After the "lawn meeting" in Xiyuan, Chen Chao and Jiang Yun took a car back to the compound of the General Administration of National Security located in the former Prince Yi's mansion. The Ministry of Police is also located here for the time being.

The Ministry of Police is a powerful department under the direct management of the president, and its original name was the Ministry of the Interior, but because the government formation plan set up a Ministry of Civil Affairs responsible for civil management, the two ministries of different nature and subordinates are easy to confuse outsiders, so Fang Shengyuan Jianyi changed the Ministry of the Interior to the Ministry of Police, which made this department a little more solemn.

The first and second deputy of the Ministry of Police, Minister Chen Chao, Vice Minister and Director of the State Security Bureau Jiang Yun, and Vice Minister and Director of the Capital Police Department Xu Gongzhi, all three of them are absolute veterans of the Mengshan Army.

Although the Ministry of Police has been formed, but there is no formal office space, according to Jiang Yun's construction, Chen Chao temporarily works in the State Security Bureau, but his old wife You still lives in Haiyan Hall, Chen Chao had already asked someone to look at a two-entry courtyard near Xuanwumen, but Jiang Yun did not let him buy it, Jiang Yun said to Chen Chao, "Mr. Chen, I know that you are the same as the president, you are very unparticular about food, clothing and housing, but now your identity is different, I have no objection to you buying a house, but you can't be so casual." ”

Chen Chao made fun of Jiang Yun, "Oh, you kid, the official has become bigger, and the score has been put up." ”

"How dare I put on a score in front of your old man? There are two reasons why you can understand it as soon as you hear it. First, the president has decided to build a government office building and entrusted Deng Qinghua with the task of handling the matter. Because it involves Beijing's overall plan, it has not yet been finalized. But things must be done, if each ministry chooses its own place, one in the east and one in the west. It's too inefficient. You know, presidents like to have meetings and deliberate, and it's a waste of time just to wait for someone. When the seat of government is determined, you will need to build a government official's house nearby, so you don't have to rush to buy a house. Second, even if you buy a house, you can't stay too far away from Xiyuan, because in our business, you have the most enemies, and your own safety can't be ignored. So, ah. I build yì you don't buy it just yet. ”

"But I can't always live in Xiyuan. You are talking about government office buildings and residences. I don't know if it's the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse. Chen Chao admitted that what Jiang Yun said was reasonable.

"Mr. Chen, don't worry, I've already asked Wang Yuechan to mobilize nearby residents to move," Jiang Yun drew a circle, "I'm going to buy all the houses in this area." I'll give you a set when the time comes. You and your aunt just moved in. Soon. ”

"Looks like you're going to stay here for a long time. In the Ming Dynasty, there was Dongchang Hutong. Now that some people call your yamen Dongchang, is this piece going to be renamed Guoan Hutong? ”

"Dongchang is the National Security Bureau of the Ming Dynasty. I don't care what they say, I'm just going to make the General Security Bureau an iron-blooded institution that reassures the president. Whoever dares to oppose the president, I will clean him up! In front of Chen Chao, Jiang Yun didn't need to hide his opinion.

Long Qian's purpose of setting up the police department Jiang Yun was clear, but Chen Chao was his immediate boss, and he was very happy. Ten years is short for ordinary people, but for Jiang Yun, it has been reborn. He is no longer the young man who followed Long Qian to Chenjiaya to reconnoiter on the spot, he has experienced countless things and read a lot of books, Jiang Yun has already understood that being in charge of an iron-blooded department like the State Security Bureau is full of dangers, and a little carelessness is a catastrophe! The danger comes from the outside, but also from the inside, Jiang Yun, who accompanies the king like a tiger, always remembers that his position of power comes from Long Qian, and he is undoubtedly Long Qian's hardcore cronies, but why set up the Ministry of Police to control the General Administration of National Security? Jiang Yun has already figured out the deep meaning, Chen Chao's appointment as minister is no better result, with his father-in-law in front, he has no worries.

Of course, Jiang Yun will not tell anyone about this. After the establishment of the Ministry of Police, Jiang Yun pulled the "Commander of the Light Pole" Chen Chao over, vacated his office for Chen Chao, and asked the Personnel Department to select four secretary candidates from the bureau to Chen Chao, let him choose his own, Chen Chao looked at the resumes of the four people, and chose a young man named Zu Qianzhi from Shandong to be his secretary, which is not counted, Jiang Yun simply handed over Wang Yuechan's office to Chen Chao as a whole, and after Long Qian's approval, it was changed to the General Office of the Ministry of Police.

