Chapter 7 A little accident
It is probably the same old saying, "The hands of people are short and the mouth of eating people are soft." After Fan Wubing entertained Fan Kang's mentor, he arranged suitable accommodation for them and sent two drivers to serve the old man and his female assistant. Now the old man's perception of Fan Wubing became very good.
Especially when Fan Wubing may become a sponsor of his research project, this made the old man feel a little moved. After all, a large amount of research funds that can be fully decided by him is the key issue that concerns whether his research project can be successful.
The next day was the time to register for the academic seminar. The old man was going to go there in person, but Fan Wubing said such a small matter. Anyway, he could do it for him before the meeting was held.
The old man made sense after hearing this. He took the plane yesterday and was a little tired. It would be better to take a break today and be more energetic to attend tomorrow's meeting. So he handed the invitation letter from the four people to Fan Wubing and asked him to take someone to travel.
"I'll go with my brother." Fan Wubing pulled Fan Kang away directly.
"What are you trying to pull me?" After leaving the door, Fan Kang asked his brother Fan Wubing with some doubts.
"I will naturally take you to find the local security department." Fan Wubing replied.
"What are we looking for them? This is something that our Tianjin Bureau has been watching--" Fan Kang felt that my brother was doing nothing.
Fan Wubing immediately shook his head and said, "When you arrive in Shanghai, have you sent someone to follow me?"
Fan Kang replied, "Of course there is no more, we are the two of us."
"Will it be over?" Fan Wubing spread his hands, "Exchange seminars are usually places for information exchange. Do you think if they are spies, they would miss this opportunity? I guess people will definitely come to her hometown, and there will definitely be information exchanges between the two sides."
"Can you do?" Fan Kang was a little unsure whether Fan Wubing's words were correct, after all, he had never encountered a similar situation.
"It's almost certain, so I want to take you to the local security department to provide help from the personnel and equipment." Fan Wubing explained to his brother Fan Kang.
The two got into the car and walked around outside. Then Fan Wubing called, contacted the middle-aged man, and drove to their common stronghold.
"This is your brother Fan Kang, right?" After a middle-aged man said a few words to Fan Wubing, he saw Fan Kang.
Strictly speaking, Fan Wubing and Fan Kang are not very similar. Fan Wubing is more like his mother Zhang Mei, and is a bit handsome. Fan Kang looks more like his father Fan Heng, and he looks a little tougher, but this is just a characteristic of appearance. In fact, under Fan Wubing's handsome face, there is a restless heart hidden.
But if you observe carefully, you can still find many similarities in the faces of Fan Wubing and Fan Kang.
The middle-aged man has been dealing with Fan Wubing for a long time, so he has information about Fan Wubing's family. When he saw Fan Kang, he naturally recognized him at a glance. But he didn't know that Fan Kang was actually an extra-staff member of their security department. This matter was really funny.
So Fan Wubing told the middle-aged man about this incident, and then added, "You are a local snake, of course I want to ask you for help."
"This kind of thing should be the business scope of the Tianjin Bureau. It seems a bit inappropriate for you to let us intervene, right? If something happens, it will become ours?" The middle-aged man was a little reluctant.
Whoever is responsible for the case is the one who is responsible. If other departments make a fuss, they will make contributions and someone will come out to accuse you of taking credit for the credit. If something happens, someone will jump out to accuse you of disrupting the bad things. This kind of thing is really inappropriate to take action.
Fan Wubing said, "At present, this matter is no longer just a matter of the security department. I communicated with Minister Jiang. As long as we ensure that state secrets will not be leaked, we will leave all other matters to our brothers to solve, otherwise I will not ask you for help directly."
"It's up to you two to solve it? What does it mean?" the middle-aged man asked in a daze for a moment.
"This LCD research technology has not yet made a breakthrough, and the investment in application may be very high. No domestic company can industrialize it, so I am ready to cooperate with the researcher to apply this project. In the current situation, of course, I also have the responsibility to beware of any spy leaks." Fan Wubing explained to the middle-aged man.
"In this case, it's a purely personal relationship." The middle-aged man nodded and finally agreed to Fan Wubing's request, but he said again, "Then do you provide some activity funds?"
"Damn—" Fan Wubing immediately cursed, "You haven't seen money in eight lives?"
Having said that, Fan Wubing still kindly made some money statements to the middle-aged people, but the amount was not very large, but it was also a lot of compensation for the operators and the use of equipment.
