Chapter 97

"Huh?"

Raised an eyebrow suspiciously, looked at Li Muchen and then looked at the stack of papers in his hand, Tang Haoran reached out and picked it up and looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more confused he became, because none of this information was what he needed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"What is this? Only the intelligence information of Liangjiang?"

Is there any point in this intelligence material?

What information do you need now?

It is information about the remnants of the Zhejiang People's Army, and it is information about Tan Si's movements over the same year or so. But looking at the intelligence information in his hand, Tang Haoran knew that he was afraid of being disappointed, although the intelligence bureau has been established for a year and a half, and it seems to be the world's first full-time intelligence organization, but this agency is still just a baby, it relies on a small number of poor and even literary processing of later generations of intelligence organizations to lay its initial prototype, but later generations of literary works can not improve its intelligence collection capabilities, everything is from scratch.

Even the intelligence bureau needs to learn from a group of liars, thieves and other people who have gone wrong, as for the main job of the intelligence bureau, well, everything is just beginning, like a toddler, is learning step by step, mastering this professional industry, in short, this is just the beginning.

It seems that not much can be hoped for in the Intelligence Service yet! After all, it wasn't the CIA or the KGB, just a newly formed intelligence agency. After placing too much hope in it, more disappointment awaits you.

Sighing helplessly, after comforting himself like this, Tang Haoran breathed a sigh of relief.

"Teacher ......"

The teacher's words made Li Muchen look a little embarrassed, and he didn't know what kind of information the teacher needed. But in the past year. The Intelligence Bureau's understanding of the remnants of the Zhejiang People's Army and Tan Sitong. Not necessarily much more than the others. Even in the intelligence bureau's intelligence materials about Tan Sitong, it is marked as "missing", and the reason why this is so is because the dark line laid by the intelligence bureau is in a state of disconnection.

Because of this, the uprising in Ganzhou not only shocked others, but also stunned the Intelligence Bureau, and even Li Muchen, as the director of the Intelligence Bureau, learned that Tan Sitong was still alive through the councillors stationed in the capital and knew the news of the Zhejiang People's Army. Prior to this, the intelligence station in Nanjing had not obtained any information related to it at all.

Of course, this also illustrates the dereliction of duty in intelligence work from one side. Otherwise, it would have been able to obtain this information from the Liangjiang Yamen, rather than through regular channels, so the Intelligence Bureau would need to adjust its work and intensify its intelligence collection within the Guan.

Of course, as the person in charge of the intelligence bureau, Li Muchen would never be immersed in the embarrassment of "dereliction of duty", he almost immediately adjusted his mind and looked at the teacher and said solemnly.

"The most urgent task now is to strengthen the neglect of intelligence work in the interior exposed by this incident, and the more urgent issue to be solved is how to deal with this matter!"

Li Muchen's words made Tang Haoran nod thoughtfully. Now is not the time to hold accountable, let alone hold accountable. There is no need to pursue responsibility, intelligence work is like this, and only by investing enough manpower, material, and financial resources can we collect enough intelligence, and intelligence work in the interior has always focused on Tianjin and Wuchang, and as for other areas, it has been somewhat neglected.

And the reason why Tianjin and Wuchang will be the focus is because they have the greatest influence on the country and the greatest threat to the Northeast, or in other words, for the Northeast, the potential enemies are Li Hongzhang in Tianjin and Zhang Zhidong in Wuchang...... It's not even a paper tiger, so how can it be noticed by the Intelligence Bureau?

Even the CIA and KGB in later generations will ignore many small countries! So, in terms of responsibility, there is no big deal, and there is no responsibility worth holding accountable.

"Yuanyou, then tell me, how should this matter be handled?"

Looking directly at Li Muchen, Tang Haoran asked curiously.

When the remnants of the Zhejiang People's Army seized Ganzhou and severely damaged the Liangjiang New Army, Tang Haoran was really surprised, and he was also happy, after all, this was the first time he had received news from Tan Sitong for more than a year.

