After receiving the new order of the Executive Committee, Li Sanjie was also quite excited, although Li Hongzhang's help this time greatly exceeded the expectations of the crossing group, but to be honest, the relationship with Li Sanjie is not big, and consultation and mediation with various countries is the main purpose of Li Sanjie's stay in Shanghai, Li Sanjie has also made a lot of preparations for this, if this matter is done well, then Li Sanjie can be regarded as a real contribution to the crossing group. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Sanjie immediately summoned the staff of the Shanghai office to a meeting to discuss how to carry out the tasks of the executive committee.

At present, there are four main staff members in the Shanghai office: Liu Lantao, Li Hongbing, Chen Zhaosheng and Gao Lei. Li Sanjie first conveyed the order of the Executive Committee to everyone.

After hearing this, the other four people pondered for a while, and simply put, the Executive Committee asked the Shanghai office to launch a mass movement in Shanghai, preferably to organize a collective march or something, and only in this way could it exert tremendous pressure on various countries. In fact, this kind of mass movement was not uncommon in ancient China, the most recent of which was the incident of writing on a bus against the Qing government's signing of the humiliating Treaty of Shimonoseki after the First Sino-Japanese War. And to some extent, the Boxer Rebellion can also be seen as a mass movement, but it eventually evolved into a mass mob movement.

In the old time, this kind of mass movement was indeed a good way to exert pressure on those in power. However, in this era, there is considerable risk in organizing this kind of mass movement, except for the book on the bus, which is basically relatively peaceful, other mass movements will have some violent tendencies, not counting the Boxer Rebellion, that is, the May Fourth Movement, which has a very high historical evaluation, also had the incident of beating Zhang Zongxiang and burning Zhao's house, and this is already a fairly peaceful mass movement. In addition, in this era, the international moral standards and social supervision responsibilities were not yet established, and mass movements were often violently suppressed by those in power, and there were incidents of police and soldiers shooting at demonstrators in almost every European country, resulting in bloodshed. Moreover, at this time, countries generally had a contemptuous attitude towards China, coupled with the sequelae caused by the Boxer Rebellion, so once a demonstration was held in the Shanghai Concession, whether the countries would use violent means to suppress it would be contrary to the original intention of the crossing group.

Liu Lantao said: "Although the proposal of the Executive Committee is very good, we have not been in Shanghai for a long time, and the mass base is still very weak, I am afraid that it will be difficult to launch a mass movement, and even if it is launched, I am afraid it will not be easy to control, and if it causes serious bloodshed, the consequences will be out of control." ”

Li Hongbing also said: "Yes, and what if other countries send troops to suppress it? We can't just mobilize the masses and ignore them. ”

Li Sanjie said confidently: "I have a plan, but this requires the concerted efforts of all parties." ”

Liu Lantao said: "Director Li, what plan do you have, and how do you need us to cooperate?"

Li Sanjie said with a smile: "Haven't we developed a group of students? Now is the time for them to come in handy." ”

Although the Shanghai office basically behaved very low-key after the breakdown of the Shanghai negotiations and did not make any major moves, the staff of the Shanghai office actually made a lot of preparations in a low-key manner. According to the plan of the Executive Committee, Shanghai's position outside the office is actually quite important, and it is a responsibility that integrates business, intelligence, publicity, foreign exchanges, and other functions.

For the time being, business and foreign exchanges can be put on hold, and propaganda has already begun to bear fruit, so intelligence gathering is a top priority, but in order to collect intelligence, it is necessary to have a considerable social base and a large number of intelligence personnel. However, the social foundation needs time to accumulate, and it is not possible to blatantly recruit intelligence personnel, so the Shanghai Office decided to start with children and cultivate a group of young intelligence officers. Although children do not have the social experience and experience of adults, they also have their own unique advantages: first, children will not attract attention, whether it is to inquire about news or conduct training, they are not too hindered; second, compared with adults, children's greed is not so strong and easy to control; third, potential talents can be found among children, and they can be sent to Tianjin for training.

Another advantage is the abundance of sources, although Shanghai was the most economically developed city in China at this time, the prosperity was limited to the concession and part of the old city of Shanghai, and there were still large slum settlements around the Shanghai effect area, the countryside, and even the prosperity area, so a relatively deformed prosperity was formed. There are also a large number of poor people, and there are poor people who work as children, young apprentices, and even small beggars. In this way, the small informant in the Shanghai office has a large number of options.

