The Fourth Route Army Security Bureau was established, and the director was Fang Zhen. Fang Zhen's performance had won Song Zhewu's trust, and Song Zhewu even wanted to hand over the Intelligence Bureau to him at one point.

Some time ago, Song Zhewu asked Fang Zhen to investigate the situation of the new recruits, and not only did Fang Zhen personally investigate and screen the new recruits in Hankou and Zhengzhou, but also instructed the personnel of the Security Department in Laiyuan to investigate the recruits who joined the Fourth Route Army in Laiyuan, especially the students and educated personnel, and achieved great results.

Among the recruits recruited in Hankou, Fang Zhen found the Hankou police station through Liu Wendao, and according to their files, he found fifteen people with political background or suspected backgrounds among the recruits, of which eleven were peasants in the Wuhan area, two were students, and two were clerks of the municipal axes of Hankou and Wuchang. The two students are not from Wuhan, one is from Guangdong, and the other is from Jiangxi, they are not students in Wuhan, and they both came to Wuhan before the Spring Festival to look for jobs. Although it is impossible to verify their situation, Fang Zhen believes that the time when they came to Wuhan alone is very suspicious; The two staff members were all natives of Wuhan, and their performance in the drama investigation was very average, according to their own accounts, because they were impressed by Song Zhewu's behavior to help the victims.

For these people, Fang Zhen's approach is: people with political backgrounds, after arriving in Zhengzhou, will secretly retreat, and each person will send another 20 yuan to Dayang as travel expenses. The two students and two staff members remained in the army to be examined. Fang Zhen suggested that these people should not arrange for them to do important work until they were clarified.

The investigation and screening of people from the security department in Laiyuan is also going smoothly, and the situation is very similar to what Fang Zhen found in Hubei and Zhengzhou, except that the number of people with problems and suspicions is higher, and it is even found that some people in the army are still very radical. Fang Zhen asked Song Zhewu, how to deal with such a person?

Song Zhewu told Fang Zhen that as long as these people did not endanger the safety of the personnel of the Fourth Route Army, did not really damage and hinder the development of the Fourth Route Army, and as long as these irreparable things did not happen, they should "not kill any of them, and not arrest any of them." "They all want to send him away from the Fourth Route Army.

Song Zhewu was very satisfied with Fang Zhen's approach, but he didn't have time to observe these suspected people, and he couldn't instruct not to reuse these people, this matter could only be handed over to Fang Zhen's security office, Fang Zhen and his security office should be the "firewall" and "anti-virus software" of the Fourth Route Army, which could isolate the Fourth Route Army from outside intrusions, and even clean up the "Trojan horse" inside the Fourth Route Army at any time. Moreover, Song Zhewu felt that Fang Zhen and his department should also have a function, that is, to help him know the internal dynamics of the Fourth Route Army.

However, in this way, the workload of Fang Zhen and his security department will increase significantly, and the reason why Tang Shengzhi's Fifth Route Army was recruited in Zhengzhou was because Fang Zhen did not have enough manpower, so he did not find out that they were deserters from the Fifth Route Army. Therefore, after hesitating for a long time, Song Zhewu finally made up his mind to establish the Fourth Route Army Security Bureau. The mission of the Security Bureau is to protect the internal security of the Fourth Route Army and to stop and block the infiltration of the Fourth Route Army by any external forces. In order to ensure the effective completion of the task, the appointment, dismissal, and transfer of all officers of the Fourth Route Army must be reported to the Security Bureau for the record. The pickets originally belonging to Wang Xinggang's political training office were transferred to the Security Bureau, and Fang Zhen was promoted to major general at the same time, mainly because Song Zhewu considered that Fang Zhen's rank was too low, which was not conducive to him doing a good job.

In order to prevent the power of the Security Bureau from being too large (which is why Song Zhewu hesitated to set up a Security Bureau), Song Zhewu gave Fang Zhen a strict order. "The Security Bureau has the right to make recommendations and not decide on the transfer of officers and soldiers below the major level of the Fourth Route Army; For the promotion and transfer of personnel above the rank of major, the Security Bureau only has the right to reflect different opinions to Song Zhewu; When it is necessary to investigate officers above the regiment commander, it must be approved by Song Zhewu; It is absolutely forbidden to arrest people without confirming the evidence. Even if there is evidence, officers below the battalion level would need at least the consent of the division commander. Officers at and above the battalion level must be approved by Song Zhewu. ”

The Fourth Route Army Intelligence Bureau was established, and Wang Xu was the director. Strictly speaking, this intelligence bureau has already been established, but it has not been announced. Now this intelligence bureau has no external name and establishment, and only Song Zhewu and Wang Xu know everything about it, but Xiao Guodong can see from the large amount of money that has not been paid to Wang Xu that this intelligence bureau has begun to turn efficiently.

Chu Feng was appointed as the executive deputy director of the Taihang Administration, responsible for all civil affairs of the Taihang Administration. Although Song Zhewu was appointed by Hebei Provincial Chairman Shang Zhen and approved by Chiang Kai-shek, he could only focus on army building, and he did not have the time and energy to deal with civil affairs. Fortunately, Song Zhewu had already prepared, and he asked Chu Feng to take a group of carefully selected students to follow Laiyuan County Magistrate Meng Chu to manage Laiyuan's government affairs, just to let them get in touch with and be familiar with government affairs, so as to cultivate administrative management talents for Shanxi in the future. This is a good opportunity for them to get a workout in advance.

