In peaceful times, commercial espionage is more common and even more important than military espionage.

The spies are not handsome James Bond. They often have ordinary appearances, they are commercial agents of a large company in the sales place, or publicly operated consulting agencies.

There are many ways to collect intelligence, but more than 90% of the information is actually obtained from the public domain.

Because the intelligence in reality is often impossible to hide.

For example, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the domestic oil gap reached 60%. Buses do not burn oil but gas, and a huge gas bag should be brought on the roof.

In the 1960s, gas bags suddenly disappeared.

The Japanese responded the fastest to this. They collected intelligence everywhere, such as Wang Jinxi, the cover of the China Pictorial for 1966.

From the winter clothes and dog-skin hats that Wang Jinxi wore, we can determine that the oil field is in the Northeast. From the written narrative in the report, we can determine the location of the oil field.

From the handle held in Wang Jinxi's photo, the diameter of the oil well is inferred. Then, based on the drilling distance in the background, the oil field scale is inferred.

From the comparison between the refining reaction tower and the fence, the diameter of the reaction tower is inferred, and then the refining capacity and oil field output are known. Furthermore, the domestic refining capacity is insufficient.

When the Ministry of Petroleum Industry began to bid for oil refining equipment abroad, the Japanese were most prepared.

Other suppliers were still confused when facing the bidding. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan analyzed a large amount of information through public information and gave the most suitable equipment solution, thus winning the bid in one fell swoop.

These are commercial information obtained through public collection and no secret means are needed, and you can know it as long as you are careful enough.

In fact, most leaks are often reported by public media.

Zhou Qingfeng provided foreign embargo machine tools and electronic devices to factories and research institutes in the imperial capital, and the foreign trade agents who do business in the imperial capital are the most sensitive.

After all, there are cheaper good goods, and no one wants to spend money in vain. Foreigners or second-geniuses sell bad things on weekdays, and every time they make a deal, it seems like a reward, which makes people disgusting.

Anderson Qin, who works for ADI, is about to sell a batch of eight-bit analog-to-digital conversion chips to an electronics import and export company with the word "China".

But the business negotiations lasted for several months, and the bureaucrats on the word "Zhong" suddenly became hard. Anderson Qin did not wait for the negotiators of the import and export company, but only had a phone call with the other party the next day.

Domestic bureaucrats asked directly: "Can you ADI sell 16-bit high-speed broadband analog-to-digital conversion chips?"

Don’t joke, the twelve-digital analog-to-digital conversion chips are all on the embargo list, and the 10-digits are the upper limit of the export. Buying the 8-digits depends on Qin Hao’s mood. If you are in a bad mood, you will raise the price.

Domestic bureaucrats actually want sixteen people, where do you get the heart?

Sixteen-bit analog-to-digital conversion chips are either used for fighter jets or satellites, or cutting-edge radars and radio stations. They are never exported abroad, and if they want them, they must obtain them in small quantities through underground channels.

Anderson Qin flatly refused for this. As a result, the other party only yelled a few times and hung up the phone.

Is this unreasonable?!

Usually, domestic bureaucrats are asking to buy it, but today the situation has reversed.

Qin Hao tried to wait for his negotiating opponent to change his mind. But the other party unexpectedly kicked him out and had no intention of contacting him again.

By this time, the fool knew that something was wrong.

It is related to the financial path of making money, Qin Hao immediately informed the US headquarters of the relevant situation. However, the headquarters did not care much about this.

Due to the embargo and low application level in China, the purchased low-end products have always been low-end products, and the quantity is very small. To put it bluntly, the market is limited and cannot be taken seriously.

But the headquarters does not pay attention to it, and Qin Hao, as a banana person, must pay attention to it.

This is related to his job, his paid leave a year or several months, and whether he can go to Sanlitun every night to enjoy an emperor-like life.

ADI headquarters only asked Qin Hao to investigate himself, and it did not provide much help. What Qin Hao could do was collect information everywhere and try to figure out what problems were in China in electronic devices.

Technological breakthrough?

impossible.

Science and technology are not a castle in the air. Even the simplest capacitor resistors in China are not well produced, and chips are in the low-end imitation stage.

To put it bluntly, some state-owned units are too stable because of their iron rice bowls.

Employees have no sense of responsibility. They do whatever they do, and do what they do or not, making it difficult to build a bicycle.

It is not scientific to want to climb to the cutting-edge products in one go.

The biggest possibility is that other better supply sources have been found in China, no longer needing ADI, let alone Anderson and Qin.

Damn it, is this another 'Toshiba incident'?

After obtaining the nine-axis five-linked CNC machine tool, the underwater noise of Soviet ships, especially nuclear submarines, dropped sharply, making NATO's surveillance difficult to continue.

This sudden change will inevitably mean that something out of control is happening behind it, which triggers a series of investigations.

I suddenly don’t want ADI’s products in China, and there must be a secret behind this.

It should be a guy who had eaten the courage of Xiong Xinbao who was making trouble. In order to make huge profits, he secretly transported the embargoed devices to China.

Qin Hao figured this out and immediately found that he was forced into a desperate situation.

"No, no! You must never let this happen. You must find out the hidden company or individual and expose the matter."

The easiest way is to find a foreign media to post an article and tell Ying Jiang’s intelligence agency that someone is selling embargo devices behind the scenes.

Most of these things are done by the Japanese. They have skills and have a criminal record.

Investigate them, check them, and sternly investigate them.

Qin Hao's main competitor in the mainland is Japanese manufacturers. Moreover, those Japanese prefer to be conscious and are brave and can do anything to make money.

Japanese manufacturers like Toshiba, Sony, Panasonic, and Murata are doing well in the Chinese market. Compared with arrogant European and American manufacturers, they are not as arrogant as that.

Qin Hao grabbed the phone number at hand and wanted to call foreign journalists in the imperial capital. For example, Reuters, AP, AFP, and a lot of idle reporters waiting to do big news.

But before the call was made, someone called in.

Look at the number, don't know

Qin Hao still connected, and an old-fashioned voice came from the microphone, "Qin Sang, I am Watanabe of the Japanese Trade Revitalization Association in the imperial capital."

Oh, Qin Hao dragged his voice and the image of a smiling Japanese old man appeared in his mind. He asked in confusion: "Mr. Watanabe, are you okay?"

"We have received some bad news recently and now we want to communicate with you."

"What, what do you mean?"

"Qin Sang, please don't make any arguments. We already have conclusive evidence that, as the trade representative of the United States ADI, you are engaged in matters that endanger the Western trading system.

I want to give you a warning now. Please stop before there are no more serious consequences. Don’t play with fire anymore. Otherwise, I will report you to your government.”

The Japanese, who have always been talking in a sloppy manner, rarely speaks so hard, which is obviously extremely angry and annoyed and ready to break the verge of death.

Qin Hao was even more furious when he heard it.
Chapter completed!