Chapter 300 What is an investigation report!
What Li Mengyang has learned tells him that a real spy and a real lurker actually rarely comes into contact with truly powerful intelligence.↗, they do the most jobs, such as a large organization, they just talk about life and ideals to some individuals, and the rest are some simple local things.
Until it's almost done, I feel that this person is very reliable. If I can't be reliable, I will talk about some individualisms and bigger life and ideals.
In other words, in fact, they are easy to engage in things in TV and movies, at most they are progressive articles and other things, and they convey some ideas to reliable people, which is this kind of work.
Most spies are actually doing this kind of thing, not such a thrilling job, and they can get confidential files or something. Those spies are all at the top and a very small number!
In other words, film and television dramas and other things are quite harmful, which makes many people form a fixed mindset. Fortunately, Li Mengyang has studied a lot of things and read a lot of history, so he really has a very deep understanding of this kind of spy work.
So are these things useful?
That is, those things, which seem to be trivial matters, trivial matters in life, local newspapers, and how useful are these things?
For ordinary people, these things are at most people who spend some time, and more people are even lazy to watch. However, when they put all these things together and sorted out and sorted them out, they form a system. What will happen?
Li Mengyang has never done this kind of thing, but he knows that many people have done it...
There has been a very interesting company in history. This company is a railway company, but not a Chinese railway, but Japanese, and is called "Manchu Railway".
Everyone understands that if history develops normally, such an institution will appear in more than 30 years. However, this Manchu Railway has a particularly interesting department called the Investigation Headquarters. This Investigation Headquarters has produced a book, and the name of this book is "Manchu Railway Investigation Report"!
What book is this?
Many people probably don’t know that this book can be said to be a “major work”. If you want to buy it later, it would be in Li Mengyang’s era. Although it is not a complete book, a lot of it has been lost. But even if you only buy one of these books, you have to spend nearly 20,000 yuan!
Why is it so expensive?
Because this book is too long, just one directory has more than 30 million words!
Historians will tell you that this book was a spy done by the Japanese army to invade China, and it collected all aspects of our country's economy, culture, geography, people's livelihood, and society.
Yes, the reason why it is so long and so many words is because this thing is a comprehensive survey of one of our big country with a population of 40 million. Therefore, it only has so many words, but if you really look at the content.
Most of them are small things in daily life!
Of course, there will be some terrain and military things, but in fact, it is more of a trivial matter in life. In other words, in order to deal with our country that is much larger than her, they really took great pains to deal with our country. They have to understand our country in all aspects, so they have made such a thing, and it has really played a very important role in the future invasion of China!
In the later wars, the maps of Japan were drawn much better than those in the Republic of China, and they basically knew how the general situation of a place and how the customs of the people were. Do you think this thing is powerful?!
So, these little things, small things are actually really the job of spies, because these things are really amazing!
And not only Japan, but also this example, Li Mengyang also knows an example, which is even more interesting. This is a personal story. His name is Greenspan!
Fed Chairman, who doesn't know about Greenspan?
Yes, it's him, but many of us Chinese know that he is the chairman of the Federal Reserve, but most of us don't know why Greenspan became the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and how did he become famous?
This story is like this. When Greenspan was still in his twenties, he was very awesome and very powerful. He was simply an existence that people could not look directly at on Wall Street, but why was he so awesome?
This guy did something when he was in high spirits, that is, he calculated the US defense budget for a certain year through his own mathematical model!
The defense budget calculated by Greenspan at that time was not only national defense, but basically he created all the things from the United States. The number was very, very close, but this thing was kept confidential!
So, the United States will catch him soon. Isn’t this a spy? What is this?
But, is Greenspan a spy? What did he create these numbers based on?
It is particularly simple, based on some columns of data, which are past data, the United States' steel production, aluminum production... industrial data, agricultural data, commercial data, and the growth of the United States every year... Anyway, the algorithm may be relatively complicated, but the source of the data is actually very simple and is all public.
