Chapter 65 General in the Shadow

For the staff headquarters of the Royal Guard, they clearly know that the building in the compound can be said to be the heart, brain and center of the team, and at least every officer knows it clearly.

It must be the "great" His Majesty's idea to put the headquarters of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard into a regular quadrilateral building at one time. Indeed, after the completion of the staff headquarters, the functions of the Army Department and the Navy Department have been weakened, and even the Marine Corps and Coast Guard. The headquarters is directly located in the staff headquarters, but in order to strengthen the liaison between various services, especially in wartime.

In fact, it is this kind of staff headquarters that integrates all the services that enables the middle [***] team to maintain the rapid combat readiness that other countries cannot achieve at ordinary times. After the outbreak of the world war, although it took the army 24 hours to complete the mobilization, the Supreme Command only used two It will be completed in an hour, which is even more unimaginable in other countries.

Since leaving the Army Staff Department 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 corridor was connected to the corridor, and the room was connected to the room, which was connected in all directions, tortuous and confused, like a maze. The second lieutenant who showed him the way told him that there were 25 kilometers of corridors, 300 toilets, 8,468 windows and 90,000 electric lights. The center of the staff headquarters is hollow, with a garden covering an area of 100 mu. If you are tired of work, you can rest in the shade of flowers and trees. But since it was built and put into use, few people have gone, and everyone is very busy.

However, Jiang Qun came here today, not to the Joint Staff Conference, or to the Military Staff and Command, but to the Military Intelligence Bureau directly under the Staff Headquarters. Five years ago, Jiang Qun served in the Military Intelligence Bureau. Now he returns to China to perform his duties, and naturally has to report to the Military Intelligence Bureau.

In the office of the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, facing Jiang Qun sitting in front of him, the general said seriously:

"Over the years, you have been in Japan. You should know Japan better than me. 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 my opinion, we did not defeat them. They just chose to compromise for a while just to maintain the interests of the country! Just like the Perry fleet!"

Jiang Qun answered truthfully.

"However, compared with Perry's fleet, I regard Perry as the hero of his country, and we..."

With a bitter smile, Jiang Qun's look became a little unnatural. In the past few years, the praise of the Japanese army has always made some people flutter. When the Japanese army was expanded, he sent many secret telegrams to the country. While reminding the current situation, he also stressed that he must do anything to prevent the expansion of the Japanese army, and even the Japanese army expansion into After the fact, he used "this will be the biggest mistake since the founding of the empire" to describe the military expansion.

"Dee to us as enemies, general! It can be said that there has always been the voice of fighting again in Japan. However, they cleverly covered up their hostility and hatred. It is said that at the end of the Meiji era, he once said to the elders and ministers, "In addition to the hatred of other countries stationed in Japan and the South China Sea, he will not close his eyes!" It can be seen that even that The Meiji of current affairs also has a strong hostility to our country!"

"Are these all obtained through your own network?"

With a cigar on the cigarette, the general casually asked. Among the agents sent by the Military Intelligence Bureau, he admired Jiang Qun very much. The reason was very simple. He not only completed his task and worked hard to collect the affairs stationed in [***], but also developed a spy network. In the past many years, this network Luo provided a large amount of important information to the Military Intelligence Agency, although it is not necessarily military intelligence.

"Yes, General!"

Jiang Qun nodded and explained at the same time.

"This is also the main expenditure of 500,000 yuan per year!"

In his heart, he is very grateful to the general in front of him. It is with the support of the general that he can get additional sufficient funds to build an intelligence network composed of the army and politicians in Japan. Everyone is valuable and anyone can be bought. It is the belief that holds this belief that he persuaded the general. Give him financial support.

"This money is worth it!"

Looking at Jiang Qun, he nodded. For a long time, the expenditure of military officers stationed in Japan has been the highest, especially the "special support" fund of 500,000 yuan, which makes some people quite complain. In their opinion, compared with Japan, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Russia are more worth investing in. It is worth investing, but The problem is that those people who spend money may not be able to achieve any results.

"There are three things to let you come back this time. The first thing is that you already know, according to the power given to me by His Majesty, you will be promoted to your army lieutenant colonel! Congratulations to Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Qun!"

Promotion, Jiang Qun already knew about this before returning to China. 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 serve as a foreign affairs instructor of the Military Intelligence Bureau and teach your experience to those young people. I hope that one day we can build our military intelligence network all over the world. How about it? Are you willing to have a try?"

"Yes, sir!"

As an army officer, he will and cannot refuse this task. In fact, he has always had a wish that the Military Intelligence Agency can surpass the Imperial Intelligence Agency and at least stop relying on them.

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

"There is a third thing. I hope you can provide me with a list!"

"List?"

The general's request only surprised Jiang Qun. If he remembers correctly, there is a list of members directly controlled by his network in the bureau. What list do you need him to provide now?

"Yes, providing a list of Japanese officers is not only close to us, but I hope that they are our people!"

Our people!

The snow has been falling, and the wiper laboriously removes the fluffy snowflakes.

Cars are galloping on the empty road to the city. Zijin Mountain, which showed some northern scenery in the snow, passed by the window of the car. It was not until the car was about to drive through the city that Jiang Qun suddenly stopped the car.

The car parked on a piece of mud on the side of the road. Looking at the confused wind and snow outside the window, Jiang Qun looked a little dazed. Although he has been away from the Army Staff for a long time, he is still thinking about that question. Why did the director ask him to provide a list?

Why do we emphasize "our people"?

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

The ** of the intelligence personnel made him realize what kind of inside story there must be. Although he was vaguely aware of something in his heart, he was not sure, but more importantly, he could not grasp the clue to solve the mystery at all, and could only keep guessing in his heart.

At this moment, a Tianma car with a general reference license plate rushed by, and the car raised a little snow. When the car passed by, Jiang Qun did not notice the passing car. The inconspicuous car seemed to have nothing to pay attention to. On this road, a car like that There are many.

However, only a few people know that the owner of the car has a very special identity. The director of the military intelligence bureau of the staff headquarters, the officer in this position is often a major general, but his identity is confidential. In fact, even in the staff headquarters, many senior staff do not know that. The identity of a general is often called a general when it comes to the director of the Military Intelligence Agency.

In this general, there is a document on the general's lap, which is a handwritten list of up to 300 people. At this time, he is looking at the list, holding a pencil hand, constantly marking the list, as if making a special mark, and occasionally there will be a conspicuous "?"

The general wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses looked a little solemn at this time. From time to time, he wrote and painted on the list. Obviously, he was hesitant to make a decision. As the head of an intelligence agency and as a senior officer, it was originally their professional requirement to make a decision quickly. One, but at this time, he hesitated. Perhaps this hesitation was because of the important surname of the responsibility he assumed, but it was also possible what kind of problem he really encountered.

"It's really difficult to choose a person!"

Re-close the document. While talking to himself, the general half-closed his eyes. The reason why Jiang Qun provided a list was to develop Japanese officers who "can safeguard China's interests" in the Japanese army, but among them, there is also a very special mission, that is, to choose some leaders. Choose a leader for the sake of Japan.

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

What can prove the achievements of an intelligence agency more than leading a country?

frowned, and the general became hesitant for the first time.

(to be continued)