Go back in time and be a chaebol

Chapter 1615 The Defector (Second update, please subscribe)
How will this crisis evolve?
After the crisis occurred, almost the whole world was paying attention to the development of the incident. When the "Resilience incident" occurred in the Strait of Malacca, countries around the world also expressed their concern.

Just when they thought the crisis was about to break out, the situation cooled down instead. Both sides seemed to be downplaying the incident intentionally or unintentionally.

"...all parties seem to be deliberately downplaying the "Endurance Incident" so that the SEA can concentrate on confronting Russia..."

Listening to the news on TV, Shi Jingli turned off the TV with the remote control, then stood up from the sofa and walked to the street.

June is the best time of the year in Berlin. At this time, people always go out to enjoy the sunshine. Twenty-one years after the end of the war, the traces of the war seem to have disappeared from here, and the city has been rebuilt.
There are tall buildings everywhere. Although West Berlin is a city surrounded by the Berlin Wall, it is still prosperous, at least much more prosperous than East Berlin.

Strolling aimlessly in the city, Shi Jingli was unable to concentrate on the morning news and was always distracted. Therefore, when he realized that he had reached the city center, it was already past eleven in the morning.

Now, it is almost lunchtime, the streets are full of pedestrians, and people are coming in and out of the buildings on both sides of the street from time to time.

Shi Jingli stood next to the newsstand and looked at the passers-by around him.

Although it is West Berlin, like other cities in Germany, Asians can be seen everywhere.

These Asians could be Siamese, Korean or Japanese.

Most of them came here as laborers. There was a labor shortage in post-war West Germany, so they looked abroad. Eastern European countries were led by the Soviet Union and had strict labor control. Especially after the establishment of the Berlin Wall, West Germany could hardly obtain labor from Eastern Europe.

Although West Germany looked to southern European countries such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece to import workers from these countries, these countries also needed workers. The labor shortage has always restricted the development of West Germany's economy.

It was also at this time that Germany turned its attention to Asia.

As a member of the Western countries, SEA had a very close relationship with West Germany, which enabled many SEA people to enter Germany without a visa. And SEA's first little brother, Siam, also benefited from this and was granted visa-free treatment.

Six years ago, West Germany and Siam signed the Federal Republic of Germany-Kingdom of Siam Labor Recruitment Agreement. Since then, Siam, with a population of more than 2600 million, has continuously supplied a large number of laborers to Germany.

Five years ago, South Korea signed a labor recruitment agreement with West Germany, and a few months later, Japan also signed a labor recruitment agreement with West Germany.

Over the next six years, many Asian workers poured into West Germany. In the past five years alone, the number of foreign workers in Germany has increased from 33 to 110 million, of which 60 are from Siam, South Korea and Japan. Most of the jobs they perform are low-level labor, and their hourly wages are basically based on the local minimum wage standard.

The Asian population now accounts for almost 1% of the German population. Although they are not naturalized, they have become the largest immigrant group in West Germany.

Officially, all of this was driven by the SEA in order to alleviate the labor surplus in the three countries. In fact, from another perspective, the outflow of a large number of young workers will definitely affect the development of the three countries, especially these workers, who have received at least high school or even college education.

The impact of this loss of young intelligence and labor force on a country is self-evident, but for young people, coming to Europe can change their destiny.

As for the country behind them...does it matter?

Shi Jingli shook his head. As an intelligence officer, he knew very well that the relationship between countries was far more complicated than outsiders imagined. Even between allies, there were strategies against each other.

"Strategy... is an indispensable measure in the game."

Just as he was thinking this in his heart, he heard the shouting of a newspaper seller nearby.

"Take a look at the diplomatic wisdom of..., using a temporary concession to induce the two major powers to intensify the conflict!"

The newspaper seller's screaming at the top of his lungs made Shi Jingli's whole body tremble, and he couldn't help but mutter.

"Diplomatic wisdom?"

Shi Jingli muttered,

Diplomacy always requires some wisdom and some means, just as the whole world is now paying attention to the crisis in Southeast Asia. To a certain extent, they all hope that the confrontation between SEA and Russia will intensify.

That's what interests do.

Each country has its own ideas. For example, the Americans hope that Russia and the Eastern world will put more energy and attention into Jakarta, so that they will have less pressure in Vietnam.

As for West Germany and France, they also hope that the crisis will be further intensified so that the pressure on Europe can be relieved.

What about the UK?
Their ideas are more complicated. Britain hopes that the conflict between the two sides will intensify, but does not want to see SEA's power too much trapped in Southeast Asia, thus reducing its investment in Africa.

After all, Britain needs thugs.

