50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 217 History Takes a Step Forward

The next morning, Sun Zhiwei walked into the Six Nations Hotel wearing a neat military uniform.

The Intelligence Department's office is located on the 4th floor of the Six Nations Hotel. The layout here is completely different from the three floors below. There are few rooms, but each room is very large and not suitable for use by other departments, so it is separately assigned to the Intelligence Department.

There was a gun-wielding guardhouse at the entrance of the stairs on the 4th floor. After Sun Zhiwei arrived, he handed over his new ID card which he had just changed yesterday.

After passing the inspection, he went directly to the director's office.

By the time he finished all the formalities yesterday, it was already time to get off work, but no specific tasks had been assigned yet, so he came here today to receive the tasks.

After knocking on the door and receiving a response, Sun Zhiwei walked into the office.

The director saw that he was wearing a neat military uniform, walked up to him with great interest, helped him straighten the corner of his clothes, and then patted him on the shoulder.

"Comrade Sun Zhiwei, you look very suitable for wearing a military uniform."

"Thank you, chief."

"Are all the formalities completed?"

"It's all done."

"Well, starting today, the first thing to do is to read the intelligence, the latest intelligence."

"I want you to understand the economic, military, and political developments of the world's major countries over the past three years in the shortest possible time."

"Be familiar with their key leaders and heads of key departments."

"It's not enough to have accomplished this. By the way, I know you're good at English, but do you know any other languages?"

"I have no problem speaking and listening in Russian, but I'm not proficient in reading and writing. I have basic listening, speaking, reading and writing in Latin. I can only read the text in Japanese and French. I don't know Arabic, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese."

"I heard you have an excellent memory. How long would it take you to learn all these languages?"

Sun Zhiwei thought for a moment and said, "If there are systematic text and audio teaching materials, and each language can be listened to, read, and written within a week, it depends on the situation."

"Yeah, it was very quick."

"This way, you can treat learning a foreign language as a long-term task, and report to me every time you complete listening, speaking, and reading in a language."

After hearing this, Sun Zhiwei stood at attention and said, "I will ensure that the mission is completed."

"Come on, I'll take you to the reference room. There's so much information there, you'll have something to read."

The director then took Sun Zhiwei to the information room in the east. It was a large room with rows of cabinets standing inside, looking like a jungle.

After introducing Sun Zhiwei to the administrator, the chief said to him: "I will give you three months to review all the intelligence in the past three years, and then we will discuss the next step."

"Starting tomorrow, you can come here by yourself, and then come to me after you've finished watching." After saying that, he turned around and left.

After watching his leader leave, Sun Zhiwei took a notebook and a pen from the administrator.

Turning around and looking at the mountain of documents, he took a deep breath and walked towards the innermost bookshelf.

After that, Sun Zhiwei buried his head in his papers, quickly flipping through intelligence from various countries, and writing down any questions he had in his notebook.

When he left after watching every day, the notebook he kept would be locked in a separate cabinet by the administrator, and he would carry the key with him.

A month later, Sun Zhiwei finished reviewing the information for the past three years.

However, he did not report to his superiors immediately. Instead, he took out the three notebooks in which he had written down the notes and read the marked documents again. This process took another week.

But that's not all. He began to classify by country and search forward to find the causes and sources of each key event in order to systematically sort out the political ecology of each country and the connection between key events.

This was his third reading, and it took him another week.

The world is not isolated; countries influence each other. Currently, the two countries that have the greatest influence on the world are the United States and Russia. These two countries also possess the highest military and technological capabilities.

In April, Sun Zhiwei began his fourth reading.

He began to analyze all international events from the perspectives of the United States and Russia, considering the gains and losses.

At this time, he no longer limited his focus to the past three years, but looked at various intelligence based on events as clues.

In particular, he understands the changes in the world in the next few decades. Looking at these future changes from today's perspective, many things have already shown signs of happening.

Some long-term policies often take many years to produce results, some of which succeed and some fail.

At this time, many people do not know that they are participating in the writing of history.

Those who can see three days into the future can avoid misfortune and seek good fortune; those who can see one month into the future can make a lot of money; those who can see one year into the future will have no problem holding power.

Later on, there will be people like Liu Bowen, who appear once every hundred years and are rare in the world.

The vast majority of people in the world just go with the flow.

Through the various information in the archives, Sun Zhiwei has a clear understanding of the development of history.

Many things that seemed insignificant in the future now have different meanings when we look back at them through this confidential information.

Just as he was immersed in the historical picture, an unexpected news interrupted his reading.

On April 4, news came from the other side of the strait that Baldy had passed away.

After the director got the news, he called Sun Zhiwei over the next day.

"Zhiwei, how's it going?"

"Commander, I've almost finished reading it. I'm reading it for the fourth time now. After this reading, I have no more doubts."

"The fourth time?" The leader almost thought he was hallucinating?
"Well, first read it roughly, second read it in detail, third read it in relation to history, and fourth read it to analyze the evolutionary trends."

"It's good that you have your own method for reading."

"There's an unexpected incident right now. The bald man is gone. Based on what you know now, analyze the attitudes that other countries will show."

The director asked him to write an analytical report on the impact of this incident.

This is not difficult. He knows everything that will happen in the future. He can write an article based on the answers. As long as he can find reasons to justify himself, it will be fine.

"I need detailed information about the other side."

"Well, it's here with me. You can watch it here."

Sun Zhiwei sat down in the office and looked through the latest intelligence. After reading it, he understood the reasons why many things happened later.

"Commander, I've finished reading it. I'll go back and write it now and give it to you tomorrow."

After leaving the director's office, he did not return to the document room.

In fact, it didn't matter whether he went to read it for the fourth time or not. He had memorized all the information, and the historical context was clearly presented in his mind.

If necessary, he can directly review the information he has already read in his mind.

He is now going back to write a report, which should be a report on his learning achievements during this period.

Although he has the answer, what he needs to pay attention to now is how to write it safely.

(End of this chapter)