Section 40 Black Dragon Society

"If you want to go south of the Yangtze River, it's nothing more than Nanjing, Suzhou, Yangzhou and Songjiang." Yu Eshui said, "In fact, Songjiang's distribution point can be selected in Shanghai County, Songjiang itself is an industrial and agricultural city, although a large amount of cloth is produced, the value of commercial shipping is not as great as that of the port of Shanghai County." ”

"What about Beijing?"

Jiang Shan said: "If Beijing is going to Delong Bank, it will definitely go to the distribution. Yan Ming is also in the business of absorbing stolen money from corrupt officials and eunuchs. Our intelligence bureau should also go to open a small business or something, and inquire about the first-hand news of the imperial court. ”

"We shouldn't forget Liaodong." A strange light appeared in Lin Baiguang's eyes, "It's not very safe to completely let Li Luoyou be in the middle, and besides, this person may not be able to fully trust." We send people to get first-hand information directly on the ground. If necessary, it is also necessary to have a trading station. ”

"If you go to Liaodong for a long time, you can't shave your head and keep braids, no one wants to."

"It's better to send someone to see it first, you don't have to be permanent." Jiang Shan thought that there was a big question mark over whether he could be permanent.

The plan has been decided, and Jiang Shan sorted out a list of materials on the issues discussed at the meeting and reported to Ma Qianzhuo.

After reading the report, Ma Qianzhu asked a few more questions, and then he said:

"I have no problem with you wanting to increase the staff, you go to the organization department to see how many people are willing to transfer to the intelligence bureau. In addition, the Organization Division has recently issued a document, about the finalization of various departments and agencies, you can take a look at it first, and write a compilation table. ”

"Yes, I'll be there in a moment." Jiang Shan knew that Secretary of State Ma was a leader who paid attention to "Soviet-style comradely etiquette" and liked short and crisp answers and sharp expressions.

"The staffing should be fixed not only for the veterans, but also for the indigenous personnel." Ma Qianzhu said: "You should discuss this issue a lot, and this involves next year's budget -- starting next year, all administrative organs will have budgets and final accounts, and you have a number in mind. ”

"Understood," Jiang Shan nodded neatly, "There are a few things I still want to ask for." ”

"Say it."

"The idea of collecting 'government and private offices' mentioned in the intelligence activity plan I submitted, as well as the establishment of a point on the mainland," he said, "all involve the question of how to deal with the business relationship with the Ministry of Colonial Trade." ”

Although intelligence officers can use various covers, businessmen are the most common and easiest cover identities after all, and they can establish commercial outlets on the mainland, killing two birds with one stone.

"I'll have to discuss this with the Vice-Chancellor of the Colonial Trade Department." Ma Qianzhuo said, "Since both sides benefit, it is only appropriate for them to invest in the newly opened commercial sites, and it is only incidental for you to engage in intelligence." ”

"yes, that's what I thought too." Jiang Shan was very happy to see that the Governor had accurately found out the key part of his words, and he also expressed his approval.

"As for whether to send someone to Liaodong, my personal opinion is that there is no need. Since Li Luoyou is our middleman, why send another patriarch? It's a big deal. Houjin has such a big plate, and it will be smashed lightly, what do we think about Emperor Taiji Dolgon Da Yuer and Xiao Yuer. ”

"I think that finding out the situation in Liaodong still has a certain significance for the military campaign to conquer Liaodong in the future." "My idea is to follow the example of the activities of the Japanese ronin and collect basic information on the geography, weather, walled cities, commerce, and population of Liaodong, so as to provide intelligence support for future military operations and a comprehensive purge," Jiang said. In the long run, there is no need to send a patriarch, but a patriarch should be sent over to command in the early stage. ”

"If you feel it is necessary, and any of the patriarchs is willing to shave their heads and take the risk, I have no objection to them - lest someone say that we do not respect the will of the people." Ma Qianzhuo said that it didn't matter, "However, in the past, people must be approved by the Organization Department, and some talents with special skills cannot go." ”

"Good." Jiangshan felt chills. He had a feeling that he couldn't say: Ma Dugong looked at the patriarchs in fact no different from the natives.

