Chapter 65: The General in the Shadows

Headquarters of the Staff of the Royal Guard

For Chinese soldiers, they clearly know that this building located in the compound can be said to be the heart, brain, and center of the Chinese army, at least every officer knows this clearly.

It must have been the idea of the "great" Majesty to put the headquarters of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard into a quadrangular building that was once one ring after another, and it is true that after the completion of the General Staff Headquarters, the functions of the War Department and the Navy Department were weakened, and even the headquarters of the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard were directly located in the General Staff Headquarters, and in this way, it was for the purpose of strengthening the liaison between the various services, especially in wartime.

In fact, it is precisely this kind of staff headquarters that integrates all branches of the armed forces in one that enables the Chinese army to maintain a rapid combat readiness that other countries cannot achieve in peacetime, and after the outbreak of this world war, although it took the army 24 hours to complete the mobilization, the supreme command was completed in only two hours, which is even more unimaginable in other countries.

Since leaving the Army General Staff five years ago, Jiang Qun has been overseas and has never entered the current staff headquarters. As soon as I entered, I saw that the corridors inside were connected to the corridors, and the rooms were set up with rooms, extending in all directions, twists and turns, and the shape was like a labyrinth. The second lieutenant who led him the way told him that there were twenty-five kilometres of corridors, three hundred latrines, eight thousand three hundred and forty-eight windows, and ninety thousand electric lampheads. The center of the staff headquarters is hollow, there is a garden covering an area of 100 acres, and when you are tired from work, you can rest in the shade of flowers and trees. But since it was built and put into use, very few people have been there, and everyone has been very busy.

However, when Jiang Qun came here today, he did not go to the joint staff meeting, or to the general staff and headquarters of the services, but to the military intelligence bureau directly under the General Staff Headquarters; before he became military attache in Japan five years ago, Jiang Qun served in the Military Intelligence Bureau, and now that he has returned to China to perform his duties, he naturally has to report to the Military Intelligence Bureau.

In the office of the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, facing Jiang Qun who was sitting in front of him, the general said with a serious expression:

"Over the years, you have been in Japan, and you should know more about Japan than I do, on the surface, Japan seems to have willingly become our pawn, but in fact, this country has never succumbed to us."

"Yes, general, in fact, in the eyes of the Japanese, we did not defeat them, they simply chose to compromise for a moment in order to preserve the interests of the country! Just like Perry's fleet! ”

Jiang Qun replied truthfully.

"However, compared to Perry's fleet, the Japanese regard Perry as the hero who founded their country, and regard us as ......"

Smiling bitterly, Jiang Qun's expression became a little unnatural, in the past few years, Japan's praise of China has always made some people become fluttering, when Japan expanded its army, he sent many secret telegrams to the country, reminding the current situation at the same time, but also stressed that it is necessary to stop Japan's military expansion at all costs, and even after Japan's military expansion became a fact, he once used "this will be the biggest mistake since the founding of the empire" to describe the military expansion case.

"Regard us enemies, General! It can be said that in Japan, there has always been a voice of Sino-Japanese war, but they skillfully concealed hostility and hatred, it is said that when Meiji was dying, he once said to the old ministers, "If you don't get rid of other countries stationing troops in Japan, you don't snow the hatred of the South China Sea, and he won't turn a blind eye!" It can be seen that even Meiji, who knows the times, has a strong hostility towards our country!"

"Did you get all of this through your own network?"

Lighting a cigar, the general casually asked rhetorically, among the agents sent by the Military Intelligence Bureau, he admired Jiang Qun very much, for the simple reason that he not only completed his mission and worked hard to collect military intelligence from the host country, but also developed a spy network, which over the years had provided a lot of important information to the Military Intelligence Bureau, although it was not necessarily military intelligence. …,

"Yes, General!"

Jiang Qun nodded, and at the same time explained.

"This is also the main destination of the annual expenditure of 500,000 yuan!"

In his heart, he was very grateful to the general in front of him, and it was with the support of the general that he was able to obtain sufficient additional funds to build an intelligence network composed of troops and politicians in Japan, and anyone was valuable and anyone could be bought.

"It's worth the money!"

