Chapter XXIX: Intelligence

In mid-October, after Li Minmin took up the post of intelligence minister, under his leadership, the work efficiency of the intelligence department was immediately improved, and of course, the role of wireless telegraph was also there, and all kinds of intelligence were sent to Zhang Wei's desk one after another. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoNow Han Xin is Zhang Wei's secretary, helping to take care of various documents, Han Xin also sighed that it is still a professional person doing professional things, which is really efficient.

Intelligence stations in new places were set up one after another, not only Singapore and Shanghai, as requested by Zhang Wei, but also Saigon and Manila. London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Taipei, Hawaii, San Francisco, and New York have all sent people to the city, all with ultra-shortwave radio stations, which should be able to contact Pontianak.

The first to report back was Shanghai, where many cities across the country this year held anti-American demonstrations against the abuse of American labor and Chinese entry bills, and boycotted American goods.

Zhang Wei instructed the Ministry of Intelligence to collect more cases of abuse of Chinese laborers in the United States, try to help rescue the trapped Chinese laborers, and preferably establish a Chinese labor organization in the United States to unite the Chinese as much as possible.

Batavia sent back information about the Dutch army: 2 divisions of Dutch troops and 1 division of colonial troops were now stationed in Batavia; In addition, the Dutch Army stationed 1 regiment each in Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya; In Batavia were stationed 2 Dutch battleships and 1 cruiser, one of 5000 tons with 2 280mm guns and one of 3500 tons with 3 210mm guns and a cruiser of 3800 tons with unknown guns; In Semarang were stationed 1 battleship of 5000 tons and 1 cruiser of 3800 tons.

The Machen intelligence point sent back the news that 1 regiment of Dutch troops, 1 5,000-ton battleship, and 1 3,800-ton cruiser were stationed in Machen; In addition, the Dutch army stationed 1 battalion on Belitung Island guarded the tin mines, and there may have been a 3,800-ton cruiser stationed there.

Zhang Wei felt that his understanding of the Netherlands was not careful enough, so he asked Li to arrange intelligence points in major cities throughout the East Indies, such as Sumatra, Sulawesi, and New Guinea, and to send people to open intelligence points. Anyway, we need to collect as much detailed information as possible about the Dutch army, such as how many people are in a division, what heavy weapons are equipped, how many people are in a regiment, and what the combat effectiveness is.

In addition, we should also make an assessment of the military strength of Britain and France in East Asia, and in case we take the Netherlands and Britain and France to participate in dealing with us, we must also prepare in advance. Britain, a-stirring stick, will definitely interfere in order to safeguard their own colonial interests and prevent Lan Fang from giving a bad head to all the colonies; France is a follower, and it must be that Britain will do what he does; What's more, if we occupy Sumatra, it will be too close to British Singapore, and the British will not feel safe; It was also very close to the French colony of the East Indies; We are also Chinese, and there are land disputes between Britain, France and China. Therefore, the information in this area should also be careful.

In the end, Zhang Wei said to Li Civilian, in the primary stage of the founding of the People's Republic of China, including before the founding of the People's Republic of China, all intelligence personnel must be synthesized, and it is not safe to use people, and you can directly ask James for how much money the intelligence department needs, and James will support you unconditionally.

Li Minmin also felt that his work was rough and not meticulous, this was because he had misunderstood the meaning of the young master at the beginning, it seemed that he had to work hard, and the young master might not be able to talk so well next time.

A few days later, Li sent information about the Chinese people in Pontianak, Yanghe, Yamaguchi, and that the Chinese people in the two cities were organizing a tandem to overthrow the Dutch rule by force, or drive the Dutch away.

Zhang Wei looked at the information and sighed with emotion: "These people are not successful enough, and they are more than defeated, these people are really looking for death, do you really think that it is so easy to drive the Dutch away?" Don't look at the Dutch here, there are not many people here, but Batavia has a regular army, mainly the Netherlands and a navy. These people don't even have a few rifles, and they still want to rebel? ”

Young Master: "I don't think they mean that, it's just that the recent rumors have spread that the bandits have taken control of the Kapuas River and the plains of eastern Pontianak, and these Huaxia people also know that this bandit is a Huaxia person, and they have sent someone to contact Zhang Cheng before, so I think they are forcing us to act early and occupy Pontianak and Yamaguchi Yang, and they organize an armed uprising or a rebellion, just to fight for greater interests in the new government in the future." ”

"How many families have they united now?"

"There are 5 on the Yamaguchi side and 4 on the Pontianak side."

"When are they going to start an incident?"

"There's no news on this, they're very tight-mouthed."

"If you already know a few people, I'm sure the Dutch know too. The reason why the Dutch don't move them is that they hope that there will be many more families involved soon, so that they can clean up these families together, the Dutch are salivating over the assets of these families, and they have been suffering from no suitable reason, and this time it is estimated that they are in a catastrophe. ”

"Young master, what do you say? Do you act ahead of time or sit idly by? Or tell them in advance that the Dutch want to clean them up? ”

"Regardless of them, according to our plan, if we can't redeem enough points, what's the use of occupying Pontianak and Yamaguchiyo? Pure land can only get more than 100,000 points per month, and the population score will not go there much, in a few months, we will have to starve to death, let alone development, we must take advantage of the time before the Spring Festival to fully support James to exchange silver, and strive to start acting after New Year's Day. As long as it doesn't conflict with our actions, it doesn't matter if they live or die. ”

"Yes, young master"

"These people are exchanging the lives of ordinary people for their own interests, and if they succeed, these families will benefit, if they fail, they will give up some family industries such as mines or estates for interest exchange, and those who suffer will always be those ordinary Chinese people; More than half of the suffering of the Chinese people is caused by these selfish families. ”

"These people are so hateful."

"They only have family in their eyes."

"In that case, young master, then we won't care about anything this time, what should they do when they see it, they still want to empty gloves white wolf, they still want to use us, they want to pull us into the water, it's really hateful."

"Okay, let's not think about this matter for now, now my biggest headache is that we have slaughtered so many natives, how can we transfer this matter to the Dutch."

"Young Master, isn't this easy to do? We directly sent people to promote the atrocities of the Dutch, and the Dutch governor asked the natives to play the role of bandits to rob the mines and manors of the Chinese, and then he played the role of bandits, killing these natives and looting materials. In this way, everyone can believe it, and if you don't believe it, you have to believe it. ”

"Okay, you can do it, but don't spread it from Pontianak first, start spreading it from Batavia or other cities on the island of Java, and then let the whole world know about the evil of the Dutch, so that no one will suspect us."

"Yes, young master, I promise to complete the task."

Zhang Wei will be fine after arranging the task, but he will be busy below, fortunately, Zhang Wei is very supportive of the work below, as long as it is a normal need, he never procrastinates, as long as he can do it, he will handle it immediately, such as the telegraph machine applied by Li Civilian, apply here, have already purchased it there, and can come to collect it at any time, and the spy personnel who need to synthesize it will also immediately arrange Xiao Yuer to synthesize, and it will be done in a while. This kind of cooperation makes the people working below much more efficient.

This time, Li sent intelligence officers not only to the territory of the Dutch in Semarang, Surabaya, and Makassar, but also to Sydney, Bangkok, Yangon, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Tianjin, and Mukden.

It would be even easier to leak out the matter of the Dutch governor sending people to pretend to be bandits, so many intelligence officers, distributed all over the world, just send a telegram, this modern wireless telegraph is not popular, and the function is not powerful, no one will suspect the Lan Fang People's Army.