My spy diary

Chapter 265 The dust has settled (please vote for me)

With green leaves swaying and swallows flying through the corridors, the scenery of Luojia Mountain is charming today.

Several black cars were parked neatly outside the villa at the foot of the mountain.

There were two rows of people standing around the car, one group was wearing neat black Zhongshan suits, and the other was wearing straight military uniforms, the distinction was clear.

Zhang Yi had a bandage on his arm and a cigarette in his mouth. He was chatting with He Zhiyuan, the head of the operations department, while secretly observing the people from the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics next to him.

At this time, He Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Did you see that? The famous Deputy Director Xu is here."

"Deputy Director Xu seems a little unhappy." Zhang Yi chuckled. Since Boss Dai had caught the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics with evidence of a Japanese undercover spy, he naturally pursued the matter relentlessly. However, after reporting the case to a certain Chang, apart from ordering the execution of Zheng Zhiping and the dismissal of the head of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics' Wuhan Intelligence Group, the case was shelved. No one could figure out what Chang was up to, but Boss Dai was still in high spirits and continued to send people to secretly collect information on Xu Zengen's various misdeeds.

"It's not like we didn't gain anything. At least the information you brought back from their Xin'an Street base helped us clean up the moles inside. Now we can finally sleep peacefully."

By the way, where do so many undercover agents from the Party Affairs Investigation Department come from in the Secret Service Department?

In addition to the two sides sending undercover agents to each other, some people from the Party Affairs Investigation Department joined the Secret Service, which laid hidden dangers.

The original Military Intelligence Bureau had three departments: the first was the Party Affairs Investigation Department, the second was the Special Affairs Department, and the third was the Postal Inspection Department.

The first and third offices were all CC clique's territories, but postal and telecommunications inspections were an important part of espionage activities. Xu Zengen and Dai Chunfeng both attached great importance to the strength of the third office, and the two sides fought fiercely over this and enjoyed the fight very much.

However, the post and telecommunications inspection offices in various cities, from the director to the general staff, are mainly CC faction spies. Only one-tenth or two-tenths of them are under the auspices of the boss, and the best position is only that of a deputy director who has been sidelined.

If they cannot defeat one cadre, they will naturally suffer in the inspection of postal and telecommunications intelligence.

Whenever the inspection offices in various places found clues about the Red Party and progressive figures in postal and telecommunications, they would send the materials to the Third Department first and then to the Military Intelligence Bureau. However, the people in the Third Department were from the CC faction, and the information had long been revealed to the director Chen Lao Da and Xu Zengen of the First Department. The information was then immediately presented to a certain Chang. By the time Boss Dai received the information, it was already hindsight.

Dai Chunfeng was furious about this, and the competition between the first and second places for the third place became more intense.

Since the cadre problem cannot be solved, then just deal with their boss, Director Li Fu of the CC faction.

At this moment, Boss Dai just happened to catch a shady deal that could lead to the death of Boss Chen.

At the Fifth Congress of the Fruit Party, Chen used the power of the CC faction to manipulate the election, and actually won 4 more votes than Chang.

Boss Chen knew Chang's character very well. When he discovered the mistake, he immediately erased the word "正" on the blackboard, thus giving him one less vote than the chairman.

After Boss Dai got the inside story, he immediately reported it to the Chairman.

The leader can tolerate you being smarter than him, but he will never allow you to have higher prestige or be more popular than him. Seeing that Boss Chen has threatened his supreme authority, Chang immediately ordered Boss Chen's arrest.

However, Boss Chen was an old hand in the underworld, having been in the Guo Party for many years and had many informants. After receiving the news, he immediately went into hiding under the pretext of recuperating from illness, and asked his close associates around Chang to plead for him.

Although Chang finally chose to forgive Boss Chen's "death penalty", he became wary and immediately began to weaken and suppress the power of the CC faction. The three postal inspection offices were thus transferred from the Military Control Commission to the direct jurisdiction of the General Office of the Military Commission.

This was obviously not the result that Boss Dai wanted, so he continued to expose the dark side of the Postal Inspection Office to Chang, until Chang ordered that the Postal Inspection Office be placed under his leadership.

