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Chapter 357 Top Secret Materials, Possible Premature Sanctions and Suppression

The internal gymnasium next to the family residential area.

After dinner, many Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) employees like to come here for a walk.

Since middle schools and universities are already on holiday, many families of three or even four are out for a stroll these days.

"Aunt Zhou, haven't Qingling and Lin Dong come out yet?" Xia Ran asked with a smile when she saw Zhou Xiaoyan, holding He Ying's hand.

On the other side, Xu Ziming, Xia Tianqiang, Huang Weibing, Cai Feng, and other core members were chatting casually in the evening breeze.

Zhou Xiaoyan smiled and shook her head: "The two of them stayed home watching variety shows after dinner and refused to come out."

"Mr. He, it's definitely more considerate to have a daughter."

Beside them, Cai Feng's wife, Cheng Qing, glanced at Xia Ran and said enviously to He Ying, "My husband, from junior high school to now in college, has never gone for a walk with me."

"Boys have different social circles and like different things, so you can't compare them."

He Ying glanced at her daughter beside her and chuckled, "My Ranran didn't like to go out much before, but it's only recently, after she started university, that we've been able to go out more often."

"That's true."

Cheng Qing nodded and looked at Xia Ran with a smile: "Ranran, when are you going to the capital for the start of the semester? Brother Cai Hang is also studying at Renmin University in the capital. He will be a sophomore next semester. If the time is right, we can go together."

"Aunt Cheng, I'm going back to my hometown in Northeast China this month. I'll probably be flying there from Harbin."

Xia Ran politely declined, saying, "It might be impossible to get together."

"So, then, National Day—"

Cheng Qing looked somewhat regretful and wanted to say something, but just then, Cai Feng's pocket jingled not far away.

Shortly afterward, Xu Ziming, Xia Tianqiang, and the pockets of the other core members all started ringing.

"go back."

Cai Feng took out his secure phone, unlocked it, glanced at it, said nothing, told Cheng Qing, and then called back.

"it is good."

Cheng Qing paused for a moment, then nodded to Zhou Xiaoyan, He Ying, and Xia Ran before following her husband back home.

"Let's go back too."

Xia Tianqiang looked at his secure mobile phone, which could only receive signals from Beidou and the internal military network, and saw an email notification pop up from Wang Xingguo.

"I know," he said to He Ying and Xia Ran, referring to the sign indicating the launch of a new project.

"Something new?"

He Ying glanced at the square outside the stadium and saw many core employees who had come out for a walk suddenly turning back. She immediately understood what was going on.

"Um."

Xia Tianqiang nodded. Unless the progress is deliberately slowed down, the fact that the project has started cannot be kept secret, and there is nothing to hide about it.

They had only gone a short distance when suddenly, the roar of engines filled the sky.

The next moment, under everyone's watchful eyes, in the sky still tinged with the glow of a summer sunset, a Y-9 Kirin transport plane was nose-down, heading towards Huangtianba Airport.

Immediately afterwards, two J-11B fighters streaked across the sky and circled twice over the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) base.

Once it was confirmed that the Y-9 Kirin transport aircraft had landed safely as planned, the ground security department took over the entire airport. The aircraft tilted slightly, and the fighter jet once again streaked across the sky, disappearing into the sunset.

"—Top Secret Material!"

When He Ying saw this, her pupils contracted slightly, and she subconsciously looked at Xia Tianqiang.

Having worked in the military industry for decades and once being a core member, He Ying knew from the fighter jet escort that the transport planes were carrying top-secret materials.

The two fighter jets served both as escort and as a precaution, preventing accidental defection of the transport crew.

However, even Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group rarely transports materials of this size.

It's not that Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) doesn't have enough top-secret data, but rather that this kind of transport method, escorted by fighter jets, is only used when data needs to be transferred between different units.

It's not a cross-organizational issue; the data is all in its own internal secure database, so there's no need for such physical transportation.

If He Ying remembered correctly, the last time such material transportation occurred was the year her family was transferred from Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group to Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group.

Later it was confirmed that the J-16D project had been launched, and the complete set of data for the J-16 fighter jet was being transported from Shenyang Aircraft Corporation.

But now that the south has been pacified and the pressure on equipment and military supplies has been greatly reduced, why are there new projects being launched all of a sudden, and top-secret material transportation between different units all of a sudden?