"The expatriate intelligence station," Jiang Shan continued to report, "In addition to the foreign station in cooperation with the Ministry of Colonial Trade, I also plan to set up a separate system, which I call the 'Black Dragon Society' system. ”

Ma Qianzhuo made a look of disinterest: Whether you are the Black Dragon Club or the White Dragon Club, or the Red Flower Club, he knows very well the intention of Jiangshan, it is nothing more than asking for funds.

It costs money to engage in intelligence, and it is a lot of money. Bills cannot be used. Lots of silver or goods that can be exchanged for silver. Now silver is the status of "foreign exchange", and the application must be reported one by one, and the procedures are very troublesome.

Jiang Shan perseveredly talked: "The Black Dragon Society organization is a non-governmental organization. Private capital under the system of the Crossing Group funded the establishment of points in various places on the mainland, and the Intelligence Bureau only dispatched key personnel to lurk and command in them. It is even possible to consider recruiting intelligence and operations personnel on the mainland on the spot......"

He talked for more than ten minutes about the organizational system and operation mode of this Black Dragon Society. Only then did Ma Qianzhu speak:

"Have you considered which capitalists in Lingao should be the funders of the Black Dragon Society?"

The idea of the Black Dragon Society's official supervision and private office is good, but the problem is that the station is an industry that crosses the group, and it can rely on an order from the executive committee to cooperate. And the private capitalists, their only idea is to pursue profits, and if there is not enough profit, who will take this risk to participate in the Black Dragon Society

"I thought about it, one is Lin Quanan's Quanfu Xing. Lin Quanan made his fortune by paying for us to buy in bulk. Now that our supply system is gradually improving, and the foreign trade system has also been established, the days of relying on the early monopoly supplier to obtain profits will come to an end sooner or later, and he will inevitably choose to transform. "Jiangshan has already done research, and Lin Quanan's recent orders from the crossing group are decreasing, and the profits are much smaller. Of course, he received a portion of the profit compensation from the rapidly expanding local population, but on the whole it was on a downward trend.

Jiang Shan believes that Lin Quanan is now eager to find a new way out of business. It is quite possible to work with him.

"Lin Quanan already has extensive business contacts in various parts of Hainan, but the market in Hainan is very small, and many of the materials originally purchased by him have become directly obtained by us, so he has the intention of going out to the mainland for development."

"Hmm." Ma Qianzhuo became a little interested, "Go on." ”

The reason why Lin Quanan has not moved for a long time is mainly because he feels that he lacks a backer on the mainland. After all, he relied on us to make his fortune, and we also provided an escort for his business development. Once on the mainland, he broke away from Lingao's shili, and he had no confidence in it.

"So I'm going to use his psychology to make him fully feel that we haven't forgotten him, that our interests are tied to him, and that there will be a powerful organization behind him behind the scenes, and Lin Quanan will be willing to become a member of the Black Dragon Society."

"Good." Ma Qianzhu commented simply, "There is more." ”

"Of course it's Runshitang."

"You've wiped out all the capitalists in Lingao."

"Yes," Jiang Shan said, "Liu San of the Ministry of Health has a memorandum about the establishment of Daming's 'Watsons' chain of pharmacies based on Runshitang."

"Yang Shixiang, the owner of Runshitang, is investing in the mechanized production of Chinese patent medicines, and most of his products are also sold on the mainland, so expanding investment in the mainland is his original intention, and we are just using this intention ......"

