After Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng and others returned to Qingdao from the farm, they immediately began to set up a working group to go to Jinan Mansion and negotiate with Yuan Shikai to handle the handover of administrative affairs in Jinan Mansion.

There are a total of 12 people who traveled to Jinan with Wang Sheng this time, and there are 18 local naturalized people, who are also the first batch of working groups stationed in Jinan, and of course, the current working group is the leadership team of the future Jinan Municipal Government. Even if he is a naturalized citizen, he will be able to become a petty official in the city government in the future.

At the same time as the Jinan working group was established, another working group was also set up, this working group was led by the Ministry of Security, and will go to Jinan with Wang Sheng and others, and establish an intelligence base in Jinan. Local celebrities and others are involved in traffic, while the working group of the Ministry of Security is secretly active, going deep into the middle and lower strata of Jinan's society, understanding Jinan's social and public opinions, collecting intelligence, and so on.

During this period, the main work of the Ministry of Security was to set up an intelligence network in Shanghai and Qingdao to collect intelligence information in these two places. Another important part of the work is the training of personnel, whether they are traversers or native naturalized people, and some of them have been trained.

Of course, the direction of training is different, and the traverser mainly accepts the ability to collate, divide, and build and manage intelligence bases, while the native naturalized people accept the observation, acquisition, collection, monitoring, and tracking of intelligence. As a result, the Ministry of Security now has some personnel who have undergone about five months of professional training, and it is no longer as overstretched as it was when it was first established. At this time, Jinan needed to employ people, so I took this opportunity to check the results of training during this time.

The working group of the Ministry of Security is composed of 19 people, including 5 traversers and 14 local naturalized citizens, and the person in charge is called Duan Qian, who will form the main station of the Jinan intelligence station with another traverser Li Guotao, and two local people.

Moreover, the members of the working group of the Ministry of Security did not set off together, but four teams went to Jinan separately, and some of the teams even set off now. After arriving in Jinan City, the three sub-station teams can find a suitable identity to settle down, and in accordance with the notice and instructions of the main station, establish contact between the upper and lower levels, and the main station is not only responsible for contacting the three sub-stations, but also to get in touch with Wang Sheng, so that the two sides can cooperate with each other and start work on this.

After the two working groups were formed, the affairs in Shandong were basically over, and the rest of the things were handled by Wang Yunpeng, who stayed in Qingdao, and Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng, and Xiao Jianjun also had to be transferred back to Tianjin, after all, there were still many things to deal with in Tianjin, and the handover in Beijing would also begin, and Qin Zheng would also prepare to go to Xi'an to meet the Qing court.

Just one day before Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng, and Xiao Jianjun left Qingdao, Gao Shi came to Qingdao, hoping to have another interview with Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng and others about his appointment as Minister of Agriculture.

Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng and others took over Gao Shize in the Qingdao headquarters, and Xia Bohai first said: "Chief Gao, what are you going to do?"

Gao Shize said: "Commander, political commissar, Director Wang, after careful consideration in the past few days, I am willing to accept the position of Minister of Agriculture in the new government, and thank you for giving me this opportunity." ”

Xia Bohai smiled and said: "Welcome, welcome to the new government, of course, the premise is that we can be elected to the new government." ”

Gao Shize also said with a smile: "At this point, I have confidence in the current government leadership team, and you will definitely be able to be elected to the new government." However, when I become Minister of Agriculture, I hope that the new government will grant me three requests. ”

Xia Bohai said: "What are the requirements? Let's hear it." ”

Gao Shize said: "The first is that after I became the Minister of Agriculture, I have the power to appoint and dismiss the subordinate officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, including the appointment of several of my relatives, the second is that I hope that the farm will be run by my wife, and the third is that I hope that the expansion plan of the farm will continue to be promoted." After a pause, he further explained: "This is not to say that I want to be cronyistic, or to make the Ministry of Agriculture my private kingdom, but because agriculture is a very technical department, which requires a large number of professional and technical personnel. In addition, the expansion of the farm is a good thing of great significance to the government, and I hope the government can continue to carry it out. ”

