Section 41 Cooperation

However, this incident can serve as a wake-up call to other members of the Executive Committee, especially the President of the Planning Institute, Wu De. Once the "Yifan-Chen Ce" system was adopted, the influence of the Planning Institute, as a direct descendant of the Planning Commission, was of course Yujian.

Ma Qianzhu rang the doorbell at the end of the road, and a window immediately appeared on the iron-clad door, revealing a pair of alert eyes.

"Pass."

He handed the pass over.

A few minutes later, the door opened, and the guard came and saluted: "Hello, chief. ”

"Okay, okay." He said a few vaguely, took back the pass, and asked casually, "Is Xiao Zishan here?" ”

"Yes."

Ma Qianzhuo looked at the small blue brick building in the courtyard. Xiao Zishan's office is at the top of the second floor. If he had been able to see himself from the window, he would have had to socialize with himself, as he always did. Thinking of this, he took a few steps to quickly get out of this line of sight.

The office lounge is located in the backyard of the office. Xiao Zishan asked Li Xiaolu to do a landscape design, built a fake ancient building in the style of open Xuan, and transplanted many flowers and trees on all sides - now the jasmine is in full bloom, and the snow-white flowers are full of branches, and the fragrance is attacking.

It's a teahouse-like place, with a bright room and rattan seats, much like the teahouses in Suzhou and Hangzhou, where Ma Qianzhuo visited. It's breezy and a great place to take a break and talk. However, there are no waiters here, and the tea, boiling water and drinks are all ready-made, neatly packaged and placed on low cabinets. You can also bring your own cup, you can use the cup here, there is a sink along the wall, and there are spare brushes and small packets of bleaching powder. There is a piece of paper on the wall: "Please wash the tea set after using it"

Ma Qianzhuo made himself tea, and after waiting leisurely for a few minutes, Skade hurried over.

"Hello, Secretary of State." He said hello, in fact, he and Ma Qianzhu were not very familiar with each other, and they had only met a few times at the enlarged meeting of the Executive Committee.

"Call me Ma Qianzhu, Comrade Skade."

"Okay." Skade nodded. The man was about thirty years old, 175 tall, quite a standard build, and had a public face. According to the political appraisal of the State Administration of Political Security, this person is a chauvinist, haters Britain and the United States, and his ideal is to establish a colonial empire and enter the third industry in his lifetime**. As far as this zuihou point is concerned, Ma Qianzhu thinks that he and himself still share a common language.

Ma Qianzhu briefed him on the plan for the Foreign Intelligence Bureau to set up a point.

“…… The idea of the country is that the current layout and distribution of points on the mainland is basically to carry out a system of intelligence and commerce on the shoulder. In this way, the efficiency of the use of people, money and materials can be maximized, and duplicate construction can be avoided. ”

"You mean, it's similar to the Guangzhou station."

"That's about it. However, such stations may not be as large as the Guangzhou station. ”

"Is that what it means that the Ministry of Colonial Trade is responsible for investment and management, and is also responsible for the support of intelligence officers?"

"Of course." Ma Qianzhuo nodded, "But I want to correct one thing, strictly speaking, the investment is provided by the Planning Institute and the Finance Director's Department." He smelled a bargain and quickly dismissed the possibility.

"Yes," Skade nodded, "I mean, if our department is to be in charge of operations, then there will be commercial considerations in the selection of these sites. It is not purely for the sake of obtaining information. There are locations that the Intelligence Bureau considers important and necessary to have permanent locations, but these locations may not be commercially profitable or even profitable to keep the site running. ”

"If there is such a location, it is the sole responsibility of the Intelligence Service." Ma Qianzhu is very simple.

