Hearing Gu Nianzhi's voice, Huo Shaoheng finally remembered that he and Gu Nianzhi had agreed to go crab fishing this weekend.
"Nianzhi, I have something urgent to attend to. I can't go back this weekend. Go have fun by yourself. I'll get Big Xiong to give you the keys to the yacht."
"Oh? Something urgent? Forget it then. There's no point in me going alone. "Gu Nianzhi immediately lost interest when she heard that Huo Shaoheng couldn't go.
"Ok, we'll talk about it when it's over." Huo Shaoheng quickly hung up and watched solemnly as the car drove into the heavily guarded Army Supreme Council.
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"General Ji, this is the orange level emergency message we just received from Japan." Huo Shaoheng presented the cracked encrypted message to the five standing committee members of the Army Supreme Council. "I've already ordered the execution of the Japanese Secret Service's spies in Hua Xia."
"Oh? Is this true?! "The five military officials were shocked." How could our people be exposed so thoroughly?! "
It was still possible for one or two of them to be exposed, but it wasn't normal for an entire branch to be exposed.
"Someone in our higher ranks leaked the information," Huo Shaoheng replied gravely. "It shouldn't be a low ranking person."
"That's impossible!" General Ji seemed to find it hard to accept Huo Shaoheng's suggestion. "Why would a high ranking person do something like this? What benefits would they gain? "
"Because of the election," Huo Shaoheng said calmly. "Look at the last emergency message our members sent back with their lives." The Japanese Yamaguchi-gumi have interfered in the domestic election. "
"You're saying the Yamaguchi-gumi interfered in the Prime Minister's election? Then we must inform Speaker Long and Prime Minister Dou about this and investigate the candidates who participated in the election. "
Because the Yamaguchi-gumi's interference in the domestic Prime Minister's election was beyond the scope of the military's authority, Speaker Long and Prime Minister Dou needed to step in.
Huo Shaoheng didn't comment further and waited for the officials to come up with a solution. At the same time, Speaker Long and Prime Minister Dou also took a private car to the Army Supreme Council to participate in the meeting.
All the most powerful people in the Hua Xia Empire were in this conference room, so the security was increased again.
Huo Shaoheng sat beside General Ji and listened to the officials discuss countermeasures in silence.
At this moment, someone knocked on the door and came in to give General Ji a report.
General Ji glanced at it, nodded, and said to the people in the conference room, "Our people reacted quickly and have already executed the Japanese Secret Service personnel in China. One for us, two for them."
Prime Minister Dou's back was drenched in cold sweat the moment he stepped into the meeting room.
Now that he heard General Ji say "equal punishment," and that it was one of them and two of the other side, his heart immediately sank and he subconsciously objected, "That's not good, is it? Will it cause a serious diplomatic dispute? "
Huo Shaoheng had been quietly observing the reactions of the people at the meeting. When he heard Prime Minister Dou's words, he finally said, "When they killed our people, did they ever consider that it would cause a serious diplomatic dispute?"
"But has it really been proven? Major General Huo, we can't make such an outrageous decision based on your side of the story. "Prime Minister Dou stared at Huo Shaoheng intently." Major General Huo, where's the evidence? "
Of course, Huo Shaoheng had evidence, but evidence from the Special Operations Forces couldn't be casually shown to anyone.
"Prime Minister Dou, if your security clearance is high enough, I can show you the evidence."
In other words, Prime Minister Dou wasn't qualified to see the evidence yet.
Prime Minister Dou felt humiliated. He looked at Huo Shaoheng with a dark expression, then turned to Speaker Long. "Speaker Long, does our country's law state that even the Prime Minister can't ask about the Special Operations Forces?"
Speaker Long frowned. "I don't think there's an explicit prohibition."
"It's fine as long as the law doesn't prohibit it. Major General Huo, you can't disrespect Speaker Long's opinion regarding the law, can you?" Prime Minister Dou asked aggressively, almost as if he was giving a speech.
Huo Shaoheng was still calm. He said calmly, "There are always exceptions to everything. The law should already have rules in this area."
After a pause, he added, "If there aren't, we should immediately enact a relevant law."
Speaker Long raised an eyebrow at Prime Minister Dou and said calmly, "There are indeed exceptions. When the Special Military Region was established last year, the Senate specifically passed a law stating that special circumstances should be treated differently, so the specific implementation can be decided by the Special Operations Forces."
This was tantamount to overruling Prime Minister Dou's suggestion.
Prime Minister Dou propped his chin on his hand and thought for a while. He didn't pursue the issue of evidence any further and said with a straight face, "If that's the case, then when the Japanese's diplomatic inquiry comes, please deal with it."
"Alright, as long as they dare to ask, we dare to answer." Huo Shaoheng was very forceful this time. "Also, they've captured a few important members of the Japanese Secret Service. I've also ordered the arrest of a few important members of the Japanese Secret Service. When the time comes, I'll ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mediate the exchange of prisoners."
