Chapter 114： spy

The room was quiet except for the ticking of a grandfather clock.

This is the commander's office of the Port of Flanders Navy Headquarters. It is different from the extremely monotonous office of a certain earl. There are several potted plants that can be seen to be carefully cared for at a glance, and an oil painting is hung on the wall. The red sun is slowly rising from the vast sea.

The owner of the office—Admiral Austin is sitting on the chair behind the desk with his eyes closed.

At this time, the navy commander's mind will definitely not be idle, there are too many things for him to think about recently.

The first thing is shipbuilding.

A new batch of Sroop ships is being intensively built in the dock of the shipyard. The reason why it is called a batch is because two ships have started construction at the same time this time.

The newly built Sroop ship is certainly not a simple copy of the Hope.

On the one hand, the lord Greyman came up with a new term after personally experiencing the sea trial—"ergonomics".

He asked to improve the comfort of the crew on the ship (relatively speaking) as much as possible without affecting the combat effectiveness of the ship. For example, the furnishings on the deck should be as neat and orderly as possible. Operational procedures and other aspects.

In short, it is best to make the sailors have a "home" feeling. Of course, there is not much potential for improvement in this respect for small boats like the Sroop, but the lord wants to continue this design concept to the later construction. in large ships.

Everyone understands the truth of this. It is relatively easy to maintain a good mood and physical strength in a relatively comfortable environment.

"What I'm saying is that under the premise of not affecting combat effectiveness, combat effectiveness is the root of everything." Earl Greyman emphasized in the end.

On the other hand, although the trial voyage of the "Hope" was generally successful, some flaws were discovered one after another during the frequent training of Quick and others.

These flaws and some improvement suggestions put forward by naval officers and soldiers were immediately fed back to the shipyard, so that Rubin, Benjamin and others could modify the design in time and make improvements on the new ship.

The above two aspects have created a lot of tests for the craftsmen of the shipyard.

Then there is the problem of piracy.

Not only Earl Greyman, but Austin also suspects that there are spies from the Loach Gang lurking in or near the Navy. He has assigned Captain Walker of the Navy picket team to join forces with Cecil's intelligence officer Duran in Port Flanders to investigate the matter. , I don't know when the results will be available.

If there were spies, the Navy's imminent offensive might have leaked out.

"Beep beep!" A knock on the door interrupted Austin's thoughts.

He opened his eyes and shouted, "Come in!"

After the door was pushed open, two people walked in, it was Captain Valk and Intelligence Officer Duran.

Austin motioned for the two to sit down and said, "I hope you two bring me good news."

The two looked at each other, and Duran made a gesture of invitation to Valk.

The picket leader said to Austin seriously: "Commander, there is good news and bad news."

Austin immediately said: "Let's talk about the bad first!"

At least there is a piece of good news later to comfort myself.

"The navy does have spies planted by pirates."

Ah, this is not too bad, I thought it was a nine out of ten thing before.

"So what's the good news?"

"We've locked down who the spy is."

Captain Walker handed Austin a stack of documents.

Austin glanced through it hastily, and said with a little helplessness: "Well, it seems that Lord Graeman pays the soldiers a bit too much, and they actually have spare money to do this kind of thing."

The spy placed by the pirates in Port Fulan turned out to be the owner of the only brothel in the town, and his name was Clement.

The means he used to obtain naval intelligence can be imagined.

"Is the evidence solid?"

"It's very conclusive. We sent someone to track down a connector."

"How many people in the Navy have been in his store?"

"So far we have identified a total of 48 people who have been there, including six officers."

With so many people, Austin's face gradually became stiff, and he was very annoyed in his heart. There must be a lot of **** who were tricked out of words on the bed.

"Kick out all those who have been to the brothel from the army!" "In the future, no one in the army is allowed to go after women."

Austin was about to yell like this just now, but he forgot it after thinking about it. He ordered: "Find out the specific person who leaked information, and do what the military regulations say."

Captain Walker replied: "Yes, Commander."

The Dulan intelligence officer on the side said: "Should we directly ask the city hall to cooperate in closing this brothel?"

Austin waved his hand and said, "No, I'm worried that I won't have a chance to catch the eel. Maybe this is a good opportunity to use this spy to set the eel a trap."

"Anyway, let's have a good talk with this Clement boss first."

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Clement hangs in a particularly messy way in a secret room in his own brothel.

His gagged mouth whined forcefully, but to no avail, and no one outside the room could hear him at all.

After all, he put a lot of effort into the soundproofing of the room for the convenience of clients.

One person said: "Open your mouth for him Clement, if you dare to yell, hum!"

The towel gagging Clement's mouth was ripped out.

The guy took a few deep and greedy breaths and begged for mercy: "Masters of the navy, I've recruited, I've recruited them all."

Today was the most unlucky day for Clement. The business was going well, and several naval officers and soldiers arrived in a group.

Several naval officers and soldiers booked a room alone and asked the girls to eat, drink and have fun in it.

Unexpectedly, there was a quarrel inside, and as the boss, Clement naturally wanted to go and have a look.

The officers and soldiers drove out the women who were drinking with them, and then asked the boss to judge.

Who would have thought that these guys would close the door and rush forward to restrain him.

Then he became what he is now.

"Say, are you a pirate following the simple in Port Flanders?"

"I'm wronged, how could I have a deal with those vicious bastards."

Clement wanted to quibble, but the navy officers and soldiers quickly produced evidence that stunned him. Coupled with various "small tricks" that made people shudder, the brothel owner finally admitted that he had a connection with the loach gang in the pirates.

An officer came over and patted his fleshy face, as if patting a pig that might be slaughtered immediately, and said, "According to our Commander Austin's intention, you will be executed on the spot as soon as you admit it."

Clement opened his eyes wide, showing a deep sense of fear.

But I heard the officer continue to say: "But now there is a chance of survival in front of you, I don't know if you can seize it."

Hearing that he was still alive, Clement nodded vigorously.