"Mr. Bond, these are reports on the recent movements of suspicious persons." In the Internal Affairs Department of the Blackwater Company, a staff member was handing over a document to a bald man named Bond.

The main body of the Blackwater Company is composed of three departments, namely the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is responsible for intelligence and the security of itself and its allies, the Operations Department, which is entrusted to carry out missions, and the Command Department, code-named "Castle", which coordinates and directs them.

Bond was originally a deputy chief of the Cleveland City Police Department. In an unlucky and inexplicable accident, he was involved in a firefight between two groups. As a result, two of his subordinates died on the spot. Got shot. Later, after treatment, the leg was saved, but the right leg has been a few centimeters shorter than the left leg since then. What's even more hateful is that the police station didn't dare to track down the guys who injured their deputy chief and killed his two partners, because they were instructed not to cause trouble.

Can the police station investigate crimes be called "troubleshooting"? Naturally, Bond was extremely unconvinced, so he started his private investigation. As soon as he found out something, he was discovered by the police. So Director Sorge found Bond and had a long talk with him, and then Bond left the police station voluntarily-the reason is very simple, Sorge told him that the exchange of fire involved the personal grievances of the two senators ( At that time, the group fought were common in the U.S. Congress. It even happened that a southern senator took an iron rod disguised as a civilized staff because a northern senator scolded his uncle. The effect refers to traditional Chinese weapons Iron whip—a guy hit the Yankee on the head and made the guy lie in bed for three years. In comparison, the little shit in Taiwan now is like a child's playhouse.), Such a big man is not something the police department can touch. If he continues to pursue this, he and his family will be in great danger.

After Bond left the police station, he worked as a private detective. Because of his outstanding ability and good relationship with the police station, life was not bad, but then somehow, because of investigating a murder case, he was met by a group of bounty hunters who got financial support from the South (according to the "Fugitive Slave Act") The guys who hunted down escaped slaves in the northern continents in exchange for bounties were all desperadoes), and as a result, Bond's private detective agency had to be closed. Bond, who was on the verge of unemployment, has since entered the black water and has become a senior executive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with his own experience and ability.

Scrooge from later generations is very vigilant about industrial espionage activities. Although the frequency and intensity of industrial espionage activities cannot be compared with later generations, he is trying to establish a high-tech monopoly empire. As the foundation of monopoly, Scrooge's defense against industrial espionage far exceeds that of people in the same period.

Therefore, in Scrooge's company, those who often have access to technical secrets are strictly guarded. When and who contacted them will be recorded secretly.

Bond spread out the case files, and the four people who often tried to get in touch with those who were most likely to get in touch with the core technical secrets from outsiders were all newcomers to McDonnell Infantry Arms.

"The earliest one entered the company after the McDonnell 1857 precision shooting version was sold in the market." Bond looked at the file and remembered a top-secret document he had seen before. It was Scrooge? One of the targets that Mr. MacDonald showed them the company most needed to protect was the secret of the bullets for the McDonnell 1857 Precision Shooting Rifle.

Bond continued to look down. After identifying suspicious characters, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will conduct secret investigations on these people to understand their origins and who they usually contact. All records will be gathered together and compared one by one. Then, something interesting emerges.

First of all, these four guys are all from Delaware, and they all had a relationship with a one-eyed guy named Steve. So Blackwater immediately sent relevant investigators to Delaware to investigate almost all the larger gunpowder manufacturers in Delaware. The investigation came to fruition. In Wilmington, it was identified that the one-eyed man was named Gordon, and he was the thug leader of the Dupont family, the largest gunpowder merchant in the area.

"Hmph! It's from DuPont?" Bond had heard of this company. This is a well-known gunpowder factory, and the gunpowder produced is of good quality. However, this company is only a relatively influential enterprise in Delaware. Compared with the McDonnell Infantry Arms Company, its scale, and influence are much smaller. Compared with McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company, which has just been established and has attracted the attention of the whole world, it is not an order of magnitude.

"This company is quite courageous. Compared with other companies, their methods are not bad. However, compared with a well-organized professional opponent like Blackwater, they are still too immature. They are so bold. Into MacDonald Infantry Weapons and MacDonald Chemicals and Medicines. Don't worry about retaliatory strikes?" thought Bond. However, this is not something within Bond's jurisdiction. All he needs to do is to synthesize the information and then make an analysis to assist the above in making a judgment.