Xia Bohai thought for a while and said: "In principle, we can agree to these three articles, but you also know that our government has a set of operating systems, even if we can be elected to the new government leadership, it is impossible to be arbitrary, the appointment of officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, in principle, can be determined by the competent officials of various departments, as long as it can be confirmed by the Ministry of Administration, of course, if we can be elected to the new government leadership, we can ensure that it is passed in the Ministry of Administration, but it also needs to conform to our employment system." The second and third articles are indeed not something that our executive committee can decide, and in the future, the responsible persons of our enterprises and institutions will adopt the system of open recruitment, and your wife can come out to participate in the application, and I believe that with her strength, no one should be able to compete with her; as for the expansion plan of the farm, I personally agree with it, but according to our current system, this is a vote of the executive committee meeting, and we can only promise to help you do other people's work, and you must further improve the expansion plan of the farm, and be prepared to make inquiries, so that the probability of passing the executive committee meeting will be greater。 ”

Gao Shize also nodded, what Xia Bohai said is also the truth, the current provisional government implements a collective leadership system, although the five-member group of the executive committee has great power, but it cannot cover the sky with one hand and act arbitrarily, so the executive committee can only do this, and if you want to achieve these goals, you need to make further efforts. So he said, "Well, the Executive Committee was able to do this, and I'm very grateful." ”

Qin Zheng said: "I believe that the new government, with the joining of the senior field chief, will be able to better exercise our governing power and seek benefits for the crossing group." ”

Although Xia Bohai has always emphasized that the current leadership team is "if it can be elected as the new government leadership team", in fact, everyone knows that this is almost a sure thing, on the one hand, in the past nearly a year, the provisional government has indeed done a good job and achieved remarkable results, and on the other hand, the provisional government has a deep foundation in the crossing group, and now there is no political opponent who can threaten them at all. Therefore, in some unconscious times, there are also people who have begun to think of themselves as the new government, and of course no one is more true at this time.

At this time, Gao Shi said: "There is another matter, I forgot to mention it last time, and now I think it is necessary to report it to you." ”

Xia Bohai said: "What is it?"

Gao Shize's * was also a little embarrassed, and said: "It's really not big to say that it's big, but it's not small to say that it's not small, in addition to my family, the other 15 people who work on the farm are basically young people, of which only two are girls, and the remaining 13 people are under the age of 40, and 9 people are not yet 30 years old, and when they work on the farm, they are all single, and in the past few months, they have developed into two pairs, but there are only two girls, so everyone else is still single." ”

Although I don't understand what Gao Shize wants to say, but these words also touched Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng and others, in fact, this is a big problem for the entire crossing group, the ratio of men and women in the crossing group is extremely imbalanced, the ratio of men and women is more than 8:1, and there are very few people who cross by family, even if the husband and wife are counted as a family, there are no more than 100, and single men account for the vast majority of them in the prime of life, so the personal problems of male crossers have become a big problem of the executive committee.

Gao Shi continued: "But among the families of the prisoners, there are quite a few young girls, and in the past month, many people have been very close to them, and according to my observations, at least three pairs have indeed had a relationship between men and women, and are in a state of cohabitation or semi-cohabitation, and one of them seems to have found a pair of sisters. ”

After listening to Gao Shize's words, Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng and others couldn't help but be a little surprised, Wang Yunpeng said: "Didn't you stop them, Senior Field Chief?"

Gao Shi smiled bitterly and said, "Director Wang, people are in free love, what can I say? ”

Wang Yunpeng said: "But they are the children of prisoners." ”

Gao Shi said: "We are not engaged in the joint sitting system, and in principle, even if it is a crime, it does not affect the family, so the family of the prisoner is not a prisoner in the strict sense, not to mention that we have not issued the [Marriage Law], and we have not issued any administrative orders on marriage, I just want to stop it and there is no reason to stop it." ”