Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1778 1779 The Minister of Intelligence Department

Seeing the ugly face of the emperor sitting at the head of the conference table, several ministers in charge of intelligence work were very cautious. They just knew what happened and were now in the stage of passing the buck.

Naturally, they would not take the responsibility for such a matter. Based on the principle of "a friend's death would rather die than the individual himself", they would certainly make excuses that it was none of their business.

One minister simply spread his hands and showed the most innocent expression: "Why do they want to pin this on us? This kind of thing definitely has nothing to do with us!"

Anyway, he really didn't give such an order, and such a thing would never be traced to him. If you said that His Majesty the Emperor was investigating corruption, bribery, incompetence and mediocrity, then he might still be nervous, but he would be justified in investigating such a thing.

Another minister sitting nearby was also filled with righteous indignation. He also had no guts to issue such an order: "Yeah, why would they suspect us of such a thing? Don't they know how capable we are? The last time we sent a few people, they were arrested as soon as they entered the country, weren't they?"

  In fact, Yang Mu Yi, who was sitting in the first seat, knew what was going on. Even if he used intimidation or bribery, his subordinates might not be willing to do this kind of assassination of the head of the enemy country. Without his knowledge, who would be so bored as to do such a thankless task?

If it succeeds, Yang Mu Yi will benefit as a leader, but if it fails, the people who carried out the mission will take the blame? Although he dreams of having such subordinates, Yang Mu Yi still has some self-awareness: he may not have many such people under his command.

"Those damn bastards, aren't they just blackmailing us?" The third minister was furious. He felt that none of the people in front of him had the courage to assassinate the Tang Emperor.

"This is too much! This is too much!" The fourth minister was old and frail, and he was very indignant, pinching his beard.

At this point, the minister who spoke first continued to doubt: "Maybe they just want to blackmail us... Besides, if they really blame us for this, what can we do?"

The second minister complained unhappily: "To be honest, if they say there was an assassination, then there must be an assassination? Maybe the whole thing is fake, maybe they just made it up themselves."

His words immediately made everyone nod in agreement: "That's right. They come to us to accuse us without any evidence. What can we say to them?"

The third minister also excitedly put all the blame on the Tang Empire: "That's right! Maybe it's the Tang people's own conspiracy, trying to sow discord between us and our allies!"

"This is too much! This is too much!" The fourth minister was still pinching his beard, looking like an old man with blurry eyes, and nodded in agreement.

Yang Mu I interrupted the ministers' nonsense with dissatisfaction: "Enough! They actually caught you with something, so they sent this matter to us to ask for an explanation! Otherwise, do you think they would talk about this matter at this time?"

If these people continue to talk like this, they might talk until tomorrow morning! So Yang Mu Yishi gave a general direction to stop them from continuing to talk nonsense: "Also, there is no need to doubt whether this matter is true. So far, there has been no case of blackmailing with false incidents. They still have some credibility. Since they say that a group of people have been arrested, then they must have arrested a group of people." On this issue, the reputation of the Tang Empire is still very good. If there is no real evidence, the Tang Empire will generally not send people to the other party to question them.

Because whether it was a period of strong war or a period of friendly peace, the Tang Empire generally did not resort to unconventional tactics and always followed the normal path.

It is precisely because the Tang Empire has a good reputation that once a problem occurs, no one will question the Tang Empire for being unreasonable: because if they really were being unreasonable, they would not have waited until now. They have all the advantages and would have used them long ago.

"Now think about it carefully, have you arranged some people who can take action in the Tang Empire!" Therefore, Yang Mu I decided to look for the problem among his subordinates.

Compared to the Tang Empire framing the Yangmu Empire, it is more likely that the Yangmu Empire exposed itself.

The minister in charge of intelligence gathering immediately excused himself: "Your Majesty, we are the intelligence department. Usually we are only responsible for collecting intelligence and spying on military situations. You know that our hired spies and those undercover personnel would never have the guts to do such a thing..."

"Moreover, we haven't been able to get any decent intelligence recently. The entire system has been severely damaged... As for those bastards, the assassination of the Tang emperor was definitely not done by people from our department." As he spoke, he almost burst into tears.

In order to prove his innocence, he almost said that his subordinates were a bunch of cowards. But everyone knew that their intelligence gathering department was indeed like this.

Most of the time, this department is basically the one that gets cheated of their funds by all kinds of people: local gangs, any small civil servant, enemy intelligence agencies that contact them to fish for information... they can all receive a large amount of "special intelligence rewards" from them.

To put it bluntly, they are responsible for spending money. They get some real or fake news that is not clear from the real news, and report it to their superiors, and that's their job.

If someone in such a department suddenly changed their style and did something so grand and earth-shattering, Tang Mo might not believe it.

After hearing that the Minister of Intelligence Collection had distanced himself from the matter, the Minister of Action also spoke up: "Your Majesty, although we are the action team, you also know that our progress in the Western Continent is not smooth. Nine out of ten have lost contact in the past. The core is made up of elves and it is difficult to act. There are not many humans bribed by the periphery."

As he spoke, his tone became bitter: "Last year, my department only received a little over 100 million yuan in activity funds. I paid salaries to several action leaders, but couldn't even pay out bonuses. In this situation, how could there be any large-scale actions?"

If we talk about the past few years, the intelligence collection department still had some operating funds because everyone still had some needs for information, but the situation on the action department's side was a different story.