After they came out for a while, the driver arranged by Fan Wubing called back, "Mr. Fan, that woman and Miss Xiao are going out to shop together, I'm following them."
"Oh, pay attention and notify me as soon as possible if you find anything." Fan Wubing asked about the place and gave another order.
After putting down the phone, Fan Wubing said to everyone, "The woman suddenly proposed to go out for shopping. I think she must have something to contact the outside world. Should she start to control it from now on?"
The middle-aged man had already received Fan Wubing's sponsorship. At this moment, the owner should naturally meet his requirements when he needs it. So he ordered his subordinates to start using equipment and personnel to track and monitor, and also arranged personnel to monitor tomorrow's venue.
In fact, intelligence exchange is indispensable in this kind of international exchange seminar. If the security department intervenes, it will not look weird at all. However, this seminar only focuses on exchanges in LCD technology, and the scope is not large, so they did not receive any notification that they need to be dispatched.
However, as a representative of the local security department in Shanghai, middle-aged people have absolute power to act on targets that they think need monitoring. If he sends people out, no one will dare to talk nonsense.
But it’s good that they went out. Fan Wubing happened to have the opportunity to take people to the room where Zhang Ruixi lived to install several wireless infrared cameras, and was preparing to carefully study the girl’s behavior and see what she could gain.
After the middle-aged man installed and debugged the equipment, he explained to Fan Wubing how these things should be used, and then took the people to arrange the monitoring equipment in the venue.
Fan Wubing was fiddling with what equipment, and the surveillance equipment was placed in his office suite, which was very convenient. At this time, he heard his subordinates report that they had returned from shopping.
"Have you found anything?" Fan Wubing asked his subordinates.
His subordinates are also experts who follow and follow, much better than ordinary agents, so Fan Wubing was very relieved to use them to do business.
"Nothing was found, but Miss Zhang called a public phone in the middle. I believe she must be contacting someone else. It is very likely that the person she was contacted was the person she wanted to meet at the meeting." The subordinate replied.
"It's a pity that I don't know who she is going to meet--" Fan Wubing scratched her head and said.
"I remembered the phone number." My subordinate replied proudly.
"Good job! How did you do it?" Fan Wubing said happily.
"The phone she called was a bit old and slow, so although I was in the distance, I could see it very clearly." The subordinate replied, and then gave Fan Wubing a string of phone numbers.
Fan Wubing immediately contacted the middle-aged man and asked him to check where the phone number belongs to?
However, the waiting period took a long time before there was an echo. Moreover, when the middle-aged man replied, he only asked Fan Wubing to come to him again, and did not mention the phone number.
After Fan Wubing went to his place with some surprise, the middle-aged man said with a headache, "It's a little trouble. The person she contacted was a staff member of the Korean consulate in Shanghai."
Uh? Fan Wubing was also stunned for a moment. He thought that the person Zhang Ruixi contacted should be from a commercial institution, but he didn't expect that he was a staff member of the Korean Consulate.
It is a bit incredible that foreign affairs agencies are directly involved in such commercial espionage incidents, but it is not impossible. After all, the development of LCD technology is also a crucial event for South Korea.
It was last August that China and South Korea established diplomatic relations, but they did not expect that their work efficiency was so high. Now they have started to use diplomatic means to cover up espionage.
"In this case, the other party will definitely have professional anti-tracking personnel to provide protection, and the difficulty of our work will increase." The middle-aged man said to Fan Wubing, "More important is that foreign affairs are more troublesome. If something goes wrong, it will be a foreign affairs dispute. This is the most taboo in China now."
Fan Wubing nodded and said, "I understand, do you want to develop peacefully now? To put it clearly, you must shrink your head and be a turtle. No matter how others tease you, you have to endure it. The first priority is to develop the economy."
"It's almost like this. The country is not rich, the economy is not strong, and the military is not advanced, so it can only be like this." The middle-aged man replied.
"Forget it, you guys should be more at ease. When it comes to specific actions, let my subordinates come forward. Anyway, they hold American passports, and Koreans can't afford to offend them." Fan Wubing said to the middle-aged man.
"I mean that. Although Koreans want to drive Americans out of South Korea, they dare not do it too well. After all, without the support of the Americans, the golden sun in the north will come here!" said the middle-aged man with a smile.
Chapter completed!