Looking at Jiang Qun, he nodded, all along, the expenditure of the Military Attache Office in Japan has been the highest, especially the 500,000 yuan "special" fund, which makes some people complain, in their opinion, compared with Japan, Germany, the United States, Britain, France, and Russia, are more worthy of investment, and it is worth investing, but the problem is that those people, after spending money, may not be able to achieve any results.

"There are three things for you to come back this time, the first thing, you already know, according to the authority given to me by His Majesty the Emperor, to promote your lieutenant colonel! Congratulations, Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Qun! ”

Promotion, Jiang Qun already knew about this before returning to China, and he knew that this promotion was a recognition of his past work achievements, because he had already known the news.

"The second thing is that I hope you can become a foreign affairs instructor of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and teach your experience to those young people, I hope that one day, we can establish our own military intelligence network all over the world, how about it, would you like to try?"

"Yes, sir!"

As an army officer, he would not and could not refuse this task, in fact, he had always had a desire to surpass the Imperial Intelligence Agency, at least to no longer rely on them.

In the past many years, although there has been extensive cooperation between the two intelligence agencies, at the same time as the contract, there are also a lot of contradictions between the two bureaus because of the "overlapping tasks", and this contradiction has naturally contributed to the competition between the two intelligence agencies, and now it has developed into a competition for resources.

"And the third thing, I hope you can provide me with a list!"

"List?"

The general's request only surprised Jiang Qun for a while, if he remembered correctly, the bureau had a list of members directly controlled by his network, what list did he need to provide now?

"That's right, providing a list of Japanese officers is not just close to us, I hope they are our people!"

Our people!

The snow was falling all the time, and the wipers laboriously removed the fluffy snow flakes.

Cars raced along the empty road leading to the city. The Purple Mountain, which showed a bit of northern scenery in the snow, swept by the car window, and it was not until the car was about to drive through the city that Jiang Qun stopped the car suddenly.

The car stopped on a piece of mud on the side of the road, looking at the confused wind and snow outside the car window, Jiang Qun looked a little dazed. Although it had been a long time since he left the Army Staff, the question was still on his mind: why did the chief ask him to provide a list?

Why the emphasis on "our people"?

As an officer and also an intelligence officer, he clearly knows the meaning of this sentence, and there is a faint intriguing flavor in this sentence, but what kind of inside story is there?

The sensitivity of the intelligence officer made him realize what kind of inside story must be in this, although he was vaguely aware of something in his heart, but he was not sure, but more importantly, he couldn't grasp the clues to solve this mystery at all, and could only keep guessing in his heart.

At this moment, a Tianma car with a license plate of the General Staff Department galloped by, and the car raised a little snow, and when the car drove past, Jiang Qun did not notice the passing car, the inconspicuous car did not seem to have anything worth noting, on this highway, there were many cars like that. …,

However, only a very small number of people know that the owner of the car has a very special identity, the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff Headquarters, and the officers who hold this position are often major generals, but his identity is kept secret.

This general, the general has a document on his lap, the document is a handwritten list of up to three hundred people, at this time he is looking at this list, holding the pencil hand, constantly drawing circles on the list, as if to make special marks, occasionally there will be some names in the circle with a conspicuous "? ”。

The general wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, his expression at this time looked a little dignified, he wrote and drew on the list from time to time, obviously hesitant to make a decision, as a head of an intelligence agency, as a high-ranking officer, it was originally one of their professional requirements to make a quick decision, but at this time, he hesitated, perhaps, this hesitation is because of the importance of the responsibilities he undertakes, but it is also possible that he really encountered some kind of problems.

"It's really difficult to choose someone!"

Closing the document again, the general was talking to himself while half-closing his eyes, the reason why he asked Jiang Qun to provide a list was to develop Japanese officers in the Japanese Army who were "able to safeguard China's interests", but in this case, there was also a very special mission, that is, to select some leaders, to choose a leader for Japan.

To a certain extent, this is not a matter of the Military Intelligence Bureau, but the general clearly knows that in the Imperial Intelligence Agency, they are also doing the same work, this is the work of His Majesty, and he clearly knows that no matter whose proposal is finally accepted or successful, it means that in the future of Japan, that intelligence agency will gain a sense of "dominance"!

What better way to prove the achievements of an intelligence agency than to dominate a country?

Frowning, the general became hesitant for the first time.

*J Novel Knight