"Cough," Ma Qianzhuo coughed: "Yang Shixiang originally had his own business network in the mainland, and his dependence on us was not as great as Lin Quanan's. Is it possible for you to take the risk that he will participate in the Black Dragon Society's intelligence work against Daming? ”

"Half to half." Jiang Shan said frankly, "At first, we didn't need to let him know, we only used his branch as a cover -- directly inserting intelligence agents into his agency." Wait until he's seen what our intelligence agencies are capable of. ”

Of course, that's fine. However, Runshitang and Lin Quanan's Quanfu Xing are different. There is only one model left for the significance of the full line to the crossing group; Runshitang is equivalent to a subsidiary of the Crossing Group. Moreover, Yang Shixiang and Liu San are preparing to take the route of chain pharmacies in Daming. If something goes wrong in the family, it will be wiped out. Not to mention what Yang Shixiang's attitude will be, even the Ministry of Health invested by Liu Sanhe in Runshitang will also be furious.

"You must communicate with Liu San, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Commerce about this matter." Ma Qianzhuo reminded him.

"Yes, if they don't agree, we'll suspend Runshitang's plan." Jiang Shan said, "With the Black Dragon Society system, we can reduce a lot of investment, and part of it can be borne by these capitalists......"

The other part is naturally up to us. Ma Qianzhuo thought about it, and after talking for a long time, he still had to return to the key issue.

He said, "Okay, you write a plan, and then send in a budget estimate." ”

Ma Qianzhuo took care of Wen Yong: In the past few days, all the documents received about the Foreign Intelligence Bureau will be sent to his desk on a priority basis. Hou Wenyong has been promoted to secretary of state. He was glad that he was able to take on the position of "master" at a young age, but he was embarrassed, because he soon discovered that the secretaries of the various departments were almost exclusively young women. Every time he held a secretarial meeting, he became "a little green among all reds".

"Then you go to the compound of the Ministry of Colonial Trade and ask their lieutenant to come over." Ma Qianzhu instructed, "Well, don't come to the government affairs compound and go to the lounge of the general office." ”

He thought: Although the other party is a deputy minister, after all, he is also a deputy minister of the same department as himself, and the two sides have no subordinate relationship, so it seems that he is too domineering to call him here. The wind review will be very bad.

The Colonial and Trade Governor has not yet been elected. According to the "Common Program", the nine executive committees are all administrative officials who need to be elected by the Senate, but several of them have not yet been elected, and these positions are either unattended or there are too many people who covet them, and the Senate has held several plenums before they have been resolved.

So those who were interested in these businesses took the line of clerks, and the posts below the executive committee were appointed, and Skade took this route, and became the chief of staff of the Ministry of Colony and Trade - for the time being, equivalent to the deputy secretary of the ministry, and effectively exercised most of the administrative powers of the ministry.

Skade studied radar - there were several radars in the area, but it was difficult to build them. He immediately understood what the "dragon slaying technique" was, and his entire professional experience so far had been to do maintenance work for the few radars that crossed the group.

Ma Qianzhuo knew this person. Politically an oligarchy, he opposed parliamentary democracy, and was at odds with the Qian brothers, the leaders of the North American division, and called Shan Liang a "careerist on a soapbox." Ma Qianzhu felt that it was appropriate for him to be an official in the Ministry of Colonial and Trade Affairs: the work of this ministry was too universal and too democratic for people to do, but it was also not appropriate for people to preach racial/race/massacre/murder and so on - they were too extreme, they always wanted to express their loyalty to their ideals, and they did not know that many things had to be done in stages.

He placed a "Departure" sign on his desk – two colors, one green, meaning a short period of fifteen minutes or less, and a yellow one, indicating that the time to leave could be up to an hour. So as not to wait for someone to wait.

Ma Qianzhuo went downstairs and opened the door from the backyard of the office building - there was an indigenous guard here. He showed his pass, and the guard carefully checked the photo and his face, then wrote down the time of his departure and the pass number in the registration book.

He looked at the guard's swarthy face, meticulously copying Arabic numerals clumsily in accordance with the guard's regulations, and thought: Our system really has to be implemented, since people can be transformed, society can also be transformed.

"Your pass, chief." The guard came and opened the backyard door.

