The Cold War: Jumping back and forth between the two camps

"First of all, as an agent born in the United States, he naturally has a great advantage over agents born in mainland China or the Chinese mainland!"

Dunn also carefully analyzed Bai Jianming's advantages in this matter with Liu Liyuan.

"And this matter is led by the CIA, which means that by then Bai Jianming will most likely have a complete list of agents sent to the mainland from the isolated island!

I think you have always been troubled by the agents from the isolated island who were left in the mainland!

Here is a list that can uproot them all. Even if we can't uproot them all, we should be able to get a good grasp of a considerable part of them!

It will also cause you less trouble in the future!

When you talk to your superiors, you must carefully analyze the pros and cons and tell your superiors that Xiaobai is actually more suitable for this task than sending him to the front line!

And I advise you, unless you can find a beautiful native Chinese like me, at least a redneck.

This will ensure that you can get some important intelligence on the front line.

Otherwise, don’t expect Chinese agents or intelligence officers to be successful on the front lines!

Even if Xiaobai is sent to the frontline as a CIA agent, the commanders at the frontline may not trust Xiaobai!"

In comparison, we actually hope that Bai Jianming can go to the mainland and supervise and direct the work of the agents who remain on the mainland in the capacity of the CIA.

In that case, even if something went wrong, the entire responsibility could be put on the agents on the isolated island.

Given the CIA's arrogance, it certainly won't blame itself for the problem.

This way Dunn's risk will be much smaller.

"I understand. I will explain the pros and cons to my superiors as soon as possible!"

Liu Liyuan nodded and left Dunn's office.

Dunn looked at Liuli Yuyu with a complicated expression and closed the door of his office.

He didn't know what choice the mainland would make, but if he were to consider it from the mainland's perspective, he would really choose to let Bai Jianming take the second path instead of being sent directly to the front line.

Putting aside the risks that Dunn has taken, in fact, putting Bai Jianming on the back road should be able to play a greater role. If he is placed on the front line, it really won’t play much of a role!

But for now, all Dunn can do is wait.

But after a while, Dunn's assistant sent another telegram to Dunn.

This time it was sent by Zhang Dezhong from the sea.

His team should dock in Hong Kong early this morning. Because of the outbreak of war, the mainland has joined the Peninsula War, so it is impossible to smuggle goods to the mainland at this stage. He will dock and wait for Dunn's next instructions.

Dunn has not yet told Zhang Dezhong that he can continue to do business with the mainland in Sarawak in the future.

Dunn really didn't dare to tell Zhang Dezhong about such a confidential matter in the telegram.

Some instructions must be given to Zhang Dezhong face to face and alone.

So after get off work, Dunn let Rui drive home first.

Deng Wenzhe went directly to the dock and waited for Zhang Dezhong's ship to dock.

The wait lasted until the early morning. Dunn was waiting for Zhang Dezhong in a room of a small hotel near the pier.

It was past one in the morning when Zhang Dezhong finally found Dunn in the hotel.

"It's so embarrassing. I got the news that the mainland had joined the war while I was still on the way. I knew it would be difficult to transport these ships of goods to the mainland!"

Zhang Dezhong said regretfully as soon as he entered the door.

“That’s no problem. We can bring these goods to Sarawak for trading in the future…”

Dunn and Zhang Dezhong discussed the issue of changing the transaction location to Malaysia with the mainland. Although Malaysia is not independent yet, the name is more well-known than Sarawak.

"But we're not ready yet, so you should just take the cargo you brought to the Red Empire or the Isolated Island!"

After explaining everything, Dunn made another decision.

Fortunately, the smuggling routes with the Red Empire have now been established.

Otherwise, if we only rely on the small market on the isolated island to absorb a few ships of smuggled goods, the payment for the goods will probably be in arrears.

At least on the mainland, they can still provide one thing for one thing, but on the isolated island, there are really no special products that Dunn can take seriously.

Zhang Dezhong nodded. In fact, he had already done so. When he was at sea, he had sent a telegram to the Red Empire, asking if they needed the goods on his ship.

Although the price may be suppressed by the Red Empire, because the goods brought from the United States this time did not take into account the needs of the Red Empire.

But it is much better to lower the price than to hold all the goods in your hands.

"Oh, and what you said about Mr. Liu!"

Meeting Zhang Dezhong today is the most important thing. He must explain the matter of Liu Liyuan and cannot let Zhang Dezhong think too much, nor can he let Zhang Dezhong continue to investigate Liu Liyuan in the future.

"I have been investigating him for the past half month since I returned to Hong Kong, and I have roughly figured out the matter!