But after the surprise encounter, Tang Haoran, as the governor of the three eastern provinces, had to face a practical problem -- the problem of position.

Precisely, the position of the Northeast authorities in this matter.

Should I support Tan Sitong as I did in the "Hangzhou Incident", or should I ignore the uprising that took place in Ganzhou.

The butt decides the head, this sentence is really true, if it was two years ago, Tang Haoran would have given him support without hesitation, and even last year, he would have given him some support after a moment of hesitation. But now, in the face of this incident, Tang Haoran hesitated, and even started the idea of "why did it pop up".

This is not because Tang Haoran is in the position of governor, but because he needs to consider more issues now, such as not wanting someone to destroy the current good situation of "stability and unity" and break the current balance. Even if this balance is only two rivers, this seemingly insignificant area, but this area is extremely important for the balance in the Guannai - Liu Kunyi is a supporter of Zhang Zhidong.

Of course, this is not selfish, and the "Hangzhou Uprising" that shook the whole country has fixed Tan Sitong as a "national revolutionary", and even called him a "revolutionary leader". So much so that even in the Northeast, people who mention anti-Manchu people will inevitably talk about this "revolutionary", and even those like Tang Caichang, who they deliberately snubbed, also enjoy a certain prestige in the Northeast, not to mention Tan Sitong, the "revolutionary" who "fired the first shot".

And this situation is what Tang Haoran is not happy to see, after all, he is the real "leader". The future of China should be dominated by itself, not by him. What's more important is that outsiders' challenges to themselves are not something Tang Haoran can accept, so he is so entangled.

Especially after the birth of his son, the moment he saw him, as a father, Tang Haoran's heart surged out of a ** that had never been revealed, which was the ** and desire for power. That is, from that day on. What he shoulders is not only the responsibility and responsibility of a traverser. There is also a paternal responsibility.

That's why. When Tan Sitong's news came, Tang Haoran would show this kind of playfulness now, and even this attitude was not limited to him alone, the Northeast officialdom was extremely cold to Tan Sitong's news, even Song Yuxin, who knew that he had a deep friendship with Tang Haoran, pretended to be deaf and dumb, and didn't care about his life or death.

Under Tang Haoran's careful construction. No one in the political system of the Northeast has enough authority or prestige to threaten his position - there is no second-in-command, neither the military nor the government. But what if Tan Sitong comes to the Northeast?

There is no doubt that it will pose a threat to his dominance, although it is only a potential possibility, but as a politician, Tang Haoran naturally understands how to deal with the threat. It must be eliminated in advance.

In this case, Tang Haoran was curious about Li Muchen's thoughts.

"Disposition? Tohoku is located in the Kanto region. And Ganzhou is far away in the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, even if there is a heart to help each other, what can it do? ”

The reason why he dared to say this was because of the attitude of the prefecture towards the "Hangzhou" incident last year, which was to stop the aid in exchange for their withdrawal from Hangzhou after they had suffered a heavy blow, and thus reached a compromise with the governors of Guannai. In other words, an agreement was reached with the "blood of revolutionaries" and "the stubbornness of Kannai".

Of course, the blood of the revolutionary aspirants was not shed in vain, they awakened the people, and even the foolishness of Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong were influenced by it, and they formed a semi-break with the Manchu court - of course, this is only a statement that will be written in the history books in the future. But sometimes, all people need is an excuse.

An excuse, no matter how simple, often becomes the last fig leaf.

Tang Haoran did not express any opinion on this "fig leaf", but signaled him to continue.

"Of course, this must not be an excuse, after all, in the anti-Manchurian cause, we are the same as them, and the teacher and Mr. Tan are also the same, so I think the intelligence bureau will do its best to use all channels to support them, but it's just ......."

The words paused slightly, and seeing that the adult did not speak, Li Muchen, who knew that he had won the bet, continued.

