Moles are rodents that are good at digging holes. They live in caves during the day and come out to hunt insects at night.

The mole's habit of being good at hiding itself and coming out at night has given it an additional meaning of "spy" in the context of modern countries, that is, a "spy" hidden in the opponent's system.

In modern entertainment works, the process of gathering intelligence is always designed like this——

A handsome guy with an imposing manner or a beautiful girl with a curved front and back, sneak into the enemy camp alone, rely on their extraordinary skills and long-sleeved dance skills to trick the enemy, and finally get the confidential documents from the safe or other places.

The more low-key ones are to hide quietly under the floor or above the ceiling, eavesdropping on the important conversations of the other party's senior management.

Speaking of which, Qingteng had just used this simple and unpretentious reconnaissance method not long ago.

When the Kusunoki Group was annihilated, he sent Mai Kinoshita to sneak into the Kusunoki Group's base camp and find out the general structure of its mansion.

Thanks to Kinoshita Mai's outstanding performance, the subsequent overall attack became much easier.

There are also some works that cannot be described in detail, but they are fond of describing the seduction skills of female spies and female ninjas, as well as the imprisonment and punishment suffered after the seduction fails... Regarding this aspect, I will not mention it for now.

After being exposed to these entertainment works, people who are not familiar with the world always think that this is how intelligence is collected, and then have unrealistic fantasies about spies - a life of nine deaths, dangerous and handsome, living every day

A hard life with death next to you.

In fact, gathering intelligence is indeed quite dangerous. If you are not careful, your life may be in danger. It is true that you live a hard life with death next to you every day, but it is definitely not related to being handsome.

This crude method of "directly sending people to steal information by force" can only bully the weak.

As long as there is a strict organization, these people who come to steal information will never come back.

To give a simple example: If Aoto sends Mai Kinoshita to infiltrate Edo Castle, she will definitely die.

Edo Castle was a military fortress that the shogunate spent a lot of money and mobilized the world's top craftsmen to carefully build. It was not an ordinary palace.

Regardless of the level of defense provided by day and night police patrols, the "の"-shaped city structure alone can intimidate people.

If you want to enter the core Honmaru, you must first cross the moat, then cross the Ninomaru, Ichinomaru, and finally cross an inland river... What ninja can have such ability?

Not to mention mere ninjas, even a 100,000-strong army cannot enter Edo Castle as long as our own side and the other side do not have the support of heavy firepower!

However, even an impregnable fortress is always fragile on the inside.

Therefore, burying "mole rats" is the mainstream method of collecting intelligence.

In other words, real intelligence collection is actually very boring.

First, look for someone to win over among the enemy forces.

After finding the person, he made an offer that the other party could not refuse - and a brand new "mole" was born.

The next step is to have the "Mole" provide confidential information on a regular basis.

Generally speaking, "mole" is only responsible for providing information, regardless of whether it is right or wrong, just providing information.

As for the subsequent intelligence analysis and intelligence utilization, it is left to the decision-makers to worry about it slowly.

This will test the wisdom and courage of decision-makers.

Analyzing intelligence is often more important than collecting it.

Of course, there are also extremely high-end ways to bury "mole".

For example, the KGB during the Cold War often spent several years, or even more than ten years, cultivating a super agent who was proficient in various languages, capable of both civil and military skills, and had extraordinary courage.

Then, the identity of someone who really exists in the world - such as a young British man named Tom who was killed in the battlefield but whose household registration was lost due to the war - is placed on this agent.

In this way, a legal British citizen named Tom was born. He has a pure British accent, a completely flawless household registration status, and is a pure British person from the inside out.

Even if the opposing forces wanted to thoroughly investigate this "Tom", they could not find anything wrong with his life experience.

Regarding "how to build an intelligence agency from scratch", Qingdeng still has a lot of experience.

After all, he can be considered a member of the intelligence agency.

To this day, he still retains his identity as a new imperial banshi.

Although it is not quite accurate to classify the New Imperial Court as an intelligence agency.

In essence, the new Imperial Guardsmen are more like the personal guards of Tokugawa Iemo and Tenjoin, and all the chosen warriors are confidants and confidants of the mother and son.

But no matter what, during the period of frequent visits to Tsukinomiya Shrine, Aoto learned a lot of important knowledge related to espionage.

After careful consideration, Qingdeng decided to take a two-pronged approach!

I want them all!

Not only raise ninjas, but also bury "moles"!

On the one hand, the members of Division 9 are trained into qualified ninjas.

