In peaceful times, commercial espionage is more common and even more important than military espionage.
The spies are not handsome James Bond. They are often ordinary-looking, they are commercial agents of a large company in the place of sale, or publicly operated consulting agencies.
There are many ways to collect information, but more than 90% of the information is actually obtained from the public domain.
Because the intelligence in reality is often not hidden.
For example, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the domestic oil gap reached 60%. Buses do not burn oil but gas, and a huge gas bag should be carried on the roof.
In the 1960s, the gas bag suddenly disappeared.
The Japanese reacted most quickly to this. They collected information everywhere, such as paying attention to the cover of "China Pictorial" in 1966-the iron man Wang Jinxi.
From the winter clothes and dog-skin hat worn by Wang Jinxi, it can be concluded that the oil field is in the northeast. From the text in the report, the approximate location of the oil field can be judged.
Infer the diameter of the oil well from the handle held in Wang Jinxi's photo. Based on the drilling spacing in the background, the oil field size can be inferred.
From the comparison of the refinery reaction tower and the fence, infer the diameter of the reaction tower, and then know the refining capacity and oil field production. Further know that domestic oil refining capacity is insufficient.
When the domestic Ministry of Petroleum Industry began bidding for petroleum refining equipment abroad, the Japanese were most prepared.
Other suppliers are still ignorant in the face of bidding. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan analyzed a large amount of information through public data and gave the most suitable equipment plan, thus winning the bid in one fell swoop.
These are all commercial information obtained through public collection, without any secret means, as long as they are careful enough to know.
In fact, most leaks are often reported by the public media.
Zhou Qingfeng provided the imperial capital's factories and scientific research institutes with foreign embargoed machine tools and electronic devices. Foreign trade agents doing business in the imperial capital responded most sensitively.
After all, there are cheaper goods, and no one wants to spend wrong money. The foreign devil or the second devil sells some bad things on weekdays, and every time the transaction is made, it seems like a reward, which is disgusting.
Anderson Qin, who works for ADI, is about to sell a batch of eight-bit analog-to-digital conversion chips to an electronics import and export company with the prefix "中".
But business negotiations lasted for several months, and the bureaucrats on the side of the word "中" suddenly became hardened. Anderson Qin did not wait for the negotiators of the import and export company, and only talked with the other party the next day.
Domestic bureaucrats directly asked: "Can your ADI sell 16-bit high-speed broadband analog-to-digital conversion chips?"
Don't be kidding, the 12-digit analog-to-digital conversion chip is on the embargo list, and the ten-digit is the export limit. Buying eight people all depends on Qin Hao's mood, and raise the price if he is in a bad mood.
The domestic bureaucrats actually want 16 people. Where do you get your heart
Sixteen-bit analog-to-digital conversion chips are used for fighter jets or satellites, or for cutting-edge radars and radios. It is never exported abroad, and if it is wanted domestically, it must be obtained in small quantities through underground channels.
Anderson Qin flatly refused for this. As a result, the other party hung up the phone with just a few hum.
Is that reasonable? !
Usually domestic bureaucrats begged to buy, but today the situation has reversed.
Qin Hao tried to wait for his negotiating opponent to change his mind. But the opponent kicked him out of the game unexpectedly, and had no intention of contacting him.
By this time, the fool knew that something was wrong.
Qin Hao immediately notified the U.S. headquarters of the situation related to making money. But the headquarters doesn't care much about it...
Due to the embargo and the low application level in China, the purchases have always been low-end products, and the quantity is very small. To put it bluntly, the market is limited and cannot be taken seriously.
But the headquarters does not pay attention to it. As a banana man, Qin Hao can't ignore it.
This is related to his job, to his paid leave for a year and several months, and to whether he can go to Sanlitun every night to enjoy the emperor's life.
The ADI headquarters only asked Qin Hao to investigate by himself, and did not give much help other than that. What Qin Hao can do is collect information everywhere, trying to figure out what's wrong with domestic electronic devices.
Technology breakthrough
impossible.
Science and technology are not castles in the air. Even the simplest capacitors and resistors in China are not produced well, and the chips are in the low-end imitation stage.
To put it bluntly, some state-owned units are too stable because of their iron rice bowls.
The employees have no sense of responsibility. They do good and bad things in the same way, and do and don't do things the same, so that they can't even build a bicycle.
Want to climb to the cutting-edge products in one breath, this is not in line with the laws of science.
The most likely thing is that other better quality sources have been found in the country, and ADI is no longer needed, let alone Anderson Qin.
Damn it, is this another'Toshiba incident'
After acquiring the nine-axis five-linkage CNC machine tool, the underwater noise of Soviet ships, especially nuclear submarines, has dropped significantly, making it difficult to continue NATO's surveillance.
This sudden and dramatic change inevitably means that something out of control is happening behind the scenes, which will trigger a series of investigations.
Suddenly no ADI products in China, there must be a secret behind this.
It should be someone who had eaten the heart and the gall of the bear who was playing tricks. In order to make a huge profit, he secretly shipped the embargoed devices to China.
Qin Hao figured this out, and immediately found that he was driven to a desperate situation.
"No, no! Never let this happen. You must find out this hidden company or individual, and you must expose the matter."
The easiest way is to find a foreign media to post an article telling Yingjiang's intelligence agency that someone is selling embargoed devices behind the scenes.
Ten of these things are done by the Japanese. They have the technology and the criminal record.
Check them, check them, check them fiercely.
Qin Hao's main competitors in the mainland are Japanese manufacturers. Moreover, those Japanese people prefer to go to camp. They are bold enough to do anything to make money.
Like Toshiba, Sony, Panasonic, and Murata, these Japanese manufacturers have a good mix in the Chinese market. Compared with arrogant European and American manufacturers, they are not so big.
Qin Hao grabbed the phone at hand and wanted to call a foreign reporter in the Imperial Capital. For example, Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, a lot of idle reporters waiting to make big news.
But before the call goes out, someone calls in.
Look at the number, don’t know
Qin Hao was still connected, and a staid and indifferent voice came from the microphone, "Qin Sang, I am Watanabe in the imperial capital of the Japan Council for the Promotion of Trade."
Oh..., Qin Hao dragged his voice, and an image of a smiling Japanese old man appeared in his mind. He asked inexplicably: "Mr. Watanabe, are you okay?"
"We have recently received some very bad news, and now we want to communicate with you."
"What... what do you mean?"
"Qin Sang, please don't quibble. We already have conclusive evidence that you, as the business representative of ADI in the United States, are doing things that endanger the Western trading system.
I want to give you a warning now. Before causing more serious consequences, please stop. Stop playing with fire. Otherwise I will report you to your government. "
It is rare for Japanese people to speak so bluntly to speak so bluntly. This is obviously going to die after being extremely angry and annoyed.
Qin Hao was even more furious as he listened.
These little Japanese dwarfs dare to give a rake!