"In that case, I agree to cooperate. However, I would like the Intelligence Bureau to provide a list of the locations they would like to be located so that the Department can conduct a comprehensive assessment. ”

"No problem." Ma Qianzhu said, "I will tell Jiang Shan to come to you - this list of places must be kept secret." ”

"Of course," Mr. Skade said, "I am drafting a report on the increase in the number of field stations." Since the Intelligence Bureau also has this in mind, we can draft this report jointly with the Intelligence Agency. ”

"You can discuss this matter with Jiang Shan slowly." Ma Qianzhu said casually, "How do you plan to arrange your distribution?" ”

Skade grinned: "The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Light Industry are also anxious about the large-scale distribution, and they all want to expand the mainland market. ”

Ma Qianzhuo knows that this is because the silver reserves have been declining recently, and the crushing season of Leizhou sugar, the largest source of wealth of the group, has not yet begun. And the consumption of industrialization does not stop for a minute. As the main departments that earn "foreign exchange": the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Light Industry, their anxiety can be imagined.

"We discussed it first, and we first set up locations in the south of the Yangtze River - Nanjing, Yangzhou, Suzhou and Hangzhou. These four places have the most commercial value, our high-quality industrial products will be very marketable, and Fujian should also be able to engage in one or two points. ”

Fujian is an important export porcelain production area, most of the Clark porcelain is in this area, and there are rich local tea resources, both of which are important export sources. As far as the group's own needs are concerned, kaolin and tea are very much needed resources.

This is followed by Beijing and Zhangjiakou.

"Zhangjiakou? It is not easy to pull out money from the old wealth of Shanxi. ”

"Zhangjiakou is an important trading town for Mongolian goods, leather goods and horses, don't the executive committee want it."

Absolutely. Leather goods can be used for re-export - the Europeans are very enthusiastic about leather goods, and as for horses, this is what the crossing group lacks most. Don't look at the cadres of the Committee of Agriculture who look down on Mongolian horses very much, they are afraid of high shoulders and small physique, but this kind of horse is resistant to rough feeding, and it is quite haode to be able to engage in hundreds of horses as animal power, at least it is better than slow cattle. Moreover, the army also has an extremely strong demand for horses -- Zhang Bolin has complained countless times: using substitute animals to pull cannons is a barbaric and backward military system.

"How to ship Mongolian goods? From Zhangjiakou to any of the estuaries in the Guannai, this distance is not close. ”

"This requires the intelligence department to find a way, first, to get the generals of the town army, and let them come forward to carry out the formalities, otherwise the horses will not be able to go on the road at all, and second, to build an outlet to the sea in the northern coastal areas, and load the goods traded from the north onto the ships nearby."

"That's all you have to think about?"

"Yes, the commercial distribution in the Jiangnan area can be more dense, such as Zhenjiang and Shanghai, but for the time being, these will be the first. If there are too many points, the input will not be enough. ”

"Good." Ma Qianzhuo jotted down the main points in his notebook.

Not knowing whether the "good" was a compliment to a job well done or a "that's it," Skader coughed:

"In addition to the mainland, I propose to set up a point in Macau as well."

"There is a ...... in Macau"

"Huang Shunlong." Skeder reminded him, "This person is our agent in Macau. But this person is not very active in business, and his business is nothing more than sitting on the ground to collect stolen goods and reselling contraband. Now it is of less and less value to us - he cannot satisfy his appetite. We needed a sales window that would be able to face the Portuguese directly. ”

"It's not that there is a Li Huamei acting as an agent."

"This man," said Skader, "is suspicious." You should know that she may not be reliable. ”

"If that's the case, consider setting up one."

"Zuihou is the location in Vietnam." "In the beginning, it was located in Beiqi, which is where our rice and coal come from," he said. It is necessary to set up a trading post. "With a trading post, there is naturally intelligence work.

"It's a big deal to have a location in Beiqi. I'm afraid that it will take the coordination of all ministries. The Northern Dynasties may not be able to allow it. We must be well prepared for military struggle. ”

"How about a temptation first?" Skede has been planning this matter for a long time, and last time Chang Shide from Leizhou made a special trip back to Lingao to discuss this issue with him: Leizhou Station and Guangzhou Station are preparing to set up a trading company with Vietnam, in addition to coal mining in Hongji, and also engage in trading activities.