"Ganzhou is far away in the mountainous area of the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, and the surrounding areas are all stubbornly controlled, while Fujian is even more controlled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it may be difficult to support them......

"Twists and turns are inevitable!"

Tang Haoran smiled slightly, looked at Li Muchen and said.

"But that doesn't stop us from supporting our colleagues in the Mainland...... Unlike Zhejiang, the whole region is full of stubborn conservative forces...... As we support them, we will need to stay away from those hateful eyes...... There is also Fujian, the current governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Song Fan, is a banner man, but he took office with the Eight Banners New Army of the First Association, and the banner people and revolutionaries are naturally mortal enemies, how can such people sit idly by and watch our support for the people's army? ”

In fact, this is the opposite, whether it is Zhang Zhidong or Li Hanzhang, they will not sit idly by and watch the growth of the people's army, but Songfan does not mind its growth, as long as it does not pose a threat to it, as the only local governor who is loyal to the imperial court, he is naturally happy to see the people's army and the local powerful faction kill each other, so as to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Therefore, with a little means, it is possible to open a secret channel in Fujian to support the people's army, just like the revolutionaries who survived in another time and space by taking advantage of the contradictions between the warlords in that region. If you say that the biggest change you have brought to this time and space now is probably the fact that you have caused each side to be separated, and this has also created a prerequisite for Tan Si and others to open up a base area, if there is no current local separation, it will never be possible to open up a base area.

"Let's go, go with me to the backyard, I've been sitting for too long, and my body is a little numb......."

The so-called backyard is actually a Western-style garden behind the Governor's Palace, with a well-maintained lawn that resembles a green blanket. Walk along the cobbled garden paths among the green spaces. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a little cooler.

"Thousands of high-rise buildings rise from the ground ......"

After a long silence, Tang Haoran said such a sentence.

"Maybe in a few decades, people will have a lot of doubts about today, they may think that the current Northeast may have the ability to enter the customs, the ability to overthrow the rule of the Manchus, and even some people will question our position on the Hangzhou issue last year, ......."

Tang Haoran explained that as a latecomer, he didn't know the multifaceted nature of history, and that every person and every piece of history was different from different aspects, and only by being in it could he know the original meaning.

And the reason why I said this at this time was not so much an explanation, but rather a desire to gain some peace of mind, as if to convince myself.

"But they have forgotten that the truth of thousands of high-rise buildings rising from the ground, whether it was last year or today, maybe we have the ability to break into the customs, but what about after that?"

Glancing into the distance, Tang Haoran said with a sigh.

"Take the Northeast as an example, even if we don't consider industrial construction and other issues, if we want to fully implement modern administration, we need nearly 10,000 officials, tens of thousands of teachers, and tens of thousands of policemen, so what about the whole country?"

With a wry smile helplessly, as the governor of the three eastern provinces, how could Tang Haoran not know that even in the northeast, a place with a population less than that of a province in the interior, in the past year, he had a headache because of the shortage of affairs officers, instructors, and police.

"Managing the Tohoku region, which has a population of only 7 million, is already quite difficult for the government, and the officials are even more stretched,......

In fact, the current population should be more than 80000000, under the initiative of immigrants to introduce, almost every day thousands of immigrants into the Northeast under the leadership of official channels, the number will only be higher in the future, the Northeast as in history, is rapidly absorbing the surplus population from the Guannai. And these people are the foundation of the Northeast competition for the Central Plains in the future.

"What's more, it is a country with a population of 40,000, we need time, not only the time to train the army and industrial construction, but also the time for our officials to grow up, and even to train a new generation of young people, otherwise, even if we seize the world, it will only be a change of soup without a change of medicine, a change of country name of the Manchu Qing! Is that what we want? ”

After this rhetorical question, Tang Haoran shook his head, and his voice became more and more cold with a slight gaze:

"So in this matter it is necessary to give way to the true future of the nation! It's not that we're too cold-blooded, it's ...... Compared to them, the future of the nation is the most important! (To be continued.) )