It seems that the mainland does not want to put all its eggs in one basket and wants to find more sales channels. So in addition to you and Mr. Hua Yingdong in Hong Kong, they contacted Mr. Liu and wanted Mr. Liu to be the middleman and continue to introduce them to a suitable smuggling route!

I'm afraid it's because they are about to join the war, and they know that our smuggling route will be unreliable in the future. After all, you have communicated with them so many times, and you should know each other well. They should also be able to investigate our identities!

So it’s just some precautionary measures!”

This is also the most suitable reason Dunn found. Anyway, the mainland has indeed joined the war, and when the two sides trade, they will definitely be able to investigate some of the identities of their own side.

These are indeed plausible.

"So that's it!"

Zhang Dezhong nodded in sudden realization. He had been worried that Liu Liyuan would betray his own people and start his own business. But considering the current actual situation, it turned out that the mainland was preparing to cut off the smuggling routes on their side.

“It’s right to be suspicious when something happens between our own people, but Mr. Liu doesn’t have much reason to leave us alone and do some dangerous smuggling business!

Do you know the current sales of Changhe Novel Magazine in Hong Kong and the isolated island region? "

Seeing Zhang Dezhong shaking his head, Dunn smiled.

"Although the profit is not as much as the smuggling business, it is definitely not much different. I gave Mr. Liu half of the shares of Changhe Novel Magazine. He doesn't need to take the risk of being beheaded to engage in smuggling business with the mainland!"

"Is it so profitable to publish a fiction magazine? Although the novels in that fiction magazine are indeed quite good!"

Zhang Dezhong scratched his head and said that he was also following the updates of Changhe Novel Magazine. Originally, he only thought that the content of the novel was good, but from what Dunn said, it seemed that the novel magazine was also quite profitable.

"I won't tell you how much money I can make. It's a little bit less than the smuggling business, maybe a lot less. But you have to know that the smuggling business is an illegal business, while novels and magazines are a legitimate business. It's much safer to make money this way than from the smuggling business!"

Dunn spread his hands and said.

“To be honest, I didn’t expect fiction magazines to be so profitable!

Otherwise, I would never have done it in the first place, it would have been a smuggling business!

If I didn't need the smuggling business to maintain my relationship with the higher-ups, I would have stopped this business long ago!

The risk is too great!"

Hearing Dunn say this, Zhang Dezhong was speechless.

Finally, Zhang Dezheng reluctantly took out a few photos from his pocket and threw them in front of Dunn.

“These are some photos I took when I was investigating Mr. Liu. I originally thought he was going to start a new business because there was a person in the photo whom I had met in mainland China. Although we had never communicated, I knew he was from mainland China!

Now it seems that I was just being too sentimental! "

At the end, Zhang Dezhong smiled self-deprecatingly.

"You know you're just being sentimental! But it's right to be skeptical of everything! After all, that's what intelligence work is like..."

Dunn teased Zhang Dezhong with a smile, but also gave Zhang Dezhong some affirmation!

While talking, Dunn was also looking at the photo given by Zhang Dezhong, but after seeing the person in Zhang Dezhong's photo, Dunn was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.

Among the photos are some of Liu Liyuan's interactions with some high-level officials in Hong Kong. Judging from the angle, they were obviously taken secretly.

These are not a big deal. The most important thing is that Deng Enjing saw a photo of Liu Liyuan and Wu Bingcheng on the Internet.

I originally thought that as a veteran underground worker, Liu Liyuan should be able to easily deal with a rookie in the intelligence community like Zhang Dezhong. I didn't expect that Zhang Dezhong actually found something on Liu Liyuan.

Fortunately, he received the news early, and Zhang Dezhong did not realize the importance of Wu Bingcheng's identity.

If that was the case, Dunn would also say in his heart that he was lucky that it was Zhang Dezhong who investigated it. If it was another agent who was in the current situation, then the problem would probably be serious.

"I recognize most of the other people in the photo, but this one is the only one I don't recognize. Is he the person you mentioned that you met in mainland China?"

Dunn picked out Wu Bingcheng's photo and asked tentatively.

"Yes, it's him. I saw him from a distance when I was trading goods in the mainland before. We didn't have any further communication at that time, but he must be from the mainland. I can't remember this wrongly!"

Zhang Dezhong nodded.

"It seems that he is the mainlander that Mr. Liu told me about and asked him to be the middleman!"

Dunn said as he calmly put away all the photos.

"Let's stop investigating Mr. Liu here. After all, he is working for me sincerely. If he knew about this, he would probably be disappointed!"

Zhang Dezhong nodded again.