Chapter 344 Intelligence Service in Action

At any time, when the enemy and we are engaged in war, they will always be accompanied by various secret negotiations. Even when Zhao Dongyun and Duan Qirui are killed in Xuzhou, in fact, both sides still retain a few secret negotiations, but the differences between Zhao Dongyun and Duan Qirui are unresolved, so the Feng army and the Anhui army The negotiations are unlikely to achieve any results.

In addition to the direct contact between the two giants, in fact, Zhao Dongyun and Duan Qirui are doing another thing, that is, to win over each other's middle and high-level generals, and Zhang Dianru's rebellion is the most successful example.

Zhao Dongyun's intelligence office successfully persuaded Zhang Dianru, Li Chengbing and others to rebel against the Anhui army and turn to the Feng army. This move not only caused tens of thousands of people to lose tens of people, but also tens of thousands of people immediately turned around to attack the Anhui army.

The same thing actually happens in other places, but it rarely achieves great success, and its influence is not very much attention from outsiders.

But just because outsiders don't know it doesn't mean that these things haven't happened.

Yingzhou Prefecture Fuyang, Shanhetang.

This Shanhe Hall is a drug store with decades of history in Fuyang. The scale is not large. In the past, there were only a few shop assistants, but there are many more people in today's Shanhe Hall.

Unlike ordinary Chinese wearing horse coats and robes in this era, there are two men wearing suits. One of the young men shaved his head, but the other middle-aged man was bareheaded.

Since a few years ago, many young people in China have set off a wave of braiding under the leadership of those students who returned from abroad, especially after last year's republic. Not only the northern republican government encouraged braiding, but even the southern federal empire issued a formal braiding order. In less than a year, the country Most of the men inside have cut off the long braids behind their heads, especially military and political officials and young people.

So in 1907, it is very normal to see an inch in China. On the contrary, it is strange that those old and young people with long braids look.

However, inch heads are common, but bald heads are still relatively rare. In contemporary China, except for a few individuals, most of the shaved heads are soldiers, especially soldiers from the Beiyang system, who are basically bareheaded.

Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang are so, and Zhao Dongyun's bald head is even more famous at home and abroad. There is no reason for those who despise Zhao Dongyun to call Zhao Dongyun the bald head. No matter how a photo of him is published in newspapers at home and abroad, you can see his bald head and the slightly exaggerated eight-character beard on both sides.

The number of bald troops in the Beiyang system is so large that the Feng army is basically bare above the head of officers above the school level, and the proportion can even reach more than 80%.

There are many reasons why most of the officers of the Fengjun system are bald. First of all, the former Qing Dynasty did not officially allow braids to cut their braids in the era of the Beiyang Standing Army, but the braids really affects the battle and also affects the battlefield rescue. Since the political impact of cutting off the braids and leaving an inch is not good, so when Most of the officers stationed in the third town of the Beiyang Standing Army and the two towns of the Fengyang Standing Army in Fengtian were shaved, and this tradition also continued after the Republic.

So the image of contemporary Feng army officers is easy to distinguish. On the battlefield, you can see them wearing blue-gray combat uniforms, long leather boots, and hanging a telescope on their chests, um, and bare heads. On formal occasions, you can see them wearing Fengjun's unique officer dresses. They are wearing dark blue coats, black trousers, shiny leather shoes, and um, bareheaded.

As the weather has become colder recently, many officers have begun to wear German tweed coats.

In modern times, except for those soldiers, especially officers, it is actually difficult to see bald heads.

And today, there is also a bald middle-aged man in this small pharmacy, and a middle-aged man in a suit!

You can know that they are not ordinary people by looking at the clothes and expressions of the four people inside!

If you walk in, you can hear their conversation!

"Brother Bian, according to your opinion, should we work harder now, otherwise Wang Zhanyuan is always wavering, which is not a good thing for us!" A middle-aged man in a traditional horse coat said this to the middle-aged man.

However, the bald man surnamed Bian shook his head: "We can't push him too hard now, otherwise it will easily be counterproductive!"

"But it's not a good idea to drag it like this!" The young man in the suit next to him frowned: "Before I came, I was personally instructed by Secretary Yang to persuade Wang Zhanyuan. If stationmaster Bian has any concerns, I can lobby Wang Zhanyuan alone. Your intelligence office just needs to do a good job of bridging in the early stage!"

When the stationmaster Bian heard this, a trace of inadvertent anger flashed between his eyebrows, but he covered it up very well! The young man in front of him looks young, but his identity is not simple. His name is Qu Quanqing. He is the third secretary of the Second Division of Internal Affairs of the Secretariat of the Presidential Palace. The section is responsible for handling domestic negotiations. Yang Debiao, one of the four first-class secretaries of the Secretariat, is also in charge of the section.

The presidential palace established by Zhao Dongyun is actually very different from the presidential palace of most countries. It not only has the three institutions of advisory offices, inspection offices and military attacharies, but also the secretariat, a very special institution. Although the secretariat is only a secretarial agency that assists Zhao Dongyun in handling military and political affairs, the agency However, it is getting bigger and bigger, especially after Zhao Dongyun moved into Beijing as president, and the secretariat has developed into more than a dozen subordinate institutions.

There is a foreign affairs department in charge of international affairs, which is different in function from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the cabinet. The foreign affairs department of the secretariat mainly serves Zhao Dongyun and his wife, and the main activities are arranged in the occasion of Zhao Dongyun and foreign diplomats.

There is a counselor section dealing with military affairs, and military affairs will go through the secretaries of this section and then be summarized to Zhao Dongyun.

There is a senior management department dealing with people's livelihood affairs, which is also powerful. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and other affairs related to domestic development will have a summary report to Zhao Dongyun.

