After dinner that day, Wang Qi and Li Xiang took Bai Xiaojiao for a walk on the footpath by the water where the sword-shaped Martyrs Monument is located in the administrative center, and talked about her afternoon work.
“Is taking classes at ICI different from graduate school?”
"No, they are not material for learning. After the whole class, no one asked any valid questions."
The effective questions she talks about are the type that are difficult to answer on the spot, like talking about copper sulfate in class, but then asking why copper sulfate can dye cotton but not polyester.
Being able to ask effective questions not only shows that the audience is listening attentively but also thinking simultaneously. It is actually a very powerful ability, but Li Xiang has seen it a lot and thinks this is more normal.
Wang Qi had good words for the federation: "We can't blame them. The time from when the news was sent out to the start of class was too short. Most of the people present were salesmen from various companies."
Li Xiang thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Li Xiang's identity is the queen, so security is the focus, and the federation is not an official organization, so there are all kinds of people coming in and out, so the relative risk is greater.
For activities in such places, military control must be implemented a few days in advance for thorough security inspections and deployments, or short notice must be given to avoid targeted deployments by people with ulterior motives.
Wang Qi doesn't like to bother teachers and mobilize people, and Li Xiang followed his habits, so this time he went to the union to attend classes, and the notice was only given half an hour in advance.
Now the field security work has been transferred from the 11th Regiment to the 3rd Brigade Special Service Battalion (21st Battalion). According to the procedure, after the notice is issued, all entrances and exits of the federation will be guarded, and those who go out will not be left alone until the class is over. Except for resident personnel, only two people are allowed inside each enterprise. In addition to safety factors, the restriction is also due to the fact that there are too many companies in the Wind Valley Industrial Cluster and the federation’s office does not have such a large event hall.
Time is tight, the number of people is limited, and some business managers may also want to meet the Queen up close, so there will be very few senior technical workers and engineers attending the meeting, and they may not be from related industries.
The two of them walked around, and Li Xiang suddenly said: "There seem to be a lot of spies over there."
"Um?"
"I quietly checked using [Magic Mapping]. There are at least three mages in the room, facing the front and rear entrances of the union. There are also two mages among the city hall staff."
Wang Qi smacked his lips: "It looks like he is really a spy."
Not to mention the possibility of seeing mages at the entrance and exit outside, it is almost impossible for the city hall staff to have mages.
Excluding the military and enterprises, mages in the entire system are concentrated in the police station, border agency, Phoenix Bank, treasury and other places. Other units do not have mages, and those who insist on joining will be paid according to ordinary people's salary standards.
The salary of a magician is very high. The salary of a third-ring magician in the Border Agency is already over a thousand, and a certain amount of spell-casting materials can be reimbursed.
As a comparison, the monthly salary of the director of the administrative staff office is only over 200 yuan. Even if you add in the benefits of sugar, salt, and nuts for administrative staff, it is not more than 20 yuan, which is more than 150 yuan less than the salary of a second-level mage.
Is it possible that some mages want to give back to society... The possibility cannot be completely ruled out. However, as long as you report your personal abilities through formal channels, the metropolis will quickly be promoted to the municipal bureau level to manage certain categories such as industry and agriculture, and you can give full play to the mages. The advantages, at least in the aspect of quality inspection, are that the mage has a great advantage.
Through normal channels, it would be difficult to intercept two mages at a dispatch point like the Industrial Federation at the same time. The suspicion is indeed slightly higher.
The two continued walking. After waiting for a while and not hearing anything more, Li Xiang asked, "Aren't you going to catch a spy?"
Wang Qi shook his head: "No, I can't control it, there's nothing I can do."
He went straight for three consecutive rounds, which was a bit beyond expectations. Li wanted to ask: "Is it a limitation on the size of the personnel?"
"It accounts for a small part of the factor, but it is not the main point. Our general structure determines that the spy issue is difficult to deal with."