It is not difficult to set up a trading station in Beiqi, as long as there is money to be made, the small court of Beiyue still welcomes everyone to do business - many Ming merchants already have local warehouse trading houses. It's rare to be mining in the coal mines of Hongji. This is a trickier one. It is hard to imagine that the small court of North Vietnam would turn a blind eye to the coal digging of a strange group of people from overseas

Skede's calculation is that if Ma Qianzhu does not object, he will do it on a small scale in Hongji first. Anyway, there are manpower and material resources at hand that can be mobilized.

"This matter still has to be submitted to the Executive Committee for discussion. There are issues of foreign relations involved. Ma Qianzhuo said, "Beiqi is not a Southeast Asian chieftain. The army also has hundreds of thousands. Now that the relationship has been stiffened, I'm afraid it won't be easy for us to deal with. ”

A few days later, the proposal for a joint deployment of the Intelligence Bureau and the Ministry of Colonial Trade on the mainland was approved by the Executive Committee, followed by the third reading of the Senate Standing Committee. As for the deployment of the Beiqi site, the Executive Committee and the Senate "approved in principle" that small contingents could be sent to carry out a tentative arrangement - provided that "military clashes do not occur as much as possible."

Skade felt very aggrieved - colonization should be bloody, and how could it be called "colonial development" without the music of cannons and muskets.

"We're all afraid of the Vietnamese." He whined in his office, then picked up the phone and "picked up the organization...... Yes, the Organization Division? I'm in the office of the Ministry of Colonial Trade, and I'm going to transfer the files of a few people...... No, the transfer procedure is not done for the time being...... Yes, the first one is called Bekai......"

Li Yan stared at the mycelium under the microscope - this is the biological shiyan room of the Committee of Agriculture. There were seven or eight people crowded inside, and a group of 21 doctors and masters in cutting-edge sciences such as molecular biology and stem cells were all studying various practical strains under the leadership of Huang Dashan. This is one of two options for biotists, the other option is to go to the Ministry of Health's bio shiyan room, which specializes in dealing with viral vaccines.

He writes down his observations on the clip - a work that is boring and boring, but fortunately he is used to it. Doing jihua step by step has become a part of his life.

Li Yan handed the microscope to others and walked out of the laboratory, which had become crowded. Walking outside from the hot and turbid laboratory only feels that the air is incomparably fresh. He took a deep breath - the air at the farm was still nice compared to other places.

He had already received an order to go to work at the Foreign Intelligence Bureau tomorrow, and it was too unchallenging to always do such work as retrieval and therapeutic translation in the library. He is accustomed to boring work, but it is not the same as getting used to simple work. Intelligence work suits his spleen and stomach.

Li Yan doesn't plan to be a 007, nor does he want to be M, he wants to be a jihua person in the office. It is better to train people. He specializes in all sorts of intrigues and traps, as well as his beloved IED, though the possibility of its use is questionable.

A few days later, the first training course for dispatched personnel began. The reason why it is said to be the first class is that the students of this class are different - all of them are veterans who are interested in dedicating their lives to intelligence or trade work. They are all people who have voluntarily submitted applications and asked to work on the front line of the mainland.

There were more than a dozen of them, tall, short, fat and thin, except for one thing - they were all men. It's not that there are no women who have applied, and there are quite a few women who are willing to take up this high-risk job. However, after analysis by the intelligence department, it is believed that the scope of women's activities in the Daming control area is not large, unless she can be willing to mix in the lower classes, or be a courtesan like Miss PIPE.

Fortunately, almost all of the women in the crossing group have boyfriends or husbands, so Jiang Shan avoids facing excellent female agents who are trying to break into Chongzhen's side or Huang Taiji Dolgon's side and prepare to infiltrate the enemy's bed through the palace struggle. That's what he's been worried about. The remaining activists who insisted on it also retreated after pointing out the inconveniences they would face when they went to the mainland to engage in intelligence activities.