The "Organic Law on Government" stipulates the levels of the various organs of the Republic, and among the more than a dozen ministries and bureaus that have been established, the ranks are different, and the General Administration of State Security, the General Administration of Ordnance Industry, the General Administration of Press and Publication, and the Office of the President are vice-ministerial-level yamen, which are half a level lower than the rest of the departments. Wang Yuechan's original rank was at the deputy department level, but after changing the court, he was immediately promoted to the main hall level.

Long Qian was a little reluctant to regulate the rank of government officials in detail, but Hong Yuecheng and Fang Shengyuan believed that it was absolutely necessary, and without this regulation, there would be no rules to follow in the treatment and promotion of officials. Long Qian no longer insisted. Of course, Fang Shengyuan didn't know that Long Qian was deeply worried about the bureaucratization of government officials and the expansion of government agencies. To this end, Long Qian gave Premier Fang Shengyuan a task in a small-scale meeting, that is, to strictly limit the setting of deputy positions in government agencies, and in principle, each post should not exceed two deputy positions.

The level is there, but the treatment is still being formulated, that is Fang Shengyuan's task, Wang Yuechan has been promoted from the deputy hall to the main hall, the salary is still the same, and the salary is also temporarily determined, the salary standards of the General Administration of National Security and the General Administration of Ordnance Industry are different, the former is much lower than the latter, for this reason Jiang Yun has a lot of opinions, and urged the Prime Minister's Office several times to unify the salaries of various departments.

These are big things and have nothing to do with the content of this chapter. Now back to business.

Chen Chao returned to the ministry and immediately ordered Zu Qianzhi to notify Xu Gongzhi to come over for a meeting.

While waiting for Xu Gongzhi to arrive, Chen Chao quietly thought about the upcoming purge work.

First, who will do it? Chen Chao has two forces in his hands, one is the State Security Bureau, and the other is the Capital Police Department. Who should be the main one?

After returning to Beijing from Shandong at the beginning of the month, he stayed in Haiyantang, where he had time to communicate with Long Qian, and on two occasions he talked specifically about the business of the Ministry of Police, which, according to Long Qian's vision, was the headquarters of the national police, and at the same time administratively led the General Administration of State Security. One is real and one is virtual, the real is the police, and the virtual is national security, and the two major systems of the police and national security are precisely the two lines of light and dark for safeguarding national security. In terms of numbers, the police force will significantly surpass that of the General Directorate of National Security. However, in the current situation, the police force has not yet been fully formed, and the State Security Bureau, which was born out of the Mengshan Military Intelligence Department, has been a basically complete organization after several years of development, not only the General Administration is relatively perfect, but also there are sub-stations in each province, and the police force is still like a person in addition to the capital police department, and the police force in each province has just begun to be formed, considering that the operation is not only in the capital. The main role of this purge can only be played by the State Security Bureau.

The second is who to do. Chen Chao hasn't thought this through yet. If only the assassination attempt was investigated. Why did Long Qian have to arrange it? Obviously, Long Qian's purpose was not in this. So, what exactly is he going to do?

His son-in-law always said that the Republic had opened a new era in Chinese history. Not only have I said this to others, but I have also said it many times to myself. Convene the National Assembly and make a constitution. Build a political party. It is indeed unseen in history. But in Chen Chao's opinion. The Republic of China replaced the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was a change of dynasty. It doesn't matter if you open a parliament or build a political party. They are all just tools and means for Long Qian to consolidate his rule.

After figuring out this section, Chen Chao's thinking became smoother. How many times has China changed dynasties since the beginning of its written history? Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Qin and Han Kingdoms, Two Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, counting all the way, you can talk for half a day. And every new emperor in the same dynasty ascends the throne, in fact, it is also a small change of dynasty.

What to do with the change of dynasty? It is necessary to recruit rebels. This point Long Qian did quite successfully, a congress basically wiped out the domestic elite. Look at the ministers of the various ministries of the government, how many are there in the Kuomintang, the Manchus? For a while, Chen Chao was worried that Long Qian's core team would have a strong rebound. He originally thought that Long Qian would use a large number of army generals to enter the government, but except for Deng Qinghua, Lian Shupeng and a few others, the generals still stayed in the army, and these heroes who fought the world did not actually enjoy the "fruits of victory". Although Wang Mingyuan is a minister, he actually stayed in the army and has nothing to do with the local government.

Chen Chao was familiar with the generals, and he felt ridiculous when he heard the generals' reluctance to leave the army more than once. Fight the world immediately, and can you rule the world immediately? If the country is in a state of war all the time, then there will be no day for the country to die! There is still a lack of culture, and I can't even see that in terms of actual power, civilian officials will soon surpass military generals. Long Qian is already thinking about ending the military control across the country, when the provincial governments are established, what can the army generals do except train their troops?