This general direction is not Wang Qi's own aversion to the inevitable corruption of the secret service department, but is set by the kingdom's basic national policy.
In countries in the main world, the flow of people is mainly based on trade, and there are fixed ground caravan routes without flights. On this basis, counter-espionage work is easy to do, but some guys who have been lurking for more than ten years may still sneak into the management.
"The Phoenix Kingdom has become a trade-oriented industrial cluster. In addition, there are tens of thousands of naturalization quotas every year. It will also promote the exchange of relatives at home and abroad. These factors determine that the population mobility within and outside the country is very high, making the spread of spies very high. , counterintelligence is more difficult.”
"Is it okay to leave it alone?"
"As long as we manage the system well, it won't be a big problem."
Spies are also divided into many types. They may not necessarily sneak in just to cause damage. Most of the ones concentrated inside and outside the Federation are probably commercial spies.
Commercial espionage naturally focuses on the company's own defense. In addition, in terms of national policy, the Kingdom is following the path of a sophisticated industrial chain. This cannot be replicated by breaking through the secrets of a company.
Not to mention how many factors a spy can understand in management, processing, and equipment, even if foreign companies come up with parts of the same quality, there will be no place to sell them without the cooperation of the industrial cluster.
Military espionage is mainly managed by the military. It is currently divided into two parts: internal and external. There is not much to say about the management within the military. The main thing is to restrict overseas exchanges during service and strictly manage domestic correspondence. Officers participate in non-military collective activities during holidays. Reporting is required, etc.
Externally, it is mainly managed by the Reserve Committee. Letters within two years of retirement are still managed according to the service period. After that, the information they have is expired information and can be relaxed.
This system cannot completely cut off the spy intelligence chain, but it can reduce the flow of real-time military intelligence and ensure that no one in the exile would dare to use force against the kingdom.
As for administrative spies... there is really nothing to control, because the administration cannot control the army, and within the administrative system, transparency below the ministerial level is very high, and any decision above the ministerial level must be managed by the central department. Spies are in this system Can't make any waves.
The biggest thing this kind of spy can do is to sneak into the legal system and give other caught friends lighter sentences. Even because of the legal form, they cannot be exempted from crime. At least they have to stand by the city gate for a few days and be punished. If we all know each other, we won’t be able to do any big work.
The real confidence also comes from the mage himself.
[Magic Mapping] This kind of spell that can detect the distribution of magic power is not exclusive to Li Xiang. There are corresponding spells in the prophecy exploration magic, conjuration and even illusion systems. If mages gather in large numbers illegally, they may be noticed and reported by passing mages. .
As long as spies are prevented from turning into terrorist organizations, one or two lone spies can only do limited things under the existing urban defense system.
In addition, for the spy side, the possibility of desperate attempts by spies who are mage is very small.
Mages are a small talent group. They can do better than ordinary people anywhere. Why would they risk their lives?
A threat to your family’s life? That must also have moral support.
The penal colony is a place that will be destroyed in every war between the Three Realms. What high-level morality can be developed in two or three hundred years? If there was, there wouldn't be a common belief in both the main world and the demon world that "catch any target and breed".
Therefore, the one who stands on the moral high ground now is the Phoenix Kingdom itself, which has universal education. There may be some overseas mages who are willing to trade their own lives for the lives of their relatives, but not too many.
In short, judging from the number of mysterious criminal cases in recent years, the advantages of the mage profession itself limit their destructive power, and the situation is better than early estimates.
The deterrent effect of a relatively complete domestic police and legal system cannot be ignored.
The investigative abilities of the mage-type police officers are so outrageous. As long as they commit a crime and do not leave the country immediately, they basically have no chance of running away. As the number of graduates from the Black Forest Academy of Magic increases year by year, the police system is supplementing the number of mage-type police officers every year, and their case-handling capabilities are steadily improving.
The legal system provides three types of punishment: public display, labor reform, and life. Fines are concentrated in commercial disputes. These three types of punishment are difficult for normal mages to accept.
(End of chapter)