There is a statistics department responsible for financial affairs, called the statistics department, but in fact it has become Zhao Dongyun's main advisory body and processing agency for financial affairs.

There is a confidential department responsible for secret affairs. The name of this confidential department seems to be just to manage files, but it is not. What is confidential? That is confidential matters. To put it bluntly, it is an intelligence agency. At the beginning of the year, Zhao Dongyun's business energy of the emotional reporting office was limited, but the task was too complicated. It was difficult for the intelligence office to collect military intelligence to have enough energy to collect other aspects of intelligence, so Zhao Dongyun specially set up such an opportunity in the secretariat. The section is responsible for military intelligence unexpected intelligence affairs and many shady affairs, such as assassination, kidnapping, intimidation and so on.

There is also the first section of internal affairs and the second section of internal affairs.

The first section of internal affairs is relatively simple, mainly responsible for the internal affairs of the presidential palace, handling the relevant life affairs of Zhao Dongyun and his family, and providing personal security services.

The name of the second section of internal affairs sounds very similar to that of the first section of internal affairs, but the functions and powers are completely different. The second section of internal affairs is responsible for domestic negotiations, mainly to attract or suppress other domestic forces.

And Yang Debiao, one of the four first-class secretaries, is personally in charge of this department.

Yang Debiao is one of the four first-class secretaries of the Secretariat. Although he is not as famous as the cabinet officials, his power is not small. When outsiders praise him, he will call him Yang Shumi. This person is mainly responsible for domestic negotiations in the secretariat of the presidential palace, including contacting and soliciting many domestic warlords.

When Fengjun and Wu Fengling reached a series of cooperation agreements last year, he personally went to Chengde to persuade Wu Fengling and let Wu Fengling give up Chengde and go to Shanxi. Before Fengjun entered the customs this year, he was also responsible for soliciting and persuading Wu Fengling and Fengjun to jointly attack Wang Yingkai.

Not long ago, the Soviet Union and Wang Shizhen reached a series of cooperation agreements, and he was also fully responsible for this matter.

Throughout the affairs in charge of this person, it can generally be regarded as the head of the Soviet diplomatic affairs of many warlords in China. In the Soviet system, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Cabinet is responsible for international affairs, while the Second Division of Internal Affairs of the Presidential Palace is responsible for domestic negotiations.

Although the Qu Quanqing in front of him is only a third-class secretary of a district secretariat, he is a subordinate of Yang Debiao and was sent to Fuyang, Yingzhou by Yang Debiao. Although his status is not high, he is the plenipotentiary who won Wang Zhanyuan this time. Although the intelligence department has contributed a lot in the middle, it is only responsible for bridging and assisting the person in handling many affairs.

In a word, the person in charge of this matter is not the head of the Intelligence Department, but Qu Quanqing, the third-class secretary of the presidential palace, who is only in his twenties.

The third-class secretary of the secretariat of the presidential palace seems to be very ordinary at first, but the actual powers are not small. What they come into contact with are all central affairs, and the affairs they know and handle are not comparable to those local officials or even those middle-level cabinet officials.

Based on the particularity of the secretariat, Zhao Dongyun's first choice is private loyalty when he enters the secretariat, but the second person is talent. Many talented young people are gentle but quickly hold important positions in the secretariat because they have enough talent.

Knowing that this person's identity is not simple, Director Bian was very good to hide his dissatisfaction, but said, "Secretary Qu, don't worry. I know the importance of this matter very well. I will never ruin Secretary Qu's itinerary. I just hope Secretary Qu will give us two more days!"

Qu Quanqing frowned and said, "Now the situation is urgent, and there is a risk of being one day late. I don't know if Bian stationmaster is?"

The end of his words dragged a long tail, and the meaning of the inquiry was very obvious.

The stationmaster Bian is not going to hide anything: "We have found out the hiding place of the people from Liangjiang and intend to take action against them!" Speaking of this, stationmaster Bian showed a fierce expression: "Isn't Wang Zhanyuan going to delay on both sides? I want to see if everyone on the other side of the two rivers is dead. Who else can he talk to?"

Hearing Bian stationmaster's words, Qu Quanqing frowned again. To be honest, he is not interested in these intelligence personnel and often likes to fight and kill. Since the establishment, I don't know how many people have died in their hands. This is similar to him who admires the gentleman's style in his heart. No entry.

Although Qu Quanqing is young, he is an official from Confucian background. The person he admires in the second section of internal affairs is Zhang Yi. He is determined to be a vertical and horizontal family. What he relies on is a three-inch tongue, not fighting and killing!

It's just that this time he hated the practice of the Intelligence Department, but he did not object!

Qu Quanqing didn't say anything, and the stationmaster Bian beside him naturally guessed some of his thoughts, and he also secretly despised himself: Well, he is just a scholar with no chicken power. If we hadn't spent a lot of effort to escort you all the way, I'm afraid you would have been killed by people of other forces halfway, and now But we still can't afford it!

However, although the two are not quite right, they dare not get involved in personal feelings in public affairs. Even if Qu Quanqing is not interested in the assassination of the intelligence department, he also knows that if he assassinates the people from the two rivers at this critical moment, he can not only delay the relevant negotiations between Wang Zhanyuan and Duan Qirui. It's hard to say that it can create a gap between the two.

The action of the intelligence office has always been very fast. Not long after this secret meeting, several field agents of the intelligence office sneaked into the secret foothold of the Liangjiang side that night, and then there were continuous bursts of gunfire. When the soldiers of the 7th Division outside arrived, three Liangjiang troops in the room The special envoys for negotiations have fallen into a pool of blood.