What was Long Qian's intention in doing this? Think the generals he brought out can't do literary things? That's right, it is true that some people are not suitable for working in the government, such as Feng Guozhu, such as Wu Nian, such as Cheng Erhu, but many of them are actually both civil and military, like Ning Shijun, who was arranged by Long Qian to build a navy, in Chen Chao's opinion, he can be the prime minister. As for Ye Yanbing, Hu Zongyu, Shi Dashou, Lan Xinzhi, including Xiong Xun, they can all serve in important government positions, why not use Duanfang, Wu Tingfang, Duan Qirui, and Wang Shizhen?

And Lushan. The night before yesterday, to be precise, in the early hours of yesterday morning, Chen Chao saw Long Qian crying alone in the study. For Lushan, of course.

"Broke one of my arms." Long Qian said to himself, "To know this result, I won't agree to him personally expedition anyway...... Without Lushan, what should I do? To whom did the Northern Army go? ”

He couldn't answer. But he has realized the consequences of losing Lushan. For a time, Chen Chao was very worried about Lu Shan and the Northern Army he brought out, where a large number of outstanding generals and commanders of the Mengshan Army were concentrated. But Lu Shan showed rare loyalty, and on the occasion of the founding of the country, he was willing to leave the center and go out of the northern Xinjiang again, what kind of bosom is this? Chen Chao once thought for Long Qian that at least he should be given the important post of Minister of Defense or Minister of War to Lushan, otherwise it would not be enough to reward him. But Long Qian still sent Lu Shan out, and Lu Shan set off with his family without saying a word. Outer Mongolia was retracted, but this general, who had made peerless contributions to the founding of the Mengshan Army, was unexpectedly killed in northern Xinjiang...... If Lu Shan had ambitions, Lu Shan's death would have been no better, fulfilling the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, and eliminating possible internal troubles. But now it's too villain to think about people like this, how can they be worthy of Lu Shan's spirit in the sky?

"There's no way, let's make up for it on his family." Chen Chao had never seen Long Qian so sad.

"That's the only way, his parents died, his brothers and sisters were separated, and he only had a wife and a son, so I decided to personally raise Lushan's orphans......"

Long Qian refused Wang Mingyuan's request to leave the Northern Military Region of Zhenzhen, and instead sent Shi Dashou back to Guanwai. With Shi Dashou's prestige, although he was born in the Northern Army, Chen Chao did not know whether he could suppress the generals of the Northern Army.

Chen Chao's train of thought returned to the beginning. The change of dynasty is not only to recruit rebels, but also to purge and eliminate dissidents by iron-blooded means, otherwise it will not be enough to stabilize the situation and consolidate the new regime.

The hunt for the Assassins and the Assassin is an excuse, then. But is the timing right? Before the battle of Tangnu-Ulianghai was known, was it appropriate to start a purge in the country at the moment of the outbreak of a full-scale war with Russia? If there is a real fight with Russia, will the losers in China, the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Kuomintang, including the Beiyang system, take the opportunity to stir up trouble?

Obviously, these three factions were Long Qian's target. Obviously, Jiang Yun had already understood Long Qian's intentions, so he directly pointed out the Manchus and the Kuomintang just now. But what about Beiyang? Can't move? Is there no evidence or is Jiang Yun thinking otherwise?

The third is how to do it.

Long Qian said just now that he was fully responsible for this matter, what does this mean? He doesn't care? Let yourself rush to the front and "carry the black pot" for him? He is not afraid of "carrying the black cauldron", since he agreed to be the Minister of Police, he has made the necessary preparations, he is different from others, his identity determines that he must consider Long Qian.

Long Qian has said more than once that politics is the art of compromise. Truth and falsehood are often only half a step away. Therefore, the rectification must not only have a bottom line, but also have a priority. Long Qian just said that, how to determine the goal and how to grasp the proportion are not small problems.

Chen Chao felt a headache. For the first time, he tasted the smell of power. He knew that the upcoming purge would determine the life and death of countless people, and would not only bring a shock to Beijing, which had just experienced the joy of the founding ceremony, but even the whole country.

When you can easily decide the life and death of others, except for a very few people with mental imbalance, most people will feel the same way as Chen Chao.

"Minister," Wang Yuechan reported softly while standing at the door, "Vice Minister Xu has arrived." ”

"Oh, let them in." Chen Chao rubbed his face vigorously. (To be continued......)