"Let's do as arranged."

Xia Tianqiang didn't say much, but shook his head and said, "The Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group base now has more than just military equipment; there are many other things to do as well—"

The next afternoon, at the Consulate General in Shanghai.

Sunlight streamed in through the windows into the spacious conference room.

Williams is leading a team of intelligence personnel and technical analysts, constantly analyzing and sorting out industry intelligence, policy information, and analytical reports from business consulting firms over the past four years.

Since returning to the Asia-Pacific region some time ago, Williams has been staying in Shanghai, spending a lot of money to collect industrial intelligence on this 960 million square kilometer country, sort out its industrial chain, and gather information on various core patents, core experts, and so on.

"This industry intelligence is really troublesome."

"Each one must consider the patents behind it, as well as their respective profits, hidden supply chains, and assess the checks and balances among the patents and supply chains of all parties —"

Williams felt a chill run down his spine as he looked at the documents in front of him.

Compared to military intelligence, which only requires consideration of the authenticity of the intelligence and how to obtain it, without needing to consider patents or supply chains, industry-related intelligence is undoubtedly much more complex.

Although much of the industry information is publicly available, it is not difficult to collect.

However, the various patents, markets, profits, global industrial chains, and even geopolitical factors involved behind the scenes are all mixed up in a tangled mess.

Even if business consulting firms provide analysis reports, these firms can only offer opinions within the framework of legal and conventional business practices.

Once geographical factors and unconventional methods are involved, business consulting firms become second-rate and can only be used as a reference.

After all, he asked several companies what better solutions they had, if they didn't consider the legal framework.

After thinking for a moment, the other party came up with a plan for physical destruction, which was even more ruthless than what he, the intelligence chief, had come up with.

Physical destruction.

He certainly knew about physical destruction.

But this is not an ordinary small country. Unless there are explicit instructions from above, and physical destruction can be carried out without leaving any trace, it will always be a backup option among backup options.

After all, once traces are left, and pressure comes from all sides, he will most likely have to go out and become a scapegoat.

Even if his superiors were firm enough, and Mr. Smith was capable enough to avoid making him a scapegoat, he would still be the first target of retaliation.

It's just a job, why risk your life?

"Sir, there's new information about Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group—"

Just then, Peter rushed in with a document, his expression grave.

What are the latest developments at Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group?

Williams quickly looked up, somewhat surprised, and said, "Lily of the Valley had an accident, and she was arrested?"

If something unexpected happens or he gets caught so quickly, that would be a good thing.

This means that Suzuran's goal really has a major problem, and Suzuran's proactive move has hit the core of the strategy. Their analysis was correct.

"No, everything is normal at Lily of the Valley."

Peter shook his head and handed the documents to Williams: "Chengfei seems to have launched a new equipment development project. Also, last night a batch of top-secret materials was escorted to Chengfei by fighter jets?"

"New equipment project, top secret materials —"

Williams paused, recalling a few years ago when, on the eve of the launch of the J-16D project, a batch of top-secret materials were also escorted to Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group.

Afterwards, they analyzed and confirmed that what they were escorting that time was the complete set of data and design drawings for the J-16 fighter jet.

"Is this a smokescreen, or is there actually a project?"

Williams took the document and looked at it carefully for a while. He then looked at Peter and asked, "Can you find the original escort unit for this batch of materials?"

Also, Peter, do you think this new equipment development project is related to this top-secret document? Or is it just a smokescreen?

"I'm arranging for people to search, but there's a high chance we won't find anything."

Peter shook his head, pondered for a moment, and said, "As for whether the new equipment project is related to this batch of top-secret materials, I think it is not."

This batch of top-secret escorted materials is most likely a smokescreen, or other top-secret information on non-military projects.

"Oh, tell me your analysis." A hint of admiration flashed in Williams' eyes.

"It's very simple. After the Southern Incident, their military preparations were greatly reduced—"

Peter said seriously, "In this situation, they don't need to use this cross-unit approach to military equipment development, where different units are involved at different stages and there is a handover process in between."

Military equipment development cannot be arranged arbitrarily.

Instead, the principle should be that whoever is familiar with the work should be responsible for the research and development, and whoever did the preliminary work should be responsible for the later work together.