“xiexie。” Ma Qianzhuo put away the pass and walked out slowly.

Opening the back door is a long open-air passage that leads to the courtyard where the Executive Committee Office is located. The sandwich road between the compounds of various organs can allow the personnel of various departments to walk directly between each other's buildings without leaving the gate, which is convenient for security and access control.

There was no one in the aisle, and it was very quiet. Ma Qianzhuo could even hear the sound of birds. This kind of birdsong is becoming less and less heard in the vicinity of Bairen City, and the roar of machinery and smoke from the nearby industrial area drives away the birds and animals here.

The birds are singing so cheerfully, by the way, the spring has arrived. After all, this place is tropical, winter is short and inconspicuous, the leaves do not wither, the flowers bloom at four o'clock, and at noon, you can always run around in a shirt or even a sweatshirt. Ma Qianzhuo likes places with distinct seasons, where you can feel the years of plants flourishing and withering, and the changing of the seasons......

He put his hands in his pockets. Recalling the recent documents sent by the Department of the Controller of Finance on the construction of several systems for the financial, taxation and accounting systems. There was also the content of the conversations of Yi Fan, Chen Ce and others at the Wudaokou Finance Conference, and he felt an unprecedented pressure coming towards him.

This kind of pressure is difficult for others to understand, or even incomprehensible -- isn't the financial and economic system an upright system construction? As someone said: without an accounting and financial system, would it be a regression to the bartering system?

No, it's not like that. Ma Qianzhuo thought to himself, this is a line struggle.

To put it simply, it is the conflict between engineers and accountants, and it is a line struggle between two different development ideas.

Accountants are anxious to engage in finance, use economic indicators to control society, and manage enterprises in the same way as enterprises. Engineers plan to use a complex set of jishu indicators to expand industry as quickly as possible.

Ma Qianzhuo believes that the idea of an accountant is only suitable for a single enterprise, and it is also the kind of enterprise that can switch between multiple suppliers, multiple logistics providers, and multiple sales methods at any time. In this way, the company can be managed with capital as the center.

In his secret memo, he wrote:

…… In the current economic state of Lingao, this line of thinking of Yi Yifan and others is meaningless. Funds cannot be used in the same way from different suppliers - i.e. the production processes of other factories - at all. It is not possible to trade one indicator for another linearly. That is, negotiable bills are not real currency, and there is no mature market for industrialized products in this shijie to apply microeconomics casually. Therefore, marketization is not valid. It must be controlled with complex indicators, i.e. jishu core. Only the jishu of the big road, the mature jishu, that is, the jishu that can be opened to the indigenous management, can take the route of pure capital control.

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Gao Jishu will never go to the market. Because its own value cannot be measured in the market, it is reasonable to take the core route of engineers at this time. The jihua economy must be maintained in the core industries, with monopoly profits to compensate for development costs, and jishu superiority to deal with micro-efficiency losses.

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However, from a government's point of view, it is difficult to deny the role of money, accounting, auditing and accounting. It can even be said that without this system, the modern government cannot function, including the minimum budget and final accounts of the modern government. So, how to strike a balance is a key thing.

He thought that he should talk to Cheng Dong, and he should be able to understand his theory. Of course, Cheng Dong now also supports the plan of Yi Fan and his gang -- this is very natural, once this plan is passed, the power of the financial and economic departments will rise exponentially, and it is impossible for people to resist this temptation.

He suddenly remembered that one of the documents recently sent to the secretariat of the Executive Committee by the Ministry of Finance was a request for instructions on the addition of "full-time bank security personnel". The report was unremarkable, packed into a bunch of transactional reports. According to the procedure, as long as it is passed by the executive committee and then passed by the third reading at the standing meeting of the Senate, the matter is completed.

Hama thinks that you want to engage in the Treasury Department's special intelligence agency. Can this be used as a bargaining chip? He immediately rejected his idea - the stakes were too small, and such an agency as the Treasury Secret Service could be compared to the power to influence the whole situation?