...

"Mr. Rockefeller, here is a document that you need to deal with. It is transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs." As a shareholder of McDonnell Infantry Arms Company, during the days when Scrooge left the United States but had not yet arrived in Europe, Many disposal rights of the company's various daily businesses were temporarily transferred to Rockefeller's hands.

Although Blackwater and McDonnell Infantry Arms Company are two companies, decision-making levels, it and McDonnell Infantry Arms Company completely share the same decision-making level. Therefore, when Scrooge left the United States, he also temporarily handed over part of the management of Blackwater to Rockefeller's agent.

"Have you shown this to Mr. Carroll McDonald?" Rockefeller asked.

Before leaving the United States, Scrooge recalled Carroll and asked him to temporarily replace him in running the situation of the three companies under his control. Although Carroll is far inferior to Rockefeller in ability. But at this time, reliability is the most important thing. In addition, Carol is stable by nature, and if he acts as a short-term agent, he will not be aggressive, but it is okay to just stabilize the situation.

Rockefeller also understood this, so he didn't make any decisions on his own but discussed everything with Carroll. Although in most cases, the most common result is that Carroll adopted Rockefeller's proposal after careful consideration.

"Mr. Carroll is watching it. He said, if you think you should take some action after reading it, please go over and discuss it with him."

"Okay, I see," Rockefeller replied.

...

"Carol, it's normal for someone to have an idea of the company's technical secrets. The key is how we deal with it. Our company has perhaps the best secrecy system and system in the world, and it's not easy for others to get something useful However if we let them do this without retaliation, then those guys will think that it is cheap to send people to steal our technical secrets, and once they succeed, the benefits are high. At that time, even if we No matter how efficient the security department is, it can only be impossible to guard against. Therefore, we must take action. Otherwise, the consequences will be very troublesome.” Rockefeller tried his best to persuade Carroll to let Blackwater take action against DuPont The company retaliated.

"Scrooge hopes nothing too big will happen during his time in Europe," Carroll said.

"Damn it!" Rockefeller thought, "If Scrooge was here instead, there would be no need for me to encourage him to take action against that DuPont company. He would have rushed to kill his opponent with a howl."

"Carol, Scrooge said before that when a large group of wolves surrounds you, it is a more effective defensive method to take the initiative to attack and kill the fiercest one among them. Only in this way can the opponent see Your strength will not bring any bad results due to misjudgment. Moreover, an upright person should not deliberately act weakly to lure others to commit crimes. Isn't it?" Rockefeller continued to persuade Carroll patiently.

"I understand the truth, but, John, don't you think the method you proposed is a bit too drastic? Is it a bit too defensive? And we don't have any real and reliable evidence, all are guesses."

"Evidence? Did you say evidence? My God!" Rockefeller couldn't bear it anymore. He stood up, looked down at Carol, and laughed loudly in a shrill voice, "My God, Carol Well, do you think we still need a court? Take three years to collect evidence, then spend the first half to assemble a neutral jury, and then spend six years to fight the lawsuit? No, at this point, we don't Need evidence, just doubt, that's enough! Well, just take a look at this document again for you, and see how DuPont dealt with its competitors! He just used a lot of gunpowder to send people to Holy shit! That's a viper! Don't we see a viper slip into our yard, and don't we just grab the thing and shoot it dead, and say, 'We have no evidence that it came into our yard to kill us or Is it our cattle'?"

"Then can't we just kill those who enter our yard? This is also a warning to DuPont." Carol was still making the last resistance.

"If they are not DuPont, I agree with you." Rockefeller said with a slow tone, "However, their previous performance was too dangerous, 'you will not die if you hit a snake, you will suffer'. Or what we did to DuPont Don't pay attention, or give him a hard time, and use their corpses to warn those who dare to mess with our ideas!"

Carol lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "John, are you sure that after we do this, the result will be controllable?"

"Of course! With DuPont's strength, after receiving this blow, even if it is not finished, it is impossible to have the power to fight back!" Rockefeller said firmly.

"Well, let's do it according to your opinion." Carroll finally respected Rockefeller's opinion, as usual. When Rockefeller went out, Carol murmured to himself: "No wonder Scrooge said that the man who needs to be watched at all times is John Rockefeller. He is a terrible guy."