Prime Minister Dou was shocked again. "Why do you want to exchange prisoners?! Although I think you're going overboard in ordering the execution of those people, it's not unacceptable. But if you want to exchange prisoners, what do you want to do to our country's reputation? "
"Our country's reputation? Who gives you face? " Huo Shaoheng's expression was solemn and he refused to back down. "Only our own people will give us face. Who cares if foreigners give us face? Are you our country's Prime Minister or a foreigner's Prime Minister? "
"But in your line of work, don't you always brag about dying without regrets? Why are you unwilling to die for the sake of the country now? " Prime Minister Dou was resentful at the thought of his eldest daughter, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment. He glared at Huo Shaoheng and knocked on the table.
Huo Shaoheng almost laughed coldly. "It's one thing for us to be willing to disregard our own lives, but you're asking others to do the same. Isn't that too shameless?"
Huo Shaoheng's words were too harsh, and Prime Minister Dou's words were indeed too shameless. Therefore, although the military officials and Speaker Long disagreed with Huo Shaoheng's words, they were even more angry with Prime Minister Dou.
"Our soldiers aren't afraid of death, but that doesn't mean you can force them to die." General Ji was the most displeased. He slammed the table and roared, "I support this! As long as there are still people alive, we must find a way to bring them home. Whether it's exchanging prisoners or using other methods, we must try! "
With General Ji's support, Prime Minister Dou immediately changed his tone. He smiled sheepishly and said, "That's not what I meant. General Ji is right, we should think of a way to bring our people home. I'll go talk to the people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and see if we can resolve this through diplomatic channels."
Prime Minister Dou drove away with a straight face. Huo Shaoheng asked Speaker Long and General Ji for authorization. "Our people suffered a major setback due to domestic reasons this time. I request the authority to investigate the election within the country."
"No, the relevant departments within the country will take over and give justice to our sacrificed soldiers." General Ji flatly rejected Huo Shaoheng's proposal.
After the meeting, he explained to Huo Shaoheng, "… You already have enough authority. If you give more, some people within the country won't be able to sleep at night …"
Huo Shaoheng was flexible and quickly changed his condition. "Fine, I won't interfere with the election, but what about the full authority of the Special Operations Forces? After dragging this out for so long, shouldn't they give me an answer? "
"I know, I'll rush them right now."
General Ji quickly brought up Huo Shaoheng's request to the higher-ups. Speaker Long and the standing committee members of the Supreme Military Council all disagreed with Huo Shaoheng's Special Operations Forces interfering in the national election. However, the Special Operations Forces had suffered heavy losses this time, and they had no choice but to appease them. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, as a compromise, they officially granted full personnel authority to the head of the Special Operations Forces, who was now Huo Shaoheng.
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When Prime Minister Dou returned to his official residence, he anxiously contacted Yamaguchi Aiko and said in a panic, "… They seem to have found out. You have to think of a way to distance yourself from me …"
Yamaguchi Aiko didn't expect the Huaxia Special Operations Forces to be so powerful. Her carefully planned plan was useless, but she quickly thought of another way. She calmly said, "Don't worry, I'll help you change the target."
Not long after, Yamaguchi Aiko arranged to meet Miao Yunxiao and her aunt, Xu Piaohong's mother, at an inconspicuous ice cream shop to talk to Miao Yunxiao.
"Miss Aiko, your idea didn't work …" Miao Yunxiao felt wronged. "I'm the unluckiest now. Everyone in my faculty is on Gu Nianzhi's side. They're a bunch of traitorous snobs!"
Yamaguchi Aiko didn't expect Gu Nianzhi to be so quick-witted. She was able to solve such a covert scheme. The situation in the Empire had been very tense recently. Not only had Prime Minister Dou informed her, but she had also discovered that several Japanese Secret Service members she had been in contact with had suddenly disappeared …
"Don't provoke her for now. I'll contact you in a few days." As Yamaguchi Aiko spoke, she deliberately left a few flaws for the people following Xu Piaohong's mother to see.
After this meeting, Yamaguchi Aiko seemed to have evaporated from the world and couldn't be found again.
Miao Yunxiao couldn't get through to Yamaguchi Aiko's phone no matter how hard she tried. Xu Piaohong's case was about to be heard, and Xu Piaohong's mother was extremely anxious.
She had finally gotten permission to leave her house to help Xu Piaohong plead with someone, but the Japanese woman who had given them the idea still didn't work.
As for Xu Piaohong's leak case, someone suddenly revealed new evidence that Xu Piaohong's mother and cousin, Miao Yunxiao, had been in contact with a Japanese woman, Yamaguchi Aiko. Due to the Special Operations Forces' Team A being wiped out, the severity of her case had risen to another level.
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