not be willing to kill him.

Jing Linchi's prediction was correct. The one who launched a desperate attack to take away the "Snow Owl Airship Operation Guide" was indeed the dark spies lurking in Bei Liao. Because they felt that continuing to lurk in Bei Liao might not be too much, the dark spies scattered from all over the country were preparing to evacuate, which was the last big deal they played before leaving. However, they did not expect that the mantis stalked the cicada and the oriole were behind, and another group of people were eyeing them at this time. Jing Linchi was right. Xiling developed the airship at a critical moment and also wanted this important document, but they were slower than the people of Chunnan and missed the opportunity. But they had their own dark spies lurking among the dark spies in Chunnan... An ambush was quietly planning.
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