Chapter 1778: 1779 The miserable intelligence minister
Chapter 1778 The Minister of Intelligence who was miserable in 1779
Seeing the ugly face of the emperor sitting at the head of the conference table, several ministers in charge of intelligence work were very cautious. They just found out what happened and are now in the blame-shifting stage.
Naturally, it is impossible for them to take this kind of thing on themselves. Based on the principle of dead Taoist friends not dead Taoists, it must be an excuse that has nothing to do with them.
A minister directly spread his hands and showed the most innocent expression: "Why do they want to pin such a thing on our heads, just on our heads? This kind of thing must have nothing to do with us!"
Anyway, he really never gave such an order, and this kind of thing cannot be traced to him anyway. If you say that His Majesty the Emperor is incompetent in thoroughly investigating corruption and bribery, then he may still be nervous and nervous. He would dare to feel confident about investigating such a thing.
Another minister sitting aside also had a face full of indignation. He would not have the guts to issue such an order: "Yes, why do we doubt this kind of thing? Don't they know how much we are capable of?" The few people we sent out last time were arrested by them just after entering the country?”
In fact, Yang Mu I, who was sitting at the top of the list, knew very well that no one under his command would be willing to do this kind of assassination of an enemy head of state. Without his knowledge, who would be able to go there with enough to eat? Doing such a thankless thing?
If it succeeds, the leader Yang Mu I will benefit, but if it fails, the person who performed the task will take the blame? Although he has always dreamed of having subordinates like this, Yang Mu I is still a little self-aware: he may not have many such people under his subordinates.
"Those **** bastards, aren't they blackmailing us?" The third minister was furious. He felt that none of the people in front of him had the courage to assassinate Emperor Tang.
"It's too much to bully others! It's too much to bully others!" The fourth minister looked old and angry, pinching his beard.
Having said this, the minister who was the first to speak continued to doubt: "Maybe they just want to blackmail... Besides, if they really blame us for this matter, what can we do? ?”
The second minister complained unhappily: "To be honest, they said there was an assassination and there was an assassination? Maybe the whole thing is fake, and maybe it was all caused by themselves."
His words immediately made everyone nod in agreement: "Isn't that right? There is no evidence, so they come to us to prosecute them. What explanation can we give them?"
The third minister also excitedly shifted all the responsibility to the Tang Empire: "That's right! Maybe it's the Tang people's own conspiracy to sow discord between us and our allies!"
"It's too much to bully others! It's too much to bully others!" The fourth minister was still squeezing his beard, looking dim-sighted, and nodded in agreement.
Yang Mu I was dissatisfied and interrupted the nonsense of these ministers: "That's enough! The other side actually caught your handle, so they sent this matter to us to ask for an explanation! Otherwise, do you think that they would be here? Is this the right time to talk about this?”
If these people keep talking like this, maybe they can talk until tomorrow morning! Therefore, Yang Mu I still gave a general direction to prevent them from continuing to pull the strings like this: "Also, there is no need to doubt whether this matter is true. So far, they have not used fake events to blackmail them. In this situation, there is still some credibility. Since it is said that it has really captured a group of people, it must have captured a group of people. "On this issue, the reputation of the Datang Empire is still very good. of. If the evidence was not really obtained, the Tang Empire would normally not send people to find Fang Xingshi to question him.
Because no matter it was a period of strong war or a period of friendly peace, the Tang Empire generally did not make any extra moves and followed the normal path.
It is precisely because the Tang Empire is so well-known that once a problem occurs, no one will question the Tang Empire's unreasonable troubles: because if they are really unreasonable, they will not wait until now. They have taken advantage of it and have to use it long ago. used.
"Now think carefully, have you arranged some people in the Tang Empire, the kind who can act!" Therefore, Yang Mu I decided to find problems with his men.
Compared with the Tang Empire's false accusation against the Yangmu Empire, it is more likely that the Yangmu Empire exposed its own lies.
The minister in charge of intelligence collection immediately excused himself: "Your Majesty, we are an intelligence department. We are usually only responsible for collecting intelligence and spying on military affairs. As you know, the informants and lurking personnel we bribed cannot have the courage to do this. matter…"
"Moreover, we haven't been able to get any decent intelligence recently. The entire system has been severely damaged... As for those guys, the assassination of the Emperor of Tang was definitely not done by people from our department." As he spoke, he almost I shed tears.
In order to prove his innocence, he just had to say that his men were all a group of people who were greedy for life and afraid of death. But everyone also knows that their intelligence collection department does have this virtue.
Most of the time, this department is basically the victim of defrauded funds by various gods: local gangs, any small public officials, enemy intelligence agencies who actively contact them for fishing...all can receive a large amount of "intelligence" from them Special awards”.
To put it bluntly, they are responsible for spreading the money. Obtaining some true and false news with unreasonable sources and reporting it to superiors is regarded as a crime.
Tang Mo might not even believe that a person in such a department suddenly changed his style and made such a shocking move.
Upon hearing that the minister of the intelligence collection department had distanced himself, the minister of the operations department also hurriedly spoke: "Your Majesty, although we are an operations team, you also know that the progress on the Western Continent is not smooth on weekdays. In the past Nine out of ten are out of touch. The core is composed of elves and it is difficult to move, and there are not many humans who can be bribed on the outside. "
His tone became sour as he spoke: "Last year, my department only received more than 1 million yuan in activity funds. I paid several action leaders but could not pay out bonuses. How could this be possible? What a large-scale operation.”
In the past few years, the intelligence collection department has had some activity funds, because everyone still has some information needs, but the operations department is a different story.