Thinking this in his mind, he walked towards the Boulevard Unter den Linden. Although the name of the road had not changed, the bodhi trees on both sides of the 60-meter-wide avenue were just small saplings planted in previous years. During the war, Hitler ordered the bodhi trees on both sides of the road to be cut down for the military parade.

It is very difficult to restore a cut down tree. Although you can replant new trees, it takes time for them to grow into towering trees.

Soon, Shi Jingli arrived at the restaurant he often visited. After he sat down, as usual, just as he finished ordering, a man walked up to him and said:
"Hello my friend."

The other party sat down directly and placed a newspaper on the dining table. Shi Jingli took a look at the newspaper and found that it was not from West Berlin, but from East Berlin.

At this time, Andre said to the waiter who had just come over:
"Just be like him."

Looking up at the guy in front of him, Shi Jingli said:
"Andre, this is West Berlin."

Andre was a senior KGB official in East Berlin. They had cooperated a lot in the past, including several spy exchanges. There were many old friends like this in Berlin. After all, this is the capital of spies. There is a saying that there are 200 million people in West Berlin, of which spies and informants from various countries account for 2!
So, everyone is familiar with it.

The two of them are also acquaintances, very familiar ones.

After taking a sip of tea, Shi Jingli looked at Andre and asked:

"Where's your sniper?"

They knew each other very well, and usually when they met, they would arrange for snipers to aim at each other's heads with sniper rifles. The kind that would kill them in one shot.

"Today I am alone."

"Oh?"

Shi Jingli looked at Andre and said:

"I haven't seen you for a few days. You've become braver. You dare to come here even without a sniper."

"You seem to have become less courageous."

After a moment of silence, Shi Jingli said, thinking about the recent events:

"Is something wrong?"

"Yes."

Andre took out a cigarette box, handed a cigarette to Shi Jingli, and said:

"Try this cigarette. It's made of the finest Ethiopian tobacco. In Moscow, only the top officials can smoke it."

"Oh?"

Looking at Andre, Shi Jingli was a little confused. Was he inviting him to taste the cigarettes?

When he was confused, he heard the other party say:
"You know, sometimes, we are just tools,"

Shi Jingli said:
"Maybe."

"I'm not talking about our work, but...it may be a tool for the struggle at the top."

what?
Shi Jingli looked at the other party with some confusion. This sentence contained a certain amount of information. Andrei was saying that the KGB might be involved in the high-level struggle in Moscow.

Just as Shi Jingli was guessing what the other party was thinking, Andre said:
"You know, in our job, we often don't have any choice. We just passively do some work, and some work may have nothing to do with us, but we always need to be responsible for some things."

Andre stared at Shi Jingli and said:
"Like right now, I might be involved in something that needs some cleanup."

"You need to be cleaned up, right?"

"Yes."

Andre said directly:

"So, I need your help—I want you to help me get out of East Germany!"

what!
Shi Jingli looked at the guy in front of him and said in surprise:

"You know what you're talking about?"

The topic they are talking about now is a bit sensitive, or highly sensitive!
After all, the guy in front of him is the deputy station chief of KGB in East Berlin.

It is really unbelievable that such a guy would defect.

"I know. It's defection."

Andre looked at the vehicles passing by on the road with some disappointment and said:
"I never thought that I would do this one day, but my friend, I can provide a lot of valuable intelligence. In addition to helping me and my family leave East Berlin, I also need corresponding rewards."

Then, Andre looked at the other party and said seriously:

"So, I hope you can give it serious consideration. After all, in this crisis, you are in great need of intelligence in certain areas."

After saying this, Andre got up and left, but he did not take away the newspaper that had been placed on the table.

Looking at the newspaper that was deliberately left behind, Shi Jingli searched for a while and then unfolded the newspaper.

There was nothing in the newspaper.

It was just an ordinary newspaper, the Berlin Volkszeitung, which was the largest official newspaper in East Berlin and also the official organ.

"The date seems to be a little wrong, right..."

After looking at it carefully, Shi Jingli discovered that this newspaper was an old one from last year. Although the photo on the front page was of East German leader Walter Ulbricht, the news was a photo of him attending the Soviet Revolution Day parade. In the photo, standing next to him was the Soviet leader.

“It should be this photo.”

Looking at the people in the photo, Shi Jingli began to speculate. He directly ruled out Walter Ulbricht. After all, he was the leader of East Germany.

"The high-level struggle he mentioned..."

As he said this, Shi Jingli suddenly seemed to understand something. He looked at the Soviet leader in the photo and said to himself:
"So, it should be them?"

Who is in the photo?
Shelepin!
(End of this chapter)