On the other hand, they looked for targets to win over among neutral forces and enemy forces such as the Satsuma Clan, Choshu Clan, Tosa Kinnoi, and imperial ministers, and turned them into "moles."

The former was left to Mai Kinoshita to take charge of.

She is a rare female ninja who has both sufficient theoretical knowledge and rich practical experience.

Who else would give this task to her?

As for the latter, it will be handled by Yataro Iwasaki.

As the president of the newly elected chamber of commerce, due to the needs of his mission, Yataro Iwasaki must frequently go out and come into contact with all kinds of people.

After going back and forth, he has a broad network of contacts, which makes it easier to find those who are suitable to be attracted.

Yataro Iwasaki is only responsible for finding characters.

As for the subsequent identification of whether these people are worthy of being attracted and how to transform them into "moles", it is the responsibility of Aoto himself and Mai Kinoshita.

At first, when faced with the appointment of "cultivating ninjas" given by Aoto, Kinoshita Mai, who was introverted, shy, and very socially fearful, firmly rejected the offer.

She shook her little head like a rattle and said at a high speed:

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! How can I be a teacher!"

To this, Qingden replied calmly:

"I don't need the kind of jounin who can throw shurikens, can fight one against a hundred, and is proficient in illusion, invisibility, fire breathing and other spells."

"I just need a group of genin who are agile and can fly over walls."

"That is to say, you don't need to teach them those advanced skills. You only need to teach them how to run faster, how to jump across the room, and how to hide their aura. That's enough."

"Having these three skills is enough."

After Qingto's hard persuasion, Kinoshita Mai finally bit the bullet and accepted the task.

Soon, the "Ninjutsu Class" led by the "Female Ninja" Mai Kinoshita officially started!

On the day the class started, Souji, Sanako and others came to observe and join in the fun.

The first lesson that the members of Division 9 received was not professional knowledge such as running postures or jumping tips, but learning to listen to Kiyoshi Kinoshita Mai's voice as soft as a mosquito.

"This... um... this... the secret to... uh... moving on the roof... is... just... to lower your body... to step lightly... if, if you step on it, it will break... um

Well... the tiles on the roof... are not only easy to cause... physical imbalance... but also easy... uh... this... to be discovered by others..."

Although the process is difficult, Qingto believes that under the leadership of Mai Kinoshita, the 9th Division can definitely become a qualified ninja force.

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Recruit troops, build racecourses, expand logistics supplies, set up cavalry and intelligence agencies...

A dizzying workload.

The so-called taking care of everything every day is nothing more than this.

Although he is busy with work, he still has many achievements in the "Sleeping God", "Photographic Impression", "Gathering God", "Strengthening Essence +4", "Yuan Yang +4", "Shen Brain +9", and "Locked Blood +7"

With the blessing of these talents, Qingdeng showed the spirit of a super scroll king!

If there is a "Best Model Worker in the Country" in Japan nowadays, Aoshinobu is absolutely capable of beating the crowd and will surely win this award.

Since the start of the major construction of the Shinsengumi, Qingnobo has basically carried out activities in 48-hour units and only slept once every two days.

Let’s take his itinerary for a certain day as a demonstration——

Correcting documents in the early morning.

After dawn, I went to the racecourse to check the construction status of the racecourse and the training level of the cavalry team, and also to confirm when the next few batches of war horses would arrive in Beijing.

At noon, while nibbling on a cold rice ball and making do with today's lunch, he went straight to the "Kyoto Recruitment Point" on the east bank of the Kamogawa River, met with Kondo Isamu, and personally inquired about the progress of the recruitment.

In the afternoon, he went to the Shinseng Chamber of Commerce and carefully checked the accounts of the Shinseng Chamber of Commerce. During this period, he took the time to take a look at Kinoshita Mai's "Ninjutsu Classroom".

Immediately afterwards, he returned to his room and reviewed the paperwork that he had squeezed out today until evening.

After dinner, he held a small meeting with Shannan Keisuke to discuss expanding logistics supplies.

As the size of the force increases, the logistical pressure also doubles - and it doubles geometrically.

The difference in difficulty between feeding a hundred mouths and feeding three thousand mouths is as big as heaven and earth.

In an extremely serious tone, Shannan Keisuke said to Qingto: "Tachibana-kun, it's time to try to fill the vacancy of 'chief'."

The chief of the office - the highest officer of the finance office, one of the "four chiefs", whose administrative status is equivalent to that of the deputy chief, director and general chief.
To be continued...