As soon as he got the leadership, Boss Dai immediately became proud and began a drastic reorganization. From department heads to general cadres, he replaced them all with his own people. He drove out all the CC faction's spies, but retained general staff. As a result, these original CC faction people suddenly became members of the Secret Service.

Xu Zengen naturally refused to give up. In addition to instigating the retained personnel to defect, he also often instructed people from the First Division to ask for intelligence.

At this moment, the Third Division has become the domain of the Second Division. Facing the newcomers, they directly said: "CC members still want intelligence? Sorry, I will treat them to CC. (In Hunan dialect, urine is called CC.)"

This time, the spies Xu Zengen had arranged in the Secret Service have been basically cleared out.

Zhang Yi looked at Xu Zengen who got off the car and sneered.

This man was about 1.72 meters tall, of moderate weight, with a fair face and no beard, a broad forehead, and wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. He had two dimples when he smiled, and was gentle and elegant, looking like a university professor. It was hard to imagine that this senior intellectual who graduated with a master's degree from Carnegie Institute in the United States was actually a spy chief.

The driver respectfully opened the door for him and walked over under the guidance of the secretary. Passing by the crowd of Military Control Commission members, Xu Zengen turned up his nose and snorted coldly.

"Why are you so arrogant? You are still drinking our Military Control Commission's foot washing water." He Zhiyuan snorted coldly, then said, "The director is here."

As soon as he finished speaking, Dai Chunfeng, dressed in the uniform of a major general and looking murderous, got out of the car with a serious face.

A few days ago, the Military Intelligence Bureau was officially established at its Pingyue Road office in Wuchang. Today, Dai Chunfeng, as deputy director, personally led the cadres of the Military Intelligence Bureau at the level of deputy section chief and above to the headquarters for the first time to meet with the "Respected Chairman."

The same is true for the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics.

At the appointed time, both parties, led by Dai Chunfeng and Xu Zengen, came to a small square in the camp.

After a while, a man named Chang in military uniform appeared accompanied by the chief of the attendant's office, his secretary, and the chief guard.

Chang's way of receiving people was also unique. He would first take out the prepared list and call out names one by one. When he called someone, that person would immediately step out, stand at attention, and salute.

The Military Intelligence Bureau saluted, while the Central Intelligence Bureau could only bow.

When someone calls out to someone, he or she will first look at the person and then ask about the person's age, place of origin, education, experience and so on according to the information on the list. If he or she has an impression of the person, he or she will make a mark or circle the person on the list.

"Zhang Yi."

Zhang Yi stepped out of the line, touched his legs together, stood at attention and saluted, then stood straight in military uniform in front of Chang.

With a serious face, he thought of the "poor Maqui" and said hypocritically and respectfully:
"Zhang Yijin, deputy director of the Operations Department, meets with the respected chairman."

"Okay, okay, Zhang Yi, I've seen you before. Although you are young, you are very mature." Chang looked at Zhang Yi and smiled slightly.

"Thank you for the compliment, Commissioner."

"Your arm is injured? How did you get injured?" Chang continued to ask slowly, speaking in a Fenghua accent with long drawls.

"Thank you for your concern, Chairman. This is an accidental injury I sustained while arresting Japanese spies. It's nothing serious."

"Thank you for your hard work." "You are too kind, Mr. Chairman. My job is to absolutely obey orders, serve as the leader's eyes and ears, prevent the activities of enemy spies and traitors, and strengthen the resistance against Japan." Zhang Yi replied respectfully.

This answer made Chang very satisfied. He looked at Zhang Yi, drew a circle on the list, asked him to leave, and then said to Dai Chunfeng who was standing by:
"Director Dai, your subordinates have said it very well. This is the essence of spy work. You must study it more."

"Yes." Dai Chunfeng saluted and said, "Students accept the leader's instructions on behalf of everyone. We must work hard and live up to expectations."

"Okay, okay, okay." Chang said several good words and glanced at Xu Zengen:

"Deputy Director Xu, the same goes for the Central Bureau of Investigation."