However, the Shanghai office is not always refused, and it also needs to be screened and interviewed. According to the selection criteria set by the Ministry of Security, first of all, the age must be at least 10 years old, preferably 12 or 3 years old, but never more than 16 years old, because children under the age of 10 are basically not sensible, and if they are over 16 years old, they can be regarded as adults, lose their children's popularity, and are prone to be infected with more bad social habits;

The other is that there are relatively strict restrictions on the origin of children, try to choose a family in Shanghai, which is a small businessman or an apprentice child, but there must be a certain amount of free space, because such a child's family background will not be too good, so it is easy to be attracted by small favors, and they are usually old and sensible, the social contact is more factory, and there are more sources of information; , or even a gang, the background is more complicated, and the current Shanghai office is not suitable to have anything to do with the gang, so the little beggar must be strictly reviewed, and it must have no relationship with the gang to be selected.

First of all, they must not be allowed to know that they are hired by the Shanghai office, so they must choose a few other gathering places in Shanghai, and they must be in the slum settlements, the location is naturally as secret as possible, and they are regularly concentrated, collect intelligence or issue tasks, and secondly, these small intelligence officers also know as little as possible with each other, it is best to take about 20 people as a group, each person only knows the members of the group, and does not know the existence of other groups. That way, even if one or two groups are exposed, the other groups will not be affected.

The tasks of these small intelligence officers are arranged as follows: First, the Shanghai office collects all kinds of intelligence, and the Shanghai office divides the information into useless information and effective intelligence, which refers to information that has a certain value but is of no use to the crossing group for the time being, and useful intelligence refers to information that is useful to the crossing group; second, the Shanghai office will issue the task of assigning intelligence, and these small intelligence officers will complete it.

If the information collected is effective, you can get a reward much higher than the fixed remuneration; if no effective intelligence is collected for three consecutive months, no fixed remuneration will be paid; but you can continue to work for the Shanghai office until you collect useful information or complete the designated information, and you can resume the fixed remuneration. This method of remuneration naturally introduces a modern system, which is conducive to stimulating the enthusiasm of small intelligence officers.

At the same time, in the process of collecting intelligence, the ability and character of each junior intelligence officer are examined, and if any of them are found to have outstanding performance, further training can be considered.

In accordance with these regulations, the Shanghai office selects school-age children in Shanghai, and of course, the age of some children cannot be examined, but can only be estimated. There are still plenty of candidates to choose from, and 47 children have now been selected, divided into three groups, and three more slum houses have been rented in Shanghai as meeting points for intelligence gathering.

The development of a group of students in the Shanghai office is a complete unexpected gain.

Although it is still under the rule of the Qing court, after all, Shanghai is the most open area of this era, many churches have opened church schools for Chinese, coupled with the enlightenment influence of the foreign affairs movement, so all sessions of society have opened a large modern school in Shanghai, teaching European scientific knowledge, and introducing European-style teaching methods, there are many students who have received European-style education, and the famous literary master Lu Xun in the old time and space is a typical representative.

Most of these young students were vibrant, passionate, and had a simple patriotic heart, and received a European-style education, and had a broad vision, and were very dissatisfied with the incompetent rule of the Qing court, but could not find a way to save the country, so in the old time and space, any movement could stimulate the enthusiasm of the students. And in this plane, because of the appearance of the time-traveler, these students seem to have found hope.

Not long after the establishment of the Shanghai office, a few students took the initiative to come to the door, to ask the traveler for advice on the way to save the country, although there was no preparation, but Li Sanjie was still very warm to receive these students, and had a meeting with them, after all, Li Sanjie knew in his heart that these students are the hope of China's future, and they took the initiative to come to the door, which is naturally no better.

Although Li Sanjie only received them in general, he was very moved by these students, because it was the first time for them to receive such an equal reception and exchange, so their good impression of the traveler doubled.

Then Li Sanjie immediately struck while the iron was hot and took the initiative to organize two talks with the students, and the number of participants increased dramatically, and the number of students who came to participate for the last time exceeded 100. Although Li Sanjie didn't tell them anything substantial, the information and knowledge content of modern people is far from being comparable to that of this era, and random opinions and things are all unheard of by these students, so the students can't help but have a good impression of the time-traveler, and they also admire it. Now, it's time to put those students to work.