"Don't talk about girls, I think these men may not be able to endure this hardship when the time comes." Yu Eshui crossed Erlang's legs, "Everyone thought that it was so leisurely and leisurely with Leizhou, Guangzhou, and the maids' little wives and servants were circling around - how could there be such a cheap thing." ”

Chen Tianxiong objected to the idea of bringing Guangzhou and Leizhou together, and in his opinion, the difficulty of developing Guangzhou was much smaller than that of Leizhou. How can the two be compared? Don't say it, the so-called "enjoyment" of Leizhou Station is that everyone has a few women in advance, and the living standards of the people in Guangzhou are completely different.

"Alright, let's see who we want to eliminate." Jiang Shan said to Li Yan -- the latter has just been promoted to deputy director of the Daming Division and director of intelligence training. This title of director was created by the Intelligence Bureau itself, and the Organization Department only recognized the position of deputy director of the Daming Division.

"It's eliminated now, and it will be difficult to recruit again in the future." Yu Eshui said, "Now everyone thinks that the expatriate is like Guangzhou, and when they are dispatched, they will be fooled, and when they come back, they will not be interested." ”

"Okay, let's have a little interview, it's really not suitable and you can't ask for it." Li Yan insisted on an interview.

"Okay, whatever you want."

……

"Permission-" The man in front of him was wearing a Navy uniform, "You're a navy, or an active captain, how did you come to us?" ”

"It is my long-cherished wish to engage in naval military intelligence......

"Then you have to retire first, and then come back, we are under the Central Government Council system here, and we do not accept active soldiers."

It is obviously a bit difficult for this person to retire and come back, so he blinked his eyes: "Make an exception." Don't you need military intelligence officers who understand the Navy? The Foreign Intelligence Service also collects military intelligence. ”

"That's right, but your establishment is in the navy, you come to us, you can't pay your salary, and the navy still counts you as a deserter-"

"The problem-" Xu scratched his head, the salary is not a big problem, becoming a deserter is a serious problem.

"If you really want to get the Navy to apply for retirement, transfer the file back to the organization department, and then submit the application."

"I'd love to be an intelligence officer, a military intelligence officer in the Navy." Xu is still very insistent on his own willingness, "Why don't you help me communicate?" There's always a way. ”

So the telephone switchboard and the transfer desk were busy for a while, and Mingqiu didn't know how to deal with this, it stands to reason that the navy should have its own intelligence analysis room or something. After some urgent consultations, it was decided that permission to work in the Foreign Intelligence Service (FII) was granted the capacity of a naval military intelligence officer, which was considered a Navy expatriate staff member - the salary was paid by the Navy and the allowance was paid by the Foreign Intelligence Service. In the Foreign Intelligence Service, he is responsible for the collection and analysis of naval military intelligence.

"Well, is it appropriate to let the Navy come in now?" Wang Ding asked Jiangshan in a low voice, "Looking at the meaning of the navy and the army, it is a sure thing to set up a military intelligence bureau on their own in the future, and most of them will have to set up one each." Isn't our tossing and turning to make wedding dresses for others? ”

"If you make a wedding dress, you will make a wedding dress, this is cooperation. Don't take it too seriously. Jiang Shan looked dignified, "One of the tasks of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau is to provide intelligence preparation for the army's future mainland expeditions, and it is not inappropriate for the Navy to send someone to be in charge of naval intelligence." Besides, many of our future activities will depend on the support of the Navy, and with such a person here, wouldn't it be easier to coordinate? Director Wang, everything still has to focus on the overall situation. ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

"Next—"

"Cheng headwind. Do you want to be an expatriate? ”

"Let me be a human trafficker - I know what I know about this......"

……

After a simple interview, these people were all accepted, and Li Yan asked them to sign and take pictures and fill out the form. After the formalities were completed, Wang Ding appeared in front of them with a serious face:

"The comrades here are all ready to be sent to the mainland to engage in intelligence and trade activities, and some comrades will stay in the General Bureau, but it is inevitable that they will have to go on business trips.