Just these data are just a few times, and most people have read it. Last year's post, released it, and after reading it, they will enter the archives room. What's the use?
However, after Greenspan saw these things, he calculated various budgets and aspects of the United States in the future. You said, how could a person like him not call the wind and rain on Wall Street?
This is how Greenspan enjoys his reputation. He later took charge of the American economy for decades, which can be said to be a popular destination!
In Li Mengyang's opinion, isn't this just big data?
What does that mean?
Information, small, inadvertent, inconspicuous news. When these things become more common, an information network will be formed. The internal logic of this information will be revealed, and there will be a wonderful development from quantitative change to qualitative change!
So, Li Mengyang actually started this matter early in the morning. He is very, very low-key in spy work and the use of those seeds. For example, those seeds, they really don’t have to do anything too big. You just need to investigate your own part carefully. If you can adjust the geographical situation and the military division, it will be better, but if you can’t get in touch with these things, it doesn’t matter.
Just say that garrisons or troops are mobilized, then food and grass must follow? We need horses these days, so we only need to know the simple economic trends, the flow of hay and other things. These data can infer the general military trends!
Therefore, never take risks. Because what you get from taking risks may not be useful, so let’s just do these ‘small information’.
As for other places, that is, those places where seeds cannot be taken care of, Li Mengyang also relied on the southeastern part of the United States. Some of the deaf people in Galaudett were volunteers and followed the Northern Army.
And you should know that what Li Mengyang asked them to give him was very ordinary, very ordinary, and it could be said that it was something that was not difficult at all. Such a job could be exchanged for a large amount of dollars. Will Galaudet, a deaf educator, refuse?
Moreover, if this kind of work is so simple, then there will naturally be many people who like it. You should know that the United States is fighting a civil war at this time. Perhaps the northern society will not be affected much, but if you want to say that there is no impact at all, is that possible?
Therefore, many people are fighting to do such a good job. You know, when Li Mengyang was in New York, he also left some personnel, such as McIlroy and others, right?
Just them, now they have simply become a survey company. What are they investigating?
It’s just to go to various places to chat with American people and buy local newspapers...
Are you willing to do this kind of work? Let’s give you money!
Li Mengyang has actually set up a pretty good intelligence network, but the work done by this intelligence network makes people feel... it's not a spy anyway!
But can this kind of espionage be prevented?
Of course, it is OK, but it is very difficult to prevent it. Li Mengyang can even say that in today's world, no one has such an understanding, that is, such investigations are espionage!
Not to mention anything else, the Chinese people at that time really didn't know anything about the investigations conducted by the Manchurian Railway Investigation Headquarters.
Are we Chinese stupid?
no! Li Mengyang definitely doesn’t admit this, but the opponent played it so well!
The founder of Manchu Iron and Steel was called Shinhei Goto. This person is very famous in Japan. What was the name of the person he wanted to recruit for Manchu Iron and Steel at that time?
The Japanese at eight o'clock!
What's the meaning?
It means being energetic, knowledgeable, revengeful, and ideals... Anyway, they are young Japanese people with many good qualities!
All young!
And this word is at eight o'clock, can it be said by Li Mengyang? Taizu also used it later.
As far as Li Mengyang knows, the Chinese people under investigation at that time said that those investigators of the Manchuria were the sunniest Japanese they had ever seen. Their personal spirits were not vulgar, and what they were doing really had nothing to do with war!
Yes, it has nothing to do with war, but later it all serves war!
So, since everyone knows these things, Li Mengyang's instructions to McIlroy are very simple. You must pick up the big ones from the slap and find the ones with the most ideal, revenge and sunny ones, and let them do them for us... This job is really not like a spy, just call it an investigator.
Li Mengyang is playing harder and is using Americans to investigate the United States himself...
So, Mr. Cameron's Secretary of War in Washington really made a mistake.
The reason why Li Mengyang fought this war was that he had already figured out the reality of the United States in the morning!
So, what is the situation in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi now...?
Simply put, these places are now a pot of porridge... (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!