"Yes." Xu Zengen glanced jealously at Zhang Yi's departing back, and then glanced at Dai Chunfeng, who had a serious face and clear disdain in his eyes. He felt quite uncomfortable. They were obviously deputy directors in charge of the work, so why did they call Dai Chunfeng the little jerk director, and when it was his turn, he became the deputy director?
Damn it, how can I carry out my work with a director who is the party secretary-general above me?

At this moment, he was a little envious of Dai Chunfeng. Although he also had a director who was the head of the attendant office under him, everyone with a discerning eye knew that Director He did not take power, so Dai Chunfeng was still the one who controlled everything in the Military Control Commission.

Just as he was thinking about how to compete for power with the director, he heard Chang finish the meeting and clear his throat: "Everyone."

Everyone knows that the highlight is coming.

Although the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Central Intelligence Bureau were established, the attacks and struggles between the two bureaus in order to compete for credit and favor would not stop, but would become more intense.

On the one hand, Chang intended to keep a certain distance between the two organizations and restrain each other so as to facilitate central control. On the other hand, he did not want to see the two organizations escalate from criticism to fighting, which would seriously damage the vitality of both sides and affect the War of Resistance and the struggle against the Red Party. He was bound to say and do something.

Sure enough, as soon as Chang opened his mouth, the scene suddenly became quiet, and he glanced at the director of the attendant room.

The latter immediately stepped forward, took out a document and began to read it.

"After the establishment of the Military and Central Bureaus, the division of labor was as follows. The Central Bureau still focused on party affairs, politics, and economy, while the Military Bureau continued to focus on military affairs, special forces, and operations. However, all clues and insiders developed by the Central Bureau in the army, military schools, arsenals, and military supply factories across the border were handed over to the Military Bureau, and all clues and insiders developed by the Military Bureau in the party, government, education, economy, culture, and general civilian factories were handed over to the Central Bureau."

"The policy of putting military first during the war of resistance is a great opportunity for our military to expand its power. Humph, if we just follow the division of labor, won't we be tying up our own hands and feet?"

After the meeting, Dai Chunfeng immediately convened a meeting of the Military Intelligence Bureau as soon as he returned to the temporary office of the Military Intelligence Bureau on Pingyue Road in Wuchang.

"Everyone present here is my old classmates from the Fuxing Society, my old comrades from the Secret Service, and my old subordinates. We must keep the principal's secret."

Boss Dai set the tone for the meeting as soon as he opened his mouth. I wonder what Principal Chang would think if he knew about this.

The reason why it is called the former Renaissance Society is that the Renaissance Society was disbanded at the fifth congress of the Fruit Party that ended a month ago.

This was originally a small group founded by Chang in order to make a comeback, but it gradually became too big to be controlled. The members only knew about the Fuxing Society and not the Guo Party, so Chang had to ban it.

What Boss Dai said was true. He became the deputy director. Zheng Zhiyuan, formerly the deputy director of the Secret Service Department of the Renaissance Society and who was supposed to inherit the position of deputy director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, naturally missed the opportunity. After careful consideration, Boss Dai specially created the position of chief secretary in the Military Intelligence Bureau, which was equivalent to the secretary-general and the position of chief of staff.

Deputy Director Zheng was naturally unwilling to give in, and adopted the method of soft resistance, claiming that he was ill and could not come to work in the Military Intelligence Bureau. He then turned around and ran to the concurrent position of Deputy Director of the Second Department of the Military Affairs Department, where he worked enthusiastically.

Since Deputy Director Zheng did not come to work, Dai Chunfeng created a special position of acting chief secretary, which was filled by the big spy Zhang Yanfo, while the actual work was presided over by his trusted deputy acting chief secretary Mao Qiwu.

The Fuxing Society was dissolved, and Tang Heng, the "political commissar" who represented the Fuxing Society as the secretary-general of the Secret Service Department, naturally had no place to stand. On the recommendation of Dai Chunfeng, he was appointed as the major general leader of the sixth group of the attendant's office, in charge of military intelligence.

This was another plan of Boss Dai that killed two birds with one stone. After sending Tang Heng, the "hanger-on", away, after he was in charge of the intelligence work of the attendant's room, the intelligence of the Military Control Commission and the Central Control Commission had to go through him first. After all, Tang Heng came from the Military Control Commission, so as long as he made a few moves, the intelligence of the Central Control Commission would not reach Chang, and the Military Control Commission would naturally take the lead.