The jurisdiction of the Taihang Administration is the entire Taihang Mountain area, and theoretically even includes the part of Taihang Mountain in Shanxi, Song Zhewu knew that this was Chiang Kai-shek's deliberate blockage of Yan Xishan, and it also meant to create contradictions between him and Yan Xishan. But of course, Song Zhewu will not be hot-headed to take over the government affairs of the Shanxi part of Taihang Mountain now, but in this part of Hebei, he doesn't have to worry about it. In order to prevent these young people from making big mistakes, Song Zhewu removed Meng Chu from the post of county magistrate of Laiyuan in the name of the director of the Taihang Administration, and appointed Meng Chu as the senator of the Taihang Administration to assist Chu Feng in managing all government affairs of the Administration.

In order to effectively manage and plan the scientific and technological personnel of the Fourth Route Army and better concentrate manpower and material resources to do a good job in scientific research, the Fourth Route Army Research Institute was established, and Xiao Guodong served as the president. Although Xiao Guodong does not understand scientific research, it stands to reason that Song Zhewu is more suitable, but he really can't pull away, and this research institute is the source of strength and hope for Song Zhewu's future development, and it must be vigorously supported and guaranteed in terms of manpower, material resources, and financial resources.

For the time being, the institute consists of five departments: the Weapons and Ammunition Research Institute, the Pharmaceutical Research Institute, the Electronics Research Institute, the Chemical Engineering Research Institute, and the Physics Research Institute.

The Weapons Research Institute consists of a firearms research room, an artillery research room, and an ammunition research room. In Song Zhewu's plan, there will also be a special vehicle research laboratory and an aircraft research laboratory, but Wang Dong, who is engaged in vehicle research, is still in the United States, and Wang Dong promised to return to China to help Song Zhewu when Song Zhewu establishes an automobile factory.

However, in Wang Dong's letter to Song Zhewu, he told Song Zhewu that he had heard Song Zhewu's brother Song Zhewen say that Song Zhewu was even going to build an aircraft factory, and Wang Dong knew that it could be done with Song Zhewen's financial resources, so he told his eldest brother Wang Zhu. Moreover, he had already persuaded Wang Zhu that if Song Zhewu started to build an aircraft factory one day, Wang Zhu would come to help him.

For Wang Zhu, Song Zhewu knows very well. Wang Zhu, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the first chief engineer of Boeing more than a decade ago, was severely racist in the United States. Although Wang Zhu was the designer and manufacturer of the B&W-C seaplane, the United States did not allow Wang Zhu to enter the test site during the flight test, fearing that he would secretly learn "the highest aviation technology in the United States." This obvious discrimination against the Chinese made Wang Zhu extremely angry, and Wang Zhu, who was unwilling to endure humiliation in the United States, chose to return to China without hesitation. After Wang Zhu returned to China in 1917, he strongly asked Beiyang Zhengaxe to raise funds to establish an aircraft factory. In February 1918, China's first formal aircraft factory, the Naval Aircraft Engineering Department of the Mawei Ship Administration Bureau, was established, and Wang Zhu was appointed as the deputy director. Now seaplanes are being developed there, and there are already several models.

Song Zhewu's aircraft research laboratory was waiting for Wang Zhu to come, and after he got Curtis's plane, he couldn't wait to call Wang Zhu, who had been in contact last year, and asked Wang Zhu to come to Laiyuan to preside over the preliminary preparations for the aircraft factory.

The director of the Institute of Medicine is, of course, Wang Lianzhang, and in order to make more reasonable use of the existing limited talents, Song Zhewu established the Fourth Route Army Headquarters Hospital, and the president is also Wang Lianzhang. The two military doctors who followed Tao Rong to the Fourth Route Army in the original 19th Route Army, one of whom was still a doctor, were also handed over to him, plus several students from Hubei Provincial Medical University recruited from Hankou, and Wang Lianzhang set up two laboratories. One of these two laboratories focuses on the research of Western medicine and the other focuses on the research of proprietary Chinese medicines. Song Zhewu said that the penicillin that he thought about at night still had to be made by this Western medicine laboratory!

He had already asked Song Zhewen to buy him the patent and strain of the British scientist Fleming, but no one has yet realized the great utility of penicillin, and no one knows how to purify it now. These Song Zhewu only knew some of them on the Internet in his previous life, and how to do it specifically had to be done by Wang Lianzhang, a double doctor, and the medical doctor of the former Nineteenth Army.

The Institute of Electronics was in charge of Li Minghua, who recruited assistants and students by himself; The director of the Institute of Chemical Engineering is Wang Mingyang, because this Wang Mingyang has followed Song Zhewu for the longest time, he has now brought out a group of students, and even achieved several achievements that made him excited under the guidance of Song Zhewu; The director of the Institute of Physics was Zheng Dazhang, a classmate recruited by Li Minghua. Since Zheng Dazhang is still doing research with Marie Curie at the Institute of Radium Studies of the University of Paris, although he called back to Li Minghua, he still couldn't come back for a while. However, Song Zhewu still insisted on establishing a physics research institute that had no one for the time being, and told Xiao Guodong to inform the logistics department that Zheng Dazhang would be remitted the director's salary every month.

(To be continued)