The J-16 fighter jet was developed by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC). Normally, SAC would be responsible for the J-16D project as well. Xi'an Aircraft Corporation (XAC) has been developing bombers for decades, so the large bomber project would also be handled by XAC.

At that time, a number of core employees of Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, including the chief engineer, were hospitalized, and the external military pressure was enormous.

In order to improve the core equipment more quickly, the headquarters decided to transfer the J-16D project to Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) only after confirming that CAC could complete the mission.

Even so, Shen Fei still raised his objections for a while before finally finding a way to back down and settle the matter.

The same applies to the large bomber project. The two projects, the large bomber and the carrier-based early warning aircraft, had to be launched at the same time. Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group (XAC) had to put forward one of the projects. In the end, because its own proposal was not strong enough, it was outmatched and the project was given to Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC).

But now that the southern incident has passed and the military pressure has been greatly reduced, adopting such an arrangement again would inevitably lead to internal conflicts. "That's right."

Williams nodded approvingly, then pulled out an intelligence document about the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) aerospace base and handed it to Peter: "Keep a close eye on this new aerospace research and production base of CAC."

The person in charge of this base, Su Ruohua, is the wife of Wang Xingguo of Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group. She has been almost missing for decades and is confirmed to be a technical expert in Northwest Aerospace and even ballistics.

If any projects are launched at this base, then this batch of top-secret materials will most likely be transferred from their China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

Move over here; it contains top-secret data related to aerospace.

If no project has actually started, this is most likely just a smokescreen.

"Space Base —"

Peter's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but ask, "They're going to get into commercial spaceflight too, and reusable rockets?"

"pretty close----"

Williams nodded, then said as if he had just thought of something: "There's been some good news and some bad news in the local area these past two days."

"Good news! That AevumIQ genius serum is incredibly powerful. By using computational fluid dynamics to eliminate most possible directions, and with the combined efforts of a group of AevumIQ geniuses, we managed to develop a hypersonic aircraft with fewer than 800 prototypes."

"It's manufactured?"

Peter exclaimed in surprise, "We have hypersonic aircraft now?"

"Yes, that's good news."

Williams remained silent for a moment before saying, "But the bad news is that it's only a prototype made in the lab and can't be mass-produced industrially—our manufacturing industry is still too bad."

The gentlemen above have now further endorsed the ideas of the republicans and decided to promote the improvement of the manufacturing industry as much as possible.

With the help of AevumIQ potions and a complete industrial system, we will create a glorious new era of freedom!

However, if we want to establish a sound manufacturing system, we must suppress and sanction the development of industrial manufacturing here.

Otherwise, in terms of cost advantage and price advantage, our manufacturing industry is not competitive. Without competitiveness, there is no profit, and without profit, it cannot be established.

Unfortunately, the AevumIQ potion is still too profound, and no matter how it is improved, lifespan cannot be further increased.

Otherwise, we could directly develop a super AI, and then use that AI to build a complete industrial system, which would allow us to further explore the stars.

Speaking of which...

Williams seemed to remember something and looked at Peter, saying, "I remember that mysterious biological experiment order they placed before the Spring Festival. Have you traced its origin yet?"

"Sir, we can't find anything; it's very well-hidden." Peter shook his head gravely. "Right now, the only faint clues point northwest—"

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Their personnel simply couldn't infiltrate the Northwest.

Even if they manage to infiltrate, it's difficult for the message to get out, and they're also easily exposed.

"Damn, are they really doing biological research in the Gobi Desert?"

Williams cursed, then suddenly remembered something: "Two years ago, when we were investigating the biological program, we conducted channel testing attacks on their nationwide military communication lines, creating a traffic chart of the military network to investigate their core data sources—didn't that program yield any results?"

"Sir, no."

Peter shook his head again: "They increased the frequency of line inspections three years ago, and later added drones and robotic dogs for inspections. Our side-channel detection equipment was discovered in less than two days, and we lost a number of peripheral personnel —"

"God! What secrets does their biological program hold? How can they protect it like a turtle shell?!"

Williams was a little numb. He took a few deep breaths to calm himself down and said, "Stop. Now focus on analyzing and investigating their AI, new energy, and aerospace industries to provide core intelligence support for the next strategic plan of sanctions and suppression against the mainland."

If their biological program yields widespread public benefits, they'll release it themselves; that's how their system works—once they have an industrial entity, it'll be easier for us to investigate!