Excluding Zheng and Tang, everyone present can be said to be Boss Dai's confidants.

"The central issue discussed in today's meeting, in addition to the structure of the Military Intelligence Bureau, is to further launch a fierce attack on the CC faction."

As soon as Dai Chunfeng finished speaking, Zhang Yanfu immediately took over: "Commander, since the early days of the war, a large number of exiled and unemployed young people have fled to the rear areas. The task of student training is the responsibility of the Three Youth League and the CC faction, but we should take the initiative. These young male and female students are like white paper. They can be dyed any color. If we don't catch them, they will definitely be used by the Red Party."

Intelligence Section Chief Yang Rong smiled and said, "We need the old man's approval for this matter, otherwise it will be difficult to handle. However, when we report to the principal, we cannot mention the dispute with the CC faction. We should say that we are competing with the Red Party, and the more exaggerated the better."

What the old man fears most is the growth of the Red Party. It is conceivable that if the report is written in this way, it will definitely be passed.

Intelligence Chief He Zhiyuan thought for a while and said, "The CC clique is in charge of both the party and education. If we don't let them participate at all, the two Chen brothers will definitely fan the flames in front of the old man. I think it's better to push those things that require money, such as those who need to continue studying and those whose families need relief, to the CC clique, and we will bring the rest into our training class. This way, we can give an explanation to both the old man and the two Chen brothers."

"Hahaha." Everyone laughed. Doing this not only fooled the old man, but also made the two Chen brothers feel miserable.

Zhang Yi watched coldly. It was conceivable that once such an order was implemented, thousands of young students would inevitably be tied to the chariot of the Military Control Commission's special training class. It would be fine if they were going to fight against the Japanese, but the fear was that they would become victims of the struggle between the two unifications.

After planning how to compete with the CC faction for young students, the meeting returned to the structure of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Dai Chunfeng nodded to Mao Qiwu, who picked up a document and read it with a warm look on his face.

"The secretary's office has been upgraded to the secretarial office, which includes the clerical department and the translation department."

"Below the secretariat, there will be four initial offices, with eight offices planned."

"The First Division, the Military Intelligence Division, has been upgraded from the Intelligence Section. Unlike in the past, the division of labor will not be based on regions, but on business. There will be the Military Intelligence Section, the Military Transport Section, the Counterinsurgency Section, the Spy Section, the International Section, etc. The Director is Yang Rong and the Deputy Director..."

Zhang Yi looked calm, but he was moved. The Intelligence Department had a spy department. Wasn't this an infringement of his authority as the spy department? What was Dai Chunfeng's intention?
"The Second Division, the Party and Government Intelligence Division, was upgraded from the Party and Government Section. It consists of the Party and Government Section, the Detection and Prevention Section, the Aviation Inspection Section, the Red Party Section, and the Economic Section. The Director is He Zhiyuan, and the Deputy Director and the Chief of the Economic Section is Mr. Deng Baoguang."

The core of the newly established Second Department is undoubtedly the Red Party Department, but the one with the most power is the Economic Department. This person also serves as the director of the Economic Research Office of the Military Control Commission. He can directly command the Anti-Smuggling Department of the Ministry of Finance (the director of which is concurrently held by Dai Chunfeng) and the Freight Management Bureau. He also leads local economic inspection teams as the National General Mobilization Economic Inspection Team. His power is so great that it is eye-catching.

"Division Three, Operations Division."

When he heard about the action, Zhang Yi immediately put aside his thoughts, sat up straight, and listened attentively.

"The Operations Department was upgraded from the original Operations Section. It consists of the Operations Section, the Police Inspection Section, and the Judicial Section. It is responsible for operations and leads the operations corps, battalions, teams, and groups across the country. In addition, the Operations Department is responsible for guiding the training tasks of the Military Intelligence Corps and the Special Guard Group of the Chairman's Office. The director is He Zhiyuan and the deputy director is Zhang Yi."

The dust has settled.

(Xiao Zhang got promoted, please give me some monthly tickets, if you have any, please give me some!)

(End of this chapter)