You must know how much time, energy and money Zhou Wen spent on the more than a thousand people in the guard and security team. Most of the equipment and ammunition taken from the arsenal for cheap were basically used for the training of these new recruits. That was already 800,000 yuan, and there were also military salaries higher than other armies, a full set of German equipment, French artillery, etc. , if he was finally taken away by someone else with just a transfer order, Zhou Wen might not even be able to cry.
That's it, the commander-in-chief personally agreed, and at Zhou Wen's insistence, he wrote it down in black and white. It wasn't until he saw the commander-in-chief sealing his decision with his personal seal that he put the worries of the past year back in his heart.
Another good result is that the mercenary group can finally produce ammunition legitimately. This is the greatest guarantee for the mercenary group's future operations and training. At least the bullets and artillery shells for future combat training must be self-sufficient, and there must be a large number of war reserves.
Imported weapons are so expensive that even Zhou Wen, a rich man, can't bear it. Especially the mercenary group's training model regardless of the cost of ammunition is like throwing away white dollars and green dollars. Weapons are all. Although Zhou Wen asked Mandel, who had returned to Taiyuan, to help order a second batch of weapons and equipment to supplement training losses, due to domestic production technology, these exquisite, advanced and practical weapons could not be produced, and the mercenary group added The total number of attached troops is only more than a thousand, and Zhou Wen can still afford it through gritted teeth.
But the consumption of ammunition is a bottomless pit. The most expensive thing is not bullets. There are still many stocks of 6.5mm caliber bullets for semi-automatic rifles and 7.9mm pointed bullets for machine guns, but the 9mm Magnum for Somi submachine gun Bullets and those 81mm mortar shells and 75mm mountain artillery shells are very distressing. After spending tens of thousands of dollars to purchase the ammunition, more than half of it has been fired after just three months of training. Moreover, Zhou Wen’s plan It will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to train according to this standard in the next few years, but if you can make it yourself, it only costs raw materials and labor costs, and the cost will naturally be greatly reduced, and you can still reserve a lot of money. Quantity of inventory.
Achieving these two goals was a huge harvest for Zhou Wen. The only price he paid was to go to the Office of Appeasement to be a counselor and to set up an intelligence agency. In fact, these two things have more advantages than disadvantages for Zhou Wen. The title of senior counselor allows him to legitimately participate in the major plans and decisions of the Office, and he can also directly make suggestions through his own memories of future generations, which will be of great benefit to the future war of resistance. A great thing.
Zhou Wen does not ask the commander to do everything according to his own suggestions, but as long as he adopts some of them, he can avoid some mistakes, take less detours, and be more prepared. This has far exceeded Zhou Wen's original expectations. .
In fact, before leading the mercenary group into Shanxi, Zhou Wen really didn't expect that he would have the qualifications and opportunity to speak in front of the commander. The best idea at that time was to gain a foothold in Lishi County and then develop slowly.
Unexpectedly, things are unpredictable, and I am really a very lucky person. I accidentally got into a fight with the Party Affairs Investigation Section of the Party Headquarters. Something bad turned out to be good for no apparent reason. I actually became the Director of the Security Department of the Shanxi Provincial Party Headquarters, with thousands of troops under his command. There are countless industries.
As a prince, the provincial party secretary is his eldest brother, the Taiyuan garrison commander in charge of thousands of troops is his senior, and the three people who have long been at the top of the pyramid in China have become his partners and backstage bosses.
Thinking about it carefully, Zhou Wen was secretly surprised. Unknowingly, he was not yet 20 years old. In the eyes of ordinary people, he was still a young boy, but he was also considered a number one person in Shanxi. No wonder he was so valued by the commander. Appointed as Senior Councilor of the Office of Appeasement.
As for the establishment of the intelligence agency, Zhou Wen is even more happy to see it happen. In fact, in his plan, even if the commander does not set up such an organization, he will still have to find a way for the mercenary group to take care of these responsibilities. This is not a question of whether to do it or not, but something that must be done. The future of history The lessons learned have raised Zhou Wen's importance to intelligence warfare to a strategic level.
What's more, the reason why his mercenary group was wiped out in the last life was because of incorrect intelligence. He thought he was going to capture the informant of a rebel group, who was an ordinary citizen living in a small town called Manduka. How much protective power does an ordinary person's spy have? Giving him three bodyguards would be too much to look down on him.
It turned out that he was not an ordinary person at all, but a big shot in that force. As a result, the six people fell into the middle of more than 20 rebels who were armed to the teeth, and finally died together with the enemy.
Therefore, setting up an intelligence agency has always been something Zhou Wen wanted to do but had no conditions to do. Now, with the support of the commander and his own knowledge of future generations, Zhou Wen cannot get involved in other areas, but the Japanese are stealing Chinese intelligence unscrupulously in Shanxi. The days are coming to an end.
Establishing an intelligence agency as early as possible in Shanxi also hides Zhou Wen's little thoughts. After the September 18th Incident, Nanjing also realized that an all-out war with Japan was inevitable, so it also planned to establish a foreign intelligence organization and organized a Fuxing Society (some people called it Blue Clothes Society) with soldiers as the main body. In 1932, it also organized a The Fuxing Society has a core organization, the Lixing Society, which has a secret service that specializes in espionage activities. It is the predecessor of the Military Command Bureau.
At the end of 1937, the Lixingshe Secret Service merged with the Secret Service Headquarters (the "National Government Military Commission Secret Investigation Team" established in 1927) to form the "National Government Military Commission Investigation and Statistics Bureau", referred to as the "Military Unification Bureau". It has two divisions, the first division is responsible for party affairs, and the second division is responsible for intelligence and reports directly to the principal. The Lixingshe Special Branch is the second branch of the bureau.
In the few years after the establishment of the Lixingshe Secret Service, branches were established in important cities or provincial capitals in China. Zhou Wen encouraged the commander to establish an intelligence agency first to avoid the Lixingshe Secret Service stationing in Taiyuan in the future.
When the Lixingshe Secret Service plans to set up a branch in Taiyuan, you will find that Taiyuan already has an intelligence organization that operates earlier than you and is more experienced and efficient than you. How dare you send someone to manage and direct it? At that time, as long as Nanjing did not want to fall out with the commander-in-chief, they could only pinch their noses and endure it.
In addition, the predecessor of the Central Unification Committee, the "Party Affairs Investigation Section of the Central Party Headquarters", was already at loggerheads with Zhou Wen. According to Zhou Wen's growing momentum in Shanxi, it was impossible for them to set up a branch in Taiyuan.
